/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

First for Me

Why aren't you making a mystery game?

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Reminder

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>Now the web version is completely broken
But I only reuploaded the version that was already up
What game are you playing here, itch?

>>181521312
I'll write the code of conduct.

>>181578602
But I'm here only for money, fuck off with your feel good bullshit.

>>181578721
You probably shouldn't be in agdg then. You should be browsing reddit articles about the best microtransactions to put in your mobile clicker game

>>181578791
Hey, I'm not satan.

Why aren't you making a game about fidget spinners?

>discover various amazing tools such as megascans

What the fuck, I need literally no talent to create AAA graphics and content for my shitty game idea. Time to pay some indian to program my shit and become fucking rich.

>>181579564
pursuing photorealism is a waste of time for this reason

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Let's see your best menu sounds.

>>181579508
too late

>>181579508
I've never used one, it'd be like a virgin making a sex game :^)

>>181579824
>he thinks my game has any sounds

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>>181579864

>>181579971
>or a menu

>>181578602
this is what some people actually believe

>>181578581
Because Mystery jam is over

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>>181580196
you're a sad little man

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i haven't been posting because i'm working on some major improvement to a lot of things, kind of uncertain about it all. wish me luck.

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Geoya
Dev: anon
Tools: SFML C++ Blender
Web:
Progress:
+ bug fixes
- that's it :(

>>181580318
Nice

Rocket jumping when

I know literally nothing about programming. Which language should I start learning if I want to make an ASCII game? It'd be sort of tactical and Fire Emblem-y.

>>181580317
will you be deluded but happy or disillusioned but skilled

>not creating the next generic multiplayer early access survival fps for guaranteed, risk-less money

you do realize your shitty 2d game which takes way more effort to create will never earn you a single fucking dollar

>>181580318
I wish you luck

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>>181580318
was this an inspiration?

>>181580476
Are any of those games even remotely polished?

They all seem janky and buggy as shit, I guess their popularity passes before they ever get finished.

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>>181580474

>>181580476
nah the next guaranteed market is making something like >>181580318 but not quite

>>181578602
>feels good about his shit art
>post it on agdg
>gets surprised when everyone says it's shit

Don't fall for the trap.

>>181580626
No, the latest fad game of this genre looks like absolutely trash. It has literally no graphics.

They've earned $100 M I L L I O N

>>181580757
don't draw patterns from outliers

by the time there is a $100 million game, you're too late to market

>>181580732
>I hate feedback

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>>181580732

>>181580884
There has been a similar game nearly every year, and they all earn between $100ks to nearly a million.

PUBG literally just changed the format just ever so slightly which made it more popular than its predecessors.

They even went with garbage graphics as tradition requires of this idiot genre, nobody cared.

>>181581065
whats wrong with PUBG's graphics? can you explain why its bad?

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we're getting there boys
only a matter of hours now

>>181581065
it uses default ue4 editor settings
it's marketplace assets cobbled together
every texture is blurry and flat
lighting is horrible, looks fully bright

just google pics or watch some vids

>>181581065
so it's NOT a guaranteed success, then. you still have to change the formula in a clever way, which requires skill.

>>181581747
it's a guaranteed $100k and early access is your safety net
you can just abandon it and nobody will care

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First time caller here, thought I'd bring my 2D Pixelshit Gamemaker Babby shit to the table. I've actually posted some music on a /v/ thread, but this is the first time posting it here. Its a bit of a love letter to Bubble Bobble, but with its own mechanics that aren't about popping bubbles.

The symbols on the border light up when you hit an enemy with a fireball, according to which symbol pops out of your fireball, which is based on, essentially, 30 sided die roll (As there's 30 symbols). You can get items that take out symbols you've already gotten, and there's a bonus if you get all of them, but if you game over you lose all the ones you've collected, but can start from the level you died at. The drops for items that take out symbols you've already hit increase in the later levels to balance out the later levels being harder (And there's actually a lore reason to, if that fancies you). Since there's also a low chance that you won't hit all the symbols even with item upgrades, if you go long enough without game overing, the item drops will start including unclaimed symbols themselves, so there's a ceiling to how much bad luck can prevent you from unlocking the secret.

This screenshot is only of a test level which is not going into the final product, the point font will certainly change, and I intend to do something about the background (Any good links to tutorials for background art would be nice).

I have a blog for this if you want to follow, but I intend to post here with progress too so don't worry about it. Also if you hate it don't worry about it.

https://www.tumblr.com/blog/youngcultistgame

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>>181581962
>straight to the point
>based off those fun single screen arcade games
>shows progress
>describes gameplay mechanics fairly in depth

Continue, please. You have my attention.

>>181580732
>feel good about shit art
>dont post it
>still act superior
This was hard

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>>181581962

>>181580452
>ASCII game
You should consider not doing that, in the year 2017. Basic tiles are worlds better than ASCII, and don't take that much skill.

To answer your question though, any language will do. Something high level like Java or C# will be more fast enough, and will help with faster dev times.

That said shitty old languages have more fleshed out console based libraries for vidya and whatnot... so you might consider that too.

>>181582789
What is this game about?

>>181582884
It's diep.io in hyperbolic space.

