/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

first for gogem yesdev extraordinaire

>>180580586
Should I try Cocos2d=

i wanna make a 2D map editor in unity, where basically i drag out rooms, and can then move the vertexes.

how would i handle collision on this?

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>>180580851
nice first

>>180581185
polygon colliders?

http://positech.co.uk/cliffsblog/2017/06/23/your-indie-game-will-flop-and-you-will-lose-money/

>>180581443
>career
Ew.
Moneyfaggots out, go do webdev or some shit.

>>180581443
The first line is a disaster, why would I read the rest of the article.

>>180581219
I guess as long as you link your patreon from these 2 other site you should be fine

>>180581443
Not sure who this guy is writing for. Aren't like 99% of indie devs normal non-retards with day jobs that just make games in their free time for fun? I mean if someone had nothing at all and decided making games was a good way to get rich then yeah that's pretty stupid, but if you're that stupid I doubt you could make a game to begin with.

>>180581750
or i can tell them to go fuck themselves and threaten to remove all my products from steam in protest of their constant anti-developer practices.

Hey experienced programmer here. What 3D model is good for jumping straight in and creating simple geometric shapes. Square guys like minecraft, maybe with curvier head and more bezels. I want a 3D programme to just quickly jump in and do shit in pronto.

>>180581873
I guess but I dont think its in your best interest to remove your products from steam

>>180581873
go for it

>>180581907
blender? especially if you need to rig and animate too

>>180581873
this is the best course of action googs

>>180582072
>>180582001
>>180581984
i know i phrased that like i hadnt already made the threat but you realize i dont come to AGDG for advice right?

>>180581873
please do

>>180582215
I knew you had it in you dog, good job

>>180582215
that's not advice, that's an order

>>180581873
Yeah, you show 'em what you're made of!

you're using unity? that's sad

>>180580726
arice chikkun

>>180582630
>Shitting on a dev

What a horrible thing.

How do I know what my minimum specs are

>>180582741
You test.

>>180581753
Pretty much, a lot of big indie successes are made by people who were going at it for a fucking decade, building a following that spread their shit once they struck gold.
But no, today people want to sell their first game
ever even before it's finished and live off vidya money before they even get to finish school.

>>180582882
>But no, today people want to sell their first game
>ever even before it's finished and live off vidya money before they even get to finish school.
That's almost me.
Except I want to sell my game to buy a new bike since some cunt stole my old one.

>>180583023
Yeah, I just want to get enough for the piece of shit car I've had my eye on. The fact that Canuckbucks are basically worthless helps.

>>180582215
Yes gogem but I'm going to give you my advice either you. You do what you want with it.

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>>180582741

>>180583023
Move out of your black infested neighborhood

does anybody want to give me a placeholder track for my DD demo

>>180583230
same as a steamjews advice on what links to have in my games credits menu, i will ignore it.

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>That first pop of the day

>>180583230
>either you
either way, eh

How are u guys doing? Good evening!

>>180583252
There are more arabs or chinks than blacks in that neighborhood (which is quite nice, it's right next to the uni). He could be white, he's still a fucking cunt, my bike wasn't even worth that much.

>>180583493
What game ?

>>180583493
Hum a fucking song or something. At least that'll bring a laugh.

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>>180583721

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redpill me on publishers

>>180583837
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAI5W7Y5H28

>>180583813
wheres the fun if you actually draw the trajectory the arrow will take? you take away all guess work and skill from the task

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>>180581219
>>180581873
>protecting consumers from e-begging on games they already paid for is now being anti-developer.

oh boy.

>>180583803
>not doing your ost with a kazoo

>>180583813
No idea what could fit over that mate, sorry.

>>180583721
>It's right next to the uni
Or he could be black

>>180583837
With a decent one you can just like make game and they handle all the boring shit like marketing

>>180584308
>bluepilling

>>180583929
there is still a gradient of skill in how fast you can line up shots/if you can hit moving targets

This is supposed to be a dumb party game people can play immediately, so I don't want to force people to have that muscle memory before they can score any points at all

>>180583929
I'm pretty sure that Angry Birds had that trajectory visible once. Yeah, I don't see much point of it, it can be comfy but it makes the game too easy.

>>180583929
It might be fine if most of the gameplay was not the first target you hit but all of the combos after that.

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>>180583957
>steam shits on devs in the interest of the consumer
yeah totally, consumers always want burgeoning monopolies to protect them from knowing about competition, that sort of "user protection" is the feature of monopolies that people love so much.

>>180584694
don't worry gogem you don't need those steamfags anyway, you'll carve your own way

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>>180584694
>yeah totally, consumers always want burgeoning monopolies to protect them from knowing about competition
What the fuck does that have to do with e-begging on steam? You can release for free on itch and plenty of other places, and put whatever kind of spammy links and adds you want. On steam users pay for games and asking for money in game is a shitty thing that ruined the mobile gaming scene.

You have the kind of cancer mentality that shat all over the mobile market you delusional mong.

