/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

>>187816219
Still doing the chicken thing. Alright. Beats shitter OPs.

fucking chicken

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It's a minor thing but I'm always pleased when I manage to figure out something by myself, this powerup gives you more ammo on restock, if the webm isn't obvious enough.

>>187816369
I don't know what it is so it must be shit.

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>>187816330

>>187816369
object pooling saves you garbage collection time.
It's basically reusing things instead of destroying them and re instantiating them.
Say you have bullets on a shmup, instead of destroying the bullets that go outside of the screen or collide with something, you can just mark them as reusable and keep references to them in a list or array so you can just reset their position and properties instead of creating new ones.

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Here's a list of must-experience scifi influences. One thing might stand out here.

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reminder to arm your mecha adequately

>>187816601
>comics
>no valerian & laureline
into the trash

>>187816601
That list is garbage. Just watch 80s sci-fi anime. that should be enough.

>>187816601
>read only memories

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>my face when making an open world indie survival game
>mfw the time it's finished the hatred towards the flavor of the month will be over and it will be a novel concept again

>>187816601
cool that VA-11 Hall-A made it to list though

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>Oh hey I should get around doing IKs, I already did it in Blender so it should be simple
And they're nazis now

Fucking hell I thought I could just recycle what I did in Blender.

>>187816901
is that your game in the picture? it's kinda ugly

>>187816908>>187816601
and aerannis

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>>187816627
Reminder that cute girls are built for piloting mecha

>>187816601
Christ that's long.

>Borderlands
>Destiny
>Halo
>Mass Effect
>SWTOR
>Fucking ROM. Fucking ROM.

Yeah no I'm not checking out shit from this list if that's their idea of quality.

Eyyy the Aerannis guy is making a new game, though, he was posting it here just a few days ago. Submarines.

>>187816926
Make it a game about the rise of mecha nazis and mecha Americans have to stomp out the mecha nazi scourge

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>>187817053

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anyone looking for an artist hmu

Remined that if there's no cute girl inside your mecha, you're doing something wrong.

>>187816627
>>187817053
>>187817195
where're are you are jam games

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>>187817235
I agree.

>>187817195
disgusting weeb

>>187816568
But is this really neccessary? It sounds quite complicated to code, in contrary to just spawn and destroying everything.

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WARNING: You can play this game with a controller, but it will make the game far easier and also you should kill yourself if you prefer controllers.

>>187817432
it is

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>>187817386
Triggered much?

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>>187817280
I'm still trying to figure out how to make fun racing mechanics. My first attempt was basically tank controls except moving very fast, that didn't work too well.

>>187817280
I still can't decide what to make, there are many genres I want to try tackling and I don't know which one to choose for this jam.

I'm not ready yet. See you in Mecha Jam 2.

>>187817432
Super simple to implement, just have a list of ullets ready for reuse for example, and remove the first element from it each time you reuse one.
In terms of performance it's a lot better in cases where you have to spawn/destroy a lot of objects all the time

>>187817195
that seatcock though

>>187817641
You've got three fucking months, man.

Ideaguy: HITMAN, but you must protect the clients from assassins instead of killing them.

>>187817638
Considering the jam is 3 months long you could probably make a few games. I don't know if you can submit multiple games to a jam though.
Or at least you could make several prototypes and then pick your favorite and polish it up.

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>>187817674
It's not enough. I mean, its enough to make a game if I were ready, but I won't be ready by then.

>>187816901
Open world... you mean sandbox?

>>187817489
good reply
>>187817638
"i just wanted to post anime" reply

>>187817756
That's not even a mecha its a girl with guns and flippers and no bra

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>>187816926
>>187817181
Too late, they've learned to "aim". Thank god there's an IK setting for bone chains of various lengths.
Besides I'm not Hugo Boss, I can't replicate accurately Nazi aesthetics.

>>187817432
I've managed to put I think two hundred moving bullets (pulled out of the pool, moving and colliding before being put back in the pool) at the same time on the screen, while retaining 60fps.
Without object pooling, it goes down to 20fps, which is simply not acceptable.
As >>187817646 says, it's not hard to implement, I did it in blueprints.

>>187817976
lol

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>>187817053
>>187817195
I prefer cute anthros.

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>>187817753
True but it's still a jam, I don't feel like spending 3 full months making prototypes, I'll probably spend 2-3 weeks at most on it.
I also have a main game I need to be working on.

>>187817936
typical "I don't have a game" reply

Reminder to not make money with mech games or Harmony Gold is gonna copyright troll your ass.

