/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

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1st for old progress

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BLOB v0.4.1 OUT!

https://youtu.be/pPQOLxWKzTA

https://bela.itch.io/blob

Added predators, gas lwosw upwards, color selector menu, actually made a video how to use it. Still a prototype. Still programmer graphics.

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>>187981853
>>187982583
I just bought Aseprite from Humble Bundle but I don't know where the download or key is?

Got a receipt email and receipt text on my phone and the receipt has a number on it (The key?) but don't know what to do next.

>>187984127
log into your humble bundle account and somewhere on the site you can grab your key

>>187984238
no, but that's not a reason to post a picture of a source game and start responding to it repeatedly while pretending to be a ton of other people

>>187984059
Video is kinda slow. If you just skip way into it its mutch better.

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>>187983823
I tried giving them the gameboy color scheme

>>187985209
Much better, thank you.

>>187985209
you used 4 out of 4 colours. do you not need a background color?

>>187985696

isn't that for the background though? those are all tools and blocks that would be in the foreground. with the player

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How would I calculate whether a vector passes near an object? like in the pic

>>187986184
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Circle-LineIntersection.html

>>187984357
I downloaded and installed but now I'm getting a rare bug where when I open it it just sits in backround processes for no reason.

Ebin.

Should I pirate Unity or use the free one instead?

>>187986873
>for no reason.

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Progress! Player now has proper damage triggers and animations. Planning to make enemies speed up when they notice you, maybe give them proper death animations.

>>187986918
There is no reason to pirate Unity. Use the free one.

I haven't visited /agdg/ in like 6 months. How has life been treating you guys?

>>187987431
I'm a billionaire game girl game dev now, where is your game?

Is Sega Genesis-style music the best game music?

>>187987431
I'm about to receive my first dollar from gamedeving

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Anybody here got a college or university degree? Programming and video game related?

Kinda curious what the fuck game development for college means, I mean there's comp sci and then there's that shit so does anyone know if it's worth people's time or is self-teaching yourself how to make games better? guess it kinda depends on people, but what're your thoughts?

Tuition for me wouldn't be a problem at all, so just want a straightforward opinion.

>>187986932
I can't find one.

>>187988417
I had classes where the class splits into teams to create one game together. Other classes in the major included some graphic design and programming shit. Nothing you can't teach yourself and no one I know got a vidya job yet after like 6 years. Least I made some friends tho

Any idea guys here?

I'm making a turn based grid RPG and I can't figure out what to do with the battle system.

Give me your most Molyneux ideas.

>>187988417
If tuition REALLY isn't an issue, I'd say go for it. The thing about school is, you're going to be doing most of your learning on your own time anyway, and this applies to ANY degree. Being around like-minded and similarly skilled people learning the same thing can't hurt, and will probably help you learn a little faster and make contacts for later.

The common complaint is that if you're going to school as an investment, a game school is objectively terrible. But if money isn't a factor, sure, do it.

>>187988878
you play as a slime girl rolling around and absorbing horny school boys

>>187988878

Use the ff6 blitz system for all characters like Samurai Showdown rpg did. Combos, combos, combos.

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>>187983826
Added a turning animation.

What about computer science? I've had a course in high school for comp sci and had some fun but it was java and the entire time we just copy pasted code. How does college handle that? anybody on here know? not entirely convinced about going to school for programming yet but if it's beginner friendly I'd like to try.

They're selling bootleg versions of the game I made in school illegally

This is just the weirdest shit

>>187988417

Look for community colleges that bridge to universities. My 2 year web dev diploma means I don't have to take the programming component of a few comp sci programs at actual accredited universities. Just a few math and humanities creds (the later which I already have)

search for bridge programs and university credit

It's a cheaper route that will get you into programming without the math to see if you actually like programming.


Not to mention that college programs are often easier, not for the rigour of the course necessarily, but because they tend to be more streamlined and student centered with rigid schedules, so you aren't wandering around a campus wondering where to go next.

>>187989406
I would take that as a compliment, desu.

>>187989381

I took Java swift and vb in my course, and it was hard and a steep learning curve (half of the class dropped out, actually)but I'm a nerd who actually likes computers so it was fine. There were also Linux and webserver components. I also learned a lot of practical shit I have no intention of ever applying myself.

>>187989287
You're game looks nice so far, man.
SotN is a great reference point for movement and I'm glad you agree (I assume).

>>187986945
Looks good, man. Keep at it.

>>187989750
It also looks like it's selling like shit
Guess I'll just pretend I didn't see it

>>187989828
>SotN is a great reference point for movement and I'm glad you agree (I assume).
Yep. Though, any of the igavanias really (except for a few of the GBA ones early on).

>>187988878
Make it that the units attack with chess moves, but no insta death

hey since I can't get an artist to stick around I'm looking for placeholder art for my game, mainly for my main character
I ran down everything in the first page of google results for "free game art" and nothing had what I'm looking for
do you guys know any sites that have a wide variety of character sprite sheets and animation, especially for niche things? it doesn't have to be free either, but it would have to be maybe $10 at most

>>187990552
Shit I don't think anyone would be willing to sell a fully animated spritesheet for $10, but your best bet would be on tumblr and commission them

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added more decorative tiles to my tileset

>>187991225
well I've seen plenty of sprite sheets for free at this point, they're just mostly shit and don't have what I'm looking for
even a static sprite might help

>>187991270
honest question: is your main character supposed to be incredibly disturbing?

