/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

First for anime

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>tfw demo wasn't as well-received as I hoped it would be

Reply to this post with progress and what you're listening too.

>>175998089
Struggling with setting up a code structure for interaction between objects and / or the player. Nothing.

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Working my ass off to deliver for demo day.

xth for datamining shilling

https://www.strawpoll.me/12904392

>>175998068
That just means you have more opportunities to improve for the next demo day. Solidify those mechanics, polish those controls, add in that juice and your game will be amazing.

>>175998302
I already deleted the project, it's too hard.

>>175998068
>>175998230
How many people actually show up for Demo Day to play the games?

Is there actually a good amount or is it usually just /agdg/ faggots?

>>175998594
I got about 20 downloads so far, which is funny since it's less than the amount of games submitted.

>>175998594
a single person's judgement is enough to destroy my confidence

>>175998594
it's only agdg devs, pretty much

one time my irl friend and i played a few of the demos. he was... not impressed

>>175998594
It's an /agdg/ faggot jam, sooo...

>>175998068
which game was yours? I played through most of them and was pretty impressed with everything i saw desu

>>175998706
>>175998717
>>175998737
>>175998770
I'd have thought it'd get shilled on /v/ as well at least to get whatever bored faggots to try it, even if they'd probably just say it's shit.

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How would I render eyes like this?

>>175998594
I got 82 downloads DD13. Depending on what your other avenues of media are (twitter/tumblr) your numbers will either be thread/discord mostly or potentially reach beyond that.

>>175998849
well someone who's not currently working on their game, it'd be cool to shill it on /v/ when submissions are over.

>>175998594
The description in itch.io literally says "this jam is not for you", it's not like demo day is shilled far and wide.

>>175998870
yes

>>175998870
You shouldn't.

>>175998849
Its been shilled there before. And when hopoo had the Deadbolt demo a lot of people outside of here went to play that, and in turn play other games. I think it was because of some Let's Player.

>>175998849
>>>/v/376088170

>>175999151
Why not?
>>175999112
Thanks for the help.

>>175999595
If your goal to make some uncanny, creepy af shit then go right ahead.

>tfw bug that doesn't even make sense

is monogame good for making simple 3D games?
or is it a waste of time for one person not to use an engine like unity or ue4?

>>175999969
All bugs makes sense.

>>175999969
I'm convinced that sometimes bugs are caused by cosmic rays, it's the only explanation.

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>>176000125
ReactTo() is triggering twice when it should only trigger once per mouse click. I have no idea why, any ideas what might be causing it?

>>175999969
>tfw you find a bug in a demo day submission but assume it's part of the game until the dev sees the screenshot you took

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>>175999969
I once had a bug that was fixed by removing a section of code then pasting it back in. To this day I still have no idea what the fuck was going on there.

>tfw debug printouts just make the bug more bizarre
Should I give up and start over, or keep trying?

>>176000517
GM:S? This is legit. It is something about the way they have the whole thing setup. Deleting certain resources that are still being referenced by something can make it disregard a ton of code that has nothing to do with the resource in question (even after clearing cache) and for some reason cutting and pasting the code unaltered right back where it already was fixes it.

>>176000878
And right as I write that I find out the problem: I had two copies of my Player script put on my Player, so of course it triggered twice. How dumb.

>tfw i need to register a company before next demo day

>>176000878
Keep trying. Unless you can tackle this, you're likely to make similar mistakes.

>>176000878
You hunt the bug like a predatory cat hunts its prey. There are very few highs in gamedev comparable to the successful hunt and termination of an elusive bug.

hahahahahahahaha

>>176001039
>not leaving in noncrashing bugs as speedrun hooks

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>it's another topdown shooter with rotating guns
>it's another sidescrolling platformer with a gimmick
>it's another sidescrolling rpg with roguelike elements
>it's another room-based, semi-procedurally generated roguelite
>it's another metroidvania

I have a normal direction vector, and an angle.
How do I uniformly choose a new random vector within that angle?

>it's another frogpost

>>176001439
>it's another unironic frog poster

>>176001468
Not enough info, an angle in what direction?

>>176001468
Rotate around any axis perpendicular to the normal vector by the angle, then rotate about the normal vector's axis by a random amount in [-180, 180] degrees.

>>176001439
That's what I'll name my room based roguelite.

>>176001779
*starting with the normal vector

>>176001684
In any direction from the original vector. So that the new random vector is not more than the defined angle away from the original, but can be less.

>>176001779
Thanks, I'll try that.

>>176000238
Did you instantiate 2 instances of the script?

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i swear i'll make the next demo day.

really.

honestly.

okay probably not but maybe.

definetly.

>>176002076
I've been saying that since DD3. Still haven't participated in a single Demo Day. Don't be like me, anon.

>>176002152
where's your game?

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>>176001439
sorry about your depression lol

>>176002240
That's what I ask myself every day.

>>176002152
>>176002270
iktf

I realize I have a massive amount of work to do in order to build all the systems for my game, so in my spare time I idea guy to try to get some stuff hammered out.

Currently I'm coming up with player abilities and talents to modify their behaviour

working on a 'wow style combat' randomly generated dungeon crawler which I'll likely also have random talent choices to mix things up between play throughs

>>176002342
>that spoiler
absolutely gross.

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>tfw you fell for the Loomis meme
>can only make horror games involving disembodied cartoon heads

I should've just studied Bob Ross. At least then I'd have some bad ass backgrounds for my levels.