>>181582223

Uh, let's see, I'm diving into things that aren't finished except for lore shenanigans.

>The reason there's plant-like enemies in a cave setting is because the big bad uses plant matter to bind the monsters here in THE REAL WORLD. As you get into deeper levels the background will start including roots and vines and shit and plus I like the all around theme of a tree growing unnaturally through rocks. Almost every enemy has that plant theme, except two potential ones (And one of those is actually just regular ass birds who were "called" towards the center of the cave). Again, this lore stuff is more sub-surface, you'll be able to just play the game completely without knowing anything.

>Those eyeball monsters shoot shit at you, and their eyes follow you when you get close. I had a gameplay video but I'm working on an old ass Acer and it couldn't handle OBS and Gamemaker going at the same time without cutting the framerate in half, which upset the crap outta me because it runs at a sweet 60 FPS.

>I have not yet programmed it in, but you should be able to map your own keys in the final product, because I've already tied keys to variables so it shouldn't be too much of an issue for me to get right. This is something that a lot of indie devs don't think about and that bugs me.

>>181582789
Please consider instead of a noisy texture, using a background with more high-level structure. If you want to be realistic, something like rocks and trees would work. Or just abstract shapes. Landmarks will help people navigate, I think diep sort of does this with the collectibles that spawn in RECOGNIZABLE, NON-UNIFORM patterns.

>>181583025
Good man, keep it up and I want to see some gameplay footage if you can manage it in the near future.

What does /AGDG/ think of SDL2?

>>181583501
Valve

>>181583501
'salright
there's never any reason to use the builtin render API though, always spring for the opengl option

>>181583501
Worst-thing-under-the-sun-but-compiles-to-HTML5/10

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>>181583392
I plan to add scenery. Getting a good background texture is hard because hyperbolic space doesn't tile the same way as euclidean space, so anything I use I have to generate it myself. Before I was considering dividing it into areas like this, but there's no way to avoid having narrow sections if I want them to be bordered by straight lines, and to do it another way would be complicated.

Which engine has the best bouyancy physics and water rendering?

>>181584103
Mine.

>>181584103
>buoyancy physics

Unity and UE4 both use the same physics engine so I would expect that you would get similar results in each.

would you make games for the switch?

>>181584975
sure as long as it's profitable

>>181584975
yeah, after it does well on steam, why not

is there any demand for a subterranean furry dating simulator?

>>181584975
Of course. Nintendo consoles are the only good consoles. PS4 and XBone are just worse PCs.

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>>181506390
----[ Recap ]----
Game: Skylarks
Dev: Mako
Tools: Rust, Logic, Blender, SDL2
Web: http://mako.itch.io/skylarks
Progress:
+ Refactoring
+ Fleshed out some important scenes for a major storyline
- There's a bunch of zero-G sex but I'm implying it instead of describing it so I feel like a heretic

>tfw full of great ideas but most of them would require at least a small team of experienced devs so I just end up doing the small and boring ones

How do you feel about enemies that violate designated safe spaces like save rooms and such?

>>181586178
triggered

>>181580757

>no graphics

Wut game? I thought you were talking about the playerunknown thing

>>181580318
[meme potential increases]

>>181586178
I like them
the only problem I see is if the player stops playing for a minute to leave assuming they're safe and they appear
but as long as you can pause I don't see a problem

>>181586178
Well, you're violating a rule that you've set for the player. So the question is, do you also violate other conventions? Then you'd be setting up a meta rule that standard videogame rules don't apply, and players should expect more where that came from.

It also depends on how often you do it. Is it a one time thing, or is it a crossing of a threshold, after which no room is safe? Do you spring it on the player when they're unaware, or is it done as part of a dramatic moment in the game?

If it's a rule introduced from the beginning that no space is safe, fine, but then you're not really violating anything, you're just saying that if you want to be safe you turn off the game.

>>181582789
The inverted fisheye one loos like you're exploring an ocean trench

How do you feel about enemies that violate designated pause states?

How do you feel about enemies that rape you repeatedly?

>>181586613
>pause
furry

>>181586613
See >>181586558, it's the exact same problem absracted one level.

What's the "easiest" 3D art style to learn so I can just make cheap shit that looks vaguely consistent for my game? Is something cartoony like vietnamese ripoff wind waker feasable?

is Spaceship Crew Self-Defense Simulator only two rooms or am I missing something

>>181586717
untextured memepoly
just add some lazy post-process like depth of field and chromatic aberration and enjoy your GOTY awards

>>181586717
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyo7mKHOerY. Make sure you don't use textures.

>>181586717
MAKE
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>>181586717
Just copy Killer7

>>181583892
Dude. Petri dish simulator

>>181560830
>Anyone want a writer?
I do!
are you on the Discord?

>>181587294
sorry, i'm already using him.