>>187818034
>typical "I don't have a game" reply
Where's the harm in that?

>>187818034
Is that actual LEGO or some off-brand shit? I can't tell anymore with all the fucking useless specialized blocks.

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>>187818179
I think I can see 'lego' written on one of the pieces so I guess they're original.

>All my Godot code is on my laptop
>Left it at work

Guess I just won't dev today.

>>187819020
epic

>>187819020
git git

>>187819020
Make some assets. Write down some psuedocode for implementable ideas. Get your latest backup from the online backup you should be backing up at least once a day you giant vagina.

>>187819020

Nice excuses.

A truedev would be writing up their remaining code on a piece of paper right now. Then, using paperclips in the microwave to run a non-graphical version of the code to see if it functions before getting the laptop back.

You're a casual.

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I am such an amazing writer, I just know how those cool cats talk

>feel like all I'm doing is looking up tutorials and altering bits and pieces
>don't feel like I actually understand code
What can I do to fix this?

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>I told Miyazaki I love the "gratuitous motion" in his films; instead of every movement being dictated by the story, sometimes people will just sit for a moment, or they will sigh, or look in a running stream, or do something extra, not to advance the story but only to give the sense of time and place and who they are.

>"We have a word for that in Japanese," he said. "It's called ma. Emptiness. It's there intentionally."

Pic very related but it only particularly makes sense if you've played OFF.

>Is that like the "pillow words" that separate phrases in Japanese poetry?

>"I don't think it's like the pillow word." He clapped his hands three or four times. "The time in between my clapping is ma. If you just have non-stop action with no breathing space at all, it's just busyness, But if you take a moment, then the tension building in the film can grow into a wider dimension. If you just have constant tension at 80 degrees all the time you just get numb."

>>187819843
Keep coding for a few hundred hours.

>>187819848
Nice desu

>>187819848
I actually want to do something like this for my game, in every area you visit there's somewhere quiet you can sit down and I'd have the music fade out while the character just sits.
Sometimes just doing stuff like this is nice

>>187819843
start with pong

>start with pong
Took me 5 minutes
>do a platformer tut
Took me 2 hours.

Game dev is boring.

>>187820406
wow, your mum is sure right when she calls you a genius

>>187817650
>seatcock
It's a vagina interface scrub

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rate

>>187820072
No clue how much is too much, but even something like the loading rooms (which many people probably just assumed were transition rooms) in Symphony of the Night were pretty neat.

>>187820807
I always enjoyed those too, they were brief pauses in the action, just long enough for the player to get ready for the next area.
I also really like how there's a few areas where Alucard can sit and relax.

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>>187820072
ye

How to decide on an artstyle or color palette?

>>187821005
Dats it mane.
I got it planned to have a few of those areas to have a moment for the main character to just talk with his companion too, because I'm also a sucker for two characters learning about eachother just from talking like that.

>>187820790
>highly pixlated walls
>with fine grain lighting
Woah what.

Anyhow it (the walls/floor) looks pleasant, though bare.

>>187821068
Go for it. Those were the only redeeming parts of ObsCure 2.

I don't think anyone else gives a damn about ObsCure 2 don't ask me why it was the first game to come to mind.

>>187821109
>Anyhow it (the walls/floor) looks pleasant, though bare.
I'm just starting tothrow some textures in, still not sure why everything is so damn shiny no matter what.

I just want to sprinkle some assets for the demo day.

>>187821118
Shit man you mean Obscure 2: the aftermath? That IS a weird game to just have pop into your head for this, but it's a good example.
Deadly premonition also comes to mind, holy shit that game had such good character interaction

>tfw always overengineering shit and making it as generic and expandable as possible even if I'm only planning on using it twice or so

>>187821052
Just go with the style and colors you like the most

>>187821052
Steal whatever you like most.
Don't know about artstyle, but never, NEVER try to come up with color palette yourself. Always steal it from the best.

>>187821524
You will never learn to do it if you don't do it yourself

>>187821052
>artstyle
Use what you like.

>colour pallete
As long as the art direction is kept to, and general brightness in any one given area is cohesive without getting muddy, it'll look good.

Black shaders are a sin and must be punished.

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Any of you bothered to trademark your game name? Don't really care about people stealing it, more worried about somebody trademarking it themselves to assrape me

>>187821636
>Black shaders are a sin and must be punished.
Agreed. The black shading in Redline is absolutely atrocious.

>>187821860
Don't even start, nigga, your game ain't Redline.