>>176002415
I like wow combat, and I want to make bosses. The random gen is to give context for boss battles and make it interesting

>>176002778
You can make hotline miami but with better art why are you complaining?

whats the best software to make tilesets?

>>176002778
Why not both?

>deformed heads floating around relaxing landscapes and terrorizing the happy little trees

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>>176002778
We need more good horror games, anon. None of that Amnesia bullshit.

>>176002874
You don't need to communicate entirely in spoilers, faggot.
>inb4 spoilered reply
Implying I'm not going to hide your reply chain immediately.
>inb4 you give me a super (you) to bypass my hiding your reply chain

@176002969
haha i did what you told me not to do lmao

>>176003054
>people with shit game ideas are also shit people

Who'd a thunk

>tfw the only ideas you can come up with are 100% clones in a different setting

>>176002152

i've missed 3 so far.

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>>176002076
>>176002152
Two months, right?

How much actually has to be done to count as a demo?
I may be able to make it.

>>176002969
i don't know what a super you is, but I figure that mentioning 'making something like wow' is assumed to be shitposting

>>176004173
Have a room or space to move around in, preferably one thing to do (even if that one thing is just swinging/using a weapon on nothing, talking to NPCs, picking stuff up, whatever) and have posted progress leading up to the demo. Some people like to show up one or two days before demo day to post once or twice to justify it, then they post demo and disappear again until the day or so before the next demo day. Some don't even bother doing that much and then act surprised/offended when they get who'd on.

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finally finished finals, so more time to practice

>>176001439
This. Remove these meme games and indie dev becomes less shit. Also remove puzzle games because that's what those fags will make if you take away their memes.

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>>176002874
>>176002969
>>176004198
Warning: Idea guy stuff ahead

The current plan is to have 2 talent trees per role. The first talent tree would be the same between playthroughs no matter what to keep some level of consistency and provide core choices. The second talent tree would be balls to the wall random and make it a shit fest where weird shit can happen.

Here are some talents that I see being universally applicable to any/most abilities, then on top of this, there would be more specific talents to modify abilities that you may also randomly get. The idea being to mix up playthroughs to be more interesting
Modifiers are...
>Fearsome: Ability generates a significant amount of threat on targets.
>Suppression: Ability generated no threat.
>Bloodthirsty: Resets when an enemy dies with X yards.
>Flowing: ACTIONs lower the cooldown of the ability by X seconds.
>Swiftness: Ability gives you X% movement for Y seconds stacking Z times.
>Well Versed: Ability’s cooldown is reduced by X%.
>Revitalizing: Ability also restores X health.
>Suddenness: Ability is off the global cooldown.
>Far Reach: Ability’s range is increased by X yards.
>Rapidness: Ability has X charges. (Probably 3, might vary depending on ability)
>Frenzy: Ability increases your attack/casting speed by X% for Y seconds stacking Z times.
>Opportunity: Ability deals X% more damage to targets that are immobilized. (Slow, stuns, roots, crowd control)
>Sundering: Ability makes enemies weaker to physical/magic damage X% for Y seconds stacking Z times.
>Deadly: Ability does X% more damage.
>Heavenly: Ability heals for X% more.
names yet to be finalized.

My goal is to come up with a combat system closer to the Vanilla - early WotLK era in terms of play style.

In the meantime, I'm writing the actual algorithms to generate dungeons, code to build them in 3D, and the controllers needed to move characters around the world.

Here's an updated pic of my algorithm. Currently modifying it to be more controlable

>tfw people keep sending you ideas for your game

dude just go make your own

>>176005316
And unity FPS.

>>176005597
You greentext, you go indepth.

What are you making.
What ideas are people sending you.

>>175998870
>paint black or very dark saturated blue
>slight lighter blue hue under
>drop of highlight

woah

>>176005316
Please do say what games people can make.
Especially considering that people never complete games

>>176005250
for hug or for fug?

>>176005250
Now what you need to do is get some webcam motion capture software pirated. Create some shitty walking animations, sitting, attacking, and other basic animations.
Also put a crappy texture on it
Put it on the Unity asset store for 20$ and you'll be all set.

no thanks needed
people would actually buy that. People need 3d models with animations

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>>176004460
If that's all, then I should definately be able to get more than that in 2 months assuming I keep up my pace.

hell, I've had combat semi-done for months now and my overworld stuff is mainly missing the cutscene script besides general art assets.
I'll try to get at least a couple zones (combat & non-combat) done in the coming months.

>>176005316
where is your game?

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hi my game is multiplayer only and i don't have online multiplayer ready yet

if i uploaded my demo, would you have someone in person to call over to play with?

When I'm being nodev I don't know what the fuck you guys are talking about in regards to programming, but when I'm a yesdev I shitpost the most.

>>176006386
You should upload a demo if you've posted progress at least semi-regularly on /agdg/.

>>176006147
>too them
spell more good please

>>176006527
I'm not going to do that if no one can play my game properly. If that's the case then I rather just upload a demo whenever online is ready and people on AGDG can host lobbies and post ip in the thread to play with each other.

>>176005316
Who cares if 'indie dev' is shit anyway, just play the games you like

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>>176006529
I got a LOT more than my spelling issues to fix, but that will all come with cleanup in time.

>>176006386
I don't think many people here have someone to play local with. What you've got does look fun though, like a battle Downwell.

>>176006657
I feel like the text should be closer together

>>176006657
As long as you're aware, you have my blessings.