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Guy who was making a roguelike in gamemaker here. I'm not dead but I have no progress.
>trying to do fov/line of sight
>really, really fucking complicated
>try to implement a simple raycasting algorithm, fuck up because my octant was 90 degrees instead of 45 degrees, don;t think I want to do raycasting anyway because of the artifacts
>think about doing it with collision detection, but gamemaker doesn't have a function that returns all objects for a given line
>try to look up other solutions so I can convert their code to gamemaker
>all of them are for languages that allow classes and have other features, porting it to my rickety setup in gamemaker would probably be harder than just figuring it out myself
>even depite all of this I have the basics of shadowcasting down now but I don't know how to iterate across all squares that a line is touching withour making artifacts or fucking it up somehow

Feel free to laugh at me, I don't even want help honestly. All I can say is holy fucking christ, I never in my wildest dreams though that this line of sight shit would be harder than doing my battle system or anything else. God I fucking hate grids.

>>181587482
please be shitposting

>>181587483
gamemaker really makes everything harder

>>181587483
simply code something ugly and fast so you can fix it later

>>181586012
>i have pokemon x fire emblem idea
>the idea is so unoriginal that i require team to work for it
>btw i don't have any skills except making pipe dream of mishmash games

>>181587534
sorry my friend, he is used goods. we hit it up on AOL and now he's writing my comp sci essay

>>181577523
>TL;DR: The Game

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>>181578791

Does anyone know what kind of income we're talking for this kind of thing? Just out of curiosity.

>>181587831
It's a sequel to DBZ Legendary Super Warriors

Will move to Love 2D eventually

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>>181587828
I'm really trying to get people here

>>181587918
Billions if you design it well enough to trick people out of their money and make the game addicting.

>>181587918
if your fidget spinner app gets a thousand downloads, you've probably made enough for a lunch from ads. if a couple kids accidentally hit the "trash your wallet" button, you can bring your boyfriend to lunch too

>>181588015
Anon i don't think the guy you're looking for is even awake. Try next thread.

Is it inevitable to spend incredible amounts of time making shitty pixel art mockups?

I've made so many mockups and I don't seem to have been gotten any faster or better at making them. Seems almost like luck whether design will be good or bad.

>>181581843

Is there no legal fallout for dropping a game that people paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for you to make?

beginner pixel artist here, anyone need sprites or something?

im still shit and i need practice

>>181588437
Can you draw yourself a life?

>>181586717
>easiest3D

Easy 3D doesn't exist, don't fall for the meme.

All the nodevs talking about how easy it is to make 3D are nodevs and don't have 3D models.

>>181588437
Make me an animated exploding flask of poison.

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>>181588437
Think you could do a tien and yamcha in the LSW style?

Not sure someone else has, haven't googled it or anything.

Only need the standing animation unless you feel like doing their signature attacks.

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What projects are too ambitious for on single guy to do?

>>181588662
if you're gonna be rude you can leave.

>>181588725
>>181588437
Here are actual rips

>>181588729
Nothing is impossible

>>181588814
lol just weebs say rude

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>>181588729
what did you just say?

>>181588729
MMOs

>>181581962

Looks pretty sweet, anon. I'd love to see a demo to get a good feel for the gameplay you're describing. My biggest challenge with making backgrounds has been getting the color palette to sync with the foreground. Having the two blend together can be a headache and it's good to get feed back from places like this, because that kind of thing sometimes requires a fresh pair of eyes to let you know where your going wrong.

>>181588729
Everything beyond pong.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

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>>181588850
>>181588725
The actual rips
>>181588437

>>181588698
I'm talking about relative ease. My ideaguying doesn't really work in 2D

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>>181588906
>>181578602

See those things anon? Those are different but conceptualy the same. The do it meme.

>>181589103
There is nothing easy in 3D.

>>181588662
i wish i could

>>181588723
what style, any screens from your game for reference?

>>181588725
there's already some decent ones if you google

>>181589203
>he thinks he can make a game without making a game
weird.

>>181588729
3d games Bokube will fail

>>181589254
>there's already some decent ones if you google
I figured as much

>>181589203
No.

The do it meme is a good meme because it tells you top stop whining like a baby and just do it, regardless of consequences, so at the end you have no regrets. This is what a real man do capiche?

The shit art meme is a meme.
Nobody is going praise your shit art.
Nobody is going to play your game with shit art.
>inb4 minecraft and dwarf fortress bullshit

>>181586678

Good, but only if I'm playing as a sexy bimbo.

>>181586717
Minecraft

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>>181588725

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>>181587697

>spend all night banging my head on the keyboard coding ugly bullshit with no notes to try and force in some mechanic I'm having trouble with.
>spend twice as long trying to make sense of it when it gets in the way of something else.

Never again

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>>181590246
Oh hey nice one

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Metrognome
Dev: Apollo
Tools: GMS, Audacity
Web:
http://apollo.itch.io/
https://twitter.com/GnomeMadeGames

Progress:
+ Can throw pots shattering them to pieces.
+ Added some new sound effects.
+ Added a health system with upgrades

>>181589463
> it just alludes to art
The core message is being shit at something and still doing it.
The just do it meme tells that you should not care that you are shit and just do it.
Same bullshit message, just embellished with an autistic behaviour.