>>187991270
Nice, your game is really nailing the game boy color aesthetic.

>tfw you reach the point where you've written so much and had to do other stuff for so long you end up researching your own code to figure out how you did stuff to make things work
I mean I would normally check things, but not skimming entire functions or even modules just to figure out things
I was able to find what I needed relatively quickly though

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Thoughts on my item system? I've been kinda delayed on coming up with it but I really need something to start with. tier 0 and tier 2 are especially due to get expanded once I figure out use cases more.

tier 0 (raw, present in every system): gas, ice, minerals
tier 1 (processed or in specific locations): chemical fuel, nuclear fuel, organics, antimatter, dark energy (exotic matter)
tier 2 (construction materials): electronics, semiconductors,
tier 3 (construction parts, variable size/type): ship hull (depends on optional bits like docking bay), chemical fuel tank, station module kit (construct in space), generators, engines/sails
tier 4 (complete reusable parts): batteries (electrochemical & hydrogen), shields, weapons, sensors
tier 5 (complete structures): ships, station modules, settlement structures

and no the tiers aren't that important but I wanted them sorted logically

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Any tips for achieving that low-poly ps1 look like pic related?

>>187991468
I find him to be very handsome

>>187991519
thank you!

>>187991809
Use fewer polys than a modern game

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two color schemes, one for background, one for foreground.

too much?

I don't know why I bother doing this since i'm never going to be able to make a game out of it.

>>187991809
your question is too vague so you will only get meme replies

observe, go and do it, then come back with results which you can get feedback on

>>187992976
the grid pattern is too apparent

>>187993273
no idea how to fix that without making the whole thing look funny due to the limited color scheme

>>187993485
get rid of the dark outlines

How would anyone ever make a turn-based RPG with fast-paced exploration? I keep thinking about it but for me it seems like you can do either one or the other, not both. A turn-based RPG requires the player to stop at one location in order to fight whatever he is supposed to be fighting at that moment, meanwhile in any game with fast-paced exploration the player is given the power to quickly run through vast levels with the objective to either reach the finishing line(s), collect something or do some kind of task in the most optimal way possible. There is no way to implement them together because the combat will disrupt the exploration, making it slower. Yes, there is no way unless you compromise and ignore the stationary feature of turn-based RPG, but that would be too big of a load on the player. It is impossible to conceive the average player could keep running through a stage while fighting an opponent in turns at the same time. I give up. Anyone here has a idea of how it could be done?

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>>187993570
?

>>187991610
Your functions should never be so long that skimming them makes you say "entire functions"

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>>187992976
are you doing fake gbjam too anon

>>187993691
better but you still have the single color lines running through the whole thing

if that's really the style you want, don't change it for us

but it looks shit for a reason

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>>187993691

forgot the background

>>187993789
I wish I could but I have no code or game. I'm just larping at this point honestly pls kill me

>>187993691
Make the guy inside the building more contrasting with the background, he's barely visible

>>187993885
it literally JUST started anon
get your shit together and make a game

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>>187993919
how will i put armor on him tho

Its super hard to make stuff contrast when you are using like 8 colors and are trying to make a mini terraria clone

>>187988417
Look through the coursework and make sure it's game development and not just game design. If you're looking to do coding or art, make sure the school has a reputation for being good at that field and that the course has a large number of classes from that department (may differ if they offer specializations like mine did). Ideally you'll get a minor in that field in addition to your major in game development, with the option to take a few more classes for dual major.

You won't learn anything you couldn't have self-taught yourself, but you might learn a lot that you *wouldn't* have self-taught yourself. Plus you'll have tutors, professors, and a large number of peers to help you and network with.

If anything, I'd say you should go because the college/uni experience is enjoyable. It was the most fun part of my life so far.

>>187988878
I can be your consultant if you want

>>187991809
Los poly, high textures, dont rely much on the shaders to do the well.. shading details, if you have to get a more natural look, do it on the map itself

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>>187994167
>tfw brainlet but went to IT anyway
>barely average 2.7 GPA
>on 5th semester already
Help

>>187993885
get game maker lets be nub buddies
;_;

>>187991809
use low polys and low res textures. Into pixel art. You have to bake in your details and shadows into your textures without making a high poly model

>>187994608
whats a nub buddy

>>187994518
At least it's CS-heavy, right anon? Right?

>>187993692
why? I separate every major thing into its own function, and I put most of the functions into similar groups in modules
also the main loop kind of has to be as long as it needs to be, if you see what I mean, and so does the draw loop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8rYZ6iGA1U
This game is about systematic oppression.
When should I create the patreon and let tumblr give me money?

>>187994167
>If anything, I'd say you should go because the college/uni experience is enjoyable. It was the most fun part of my life so far.

Nah, fuck that. Real talk: If anything, you should go because at least you will be able to say you tried if everything fails in your life. Many things will fail and that is if you are one of the lucky ones, the ones who will manage to grab some few accomplishments like being able to pay your rent.

>>187995208
also every semi-major thing inside a function, sometimes down to a handful lines, has its own space visually and at least one comment saying what it does

>>187994730
Well I'm taking a course on AI, data structures, and computer organization this semester, and I already got through 2 courses on algorithms(101 and advanced) which I repeated but since they're compulsory I had to take them.

