/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

arise chcken

You will never make it guys

>>181348829
First for goodluck demo day devs

Anyone know a way to make blender export older fbx versions? Blender exports to fbx 7.4 but I need 7.1 - 7.3.

>I'm starting to think it's all about visuals and stories, while we are playing more or less the same game.
Pretty much.

>>181348829
>no chicken image
YOU STUPID PIECE OF SHIT

>>181348943
no hope

only despair

is the unnamed pixel platformer game made in Game Maker?

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Kick-in's Demo Day 15 build is out, now with 100% more super attacks, a tutorial, and actual win/loss states for the player.

https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-15/rate/141520

Has anyone made a full game using only Scheme?

>I got 1 download
Yey

>>181349195
C++ and SDL I believe.

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Crosspost from /rlg/. I'm in the process of designing a cyberpunk roguelike. What kind of features would you guys like to see in it? So far I have in my scratch list:

- Top-down, tile & turn-based, i.e. classic roguelike style
- Procedural cities, streets, buildings, corporations
- Local economies, all city property must be owned by a corporation that exists in a trade or war relationship with other corporations
- Biology-based combat, you don't have HP, you die when blood pressure in your brain becomes abnormal
- No XP or leveling, character progression is done through cybernetics/augments
- Powerups are procedurally generated drugs (chemical effects on your character's body cause random things)
- In true dystopian fashion, the goal of the game is to get as much money as possible while screwing everyone else over

Settings I'm looking at:
- The street: Interaction with street gangs, skate punks, drug dealers, pimps & prostitutes, bioengineered mutants, and other seedy futuristic street denizens
- The corporations: You can visit to conduct a legitimate business deal, or just infiltrate to steal and hack things
- The "jungle": Densely populated urban areas where humans are heavily packed in, mostly controlled by violent gangs
- The lab: Mysterious scientific research facilities, where you can pay off scientists to create new drugs/viruses
- The catacombs: Creepy sewers and tunnels inhabited by mutants and monsters
- The matrix: a separate graph-based game mode primarily used for information gathering, and occasionally hacking and infecting other computers

Does all of that sound fun? Anything else cool that I should try to do with it? I figure realistically, I can get maybe a few of these done in a reasonable amount of time to launch an alpha version, and then after that I'll see what features people are most excited about. Pic related, a mockup I threw together. I don't know if I will end up using these tiles, but it's fun to give it at least some rudimentary art.

>>181349290
are you in the process of actually making this into a game or are you just typing down design document destined to never become a game #200158735 ?

>>181349290
the mock up sucks but your idea sounds fun

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Legacy Code

Good artstyle.
Great gameplay.
Strong core concepts and a very well done execution of them.
I'm also impressed by the AI code of the drones and the frogs.

However every 3 minutes or so the game crashed for me.
The tutorial didn't work at all.
Faulty script for the shaders of your drones:

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############################################################################################
FATAL ERROR in
action number 1
of Draw Event
for object obj_pickup_weapon:

Variable <unknown_object>.<unknown variable>(100126, -2147483648) not set before reading it.
at gml_Script_scr_drone_setshader
############################################################################################
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
stack frame is
gml_Script_scr_drone_setshader (line 0)
gml_Object_obj_pickup_weapon_Draw_0

Previous reviews:
>>181337802
>>181335791
>>181334623

Is there anything wrong with using the Source engine to make a game?

>>181349115
who are you quoteing

mom look i samefagged on agdg again

>>181349390
I'm actually making this, I have a couple of prototypes ready, but trying to get some more ideas of what people think of the design

>>181349450
Yeah, programmer art

>>181349735 Good job, my daughter! I am so proud of you

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holy heck
congrats fightknight

>>181348916
Isn't that an obscure /mlp/ meme from years ago?

>>181349096
maybe there's a plugin for that? or you could try that free fbx converter from autodesk

>>181348829
> How to Webm
obsproject.com
nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/geforce-experience/shadowplay
gitgud.io/nixx/WebMConverter
github.com/thetarkus/WebMCam

>>181349124
are you implying that Will Wheaton isn't a coward?

ortho renders of humanoids look like absolute shit in 3/4 iso. they legs and feets is too big

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Why are you so obsessed with profits, devs? You have to make art for the sake of art. Make something that speaks to your soul, not something for the market.

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>>181349880
Delete thyself, and then use some real arguments.

>>181349921
Aqua Teen Hunger Force, mlp might be referencing that

>>181349195
Dev here, I'm using C++ and SDL2.

>>181350205
dumb frogfucker

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>>181350205
>hay guyz, why do you need moneyz to livz ?

>>181350384
Let's see, what's easier:
>get a part time job
or
>spend months making a video game and praying that it will make money

>>181349646
It's pretty old and not that great. The one thing it has going for it is pretty solid multiplayer.

>>181350205
BECAUSE I NEED MONEY

>>181350205
my plan is to make the games I want to make until people start supporting my work through cash. Besides, I have no idea how to play to the market anyway.

>>181350384
psst, don't tell them that one day mommy and daddy will die and they'll have to feed and clothe themselves

Every day, I wake up, walk over to the mirror and have a hard look at myself. I say, "You're not a game developer, but you will be one."

Then I start coding.

I code for at least sixteen hours a day. Some days I code a little more. Sometimes I skip meals for a little more time. Some nights I go without sleep.

Most days I don't shower. I have food delivered to my door and it's mostly microwave meals and ramen.

People tell me, "It must be hard to keep going." Perhaps, but I must continue. I'm so blessed to have autism, to receive welfare so that I don't need a job and can code all day. When I'm tired and I'm thinking of giving up, I get up and look at myself in the mirror. I say, "Think of all the people who fund your lifestyle. Are they doing it so you can just give up?"