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>>181506390
----[ Recap ]----
Game: boxing
Dev: f-dev
Tools: Blender, UE4
Web: none
Progress:
+ head, hair retopo
+ eyes, eyebrows, lashes but no textures still
+ rigged the body, converted for gloves. no hands.
+ made boxing gloves
+ made boxing ring, no physics or rig yet
+ lighting from invisible sources
+ started converting first person template setup
+ postprocessing an outline, and basic tweaking
- internet broke, might be dead for up to a week
- converted to a boxing game
- IK bones being a pain in the ass to set up right

>>181590246
Hmm...Shoulders may need to be more fuck huge

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>>181580414

i already have a functioning flight mechanic and rocket jumping

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>>181588147

Just looked up what you anons mean by "fidget spinner app". Once again disappointed in humanity.

>>181589219
You're too autistic to understand the question, please stop replying.

>>181588262

By "mockup" do you mean one still image of what the game will look like? Or a prototype of the core gameplay complete with sprites and other visual assets?

need an artist to draw fidget spinners for my new game

I love to guys

>>181591094
Why would I play your fidget spinner game instead of the million others that already exist?

Also just make a beyblade-like game. Same concept of fast spinning but a lot more interesting.

have you guys been working on your twitter presence?

>>181591525
I try to find the right balance between delivering steady content and not spamming my followers to death

>>181591525
I've told Trump to kill himself at least daily since before the election using my twitter developer handle.

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Should I add some point lights or something to the roof to brighten it up a little? I don't know much about lighting yet, this won't be in my actual game either, it's just messing around

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https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-15/rate/95189
hey, it's here

>>181591869
Finally!

>>181589463
>>181590595
How autistic do you have to be to think this way?

The message of 'Just do it' is that you'll never achieve anything good or bad if you just dream about it and never do it. Regardless of whether it turns out bad, mediocre or good, its better to try than not and you shouldn't regret doing it after its done.
The Mr Rogers thing is about how its fine to something that you're not skilled or talented at, as long as you find it an enjoyable pursuit or hobby.

Both are pretty relevant messages for a hobbyist general where producing something of genuine merit for the artform requires significant dedication and a renaissance man skillset.

>>181591869
Thanks buddy

>>181591525
>4 followers on tumblr
>no twitter account
>no facebook account
>no itch.io account
>for 4 years
only artists get likes and i'm not an artist

What is the max amount of time I can have players be in a loading screen without them hating the game? You're in the level for 10 or so mins, and it's destructable

>>181591525
>83 twitter followers
>587 tumblr followers

Not bad.

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>>181591675
I think you have the right idea going on for a night club, but not a diner. Diners are very brightly and uniformly lit, nightclubs have that sort of shadowy downlit moodlighting that you're going for there.

>>181591675
Look up ambient lighting.

>>181591525
56 Tumblr
64 Twitter

>>181591525
~1500 on twitter
~2000 on tumblr

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>>181591468

>head to head multi-player mode
>gameplay would still be nothing more than swiping left
>both players swipe and then it's just animating some beyblades that collide and bounce off each other until one randomly runs out of momentum - maybe add some of that spirit animal summoning shit.

Holy shit, anon. What are we waiting for, let's do it.

>>181592447
damn son.

>>181592039
>its fine to something that you're not skilled or talented
No it's not.

This is amateur game dev general, at the end of the road you make a game and nobody is going to play your game with shit art.

>>181592271
It's not supposed to be a happy normal diner, but thanks anyway

>>181592346
I'll look into this, thanks anon

>>181592271
https://www.google.com/search?q=dive+bar&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjptbCi5-7UAhXkqVQKHRcDDRoQ_AUICygC&biw=1540&bih=837

>>181591525
i am working on my presence in your mom

>>181592447
link?

>>181592143
>only artists get likes and i'm not an artist
Incorrect. Only yesdevs get likes. So you must be a nodev.

>>181592224
I'd say 2 minutes for that. I'm not going want to wait more than quarter of the time I'm going to spend in a stage/room. So 2 and a half minutes for a 10 minute segment of gameplay would be pushing it. After that 10 minute level will it be another lengthy loadscreen?

>>181592876
I'm at about 1 minute per 10 minutes of gameplay. Yeah there likely would be, but I might be able to do 2 for 20 and just cache one of the maps

>>181592693
https://twitter.com/panstasz

>>181591869
awesome downloading rn!!

>>181591869
it crashed when i clicked on "game"

For chunked procedural generation, is there any downside to just making a ton of tiny smaller chunks? Basically what're the downsides to a shitton of objects in unity?

>>181593045
>was already following
eh, all good then

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>>181593045
Yo panstasz your demo is fantastic
Just got this error in freaky found footage story, after I tried to search the room in the manor instead of leaving out the other door
I played the household hell one, i'll come back to it tomorrow, this is a lot of fun
fuck you for those subliminal flashes

>>181592591
nice my future sibling

>>181593357
most probably outdated directx drivers

>>181591525
>271 Twitter
>568 Tumblr

All I want is a fuckton of Twitter followers, is that so much to ask?

>>181593045
well earned followers, my dude. You're gonna make it.

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How easy is console porting with gamemaker?

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----[ Recap ]----
Game: Project K2
Dev: Anon
Tools: Unity, Maya, PS
Web: ...
Progress:
+ Made a DD build, that's about it

>>181592224
What's the graphics style of your game?
If it's pixel art it better load in 5 seconds or less.
If it's HD 2D 10 seconds is acceptable.
If it's low poly 3D it better not exceed 20 seconds.
If it's highly detailed 3D 30 seconds is preferred, but up to 1 minute is acceptable.