>>187994679
nu b
newbie

>>187995418
Oh, that sounds like a tough workload. A lot of IT degrees are made for CS majors who couldn't finish the weed-out classes, but it sounds like yours is quite a bit harder.

I actually used to tutor Data Structures. We had something like an 80% drop rate because the teacher had no idea how to teach the class. Naturally, I had a lot of visitors during my hours.

ok give me ideas for mechajam i don't want to put too much effort in it.

>>187996259
you didn't even put much effort into that post

normally i reply to these baits with ideas

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FREE subsurface scattering

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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."

>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."

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

>>187996627
How about you OFF yourself

>>187996969
?

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>>187991809
For modeling itself, you'll just need to practice a lot. Use references. And remember that in low poly a lot of the detail will come from the texture, not the mesh.

>>187991809
this looks like low poly with hand drawn textures and even shading.

Just create a square and draw on top of it anime style lol. + compress your textures really hard to they look extra shitty ( crisp )

>>187996627
Yes, we also have a word for it. It's called comfy

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when you're dogfooding your texturing api and subconsciously almost make the agdg logo

>>187996627
as a representative of another time zone, I thank you

>>187997171
Calm too. Just a moment of calmness.

>>187996627
間
Is that the word he's talking about?

>>187997171
Not the same thing. Ma is the space between action. Comfy can exist in solitude without being between action.

Reminder to make a backup of your game dev shit.

My hard drives got wiped the other day and my Gamemaker project with it. Learn from my autism

weebos pls

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Just finished a basic inventory setup and made it so that the player can equip a hoe to till the ground. Next up will be a "hand" tool for putting seeds in the ground.
All the art is placeholder, just focusing on functioning mechanics first.

>>187998010
Seems like it (at least going off this, which I got in a google search: http://aminoapps.com/page/anime/2451277/jian-ma-emptiness-in-animation )

>>187998073
comfy in the 4chan sense is very much about solitude and emptiness

>>187992168
If you're the dev, he needs to have some goofy animations like winking at the camera, flashing a smale that has a little SHING on it, and other goofy shit.

>>187995208
You can separate stuff into different functions which makes reading and understanding your code much easier.
You sound like someone who has hit the point where having a proper structure starts being necessary.
Also separating drawing into a separate part (namespace/module) is a good idea so you can just call the renderer.draw() in your main loop.

>>187989406
how does that work? is there a dude with a trench coat with copies of your game lining the inside pockets?

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>>187996480
OPEN
SOURCE
LIZARD HIPS

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>>187999590
you don't want to look at cooking w tracy code

>>187995208
>>187999261
Also, your minimal main loop is polling events and sending them to your event handler, iterating over entities and systems and updating them and calling your renderer to draw.
That isn't long.

>>187988417
Yes, I did CS at an top-tier research university. I'm as dumb as a sack of shit so it took me a while to get a job, but pretty much everyone else I know immediately went off into impressive and well-paying jobs. I only know about ten who went into entertainment jobs, and the bulk of those people are in animation now. Only a couple went into games, and one seems to thoroughly love their job while the other really hated theirs. (Different companies, of course.) One was pure CS and the other was in a combined CS and art degree program.

But, really, the name of a school goes a long way. I also met some great people there who eventually helped me get to where I am today. Obviously, your skills are important for building your portfolio or your reel, but connections go a long, long way, too.

>>187993885
>>187994119
this is embarassing anon
download game maker and do 10 full tutorials
then attempt to make pong, with a menu
then attempt space invaders
then attempt pac-man
THEN think about how you would make the game you are doing.

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>>187999887
I just want the model under a free license for platonic reasons my man

>>187999890
I'll be honest, I know what those terms mean, but put together like that, I don't know what they mean
>>187999261
>You sound like someone who has hit the point where having a proper structure starts being necessary.
I do have a proper structure, I told you, lines are put into blocks, blocks are put into functions, functions are put into modules
there's no point of taking a dozen or so lines (which is how long most of these blocks are) that do the same thing every time and always need to be run (which is many of them) and putting them into a function, and breaking up, say, the jump function into like 10 smaller ones
here's one of the shorter blocks you'd find in a function: https://pastebin.com/1MjknTux
here's one of the longer ones: https://pastebin.com/XmH4BMQ5
>Also separating drawing into a separate part (namespace/module) is a good idea so you can just call the renderer.draw() in your main loop.
well technically the main loop calls an update function and then it calls a draw function, and the update function calls most of the stuff I've written, although a lot of things that are under like 15 or 20 lines are still directly in the update function

>>187999887
>>188001010
I just want to play the game again

>>187988417
I have a degree in Economics and Philosophy(cognitive science), I work in VIDEO GAMES, making shitty mobile games. fuck my life.

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>>188001010
>>188001113
in all seriousness, I think I could solve a lot of the "it's not fun" issues. I could greybox the thing out, but it's already half working and apparently quite dead, so I'm just going to keep working on my main project until it pops up on github or mr pikoponkypie comes to his senses and gives up on catblaster.exe

>>188001458
I wanna kiss the cook

>>188001093
As proper structure I mean higher level structure.
Skimming through your code you have movement, collision detection and general status checks in the same function which is unnecessary.
38 lines is not absurdly long for a function but it's much faster to read and understand your code if you limit them to ~20 lines.
Computers are pretty good at optimizing function calls (they've been doing this for decades) so there is no reason not to split them into small chunks that do a single thing.

