/agdg/ - Amateur Game Demo, Guys

>>175673974
Don't stir coffee with a pencil you stupid anime

What board game should I recreate that hasn't been done brefore?

>>175673974
>Chats
NO

>>175674316
i think that's a straw, anon

>>175674338
YES
where do you think the yesdevs are?

Free product shilling
http://impactsoundworks.com/product/super-audio-boy/
Authentic Gameboy sampled instrument for your musics making.

>Accidentally design my game with a similiar gameplay approach to Etrian Odyssey

I've never played it. Should I be concerned with my players having expectations?

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Looks like the sprites break on really 3d-wide objects like The bed. Not surprised.
I guess while writing dialogue and UI I'll add an Effect item for sprites to render directly on top of them and skipping all that fake-3D bullshit.
Already wrapping away the Shader API, allowing me to do some pretty nifty things with colour highlights. All this will probably come together at once as I try to write a flexible UI system. Won't be fun.

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guys:
I'm tracking the number of mentions of the following keywords in since the last 20 threads:
Unity
GMS + Gamemaker
Godot

I'm gonna graph them and post them every few threads, including this one. Tell me more keywords to track and I'll do them if they're reasonable, not too much memey shit please. a little bit is fine though.

>>175674727
How about you wait until your game if past its formative stages before you worry about whether people will unfairly compare it to some other niche series?

>>175674680
Reddit.

>>175674712
>requires kontakt
>400 dollaridoos for retro samples instead of just using a synth
for what purpose

>>175674727
What exactly is similar?
It's not that the game was super original, just very good. There's plenty of shit dungeon crawlers out there so people won't expect anything special from yours.

>>175674797
Serious question: what's the point if it's not memey shit? The entire point of word graphs is throwing the shit of a thread/board back in its own face.

>>175674797
please leave us in peace

>>175674680
When I peek into discord I sure don't think "yesdev"

>>175674797
Bored of poals?
You should make a game instead.

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>>175674797
but why

>>175674797
LOVE/love2d
Godot
UE4/UE
nodev/yesdev
mixel/rixel
demo
jam
poll

>>175674680
>where do you think the yesdevs are?
Working in their IDE of choice.

for every (you) i get on this post, i will yesdev for 10 more minutes

>>175675290
Enjoy your b&

>>175675103
you see way more progress and way more actual discussion of things being developed in #dev on Discord than you do here

>>175675290
>>175675290
>>175675290
>>175675290
>>175675290
>>175675290

>>175674913
Well obviously Kontakt is used for a lot of things besides this. The purpose is if you want the authentic sound of the sound chip in a well-designed instrument with good presets.

I didn't realize it required full Kontakt until you mentioned it. Usually they have a Kontakt Player version but they have to actually pay licensing to release in that format so it makes sense that there's no Kontakt Player version of a free product.

>>175674946
First person dungeon crawler that breaks into random battles with turn based combat utilizing front row/back row mechanics. I'm not aware of other dungeon crawlers that do that.

I'm just wanting to avoid expectations of features that others might consider genre standard.

DESU I'm working more towards a first person phantasy star 2 type game.

>>175675393
That's because of namefag accountability. If I want that I will go to reddit. Chatrooms are just really really gay and on top of that cause issues in every community they form around.

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Some fresh progress. I remade the encounter system - it used to be random encounters in certain areas, like wild Pokémon in grass, now it works like Pokémon trainers. Random encounters make the player feel like they should be avoiding them, which I don't want.

Also a character picking start screen, and a new weak enemy for the tutorial.

>>175675393
You would think so, that's why I checked it in the first place. No such luck though.

>>175675487
This

>>175675393
That's a lie, I lurk there all the time and it's just nodevness all day.

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good luck on demo day everyone

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>>175675290

(at)175675290
have an ultra-you for an entire hour of devving
thank me later when you become the next tobyfox

>>175675492
>Random encounters make the player feel like they should be avoiding them, which I don't want.
I feel the exact opposite. If I see the enemy in an rpg like that, I feel like the game wants me to avoid them if possible.
Random encounters are more endurance test and expected.

>>175674963
ok, memey shit is officially in, suggest shit

>>175675487
how so?

>>175675463
I'm not hugely into the classic dungeon crawler genre but Wizardry does all that shit aside from the first person view and it's old as sin. I sincerely doubt that of the many, many dungeon crawlers that have existed over the years, EO is the first or only one to copy the Wizardry formula (which basically set the standard).

>>175674797
jonathan blow
peter molyneux
toby fox
clone
artist looking for

>>175674797
dumb shit you're not supposed to reveal this until the experiment is over

Unity
Unity
Unity

Unity

Unity

Unity

Unity, Unity

>>175675991
>Unity
>Unity
>Unity
>
>Unity
>
>Unity
>
>Unity
>
>Unity, Unity
the discord in a nutshell

>>175675825
That just goes to show my knowledge on the genre. I also realize expectations are set by marketing but since this is amateur dev marketing is essentially non-existant so screenshots/video might lead the player on to different expectations.