I look at myself and see the wrinkles, the receding hairline, the matted and greasy hair, the culmination of years of self-abuse for the sake of my art, and I think, "If I apologize or feel regret, everything will be over. I'll never be able to reach this place."

I've been doing this for two years now. I'm not a game developer yet, but...

I will be one.

>>181350234
I remember playing the demo where flowers marked secrets. I surely play this one first. Great job.

Did you implement physics as well?

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>>181344168
>Weren't these figures more middle way between spirits and gods?
Well up to this day Ukko is called Ukko Ylijumala which is a bit like Odin being called the Allfather. Jumala is the Finnish word for God and adding Yli- prefix to it literally makes it OverGod or AboveGod basically meaning a Supreme God, still being seen as something higher than the Christian god or at least implied so by language. Though I'm not sure on the origins of the word Jumala.
There were other less prominent gods but they could've as well been more like spirits. Like Tapio the god of the forest and Tuoni the god of death. Kalevala portays a lot of godlike characters and the origins for those might have been actual old gods slowly fusing with more human like characters much like the Norse pantheon where the gods often walk among humans.

There's also a complicated spirit aspect separate from these named deities. It was believed that a person has 3 spirits, one for his body, one for his mind or self and one to act as sort of a protection spirit. On top of that spirits were heavily assumed to be part of everything in nature and specific places or things could have their own spirits or 'elves'.

Christianity itself is a difficult subject because as far as I see it the Finns never took to it. Most of our pagan holidays were adopted as Christian holidays and we kept the a lot of the traditions of the old. In a way Ukko fused with God because they were in many ways similar. As long as it was legally required to be Christian, Finns followed along.

>Since some other Finnic people had a different main god
Most of the gods had multiple names so I think of it more like the tribes that now make up modern Finns simply having raised Ukko above the rest and other tribes elsewhere did the same to other gods of the pantheon. Tribes living in proximity to other religions probably developed into a different direction as well. There is probably a logical reason for Ukko and Thor being so similar.

>>181350750
extremely gay but also identifiable, except the autismbux part and the wrinkles but including the receding hairline

How do AAA devs bring innovation to their games? I'm trying to figure out what makes e.g. Uncharted or Tomb Raider so special. I mean, the mechanics are always more or less the same, you shoot, you hide behind a cover, some exploration, la la la. I often don't even want to think about going in that direction with my game, since I can't think of anything original, but then again, what original things are they doing? I'm starting to think it's all about visuals and stories, while we are playing more or less the same game.

How do you make an elevator pitch for those games? How can you sell them to somebody in 15 seconds?

>>181350234
>>181349195
Which game is that? Can I see a webm, pl0x?

>>181350384
You don't, really.

>>181350750
I know that feel

>>181351105
you don't know that what if he owns some big cash to the italian mafia

Why there is no sfml precompiled for visual 2017 ;_;

>spending years of your limited lifetime making a game that can be completed in few hours.
>profit/time ratio will mostly be not worth it.
>you'd need to waste more years to make games to survive, and that only if the games actually sell well.
no wonder why gamedevs are such depressed suicidal bunch, when you got redpilled on getting an actual job and keeping gamedevving a hobby/side job?

>>181351334
gamedevving as a hobby is a surefire way to get your game out in 8 years and by then it will be obsolete

>>181350750
Is it really worth it to speed up the death of the game developer you'll be?
Are you so desperate for success or/and happiness?
Do you know those funds are going to pay a hospital/mental institution?
Is the message of your life to destroy yourself to live your dreams?

Why anon, why?

>>181350491
>work part time job
>want to die everyday due to the monotony
>remember that anon says it's better than making games
>kill self at the tender of age of 46

hmm

>>181351452
Not him but what makes you think that just because a game takes long to develop it will be "obsolete" when its finally finished?

>>181351287
my dude just get the source off git

>>181350750
jesus h. christ

seek help and remember to exercise atleast 20 minutes a day.

>>181351046
it's this game >>181321298

Btw, I wish the game had a full screen mode.

>>181351761
gaming is changing my man, in 8 years we're going to inject anime straight into our brains

>>181351761
if you take a really really long time your game could be done just as there is a nostalgic resurgence of that hot trend you started on

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Working on this stage atm, any ideas I could put into the stage? It's mainly centered around getting to the clock tower in the background

>>181351006
>I'm starting to think it's all about visuals and stories, while we are playing more or less the same game.
This is true for a lot of AAA games. Especially the ones you mentioned. They're becoming more focused on the story and less focused on gameplay. There's rarely innovation of gameplay in there.

>>181351883
wait nevermind, I'm retarded. Just checked the settings screen.

>>181351917
reminds me of the year 2000

>>181351931
>that hot trend you started on
>implying

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>>181351917

>>181351931
Or you can just make an original game and it will be cool no matter when it comes out.

>>181351334
friendly reminder that undertale sold more than one million copies even though the entire game has enough content for ~8 hours, and speedruns are like 1h

even if it was priced at 1$, one million copies is still one million bucks; its price is higher than that
even if toby got only 10% of that, that's still one hundred thousand with the lower estimate

>>181351452
>>181351917
i love how people still think we can improve technology at the same pace since start, we already are at the limit, computers can't go any faster without costing billions, "VR" is just two tiny screens attached to your eyes.
in reality, nothing can get obsolete anymore, even if it happens, nes and snes games are holding fine even by today's standards, just make a good game.

AGDG tell me, should i go buy some junk food

>>181352450
Gotta get them quantum computers

>>181349840
bokube and googem on suicide watch

>>181352559
No

Stir fry some vegetables

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>>181351046
Here's some gameplay footage.

>>181351883
>>181351998
You can also switch screen modes with alt+enter.