>>188001665
gay

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File too large. This is theoretically how the fight would go on normal mode. I should probably make the stomps have better tells. https://my.mixtape.moe/qpznbl.webm

>>188001826
But the lizard is female?

>>188001843
extra gay

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>>188001458
>catblaster.exe

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Added basic character creation. It's all very placeholdery right now - graphics, locations, text, etc - but at least I don't have to manually write character data to the database anymore.

Also rewrote lots of background stuff so that I could have buffs that are stateless and easy to send over the network, cleaning up lots of code in the process. Now I can add health potions and other junk!

>>188001010
>>188001458
If the game is done for, I at least want to see Tracy in other games, she's fucking cute.

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>tfw no matter how many years of experience you have you'll never match the crazy level of ancient japanese console magic

>>187993619
I don't even know what your concept of "fast paced exploration" is here. What are some example games?

>>187993619
How about mystery dungeon games?

>>188002574
this is why we need OPEN SOURCE CC LICENSE FREEDOM

i don't want to pay pikorick a cut of the profits just for using his character fuck that shit

>>187993619
If you're so sure these concepts are asynergistic then why do you want to put them together?

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>tfw trudging through asset making when you have no artist talent

>>188003743
>i don't want to pay pikorick a cut of the profits just for using his character fuck that shit
lmao, kill yourself, commie.

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>>188004217
I wonder if it's possible to make enviroments (buildings and interiors) in Google Sketchup and somehow put them in a game.
3D game friends?

>>188004217
Im an ideas guy

>>188003743
now i get it why your project is dead lmao

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>>188004258
If you don't open up the means of lizard waifu production, I'll take you AND your lizardhips with me

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>>188003743
Why don't you,
and just hear me out here:
Make your own character

>>187993691
Get rid of the outlines period

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>>188004217
I am.

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>>188004529
I am the walrus.

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>>188004551
I'm trying to save her

I'm trying to save her for all of you

dont you understand

>>188004720
I AM THE EGGMAN

>>188004418
if it exports .fbx/.obj, then sure, why not. It's going to be fucking gross, but doable.

>>188004724
She'll come back in her own time when the devs are ready.

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>tfw you realize that even PUBG bought most of their assets on the Unreal Asset Store

>tfw whole Mylta Power is an asset called "Factory"

>>188005550
>tfw you realize gameplay really matters more than art

>>188005675
but PUBG doesn't really offer anything new compared to the other survival/battle royale shooters that have come and gone.

>>188004418
solid 8/10 if you imagine her without the blemishes and shit.

>>188005764
It offers 500k kids to play with on twitch.

>>188005764
and this is why you don't have a hundred million dollars

>>188004746
I'VE GOT THE MASTER PLAN

>>187995873
I always thought the math prerequisites are what weeded people out, not the actual CS courses

>>188004217
I can make large, attractive, hand-animated sprites instead of the filth-tier 3d models plaguing the indie scene. I can actually focus on good game design instead of endlessly ironing out retarded collisions

>>188001836
Not bad, and your art is nice, though I think the boss could be less static, anyway I can't judge it properly until all the sprites are done. Then again it makes some sense for an earth elemental to be static.
You could also look at golems from Dragon's Dogma for some inspiration.
>>188004418
It exports to collada so it's very much possible. Sketchup's a solid tool for prototyping.

>>188006550
I know that was the case for the engineers at the school. I took all that shit in high school, so I never got to see how hard it was.

>>188001836
seems kinda boring wailing on the boss in the same spot. maybe add some platforms and a reason to attack it in different places. the kraid fight in super metroid for example

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>>188007119
Thanks anon. I plan on making it move on the highest difficulty, which is kind of like NG+.

>>188007441
It's the first boss in the game so I wanted it to be a really simple fight.

Ideaguy: HITMAN, but in space.

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Now meshes can move, scale and rotate/orient correctly based on their actual world position in the game and not just some arbitrary hardcoded value.

Time to fill out my destructors and not just rely on the OS clearing out my data when I close the program..

which is better?

>mecha trading sim on the ground
>mecha trading sim in interstellar space

>>188004217
I like 2d rotation

>>188008752
On the ground, you have an easier time adding terrain details, if that's a concern. There's only so much you can put in space

>>188008301
ideaguy: HITMAN, but you're a woman

>>188008752
ground is more visceral says I

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>modeling a female character

>>188008301
Ideaguy: HITMAN, but you actually slap people

>>188009124
And you now know why making female characters is way more fun than male ones.

>>188008301
Ideaguy: HITMAN, but with dogs

>>188008301
Ideaguy: HITMAN, but as a dog.

>>188009124
I've felt the same when making senpai characters in modded skyrim, I know your "pain".

>>188008301
Ideaguy: HITMAN, but you rotate

>>188009358
>wrote f e m
>it came out as senpai
Thanks hiroshima

>>188009434
that's from late 2014 senpai

Why are turn-based games usually also grid based?

>>188009459
Oh I know that, just got no one else to thank to ;^)

>>188009538
Because discrete time woks best with discrete space, and continuous crete time woks best with continuous space.