Thank you for the feedback.

>>175675991
He's not doing shit, he's just trying to create chaos. he's literally a dev goblin, trying to keep nodevs occupied with bullshit and to turn yesdevs into the dark side

also:

YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS YESDEV YESDEVS

>>175674797
>how to bias a study 101

gratz anon

>>175651761
>>175651865
>>175652008
so which is it really?
Are 2D games good for progressing fast with or no?

>>175676231
>>175676084
>>175675991
>>175674797
>>175674963
Bring back the word clouds

>>175676250
GMS can also do 3d also. It may not be very great but it can do it.

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God help my title screen

How often does LD happen? I wanted to do this one but I missed it.

>>175675781
Yeah that's something to consider. I'll keep that in mind for level design and enemy placement. I think if an enemy is unavoidable the player should be able to tell right away.

>>175676250
gms if you want to make game quick
godot if you want to make a better game quicker

>>175676532
fucking google it jesus christ

>>175676516
ahaha funny worde xD booty butty!

>>175676516
>Ass
What did you mean by this?

>>175676647
I was planning on making it lewd eventually

Redpill me this: is there a 2D engine that's flexible and easy to pick up?

GMS is easy, but it feels like I'm playing with Legos. Trying to make anything substantial takes forever and feels clunky as shit because you're working with plastic nails and squeaky hammers.

Is there anything that's more fluid at the expense of a little difficulty?

>>175676748
godot if you want to make a better game quicker

>>175676748
godot

>>175676425
>>175676614
is gms game maker?

What a horrible thread. Fuck off agdg.

>>175676748
use scripts you fucking ass

>>175676748
don't fall for the godot meme at very least until 3.0 drops as it will destroy your existing project, trust me on this
either stick to gms or move to unity

>>175676884
GML is also clunky and limited as fuck.

>>175676939
>implying 3.0 is a forced update
>implying 3.0 won't and doesn't have tools to import 2.1 projects
>being this uninformed

VR card game. Besides not hearthstone, not same mana curve, no bullshit rng, and yes spectacles (monsters in 3d yo), what should be done to take advantage of the platform?

this is the one time an actual dev is asking for idea guy help you shits, so make it count

>>175676939
When will that drop?

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>>175676939

>>175676748
I'm enjoying Godot so far, learning more complex stuff really wont do you much harm. Might want to avoid working on anything too hefty with it until 3.0 drops mind but the practice will do you good and you'll probably be able to import with tools.

It's honestly really confusing to me how game maker markets itself as an easy lego-mode engine but gets needlessly clunky to even implement movement where you don't move faster by doing diagonally. Other engine that are more complex on the surface level are much less clunky on that regard.

>>175677070
You can look over your opponents hands

>>175677180
Yeah, that's how I felt. Baseline stuff was basically built-in, but trying to expand outside the box at all felt like trying to claw my way out of a muddy hole.

I'll look into godot. When does this new big update hit?

>>175673974
Hey guys, I want to use the /agdg/ logo in my game. Is there anywhere with an .svg format of the logo?
Maybe it should be in the OP? I mean we have chats and webm resources, surely a logo resource would be good to have too.

>>175677398
several months still

Demo day is in 3 days!

Keep yourself accountable, what are your goals by then?

>>175677398
Months at this point from my understanding, though hopefully I'm wrong.

>>175677504
https://pastebin.com/iafqz627

>>175677158
Fuck off Unity is better!

unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity unity

What are the current /agdg/ games with the BEST pixel art, palette or aesthetic?

>>175677520
>Update environmental art a little
>new backgrounds
>Better tiles
>Add a boss battle
>Make Dialog less rigid feeling
If time:
>Improve Pause UI
>Animate Title Screen

>>175677070
real answer? vr is fundamentally the wrong platform for a card game

working with what you have, make the board have some spatial gameplay, which many tcgs lack. a small grid would probably be fine.

enchantments / equipment / whatever modifiers that are played on monsters can be displayed floating above their heads.

Why are there other engines in the OP when Unity is the ONLY way to make a game?

>>175677618
Good effort, this deserved a (You).

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How to improve, what would you change?

>>175677634
>>175677734
>>175677814
/agdg/ in 3 posts

>spend a day slapping together movement and some quick art assets rendered in a minute in gimp for wall textures
>post this progress and garner lotsa (you)s

>spend a sleepless week designing/coding my menu with working inventory/equipment/status screens that remembers selections and is entirely navigatable via controller
>no one will even give a shit to notice this huge amount of critical progress once they see it if it works properly.

Programming is a thankless role. Also point and click menus are garbage.

>>175677993
/agdg/ needs more code shots, I always enjoy those.

>>175677158
>WIP
I don't see an issue with this at all.
Not. At. All.