>>187821860
>>187821636
BAD taste

>>187821910
Yet Redline is a sin apparently

>>187821984
We're going to be here all day if I have to bust out the sock puppets to explain how Redline (and No More Heroes, on the same topic) does not touch on muddied colours whatsoever since the harsh value shifts straight to black mean that a colour's lower value not being a simply valued-tilted version of its own hue isn't a factor.

You ain't Redline.

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+proper unit movements
+optimization
what should i do next?

>>187822220
>what should i do next?
You should be able to answer that better than any of us, anon.

>>187822114
I understand you are taking back your words on the
>Black shaders are a sin and must be punished
statement. Good.

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>his game doesn't have true black
I feel like I'm looking through muddy water

>>187822351
Take my cum back down the back of your throat while you're at it, you worthless pedant.

>>187822487
You must really hate the PS1

>>187822460
nice undervania

>>187822530
>what is TV levels
it'll look black on the screen

>>187822487
M8 my monitor can't even display TRUE black

>>187822594
that's not true black
can't walk into the hood with your tv

Behead those who use pure black/white.

>his game has wh*tes

>>187822293
i already have a list, just looking for feedback to check if i missed something, if everything is okay i'll do systems or menus

>>187822772
behead those who squander the dynamic range of their display

>>187822487
I assume you mean #000000 ?
Why would I use absolute black instead of a very dark purple-blue?

>>187822878
Why would I use very dark purple-blue instead of an absolute black?

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Implemented SmoothDamp onto my camera like an Anon suggested, and added a new enemy type.

>>187822878
>le epic purple yellow shading of true indie developer
dude jiggly pixelart lmao! retweet! reblog!

>>187822878
because it would look like your screen is smeared in very dark purple-blue jam

tfw can't decide between calling onto artfags and powering through the game development as 1MA

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>>187822487
>his game uses colors that can only be graded in one direction

>>187822220
>Witness the true power of Godot

Can we just stop already.

>>187823287
Unless you can pay for services, save yourself the tears and 1MA it.

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>>187823312
>he rapes his colours

>>187823287
Wait until your game is mostly done and then attract a few artists to finish it off.

Offer 5-10% of your revenue.

>>187823423
No, just dynamic lighting.

>>187821718
Aren't names automatically trademarked when you start using them?

>>187823471
I won't be selling though

>>187823373
What did he meme by this?
Are enginewar faggots really reaching the point of faggotry where even a typical progress post with no mention of the engine gets them triggered?

>>187823373
>being jealous that a dev is actually making a game
Where is your game though?

>>187823373
what do you mean?

>>187823624
>BAHHHH WAHHHH I NEED ART
>BAHHHH WAHHHH I NEED MUSIC
>btw no musician deserves to get paid profits of a game same for artist I'll just do it all myself no one gets my 2 dollar profit.

Are all gamedevs really this stupid?

>>187823742
>>187823726
>>187823697
Just leave him alone. Feeding him attention will just encourage him.

>>187824153
what?

>>187824153
butthurt composer detected ;^)

>>187824153
What are you talking about? Is this a shitpost?

huh?

Here we go again.

>>187824153
While I do agree with your sentiment the post you replied to has nothing to do with that.

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Move along Shakespeare

>>187824594
What's the game about?

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>>187824786
A 2D fighter. The Dreamcast's most prolific fighters, Beat from JSR, Sonic, Kung Fu Man from MUGEN and Kung Fu Man from MUGEN again, have gathered to duke it out

It's mostly just a shitty MUGEN port so it won't appear in Demo Day though

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>>187823373
So why is Godot being so popular a thing?

We arn't going to see anything solid for 3.0 until 2018 probably.

>>187825720
Wasn't the 3.0 a meme anyway.

Does it still not have C# support?

>>187825720
>We aren't going to see anything 3D for 3.0 until 2018 probably.
ftfy, games are already being made and published on steam, even 3d ones

>>187825789
It's still in alpha1, they said C# will come in alpha2.

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>>187821118
>name a game Obscure
>nobody's heard of it

>GMS 1.4 allows the import of SWF files for sprites by default
>GMS 2 makes you purchase a license to do it
Why? I just want to use my shitty vector sprites

>>187825720
>calling the engine godot was the biggest mistake they could've made

fucking samuel beckett

>>187826003
>name a game remember me
>nobody remembers

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>>187824153

>>187826128
anybody can fork it and rename it however they want, why the fuck people are being this butthurt about a name

>>187826262
It's named after a play about waiting for a guy named Godot, who never shows up, which is fitting for a game engine.

That said, the two bums who are waiting are bored, and keep suggesting the other kill themselves using the tall tree nearby.