>>181350785
That level is still in as the first of extra mode, if you want to play through all the old demo levels back-to-back.
>Did you implement physics as well?
Well, I didn't use any external libraries if for physics if that's what you mean. Many things are faked though instead of "proper" physics.

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Ghost Knight Victis

I like that the PC floats (even though its easier to animate and code) because its something different.
The enemies design is very well done and they're much more believable now that they dodge and feint attacks on their own.

The rapier is pretty much useless when you can use the spear in combination with backtracking.
Optimization is horrible. I'm struggling to get 40 FPS on a semi-decent rig.

The models look great though and the code is function-able. If you did this all by yourself I'm really impressed.
Try to think of a proper aesthetic around your current build, and stick with it.

Reading your itch.io you already seem to know most points of improvement. Good luck! Please keep posting progress in the threads.

>>181352789
Sonic?

>>181352789
wow sonic got a lot cuter

>>181352218
>implying everybody has equal chance to be the next toby or notch
this is why people commit suicide, you should never tell a kid "you can be anything you want", people need to be realistic and smart about choosing their goals, if something doesn't work, do something else, banging your wall at a wall won't break it no matter how many times you do it, the sad thing is that by being autistic about dreams is that you will never learn what was your potential and where you could've shined, imagine if usain bolt wanted to do something else in life, he woudl've never found out he'd be the fastest man in the world.
life is about discovering what you are truly good at, no matter if it's what you want or not.

>>181352709
but i want some ;_;

>>181353009
Stir fried veggies taste delicious anon and they're good for you

>>181352789
What's the narrative?

>>181352874
>>181352881
I've never actually played a Sonic game.

>>181352789
Reminds me a lot of DoReMi Fantasy.

>>181353163
Almost literally your game.

>>181352891
but toby and notch weren't good at making games

>>181353163
considering the way your game plays, that is an extremely difficult statement to believe in

>>181352664
gaycum's butthurt in the previous thread was really funny

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did you post your demo yet? can't wait to download them :^)

>>181353473
NO

DON'T STEAL MY BABY

Unity3d or Unreal 4?

>>181353627
Why not CryEngine?

>>181353627
gamebryo

>>181353627
polycode (the binaries are actually out)

>>181353121
go find your friend while killing creatures
that's about it right now

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Asking the same question as previous thread, does anyone have example of flying 3D level design along the lines of Zone of the Enders/Strike Suit Zero, or just plain old ideas ?
I'm having a hard time picturing anything other than empty space with some geometry blocking a little bit.

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Everybody's making demos and I'm just making tools

>>181353121
You're a cute little girl picking berries in a forest. That's about it.

>>181353250
>>181353270
Well, I might be ripping off games that originally ripped off Sonic, like Jazz Jackrabbit. The original idea was to have only projectile attacks in the game too.

>>181353772
Pretty nice use of autotiling.

>>181353680
You'd have to be one sick puppy to use CryEngine over UE4
muh foliage

>>181353772
nice goin senpai

>>181353772
Good, reminds me of Advance Wars's map editor. Probably had as much fun playing with it as I had playing the game.

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>>181353680
>not picking Lumberyard the CE definitive edition with botnets pre-installed

>>181353812
>jazz jackrabbit
yfw the turtle's second phase can be oneshotted
boy that takes me back

>>181352852
Thanks for the feedback there!

>The rapier is pretty much useless

Other than the planned parry ability, minor thing about the rapier is that it will stunlock the enemy, provided they are flinching already. If you combo an enemy with the spear, they can break themselves free from it by dashing away (provided they have enough stamina to do so). But if you are comboing with a rapier, as long as they are already flinching (the regular hurt animation), you can keep at it until they die (as long as you still have enough stamina to attack)


>If you did this all by yourself I'm really impressed.

The level assets are a mix of free stuff I got, and stuff I got from the Asset Store on sale. Other than that, the rest is all my work (characters, animations, programming, GUI).


>Optimization is horrible. I'm struggling to get 40 FPS on a semi-decent rig.

Optimization is actually missing; I haven't put any yet. If it's ok, may I ask what your PC specs are, so I have a point of reference on what kind of PC gives 40 fps for the game?

Something from Speccy would be nice.


>Try to think of a proper aesthetic around your current build, and stick with it.

What do you mean?

>>181353772
tool demo when

>>181353846
>>181353903
Why? I always hear it, but I don't think I ever got a reasoning.

>>181353772
this is fucking great honestly.

>>181353080
ok, you convinced me, but i have no veggies

>>181353772
it's comfy asf, post it in the demos

>>181353772
This looks really cool. Make it 3D, please.

>>181353772
What did you use to make this?

>>181353772
looks like something that'd get 500 reblogs on twitter

Is Unity the best engine to make 3d games quick?

>>181354173
It's just unity lol

>I can just create a sandbox project for testing things instead of messing up my demoday game page
only took me an hour to come up with this master plan

>>181351942
This looks seriously grody, dude.

>>181351942
>Working on this stage atm, any ideas I could put into the stage?
effort

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Still working on the cards appearance so they take less place since this is a quick flip (simplified them a little, compared to >>181311613). Also diversifying the enemies decks. I still don't have good animations for this so its very abrupt. At least the card dictionary is easy to use now and I'll be able to do the real encounters more easily. Oh an this is a test area, unsure if I'll use it, if I do I'll tone down the spiraling.

>Legacy Code
I'm not gonna use a command line interface to navigate your options menu, so get fucked.

>Shipwreck
I don't know whether you intend for playing without lock-on to be the skilled option a la Dark Souls or if it's only meant to offer nominal functionality until the player locks on to an enemy a la DMC 3 and 4, so without knowing that I'll offer suggestions on both sides of that line.