>>175677876
It's okay for a certain style. It has a very basic look to it. If you're really looking to improve, post it on the Work in Progress forum at www.pixeljoint.com

There are people getting feedback on shit that's much worse than yours, so yours shoud go over fine

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>>175677993
here, anon

have a (You) on me

>>175677993
I feel you man. Making things like menu movement sometimes feels like lack of progress, cause even we (devs) can't see them visually.

>>175678051
3.0 is not even in alpha yet, of course it's going to be WIP.

>>175677876
The palette is quite offensive and the darker gradients are too dark and formulaic. They're suppose to suggest lighting, but yours seem arbitrary.

Average on the whole, though.

>>175678072
welcome, jonposter
hope you enjoy your stay

>>175678051
Are you just pretending to be retarded? Because it's still being worked on, there's going to be more 2.1.x versions with better and better 3.0 export support until 3.0 is finally stable released.

>>175678072
Now where could my progress be?

>>175678148
>offensive

>>175678051
Work in progress implies they are actually working, which is a breath of fresh air coming from Unity.

>>175678280
Do you not know what offensive means? You can always look up the definition.

>>175677786
Wouldn't vr be a better implantation of a card game compared to pc or mobile? Considering the direct 1:1 comparisons of card handling?

>>175678054
I'm going into mix between gameboy games and pixel psx games, so it shouldn't be really complicated (especially that i'm not good in drawing, so it would probably turnout as random pixels fest instead of nice looking art).
I'm not going to post it on other sites, /agdg/ is enough for me. Thanks for suggestion anyway.

>>175678148
What do you mean by offensive? Like too much of contrast between colours, or too bright/saturated as a whole picture?
I don't care much about if shadows are realistic, if it will look good, it will be enough for me.

>>175678450
I just thought it was a funny word choice, please forgive my intrusion.

>>175678527
I'm Irish.

>>175678524
>/agdg/ is enough for me
Fair enough. I guess my only comment on it is that it looks fine for now, seeing it animated will probably yield more critique

>>175678615
I'm so sorry.

>Godot
It's like one anon once said, 4chan breeds all sorts of hipsterism

>this thread alone already has more IPs than agdg games
makes you think

>>175678510
Only if what you care about is shuffling cards. The actual strategy half is more effectively expressed on a 2d screen.

The novelty of a card game in VR will definitely be enough to sell your game, don't get me wrong. It's just not the best medium to express the strategy game.

>>175677070
Could always have a focus on effects that require the player to split their attention. I'm a fan of digital card games that do things you wouldn't be able to do on the tabletop effectively. Perhaps a card that, when played, requires the enemy player to look at it or take damage.

how do i get on the frontpage of itch

>>175678853
>game maker studio
fun to play with and stimulates you
>unity
toy that helps you to forget your parents are filthy hoarders
>godot game engine
tool for autistic neckbeards that won't achieve anything important in life
>unreal engine
boss fires you and gives your project to an immigrant

>>175679250
>>175677070
It might be too memetic for what anon is aiming for but the joke sets in MTG have some kek-worthy cards that could be translated into VR.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?sort=rating-&set=[%22Unglued%22]

>>175678853
The whole GM is for babies meme to me seems pretty stupid

Yeah drag and drop is literally for children, but GML, while specific and limited in abstraction, is enough to do a shitton in 2D and can be retooled and manipulated really well. Greg Labanov's tutorials and techniques for Wandersong are a pretty inspiring example. Unless you're making a heavy management game that NEEDS super complete inheritance than GM is solid for 2D. Even that can be achieved by making your own system

How is Unreal for 2D?

I tried Unity's 2D and it's seriously, truly terrible.

>>175679808
no one ever talks about it so I assume it's even worse

>>175679808
>Unreal for 2D
Motherfucker you better be making Unravel or some seriously graphical 2.5 D shit

>>175679786
At least as many people perpetuate the "GM is for babies" meme in order to trigger people like you as those that perpetuate it because they're ignorant of the capabilities of the engine.

>>175679808
Actual 2D, why.

A 3D game played on a 2D plane, fine.

Someone here once said to me that 3d is not "art"

I'm wondering what on earth they meant by that

>>175679786
You can retool lego blocks into actual functional machines but that doesn't make lego less of a toy.

>>175679808
Thanks for giving me a good laugh, anon.

>>175679941
>trigger people like me
fair

It's jus seeing some actual shit people can do in it is pretty cool, it's a shame it's such a prominent meme

>>175678972
I meant the actual handling and transition of cards. Aka instead of dragging a card to battle you actually pluck it from your hand and place it down. As far as "battlefield overview" goes, a copy of all cards in play will be on a play board in front of the player in the podium with them. And I've taken special care to allow players easy and fluid ways of inspecting cards.