If it takes longer than those times I'll quickly start to get annoyed. Although if the game is really good I'll be more likely to ignore the load times, add 50% extra time if I think the game is really good.

>>181594030
Easy,just $1200 for any console of your choice

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Guess that's a wrap on the eavesdropping system, just running a few final tests.
Making the heard text be drawn over the field of view transparency was way more trouble than it had any right to be.

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>>181582223
>>181583392
>>181588960

I used LiceCap to do a gif instead of a webm, which makes sense I didn't really need a webm anyway.

I manually made the enemy at the end, enemies don't just burst out of nowhere in real gameplay. The little blue square is actually the item object that takes away a symbol you've already earned. Also kinda ridiculous that two shots got the same symbol in a row, but that's good cause I wanted to show off that you can steal your partner's symbols anyway. You get a point multiplier based on how many symbols are in your color (Single player runs will probably get you more points, obvs). Points gives you lives, which prevents the game over losing your symbols, which I thought was a great way to create stakes; you'll always be able to start at the level you game over in, but you still lose something that's "important".

>>181594159
So a single shot is enough to kill the enemies? Usually those single screen arcade games had the player's attack stun the enemy and set them up in a way where they had to risk themselves to finish them.

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>>181591869
I played a few minutes and, well this is certainly not my type of games. However, its really well done, love your themes, drawings, music,etc. so keep it up!

>>181594119
It's medium graphics 3D VR. Good to know, thanks

>>181587483
like this?
http://gmc.yoyogames.com/index.php?showtopic=572561

Casting a ray isn't going to ever return all the objects it hits because its going to collide with something first isn't it?

>>181592996

One minute seems acceptable. As long as the pay off is fun and engaging. People wait 3-4 minutes waiting on load screens when they play Bethesda rpgs on consoles and I really don't think that's a level of entertainment value that's too difficult to match/surpass.

Thoughts on Godot? Can't be bothered setting up a Windows partition for playing around with learning some game dev.

>>181594760
>Windows partition for Godot
your bait was dumb enough that it got me to reply. Here's your (You)

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>>181594760
>setting up a Windows partition

>>181592876
>2 minute load time
nigga you crazy. Even 20 seconds is too much.

>>181594280

Well, the symbol gimmick is an important part of the game's structure, and I can't allow players to farm shots off enemies, so I've mostly focused enemy creation on how they can kill you first. I do have an enemy planned that has an attack on death, but other than that I didn't have anything special planned.

I'm open to suggestions, though, I am not lazypants, I don't mind programming different enemy types. As long as they do not detract from game plan A: I cannot allow players to farm infinite shots by just stunning enemies and refusing to kill them.

>>181594896
Apparently further clarification is needed.

Currently running Linux, was looking at Unreal, Unreal doesn't run on Linux (but can build for it)

Can't be assed installing Windows again.

Godot looks like an alternative for Linux.

>>181594150

Shit I love the dialouge. Does the knight he's talking to have a question mark over his head because he doesn't understand?

>his pixelated platformer doesnt have convincing load times

>>181595126
Godot is literally developed on Linux, it's MIT FOSS, it's an open source fag's wet dream. Do you think you need Windows for that?

>>181595286
Again, not what I'm asking at all.

Try again.

If you're going to have a good loading time, do it right:
- Add some nice screenshot/art and alternate
- make the loading bar interesting (Ever played Requiem Bloodymare with its stitches-ripping loading bar?)
- Add some text, like 2-3 liens to read while waiting, make a bunch of them and alternate
and so on

Just be sure to provide something 'ok' to your players while they wait.

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>>181592876
>2 minutes of loading

show rule34 of your characters during loading screens

>>181595315
What are you asking then? You don't need Windows, and it takes 10 seconds to download and open Godot.

>>181595124

Why not make it so you get runes when you kill an enemy instead of hitting it with the fireball?

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>>181595390

>namco's faggy patent expired 2 years ago
>his game doesn't have loading screen minigames

>>181595286
>>181595403
Nobody cares about your Godot stop shitting the thread.

>>181595549
Nobody cares about your no game either. I'm still wondering why this faggot thinks Godot requires Windows even though it's whole selling point is that it's open source Linux shit.

>>181595073

20 seconds? Really? I waited on 5 minute + load times playing morrowind on the Xbox as a kid. Obviously it's not ideal. I'm just saying if the gameplay is rewarding enough people will be willing to wait. I guess the technology and industry has changed since, though.

you're outta touch
you're outta time

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>>181591525
>Have 2 Online personas
>One throwaway semi political shitpost account
>Main One where I show art and development I actually work hard on
>Main persona has about 200 followers
>garbage shitpost one has over 5000

>>181595154
The dialogue text is just an excerpt from Discworld for testing, check it out if you didn't have, it's legit good.
The question mark is a suspicion-meter for detecting the player

>>181595781
But I'm out of my head
When you're not around

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>>181595390
Post your game's characters, I r34 them for you.

