it's ludover edition>Demo DaysNext: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-66Previous: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-65>AGDG resourceshttps://hackmd.io/SNd2YQugRG-36CLYc8Og2w>Helpful linksNew Threads: >>>/vg/agdgArchive: https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/subject/agdg//agdg/ Steam Games: https://made-by-agdg.vercel.app/>How to Screen Recordhttps://getsharex.com/https://obsproject.com>How to Webmhttps://github.com/argorar/WebMConverterhttps://github.com/michaelmob/WebMCam>Previous Thread>>550832839
There's a mentally ill man getting ready for his special moment of the yearImagine Buffalo Bill in front of the mirror in Silence of the Lambs
>>551001392Have faith.
>>551001392ruh oh
>>550994139>>550995134are you me?
>>551001794Have you been shitposting here for years, but still don't actually have a game?
>>551001392>Imagine Buffalo Bill in front of the mirror in Silence of the Lambs>would you buy my game? >I'd buy my game... >I'd buy my game twice!
Based thread alert
>>551002025I'm one of the recent arrivals but already released a few games
Look at this complete trash OP made by someone who can't even glue together a ball bouncing game with AI assistance lmaooooo he thinks his spam is a meme here nowOh yeah it's "ludover" alright xis lmaooooooooo
actual previous thread>>550909196>>550909196>>550909196
Time to dev.
>>551002507>>551001990
>>551001719My favorite example of a well designed skinnerbox is the Hollow Knight tutorial. If you played the game, you probably don't even remember this, but towards the beginning of the game, the game designers place one of those little money rocks right in front of the very first false wall. When the player runs up the smack the rock like they've already been conditioned to do, they'll automatically be tricked into smacking the false wall and be rewarded with the goodies behind it. Congratulations, you've just been conditioned to spend the rest of the game swinging your sword (nail?) at every wall in the game.
https://streamable.com/ucrnepSocialization emote. please check the one with sound
>>551001392>Imagine Buffalo Bill in front of the mirror in Silence of the LambsWhy
>>551002752
>be me>making game>time passes>others begin making the same idea>make new game>find someone else making the same idea>have idea, not even making a game this time>someone just finished making something like it>start another game>someone just finished making a game like itWhy, why, why, why, why does this keep happening to me!?!?!?
>>551002752>>551002694He literally spends every minute of every day thinking about transexuals.
>>551002456Nice. May we see them?
>>551002937You're too slow. You obviously need to hone your skills and get faster at prototyping.
Why don't Chivalry 2 players care about gangstalkingI spent all night last night trying to redpill them while high on Adderall, weed and vodka
>>551003369
>>551002752because that's the threat level we're dealing with here
>>551002937Meanwhile no one makes my ideas even after years of me being too lazy and dump to make them myself. I will never experience the games I want to play
>>551003369>I'm one of those retards that makes people turn off chat You should be perma banned from servers for that imo. Console players can't even see text chat so you're really just making PC players suffer.
>>551001392obsessed
Seriously Timmy? This is your idea of a free game? What kinda choices did you make this year? Why not Legends of Dragaea, Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum, Tower of Kalemonvo, Peripeteia, FlyKnight, or Into the Necrovale? I know I beg you for a $500k 1 year exclusivity contract, but what are these choices, pick one of these games instead, I'd actually play them instead of just claiming them. I'd have included Tricky Madness but it seems a little too early access to be considered acceptable.
I hate animating...
Took me the entire day to make but I made an interactive relationship matrix generator of how my anime girls relate to each other.:Dpretty happy with this.
>>551003795They need as many players as they can getAnd to get red pilled on the one true conspiracy
>>551004023i can just give you a tok key if you want anonor buy it on the steam sale it's 25% off
Wish I didn't have to come down off adderall I could get more gamedev done but now I'm LE SAD cause no more dopamine
>>551006367he's right
>>551006367truth bomba!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>551006551>>551006496nodev pdfs
Man, this is too autistic for a porn game, but I love it.
>>551007150*yesdev pdf
>>551007404relax
Pedro, you couldn't figure out AI titty pong. It's time for you to exit gracefully. You don't even have the balls to type out the word "pedophile".