>>175679250
>>175679678
Maybe as a sort of arcade game type lol. I'm not going for a "srs mechanics only" type of game but that's a little too meme for "standard"

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>>175678049
Here you go you filthy harlot

>>175680076
Charm is what will sell your game, you need to make the player feel like xe's in a Yu-Gi-Oh episode, things need to feel grandiose.
But for that you will need some serious art and audio skills.

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Assume I'm too stupid to make my own engine from scratch (I am).

I am familiar and comfortable with Unity but have only used it to make small scale (mostly word) puzzle games (pic), to familiarize myself with the interface and work on my C#.

My interest is to make games similar to classic RPGs like Ultima, or Avernum, or similar in ways to Roguelikes. On a much smaller scale. Basically just digital tabletop RPG adventures.

Point being, grid based movement and actions. I know this is not what Unity was designed for, it just happens to be what I am most familiar with. The correct way to use Unity has been made apparent to me that you should leverage its GameObject and Component systems. In reading up on people trying to make tile based games in Unity I have come across many saying that a GameObject per tile (and more in my case, if an object is dropped, or layered objects in one tile, such as a wall tile with a painting object on it), the GameObjects add up quickly and this becomes an inefficient load on the engine because for each GameObject it stores data that it may not necessarily need in this context, but would if one were to use Unity as intended, or solutions are suggested that don't necessarily pertain to the type of "tile-based" game that I am interested in, where I do want information about a tile to be stored in the tile (information about the tile, such as how much it hinders movement, as well as any objects, animate or otherwise, occupying the tile's space).

Alternate solutions have been suggested but appear more work intensive and counter-intuitive to the intent of the engine to the point where it seems more reasonable to simply adopt a new engine. Has anyone approached this sort of game using the Unity engine before, and what are your findings? I know that there is a lot of contention about which engines people like anyways in here but is there one that might better suit my interests, preferably one that uses C#?

>>175675463
>I'm not aware of other dungeon crawlers that do that.
All of them do nigga what the hell

>>175680828
I didn't read all of that, but the reasonable solution would be to have one gameobject/model for the static map.

>>175680828
>unity for 2d
square peg in a round hole etc etc

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>>175677876
Pillow Shading

>>175680828
unity's engine philosophy is actually to implement the bare minimum and let the asset store take care of the rest.making your own "engine" inside unity is an intended use case.

on to specifics - 2d or 3d? either way there are ways to avoid using a gameobject for each tile. tracking the game state in a separate array that doesnt use MonoBehaviours is pretty easy, the hard part is rendering only what you need.

>>175680312
Thanks for the advice anon. Yea I'm taking special care to make sure everything feels satisfying, and models/animations will be the hardest part for sure.

>make the player feel like xe's in a Yu-Gi-Oh episode
Ill be sure to have VOs that explain the effect of a card every time it's played

>>175680026
>lego
>toy

>video games
>not a toy

>>175681584
making games is not a game

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Another few transitions.

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>>175681978
>squareman has a body now

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>>175676748
Got you covered senpai.

>>175681978
Wait so is this for your LD game or is this legit canon?

>>175683262
Ohhh shit boys, we've got a question about the Tender Arms canon!

>>175683409
enlighten me

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>Tender Arms
>characters have no arms nor tenderness

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>>175678853

so with unreal 4 you need a team of 50 people to make a half finished mess?

sounds about right.

>>175673974
She looks almost as tired as I feel.
I wanna make her a bartender in my game.

>>175683664
Quality post.

>>175683614
having a team is the only way to make game

>>175676293
your prayers shall be answered anon

I will return with my word clouds

>>175683262
I'm afraid to give any of the plans away as every time I do, something forces me to change them within a week. But this is connected to TA, that's guaranteed.

>>175683486
The story is about finding the sorceress, which is actually someone of importance to you.

Script I got for the first/optimistic ending:

As you enter the room, you are immediately blinded by the endless beauty of the great Sorceress Etyliv.
You stand there completely stunned for some time, then remember what you came here for and nudge yourself to move.
As you stumble around without any senses there to assist you, suddenly you feel like you have once felt before.
As her tender arms wrap around you, you feel . . . home.

unity!
unity!

unity! unity! unity, i say unity!

its unreal

>tfw got tired of my game and I don't know if it's fun anymore

>>175683982
Make a demo for demo day and we'll tell you

>>175683982
post it and i will critique

t. expert game critic (15 years experience)

>>175683936
And then what? You still have to leave the dungeon or whatever.

>finished with everything for grad school
>have a whole summer to work part-time, dev, and hang out with friends
I'm gonna do it this time, /agdg/. I'm going to finish a game instead of just making a demo and calling it quits.

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>>175683838

no.

>>175684221
Then you play again and get the real/melancholy ending, where you find the the sorceress but she's not what you needed/wanted/expected, feeling unfulfilled you delve deeper on into the dungeon.

>>175684564
but you already found the sorceress before
why is she different

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For fucks sake I have just spent 4 hours debugging my new animation code without success.