>>180583837
things that publishers do and how good they tend to be at it...
>taking your money: GREAT
>traditional box in store "publishing": very few do this anymore and there's probably no point to doing it so who knows if the ones that do are good at it or not
>active marketing: huge variance from dogshit worse than no experience diy'ing it all the way up to OK
>passive marketing (namebrand recognition): one of the few if only things they're still great at, a few hits under an umbrella is all it takes... which makes me wonder why there arent more "labels" instead of publishers

>>180583837
Most "publishers" know less about publishing indie games than you do. And they'll gladly fail at their job for the low low price of 50% revenue.

>>180583813
> can see trajectory
> have to stop/start in a time trial game

stupid

>>180585243
you realize i literally dont need steam right?
i have no problem going back to porndev
porndev has better margins in the first place, if i cared about money its all i would do

>>180586116
how much have you made this year from your porn?

>>180586116
When are you removing your games from steam?

>>180586116
Hi gogem

>tfw still following a complicated blueprint tutorial, even though I got lost in it an hour ago and don't know what is happening anymore

>>180586116
Who are you and why are you popular here?

>>180583923
>related videos
>how to survive 11 years without a hit
>guy makes nothing but match 3 games
>none of them even have an ounce of creativity

Gee I wonder why he never got a hit

>>180586151
not much since i havent made a new eroge in a while, ive been focusing on dev that's actually enjoyable (+bullshit of selling some of them).
i do not find eroge enjoyable to make but they're a hell of alot easier and profitable when it comes time to sell them.

>>180586354
lol

>>180586354
>Who are you
Ryan Jake Lambourn
>and why are you popular here?
i make games

>>180586398
>ive been focusing on dev that's actually enjoyable
You missed the mark.

>>180586594
>telling me what i enjoy
thats some nice abusive spouse bants you got there

>>180586705
I can't imagine making garbage menu simulators and barebone "games" being enjoyable. To each his own though.

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>>180586354

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>>180587162
whats not to love?
what exactly did you get into gamedev for if not to create systems of rules for structured play?

>>180586116
>porndev
There are that many people with giraffe fetishes?

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This looks much smoother and still weird enough I think. Hows your Friday anons?

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>>180587950
yes

>>180586369
To be honest I'd be happy with that. Getting enough money from a few just okay games, then pursuing my dream game with that money.

Also that guy did eventually make better games, I don't know if there was any big hit, but definitely better than match 3.

Is an active ragdoll system worth it for a low res fps? It's gunna take me a couple of days in unity to implement and iron out the kinks.

>>180588221
I just want shooting enemies to feel super juicy.

>>180586369
I hate devs who interpret "you probably won't have a major hit" as "make as many cheaply designed games as possible and sell them as quickly as possible, otherwise you'll STARVE".

It's good to keep scale in focus, but for fucks sake you can try to be at least a little creative.

>>180588221
It's worth it if you can make an enemy fly fifteen feet backwards from a point blank shotgun blast to the chest. Otherwise, it seems unnecessary.

>>180588407
i think it's a lotto mentality.
the analogy is supposed to mean IT'S BASICALLY IMPOSSIBLE SO DONT PIN YOUR HOPES ON IT but instead they come out with IM GOING TO REUSE THE NUMBERS OF SOME OTHER LOTTO WINNER FROM YEARS AGO REPEATEDLY UNTIL STATISTICALLY I WILL WIN
lotto players are like the gambler's fallacy but even dumber

>>180583813
make trajectory line a gradient, visible from the bow and decrease visibility until it reach the mid arc, you'd expect an archer to know at least half of the arrow's trajectory, if you're close then there's no point "guessing" the obvious, but if you need to arc your shot then that needs more skill

>>180587886
>what exactly did you get into gamedev for if not to create systems of rules for structured play?
I do more. I'm making my games enjoyable as well.

>>180582741
by seeing how it plays on the weakest piece of equipment you have.

this is why it's good to keep an old laptop/desktop around. I don't think VM's can simulate a low spec environment yet.

Or you could just not give a fuck about listing minimum specs and only list the optimal specs.

>>180588368
Sound and FX are more important than ragdolls, focus on them first. Doom doesn't have them, yet the shooting is still juicy.

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6 HOURS.6 damn hours and this is what I have to show for it. Fuck, I'm a nodev through and through.
On the plus side I guess I got a little better at this.
Hows it lads ? Is it redeemable or should I start a new sprite from scratch ?
At least I can say my first sprite ever was a cyber ninja masturbating with his sword

How viable is making a fighting game in this day and age? Enough to do it if you're really passionate about it?

>>180589629
should have spent six hours looking up tutorials

>>180589629
It's bad but don't redraw it, just draw other sprites and make game then come back to it later.

>>180589629
>claims is a nodev
>worked hard for 6 hours
>just posted a sprite

It needs work, yes, that is a very rough sprite, but calling yourself a nodev is excessive. If you lack experience in making sprites, don't dive in to making big sprites like what you just did there, start small, like 8x8 or 16x16 small and go from there.

>>180589629
I think his design has potential but you have a lot to work on.

>>180589629
what is he doing

>>180589920
Playing the electric stick.

>>180589827
>camouflage pattern pants with a blue shirt and a bright led flashing on his head
>four fucking swords
>only one belt

>>180589629
This animation of a emo adult male masturbating with a stun baton is something you should be proud of, senpai.