>>181595781
holy fuck I just listened to flash fm

autism is a form of telepathy

>>181595817
Do like gogem, mix your shittalkign with your games.
Seriously dont, I would actually follow gogem for fun and some news about his weird project, but I dont want people to see me following him with all the shits he says.

>>181580318
>When you use zeebop beebop instead of beep boop

>>181595709
>Nobody cares about your no game either.
Nice projection. You're the one bringing up your shit engine when it's totally irrelevant.

>>181596015
>but I dont want people to see me following him
The gamedev political climate these days sucks

Googs got a reply from Notch the other day, that was cool.

>>181586835
t. Notch

>>181596126
did googum try to criticize notch, I can imagine how that would go down

>>181595709
He doesn't retard. He worded the first post poorly and then clarified in his second post.

Fucking godot devs

>>181596112
You're not posting a game, and neither am I.
I didn't bring up Godot, the other guy did.
It's not my engine, it is a shit engine, and Linux is shit too. But Godot is the only FOSS shit I know of.

>>181596126
link? I dont see it

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I just want to point out that there are three Rs

>>181595420

I wary of moving that far away from the original design+lore.

Original design had the symbols in the fireball, flicking between all of them at a high speed. Turns out, you couldn't really see them, so it wasn't worth the constant draw function. The story, and if I were to ever do concept art, still has the symbols within the fireball and I'm extremely partial to that.

Its a legitimate question to ask if I should move away from that, but I think I should explore the concept of enemies that fit my design before I give up and move on.

Potential solution tho: Monster gets hit by fireball, symbol pops from fireball and onto its space on the border, monster crumples to the floor. You have to finish it off through some other method (As simple as touching it perhaps), and if you take too long, the monster gets back up and I find some way of creating a good visual where the symbol on the border is "stolen" by the monster (I'm thinking have it fade a bit, and then fly it towards the monster where it disappears). I think I could definitely do that, if that sounds better, but I don't know if I should make every monster like that. Leaf-Head there might remain a one-shot monster to show it being the weakest, and the monster I mentioned that has a kill-switch attack has a design I'm in love with and won't touch for nothing. Every other potential monster is fair game for such a change though.

>>181596292
world of HORRRRRRRRRRRRRRORR

>>181596210
>then clarified in his second post
>"Can't be assed installing Windows again"
There is zero reason to even mention Windows.
This is why open source was a mistake

>>181596292
I count 4

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>>181578378
Swimming and water physics have been added.
I also went ahead and attached abilities to collectible upgrades.

I almost lost all of my game, but thankfully I had a backup.
Please backup your files, anon.

>>181596413
the reason he mentioned windows was that he needs it for UE4 but doesn't want to install it, so he's looking into godot
jesus you're a retard

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Is this charge bar's position alright? Or should I put it up in the corner with the health bar or something?
The gun passively charges so I don't want a flashy effect like megaman because then it'd be going off all the time. I'll probably put a small flash at the gun barrel when fully charged, though.

>>181596469
Nicely done anon. What engine are you using anyway?

>>181596413
I hope you are just pretending to be retarded

>>181596654
Fusion 2.5 - Autism Boogaloo.

>>181596587
Or he could have just asked "how's godot?", without mentioning Windows or UE4 because those are irrelevant to the question.
And then we could have simply answered "it's shit" and moved on.

>>181596620
every time i see this character, the phrase "swiggity swooty" pops into my head

>>181596469

Looks pretty fluid, and I couldn't think of a good synonym for that because I didn't want you to think I was making a pun.

Also I haven't backed up my files in a few days, imma do that

>>181596870
Please do anon. I almost went straight to depression and rage all at once until I found another version.
You don't want to lose weeks worth of work.

>>181596015
You're talking about the guy too controversial for Newgrounds? lol Tom and Jeff follow him. what do you think would happen to you?

>>181597050
>You're talking about the guy too controversial for Newgrounds?
What?
>Tom and Jeff follow him.
Who?

>>181596305

Ah, I see. Heres a quick idea to keep the lore intact and still have enemies that require an extra attack after the fireball: have a monster that gets hit by the fireball and gets a symbol seared onto his body where the player can see it. After a while he could stand up and shake off the symbol and maybe a smoke/ash effect. The player would still only get the symbol after a follow up attack, but while the monsters on the ground with the symbol seared onto it the player can look at it and think "hey I need that one!" or "fuck that, already got it" or tell a friend to pick it up in multiplayer. Just something for your consideration

>>181596717
Oh damn. One of the bigger downsides I've heard about that engine is clickteam takes extra royalities and shit.

Or was that Construct I'm thinking of? Either way, your game looks solid and I'm looking forward to seeing more

>>181596292
so?

>>181596843
Wh. . . Why?

>>181597231
Clickteam doesn't take any royalties, though, if you don't by the dev version, you have to cite that you used Fusion or whatever program you have.
Thank god for Humble Bundle.

>>181597327
Then it must be Construct 2 I was thinking of. My bad.

>>181596620
If you want to go full juice mode, make some particles gather in the weapon and a light that grows in size and stops when the skill is fully charged.

But that's something I'd personally do after I'm done with setting up the gameplay.