I have some problems with the keybinds you're using. Dodging, which is basically a backdash, requires the player to take his hand off the right analog stick to press B, but the stick is necessary in aiming the backdash well (assuming the player is not locked on). I'd bind it to one of the shoulder buttons (this could be useful for both locked and unlocked combat but it depends on whether you've got more important things reserved for the shoulder buttons) or less ideally L3/R3. You're using the RB button as a modifier switch for selecting special moves, which means that Right Trigger does absolutely nothing but the standard combo and dash attack, which could be a waste of a button. You could use left stick direction vs. the direction of locked-on enemies to determine which attacks come out, but that would mean the player couldn't execute special moves without locking on. On the other hand, you could do away with RB and simply make holding a button before pressing Right Trigger execute a special attack. I think this is the best option; even if you have important functions like dodge on the face buttons, you can prevent the accidental input of one command over another via input windows (the basic dodge function in Metal Gear Rising is a double button input and I've never seen players complain about accidentally jumping or light attacking instead of dodging, which are the two commands pressed simultaneously to execute a dodge).

The dash attack executing if the player is moving at all forces the chore of remembering to not move at all when trying to do basic slashes.

What do you think of collecting hardware information of one's userbase?

>>181354968
http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

>>181353906
Jazz 2 was where I took the idea for pixel-perfect collision masks from as well.

>>181353772
10/10 would live in

>>181355062
That's going to give me an average of the Steam userbase (which is valuable information without a doubt) but no information on how my game performs on different machines.

STREAM WHEN?

>>181355467
>asks about hardware information
>really wants performance metrics

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>>181353919
>Something from Speccy would be nice.
pic related
Its a 4 year old laptop which can run Wolfenstein: The New Order on 50, and GTA: V on 35 fps.

The average Steam user will be slightly below this if you believe the Valve hardware research.


>What do you mean?
Dark Souls is build around (dark) Gothic architecture. Bloodborne is a clash between the Victorian style and Lovecraft's Eldritch horror.

If you're going to design levels, and the enemies within them, it might help if you pick a certain aesthetic to remain consistent.

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>>181355521

>>181355581
people hate consistent aesthetic though
they'll just call it repetitive or boring

>>181353903
>Amazon botnet
I want to see evidence of this

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Make a cluttered floating city. Realism be DAMMED.

>>181356092
thats manifold garden, m8.

>>181355581
>underclocked yet overheated 3630QM
>750M
>above average

>>181356092
is this antichamber 2

hello amateur developers, nodev here looking for some ue4 user who could maybe answer me some questions. i want to create a small thirdperson demo from an idea i've got using the marketplace bux i've still got from back when ue4 was monthly cost.

there are two blueprint and animation assets, and i'm wondering if i will be able to easily combine these two, and pick both apart and remove things i don't need and keep what i need? i guess i will need to watch tutorials and learn stuff but i'm wondering if it's possible overall

the two things i want to buy is a set of ragdoll physics based animations, and another one adds gta 4 type of character becoming a ragdoll if they get hit hard in any way. what i'm wondering if i'll be able to apply the ragdoll physics from one asset to the animation asset which also has some ragdoll stuff going on.

tl;dr i want to add gta 4 ragdolling (not as good just basic) to a purchased set of animations for a tiny thirdperson demo idea

>>181356092
>deforming polys to the origin played in reverse at very high speeds

>>181356319
It should be fine, check if they both use the UE4 skeleton (basically every marketplace thing does)

What exactly does the second asset do? Just becoming a ragdoll is really easy to make yourself.

I'll make videos for Demo Day b-but you have to actually upload your demos...

...guys?

>>181356638
Demo-less day

>>181356638
All that's missing is the web version, but that one sucks anyway

Can I upload a demo and only let people who paid for it to play it?

It will seem more exclusive and will trick people into paying for a shitty demo.

>>181356825
good luck not getting shitposted to death for this

>>181356319
start a new thirdperson starter map
make an environment out of built in primitives
press x to ragdoll, space to jump, 0-9 to set gravity
at worst, you might have to retarget the animations, or just rig a character to the animation's rig

>>181356092
Did you make that? That actually looks incredible seeing it for the first time.

>>181356904
Visionaries get ridiculed by people who don't understand all the time.

>>181357075
"visionary" is a big word for a shitposter

>first twitter follower
>he's some huge weirdo 'intellectual'
I guess it's a start

>>181356825
DAY ONE PIRATE

>>181354204
That would be UE4

How do you manage health attributes?
Say a player starts with N of health, but it increases as he unlocks new skills.

>>181353903
>Lumberyard is free, including source ... there is no requirement to connect your game to the cloud. There are also no seat fees, subscription fees, or requirements to share revenue.

this is the best game engine available

>>181357275
Health as a variable that can take a maximum amount of MaxHealth
On level up, increase MaxHealth.
How the fuck do you not figure this out yourself.

Why y'all always saying Unity is bad for 2D? It is literally better than all the alternatives.

>>181357275
>>181357410
this is fine, but here comes a clever trick: store damage instead of health. this means that when maxhealth increases, so does your health

>>181357410
I don't want to sum directly to a MaxHealth, because:
- I can change skill bonuses during updates
- I need to serialize it back
- There's no levels, only skill unlocks

>>181357671
I don't get it either. I guess it's just because it doesn't have 'bowling alley bumpers' for pixel perfect graphics, which are very easy to pull of anyway.

>All those people downloading my shitty demo day entry
Are you that bored? Or just hopeful?