>>180589920
Masturbating

>>180589686
I’m interested as well

>>180588737
Shut the fuck up, failure.

>>180589629
Can I steal his design?

>>180589686
>>180590071
Unless you've got a spicy fucking gimmick, don't.

>>180590162
too late, I already stole his game

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>>180583104

>>180590627
Is this loss?

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Unity wins again

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>>180590162
you can have this early original design anon
>>180589709
yeah ,my bad.Short attention span.I just grind it until it starts working, gamedev is teaching me the cons of this approach
>>180589768
>>180589826
>>180589827
thanks, I think I'll take a break from this for a while and focus on the code part
>>180589920
he's drawing his primary sword from the scabbard, 4 frames

whats the best way to make animated character sprites? you guys have a preferred method? it's easy to make environment spritesheets but characters are another matter

I'm poor, my code is shit and my guild hates me

>>180590981
Are u me?

>>180588118
i think that swiss cheese is moldy

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Testing out an effect. Blink and you'll miss it.
Not sure if it's too much or not enough.

>>180592204
>first time I play the webm the boss has a black silhouette during the white explosion
>outline is not visible in subsequent loops of the webm
What the fuck is my computer doing

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>>180592389
Some sort of frame skipping maybe?
This is visible for one frame, then the next frame the sunbursts are gone and it's only the silhouette.

>>180590935
I will redraw this guy as soon as I can and post it here.

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>>180588968
Here's what that looks like. The fadeout is based on x-axis distance from the player just because it was the easiest to implement, but has mostly the same effect

I still think this is too hard (and it moves the gamepad controls from awful to impossible)
but I'm willing to try it on actual people

>>180591342
*sniff* might be right

I have an old project I want to revive, but I noticed that everything is basically spaghetti code, and badly documented. What should i do?
Begin from scratch?
Refactor everything?
Just keep going?

>>180590217
What is Guilty Gear's gimmick? And Skullgirls?

>>180590935
why does he need like 8 swords

>all the knowledge at my fingertips, but I'm still pissed because it's hard to find good tutorials and not waste days on searching
What a time to be alive.

>>180593305
because 7 might break
smart

>>180593310
Stack Overflow has 95% of all the info you'll need.

>>180593196
>What is Guilty Gear's gimmick?
Replies like this make me wonder whether the poster thought for even a second about what they typed. I replied to someone asking on an amateur game development board about making a fighting game. You think fucking Guilty Gear is an example of a feasibly developable fighting game for an independent developer? "Guilty gear exists, gotcha faggot!" is your callout to the implied assertion that it's foolish for an indie dev to take on established fighting series on their own turf? Fucking moron, holy shit.

>And Skullgirls?
If you can afford the time or money to create several thousand frames of high quality animation then I take back my reply, go ahead and try to make an indie fighting game that anyone gives a shit about.

>>180593423
must have gotten his swords from a local walmart.

>>180593601
I was referencing Witcher 3. one of the bits of chatter is something like "Do you carry 2 swords in case one breaks? Smart!"

What if I played on the "mysterious and strong caped character is actually a sexy girl" trope and made her a monstrosity instead.

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50% chance of not making it.

>>180593597
I just asked out of curiosity because you seemed to know your shit about fighting games. Too bad you're also an asshole.

>>180593784
what if you went one step further and revealed she has a penis

>>180593930
I thought that was shopped but apparently someone pledged $1000 right now.

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Adding tags to my scanner, $ is atms and places where you can get cash, the eye looking thing indicates witnesses, need suggestions for:
-Dealers (Illegal tech, not drugs)
-Generic stuff, like loot in trash bins and such.

Plz send help

>>180593930
>one backer put in $1000
what the fuck.
I guess he'll make it after all, assuming they aren't a massive troll and remove it on the last day.

>>180593930
>all those fake donations that will get pulled on the last day

poor bokube he didnt deserve this

>>180594080
Someone donated $500 just to refund earlier, proving that agdg is genuinely a shitpile, so it could just as easily happen again.

>>180594115
>>180594124
you can do that?

>>180594221
The guy from /v/ who pledged $500 didn't remove it, it was someone else who pledged $350.

>>180594221
>blaming agdg
cmon now none of these fags have the money to do that.

>>180594221
What if it was just bokudev himself adding that to provide the initial traction on the project? (no one likes to donate on a project with $0 raised).
He might be doing the same thing again for all we know.

>>180594339
>none of these fags have the money to execute a zero-cost gambit
That's obviously false.

>>180594239
Pretty sure you can. And it's known that developers sometimes put their own money in, just so they can pass the threshold.

>>180594306
Why the fuck would anyone pledge $500 for a fucking /agdg/ game KNOWING it's an /agdg/ game?

I mean shit, why would anyone pledge $500 for a game in general?

>>180594239
Yes. It was already done before. >>180594221

I consider myself a pretty big shitposter, but I wouldn't even imagine to do something that dirty. I hope for Boku's sake he's legit.

>>180594564
>plebeian tries to contemplate patrician
Some people have so much money that they don't have to care about how stupid of frivolous their spending is.

>all this fake will it or won't it drama
This happens everytime.

In gamemaker, how would you have an enemy only get hit once by a player attack whose hitbox potentially continues on for a while after said enemy is hit?