>>551007269Why is this so yaoi-coded?
what are you going to name your gaming company as? just your username?
>>551007716How new are you?
>update engine>2 hours of debugging to be able to go back to the OLD one so the project works againbreh, i was about to go about for mcdonalds too
A normie friend made me prioritize visuals for the demo so I've done that for a couple of days. Will have to forgo some other stuff I had planned.>>551002707I don't play colony sims, but this game looks appealing. Were the characters shorter some time ago?
>>551009162>muh normies>says the guy making normiecorelol
>>551009267
>>551007404chill
plebbitors in pcmasterace are praising this epic image>damn if you don't need us to perform work anymore how are you gonna sell us products??lmao at this gotcha, this is your brain as a '
>>551009162thanks. they were shorter like a year ago, and then got taller, and then became the current model just this week. haven't seen your game around here but it looks great, i like the sense of speed, how it stops and starts abruptly. makes it feel like you're in control
>'
>>551005516Nah I'm good, the choices Tim has given so far are just games I dont even feel like playing except maybe that first one he gave.
>>551009162She took their bees!
Nothing ever works.
Catgirl Pool Party on the Genesis/Mega Drive currently has CRAM dots between intro screens (on blastem emulator and console hardware), because I'm an amateur developer
No one listened to me on Chivalry 2 about how gangstalking is real and if we just killed them all we could all he rich NEETs so no I am...LE DEPRESSED
How important is input buffering for a game?
>>551011156I listened and followed you here.
>>551010779Well, you're an elf that looks much more suited to cooking and cleaning. Maybe hang up the game dev neckbeard and return to your true calling
>>551009162very nice, but these flashes are a little jarring after a while, maybe tone it down a little?
What do you do if you catch someone playing your game with porn mods?
>>551007293Now can you change the relations? Suppose I kill Alice Albrecht one true love, will she hate me after this? Will she convince her mutuals to hunt me down? Can our mutual friend drift away from me after her influence?This has a potential, but again, you can make a drama-maker simulator and player can feel like a Dynasty villain.
>porn>gamepick one
>>551007269The first guy on the left looks awkward. Something's wrong with his neck and left shoulder is sticking out unnaturally.
>>551012180another episode of the pedo anon wanting to yet again turn the conversation towards pedo shitcan you just jerk off on your own without trying to show us your pedo shit?kill yourself
>>551012427relax
>>551012184We're in a post-nuclear-throne era, nobody wants extra jitter or bright flashes, Super Smash Bros. is all about over the top action and even they don't have that amount of flashes. Just saying.
>>551012180I wouldn't do anything. I would listen to what he has to say, and that's what none of you did.
>>551002674>>551002937>>551004457>>551007293>>551009162>>551009447>>551010779>>551010784>>551011397>>551012180extremely gay post
>>551007269>fails to draw pelvis>hides itNever change mi parce
>>551012849https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKV-l2-GTcc&t=60s
>>551012229The goal is to choose a team of waifus and then seem them behave on their own like watching an ant hill, but they're anime girls standed in an island with the sempai.My first goal is to have something more complex than a procedural VN.>But is so boring if is staticThere's more than 400 million possible team combinations, I don't think I need to worry about making it more complex.
>hehe what have we got here? an amateur game dev general thread? time to plug up and post some Japanese cartoons
>>551012180
>>551013158if their relations can't change then it makes no sense to play it, it's a problem that is already solved. Now if you can introduce random events that will change their attitudes ever so slightly you'll have a great harem simulator.
>>551009494Gonna have to look into steamworks soon ish then.>>551009267Normies don't play "pixelshit". The most niche game that friend has ever played is Elden Ring.>>551009904I making it last January and started posting maybe 3 months ago.>makes it feel like you're in controlFor a while my design doc was just a .txt with one line that said "COMMAND MOVEMENT">>551011856It's less jarring while playing. I will have range of flashes at some point, but it's probably not going to be drastically different >>551012625Nuclear Throne is one of my favorite games tho.
