/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

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I want to make a Souls game.

I want to make a game

I make a game

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Does anyone make games with bar huds anymore?

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Reposting not for (You)s but for the sake of motivation:

There's something that bothers me about people struggling with creativity. They tend to think their ideas are bad and that they're not creative enough to make original or new things, and this drives them to doubt their ability to create things.

I'm here to tell you that this train of thought is bullshit. Being creative doesn't mean you have to make new things from scratch - sometimes creativity means giving your own unique vision to things that you've seen done before. Maybe you think that you're doing a 1:1 carbon copy of something that's already done, but your direct input affects the outcome on a scale that you wouldn't even believe.

I've seen the same tropes being done over and over again, and yet they always have their unique flavor to them. Even if most of their elements are borrowed or are a direct reference to something that was already created, byproducts of these core ideas filtered through a new mind's filters make a world of difference among them.

What I'm trying to say is, don't beat yourself up because you can't come up with new things. Sometimes using things that were already done and building on them in your own way is enough for you to make a masterpiece. Keep it up!

I game

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going to shill my twitter because id like to follow some more agdg devs

https://twitter.com/aneonwinter

>right-brainlets

>>175792646
I already follow you bby. Love your stuff.

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>>175792646
ill follow you :)
https://twitter.com/JofersGames

>>175792903
thanks

I like the way your battle royale style shooter is coming along man

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Playing around with 3D. This took me way too long to make.

>>175792575
Anon that (You)d you here. Just wanted to say I wasnt being sarcastic, I just thought you deserved one since we dont have updoots or green pinkies

>>175793404
I've seen a lot of games start with this concept, they never seem to go anywhere with it

>>175792646
>https://twitter.com/aneonwinter

i see you're following com truise. he's my favourite musician dude. so talented.

>>175793530
Yeah, when I was looking around for how to rotate like this I found a lot of prototypes of walking on walls, but not any finished games.

Hopefully I can make this work though.

>>175792328
Become a /yesdev/, get a few years of experience, find a team, and its possible.

Dont expect multiplayer, and youll probably need more overall art skills than programming skills on the team to capture the same feeling

>>175793253
thanks, your luftrausers style game looks super fun too :)

>>175792452
justdoit.webm

>>175793829
>making a game that required hundreds of devs and millions of dollars as a small team

supporting this delusion is unhealthy anon

>>175792646
When is this coming out? I want to try it.

>>175792575
>encouraging even more unoriginal shit
yeah nah, fuck you

>>175793996
There's plenty of indie souls-likes. It can be done. Unless he literally wants to remake an entire Souls game.

>>175794083
nice reading comprehension lad

>>175793404
Reminds me of that Ghost in the Shell game on PS1

Low poly 3D isn't used nearly enough. It's a great aesthetic I hope becomes in vogue soon.

>>175793765
I love his music and I have the chance to see him live in a couple weeks

>>175794253
You found me out, that's what I'm basing this on

>>175794214
Nothing 3d.

>>175793996
Its very possible to make a similar feeling game with a whole team and a decent timespan.

No it wont be as detailed, and itd have to be scaled down, but you could get in ballpark range for a similar style and gameplay

>>175794214
I can name several indie souls-likes but I can't name a single one worth playing.

>>175794225
Relying on tropes is shit and no amount of unique snowflake sauce will change that, get better ideas.
You can execute tropes very well despite being unoriginal, but that doesn't mean you should settle for the lazy way out.
Nowadays game concepts and plots are absolute fucking imitative shit and I will support anyone who dares to be unique.

>>175794279
>Low poly 3D isn't used nearly enough.
you kdding m8

>>175794715
Hollow Knight is really good.
>inb4 "It's a metroidvania!"
It's got just as much Souls-like as Metroid-like in it.

>>175794950
It's a metroidvania and it's not particularly good.

>>175794279
you mean mobile graphics?

I need help in deciding an engine for a game idea.

It's a trivia questionnaire with multiple choice answers.

Unity is over kill for this and I don't want to deal with their licensing bullshit.

The only requirements is that it has to be deployable to mobile (iOS and android if possible)

What are my options?

>>175794773
where's your unique idea

>>175795283
godot

>>175794773
I'm not saying you MUST do it. I'm saying it's a possibility and doesn't mean you're a 100% useless designer for doing it. Unoriginal doesn't automatically equal bad.

>>175794370
Change it up and make it an actual spider bumbling around a household:
>Maintain a routine of web checking for traped prey in different locations around rooms.
>Murdering other spiders that step to you.
>Participate in spider dance-offs to impress a mate.
>Eat your partner
>Eat your children
>Get eaten by your children
>Talk to a pig using your webs
>Bite nerds
>Engage in a nailbiting basement duel with the homeowner armed with a nailgun

>>175795283
I find blueprinting in Unreal is comfy af, but I only have like ~5 hours of experience so far and another Anon said anything it makes is like 70MB minimum, which is a turn off with small phone storage

>>175795745
UE4 is way overkill for a UI game.