>>176006786
That's what I think too, but if at least one or two people say that they can play then I'll feel better about uploading it.

Do YOU have someone to play with?

>>176006657
Btw I just wanted to say I've seen your work often in my checkups here and it looks great.
Keep up the good work.
Just as a reminder since I starting using it, if you're using Unity, TextMesh Pro is free now and is amazing and makes typewriting easy if you aren't using it. (no idea what engine you're using)

Sitting here looking at how hard I am busting my ass to get a demo done for DD14 and I wonder to myself... where in the actual hell would my project be if I actually worked like this every.single.day.

Anyone else get that thought/feeling?

>>176007820
I work 8 hours and commute 1-2 hours a day, so I pay my mental and moral dues.
That said, tell us a bit about what you're doing and what you're currently working on. I'd like to hear about your game a bit. If you have previous posts with information, please feel free to link them so we can see them.

>>176006386
I can play local if you allow for multiple controllers, or two on one keyboard

Eager to play

>>176007820
I have this thought every demo day. But to work like this would be unhealthy, staying up late and disregarding eating

This is what they call crunch in the ol' industry, and apparently it happens a ton

>>176008150
>and apparently it happens a ton
Maybe in video game industries, but my company actually makes a point not to thank people for working beyond their hours and to stop people from doing it.
It might have short term results, but long term effects on happiness and employee longevity are serious consequences. And money can only do so much for people with lots of career choices.

I do software in a rather large company with 150-300 developers, maybe more since they are always hiring

>>176008290
I meant the game industry yeah, especially indies

Most sane compnaies (like yours thankfully) discourage crunch because it literally takes years off your health

You're pretty lucky it seems

>>176007073
I wish I did, but I don't.

>>176008446
>You're pretty lucky it seems
Extremely. Pure chance that my public school was the only public school they recruited from. Skipped the entire painful interview process that I've learned about and get bank.

Videogames are something you can do for a living only if you enjoy the processes involved in making games.
Truth be told, I enjoy the process of making a game more than I enjoy games. Makes it a decent hobby, though I realize I could make way more spare cash with some other type of hobby. I've made like $2600 over 10-11 months from unity assets thou.

One of the things I've started doing is building smaller parts to my game, and if I think that others could use it, trying to sell it. Realistically, the only thing I've been able to sell is a camera controller. My event system and anti cheat libraries don't sell. But they're more niche products. I should make a character controller...

>>176008290
>>176008446
I'm not in the game industry, but I am in the movie industry so there are some similarities and let me tell you, I've had to work until 9pm 6-7 days a week for a month. It really does a number to you.

>>176008821
Yeah, making something that everyone wants and wants now is the key. The guy who figured out working portals is raking it in

I'm jealous, you're situation sounds awesome. What does your company do exacly?

>>176008828
It's a matter of compensation.
If you're doing that without the pay to justify it, or the opportunity/connections to get way more, then you need to move on.
Look for new jobs while you work. My guess is if you're in the movie industry, then you're in an area where it may be hard to get other work.
Good luck anon. Don't waste your best years suffering if there's nothing to be rewarded, and don't lie to yourself about what you will get.
If you honest to god are going to get something for what you're doing, you'll know it to be so true you won't question it. If there's a shred of doubt, then you're being used.

i finished retopologizing my horse today.

>>176008919
>What does your company do exacly?
Sorry, but for anon reasons I want to keep that info to a minimum. It's enough to know I work with software for my job, so I have a wide berth of knowledge to pull on about all sorts of things.

Before I would have been afraid to make a multiplayer game, now I know I could easily build a system that could scale for demand if I had too much demand.

>>176009043
>retopologizing
I can't believe that's an actual word, but google vouches. Post any pictures?

>>176009074
That's awesome, I get that. Would you be able to tell me what school you went to? I'm majoring in CS and I'm curious what opportunities and recruitment looks like

>>176008981
Thanks for the kind words, but I'm totally happy where I am for now. Having to do crazy hours like that doesn't happen too often, and it's all paid for. I just wanted to weigh in to give an idea of what it might be like in the games industry.

>>176009153
I went to one of the largest state schools in my state (since I said public) and the recruitment was pretty legit. They had an science and engineering fair which was pretty much 95% CS and 5% engineering (or 1-3 booths). I submitted resumes to 13 people and wrote thank you letters to everyone I talked to and cover letters that were slightly tailored to who I was talking to. I got responses from maybe 4 people and interviewed with 2 and got offers for internships with both at 25$ and 30$. I picked the 30$ an hour internship and it acted as a long interview for a intro position at the company paying roughly 6 figures.

I grew up pretty poor and struck for money, so every day feels like I've gotten ahold of something I shouldn't have.

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>>176006787
I have some variables for controlling kerning, even for specific characters. I just need to take the time and figure out which ones need which kerning.

>>176007294
I'm using Unity. I've already made my own sprite based textbox system, so i'm going to just keep to that for now.
It's nice enough, I even have escape cases to do special effects.
this webm is really old, from before I cleaned up the text sprites, but it gets the point across.

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>>176009373
Goddamn anon, you really are living the dream. I'm majoring in chemistry, but I realized I'm not passionate about it so I added a CS double major to it, hopefully I'll be able to snag some of your luck. I'm at a private school, but I'm a lazy fuck so who knows what I'll get for myself.
Congratulations, that's really amazing to hear

>>176009445
I would definitely give textmesh pro a try just for the hell of it. There's a reason Unity literally bought the asset rights from the creator.