Actually wait, that's a perfect name for anything on the internet. We're all a bunch of bums waiting around, telling the others that it will never come.

Eventually it does, but later than expected.

>>187826126
how do you even import swf sprites into gm:s1 without them immediately going to shit every time

>>187825720
>tfw can't take a piss

How do you make "solid" projectile trails that taper off?

>>187827901
Just like particle effects my dude.

>>187827901
opacity = 1

>>187827901
buy an asset for it

>>187827901
you make a polygon that will extrude it's vertex to follow the player while fading the colors/shrinking the oldest one then remove them after a certain time.

>>187827959
Yeah but
how

Lots of particles?

>>187826262
Because the name will be forever in your license file

>>187828018
Not everyone here is using unity (thank god).

>>187828147
Yeah

>>187828193
what do you mean? you can buy assets for every big engine

>>187828358
4u

>>187828147
>Lots of particles?
GPU particles.
Unless you mean SHITLOADS of particles.

>>187828296
Okay, that was simple. Time to put this into my enginedev

>>187828168
>Copyright (c) 2014-2017 Godot Engine contributors (cf. AUTHORS.md)
>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

>>187828696
I wonder how many indies are sitting on the landmine of forgetting their licenses in general.

>>187828696
that concerns the source code of the engine not the game, nobody tells you to opensource the fork, nobody will see this shit nor care, normies don't even know engines beyond unity (unreal and gms for some cases), and i'm not seeing people filtering games by engines except for unity (unity feels)

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>>187826126
Yoyo are jews, that's why. I'm surprised how many people actually defend them and their greedy business practices.

>>187828358
It's obvious he's never even attempted gamedev, otherwise he would know. Why do you bother replying to him?

>>187827901
Unity and Unreal both have a component called ribbon trails used exactly for this purpose.

https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/class-TrailRenderer.html

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Resources/ContentExamples/EffectsGallery/2_E/

>>187829808
They ask that you put the copyright notice somewhere with the released game but you own the game itself and can put whatever license you want on it.

>>187829808
You still have to include the license and therefore the godot name and send it along with your game to all your users, forever. It's disgusting.

>>187830169
Things were far simpler back in the days when it was just Mark Overmars.

>>187828696
This is only for the source code. It just means you aren't allowed to make a copy of the Godot source and remove all the copyright from it and claim you made the entire engine.

You are allowed to release a game with no mention of it being made with Godot.

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Making progress.

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First Shakespeare gets his thunder stolen, now ZUN. Feel lucky that this game has no music, Beethoven, I'm coming for you next

>>187830454
still better than "made with unity personal edition", who reads readme files? nobody will know, while you can know instantly that a game is made by unity from the get go,

>>187830817
>You are allowed to release a game with no mention of it being made with Godot.
nope
http://steamcommunity.com/app/404790/discussions/0/135514507323241798/
You can just put it in a .txt though if you really are so worried about keeping your game "clean", it's a cool name anyway so it's a complete nonissue.

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>>187830473
>tfw thinking back to making shitty platformers on GM5 after school
>playing all the other neat games on the yoyo sandbox for inspiration

Got hit with the nostalgia real hard there for some reason. Just makes me even more angry about GMS2 and nu-yoyo in general. I've been putting up with the dogshit room editor for over 10 fucking years, they finally fix it, but it's locked behind yet another paywall. I swear they promised it would be fixed in GMS1.

>>187830921
is that 2d or 3d? how did you make layers?

>>187831195
>run away sexily
hee hee

>>187818015
I love Solatorobo.

>>187830339
I'm enginedevving but thank you for trying to help

>>187831353
It's 2D isometric. I'm not sure what you mean by how I made layers. You just render what you want on top after you render what you want on the bottom.

>>187831195
kek

>>187831195
Best game.

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>>187831083
Man, I loved the community that used to exist, where you had a bunch of teenages making really shitty games and sharing them - and people actually played each others' shit games and rated them - and occasically you'd have a few guys who kinda knew what they were doing create a non-shit game and everyone would hail them as geniuses.
Those were innocent times. The title of "indie dev" didn't exist yet.

>>187831058
Ah I see, I thought it was only for the source code. I'll be including the Godot name and logo in my opening splash screen anyways. Everyone will know the power of Godot when I sell a million copies.

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Damn, how ever the fuck am I gonna do an animation system without another spaghettification...

>>187831483
nice, i meant are you using a 3d array or just stacking few separate layers

>>187831751
Ah, I just have width and height variable which generates the grid on the bottom. Then, I have a simple array of objects with x and y positions and I depth sort them before rendering.