>>175795673
Nobody's gonna make it but it sure does sound fun.

>>175795458
It's actually a very original idea (and I'm actually developing it so no ideaguying), the thing about being original is that you naturally lose some mass appeal points and it's hard to resist watering down your idea for the sake of making it more accessible. But hopefully I will stand my ground until the end and finish exactly what I want to make.

>>175795804
What does "overkill" mean? The minimum file size? Thats the only drawback here

>>175796129
Performance too.

UE4 won't run on some lower end phones.

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Got a bunch of progress done today.

+ Finished (for the most part) Planet Climates and generation.

+ Power Distribution + Supply for all Ship Components

+ Started work on Inventory

I hate inventories so much...

>>175796129
I wouldn't use UE4 unless I was looking to impress the user graphically. That makes it pretty niche for 99 cent phone apps

>>175796228
Ah, I havent heard that brought up yet.

Does that apply to purely Paper2D projects?

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Why must coding be so much more immediately rewarding than environment modeling?
Took me forever to get my scene to where it is, meanwhile fixing my text code up and adding an extra escape to scale the text among other code fixes took me just a day and feel like I got more done.

Anywho, progress.

should i join the demoday JAM now or wait for it to start?

>>175796489
damn that look like ma mairo

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>>175796489
Before I add more detail I just want to ask if this is a decent base. Do the outlines work or should I just start over?

>>175796695
Irrelevant. Just make sure to submit your game ASAP

>>175795505
Like I said, you can execute a tired idea very well but it will still be a tired idea, I'm a much bigger fan of "controversial" ideas that might turn off most people than the safe games that try their hardest to be as inoffensive as possible.
And that's what most highly derivative games aim to be, simply something safe that can be enjoyed by most people.

I'm probably the minority here but I think artistic expression is the most important aspect of a game.

>>175797027
>he thinks any idea is original and not a mishmash of old ideas mixed with personal and cultural views that influence it

oh you

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>>175796431
At the end of the day it's still UE4, it is not a 2D engine and it cannot run as efficiently as one.

If all you want is 2D, let alone a UI-based game, then there are better choices, though it's a shame because UE4's UI tools are actually really nice.

>>175797267
What about Demons Souls?
What game did it before?
And no, its not kings field, those are two different games.

My life would be improved 500% if I could fucking draw

>>175797451
Name an original mechanic Demon Soul's has.

>>175797520
This is the same for me.

Hours a day with loomis and everything still looks tardy

>>175797546
What game did the typical souls level formula before it?

>>175797027
That's funny 'cause when I play a game I care about enjoying myself in any meaningful capacity. Faggot.

>>175797557
Post art so I can laugh at it

>>175797267
Sure, but the key is in making sure that you don't simply combine the same ideas everyone else combined in the same manner.
It even makes sense from an economical standpoint too, most hits are usually from neglected genres and/or had unique settings they weren't done often before in games.

If people started taking ideas from books and other media instead of simply other games or mainstream shit then game concepts and plots wouldn't be considered such a joke.

I'm charging $5 for my number guessing game

#number guessing game

import random

print('Select the game difficulty.')
print('1. Range from 1 to 10')
print('2. Range from 1 to 50')
print('3. Range from 1 to 100')
difficulty = int(input('> '))

endRange = 0;
guesses = 1;
guess = 0;

if difficulty == 1:
endRange = 10
elif difficulty == 2:
endRange = 50
elif difficulty == 3:
endRange = 100

randomNumber = random.randint(1,endRange)

while guess != randomNumber:
guess = int(input('Enter a guess! '))
if guess < randomNumber:
print('Too low')
guesses += 1
elif guess > randomNumber:
print('Too high')
guesses += 1
else:
print('You guessed',randomNumber, 'correctly in',guesses,'guesses.')
input()

gooood i know everyone says it's a terrible first project but all i wanna make is an rpg

>>175798041
You want more games like Bioshock?

>>175798184
>rpgmakergeneral

>>175797546
World Tendency

>>175797978
Of course the fun factor matters, while I will enjoy unique aspects of a game I won't keep playing it even if it's unfun just for the sake of uniqueness, I'm not some dumbass hipster that plays obscure shit to look smart but I do despise how stagnant most games are.

>>175798226
I wasn't a huge fan of the gameplay itself and the storytelling but the world building sure was interesting as fuck and the main selling point of the game.

Just got home after a 2 hour commute. I'm exhausted. I can't make game like this, guys.