It'll help a massive amount when players scale anything from the game itself to the UI with their resolution changes

>>175994669
Thanks for the complement and bug report, though I wasn't able to reproduce it with a keyboard (ESC) or controller (Xbox360). Were there any other specific things you may have done in game during the play through?

>>176009573
Thanks. Apply for a ton of jobs, study what your resume should look like (shouldn't be too hard since they except college students to be pretty similar, just don't have grammar/spelling issues and follow standard conventions), get business cards if you can to email thank yous, but don't force it since some spergs don't wanna give you anything. I've noticed more success from jobs at career fairs that don't want you do just apply online and will take your resume there.

I enjoy programming. Maybe I don't enjoy working all the time, but I do enjoy coding, so it's not the worst. Plus work is a lot of other stuff like meetings, aligning on objectives, setting up stuff, and discussing, so there are breaks. Rarely do I feel burned out from pure programming, and if I do, it's a good time.

As an engineer I don't know what the jobs are related to that. Probably a bit harder since everyone knows that CS is a huge field. Just remember to do something you enjoy as part of what you do. I like programming and get to do fun things sometimes that I come up with, and it's nice to hear people say what I've specifically done has had a solid positive impact. As I said, I don't program all the time, but be sure to have a job where you do something you enjoy some of the time.

good luck, every hard working person is a positive to the world

>bokube at the bottom

>>176009893
boku is a bottom

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>>176009856
Thank you anon
Do you have a demo out? I'd love to play it when I start playing them next week

>>176009965
No, I still have a massive list of stuff to finish before anything is playable.
I honestly expect from history to drop this before I get anywhere near my goals, but I've had this idea before and got pretty far with it, so I already have a prototype.
Things to do
>improve dungeon gen algorithm so I have a bit more control
>Actually create rooms for the algorithm to use and generate a 3d dungeon from it
>add in variable components to the rooms that are generated.
>add overall dungeon objectives to the dungeon generation
>create a character controller
>start work on basic AI
>create a buff/debuff/status effect combat system
>ui work for what I want
>content work
>replace placeholders with legit stuff

In the past my prototype had an extremely basic character controller and AI without abilities. Not data driven in any way. Lost all of that on my laptop when the harddrive died.

I backup everything on GitLab now for free

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working on the base head atm, going for disney + exaggerated cheeks and eyes. it's going to be the base model for a lot of characters so it needs to be generic. if anything this is too high detail.

>>176010281
Flatter face. That skull shape is african which will push people away from it. Europeans have flat skull fronts. Not being racist, but people find white people attractive and they will be the ones judging you. That's life

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>>176009147
mmm ok...but he's still bald b/c i didn't give him a mane or tail hair yet

>>176010506
Pretty solid, good work!
Are you using it for anything? Or are you practicing you modeling?

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>try to upload video to Youtube
>12 hours later
>52%

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Posting a second and final time if anyone's interested.

Any amateur voice actors around?

I don't make games, but I do make reviews.
I'm creating a review of This War of Mine, a indie war management sim from civilian's perspective.

I'm looking for a couple paragraphs read in various accents done by one or several people. The main one I need is an eastern European accent, but I need others as well.
They all need to be in a dour down-and-out intonation.

Here's what I need read,
https://pastebin.com/K8hYAUSi

Here's my reviews if curious.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsRWyiUnZCM_430gqrQ6F5Q

Will give credit at the end of the video and link your portfolio, game, youtube, etc. in the description. Also if there's anywhere else you guys would recommend I try, it'd be appreciated.

>>176010653
yeah it's going to be for my game. i'm practicing modelling/texturing/animating, the whole thing

>>176010748
What video are you uploading?
My 20-30 minute videos at 1080p typically don't take that long, but most of the image is static, and I use OBS to record it.

>>176010838
Cool, what kind of game?

>>176010754
Probably gonna have trouble getting solid quality since voice recording is actually an expensive setup to do right. I might try saying on of them, but if it's shit, don't expect me to respond with it.

>>176011056
Anyone with a blue yeti or equivalent would be fine. I use an AT2020 that's about $100 and it's beautiful.

Not looking for professional quality thankfully, just some audio clips I'll insert as transitions. A friend of mine already did one.

https://clyp.it/3jbkznii

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So I've been fiddling around with my physics-based sailing idea. Unfortunately, I only know a little bit about sailing and not much about physics.
Having the strength and direction of the wind and the direction the sail is facing, what maths do I need to do to get the force generated so that the configurations in the diagram are the most optimal way to align the sail? I'd been trying to do it just by adding the sail vector to the wind vector, normalising it and multiplying by wind speed, but thats totally wrong.

>GunMetal
So I played this when I had version: GunMetal_Build_0-78-1209_WIN
Back then I thought the feedback loop was a bit dull on taking damage, and dealing damage felt odd. I'll try out the new version and see what I think

>GunMetal_1-65-0505_WIN
First impression, menu is infinitely better (not sure if there was a menu in the old one)
The options menu was confusing to get out of. I didn't realize for a few seconds I had to hit the COG again. I would have a back button to get out that also does the same thing on the left side, or change the cog to a back button so people know it backs you out.
The default sensitivity feels low, not a big deal, but noticeable. 200 (max) feels better, but I could go higher.
Great transition screens and menu music, I love it. The weapons may be zoomed in a bit too much on the menu. Having them back may feel less claustrophobic and feel more minimalist, since it' sort of going for that with only the weapons floating around.
The targeting reticles on enemies suck. They cover the book enemies entirely so I can't see them.
The enemies make no sounds and no sounds as they spawn. No idea to tell where they are around me besides looking.
Shotgun feels like it's shooting paper confetti, and the damage appears to be as well.
Death animations are extremely lackluster. Books should fall to the ground or explode into scrap particles to show I really killed them.
The kick animation was solid, and the animations looked great.
Good improvements overall, seems like polish and content are the big things you'll end up needing.