>>180593930
>3 days left
>refund reason: I additionally added 2 zeros to the amount, haha i hope you understand

>>180594907
A simple solution is to have hitboxes store a list of enemies they're hitting or have enemies store a list of hitboxes they've hit. If the other thing is in the list, don't have an effect.

>>180594940
hey man, I understand. additions happen

Two bodies collide. I have the linear velocity of both, angular velocity of both, mass of both, and the collision position.
How do I calculate how much force the collision caused?

>>180595210
>>>/physics/

>>180595210
Just pick some reasonable deceleration time and use that in the F=ma equation.

>>180593072
looks good, better than a plain line, you might want to decrease visible part or leave it like that.
any reason why the archer need to stand still when aiming? for a 30sec time limit you'd expect the player to try to hit many targets while moving at the same time, but that might be tricky for a gamepad.
as for the gamepad, just make the player hold a button for slowmo/more precise aiming, that will make it faster than a mouse because you'd need to click, drag and adjust. there's no reason not to give gamepad users a bit of special treatment especially if that's your focus

>>180593930
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTYZGeis_DA

This guy has no graphics card only an AMD processor and is running it like this with some kinda bug where if he rotates the camera on one level the game crashes.

Iv never seen this bug yet since everyone at least has a card. Its also the weakest AMD CPU.

Man optimization is weird.

>>180589686
>>180593196
>>180593597
Punch Planet and Cerebrawl are basically the only indie fighting games in development worth giving a shit about (unless you count Wavedash but that's platform fighter vaporware) and those have tons of dev time and are still in infancy stages and have teams of at least 3
basically, 1MA'ing a fighting game isn't feasible, and the odds you'll have an audience even if you do or get a team are low

>>180595159
That makes sense.
Not really possible with collision_rectangle and the other functions though is it? Would require the attack has an actual mask index.

>>180595889
Well at least it actually runs at 30 FPS now without a card. The memes will hopefully be dead by the games final product.

>>180595210
Average force is equal to mass times change in velocity.

>tfw people on the discord hate you

>>180595954
I don't see why it would be a problem. If the player object controls the hitbox, have the player store the list.

>>180595954
Do you need to track multiple attacks at any given time, or just one? You could just increment a counter of how many times the enemy has been hit and reset it when the attack ends/when a new attack interrupts the current attack.

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>his game uses newtonian physics

>>180596069
Well as far as I know, doesn't collision rectangle store the ID of the colliding object?
If there's multiple enemies getting hit by the same attack, there's no guarantee they'd all register.

>>180596052
you shouldnt care what people that use meme chat programs run by the NSA think of you.

>>180596318
That's correct. Easiest thing would be to make hitboxes objects.

>>180596348
hey googem, pls be my friend.
:3

>>180581443
If I ever finish this game I have in mind, it will be at most a dollar. I don't intend to make money on it; just play with my friends.

>>180596421
sure, feel free to tell everyone im your friend
keep in mind i will forget i said this to you by the end of the day so as not to embarrass yourself

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>>180596239
>physics
back to the library dweeb

>>180595889
shit like this scares me. you can do everything right and there's always a chance that there is some hardware configuration out there that will produce an impossible to find bug.

>>180596375
Terrible solution unless he's going to have multiple attacks occurring simultaneously. Nothing needs to keep a list of anything.

>>180596680
why so tsundere.

don't you consider games as art?

>>180596680
well he could always start to tell people you're his friend then backtrack in mid sentence and correctly say you are just a guy who posts on the same forum as him

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i was gonna make the bottom turn into a mouth or something, but it ended up looking like a jiggly nutsack

>>180596767
Read the post I replied to dumbass. It's either that or loop through every enemy himself, and it's not hard to guess which will be more optimized.

>>180596375
Damn that sucks.
So much easier just using a collision function.
Thanks though, I've been trying to wrap my head around doing it a different way.
Oh well.

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>>180596680
googem, what do you think about making ancient retro games from the 70-80 as practice?
do you can think I can make some bucks with such remakes?

>>180596830
this works
the word you want is "acquaintance" btw
or 4chanbuddy

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Made some "friends". Time to get chased.

>>180597017
you're technically my sempai though.

you make art games and arent afraid of normies opinions I guess.

but you need to get gud.

>>180597012
>what do you think about making ____ as practice?
anything for practice is fine. for gamedev simple things are an absolute to be able to practice the art of finishing. and anything that motivates you to keep practicing is great.
>do you can think I can make some bucks with such remakes?
nah

>>180595895
Wtf is going on with those names, do these guys even want to be taken seriously? Anyway after a quick look I say Punch Planet looks sort of legit, Cerebrawl kind of ass.

>>180595895
is there game play of cerebrawl? i've only seen like 3 pieces of art.

Anyone else watch handmade hero here?

I'm only watching it because I wanna see when Casey finally gives up on the project. Its like episode 390 by now and still nothing even resembling a game.

Keking my ass off desu.

>>180597424
yeah gameplay is out, only fully playable+featured character is Helen though, Operator 28 is being worked on and animated still

>>180595781
>>180596040
Alright, I'm saving the velocity every frame, and when a collision happens I run a function that waits one frame and then checks the length between the last frames velocity and the new frames velocity.
It seems to be accurate enough. It just means anything that happens will happen one frame after the collision.