>>175797324
>>175796396
>>175796228
>>175796129
>>175795804
I'm literally only enginedevving because the UE4 editor won't run on my computer

>>175798463
>busfag doesnt have a laptop

>>175798548
>bus
>implying

>>175798168
Difficulty is a nice touch from the standard school assignment

>>175798616
For an extra $4 I will release a DLC for extreme difficulty

>>175798227
rm is horrible for action although i might steal its assets for placeholders

Is it immoral to make a nonfree game?

>>175798607
>2 hour drive

Get a new job m8

>>175798954
Morality is subjective

>>175799001
Can't get one any nearer me.

>>175798848
Itd be a shame if someone were to... pirate your game!

>>175799240
move m8

I'm going to pirate my own game and add a PLS BUY MY GAME message in it.

>>175799342
Can't. My husband has a similar commute in the opposite direction.

>>175799452
Leave your husband for me m8

>>175799563
are you gay?

>>175799683
Are you attractive?

>>175799563
>>175799683
>>175799727
JUST FUG ALREADY

>>175799429
maybe add some bonus for newgame+ to motivate people who pirated it and liked to buy it

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Was making modifications to the easier difficulty for DD14 and I accidentally left a break somewhere it shouldn't have been. Caught me off guard and thought it was funny.

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WHERES YOUR FUCKING GAME

>>175800148
mobile bad

>>175800148
phones cant run it

>>175800095
right here
*unzips files*

>>175796919
really? no one wants to shit on my pixelshit?

>>175800148
I tried but it ran like shit on everything but my galaxy s6.

I didn't want to compromise my vision.

>>175799962
jesus

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>>175800301
>>175800184
>unity

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>>175800187

Why are you so late this date?

>>175800518
DD14 didn't even start yet, I'm not late.

>>175800518
classes have been horrible to me these past few months

>>175800282
looks fine, needs details. it's just a base, right? it looks good

>>175793829
what does /yesdev/ mean?

>>175800518
Struggling to keep up with an increased load at work after fallout between a manager and a contractor who was trying to screw us over

>>175801059
Not a /nodev/

>>175801059
A dumbass superfluous meme term made by a dumbass.
There are only devs and nodevs.

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Is my game still even fun and interesting?
I can't tell anymore, it's all a blur.

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So let's say I have a giant building and it has floors and rooms that the player views as a cross-section. Every time you load the game, the room location would be randomized as shown in the picture. The items contained inside the room would also be minimally random.

I understand how I could do this in an array, but, would those rooms be "objects"? Can objects contain sub-objects they are bundled with? If I spawned a bathroom "object" I would want a toilet "object" to spawn with it, etc.

>>175802414
Well then turn down the motion blur and check again

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Revolvers make me want to die.

>>175802564
UE4 doesn't let me.

>>175802560
Why does a room need to be an object when it could be a variable that represents a set of instructions on how the objects within its area should be populated?

>>175802673
Because gamemaker uses objects

>>175802560
What are you using? If Unity objects can have children objects, yes, you'd want to instantiate prefabs probably.

>>175802414
get some friends to play it and get honest feedback

>>175802719
if joke answer: hah
if serious answer: :/

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>>175802752
>friends

>>175802626
Cant for the life of me remeber where, but I can confirm motion blur is a setting you can turn off in UE4.

I believe the default is .5, rather than 0

>>175802614
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-epfVAo0y0
because i like torturing you
and because your danm revolver looks so much better than mine

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Hey /agdg/, do you know of any really phenomenal ways of learning Unity?

I have experience with C++ and have actually been working through a tutorial course on Udemy, but as I'm approaching the end of the course I still don't feel like anything *clicks* in my head.

Whenever I come up with a game idea there just seems to be huge gaps in my understanding that prevent me from making anything substantial.

Pls agdg, i want to be yesdev so bad.

>>175803038
Dropping Unity is a phenomenal way to live your life.

>>175802724
Gamemaker

I basically want an an object to contain sub-objects that are controlled by their own systems while still being subject to the rules of the room i place them in. I have no idea how I would otherwise place the room as it's just a collection of tiles assembled in a way with foreground and background tiles...

>>175796367
Your webm thumbnail looks like a sun with a mustache.

>>175803038
C++ is Unreal.
Unity is C#.

Just follow some tutorials

>>175795468
This seems perfect, thanks!

>>175795745
>>175795804
UE4 does look like overkill, will go with Godot

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>>175803021
>Shells ejecting from a revolver
Anon, I...

>>175803227

If I ever get fanart it better be of that.

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>>175803274
thats the joke, because the revolver shots Knifes,

>>175803274
>pulls out gun
>checks it
>it's loaded
>loads it again and now it's empty

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>>175792903
Made some progress

>>175803135
I already asked you a rhetorical question intended to make evident the fault in your reasoning, but okay, we'll do things your way.