>>176011056
a shooting game on horseback, where enemies chase you and you have to kill them to survive.

>>176011631
bretty cool
What type of controls are you thinking?
I'm always a shooing for more VR games, or VR support.
If the game was half decent and let me use my Vive as a camera, I'd probably buy it. Not many games add in Vive camera support since people think VR needs to be the full experience

>>176011289
Wanna give more context on the dialog? Though at this time of night, you likely won't get feedback, but providing context may let people rewrite what you have better, or act out a voice better. No idea what you're trying to get voice acted.

at least mothdan is gone

>>176011808
I'm doing a review for a game that's heavy on the "war sucks theme". I'm making a review that reflects that to some extent. For transitions in the review, I thought it'd be a neat idea to use audio clips of from the game's character bios. Unforuately, there's no voice acting in the game. So I thought I"d ask a couple people online to record their own for me.

A friend of mine did a great one here.
>>176011289
https://clyp.it/3jbkznii

tl;dr I'm looking for voice actors saying those paragraphs as the characters struggling to survive in a country embroiled in civil war. So the voice needs to be dour, a little hopeless, sad, generally.

I hope that makes sense.

i NEED an idea

>>176012276
Here's an idea:
Make one up yourself, you tool

>>176012090
Yeah it does, but it may be beneficial to describe the characters who people are voicing a bit so they can get a feel of how they should voice them, or if they should mix up the bio for their lines. Honestly, some of the writing felt stale and I couldn't tell how the character was supposed to feel saying them.

If it's just a bio clip, then I guess it's fine if it's more neutral and less emotional

>>176009445
Is there a chance you'll be sharing your papermario engine when it's done? or maybe do some tuts on it? I really want to make a game on it !!!

>>176012090
>>176012338
Also, the context of the civil war.
Currently the only civil wars are in places like Syria which people can't relate to.

Are there other countries interfering? Is the civil war in the 'major country of the world'. Is it an isolated event that other people aren't messing with? Is it a global government, and the character is trying to protect their own little area, or maybe unite some areas, or conquer some areas? Is it total anarchy, or is it two well formatted sides like the american civil war?

Living in Syria as a refugee/combatant and being recruited by international terrorist orgs is a bit different than living in a wild west setting that others aren't sweeping in to affect, and is different from a post apocalyptic world setting.

>>176012338
It really doesn't matter that much to get a feel of the voice. I just need different voices, one for each paragraph. Preferably a eastern-European/ex-soviet bloc accent and woman for two of them.

I also didn't write them, they're from the game.

>>176011735
controls will be arrow keys haha. VR seems way over my head. i don't know anything about making a game with it. i'm trying to keep the programming part as simple as i can to start with since i don't know a lot about it. i've had more ambitious ideas, but then i learn things are more complicated than they seem at first, so i end up scaling them back.

>>176006657
>can't into variable-width font
NOT GONNA MAKE IT

>>176012886
If you have an actual solid game down, I think there are some simple ways to allow VR camera support with Unity. Maybe I should make a drag and drop solution for it...

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>UI

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>tfw you have to form an llc

>>176014139
oh no a few dollars each year.
Just make that much money and deal with it.
I didn't get a tax return because like a good citizen I claimed by non-work earnings so that I wouldn't get fucked in a few years when it was a significant amount of money (10+K perhaps in a few years)

Just make the money anon

Btw, did they fuck over greenlight yet? They said they were going to make it 10000 dollaroos or something to put games on steam

>tfw you keep abandoning and restarting the exact same game every few months

>>176014336
Do what I did
Build components
Turn them into libraries that you can update

I start a game, I copypaste a few of my GIT folder content and have a solid amount of stuff to work with

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>>176014243
Should I form in Deleware or is that a meme? Also what do you mean claimed by non-work earning?

I went off the grid and havent filed taxes in a few years.

>>176014336
I'm in the same boat
ryan lambourn where is your yesdev on depression and lack of motivation

>>176014243
Also no they havent changed from greenlight to Direct yet. Possible 200-5000 fee. Supposedly they will give 30 day notice for the removal of Greenlight.

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>had a pretty cool idea for monster jam, but the scope was pretty big
>turns out I can't even cheat and start early on it because no PC until next week
>not even sure I'll be able to participate at all
Fuck me sideways

>>176014509
I have a fulltime job
I earns a solid amount of money doing side gigs
I claimed it since I knew there was a digital trace that could be tracked, even if they aren't tracking it. I don't want that tracked in 5-10 years if it builds up and hit me with a compounding multithousand dollar fine, plus possible criminal charges.

Look up the cost of starting a business, go to reddit and check it out. If you only make back the cost, then you didn't lose out. Owning a business doesn't cost thousands a year just to exist, but it does cost a bit to file as a business.

If I ever release a game on steam, I plan to LLC at minimum as a precaution against trollsuits and just general use. It can't be too hard since someone I knew had a fake company they used to give fake work references to people in other countries.

Who here hates making content?