Discrete space and continuous time is really, unplayably bad.
Continuous space and discrete time is fine, but subject to situations where you're out of range by a small fraction.

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how do i learn to finish a project

>>188010281
you just gotta want it

>>188007792
why not all difficulties? People who play on the lower difficulties won't find the fight memorable if he doesn't move and they might not come back to play it again to see the difference.

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>>188010281
Small scope.

No, smaller.

MICRO scope.

N A N O SCOPE

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>>188001113
>>188001665
>>188002574
>>188004849

>>188010545
what a remarkably specific image to make

>>188009856
>Discrete space and continuous time is really, unplayably bad.
You must hate dungeon crawlers.

>>188010545
this is great

>>188010545
I can relate to the anon in that picture.

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>>188010501
I'm trying to make each difficulty have something to one-up the previous one for the bosses. On Hard for instance, the boss swaps its arms and does much harder versions of its arm moves, in addition to forming its arms on phase 1 so it always does the quick version of the stone projectile move. It moving on the final difficulty would be due to having your entire moveset so dodging it would actually be possible, since one of the moves lets you warp to the other side of the enemy you hit.

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Starting to work on combat inputs.

I think I'll go with something that requires a bit of skill for every input. Paper mario really burned me out with inputs that were nothing more than "MASH REALLY FAST", but there was also a rather easy cap on how fast you had to mash, so you weren't even under much pressure to mash the fuck out of it.

(webm related is for TYPING, you'll be under pressure to accurately/quickly type swear words / insulting phrases...)

>>188011250
at first I thought you were flipping them the bird

>>188011250
>3 of the same enemy drawn uniquely

really cool my dude

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>Having the smallest scope possible is a requirement to actually making a game
>Only games you want to make have huge amounts of content or world to explore

>>187983826
Sooo~, tell me, what would an RTS need to be popular and interesting at this day and age?

>>188011548
You can have a game with a huge world or lots of content, if you restrict scope on the systems end.

>>188011853
fidget spinners

>>188011829
Forget popular, and shoot for interesting, niche, cult classic. Most RTS players moved onto MOBAs. An indie RTS would need, at a minimum:
1. Robust and fun singleplayer mode, since your multiplayer probably won't take off, and if it does, you'll want to have some longetivity.
2. A unique hook of some kind. You MIIIIIGHT be able to get away with carbon copying an old RTS and getting the nostalgia audience. But if you don't just focus in on the game design, since you won't be competing on anything else.

>>188011829
Waifus.

>>188012151
That buttplug looks painful

>>188009856
>Discrete space and continuous time is really, unplayably bad.
Ever played the game Delicious?

>>188012151
Looks like chair legs

>>188012227
There probably exists some RTS with waifus

>>188001458
What issues? What happened to this game I've been gone for ages and missed a bunch of shit.

>>188012151
what a minute...
I KNOW WHAT THESE ARE!!!

These are lightsaber handles

>>188012151
thats a horse wiener on the left

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There's some devs that have decent content on twitter and tumblr, but I can't follow them because they retweet/reblog every fucking thing they see on other places and fuck up my feed.
Advice: Don't be that guy and don't even think about using a retweets/reblogs bot, you'll lose the real followers.

>>188013829
the dev decided it wasn't fun and went on to make another game

he said he'd open source tracy if he doesn't get any ideas for how to make it how he wants, but gave no time limit and it's been ages and it's totally not happening.

it's over

>>188014702
you can disable retweets per user, it may be worth the effort for some devs

#!I7Y2lIrY!0XSQ3GeX9Az6vLDCmyrxZF-Q5djQ6qTrqnvhtqUM-p4

tracy

>>188014937
DON'T DOWNLOAD THIS
IT'S DOLPHIN PORN AND IT MAKES MUSTARD GAS

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>>188015072
THAT'S MY FETISH

>>188014937
I'm 27 and what is this

>>188014702
Sounds retarded, why not just make a twitter account for your gamedev and have another for your retweeting shitposting?

>>188015282
I think it's good (at least in the indie scene) to personalize your gamedev a little bit. People like to know a bit about your politics and personal life, but it should never outshadow the game. Think about Phil Fish - do you think Fez would have taken off if he wasn't a meme personality?

>>188014702
turn off retweets and mute functionality was the best improvement to twitter in years.

>>188004217
but i am and you know i am

>>188015282
>A game has to completely re-invent a genre to be good
Abso-fucking-lutely retarded. This is why game dev discussion is filled with people who think their amazing ideas that have never been attempted make the world go around.

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Added a simple check to avoid stupid camera clipping through surfaces. Is there a way to prevent it completely, i think i've read about some recent game that did it good.

Also making player transparent is also not something that will happen it seems, since you have to make his material translucent for that and it removes roughness and metallic and whatever. Maybe i could hotswap normal material to a translucent one and back, but not right now.

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>>188015448
...

>>187988417
I didn't get a degree and I'm still learning things myself but if you have the money for it, it might be worth it. The college I went to forced me to do intro classes. While it wasn't bad, the course was simple and it was stuff I had already taught myself getting into programming.

You can pretty much teach yourself everything and learn what you don't know through practice and research. If you have trouble being motivated though a class could help.