Why does a room need to be an object when you can simply assign a variable to a position in a grid on world generation and then generate a portion of your level based on different sets of instructions that correspond to different variables in the grid? You don't need to make rooms objects just because "game maker uses objects", that's a bad approach. You need to think of how you can solve your problems with code whenever possible; unnecessarily using objects is a drain on performance because of all the variables they inherently contain.

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>>175803523
>Sequence render
wow its shit

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>>175803539
Way too much space to fill :/
might have to bring the canon in a bit

>>175803639
where's ur game reloadanimationman

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Remade my UI, again.

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>>175803776
WW2 Gaem: http://polycount.com/discussion/154030/ue4-our-ghosts-of-war-world-war-2-adventure-game

Rooty tooty gaem: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blayzegames.iosfps

>>175803274
You animate like the player can't use any other fingers than his index finger and thumb. When cycling a bolt action rifle you'd normally use your lower palm to easily grip the bolt handle. The stripper clip will normally fly away automatically so wasting time for the soldier to manually flick it away is not necessary but that's just a minor thing.

>>175803815
What is the game?

Do you really need all those meters, meters aren't fun

>>175803839
but i am, bitch

>>175803839
I have a Super Nintendo fetish

>>175803839
All I ask is you teach me how to 3D model and rig. I will 100% make a 3D game if you teach me this.

>>175803839
I am

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What's your game's artstyle?

>>175803926
it's a survival puzzle game

>>175803904
I have grown up with firearms my whole life and own plenty, I have never once chambered a bolt gun with my palm facing the bolt. Doing that is incredibly uncomfortable to me. And in most cases you rarely use anything but your thumb and index to do anything.. maybe your middle finger sometimes if the charging handle is long enough for it.

The flick thing is because we needed a tiny bit of penalty for letting it run empty and my team likes it.

>>175803998
Rigging is ezpz my man.

When was the last time you played a game for fun?

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>>175803964
Super Nintendo could 3D.

>tfw I just got a cool idea for a game but it's too similar to another aggy dagger's game

>>175803998
animation is harder than both of those, friend. if i didnt have to animate my game could have 10x as much content

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I need ideas!

Ideas for Monster Jam!

>>175804405
A Boy and his Blob but the Blob is the Blob from the movie The Blob.

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>>175796367

>>175804405
a spider... that is a man

A sniping game set in the Thief universe.

>>175804310
Competition is healthy. Go for it.

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>>175804042
I don't really have an art director. Wanna volunteer?

>>175804501

Bless you anon

>>175804752
But what if the other anon gets mad and sad and drops his game.

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>>175796367
>>175803227

>>175804405
furry-pandering h-game

>>175804827
But surely you must have some kind of style.

Post art.

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>>175804969

Alright fags, what is the /agdg/ game with the BEST art besides monolith

>>175804340
No matter how hard I try I can never make the shapes look like the model I'm picturing in my head.

>>175804869
Fucking saved.

>>175805349
model from reference you dumdum

>>175805197
Late 90's pre-rendered style, very reminiscent of games such as SubSpace and StarCraft.

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>>175805543
Well, sure, it's prerendered for now
But more importantly, I'm not adhering to a particular style when creating assets because I don't have the requisite skill as an artist and it doesn't matter anyway since I'm working on the assumption that every single asset currently in the game will be replaced as I move forward with development

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idea guy here:
Remake Minecraft. Except use a real time deep learning filter to make the game look good.

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>>175803839
I am doing a 3D game, but dammit does it take forever to make levels.

>>175805974
Are there deep learning filters that are even 24fps capable?

>>175805974
How long does it take to render a deepdream pic? It could be doable with some top hardware.

How many people will be streaming DD14 games? It's the highlight of my life.

Why can't there be something like OnMouseEnter(), OnMouseOver() and OnMouseExit() for dragging a selection box over the scene? That'd be so much simpler that the complicated shit needed to get it working currently.

>>175806425
i could stream but no mic because of ungodly combo of poor spoken english and spaghetti spilling

>>175806617
That's fine senpai, just play my damn game.

>>175805974
>remake something with better graphics

What a horrible idea guy, you're fired

>>175806487
You could make this with an interface.

>>175806487
Implement the interfaces yourself in your own mono

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How do you guys keep trying without feeling suicidal.
This is so fucking hard. I could literally go months(years) with almost no progress at all.

How do you stay sane?

>>175806617
>poor spoken english and spaghetti spilling
Just scream monosyllabic words like a caveman the entire time
>FUN
>BOOM
>STRONG
>NO
>PAIN
>OUCH
>DEAD

>>175806764
A prescription for vyvanse. Don't know what everyone else does about it.

>>175806764
I don't use Unity.

>>175806764
Give up and get a job

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can now lock targets

did i miss the recap post or has he not come yet?