>>181358038
we're looking for something to laugh at

>Ghost Knight Victis
I thought you had different combos per weapon before but now it seems like the player simply has access to 1 rapier combo string and 1 spear combo string that they can interrupt with the other. If this isn't the case then I think it would behoove you to include a movelist like I've suggested before because it would save the player the trouble of aimlessly mashing out combo strings with different buttons held down in the hope that something new happens. If it is the case then the different weapons basically amount to light and heavy attacks, with none of the attacks in either string having particularly notable traits (that I could discern) beyond being one of the two types. Also, the first attack in the rapier string takes quite a long time to come out IMO. The characters' appearances seem to be incrementally improving (both Disparo and the marionettes). The AI improvements are noticeable, but for whatever it's worth, opening with a spear attack and then spamming rapier strikes if the spear connects seems to be a strategy that's pretty much unassailable.

>Spaceship Crew Self-Defense Simulator
Most importantly, nice ASCII. I feel like the player has a relatively low vision radius/area for how deadly everything is, and I think said vision radius works against the concept of using the broken-window vacuum mechanic to one's advantage; seeing further would allow the player to better utilize the layout of the station in tactical planning. I feel like pressing the door buttons is far more difficult than it ought to be; the player's position seems to need to be oddly specific for the press to go through, which is less than ideal in the heat of combat. I'd make whatever check you're using for that a little more permissive.

It's kinda dumb to whine about programmer art, but using the same color for the enemies as the "shadows" of vision-obscured areas seems like a bad decision to me. More contrast would make them more obvious.

what can make FTL combat deeper? you have different weapon, different systems, teleportation, fire and oxygen, that means you can kill the crew or destroy a ship in different ways, but can you add more to it?
i want some gameplay elements that doesn't rely on weapons.

$$$$$ 3 downloads $$$$$

>>181358125
Y- you think my games are funny? Really?

>>181358208
:)

>>181356631
>>181357009
thanks, after some thought i guess i meant more like once i purchase those blueprint/animation assets i will have full access to them to modify and cut and paste and so on? i checked and both use the ue4 skeleton

>>181356001
"Consistent aesthetic" doesn't mean "make your entire game a cave or city or egypt level", dingus.

>>181358174
A more complex stat and class system for crew members?

Being able to physically change your ship layout midway through a play-through.

Being able to land on planets with just your crew so they can explore terrain/bases.

Different systems that react to different hazards. For example maybe you could have a sprinkler system that puts out fires but maybe it spreads toxic gas if the enemy fires it or makes the rest of the room slippery or something dumb.

taking enemies hostage from a wrecked ship to take to a slaver to sell but maybe they can break out if that subsytem gets destroyed.

>actual 2d gameplay where you have to aim your guns and maneuver your ship

>multiplayer

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what happened to this game? can i steal it yet?

>>181358174
Actually piloting the ship is the most obvious thing that is sorely missing from FTL. I'd vastly prefer it over two ships flying around in abstract space and missing/hitting because of evasion ratings.

>>181358152
>now it seems like the player simply has access to 1 rapier combo string and 1 spear combo string that they can interrupt with the other
Not the dev, but I personally prefer "emergent combos" to "canned combos". And this isn't exactly a niche opinion - look at the success of Souls games and NieR: Automata.

>>181358152
>>Spaceship Crew Self-Defense Simulator

Thanks for the feedback. The low-vision radius area is a common complaint I've been having since DD11. I tried to improve this with the always-on dynamic camera on this iteration but I think I'll have to resort to increase the range of the game window and camera.

>>181358821
Except in both of those games the individual moves within the strings have unique properties that make them significant in themselves. Also, both of them have a lot of auxiliary command/utility moves that can be used to supplement the strings.

>>181358770
how would you fly the ship and control the grew at the same time?

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How does itch.io class the submissions for DD15? Is it sorted by popularity?

>>181358821
...Also also, both Dark Souls and Automata allow you to swap between multiple weapons in real time which grants access to substantially more of the types of significantly different moves that I previously listed.

Dark souls: 2 offhand weapons, 2 main hand weapons with light and heavy attacks each
Automata: 2 sets of weapons, each with light and heavy attacks

I didn't criticize him for using what you deem "emergent combos" (which is a complete joke of a term because it implies that Dark Souls or Automata have a more emergent nature to their combat than games like Bayonetta or Devil May Cry, which any perusal of footage of high level play across these games would reveal to be false), I criticized him for having poor attack variety across these strings.

Should I use godot or libgdx for 2D android games?

>>181359724
It's sorted by * * m a g i c * *
all we know is that they roughly correlate to views/downloads and seems to be semi-random

>>181359724
Try F5'ing.

It's random.

>>181359542
The same way I control the crew and the weapons and the abilities at the same time: queue movement orders. Duh. The game's real time with pause, it wouldn't be a big deal in the slightest.

>>181359542
Make it like Dwarf Fortress where you command the crew themselves to pilot the ship (like commanding dwarves to pull levers and such).

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Catgirl Pool Party
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-15/rate/88779
Megadrive/genesis game (use an emulator to try out)
Yes I know, there's no music/sfx and not much to do in it yet but its some progress from last time (mostly bug fixes) and I'll keep working on it

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>expecting me to download an emulator for a demo

n-no thanks

>>181350234
>not sfml
Enjoy all those pointers

>>181360392
I was waiting for this

>>181360392
>emulator

lol fuck off

What do you guys think of a walking simulator named Hellblade? What do you think about games that focus on experience and story rather than gameplay mechanics?

>>181360407
why would you even be interested in pixel games without already having every emulator and rom set on your HDD though?

>>181360407
>>181360748
>americans afraid of papa fbi barging into their house in the middle of the night because they download an emulator
land of free

I don't get it. I did the same exact thing 1 year ago as him >>181353772 and got no replies.

>>181360179
That actually sounds kind of interesting. You're hired.

>>181360392
I'll tell you more gently than them: you should bundle the emulator and include a batch file that runs the ROM
I mean it's only illegal if the ROM is someone else's, right?