>>187822220
I saw your post on Godot's facebook, Mr.squiggly lines

>>187831083
i don't like gms but i think people are overreacting about the room editor, you can literally make your own room editor and never touch it again, if people can't make a simple level editor for their existing objects they're not allowed to release anything

>>187831703
update(delta):
#animation.update(delta)
draw():
#draw_sprite(animation.get_sprite(), pos)

animation manager is quite simple actually, and i've found many already available for pygame

>>187817235
but my game will have miniature mechas piloting bigger mechas :(

>>187831703
I just use
animationplayer.play("animation_name")
in Godot.
I'm sure the engine you use has some built in animation playing, right?

>>187831874
Should i be afraid?

>>187832302
Thanks, anon. I found pyganim with a bit of googling. I'll see how much of it I can steal.

>>187832470
It's my engine, so no.

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How can I get my balls this smooth?

I'm using blender

>>187832690
Shaders

>>187832690
Smoothing

>>187832690
I mean, to get the left ball to look like the right one

>>187827247
I dunno. They look like shit in the preview, especially if you're using any kind of varying opacity, but once you actually load everything up to test it, it looks fine. Why, are you having some kind of problem?

>>187832532
Nah you're fine, your facebook is private. I don't even know how to say your name, but when I google it a cute girl shows up. Are you a cute girl?

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>have to wait for someone more competent to deal with an Issue in my chosen graphics API before I can start programming
>I can't bear this helplessness

>>187832690
Use subdivide smooth 3-5 times on it

>>187832690
Have you tried Nair?

>>187832995
I'm pretty sure the two balls are the same number of polys, but the 2nd one is using some fancy shit to look smoother

>>187832690
you just have to learn ;)

>>187832690
>>187832823
Select ball
Click "smooth shading"

>>187833143
Its called smoothed normals...

>>187833143
You could bake a normal map from the subdivided sphere into the lo-res sphere

>>187832690
smoothing groups

https://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1185

>>187832904
N-no

>>187832036
That's very time consuming and difficult, especially if you're making a large or complicated game. It's a valid workaround for sure, but it's a stupid arduous process that you shouldn't have to go through while using such an expensive piece of software. Also, unless you're willing to put a lot of time into developing the room editor alone, it's probably gonna be worse than GMs anyway.

They had fucking years to fix it, but every single update they hardly changed a thing. Now, they've given it a massive overhaul after promising it since the beginning, and you've got to buy yet another upgrade for it.

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>>187832690
Is it flat shaded in Blender? If it is then in Object Mode, select your sphere, go to the Transform Menu and click the Smooth button under Shading.
If the Transform Menu is not there, hover over the 3D Viewport and press T.

If you've already done this, then it's an import problem and unless you're using ue4, I can't help there.

Memepoly only exists because most indies don't know what a smoothing group is.

>>187833663
>Memepoly only exists because most indies don't want to bother learning how to model
fixed that for you

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>>187833663
I laughed. Meme poly is a bigger joke than I thought.

>>187834270
>Memepoly only exists because most indies don't want to bother learning how to texture
fixed that for you

2D indie games only exists because most indies don't want to bother learning how to model and texture

>>187833663
I can understand not using smoothing on extremely low poly models because there's so few polys they don't usually smooth well. But in that case it's usually better to just go shadeless anyways.
And honestly most lowpoly models now are high enough poly to use smoothing, so I don't fully understand the appeal of completely flat shaded models.

Your games don't exist because ___

Video games only exist because most indies don't want to bother learning how to design board games.

>>187834343
>Memepoly only exists because most indies don't want to bother learning
There, I think we've reached a definitive version.

>>187833663

>Memepoly only exists because it looks good

The correct response.

>>187834545
I think flat shading helps provide the detail which is lacking because of the no textures.

Does VN devving belong here?

>>187834785
There have been some, ya. Unless it's lewd, since this is a blue board.

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>>187834647
You'd think you would see a lot of memepoly 5th gen games then.

>>187834785
sure, but it's tricky since writing and art will belong to their boards, we had a furry VN, but i didn't see it for a while now

>>187834785
absolutely

>>187834904
5th gen was an era where developers had a lot more competition because there werent so many established giants, and developers wanted to make the most out of their new hardware. thats why memepoly games on that hardware are few and far between

>>187816219
> Two/Three threads ago there were people arguing that college course-taught was better than self-taught
> neither of those people arguing showed their project

What are you two faggots waiting for

>>187834582
>Memepoly only exists because most indies don't bother
fixed

>>187834967
gamedev is 80% art and writing.