>>175806764
masturbating to anime is the only thing that keep me going

>>175807225
can i get a quick rundown on those wave artifacts?

>>175806751
>>175806762
I would like to, I just don't know how to code it.

>>175806764

Solving the tiny problems instead of constantly looking at the big picture

>>175807312
the gif is just fucked.. i cant use webm with this shitty laptop

>>175798286
>>175797027
>>175794773
>>175794083

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1r27UF7tWY

it's not about the idea. it's about the execution.

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Doing some last minuet sound stuff for the demo.
With sound: my.mixtape.moe/nijcgn.webm

going over the demo over and over again is making me anxious

>>175806764
I keep trying WHILE feeling suicidal.

I've struggled with suicidal impulses since I was very young. It's only in the past few years that I've had entire weeks of freedom from it, but it still comes back now and then. I have to remind myself to take care of the basics: Eat food, get enough sleep, drink water, exercise, go outside during the day. I take vitamin D supplements. I moved out of a place with mold in the walls. The problem isn't gone but it's much easier to manage when I'm able to keep up a habit of taking care of myself.

>How do you stay sane?
That ship sailed a long time ago. But if I keep it up the facade I can trick myself into acting like a productive member of society.

>>175807625
nikasaur?

>>175807710
wat chu mean?

>>175807926
nika harper aka nikasaur is the one whos doing the talk

>>175807625
This "nothing is original" meme is retarded shit forced by uncreative idiots who are ok with making generic clones.

If all you can think of is pop culture and typical fairy tale tropes then you are just an ignorant person that seriously needs to expand your horizons and find out that there's so, so much more that can be told in a videogame.
Seriously, don't take advice from some millennial dyke.

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>>175808447
>millennial
Them again! Hot holy glistening fuck, is there anything they haven't gotten their tentacles into?
A world in the hands of millenials sounds like a world without video games.

>>175808447
Fuck off grandpa/underage 4chan is a millennial site now

>>175808447
>he's 37 and still on 4chan
sad!

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Anyone got any tutorials for making music?
I've been fucking around with FL studios for the last few days, but.. It hasn't been good.

>>175809000
I know you're just memeing but I'm totally serious when I say that the millennials in charge are absolutely fucking retarded in so many ways.

The powergap in writing between games and even movies is just ridiculous, many people just don't realize how fucking shit and unoriginal games are in general.

>>175808447
He's correct. Just because you can't think of anything new doesn't mean no one else can. There's just a hell of a lot more people on Earth now and it's way easier for a larger portion of the global population to contribute.

>>175806764
Because I don't have any mental issue that causes me to feel suicidal.
I enjoy being alive, even when I know I'll probably never be good enough to make my dream game.

>>175804340
animations is one of the few things that you can buy and nobody would notice that they were bought assets once you re-targeted them

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>>175806764
Haha jokes on you, my game is my escape. Just shut my self off emotionally and submerse myself in what Im working on.

>tfw uncreative fuck

>>175809802
read a book, loser

How do I get my writer to write?

>>175810142
You fire him and write it yourself.

>>175808447
talk about missing the point. I'm not against the idea of originality.
arguing with you is pointless.
enjoy dying a failure.

>>175810216
I suck at writing.

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>he is not making a videogame for chinese market right now
what's your excuse

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How do I into painting textures? Something like what you'd see in blizzard games? I took some screenshots and I've been trying to replicate some stuff but I can't figure it out. How would you paint the grass in the picture for instance?

>>175810428
>have to get approved by the chink commies
>have to pay for a translator
>god help you if your game has any lore or text that will get bastardized to shit

Go watch the GDC talk on how shitty chinese game localization is.

>>175810249
I understand the point perfectly and it's the most common defense mechanism of uncreative fucks everywhere.
Yes, you can make a good game with a shit uninteresting story but the shit uninteresting story is still a shit uninteresting story.
No, your story isn't more interesting or any less tropish just because you added some extra flair to it, you can fool some mongoloids who don't know any better into thinking that your story is in any way interesting and original but shit won't fly for the rest of the people and your story still has no value at all.

What I'm saying is not even elitist or hipsterish, games have horrible writing and that's a fact.

All of this also applies to game mechanics.

>>175810568
step 1. be decent at digital painting
step 2. having a digital painting program
step 3. use digital painting program

>>175810383
The more you write the better you get

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New game dev here, working in Godot. Can someone here tell me why my code sucks? I'm new to working with code and 3D math and this is the first thing I haven't been able to figure out by banging my head against it.

I want to smoothly rotate the player's camera to look at an object in the scene using quaternions. So. I'm having a dummy camera look_at() the object, (I know this works correctly) then storing its rotation as a quaternion along with my main camera. Then, in a while loop, I'm trying to make my main camera rotate until it matches the dummy camera's stored rotation by setting its transform on every loop while interpolating its current rotation with the stored target rotation. Most of the documentation I've found on Quats in this way seems to suggest this should work fairly simply.