>>181360832
What do you think about being the dumb motherfucker still asking this question in 2017 like it hasn't been trod into a fine dust at this point?

>>181360842
Oh great, an insecure eurocuck. Just what the thread needs more of.

Honestly, I'm a little shocked none of you guys have a Mega Drive emulator installed in the first place.

You're not casuals, are you?

Could Lerp be used to gradually rotate a character in the direction being pointed toward?
Or would it feel unnatural?

>>181361259
never owned any console in first place

>>181361259
>not just owning a Mega Drive

>>181361408
Goddammit I was the casual all along

Time to play some Minecraft, I guess

>>181360654
>pointers are hard
i forgot nobody here is an engine dev.

just a daily reminder that SDL is god-tier. even Steam Runtime provides it.

>>181361336
using lerps with angles has some fun corner cases

example:
359 deg -> 0 deg
instead of moving 1 deg to the right a naive lerp would do an almost full turn to the left

>>181360991
I have no idea what you are talking about, senpai.

>playing music stored as audio
>not having a custom player for modules from a custom tracker

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So, whats the best demo currently in DD15?

>>181361408
>>181361259
I thought the casuals were the ones playing on a console?

>>181360654
Thanks, I'm enjoying them.

No really, I don't get what the issue with pointers is.

>>181361856
you should download them and make a ranking

>>181361856
Your game

>>181361879
That's only for modern consoles anon.
If you play game consoles that were around when you were a kid, you're THE MAN.

You guys ever start to get fucked up mentally after spending too much time devving? I just thought about how I need to go to bed by getting my world up vector and rotate it's pitch 90 degrees so I match the local rotation of the bed, laying down

>>181362026
when does a console go from casual to not casual

>>181362102
xbox

>>181361962
please no

>>181361670
>not incorporating VST support and programming MIDI in your game

>>181362181
>reinventing the wheel

>>181362086
I dream about videogames

>>181362102
2 console generations

>>181361670
>not playing a 1 second sample at random frequencies

>>181362086
It's all I think about these days

>>181362086
us developers amirite xd

>>181362086
I've probably dev'd in my dreams before, I usually forget them right when I fully wake up

>My super funny title screen joke is thwarted by the popup blocker
I will have my revenge

>>181361505
this is why you calculate the shortest angle before you lerp

>>181362223
reinventing wheel is fun

Added the web version and it runs like shit
Webdevs, how do you live like this?

>>181362426
hit enter by accident
what happens to me a lot is coming up with an idea right before bed, so I put down a comment describing it so I don't have to spend the whole next day figuring out how to solve the problem again
sometimes this'll happen for a week straight without much in between, so I'll start working on the idea I had the previous night, work on that for several hours, finish, move on to the next thing, get stuck and/or distracted for another several hours, and then right before I go to bed come up with an idea to fix it, which I work on the next day and sho on

>>181362086
I started peeking through walls with my head during the first few weeks of owning a VR headset. months have passed - still no game

>>181361505
lerp a derp

>>181362459
Calculating the signed least difference is part of lerping under modular arithmetic. You don't do it before - your lerp just needs to use the right subtraction operation.

>>181362640
Inventing new wheels is even more fun.

>>181362852
>Inventing new wheels is even more fun.
programming is just fun

>>181362441
don't worry anon. I got your wiki how to I thought it was funny

>>181361856
My game

>>181350234
>SDL2

What resources would you recommend to a begginer?

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>>181360392
I think it's a neat idea, but there's not much of a game yet. Keep going, you absolute madman.

>>181363089
Now I can die in peace, thanks anon.

>>181356226
>>181357026
It's as >>181356163 says. Manifold Garden is the game and I didn't make it.

is it easy to animate in unreal? if i just want to create some placeholder shit? can i do animations without any skill directly in the editor?

>>181363749
>can i do animations without any skill
No.

>>181363780
i just want to create the shittiest placeholders

>>181363118
Lazy Foo tutorials are fine if you're otherwise familiar with C++.
http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/index.php

>>181360407
>not having a mega drive
>not injecting the demo into a chip and playing it the way it was meant to be played

>>181363749
Unreal has some really half-baked in-engine animation stuff. You should use an external program like Blender instead, it will be the same amount of work to learn and you'll get something more useful. If you have time to mess around, this technique could be useful
http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1020583/Animation-Bootcamp-An-Indie-Approach. But when I tried to implement it in Unreal I dropped it after a few days. I think you'd still need to define like a 1-keyframe animation in Blender and use that as the keyframes.

I GOT TWO DOWNLOADS
YEY

>>181363749
Yeah you just rotate stuff and keyframe it, it's good enough for placeholders.

>>181363139
Thanks I will.

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progress into platforming mechanics

I want to get started with game making. I took a computer science class in high school but I was completely terrible at it, but I want to try again. The engines I've set my eyes on are Godot and LOVE, but each use a different programming language. Python or Godot and Lua for LOVE. Which one is better to use?

finished unnamed pixel platformer. was a lot of fun. the controls were tight and it was smooth with good game feel and it was challenging. the mosquito enemies were incredibly frustrating and there were so goddamn many of the things. it kept me coming back to keep trying though and I would keep playing if there were more levels.

>If I add the web version, the Dreamcast and the Windows version are no longer downloadable from the Jam page
Should I just drop the web version? I think >muh light gun and >muh Dreamcast are the only thing my game has going for it.
Damn itch, way too kill my multiversion programming fun

>>181364290
Nice dude, are you going to make a super mario 64 like game?

>>181364290

Bing bing wahoo!

>>181364290
damn doggy that's some satisfying looking movement

should I play bokube?