Instead I decided to scratch the project and start a new one and suddenly the animation code works.


Fucking fuck fuck hell

Reminder that the creator of a shitty, buggy-ass, pure drag-and-drop game made in GMS that two people have played and nobody's played for more than an hour is more of a game dev than some enginedev with incredibly elegant code but who's never finished anything.

>>175684532
Lets see your game

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Will no-fap help me dev?

ayy time to shill myself again.

If anyone needs an OST i'd be interested in working on it. I have some sample shit to listen to. unfortunately only one song

>>175684760
And a Unity dev with a Perfect Game is more of a dev than both of them.

>>175684803
Meditation will help with both

dont have a job, someone pay me to do your graphics

>>175684829
You've done one song and you're ready to commit to a whole soundtrack? Keep writing

>>175684856
Any dev with a very good game, whether they were an enginedev, used Unity, used GM, or whatever else, is more of a dev than someone who made a buggy mess or didn't make anything.

>>175677736
p-pls respond

>>175684963
i mean i had more but unfortunately i lost them due to irresponsible reformatting a while ago.

made me learn my lesson real quick

>>175684936
>Trusting artists
No.

>>175684936
Gibs me dat portfolio

>>175684829
Why do people do this without posting their songs/profiles? I want to hear, man. I love hearing what musicbros have to offer.

>>175684963
>>175685092
Forgot to mention, currently working on more, too.

>>175685124
https://soundcloud.com/agdgost/sample2

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>>175685113
https://soundcloud.com/cyclophobia/sets/mythophobia


3D assets / animation / Music /

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>>175684532

>>175674330
You just gave me a neat idea anon, thanks.

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The wife (male) finished another background for the VN thing.

>>175674330
Checkers.

sorry if someone has already posted this, but I just saw this
https://kotaku.com/a-new-jet-combat-game-for-the-pc-1794819914?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook&utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialflow

>The wife (male)
What did he meme by this

>>175685653
Pretty good font options.

>>175685653
That's a cool background.

>>175685245
I really enjoyed that. I'm working on a scifi game and I might be interested in your music. Send me an email so I can have some way of getting in contact with you later on.

Keep writing.

>>175686203
Presumably saying that he was a dude to clarify in case we assumed that anon was in a lesbian relationship?

>>175684936
>someone pay me to do your graphics
kys, doing graphics is piss easy and relaxing. I would pay to do graphics

>>175686335
ok

>giving (him) indirect (you)s

My husband (meme-kin) is laughing at you right now.

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what sounds the most fun to you lads, in a 2D multiplayer shooter

>selecting your weapons before spawning (modern shooters)
>spawn with default weapons, find weapons on the map (classic arena shooters)
>pick a class/character with their own weapons (class based shooter)

>>175686572
number 2

>>175686572
arena shooter style is the rarest nowadays so go for that

>>175686572
Class based default weapons, map weapons change depending which class grabbed it.

>>175686572
arena shooter

>>175686572
Load outs are more fun than class/arena shooters in my opinion. I also unironically like grinding for unlocks too so maybe I just deserve to be put in a mass grave.

>>175686446
My fucking dog (female) is sleeping right now.

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>>175686826
>fucking dog

>>175686572
Class based shooter
>Dev already balanced the loadout for me
>Don't have to run around the map looking for the best weapons
Basically I am lazy, and there are a lot of people like me

>>175686572
2. It also gives you more control over pacing of your levels and provides the option of putting your player through the grinder if they want access to the best weapons

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>>175686826

>>175686769
If you want I can come kill you or something.

>>175685653
A male wife is called a husband, anon. You are welcome.

>>175686862
>SINGLETONS

>>175686826
>having a dog specifically for fucking

>>175680828
>Unity has been made apparent to me that you should leverage its GameObject and Component systems

Meh

I don't even use gameobjects all that extensively, only when i need a visual component. So what I do is I keep a pool of gameobjects and have a set of regular c# objects to hold the game data, then when I need to show something on the screen I apply the object data to a free gameobject

thank you boys. my game already has an arena shooter based weapons system but I'm experiencing a bit of a block because i didn't think it was fun, but I think my map design skills are just shit

Is it worth upgrading from GameMaker Studio to GameMaker Studio 2? What does GMS2 add to the table to be worth a $100 price tag? I can't even get a discount to upgrade since I already have the previous one.

>>175685653
Really cool art, can you show any more?

>>175687574
no
slightly faster and that's about it

>>175687642
Jesus.

>>175687574
They charge you for a version bump?

Defend this, GMcucks.

>>175687805
It's like a whole new program~!

>>175687574
There are some quality of life changes, like the editor live tracks your variables and their scopes, new workflow, and the new tiles and layer systems. It's nothing gamechanging, but try out the beta/free version. I'm not upgrading

>>175687805
YoYo really fucked up, they made the free version absolutely useless and removed all traces of 1.4 while literally the entire competition is going for the "free with royalties" model or just plain free.