Problem is, calling this function just makes my game hang. (Not a crash or code error, just freezes and has to be closed manually.) I've tried several different iterations of this code and all of them have crashed similarly.

I have my suspicions about the problem but maybe someone smart/experienced can tell me what I'm doing wrong here, or if I'm just retarded and need to kill myself. Thanks.

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>tfw you try to use code you find online and it doesn't work, and you don't know if the problem is that you didn't implement it right or if it just plain doesn't work

>>175811004
>working in Godot. Can someone here tell me why my code sucks?

>>175811004
>Can someone here tell me why my code sucks?
>working in Godot
that's why

>>175811004
If it's freezing then some loop is running forever, in this case the while loop.
The currentfocus is never becoming equal to targetfocus for some reason, I don't know shit about 3D math but you should use print commands to check and compare values, it's also a good idea to avoid loops in general when dealing with float math and such since it's so easy to get rounding errors.

>>175811004
>calling this function just makes my game hang
dont know godotscript, but usually anything that causes the game to freeze is because of an infinite loop.

comment out the "get_node" inside the while loop. if it doesnt hang, then there's your problem.

>>175811030
>using code you don't completely understand
>ever
Good thing it broke 'cause now you get to actually learn it.

>>175811196
>>175811274
>>175811336
>>175811406

thanks

>>175811004
When working with numbers that use floats, don't check if they are exactly equal. They will never be exactly equal unless you set them exactly equal.

A while loop will freeze the game until it is completed. Use the _process() function to calculate the lerp every frame.

Also there is an interpolated camera node, which will let you smoothly swap camera positions, even FOV and other settings if you need that.

>>175811004
Use the tween node for smoothly moving stuff.

>>175811030
>copy/pastes code he doesnt understand

anyway, setup a bunch of breakpoints and see what part of the function stops working.

debugging 101

>>175807636
>last minuet
>sound stuff
hee hee

It's almost 00:00 here. Should I:

>sleep like a babby for brain gains
>code like a madman for the next 5 hours

>>175792646
followed (you) my dude

>>175811774
Fix your sleep schedule and keep it fixed.
Trust me, you will be more productive and feel a loss less shit.

>>175795673
>duel with the homeowner armed with a nailgun
kekd

Question for those who are making 2D games, which engine are you using, and what language?

>>175812086
unity/c#

>>175811774
Sleep, work at a schedule. It helps you not get burned out.

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>>175812086
godot

>>175812145
Isn't it a bit overkill to do a 2d game on unity?

>>175812321
No because I'm integrating 3D elements. This is not a SNES/NES tier 2D game

>>175812086
I'm not really using an engine. I'm making my game using a graphics framework and a physics library. I'm doing this with c++ btw.

>>175812625
Then it's not a 2D game.

>>175812625
>This is not a SNES/NES tier 2D game
>says the amateur gamedev
heh, alright buddy, whatever you say.

>>175812689
Yes it is.

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>>175812086
I'm not gonna say it's the patrician choice, lua's kind of weird

But it's fuckin comfy

>>175812625
I mean, it is a 2.5D game then. If you prefer to say it.
That works, I guess.
>>175812670
I'm a starter, so I don't really understand it. Are you making lot's of notepad ++ files with codes in them written in C++ to later compile it all in a game?
>>175812869
Any examples?

Man, fuck drag-to-select, I'll just make a game with only one player unit. (Why can't conceptually simple things be simple to code?)

>>175813341
>Why can't conceptually simple things be simple to code?

Because life is shit, anon

>>175813341
Where would the fun be then?

>>175813214
>I mean, it is a 2.5D game then
Nope.
Ori uses tons of 3D elements, Classified as 2D.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ori_and_the_Blind_Forest

>>175813341
You mean like a RTS selection box?
Sounds easy enough in my engine of choice!

>>175813534
What engine? I'm willing to switch.

>>175813508
>2D
>2.5D
>3D
>4DCHESS
Who gives a flying fuck

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>tfw not a day goes past without fruitless definition arguments

>>175813706
#define arguments fruitless

>>175813616
I will try it out tomorrow and tell you if it works well, I don't want to give out false promises.

>>175813623
>Who gives a flying fuck
Clearly the anon responding to me.

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>tfw making a game

>>175813508
I can understand why it would be considered 2D.
Not really, never played Ori.
But if it has everything visible in a 2D plane, even if it uses elements in 3D, it will be considered 2.5D or 2D.

>>175813214

>Are you making lot's of notepad ++ files with codes in them written in C++ to later compile it all in a game

not quite. I'm actually coding c++ in the codeblocks ide and its using the gcc compiler.