>>181364290
I like the way the thing wobbles in the background

>>181353919
Hey,
I thought the combat was really neat and would obviously get a lot better with more choices and enemy attacks. The only real complaint I have is that the enemies are not really telegraphing their attacks all that clearly when you're close up. But yeah once you get sound in, that would probably help a lot Also I guess balance doesn't really matter right now but man, dashing into enemies and starting up a combo is really strong.

Also, is the horse peeing fire on a brain? wtf

>>181364821
bokube is probably not a botnet so go for it

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>>181364413
What was that? The game needs more mosquitoes? That can be arranged.

There's the old demo level reel in extra mode, in case you missed it. They were designed with slightly different gameplay in mind though, so there are unintended shortcuts and whatnot.

>>181364310
I'm not familiar with Python, but I know Lua is fucking shit. The way it handles objects is just ridiculous. Definitely would not recommend as a first programming language. However many says that Python is a good first one.

However keep in mind that when you rely on an engine or a framework, you are rather learning the framework than the language itself.

Can someone help me understand how this dampening formula works? I don't really want to use it when I don't know how it works. It's used for turning the character.

float new_ratio = 0.9f * deltaTime * turnRate;
float old_ratio = 1 - new_ratio;

player.forward = ((player.forward * old_ratio) + (localMovement.normalized * new_ratio)).normalized;

>>181365248
Why do I hear their voice when /vg/ doesn't have sound webms? What did you do to my brain?

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>>181365347
>The way it handles objects is just ridiculous.

>gamedev.net is now anti-adblock
dropped

>>181365248
jesus christ

>>181365347
Lua doesn't have OOP.

>>181365502
Aren't these suppose to be vectors?

>>181365991
No, the only vectors are localMovement which is the direction the stick is being pointed in relative to the camera, and player.forward obviously.
All other values are floats.

>>181365838
literally what did that site even provide?

Would raycasting downwards every frame on every actor to see if he's on the ground be intensive ? I'm trying to make my own movement component in UE4, I can know if something is on the ground by checking the hit normal when the actor hits something but I can't find any other solution to know if he's not on the ground anymore.

>>181366368
uh... um how can you call yourself a gamedev if you don't know what it provides, sweetie?

>>181365918
It supports it pretty much out of the box, with closures for encapsulation, method syntax, and prototypal inheritance (metatables). It's just not class based OOP.

>>181366479
what about, y'know, collision detection

>>181363886
the editor can be used to alter animations but it's not really intended to create animations from scratch, just learn blender

>>181350750
This is disgusting

>>181366368
Basically a forum for professional and amateur game developers to talk about programming, art, music, writing, etc. mostly free of engine specific cancer.

>>181349840
so how many projects did this game kill by sending devs into deep depression?

>>181366479
no, a single raytrace every frame is not expensive, it's what you do with it

>>181349290

I'll steal your ideas to make a 2d isometric clone of REDACTED

>>181366479
You really want grounded to be its own state, not just a flag. Otherwise slopes will be a real pain to implement.

>>181366681

i don't want to become an animator though just want to give the default dummy some moves to my blueprint shit so i can keep the ideas going

>>181366368
Dunno. For me it'll always be the site which appears under the Stack Overflow hits in my Google search list.

>>181366669
That only returns hits. What I do currently is add a velocity (sum of input, current velocity and gravity, I'll deal with acceleration later) every frame, and make in sort that if it is on the ground, it doesn't add the gravity input to it anymore. (so that it doesn't end up having an insane downward velocity after staying on the ground for five seconds).
So basically once it's on the ground, the OnHit event doesn't really fire anymore.

>>181366880
What about that case though ? Thinking about doing it only when it's on the ground too.

>>181367132
What do you mean by that ?

>>181365248
I was legit trying to herd all the mosquitos in the level. Shit's tough, I only got like 7 or so.

I'm trying to 100% the game, but here's a couple odd things I guess.

Pressing down + jump on solid ground has an odd effect. I assume it's from not being able to pass through the ground as you can the tree platforms.

Also, if you jump, then press and hold jump in the air, you'll jump again when you land.

>>181366479
I raytrace hundreds of times per frame without any framerate issues.

>>181357671
lol no.

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Working on making the view turn to a low-detail map sorta thing once you zoom out enough. Mostly to save fps but also it looks pretty nice

>>181368242
That's a really cool effect.

>>181367398
not telling you to become an animator, it's just fucking hella easier to do your shitty animations in an animation program

or just go download some shit from mixamo

>>181368497
hirvi perkele

>>181367820
if you just need to set a bool every frame with a raytrace you shouldn't worry about it

>>181367846
>I was legit trying to herd all the mosquitos in the level. Shit's tough, I only got like 7 or so.
Now why would you do that? There's 31 mosquitoes total.

>Pressing down + jump on solid ground has an odd effect. I assume it's from not being able to pass through the ground as you can the tree platforms.
Indeed. I'll do something about that eventually. For now you can use it for a frame perfect trick to do a roll on the ground though.

>Also, if you jump, then press and hold jump in the air, you'll jump again when you land.
This is intentional. You can't do it by just holding the jump button so accidental jumps are rare, and it makes jumping again easier.

>>181368242
can we get a webm/gif?

>>181365248
>blighttown.webm

To AWK (harmonicdev)
Can you upload a 64bit binary for linux?

imagine a world where artbros look for programmers

fuck i just want to like program game i dont want to draw i dont want to design levels i dont want to design gameplay i dont want to write a history i dont want to make songs

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>Watch Unity's Unite Europe 2017 Keynote
>End of keynote mentions developers being affected by the "travel ban"
>Some faggot from some shithole might not have been able to enter the country for 2.5 seconds
>They think people actually give a shit

Aaaaaand Unity still has nothing on UE4

>>181368909
Why do you even want to make a game, then?
>not liking doing art
pleb

>>181367820
also, if you're worried about it, you could use a timer to do that check every .1 seconds

>>181368880
I will upload it in a few minutes.