They want the "kids who will never manage to release a game but still throw money at stuff" audience and it will bite them in the ass.

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I'm using tables to store my variables, are you happy now? Just need to figure out how I can do what I was doing before with just variables

>>175685653
>lcd screen
>retro pc with a floppy disk reader
>retro keyboard
he fucked up good

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why the hell is this crashing my memory?

>string randomString = new string(Enumerable.Repeat(chars, random.Next()).Select(s => s[random.Next(s.Length)]).ToArray());

>Video tutorial
>Accent that makes everything he says unclear
>...Uuuuh
>Not editing the video so the lesson is clear and concise
I wish I took in information from text better

>>175688149
Tbh I had a PC with a flat TFT panel and floppy reader in the early 00s. Though that monitor is obviously modeled after a modern Benq screen.

>>175688273
I would say something but you don't take in information from text so this reply is useless.

>>175688215
random.Next(s.Length) is inclusive? Meaning you're indexing one past the end of the array

>>175688149
You must not be a mechanical keyboard enthusiast.

>>175680828
I'm not a Unity expert but wouldn't one GameObject Instance() of a prefab per tile-type not be that expensive? You'd have a transform per GameObject, the rest of the data would just be a reference to the prefab data wouldn't it? I'd try it and profile it rather than assuming that it will be inefficient.

>>175688426
I have no idea, I got it from stack overflow.
I put it inside a 200ms timer, but it always crashes after a few strings.

>>175687471
Really simple map might have the best weapons in the centre and progressively weaker ones further away. Long ranged weapons up high, short range ones in tunnels or enclosed spaces. Weapons that can make shields or are designed for defending at doorways. Ammo and and armour on corners sometimes. Lines of small health/armour pick up guiding the player towards a larger health/Armour. Spawning areas with some kind of overhead barrier to prevent lobbing weapons used in spawncamping.

Mirroring half a map can work for overall balance but sometimes looks obvious and ugly unless artistic variation is added with non-intrusive props or other elements. Look at examples of particularly well known and iconic maps like Quake 3 The Longest Yard, UT's Facing Worlds or even something like TF2's 2Fort (despite its retarded sniper gallery)

aggy daggy is shit, tigsource is where it's at, thank me later

>>175688889
I can't answer their questions in the register page.

>>175688736
try random.next(s.length-1) then senpai

>>175680828
>Alternate solutions have been suggested but appear more work intensive and counter-intuitive to the intent of the engine to the point where it seems more reasonable to simply adopt a new engine.
It's not.

You should look into how some developers (and tutorials) cover making tesselation games which are entirely procedural.

If you want Unity to just be a C# IDE that lets you more easily browse assets and set up scenes - it can do that for you. You don't have to use the engine in any particular way but the gameobject and component system is where Unity's power lies. Yes you may as well use another engine if you don't utilize it but you won't unless you're trying to prove something to yourself or be hardcore.

>>175689108
Just don't call that if s.length is zero unless you know how random.next(X) handles negative X.

>>175688889
TIG is depressing and dead. Nobody is there.

>>175688889
>Spamming your game. If your first 1-3 posts are advertising your game, it may be considered spamming. To avoid this, make a post in the Obligatory Introduction Thread before advertising your game.
what did he meme by this
I want to use the forum for devblogging and I don't give a fuck about replying to other threads, are blogs considered advertising?

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>>175689108
Well it basically didn't work

>>175689549
>I want to use the forum for devblogging
So you want to talk to yourself? Seriously tig is dead. You are teh meme.

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Godot is honestly really close to perfection as long as 2d is concerned.

I challange one (((1))) of the meme lords shitting on godot to post their game.

>>175689740
but i wanna be like notch

>>175689704
Oh. It's the first random.next call. You can't just allocate an array of random int size without a bound.

>>175689780
>granades
LOL godot

>>175689740
>>175689549
>>175689487
>has current successful game devlogs
>people actually show progress
>tons of games you can learn from (art and code wise)
>dead
what did they meme by this?

>>175690030
nice game :^)
I do need to check my spelling though, im not a native speaker.

>>175689959
Yep, that was it. It was probably trying to create strings with 10k length or something.

thanks

>>175689704
>>175689959
This, don't call enumerable.repeat with Random.Next(), because it returns a number from 0 to INT_MAX, which will be way too big for a random string.

>>175689780
how did you handle text boxes?
nice metal slug explosion

>>175690210
where u from bb

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>>175689780

why does botw look so good?

>>175690404
hopoop is using unity (lel) now and making a 3d game

>>175690421
Both TWW and SS look better

>>175689780
Google "The Witness"

>>175690404
isn't that GM?

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What is your contribution to the future of games?