At this point I've basically made a few games, at least their frameworks, but I get soooo bored and it's sooo tedius doing level design and map design and all that, that I just quit to program something else

>tfw no level designer to build for

>>176014749
don't worry about jams. Jam games never become full games. Just work on what you want and demo it as you like.

>>176014916
The worst thing is coming up with the ideas needed for a system. It's why I base my games on other games and work off of their systems in order to come up with the systems I need to build my own game.

I've never gotten to the point where content creation is my problem.

>>176014950
>Jam games never become full games.
Not true, I've seen a number of Jam games become that dev's main game
Examples
>Tracks was a Comfy Jam game
>Vampire's Bit was a Waifu Jam game
>Jinzo was a Space Jam game
there are probably more

>>176014916
tfw opposite way around, I love map making and content creation and its basically the reason i make games, I dont feel comfortable working with people i dont know though. but im sure you can find someone there are many people like me.

>>176014793
Im aware of the costs and all, just thought you had experience with an llc already.

Its 150 bucks to get a registered agent to file an llc in deleware with only a 300 usd yearly filing fee. All gains made through your llc are passed directly to you in a sole member llc formed in Deleware. So you dont have to pay extra tax and can just file it as your personal income in your state.

Reddit had a lot of trash regarding this as far as i could tell. There are lots of threads or w/e about the topics in the dev areas but its almost all just one dude shilling his practice trying to sell people "$3500 startup packages". Garbage

>>176014916
This
Its so much more fun building tools and functionality. My text is all garbage. The only fun thing about creating content is it forces me to make new AI abilities to facilitate the scenario

>>176014793
>go to reddit
used to be that was an insult

>>175997942
For fucks sake REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


Been debugging an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException only to realize I have been looking at the wrong lines for an hour

where are the cute female protagonists?

>>176016958
Nu /agdg/ (aka discord) doesn't like cute female characters

Is there a way to compare Vector3s in Unity? I'd like a system where a value returns from 0 to 1 based on how close one vector is to another on a unit circle.

>>176017434
Vector3.Distance divided by the unit circle diameter (presumably thats 1?) Maybe

>tfw your "engine" is pretty much finished and the current work consists mainly of copy pasting code between classes and tweaking them a small amount

>>176016958
DEAD

>>176017434
what you're looking for is dot product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9FZllr6-wY

>>176017661
Hm, actually sound like it might work.

>>176017727
>copy pasting code between classes
Sounds like bad OOP

>>176017898
Well you still need to do a bunch of function calls with varying parameters

>>176018316
Something that could be handled with an abstract base class and properties overridden per class

>>176018528
Aaaand you would still need to implement stuff

>>175998012
oh snap it's demo day? I had no idea.

>>176018857
its anime day

>>176019204
These are dark days for anime
>bakabt down nyaa.se down

>>176016958
They are left behind in the eternal Summer of 2016, the most glorious Demo Days of all, the 9th.

>>176005410
Are you going to make it multiplayer? Because threat doesn't really make sense if not. Well maybe if you have pets/summons.

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>>176019489
gone but not forgotten

Daily reminder that anime posts will be reported and removed

>>176000097
>monogame
>3D

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>>176019205
Game-stealing dev is that you?

>>176019836
Are you talking about the guy that promised he would steal all agdg games during demo day and actually did?

>>176014243
I don't have a greenlit game yet but over here if I start the equivalent of an llc I'll loose all of my neetbucks.

Basically it means that my game needs to be ready to launch and I need to make a living out of it if I want to do it.

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>>176019695
Word.

What values does transform.forward actually return? I assumed they were normalised by they aren't?

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>>176019695
>>176020192
>tfw no AGDG anime

>>176020335
>tfw no AGDG games

Do you guys prefer fullscreen or windowed?

>>176020460
being able to choose whatever I want

>>176020365
>tfw no game

>>176020627
yaeh but jsut answer the question faggot

charlottes dream

its still alive, right?

>tfw the most agdg games were released in 2015, then less in 2016, and it looks like even less this year

Was the golden age 2 years ago?

>>176017893
I've sorta understood and used dot product before but this video was actually a pretty nice explanation of it and how to use it in a game even.

>>176020460
For 2D games, windowed. Especially if they're just demos.

>>176020789
The dev posted on his tumblr some weeks ago about his other project which he wanted to finish in a month, but he said that in December. So I guess Charlotte is still in the making. Life got in his way as I know.

>>176020802
1)give high quality feedback before and after demoday
2)encorange devs to improve their game
3)????
4)demoday is better than ever

>>176019926
I was away for like 6 months, did that really happen?
Im gonna need a quick rundown on that story

>>176021042
i think he's trying to force a new meme

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>>176021181
Simply ebin

>>176021181
Is this a birth of a new epic meme?

>>176019836
No, the game stealer had an ugly blue palette. This dude is the original.

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>>175997942
game stealing is wrong

currently setting up pre-order bonuses for Season's Past, try out the demo on itch.io

>>176001439
>it's another metroidvania
Where? Real metroidvanias getting actually finished is rare as fuck.

>>176005316
whats wrong with puzzle games?

>>176021181
No I'm genuinely interested in that story. Did someone really steal the games?

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>>176021683
Ah, thats right. Gamestealing nodevs btfo

>>176022381
there were single cases of people latching onto ideas of others and making very similar games long ago, but that's about it
no-one ever stole "every game from a demoday" within last 6 months and it's hard for me to imagine how such process would even look like

>>176008828
>I've had to work until 9pm
That's not too bad, my office has foldable beds for crunch time prepared.