Which Scheme is best for game scripting?

TinyScheme? GNU Guile? Chibi? something else?

>>180597271
do you consider yourself an outsider artist making art that normies don't understand?

>>180597271
>nah
we'll I was talking about browser games in portals.
some of them are shit.

>>180597774
no such thing as an insider artist, just wagies.

>>180597886
im doubtful theres any money in browser portals anymore. the boom era was only about 5 years of time before advertisers wised up. FGL (as a weather vane of that industry) seems to have completely moved to mobile shit.

>>180598304
I only need to make 500 bucks per month to live pretty well off.

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ditched the old battle system. too many resources required.

>>180597453
Kek, so true.

>>180598391
that's a reasonable amount, you could live off gamedev with that threshold.... but that's hard/impossible to do with advertiser pennies the people who do it this way treat gamedev like a factory business churning out games/websites/whatever the current approach is for guaranteed minimum views
what you want to do is actually get money from the users (whether this is selling the game or patreon or whatever works)
to do this requires 1) gaining an audience and 2) a product that the audience thinks is worth throwing money at
porntip: porndev is easymode for both of those hurdles

>>180598391
>>180599106
Where do you guys live that $500 a month is enough to be well off??

>>180599106
that's one of the perks of living in spicland.
250 bucks is minimal wage here.
500 bucks is the average professional wage here.
1k bucks per month is basically someone with experience.
4k bucks is literally a PHD surgeon in a private hospital.
10k bucks per month is literally the top 1% narco king of the hill mode here.

>>180599295
colombia.

>>180599365
>colombia.
Fair enough

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So, /agdg/. How long until the inevitable decline of videogames in favor of better entertainment devices? How long is the goldensilver era of indie games gonna last? How long until pixelshit nostalgia dies out for good.

Aren't you worried your games might end up arriving at a time when no ones cares about them anymore? I know I am.

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Help /agdg/, I need an ideasguy so I can have something to do with my life

>>180599602
>decline of videogames
lol

FAST

Name the most promising /agdg/ affiliated game currently in development.

Hard mode: No lewd/porn

totally not looking for something to steal

>>180599767
my game

>>180599767
whimp

>>180599767
Risk of Rain 2 is the only in-dev, vaguely related to /agdg/ game that has any chance of success.

>>180599864
>vaguely related to /agdg/
It's not related to agdg at all. hopoo doesn't post here. Belongs in reddit/somewhere else.

>>180599767
Project Wingman

>>180599864
cruel but true
however RoR2 is hardly agdg, when was the last time you saw progress posted? Ever?

>>180599602
>How long until the inevitable decline of videogames in favor of better entertainment devices?
Like what?

>>180599767
wingman or world of horror
>>180600007
hopoo is discord-exclusive now like vine

>>180599767
Most games here look mediocre.
Mediocre isn't bad. It just means they'll end up being very average and probably will be forgotten in 6 months.

I haven't seen any jaw dropping agdg games yet.

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S O M U C H J U I C E

>>180599295
australia is famously expensive but you just gotta limit your expenses no matter where you live, for me...
>live in a fully owned and paid off family home with 3 other adults splitting the few bills 4 ways
>cheapest internet deal available in sydney
>food/groceries are expensive here but not that bad if you cook your own meals
ive lived off under 4k a year when times were lean... just like starve a bit.

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>>180599602
>How long until pixelshit nostalgia dies out for good.
Already dead. You have to have like 10/10 gameplay, character design or marketing to make money with pixelshit.

>>180600146
looks kind of bad and it's hard to tell whether or not it is webm's fault but you got the good general idea

>>180599602
VR is still way too gimmicky to replace anything.
We'll need full immersion VR in order to place traditional video games, which isn't going to happen for another 200 years or so.

>>180600218
>live in a fully owned and paid off family home with 3 other adults splitting the few bills 4 ways
That would drive me mad

>cheapest internet deal available in sydney
I suppose it doesn't matter much which deal you get since straya internet is so bad

>food/groceries are expensive here but not that bad if you cook your own meals
true, you can also save money if you go veggie or semi-veggie. at least in the places I'm used to meat is expensive

>>180599767
that ribbert 2.5D platformer game
doesn't even look very amateur

>>180599602
Indie movie makers and musicians have been around forever, making money god knows how since nobody ever buys their shit. Video games are just going to be the same.

>>180599767
>inb4 everyone lists basically every game on agdg since its really just anons listing their own games

>>180600295
It's partly the webms fault but the font isnt very readable either, might be better off with an outlined font

>>180600397
>if you go veggie or semi-veggie.
depends where you live. food deserts and whatnot, meats and veg seesaw in price where i live, currently in a cheap meat glut, no idea why...probably something to do with china. for americans they at least always know cheese will be cheap... only consistent thing is that rice is always cheap everywhere all the time.

>>180600607
pointless tbf family
better observe and gauge whether people actually give a shit about your game or not

>>180600607
I don't have a game so I listed another anon's game

>>180600146
juice != gameplay

>>180600808
>I don't have a game
Then you don't belong here.
Leave immediately.