>>175690724
>1997
sea of brown no contrast
>2007
sea of green no contrast
>2017
gameplay elements are clearly demarcated in a visual hierarchy of form and color

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LATE recap, not enough progress, but I can't kill my streak!

----[ Recap ]----
Game: Legacy Code
Dev: legcodev
Tools: GMS, Photoshop
Web: legacycode.itch.io
Progress:
+ Minor clean ups and fixes
- Finals week :((((

>>175690075
>has current successful game devlogs
If you say so.

>>175690873
*tips gamedev college degree*

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>tfw retro game console developer
>tfw firing up unreal engine for the first time
Is this... the power of the Gods?

How much texture memory do I have? 20 MB? 24 MB? Holy Jesus

>>175690998
>Finals week
Brother I could not feel you more on this

Fucking sucks that finals is right on Demo Day for me

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>>175690404
I don't belive it's actually your game.
>>175690317
I swear, I made it by myself. it isn't even done yet. to be honest, the entire game is "nice metal slug -----".

for the text box, ive got a function for question input and a regular text, it deals with the speed of the text, the color, protrait etc. All the data of one "line" goes into a queue that advances each time the player presses z.

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>>175680026
>You can retool lego blocks into actual functional machines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CYIxlp4e6A

lmaoing@urlife

>>175690873
>>2017
>gameplay elements are clearly demarcated in a visual hierarchy of form and color
almost every object is a different color

>>175690489
>pixel shitters already salty

>>175691032
>what is rain world devlog that spanned 5 years

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>great game idea
>start devving
>having a great time programming
>eventually need art
>even passable placeholders take a fuckload of time
>progress slows to a crawl
>energy and interest sapped
>slowly dev less and less, eventually just stop

>months later
>great game idea

>>175691291
let's see this great game

>>175691291
Just buy them on the Unreal Engine marketplace.

>>175690873
>gameplay elements are clearly demarcated in a visual hierarchy of form and color
Is the sun a gameplay element? Is that giant colored ball in the distance a gameplay element? Are the red hearts gameplay elements? You're full of it.

Pickups literally glowed and flashed up until the late 2000s. That's how you highlight gameplay elements with form and color.

>visual hierarchy
Nah nigga that doesn't even make sense re: that screen.

>>175691196
who

>>175690998
i've played the demo, did you improve level generation and enemy placement? frogs keep jumping on top of the only gap, and those homing satellites are like laser guided missiles they're hard asf

>>175691196
I don't know, what is it?
>he actually thinks people share his interests
kek
you'll learn

So about my anime horror game.

I guess since I'm pretty shit and can't make a game worth damn, I'd take the easy way out: make basic gameplay and break it up with "moments". For example, after reaching the exit of the first maze, the protagonist is caught by one of those gay animes and has to cut of her own leg to get away.

The moment after the second maze would be rape. The evil girl loli protagonist is strapped to the bed and slowly stripped by the main lolicon otaku antagonist. Just about as things reach index'd levels, a bunch of dudebroes storm in, give the lolicon a wedgie and say bro a lot. They get turned into those gay animes as the protagonist makes her getaway.

AM I A HORROR WRITING GENIUS OR WHAT

>>175691736
>anime
stopped reading there

>>175691109
are you using a table of strings? parse a text file? simple scripting language? using gdscripts itself? these kind of stuff always overwhelms me, i'm struggling with conversation box and cutscenes

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A small update.
Water, sky, and the sun gets occluded by the clouds.

I also broke the light shafts somehow, and they're not working anymore. Send help

>>175691775
But the whole point of the game is that anime is gay and gross and creepy, anon

You're, like, my primary audience

>>175691826
is there a game attached to this title screen?

>>175691826
so is this a game or a wallpaper

>>175691826
SO DID YOU GO WITH A B C OR D

>>175691571
>devlog has actual helpful tips for special pathfinding, dynamic sprite rendering and other problems you encounter if you're actually making a game
heh

>>175691853
>is gay and gross and creepy,
sounds like the game is about (you)

>>175691853
The idea is kinda self-defeating when you realize it's just going to be an anime game about creepy children.

>>175691853
an anime game for people who don't like anime?

>>175691736
This just sounds like some hentai fetish shit, not 'anti anime'

>>175692571
A horror game anon.
A comedy horror game, to be precise.

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>>175691882
>>175691897
Not yet. Just making juice for the sake of it

Come up with a game idea for me

>>175692779
google "the witness"

>>175692779
how good can you make characters

>>175692998
google "the witness"

>>175691291
You don't need art, just render the collision boxes and capsules, optionally with color if you want to get fancy. If the gameplay ends up good enough you can find an artfriend.

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*blocks your progress*

>>175693016
Depends on the character, I guess.
Why?

>>175692998
>>175693085
no u

>>175693085
>>175692998
this shitpost never gets old

>>175693141
Steam is the only reason why I'm even making a game.