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>>188015282
You mean me? I don't shitpost and I only tweet my own stuff.
If you mean the others, they usually have accounts specifically for their games and they use these accounts to retweet every single piece of shitty content there's out there.
I think they do it to gain followers, but the only thing that follows those accounts are bots so it's pretty pointless.

>>188015448
An occasional retweet or off topic tweet I don't mind, whatever it is, but when you check your feed and the first 10 items are retweets from the same guy in a 1 hour timespan then it's time to unfollow.

>>188015457
>>188014895
Yeah I know, but I'd rather not follow those accounts at all.

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>>188014937
>#!I7Y2lIrY!0XSQ3GeX9Az6vLDCmyrxZF-Q5djQ6qTrqnvhtqUM-p4
thank you

>>187988878
The best things I've seen for turn-based RPGs and things I would do myself are: combos, weakness/resistance and special moves.

When making a game, think of things that you really enjoy in a game and figure out how you can implement it in your own way. Turn-based games are pretty slow but they give the player time to think and come up with strategies. That's what I enjoy about them.

>>188015448
You really shouldn't make your political views public anywhere as a creator of anything. Just look at the director for the "new" ghostbusters movie.

>>188016450
>think of things that you really enjoy in a game and figure out how you can implement it in your own way.
What when you can't think of a way to implement it your own way?

>F12
>crsh to desktop

: |

>>188011548
>tfw this Anon actually goes against reality and finishes his game
>discovers it's actually shit because "loadsa content" doesn't actually make something good

>>188016745
Stop using IDE's

>>188015448
FEZ was good in spite of Fish's personality, not because of it.

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1, If you are a nodev you need to read this.
https://raouldify.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/2011_1203-the-flinch.pdf
2. And then download and installUnity3D.
3. Then go and do all of these tutorials https://unity3d.com/learn/tutorials/s/scripting

If you refuse then you are garbage and you need to immediately K Y S. RIGHT NOW!

>>188017178
That model inside the tree trunk looks pretty good, but it clashes with the rest of the models because the quality is so much higher. I'm assuming all the other models are placeholders you're going to bring up to that standard?

At any rate, good job on the orange waitress model!

>>188017310
>unity
I don't install malware.

I want to try a multiplayer game because I'm curious how they're made. Anyone have any resources for multiplayer game netcode/software architecture? I'm interested in what kind of architectures let the same code run on the client and the server.

>>188017310
Only why I am a no dev is because I can't think of an original chain scoring system.

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prettied up the start menu, those skulls animate

gonna make a real logo when i finish aquiring photoshop

>>188016743
You have to figure it out. Or copy it but don't copy everything exactly. A lot of games use the same mechanics and systems. Tons of games have enemies who drop health like Metroid, but Megaman does the same thing and people don't call it a Metroid clone. They have much in common but are considered different games.

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>>188017310
>Unity
I'd rather dev in GoldSrc

>>188017503
Somebody reviewed your game.

>>188017364
can spot the bait a mile away

>>188017571
where?

>>188017616
On youtube, check the last thread.

>>188017690
ok cheers

>>188017546
I am not talking about small things like health drops, I am talking about core mechanics. The thing I have huge problems with is just thinking of a scoring mechanic for my game. I want to have chain scoring, but just doing another generic medalling chaining system, or color based chaining, etc is not what I want.

>>188017908
I don't know what your game is, can you describe it? I can say though that a simple system that works would be better than something complicated and fancy. How does your scoring system work? What is the player being scored on? I have some suggestions off the top of my head but how they would apply to your game depends on what kind of game you're making.

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modeling my first race track based on real road. Using blender for it. Took me a while to understand best way to make smooth meshes etc, but at last started to make rapid progress. Now I simply need to adjust some gutters in places, build walls, collision mesh, build terrain, texture everything, add railguards, use particle system to spread some tree meshes around, divide everything into good groups to optimize the shizz and should almost be good to go ~~~~~~~~~~~~

y'all niggas should I make a Twitter or Tumblr for my game?

>>188018570
yes.

>>188018589
I mean which one though?

Also does anyone ever read other devs' tumblrs or twitters?

>>188018371
>How does your scoring system work?
I don't have a scoring system yet, because like I said, I can't think of any.
I am making a shmup. Not sure what else to tell there.

>>188018689
Do both, and I do. I follow a few devs on tumblr and twitter, and I often like their stuff, sometimes reblog it if I really like it.
I always get warm fuzzies when I see them watch me back and like my stuff

>>188004418
yeah you can export as collada or obj or some other format out of sketchup, but in short it works in blender after you export. I wouldnt recommend it, cuz most models made in google skethcup use weird amounts ( a lot ) of materials and are built in a very inefficient manner. Performance will be a big hit!!! You can pretty much do what sketchup does in blender anyway if you practice it a bit, but in return saving yourself a lot of pain later on

>>188018838
What kind of content goes on either?

>>188017548
Ah, the wonders of developing on GoldSrc. It's actually a well put together engine, at least.

>>188018838
share some of the ones you follow pls
I am not sure where to find anyone. Whenever I tried doing it on twitter or so, any dev id follow would just spam random bs and repost advertisements ~~

>>188017310
t. asset flipper human garbage

>>188018704
What's the point of the score? Simply to have the highest score or does a certain amount give extra lives or even power-ups? The simplest thing to do is have the player destroying enemies/objects to give points. If you want to get fancy, add multipliers. Then if your player gets hit, dies, destroys the wrong target you can detract points, reset the multiplier or lose their power-up. To flesh things out more you can add a time bonus for finishing the level quickly, not getting hit, lives leftover or shots fired/hit.