>>187834481
fuck off bokudev

>>187835062
Only if you want it to be

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Progress after a long time.
I'm finishing up the result screen. Now all that's left is making some calculations to decide the final grade.

>>187835342
>can't see what's going on inside the hollow tree

>>187834546
I don't have the means to create them yet

The fuck's autodesk stingray?

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Tried playing the old ass demo level from November 2016 on the current iteration of the game. I'm happy that most of the graphical and AI changes carry over so well with minimal setup.

>>187835342
>you run faster than the wolf
>wolf easily trips like a retard instead of catching you
where exactly is the challenge here

>>187836005
They bought Bitsquid and rebranded it

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My Steam page is up now (When It Hits the Fan). Any feedback on that?

>>187836457
it happened, you actually posted in the thread

What do you guys think about Identity?

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

I like the comments. It seems "pulling a no mans sky" is common terminology now.

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>>187834785
Didn't Va11 Hall-A come from here? They have a bunch of AGDG references in their game.

>>187836554
It's been a while, huh?

>know how to code thing
>don't know how to code it well

>>187837046
The answer to that is always code more.

Coding well is really just a matter of fucking up, and coding more.

As long as your game works, and works well, you're fine.

Coding is really all just mathematics, so if you're having trouble with it, look at the math behind it and practice that.

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>>187816219
I'm trying to rush out a crummy level for demo day. I'm hoping to get it done today so that I can focus on making the boss as well as some visuals, otherwise, it's going to be a shit ton of incomplete assets.

>>187837386
Just coding is all mathematics, coding well is more.
I don't know how to structure and keep readability for shitty little snippets of code that are easy to solve "mathematically".

>>187836806
I'm still waiting for that key

>>187837716
>I don't know how to structure
In short, you need to start studying design patterns and how to successfully use them for your structuring problems.

The ye ol' "Gang of Four":
>Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software

And more specifically for game design:
>http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/contents.html

Once you learn to apply design patterns to your problems, you will never have issues with code spaghetti ever again.

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so this is the power of reducing ifs

>>187838359
define "correct"

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>doesn't know the difference between sprite animation rate and screen render rate
>made millions on one game

>>187838547
>gamemaker "devs"

>>187838547
I'd expect nothing else from gamemaker babbies.

>>187838186
Macrostructuring is going ok, but I get stuck on single functions that read like shit and that end up handling a lot more variables than intended.
I also have a bit of a hard time making functions preoperly reusable and end up just copy pasting the code with a few choice edits.

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>>187838547

>>187837648
>tfw unironically want to have AGDG splash screen in-game

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>>187816219

FUCKING STAIRS

>>187839161
Anything wrong about that?
I'll remove it if nobody wants to see it.

>>187839353
Quite the opposite my dude.

Who even holds the copyright for AGDG?

>>187816601
>no Iain M Banks

2/10 shit list. At least they didn't completely fuck up and put Known space in there.

>>187839161
>tfw making jsrf successor
>I could make one of the possible billboard patterns the AGDG logo

so few people would notice or care so I could get away with it

>>187838895
>I also have a bit of a hard time making functions preoperly reusable
Sorry, I don't know what's the current scope of your knowledge, but are you utilizing polymorphism and good hierarchy of classes to your advantage? I was struggling with duplicate functions, needless buffer variables and whatnot, but when I started to organize and bundle functionality, life became much much easier.

>end up handling a lot more variables than intended
Consider singletons and static variables. Contrary to popular belief, there is nothing wrong with using them when they are needed, and will make you job a lot easier than implementing something more complex to handle the same problem.

Also don't worry, but sometimes you just need to do it the "dirty way". Programming is an art in a way, because you need to be a bit creative to find the best solution for a specific problem. Sometimes it's good to break the rules if it will lead to more readable code.

Sorry if I'm giving unsolicited advice

>>187839603
Yeah but if someone did find out, you'd be outed for posting on a "nazi forum".

But then again, any publicity is good...

>>187838547
>tfw there are people making money while I starve to death

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>>187839716
I'll do it, aesthetically the AGDG logo is fucking perfect

>>187839716
>i never post my game on 4chan because people will tear me apart for that just like they did with hopoo

>>187839441
AGDG logo is public domain.

>>187839716
Oh yeah, that's exactly what happened with RoR.

>Implying anyone cares

>>187839716
Neck yourself.

>>187839718

>Teenager posts click bait videos like "I slapped myself 2 million times"
>Idiots click it
>Ad revenue
>Said guy is now buying sports cars

The world is a magical place.