>>180599848
>>180600007
>>180600095
>>180600548
>uninspired pixel-trash
>world of dead&abandoned
>not-AC when AC7 was just announced
The absolute state of /agdg/

>>180600879
Juice alone can make the game.

See: the entire Persona series.

>>180600879
yeah i don't really have a solid idea of what game to make yet but i wanna dev so i thought it was at least some kind of progress

>>180601037
>>world of dead&abandoned
you have to be actively avoiding the progress posts to actually think this

>>180599767
Bokube.

>>180601251
Took long enough.

>>180599767
>>180601251
Some of the puzzles in Bokube rival Toad's Treasure Tracker IMO. I thought they would be easy at first but they surprised me.

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How difficult is it to make a game like Tokyo 42 in unity?

>>180600807
that's what tumblr/twitter is for.
Exposure on those platforms is infinitely bigger than any supposed interest you'd find on agdg.

I actually find it weird how sometimes I see anons hype a game on agdg, but I check the games tumblr and it barely has a following.

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Progress:
-Added Pond + Decorations
-Council of Frog Poster
-Hit FX
Up Next:
-Tongue work

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learning how to texture, not great atm but im hoping it will work out with more iterations

>>180602060
Silent Hill-inspired?

>>180602060
I hope this is a hgame

>>180601731
Really fucking difficult. You've got to be a master programmer to pull that off.

>>180602060
Looks pretty gud.
Though you should make the guy have similar pixel size to the girl's sprite. Mixels are bad.

Your game is looking a little like that ribbert platformer game. You should probably check how he does his aesthetics if that's the case.

>>180599767
Bokube

>>180602112
more like clocktower, i used to really like rpg maker horror games like ao oni, ib, yume nikki so im pulling a lot from that subculture as well
>>180602150
i think making it an h game can limit the audience, but it will likely have some ecchi elements (ravaged clothes, etc) for the sake of attention grabbing. not sure yet though

>>180602523
inb4 this is ribbert

>>180602523
yeah the guy is just some early experiment thing
and i noticed that as well... its totally incidental. His spritework was better than mine for sure. The end product will be quite different though mine being a horror game and all

if you people shill bokube elsewhere instead of shitposting here you'd be helping him better

>>180600268
There's plenty of pixel games with meh gameplay and no character design that have made money.

What game engines do (bestly available) support vulkan?

>>180601732
Are there any guides on how to successfully shill on those platforms?

>>180603306
Step 1: Post shit regularly
Step 2: Hope someone with lots of followers retweets you
Step 3: Repeat

>>180603306
yea shill your game to some dude that has 1million followers

his thumbs up can probably net you maybe 3k followers.

>>180603490
So what happens when you run out of stuff to post? Just post the same shit over and over again?

>>180603636
What

You're making new stuff because your game is progressing

>>180603636
Post art/rants/reblog other peoples games

>>180603636
only nodevs run out of stuff to post

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>>180603636
You make more stuff.

>>180603636
you don't have to post shit every day.
once a month is fine.

Actually I think posting daily is bad.
At that point you're milking your game out too much.

>>180601801
Love the visuals, the way he starts spinning his fists when you lock on.

Hope the gameplay won't be the spammy shit it looks like now.

>>180598820
this looks like it might be cool but it's too choppy & dark that i can't really say anything about it

what happened to ladybug dev?.

>>180601801
this is super cute

>>180598820
I like it. It's comfy, even more with the lag. It gives a sense of primitiveness to the game imo.

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>>180603676
Yeah but you don't make progress 24/7. So what do you do when you have nothing meaningful to post. Just do nothing for a few days or weeks?

>>180603734
I guess that makes sense

>>180603762
>hey here is a rock
>here is a tree
>here is a line of code
>another line of code
Sounds like a good way to piss off people

>>180603856
But what do you do between progress?

>>180603963
Is that right? Wouldn't people think "oh shit this nigga is dead" or "oh wow at this pace it'll take years until this fag finishes it".


Also, generally, how do you make sure you don't end up as one of those retards with 10000 posts/videos/whatever and 2 followers?

>>180604590
>posting every ten seconds
anon I don't think you understand how shilling sites work.

>it's a gogem still insisting he "makes a living" with gamedev episode
Not again :(

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>>180601801
give some thought on the color choices, like giving it a coherent color scheme. that ik blue is a bit obnoxious for me especially because it's like 80% of the screen

>>180604590
If you can't even post once a week then you're doing something wrong.

I fall back to funny bugs or WiP time-lapses if I have nothing new and fancy

>>180604590
>"oh shit this nigga is dead"
Not if you explicitly tell everyone you usually only do progress monthly.

>"oh wow at this pace it'll take years until this fag finishes it".
Depends on the type of progress you show.

>10000 posts/videos/whatever and 2 followers
if you don't have 100 followers by your 50th post then delete your account.

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Anyone else working on Frog Jam?

>>180604590
m8
just make a good game and you wont have to deal with all this micro thinking

its ez

Smile Game Builder is on sale for like 20 bucks.
Paying full price for it is a joke but for 20 it seems like it could be some RPG Maker levels of chill fun.