>>188018901
Tumblr you can post pretty much everything, twitter is best if you either post short .webms, or still images, gifs are a bitch on twitter, and of course you have a character limit

>>188018960
https://rezydev.tumblr.com/ (space dementia dev) https://vampiredev.tumblr.com/ (vampire's bite dev)
https://lightspiritdev.tumblr.com/ (light spirit dev)
https://herrjak.tumblr.com/ (Umbrella warriors dev)
https://pikopik.tumblr.com/ (former Tracy dev, working on that cute cat gun game right now
https://muscularhair.tumblr.com/ (Former helleton dev, hope to see more from him)
http://mrfariator.tumblr.com/ (can't recall the name but his game has a cool as fuck swinging mechanic)
https://ogierdev.tumblr.com/ (placeholder dev, so proud of watching this guy's game grow)
http://rokasv.tumblr.com/ (Tender arms dev)
https://paperbugdev.tumblr.com/ (paper bugs dev, cute as fuck)
https://jasozz.tumblr.com/ (he dabbles in a little of everything but I love his sprite work)
https://blankthevidya.tumblr.com/ (Elysis dev, cool as fuck)
http://bn05.tumblr.com/ (fight knight dev)

If this doesn't get considered spam I'm gonna be surprised

>>188019237
NVM, makes no sense talking with you, since obviously have no idea what you are talking about.

>>188019084
you guys really hate asset flipping, when most of the industry is based on it lmao.

Even half life was set on quake 1. Just look up into the history of games, all of them use similar engines most of the time, or if not the engine then sound system, video system, AI system, physics system, something made by someone else that they just licensed. Why do you have to be so mad?

>>188019317
>tfw not good enough to make it on the list

>>188019317
Oh cool, you can post webms on twitter? Any limitations?

>Check mecha jam
>"Make a game about mechs, mechas or mechanoids."
Can someone be a bit more specific? Also is that a tank in the pic?

>>188019395
who are you? I only find people when they post their tumblr or in the off chance Tumblr recommends me someone I recognize

>>188019375
Keep justifying filling world with no effort garbage, at least you're not a nodev :^)

>>188019453
squaredev.tumblr.com
I don't post often on there though.

>>188019347
Keep making excuses for being a nodev.

Do people care if you use factory sounds in your game music?

>>188019482
>sitting around making NO GAMES calling people "asset flipper" is better than being a gamedev using other people assets
you will be the first to be gassed, nodev trash

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>>188019526
Ah I've seen your game pop up here on /agdg/ every so oft- what the fuck you're also LRHH dev? I didn't realize you were making that tiled up game with the Xs too

I got my eye on you now.

>>188019637
No offense, but you just have no idea about shmups. It's not as simple as you think to make these games.

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>>188019423
>Can someone be a bit more specific?
Can you be more specific?

>Also is that a tank in the pic?
See pic. Its a mech. The picture is mech fighting with mecha.

>>188019482
what is there to justify. Working with limitations improves creativity and uniqueness by a lot. Rather than spending your time coding systems which already exist, if you that good of a programmer or developer to make it yourself, imagine if you were to put that effort into modifying/improving an already existing tool. It would be through the roof. You are literally just wasting your own time for no gain.

Might as well go program your 3d modeling tool and photoshop and your whole OS from scratch too. Oh and build your computer hardware with a welder and some random parts, oh and create those parts in homemade workshop, and mine for the ingredients somewhere yourself, using junkyard is technically being an asset flipper, so that doesnt count

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+Pausing and camera control
pausing works properly and game is stress free, you can take your time to manage your doors as long as you like

>>188020180
Or you could just buy some assets and spend a day putting them together and pushing it to steam with mom's credit card.

>>188019395
Not him, but you are also on my list if you are:

https://pangeiadrifters.tumblr.com/ (furry mmo dev)
https://kickindev.tumblr.com/ (furry punchout)

>>188020074
Sure. What exactly defines a mech? So anything mechanical goes?

>>188020252
Man your progress is amazing

>>188018521
>use particle system to spread some tree meshes around
You're better off using instanced meshes and a landscape painting tool.

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>>188019317
>>188018960

Here's some devs I follow:

https://lonebuckshot.tumblr.com/ - Spooky JRPG with lewd goblin redhead
https://fffbbb.tumblr.com/ - Purple goo protagonist with trippy graphics
http://sloweh.tumblr.com/ - Cake man fighting bosses
https://attaboydev.tumblr.com/ - Pretty nice pixel art 2D platformer
http://knightdev.tumblr.com/ - Mini knight fighting in a dungeon

>>188020492
googled that for you
>As nouns the difference between mecha and mech is that mecha is (anime|manga) a large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside while mech is (science fiction) a large piloted combat robot.

>>188020709
>sloweh
I fucking knew I recognized that artstyle and name, that's the chicken game guy.

>>188019395
>tfw no tumblr to make it on the list

>>188020942
I feel you, fellow whodev

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>tfw lost the way

This spawn room was fun to make, but I don't know about the shape. I REALLY don't know about having a single exit.