>>181596620
The position seems fine. Maybe make the length of the bar a little shorter if the info it's giving the player isn't all that pertinent.

Reminder that according to the last charts 87.1578% of your userbase in on Windows.

>>181597160
googumproduce he made that school shooting game right? got removed from newgrounds

Tom fulp and jhonnyutah from newgrounds.com they worked on castlecrashers. Making a new game called nightmare cops. the point is they're pretty well known devs and they follow the guy.

>>181597430
Oh and obviously meant that as an alternative to the bar.

>>181596292
The best thing about this is that I didn't change it and it's been like this for few months now and noone noticed

>>181597209

I could have it where it collectable off the body off the monster in some way, that's not a bad idea. Actually shaves off some logistics problems from that first solution. Plus it makes for another thing to collect points off of, and that's always nice.

I do need to clarify that if you have a symbol in your color, you don't want your player two to have it because then it just moves onto his color and he gets the point multiplier from having it. Bubble Bobble is a huge influence to me, and one of the reasons why is that while you're in a complete co-op setting, when it comes to points you are out there snaking their shit out from under them.

>>181597714
you rascal

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>Want to be active on twitter
>dont have anything to say
>dont want to post all the time about my game since I dont have new, tangible and nice looking feature to show all the damn time

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>>181597945
Start making posts about politics. No way can that backfire.

>>181597945
redesign your game to have more memetic potential

or become more interesting as a person

>>181597430
>>181597471
Mm sounds good. Thanks.
I'll try adding the effect as well as keep the bar and I'll see how that goes and I'll remove it if it's fine without.

>>181598105
>or become more interesting as a person
Anon I mean, I dont want to use the twitter to talk about me, just the game or games/indie related things I guess.

>>181578581
it's a mystery

>Can't post on twitter about political stuff
>Can't post on fb because its mostly family/coworkers-tier social network
thank god for 4chan desu

>>181598293
>posting on 4chan about political stuff

On /pol/ I sincerely hope.

I'm honestly getting tired of you americans and your charades. I got enough shitty politicians in my country, I don't need to know all about yours on the VIDEO GAMES board.

>>181598195
Don't post about personal shit but about things that are tangentially related to your game and still *~indie~*

Anyone wanna team up together to host dota2 tournament? valve is throwing money left and right.
tfw too late to make meme e-sport game to milk them for money

>>181598469
Sure but where's your game?

>>181598431
not him but I post progress and shitpost with skeletons a lot. It's very effective

>>181598425
I never go to /pol/, but I'm also not American...

>>181598195
Oh also dip into either 2d art or like irl 3d bullshit. Be "creative" with other media.

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>>181598425
Curse you Americans and your charades!

>>181598625
Good idea, thanks!

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Just a friendly reminder that there are Roblox maps that are more fun and have more concurrent players than your game will ever have.

>>181599330
free voxel games is a cheat way to gain audiences.

>>181597050
>too controversial for Newgrounds
you realize that's basically the same as saying
>the winner of Newgrounds

>>181596261
https://twitter.com/googumproduce/with_replies

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Redoing the beach area. I don't like how the walls of this are all grass, it looked better in my head. Going to just make the top part grassy then have the rest that sandy rock texture. At the very least I feel like my texturing abilities are improving

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>>181599841
>>181600146

Gogum I think you have reach the point of no return. I was interested in yesdev and your games, but now there's no more to you as a whole than the local town idiot from aggy.
What happend to you?

>>181600593
this is so cute how far are u into development?

>>181600593
Parallax sea looks tsunami-sh when pepe is high up.

>>181592224
Id say 3-5 per 3-5min. If im staring at a black screen, I'm gonna get pretty pissed off to see load screens all the time.

If you want me to wait longer, the load screen better have hints, an interactive mini game/cutscene, or interesting and unrepetitive music.

Sure this may not be too realistic all the time, but that's what affects my level of patience.

>2 minutes for 10 minutes of gameplay
What the fuck

T minus 15 mins

>>181600702
sounds like you're mad at me because i wont let you watch yesdev[1]

>>181601080
>wont let you watch yesdev[1]
wat

>>181600757
thanks! Not far at all. I restarted a couple times and a few months ago my artist left so now I'm 1MA.

>>181600803
bg is place holder atm.

>>181600803
it's because of the shading
it needs light to be spread wider.

>>181600702
Honestly I was just joking about the newgrounds thing. wasn't really a dig, I really think he #didnothingwrong
He's is a namefag though there's no forgiving that.

>>181601252
>my artist left
So is that your drawing of the frog or

>>181600593
Is there going to be a demo?

T minus 5 mins

alright, nodev here. i'm going to start work on a tactical rpg that will be based off massive chalice. am i doomed to failure? should i be a tripfag so i can be kept accountable? anyone would like to be my game mechanics designer. i will be the one doing all the coing work of course.

>>181601579
end of agdg?

>>181601419
yea I designed/drew the frog

>>181601438
I have a super old prototype available but its radically different from this. I want to release a demo with the eventual kickstarter.