>>181368463
i checked maximo and there is nothing that fits but if i import something similar from that will i be able to edit it inside unreal to match more to what i need?

i only need one animation that i can't find anywhere that fits the idea i have

>>181369273
thanks

>>181368497
Hvorfor er du en faggot?

Why are jungle settings so rare in games? I mean real, deep jungles, I think there is so much potential in that, especially with all the myths surrounding something like Amazon and similar areas.

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>>181369079
i just got a great game idea. i call it infidel ninja.

its a touch screen game where you get a level that consists of infidels with heads that need to be severed and you have to cut them by drawing a line on the screen, and other things can be in the level that need to be triggered, for example you may need to cut a head off so it falls on a lighter that ignites a cage with another infidel in it

>>181369217
there's a difference between all those things i like programming why does a programmer need to 1MA while the others only do what they like

>>181369318
yeah you can alter them and save them as a new animation

>>181369542
Rendering dense foliage is hard.

>>181369542
nigger,

>mgs
>donkey kong
>crash bandicoot
>tomb raider
>uncharted

>>181369542
because making the art for a desert is 50x easier than making the art for a deep amazon jungle

>>181369542
hitman (2000)
it's shit

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>>181348829
Ok so Yeti is ready to kidnap people if they come near and are unconscious. Maybe I need to fix his path a bit, or maybe I will move a rock to somewhere else depending on playtests.

>>181369620
I like where you're going with this.

>>181369667
cool thanks

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>>181369542
amerzone had a pretty good jungle level iirc

>>181369886
it looks really weird for that stone to just slide perfectly horizontally like that. make it crumble into a pile of rocks or something.

>>181369751
>MGS
No, unless PO, PW, GZ or 5 did it and I didn't hear about it. MG, sure.

>>181369542
>crysis
>far cry
>monkey island
>prehistorik
>lion king

jungle is a stock setting in games because it allows artists to stretch their muscles and woo the audience

>>181370061
Yeah agreed. I tried to adding a shaking effect and a snow animation below (so it looks like it's blowing snow apart due to force) but I like your idea. It's simple and works well.

>>181370116
Snake Eater?

>>181370116
you know which one I mean

>>181370235
you should also make the yeti fade in from black before his signature roar, maybe with glowing eyes.

>>181369380
>>181369273
It's up.

>>181370249
>>181370298
Oh, so you can't tell the difference between a forest and a jungle. In that case there's fuckloads of "jungle" levels in games.

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behold my masterpiece

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what does people think about this?
http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dungeon_Dice_Monsters
i'm talking specifically about the unfolded cube mechanic, you unfold a cube to create tiles which your units can walk on, a move is valid only if you can fully unfold the cube (you can't occupy existing tiles), can a game like this be fully solved or there's room for strategy? since there are only 11 combinations (excluding the rotation) to unfold the cube and the board is relatively small.

>>181370470
Thanks!

>>181369751
>>181369760
>>181370169
But this just proves my point, that's still not a lot, and neither of these have real deep jungles, they are always close to civilization. I'm talking about being lost in the middle of nowhere and battling for life amidst predators, tribal hunters, diseases, storms etc.

>>181370475
Not for honor

>>181361912
I'm ignorant. What can pointers do that non-pointers can't do?

>>181357671
Don't listen to haters, I love it when I need to own an expensive gaming rig to play a 2d platformer.

>>181370475
Not for revenge

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>>181370571
what the fuck

>>181370702
Ok, FC and Crysis are good examples, Uncharted and Tomb Raider okayish and obvious ones which come to mind, but that's not a lot.

>>181370571
>not making an array with all the names in it

>>181370891
Tarzan games

>>181370659
Early Yugioh had lots of cool games. There's tons of stuff you could potentially turn into a shadow game.

>>181370812
IDGAF about PC I just want it to run at 30 FPS on the Switch

Definitely not for
>>181370719
>>181370838

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Play game please

>>181370702
see >>181369705
if you're aiming for a realistic approach, then making a jungle is hell.

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>>181370719
BUT FOOR YOOOOOOUUUUUU

>>181365712
Butthurt pajeet detected.

for england, james

>>181371060
Gimme a few secs

I'll even comment, which is worth, like, 5 (You)s

>>181371070
Yeah, that's what I'm aiming. I have to agree with that, eh, one day...

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i didn't make it to DD15 with any of my projects but the demos that are up look neat! glad to see ctesiphon is still alive! keep up the great work anons

my entry for "So Bad Its Good" jam wound up taking more time than I thought but its done and playable, if you want to punch a ton of skeletons

jasozz.itch.io/graveyard-shift

>>181369620
Make the game in Unity and the infidels the unity dev team plz

>>181371215
>fight knight alpha release

>>181371215
fight knight?

>>181371215
Combat paladin?

>>181371215
Nice Fight Knight cl-

>>181371331
I declare this a meme now.

>>181370726
Point to things.

>>181371060
I don't play whodev games.

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>>181370571
>using capitalized return strings for key presses
>using R. Shift instead of rshift
>using spaces
>Pause SLASH Break
what the fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
youre gonna mess it up a lot lmao

>>181371331
>>181371341
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>>181371380

punching skellies is always great

glad to see fight knight dev met their KS though

>>181371060
whoeven

>>181371407
I mean, what makes pointers more advantageous to use instead of non-pointers.

>>181370571
You better have cases for the play/mute/fastforward/reverse/record buttons some keyboards have. You can't call it a game if I can't play it with the same buttons that are supposed to be used for windows media player.

>>181371824
Indirection.

>>181371824
for one, change the value of a variable within a function without having to use additional memory for a local copy of that variable

>>181371961
Elaborate please?