>>187839921
Not before you show me your game.

>>187839441
I do

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>>187839967

>>187839716
Even normies understand that 4chan isn't just full of /pol/fags. They understand that 4chan is a big and diverse place. No one is going to hate your game because you post on 4chan. Unless you actually post Nazi shit.

>>187838359
notice that 'pixels' in font are bigger than real pixel grid? if text wasn't rotated (and distorted because of it) it would be mixels

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>>187840143
>saying "normie"
>not a /pol/fag

>>187840143
Oy vey, shlomo, wehn is your new mobile game coming out? Already coded the microtransactions?

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>>187838547
>>187838613
>>187838659
>>187838927
This really is the definition of "just like make game" though. We live in a magically time where you don't even need to know what the fuck you're doing, if you just put your mind to you can still make a great game.

>>187838359
what about non aligned pixel movement or what ever it's called?
like if the sprite ends up not pixel aligned with the rest of the scene. is there a way to easily fix at if it's a problem.

>>187840354
saying "normie" is a domain of hip normalfags who shitpost on /r9k/ and exchange ironic suicidal memes on facebook, not /pol/cucks

>>187840451
can't disagree - but it is noteworthy that putting in a modicum of effort makes you stand out in this indie swampfest

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>>187835486
You can see, I just decided not to so I could keep an eye on the wolf chasing me.

>>187836097
If you have an advantage and know where to go, yeah they're pretty easy to avoid. But in most cases you'll be in cramped spaces with multiple wolves. That said, the detection system still needs some work, I'll admit.

So I'm trying to set up a system (in GM) where I can let the player switch out what weapon they're using and you can visually see it in the animation of attacks, movement, etc. As I understand it, I need to use the draw event to achieve this properly, but I can't seem to figure it out. Moreover, I need to layer things (So arm goes In front of sword, but sword goes in front of body). Do I have to manually go through and figure out the position values I need to make everything line up properly? If so, would it be beneficial to plant the origins of each weapon at the point in the handle where the player sprite holds it, to account for variances in size of the weapons?

>>187840143
>Even normies understand that 4chan isn't just full of /pol/fags
I always found that most normies think 4chan is nothing but porn, gore and nazis.

>>187840523
>saying "normie" is a domain of hip normalfag
shut the fuck up normie

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>>187839691
I'm referring to messes like this, nearly identical code, but the core of what they're supposed to is different and that difference means a bunch of lines here and there.
And now when I want to make a change to the pathfinding I need to edit both functions and anything complex is a big mess to shove in but might be a pain to make a separate function.

>Sorry if I'm giving unsolicited advice
Not at all, I'm happy whenever I get a chance to talk about my code or get some perspective.

Need some advice you ding dongs.

I'm using UE4 and blender, and up until this point all I've been doing is googling tutorials or instructions and following them for about 2 months, which will probably get me results at some point, but it's super tiring and I want to experiment more by myself, get into the logic more instead of copy pasting solutions.

I'm kind of intimidated by everything just because I don't know what UE4 does for me automatically, what functions there are, and if what I'm doing is stupid or not. Think I'm afraid to mess up.

>>187837648
>just make game
At least get it right my man.

>>187840719
That's kind of the thing about using someone else's engine, my man. You really have to read the documentation cover to cover if you don't want to do something stupid.

>>187840620
Is this a vore game?

>>187840862
I'll fix it. What's the phrase?

>>187840862
>>187840863
>two "my man"s
Don't know if this is advanced samefaggotry, or if /agdg/ is just way friendlier than most of this site.

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>>187840902
No

>>187841004
millennials all talk exactly the same

>>187841047
I wanna fuck that

>>187818179
>fucking useless specialized blocks
fite me

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>>187841171
Yeah just look at it, all open and ready for you.

>>187841047
Did you drop the wolf clothes variations?

>>187840863
Well fuck. That's what it felt like. I think ue4 nodes are sort of the same as scratch blocks, probably more detailed, but because I didn't make everything myself I don't know where everything is, and it gives me the feeling of working without context.

>>187841426
Not exactly but they won't be in this demo. The different outfits should reflect different types of wolf and right now I only have the one, so it would be pointless.

>>187841232
where's your lego

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>>187841280
Oh you...

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Is your game LGBTQWERTY++ friendly?

>>187841823
Sorry, I only do DVORAK

>>187841823
No, but I make an effort to be inclusive to the RGBA+ community at least.

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>>187838547
I refuse to believe this was anything but an excuse for the game being 30fps. He surely realised he wasn't during 30+ frames for everything fucking animation he made.