A framework is usually a library or a collection of files/classes/functionality that you can access using a coding language by calling their api. some anons might call it engine deving, but for me personally it provides quite a bit of control without using pure opengl and wishing you were dead.

>>175811504

Ah, thanks for the tip on float numbers, that's helpful. I suspected part of the problem was that both of my functions are outside of my main _process() loop. I wasn't sure if using that loop to calculate would be proper, but I will try it. Thank you.

I saw the interpolated camera, but couldn't figure out how to make it do what I wanted. It might have to do with how my player entity is constructed. I will experiment some more.

what's a better engine for beginners, unity or godot?

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How do you guys decide what to do next when you got a ton of things that could be done?

I can't decide between
>Detailing the main scene i've been making (grass, flowers, etc.)
>Modeling the big, important building for the center of the scene
>Designing/modeling some building interior so I can set up entering/exiting building code
>deciding i have enough of the main scene done and start making a cutscene script which was the whole point of making a nice scene to test cutscene shit in
>Writing/fixing some other bits of code structure things (i.e. getting an overworld hammer script in cause I just realized I forgot about that, though it would require an animation to go with it)

they'd all take a good amount of time, more than I have tonight, but I don't know what I want to do next.

>>175814801
Depends On What You Want To Do™

>>175814980
shitpost endlessly

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>>175813919
Fuck off tripfag

>>175814926
I find iterative design solves that problem. You make something you know is shit, and continuously make it better by changing it a little here and there.

(Not talking about major stuff like the gameplay itself. Core gameplay has to be good from the start or you'll be wasting your time making it "better").

>>175815105
maybe my trip should be posting every image with that obnoxious filename

>>175815105
>tripfag
???????

>>175815283
don't worry, he's just autistic.

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Alright I put together probably the most inefficient deck shuffling code ever

but my code works damn it
I'm going to assume there's an infinitely simpler way to randomly assign one table's contents to anothers?

tfw afraid to post demo because people might not like my game anymore

>>175814625
Ah. I see. Interesting.

>>175815545
That's what happens when you use agdg as a marketing platform with le pretty screenshots instead of showing what your game actually plays like and looking for honest feedback.

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>>175815527

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>>175792124
>tfw no one here devs on monogame

Is it because it's bad or you guys just don't like non visual programming?

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>>175815648
I understood a little bit of that, but wouldn't know how to implement that in lua exactly

and 3 random outputs

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Feel pretty good about my progress today.
My game is coming out as pure fire dudes.
Like I love playing my own game so much I almost don't want to share it.

>>175803839
Because I'm scared of learning how to make 3D models and I don't have the patience to spend hours on one model.

>>175816019
hella cool man, always look forward to your progress at first I didnt think 17.99 was a fair asking price but I get it now. youre gonna revolutionize the mobile market senpai. Especially with those 3 popular youtubers getting your back. youre golden babe.

v2

Is there a term for the perspective games like link to the past have?

>>175816019
hey if you started kickstarter id be super interested youre one of the top dogs of aggydaggy my boi. you got the eye for design as they say!

reminder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8qRTtJ5dnQ

>>175816189
Bird's eye view? Top down?

>>175816189
top down

>>175815527
I just did a nested for loop and used an rng to assign a random place in the array for a random slot in the array.

>switch the place of two random cards
>iterate over the array 10-20 times.

In a 52 card deck thats 1040 card switches which is pretty fucking shuffled.

>>175816189
oblique

>>175816296
>>175816332
that would be straight down

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v2. version 2.>>175816156

>>175816372
Top-down is now used interchangeably with oblique because people are dumb and destroy the specificity of language at every opportunity.

>>175816189
it's top down but specifically:
>the characters are orthographic from an angle so you see their sides
>the walls are topdown in perspective so you can see the walls no matter which direction they face
>props are some mix of the two

>>175816273
wicked FPS

>>175816358
assuming I understood that exactly

that would make sure no slot was used twice in Table B, and no number from Table A was used twice?

>>175816189
3/4 perspective with oblique projection is the only right answer.
Since when is "top down" anything other than straight down? You are all madmen.

>>175792124
lol why would anyone buy The Mummy merchandise

>>175816391
front frost glass window. make it longer

>>175816737
You make a good point.

>>175816524
You don't need two tables.

card[] cards [52]
int slot
card cardA
card cardB

{
slot = randNum.Next(0, cards.length)
carda = cards[slot]
cardb = cards[randNum.Next(0, cards.length)]
cards[slot] = cardb
cards[randNum.next(0, cards.length)] = carda
}

eg generate a random number between 0-51.

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>>175816587
2D Zeldas typically are straight down in every way except the sprites.

That's why ALBW looks like this with a camera hack.