>>181601586
> failure
is up to you

> tripfag
just don't be nodev and post progress

> mechanics
yep, you doomed

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DD16 starts now!

i guess theres always DD17

>>181601936
but i have no game.

game developer roadmap

https://github.com/utilForever/game-developer-roadmap

>>181602372
wtf is this SHEIbe? You literally need above 3 digit iq in order to make a game. Just look at this thread.

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Re-added most of the lightning attack moveset. Now you can shoot a bit faster than before. Almost done with the player state refactoring.

Also I made a lightning hit effect but I can't seem to get it looking right. Going to have to completely scrap those effects and try again with a different method at some point.

Why didn't you have a demo?

>>181603075
God damn everything is starting so clean now. I'm proud to have watched your game grow and evolve over your time with developing this.

>>181600593
I think the grass texture looks hella good. It really balances out the color palette. If you were to replace that green with more yellow, I personally think it'd look ugly but you seem pretty good at this art shit so do what ever I guess. Good luck

I cant do bones for shit, it fuckup my mesh so bad and I find mini-meshes in there, what the hell. Fucking hell I should have started with pixelart. All those fucking modeling software with 10000 shortcuts are annoying as fuck.

>>181601936
>there are only 2 games i've downloaded
>not interested in the others

>>181592506
Sometimes the learning experience of failure and what you can do to improve is enough.

>>181603660
palatable pixel art is so much fucking harder

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>>181603160
Thanks anon. I hope to have fun things for next demo day, and at least one sound effect.

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Why is that game being reposted in all DD?
Why is everyone letting it go unpunished?

>patreon, website, twitter, not even posted in agdg anymore

after a hard days no dev its time to dip to Jacuzzi baby.

>>181596732
Or you could fucking learn how to read properly

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>>181603660
>Move whole character back
>theres another me inside me
WEW

>>181603909
discord

>>181603909
>only interest he's ever gotten is from Jupiter "Plays Every Free Indie Game to Shill" Hadley
cosmic punishment

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>>181604048
I'm dying

>>181603075
Anon this looks great, just keep going at it.

>>181604086
the discord is not /agdg/. if you don't post in /agdg/, you don't post in /agdg/

>>181604171
poor homeless skelly

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>>181604086
>discord

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>>181604202
but what if you post in every DEFINITELY AGDG NOT DISCORD demo day?

>>181604086
What about it

>>181604140
It may be a gimmick, but she puts in the hours
but she needs to practice smiling in a mirror like the sims, damn

Googs start posting detective dev progress in the threads anymore, please

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>>181604086
>try the discord meme
>accidentally reply to a topic from 10 mins earlier
>someone talks to me
>dont notice for 7 minutes
is it me or does discord have shit usability

>>181604316
if they weren't posting their progress in /agdg/ prior to every single one of those demo days they can kindly go fuck themselves or eat the greedy indie dev karma or rake in the patreonbucks like usual, whatever suits your fancy

>>181604540
it's a chatroom, not a forum.

these have been two distinct forms of internet communication since forever

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Can't sleep but too tired to add any gameplay additions. Adding some detail instead.

Double jump jump ring (similar to Smash Bros.)

>>181604812
the falling frame looks like she has one leg. if you're going for crossed legs try to emphasize that more

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>>181604612
They did post progress in the the threads, but feels like its been at least two or three years

where does the time go

>>181604540
it's a meme version of irc, what did you expect?

>>181604540
discord is pretty shit, its only used because it basically replaces traditional IRC and voice chat clients and has two syllables in the name like all other services that became "the thing"

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>>181604862
Here's the jump animation up close.
I'll look into it.

>>181604673
>don't notice for 7 minutes
Great chatroom.

>>181604883
>>181604941
It is pretty cool that games/devs/ecelebs can have their own little fief though, REM project has a discord, thinking of starting one for my game

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>>181604915
I posted an outdated gif, my bad. This is from the sprite sheet.
Should it be two pixels away for exaggeration or is this enough?

>>181604915
>middle of the skirt floats when going up
>middle of the skirt doesn't move when going down
magical anime skirt that conveniently never shows panties/10

>>181605091
>so thirsty you want to see the panties of a 16x16 sprite

>>181605047
>implying you cant create your own irc rooms
hownew.ru

>>181600593
what engine are you using? great work btw, looks cute

>>181605080
Pretty classy figure, nice to play as an adult rather than a typical pixel girl

>>181605160
projecting much?

>your physics are incomplete m8
>no u just thirsty loool

>>181605160
I think they were mocking the animation via comparison, not asking for 1x1 lewds.

how can you even be this thirsty

>>181604540
the issue there is that discord's notifications are shit. What I miss about mirc is that it flashed on the taskbar when someone wrote something and you could also configure a set of words that would play a a sound and shit like that.

>>181605257
Not even offended. Magical anime skirts are just a thing.

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>>181605181
going into IRC always terrified my because of the unmasked IPs flying around

>>181605368
Another thing is its easy to get sucked into giving it all your attention, reading what people say, checking other discords, it feels like an obligation to click around and see what has been said, when 99% of the time it doesn't relate to you

/agdg/ is slow enough that there are natural breaks to go back to working on your game, and its content is 99% shitposting anyway so you don't feel guilted into reading what anon wrote since its almost guaranteed to be low effort trash anyway