>>187840654
>Do I have to manually go through and figure out the position values I need to make everything line up properly?
There's probably software that allows you to draw things like location of hands on each frame (on separate layer) and then build a list of all locations for all frames. Basically just find a colored pixel on each frame and add to array.
One way to do this in gamemaker is setting each of these frames as precise collision mask and scanning it for collision, adding colliding points to arrays.

>>187841823
no, I dont care about mental illness

>>187840706
Ah I understand, I have a few functions that are split that way as well. I have a spell and item system, basically the item system behaves as a spell without the mana cost, however I chose to split the system because I'm not sure if will want to add some separate mechanics to the item system in the future.

As I've said in the previous post, you have to weight all the pros and cons of the implementation. If you have more split functionality, it will be a pain to edit the changes, but the pro is that you can easily and safely modify the isolated functionality without affecting the others.

So yeah, safe to say that these are common problems that programmers face daily.

By the way, out of curiosity, what type of game are you working on?

>>187841982
I identify as ionizing radiation. I deserve more recognition than just a "+" you shitlord bigot.

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>>187842385

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>>187841621
;)

>>187841823
Very. Right up until the ending sequence where all lgbtq characters are raped, slaughtered, tortured, and labelled as a blight upon society.

>>187842852
You're inspiring me to stop caring about my art, nigga.

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>>187841823
All of my characters are lesbians so yes.

Is there a tool that's like MakeHuman except it outputs anime characters?

If I want to use a mesh with an animation done in Blender for Unity, do I have to export it as .fbx or can I also export it as .obj from Blender?

>>187841823
Considering there is no main character in my game, you essentially play as yourself, I suppose it is. As for the characters that appear in the game, their sexuality doesn't matter.

>>187843425
you can directly load the .blend file and decide how to import everything it includes

>>187842365
>I'm not sure if will want to add some separate mechanics
I just made one skill class which is just a few function variables, how's that for design patterns? :^)

I'm working on a Final Fantasy Tactics clone.

>>187843307
Post game

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https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/6x7qss/close_to_release_found_a_game_just_like_mine_now/
>someone made a game just like my completely original light bike game!! please help!

>>187843556
;)

>>187843373
There's this but looks like it'd take some effort to get the anime ones looking good. http://www.manuelbastioni.com/manuellab.php

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>>187841823

Somewhat. There are varying degrees of bisexuality in the game a-la-Kinsey.

Or do I need to instead use a float? But even that is discrete in nature....

What do I dooooo?

>>187843556
Soon, anon.

>>187843669
Bullying /r/gamedev is too easy anon

>>187843669
>redditors are thieves
What else is new?

>>187843669
>Help someone stole my TRON game that I had stolen before!!

>>187843780
Add a single bit flag
1 means your sexuality
0 means not your sexuality

>>187843539
>I just made one skill class which is just a few function variables, how's that for design patterns?
Whatever works for you is the best choice. All I'm saying is that you have a toolbox of tools, and use the tools that you feel are right for the job. I'm not trying to say "design patterns will solve all your problems". Some veteran programmers will even argue that at times, established and well known design patterns will cause more harm than good in some cases.

I've learned my lesson on personal experience, if your custom approach works for your problem, then use it. That's it.

>I'm working on a Final Fantasy Tactics clone.
Neat. Any pics, twitter or something like that?

>>187843773
Is it just me, or do those look a lot better than make human models? Something in the faces look a bit more relaxed and natural

>>187843373
None that are any good.

But try Manuel bastioni lab

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>>187843669
never using his assets again

>quit gamedev yesterday
>next day want to gamedev
life is suffering

>>187841450
I know how to program and I still found it really tempting to just copy paste solutions on UE4. Blueprints sort of encourage a specific kind of laziness imo.

You actually might want to consider trying godot. Your tools there are a lot more basic/fundamental and it's easier to get a feeling for how everything interacts.

>>187844231
What a fucking retard.

>>187844231
post progress

>>187844231
You dont agree with him?

>>187844371
I've invested too much time into UE4 and it's workflow now. It's time for me to stick to one thing and just go for it. I'll get a hang of it eventually.

(you) is still a (you)

>>187843669
used to think /r/gamedev is only good for shilling, but everyone there is also only there to shill so its just shilling to shills so its even worthless for that

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>>187844095
I am in fact very happy with my skill class and consider it the only good looking code in the whole project.

Only visuals I've got is humanoids walking over Unity blocks and a merely working skill tree and I'm not a social media person.