Anyone here have any experience with it?

>>180604174
TY. Gameplay is the hard part. I've been debating myself between doing a God Hand ish combat or Zelda like combat with some kind of mechanic. If anyone has a suggestion let me know
>>180604782
You mean the dark blue canvas?
>>180604428
Thank you

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>follow dev with very similar game to mine
>have bigger following than him and figure they could use the exposure
>doesn't follow me back
that's fine I didn't need you either

>>180604983
Looks CUTE.
But I don't have enough time this weekend to participate.

>>180605305
I've been told it can't take much, but it's probably still better than RPG maker. Personally I kinda wish I had something like that just to export maps with.

>>180599295
t. slovakodev, $500/mo would have me drowning in vodka and potato, maybe even buy big german car who knows

>>180605305
Looks like RPG Maker 3D.
Never used it before, but like RPG Maker is going to be very limiting. You could maybe make something good if you can make really good stories and all custom art.

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Quickly post your project previews.

>>180605843
Thanks. Can't take credit on that though, it's all free art. I wish I could draw so much but meh.

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Why is my fps so low when I build my project in Unity? It works fine in the editor.

I even wrote a simple test project with just a background and moving player and it still shits low fps in build but works fine in editor

What's going on?

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>>180605770
yeah, I like the minimal style but the colors feel arbitrary and a tad bit too saturated to me. might be a personal preference thing if others dont feel that way

do unity/gamemaker kiddies actually consider themselves to be real game devs

do shitposters actually consider themselves to be real posters

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>>180605770
for me that particular shade of blue is pretty intense

>>180606434
no

>>180606725
do kindergarten teachers consider themselves real teachers?

>>180606725
>made several games playable from start to finish
>enginedevs not so much

hell yeah I do

>>180606725
Fuck you nigger I work as a software engineer. I dont wanna spend time writing my own engine after I've been coding all fucking day.

Fucking asshole.

>>180606814
>>180606556
Interesting. Not sure if this the same person, but I'll see what I can do about the color pallet

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>>180605770
Motherfucker if you think you can manage God Hand-ish combat then you fucking do it.

>>180606853
>could be a UE4 user, for example
>assumes enginedev

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>>180602060
I didn't notice it yesterday, but the running animation is sort of terrible. The upper body is fine, but cover it with your hand a look just at the legs, you can't really see the legs moving back and forth, it looks like the thighs are always in the same position while just "switching color" (switching between which is the front and the back leg), also the skirt barely moves while she runs.

I'm not exactly great at animation either but I think the best way to "fix" it is to bring the legs closer together on frames 3 and 6, see pic for comparison (I know Kyo is in a full sprint while she's just jogging, but I didn't have a 6 frame jogging animation saved for reference).

>>180607629
>ue4dev thinks he's better than unitydev in any way
>implying less retarded than enginedev

>>180607718
why are the legs different colours in the first place?

>>180604582
thats just the recording lol, but thanks. I was going for a comfy save room vibe

>>180607413
lol I just meant elements of it. Special attacks & tapping/qte is what I'm thinking

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Daily reminder that this is what happens when you have 0 talent.

>>180609051
He raised the price of SIT during the itch summer sale. If there's a way to be a faggot, he will find it.

>>180599630
I need one too
maybe we can be each other's idea guys?
I need ideas on why and how an apocalypse would happen, besides the really standard stuff

real samefagging hours

>>180599767
Konrad Rocket, or whatever name it's going by now

>>180609251
What kind of apocalypse?

>>180609376
That's your job to decide.

>>180601413
I played the DD14 version of bokube and there were a lot of parts where it just felt like padding because you had to backtrack to push/pull a puzzle block one tile then backtrack again
the later stages were more fun though

>>180602060
the tree trunks and rocks (flagstones?) are a bit incongruous visually and the player character's tits look painted on
otherwise it's lookin good

>>180609051
Talent aside, maybe he just doesn't have an internet presence which prevents him from gathering an audience for his games.

>>180606463
lighting?

>>180609251
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrihmVKNZ80

>>180609376
I was thinking a multi-apocalypse for variety
zombies, aliens, supernatural creatures, robots, whatever else

>>180609503
I forget which version I played by I had the same impression

Like the first levels were about finding the correct sequence and it sucked because one fuckup meant a full reset

Then the later levels were basically execution tests where a full reset felt more like losing a life in mario

>>180609251
The Saudis reveal that they've been lying for the last three decades about how much oil is left in the ground. We just ran out, renewable energy grid is too young to cope, we lose electricity, shit gets medieval.

>>180609538
and a unlikeable attitude, and that usually generates the opposite of what he wants

>>180610045
it's weird, I've seen a guy with the same ironic-unironic self-aggrandizing attitude who's fairly well-liked in his community and has a "community" of close friends that he drops the persona around a bit more often but still keeps it up
I don't understand it, but then I don't understand how anyone could reach adulthood without realizing every human being including they themselves is shit

>>180609163
lmao really?

>>180610276
Would you mind telling us who is this mystical asshole good sir? twitter handle perhaps.