>Unreal Engine dropdown menus stop working
ENGINE DEV IT IS

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>>175691812
It currently looks like this, but I may change it. I call the _text and _question functions on the text interface engine a bunch of times and it queues it all. There is actually an other "godot text interface engine" project you can download, which is pretty good and I used originally, but I wrote one myselfbecause I didn't like it. You might find more use in it.

>>175693246
If you're stumped by a dropdown menu, maybe enginedev isn't for you

>>175688889
Not anonymous

>>175693350
Posting your game automatically makes you not anonymous.

>>175692779
Hey do you like ss13? We have an open space for a "lead" artist on our ss13 clone collab

>>175693336
>Not wrinting a dedicated rigidbody-based physics engine just for realistic dropdown simulation
Never gonna make it

>>175693445
Not really

>>175693129
It bugs me. I want to show off my epic 'meplay, but all anyone focuses on is the lack of art.

>>175693628
Not really

>>175693296
i'm trying to implement it using coroutines, i'll check that project to get some ideas,any reason why you don't have a set_text_speed function? or 25 means something else?

>>175688427
that still doesn't explain the monitor

math for games is pain

>>175694407
games about math are a pain, too

>>175685245
fuck that was really nice

10/10 would pay extra for game + soundtrack

>>175693619
Really.

A game where you

>>175695237
play

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>>175695237
make a game

Unity
>you have to pay to remove Unity's logo from your game

UE4
>you need permission to put UE's logo in your game

makes you think

>>175695668
not very hard

>>175689780
I guarantee most, if not all, of the shitposters hating on Godot are nodevs or Unity/Gamemaker shills.
No yesdev actually cares about engine war bullshit.

Keep up the good work. The gameplay is looking good.

GUYS, THE DROPDOWN MENUS WORK AGAIN

>>175695223
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAg3MDKb2hI

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>>175688215
good pepe

>>175688087
>They want the "kids who will never manage to release a game but still throw money at stuff" audience and it will bite them in the ass.
This is so weird, though. Game Maker WAS that program for so long, and then GMS came around and it was much better and people actually made solid stuff with it. Why go back to being the MS Paint of game development?

>>175696260
>Why go back to being the MS Paint of game development?
that's RPGmaker

>>175693154
>Why?
its the only thing that matters, thats why

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>>175695668
Godot
>you need to go to "project settings" to remove Godot's logo from your game

Is there a good open source alternative to GMS that's roughly as easy to use (I don't use drag-and-drop for anything but placing items in levels)?

>>175689780
Have you tried Love? I think it's pretty great for 2D, but I've never tried Godot.

>>175697285
see
>>175697235

>>175697235
You can't change the executable's icon without resource hacking tools though.

>>175697367
s-shut up

>>175697367
That's actually considered a bug. And they're working to fix it. Although it's low priority.

You can just build the engine from source with whatever icon you want if you really want to.

>>175697794
>3.0 Fixes It™
REEEEEE

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>at least 2 or 3 devs in the discord's offtopic channels have openly admitted that they've considered suicide recently
>they're all for similar reasons
>there are probably more in here who don't bring it up

don't give up, anon, i believe in you. i believe in your game and your future.
you may be going through hard times now, but hard times come to pass and i know in my heart that you'll go through it!

>>175694843
thanks man, appreciate it

>>175697794
>That's actually considered a bug.
Hahah, sure it is.

>>175698135
https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/1211

it sure is

>>175698196
Yup, a "bug" that they are surely working on "fixing". It's listed under "issues" so they must be sincere about fixing it!

>>175698332
If it matters that much to you why don't you submit a patch fixing it?

>>175698332
>boo the open source project isn't working fast enough on the issue that i care about

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post /agdg/ games from devs who don't know what the fuck they're doing

>>175698393
>How about you just do the work for them?
No thanks.

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>>175698485

>game is so bad you want to kill yourself over it

I hope you never get to share it with the world

>>175698467
>T-they're definitely working on the issue, guys!

>>175698653
>being this bitter

>>175698393
>points out a legitimate issue
>"lole it's open source fix it on your own"
godotfags everyone

>>175698728
>his game makes him feel like dying
>wants others to feel this way

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I don't know what happened to me, before I was always thinking about ideas although they were shitty at least I was thinking of ideas

So I spent the last three weeks just working on C#, C++ and unity so I could make game. But suddenly I can't think of any ideas and just massive writers block

Help me please AGDG how do you overcome writers block?

>>175698995
That isn't writer's block, that's you evolving from an idea guy into a game dev and realising that those ideas, and 99% of ideas, were always worthless.

>>175698995
>he doesn't have 8+ notepads full of ideas to go back to

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>>175698995
Stare at this picture until you hear him say something.

>>175698995
creative block doesn't exist
your brain just got bored and gave up without asking you for permission

>>175698038
If I hung out in discord I would want to self destruct myself too.

>>175698038
What were the reasons?