>>176022529
I thought it would be something akin to downloading all games and recording a webm of you dragging them to a "stolen games" folder. Or maybe ripping assets from each game and making a frankengame with them.

>>176001439
>it's another sidescrolling rpg with roguelike elements
w-what's wrong with my game

>>176022997
Do real level design you lazy fuck

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>>176001439
>tfw living in the indiepocalypse

>>176023128
Does roguelike imply a certain kind of level design?

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>>176022678
>>176022529

Should I spend time optimizing my code and cleaning it if everything already works?

>>176023324
Do you plan on expanding it?
Are there any possible performance issues or bugs?

>>176023324
Depends whether
- anyone else will ever see it
- you'll need to come back to it in a year's time
- you intend to reuse it
- it will cause horrible bugs
- fixing it will help you learn

>>176023252
Oh shit

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>>176023252

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>>176023252

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>>176023765

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there we go, way more accurate stats too.

>>176024315
>Score background animation
>Tween every calculation
>Move text to get user attention for most important - the rank
Wtf are u a wizard or UX/UI engineer? How do you guys do that?

>>176001439
my game litteraly not there feelsgoodman.

>>176024515
its not that complex.

>>176001439
>tfw I'm making a procedurally generated sidescrolling rpg metroidvania rogue-like with main character that uses guns

>>176001439
>tfw making an frpg

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I've gotten progressively fewer downloads over the last 3 Demon Days

please sir, could you spare some feedback?
https://wabunga.itch.io/consecrated-rampage-demo

>>176001439
you don't understand, room-based, semi-procedurally generated roguelites are the future
they're the BEST genre

>>176024639
>tfw i'm making a procedurally generated sidescrolling rpg metroidvania rogue-like with a gimmick with main character witch that uses rotating guns

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>tfw you waited years to clone a specific game and halfway through you find out the dev started working on a sequel

>>176024746
Im making that as well

>>176024714
k i'll play it right now

What was the best indie game you have ever played AGDG?

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FOR FUCKS SAKE I CAN'T SOLVE THIS SHITTY BUG.

For some unknown reason my changeHP() function can't be called from another object.


As you can see in the pic, collisionDetection() is running, the 1st sysout is printed, and the "hit" BUT why the fuck isn't the changeHP() function called? It should always print something.


Fucking hell im mad right now
Free candy to whoever solves this

>>176024890
IVAN

>>176024890
Hollow Knight
Before that one, Cave Story

>>176024890
MGQ

>>176024890
hellsinker

>>176021857
good luck with no gameplay

>>176024714
why do you keep uploading your literally who game

>>176024980
You didn't make changeHp() virtual.

hahahahahaha

>>176025218
Could you please elaborate? I have never heard about virtual functions in Java

>>176024980
>java

>>176025286
>inb4 some game maker """"programmer""""

>>176025218
Java interface methods are virtual by default

>>176025393
I program in visual studio you retard.

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>>176025441
>visual studio

>>176024890
Koumajou Densetsu II: Stranger's Requiem

>>176025393
>he's looking for epic programmer cred instead of making game
/g/ might be more your speed

>>176025432
Yeah, I forgot.

>>176025274
That's not a bug. You are invoking changeHp on People object and as you can see that method doesn't do anything.

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>>176025549
>You are invoking changeHp on People object and as you can see that method doesn't do anything.
But i dont undersand why this wouldn't work, why wont it override the interface method??

>>176024980
>>176025808
Does Skeleton extend People?

>>176025839
Skeleton implements People

>>176025839
It's just funny i can call people.getX() but not people.changeHP(-1)

>>176025172
theres combat and movement

I guess I'm aiming for DD15 then ;_:

>>176021857
Shit that's pretty smooth

>>176024890
I'm just here to check out demo day, but Sunless Sea was good.

>>176025808
What's in peopleList? Are you sure it's a Skeleton and not some other implementation of People?

>>176026339
I do a peopleList.add(new Skeleton()) for each skeleton

peopleList is declared as: List<People> peopleList = new ArrayList<People>();

>>176025393
theres a lot to learn when it comes to game maker actually

>>176026224
thanks

>>176026339
check out my game Seasons Past

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>>176025975
where's the combat if the game "wins" by default if two inputs are hold

>>176026468
For fucks sake is it you again with your shitty game maker game.


go kys

>>176026592
i can see why you would think that
>>176026614
check out the new version >>176021857

>>176026592
At least its smooth

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>>176026749
stop pretending to be me nigger

what do you draw your sprites with agdg?

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I would never play a game from here.
Hell, I would never play 99% of games on steam and I can't see any reason I would ever get games that aren't on steam.

Go ahead, convince me to play your gam-- oops too late, just bought hollow knight and ck2 and every elder scrolls game and subnautica and a couple others that you can never compete with for even a shred of my attention.

Good luck with your game tho

>>176026887
GIMP, not that it's very good for it

>>176024762
Halfway through waiting am I right?

>>176025182
why does anyone post their game?

>>176026887
Not gonna tell you, i dont want more competition

>>176026930
''amateur''

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I drew a bunch of items for a quest I'm running over at /qst/. They're unpolished, but I figured one of you might find them useful anyway.

>>176027196
Bretty nice

>>176027196
Pretty good, I like your style

>>176027196
Cheers

anyone want me to play there demo?

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>>176027196
Really cool, unfortunately assets not made purposefully for a specific games rarely end up being used.
Still, I really like you style. I think you could make a good artist for a game.