>>175816273
What are you reminding me of exactly?

>>175817059
the original deck needs to be permanent, but I can just clone it to the temporary one and shuffle the contents of that table really easily I guess, although with lua that seems like it'll need a lot of cycles or a lot of variables to get the job done quickly....fuck me.

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>>175817170
>straight down
>can see the sides of vertical rock structures

>>175817382
Those aren't vertical rock structures, everything is angled. Link, the enemies, all of it.

>>175817170
>straight down in every way except literally all the graphics
lad

Straight down is stuff like Hotline Miami, LttP is actually a weird mix of perspectives depending on the object but it's mostly 3/4.
You can see both the front and backs of houses for example and that makes no physical sense but it looks good.
And that's really the best way to go about it, draw whatever looks best and don't worry too much about logic.

>>175817382
You can see the sides of vertical rock structures on all four sides though.

>>175817491
>I don't know what a sprite is

>>175817491
>You can see both the front and backs of houses for example
What?

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Drawing a crazy hobo

>>175817454
The geometry depicted in that screenshot is intended to represent vertical rock structures viewed at an angle the exact same way that Link's angled model is intended to depict a vertically standing elfboy viewed at an angle. Obviously everything is angled for the sake of a visual illusion, are you fucking dense?

>>175817516
Not in 2D Zelda you can't, and neither are the rock formations in Zelda intended to represent perfectly realistic rock formations.

agdg is fucking dumb tonight, goddamn

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terrorist identification simulator

you have a top-down view of a city and must identify terrorists by viewing flight records, conducting surveillance, etc.

you lose if the public turns on you for identifying too many non-terrorists or by allowing too many terrorist attacks

also all the terrorists are white

>>175817728
It might be intended to represent vertical rock structures but the camera is still looking straight down.

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>>175817649
Well, not the entire back but all sides of the roof are visible.

A better example of the nonsense perspective is in the dungeons where the south walls look like the camera is pointing straight down but the rest of the sprites are mostly 3/4.

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>>175817728
>hurr durr derp

has anyone made a fighting game or something for UE4? or should I stick to Unity instead even if it's C#?

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>>175817934
Another example.

You can see the north walls even though the south walls are angled by about 45 degrees, that would be impossible in a logical perspective.

So basically LttP is 3/4 but it constantly breaks the rules for the sake of playability and visuals.

>>175818173
The engine you use doesnt matter
when will this shit get inside these anons fucking heads

>>175817996
That is neither 3/4 nor top down, it's a mix of both and trying to apply logic to this game's perspective is an exercise in futility.

i really hope guncat,tiny siege,nip nip and the japanese horror game with that strange name will be in dd14

>>175818686
>it's 3/4
>no it's pretty much does whatever it wants and doesn't make sense
>REEEEEEEEE WHY ARE GUYS TRYING TO APPLY LOGIC TO THIS

okay senpai

>>175818849
guncat wasn't even close to being fun, I don't understand the circlejerk over it

>>175818865
I wasn't the one you were replying to and I didn't really pay attention to the reply chain, I just replied repeating the same stuff for the sake of emphasis.

>>175817927
actually, the camera is looking straight ahead

>>175807225
p cute but learn 2 webm

>>175819170
p cute post but he already addressed that

>>175819239
What does "can't use webm" even mean.
This is not cute.

>>175819239
How does being on a laptop prevent you from encoding webm?

>he
funny was to write "I"

>>175818173
plenty of people have made fighting games with unreal, maybe you've heard of:

Street Fighter V
Teken 7
Injustice 1 and 2 (okay that's UE3, but they're using UE4 for the mobile version of 2)
Marvel vs Capcom Infinite

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How come there are so many shitty games enjoying moderate success?
Will my game really do that well if I don't fuck up too hard?

Unity:
Does anyone know what the exception is called when the data you try to load doesn't match the expected format? I can't get one to happen, but I should really be catching it and wiping the corrupted/old data.
Is it SerializationException?

>>175818908
>guncat wasn't even close to being fun
fun is subjective most of the time but in this case i can only say it had more frustrating moments than fun ones but that's exactly why i'm curious to see if they fixed this issue

p.s i should add the toy train game to my list

>>175818849
the games i want are never in demo day

>>175819937
You're probably misreading the situation. At least if you're half as retarded as the average AGDGer.

People overlook bad graphics for good gameplay.
People overlook everything if you're fulfilling a niche that they love but is neglected by other devs.
And then there's good advertising / games that are easier to go viral despite being shit

Have any games in mind that you think are shit but are "moderately successful"? We could probably point out why they got that way.

>>175820510
flappy bird

>>175820621
Pewdiepie happened to show it. That's literally it.
Creator didn't strike a deal, pdp just happened to pick it up and make a vid. Millions of kids saw it. Snowballs from there.