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>guys I dont need money I s-swear
>f-fuck steam and their policy
>did I told you that I dont care about money?
>about that, 90% added price to one of my """"games"""" on itchio
>dont care about steam rules, gonna put a link to my patreon in my game credits because I dont like money as I said, you guys.

How can someone be this cucked?

Unity devs, how often do you use events for shit?

I've been using them a lot lately to separate things. e.g. if I want some screen shake when a gun is fired I run the shake code whenever a OnGunFired event is triggered.

Also, if you do use events, do you tend to use regular c# events or UnityEvents? I've recently starting using UnityEvents because its much nicer to be able to easily add responses to events through the inspector (the only downside being that it can awkward to manage for events with a lot of different parameters)

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>>180610340
sho nuff

>obsessing over a poster on a Chinese cartoon imageboard
How can someone be this psychotic?

>>180610589
the freak show surrounding him is more entertaining than most of the games posted here

>>180610568
top kek

>>180610276
that community probably is aware that he has an online persona, and is the kind of people that find that stuff entertaining. Or is a really dumb community, not the first time I have seen one around an e-celeb.
the issue here is that nobody knows if it's his real attitude or an online persona, and no one finds it entertaining either.

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Finished redoing some temp art for the player. This is to start working getting towards good game feel and to have something that at least resembles final product now. Though I probably put too much effort into them. Gotta do the enemy temp art now.


https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1498275281040.webm

>>180610589
>still implying only one person ever talks about gogem
Why are you such a moron?

>>180610950
once is fine, twice is avatarfagging

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>>180609163
>tfw my life is a series of jokes about money and people mad that i would joke about money
money isnt even real, chill out

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>>180607718
that was really extensive, thank you
i agree with everything you mentioned. was planning on fixing the skirt etc but didn't really notice anything wrong with the legs until now

>>180608284
i thought itd be an easy (lazy) way of differentiating the legs... it can be better for sure

>>180611627
I wasn't aware, I did it because the webm is over the 2mb limit.

>>180611795
>Have sale
>Buy games you would otherwise not buy because now they're more affordable
>"rip off developers sale"
incredible

>>180612096
I thought the limit was 3mb?

>>180612180
>Have sale
>Buy games you would otherwise not buy because now they're more affordable
yes thats a normal sale
>Have Steam Summer Sale
>Developer bloodsport of who can devalue themselves themself the most
>anything less than -50% is ridiculed by the sociopathic userbase

>>180609534
hmmm i see. thanks for pointing the tits out

>>180612449
i set it to the maximum -90% and its still nowhere near the first result for lowest prices because theres 0.99 games also at -90%
i hope they enjoy their 0.0693 cents per sale.

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Okay still not dev, have some thoughts after playing your game for a bit:

First off your sound design is fucking awful, like bottom of the barrel garbage, all you did was use that "retro" sound generator thing, and that's it, so everything feels limp and terrible, consider at least mixing those beep boops together for something better, and grab some royalty free stock sounds, mix those in too, sound design is VERY important.

Your monsters are fucking annoying, barrel zombies are 100% not fun to fight, it worked in serious sam because sam has a pretty brisk movespeed, along with packing a ranged weapon with infinite ammo at all times, meaning you can deal with those guys at any given point if you're quick on the draw, here because you went for the rogue-like style of play and your base pistol doesn't have infinite ammo, I've found myself having to slowly run from those assholes because killing them with the knife still makes them explode.

Projectile enemies aren't fun to fight because they lead shots and projectiles travel fast, in games you draw inspiration from like Serious Sam and Doom, the player is capable of strafing around projectiles, that's not an option here and that feels like shit.

You have a lot of work to do to make this game feel and play better.

>>180612449
Why are you always so offended and oppressed?

>>180612908
I like how you assume your things have value to begin with.

>>180612941
speaking of, which would be better for a demoday game
placeholder bgfx sounds or no sounds

>>180612908
what if 100 people buy their game who normally wouldn't? What about the "publicity" that it gives them? Now their game is spreading through others feed of "recently brought".

>>180612941
>>180613069
Which game are you (not) replying to?

>>180612990
steam

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>have game
>get no sales
>put it on -90% sale
>still no sales
>realize that its Steams fault
>still upload my upcoming lowtier games on it
>still get no sales
>w-well I'll put my patreon in my credit roll, that'll net me cash!

>>180612941
Still not dead dev* Fuck, I was so annoyed from this game I accidentally a word.

>>180613069
For fuck's sake at least put some effort forth, if you use BGFX, at least attempt to make them a little better.

>>180613140
Still not Dead Dev. He shared some keys last night, I grabbed one and was unable to play it last night due to steam being a cunt, and now that I've gotten a chance to play it, my ass thoroughly chapped.

>>180613207
I've got a week my man, I'm just trying to do some time management

>Make shit games
>No one buys them
>IT'S THE STORE'S FAULT NOT MINE

>>180613196
poor noamansky

>>180613259
to whom art thou referring

>>180613196
What game?

>>180613245
Anon there's a gorillion royalty free stock sounds out there, you can spare an extra 2 minutes to download one, open up audacity, and blend it with whatever BGFX generates for you.

>>180613342
noam chomsky
it had all this hype for being the most procedural math of all time but then some autistic redditors got mad because they thought multiplayer meant being able to see other players.