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>>176026887
google sheets

>>176027310
play all of them you lazy dummy

>>176026887
Pyxel Edit

>>176027310
this one
>>176026592

>>176024980
Ok I know shit about java and it's machine code and it's compilers and what not but I'm going to do the condescending approach:

Are you sure every file is recompiled properly?

What happens if you do a new function below changeHP in the interface and skeleton, can you call that?

>>176027196
Also if anyone is looking for an artist for their game, I'd be willing to talk. Just tell me a bit about it, what engine, and so on.

>>176026930
Someone is not bored enough for demo day. Thanks for telling us.

>>176027739
Why does an artist care about the engine?

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Uploaded new version of House Cleaner on the DD.

Lots of things changed from last month thanks to a lot of the feedback from the last DD. Just today i added a combo system, made it a bit more fun.

>Two new levels
>New shotgun enemy
>PATHFINDING, enemies will now chase you until death
>Movement is tweaked once again
>Slow-mo is changed to be triggered with mouse button instead of auto
>Proper menu
>Combo system
>Gears of War reloading
>A music track
>Effects, new tiles, sound effects etc

https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-14/rate/126061

>>176027739
>clinging to another person's post with your meme
you're the worst scum

>>176027969
Just want to know about the game in general, you know

>>176028003
>it's another top down shooter with rotating guns

>>176028003
>rotating guns
every time

>>176028402
lol, it's funny how every /agdg/ game is mentioned in >>176001439

>>176028459
project wingman is my favorite platformer

>>176028003
Feedback:
I didn't notice the combo counter ony my first couple tired, brainless, passive viewings of this webm
You should make it pulse even bigger or flash a different color or have particles when the number increases
If you weren't considering it already, of course

i thought this was a bully free zone...

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>>176028605
Flight sims are just platformers with very very long jumps

>>176028402
>>176028434
Thanks for looking at the webm.
Here's your (you) memesters


>>176028683
Thanks, it starts to flash after 10, i did a bad webm, thx for checking it out :)

If I have a vector representing a ray, and a vector of the same magnitude representing the normal of a surface the first vector is striking, is the result of adding them together the vector that represents the reflection of the first ray?

>>176028003
0/10

>>176026887
Nothing, until I finish my editor then I will use that.

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PROGRESS

Implemented jumping!
It's just me pressing up and down

Actually I worked on implementing a camera-thingy-system! Now I'm on my way to being able to have the map be larger than the window. Also planning to add the main UI soon, so you can see your name and stats and stuff.

>>176028927
what are you making? sokoban?

>>176028792
I meant it could have a larger pulse specifically when it increments to show the relation between the two events better.
Passively, you'd see it pulse every time you hit something, which would draw your attention and make people get it faster.
And it would probably just feel better

Sorry if this is what you meant and I misunderstood your post

>>176027493
played it was smooth yeah altho the fighting needs some more depth also liked the aesthetics.

>>176029046
Nope. It's going to be an RPG with some roguelike elements.

You faggots need to go. Y'all got me in my feelings with your shitposting. Shout out to all anond making games. No matter if its a shit platforms or guns with rotating guns

>>176024980
show skeleton definition as well.

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>it's a rotating guns game

reminder to make a patreon for your game

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>your favorite genre
Hahaha wow kys!

>>176025808
I can't imagine hp is an object. It's just an int, right? hp.getHP() is probably the problem.

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PSA for any pixel artists here!

Tune in tomorrow for some pixel art pointers!

>>176006386
>pixel art
I hope this is just programmer art
There is nothing charming about this style in 2017. It's only a testament to its creator's laziness. If you're not an artist that's fine; hire one.

>>176030587
Google Downwell.

>>176006786
>admitting to being a neet with 0 friends

my game is also local only or single player campaign which wont have much content honestly

>>176029890
there is no way there is an actual place in america serving that shit i refuse to believe.

>>176030652
The guy doing Downwell knew how to use his shitty art for the sake of LEGIBILITY so that it's a pleasure to play.
None of these fucking games that have been trying to do black and white art like that have even had that as a fucking notion.

>>176029890
What meme is this? I swear I go away for 4 hours and you guys start spitting new memes just to spite me.

>>176030587
t.pixel shit artist

>>176030903
rotating gun games have always been a meme

>>176030587
Where is your game?

>>176002952
How did you do that effect?

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>>176030846
>In America
America is a pretty big place, you know.

>>176030964
I don't make makes. I'm a developer in a more scientific field. If anything my opinion is worth more than other people in this thread's, because I'm your actual prospective audience--not some underemployed bum who is fully involved with your circlejerk and unable to provide meaningful criticism.

Bottom line is, as it stands, I'd never play something that looks like this. Nor would many other people. It's not 2004 anymore; "indie" doesn't have to mean "looks like shit on purpose." Once again, hire an artist please.

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>>176031185

>>176031185
This actually seemed pretty good in a fucked up way up until the 3rd sauce, then it quickly went full fucked up.

>>176031291
Imagine making this post unironically.

>>176031291
Your opinion is worth nothing nodev.

>>176031482
Imagine making that post ironically unironically.

>>176031482
>>176031490
So you're admitting that you only make games for people who make games?

Enjoy being deader than jazz I guess.

>>176031291
You're out of touch with the current gaming audience, pixelshit graphics with high contrast colors is "in" right now.

>>176031565
What about making games for fun.

A wagecuck like you wouldn't understand that I guess.