>>188019781
It's definitely not as hard as you're making it out to be. I'll dumb it down for you; You have two enemy types, helicopters and jets. Helicopters are worth 5 points and jets are worth 15 points. Every time your player kills an enemy they get a certain amount of points.

Now lets say every 10 enemies that the player destroys without dying gives them a x2 multiplier; I would cap this out at x10. So after the player kills 50 enemies in a row the multiplier no longer increases. Whenever the player dies, the multiplier disappears.

After 1500 points the player gets an extra life and at the end of a level they get 100 bonus points for each life they still have. Now you have a system that rewards the player for doing well and gives incentive to play better; Having more chances to play the game and to get a higher score.

>>188020997
I mean at least I post regularly here so I'm not a complete who. But I really need to get around having a social presence.

>>188017503
>finish acquiring photoshop
Who in this current time and year doesn't pirate theirs

>>188020609
thank you, i appreciate it!

>>187994518
do as many homework as you can

>>188021254
Are you Harvest Monster guy? Update your twitter plox.

https://twitter.com/ash_j_emmes

>>188021040
I think you need a playtest to actually determine that.. Or a good reason

>>188021208
That#s the most boring system I ever heard of. You obviously never played a shmup in your life.

I have already 1cced and 2alled many shmups, and my standarts are much higher than generic boring shit like this.

>>188021447
Where is your shmup?

How do I use paletton?

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added some juice and you now have objectives, full version in the video not the webm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-780kIbEho

how does it look

>>188021447
Oh, so you're a retard douche. Thanks for clearing that up.

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What kind of content do you personally like to see on a dev's tumblr?
I've already gotten the "tumblr is for anything" reply, I'm just interested in what kind of content do you personally like.

This question is for everyone in agdg.

>>188021351
I don't have a twitter either. I post ONLY here.

>>188021642
I like it when people explain their workflow, especially for 3D as it's usually less intuitive.

>>188021642
I like seeing webms, gameplay in action with sound is always a huge plus for me, I also like detailed posts of the dev talking about gameplay mechanics indepth and stuff.

>>188021718
lmao

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>>188021718
s-supprim ça

>>188021718
>>188021775
fuck off /pol/

refugees welcome here

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Climbing forever.

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>>187984059

>>188021859
>little dog gets the big knot

Should my game ask for a confirmation before making a request to internet? Not for posting a data or anything but it will just download a json file and print stuff in it?

>>188021723
What's your game btw?

>>188021954
Your game should never require a connection to the internet for anything.

>>188022027
Depends. What if it's a multiplayer game?

>>188022027
I want to have a mod support

>>188022080
Then it's already dead.

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>>188022142

>>188021998
One of the mecha game but not the one that looks good.

>>188021040
whats wrong with the camera

>>188019317
>tfw not adjective as fuck

>>188022318
What did he mean by this

>>188019317
More agdg bros who need some love
https://quasiberry.tumblr.com/
http://whoppo.tumblr.com/
https://shmoopdev.tumblr.com/
http://thirdkeyofsun.tumblr.com/
http://hypertensiongamedev.tumblr.com/

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working on some minimalistic UI

hope i can get it all working till demo day

Are ARPGs ever fun in singleplayer? What's the secret sauce?

no offense but I just don't really like your game

>>188022996
thats okay there are plenty of other games for you to play!

>>188021718
Bumping. Fuck mods.

>>188022868
remove the rpg aspect, or alternatively don't use it as an excuse to make the combat simple

>>188022996
Aren't you an entitled little shit

>>188021954
>JSON

>>188019317
>>188022826
>tfw not mentioned

>>188023210
works for me

>>187991713
I don't see anything wrong with it

>>188023251
Well, tell us who you are, anon.

Turn based RPG where you only control one character in your party, and the rest is controlled by AI

Y/N?

>>188023571
Less mental wanking, more doing.
Go prototype it

>>188023571
N

>>188023571
N
FF13 and Persona 3 did that already.

>>188023571
>he thinks he can program a good AI

>>188023571
Fallout? Enjoy being shot in the back by your team.
If there were some advanced commands, but not outright controlling, then it could work.

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Progress:
Objects are now loaded in after API initialization instead of in the middle of everything.

I do have a feeling that I could optimize the command buffer recording on newly spawned objects. Right now I'm re-recording the command buffers for ALL loaded objects, including those I already have recorded buffers for.

Todo:
. Getting the Camera to be an object and not just a hardcoded position.
. Content loading should happen in a seperate thread. Right now it's a blocking call.

>>188023571
turn based RPG where you are the awoken ancient evil desperately trying to fend off the chosen one and his rag tag band of misfits

>>188023571
N. What usually happens either AI is too smart and can do without you, or the AI is too dumb and useless.

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ok you have inventory, but big things you can only carry one.

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>>188023785
>Ian oneshots you with a burst from his SMG.

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we tumblr now
https://vidyadev.tumblr.com/
i never used it before and i'm new to this, please be gentle

>>188023571
An RPG where party members are actually one character's multiple personalities.

>>188024153
Every time

>>188023824
D3D12 or Vulkan?

>>188023931
why you never post webms? i didn't even think it was a roguelike

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new logo in the works

i think the "not" is too complicated

i accidentally hit a shortcut key near Ctr+Z, which makes it so when i try to move letters now it looks like theyre cut out of the background. anyone know what iv done!??!? (photoshop cs6)