>>551007269you should photograph yourself in the poses to use as reference next timehttps://www.jasonrainville.com/blog/process-storm-the-seedcore
>>551013338society is le collapsing
I'm thinking my main protagonist and antagonist should be twinks. Think forces that have to be violent to each other and are twinks will really pull in the yaoi crowd. Want the gays and fujos funding this one.
>>551013749>I making it last January and started posting started
Going all in on a hobby in 2026. Should I write fiction or go game dev? I enjoy writing more, but it seems infinitely harder to make money that way. Steam gets around 18k new games a year right now, and Amazon gets around 7k new books a day (no one reads anymore, so it's even worse than it looks).
>>551013958steam doesn't get 18k new VNs a year. you should play to your strengths.
>>551013958Hack writer using games as an excuse to push my fiction is the route I'm taking. It means learning more stuff or getting a team, but it also means your vision is more likely to get in front of people which I think makes the juice worth the squeeze tbdesu. Also by virtue of you being here, I assume you play a lot of games and thus have some opinions about what makes a good one and design decision, which helps you just bake the narrative in.
Cursing the day I decided to use godot
>>551014241But Rick, the military is being controlled by the pedophiles!
>>551013471sorry, I missunderstood.Well, yeah, that's kinda the goal.To have emergent storytelling.Like my goal is to take ideas from SIMS and Dwarf fortress and Animal crossing, and have the interactions between the characters like VN dialogs.I also want to sort of like have a master storyteller that generate the canon events that forces the story to more or less follow the major story events that affect all the 256 characters.
>>551013878>Want the gays and fujos funding this one.
>>551012898Thanks for the (you)
>>551014241thats a normal marine
I lack the discipline to make consistent progress on my game. What do?
>>551013749>Normies don't play "pixelshit".undertale retard
>>551015292Give me your address and I will run over to your house and beat you with a bamboo cane whenever I catch you wasting time
>>551015423tumblrtale*
>>551016513retard
I have no motivation right now
>>55101872110x hail Marys and 5x just like make gamesBless you and good devvvvvvving.
>>551018721PLAP PLAP PLAP GET MOTIVATED GET MOTIVATED
>pdfs fantasize about drinking pee instead of making their game
>>551021156why not both?
I predicted all of this. ALL OF IT.
>>551006496>he's right
where's joshua :(
>>551021540In jail.
FYGOON WAS RIGHT!!!
>>551014546>my anima seeing me failing creative writing exam in a nightmare 100s time
>>551021694proof?
>>551001152>previous threadwroooongggg>>551002653Thanks king
>>551022118
I think this is getting like a super extremelly high IQ autistic game.And I love that shit.
fuck off Faggy
should i make my robot character a girl or boy
>>551023258goy
>>551023258Girl body with boy voice
>>551023258girl
>>551023258male pronouns. look at that little guy go!
>>551023258First or third person? Kludgesisters...
>>551023231Post dev musichttps://youtu.be/jjz23Q92A4s?si=E1bEnILMjExROh1_https://youtu.be/5X-Mrc2l1d0?si=qq4o0B-FrolyVF_fhttps://youtu.be/ZhIsAZO5gl0?si=vOUsF08O21iAAiMuhttps://youtu.be/qHN-ETakpeE?si=Zntixt7S6E_7mDLMhttps://youtu.be/trFv63cMk4M?si=POQ6PqFg78WR-pUE
>>551024305first person
>>551019194
>>551024384What if a robot prefers it?
>>551024602Girl if you consider gooner shooter with jiggling tits on the lower half of the screen, otherwise maleYou want your protag to be either sexy or cool, and girls cannot be cool in a relatable way
which one do I use for my game?>male/femaleor>type A/type Bits for my games character creating
>>551025224is this a milking simulator?
>>551024697Stop O_O'ing me
>>551025870this was fun https://redactle.net/
>>551025870papers please but you're an official redactor who has to black marker documents, but also you can choose to be a double agent and leak specific things, but if you're too obvious you get investigated
>>551023258My game is about being close air support. Your gender is determined by your loadout back at base. The choices are napalm or clusterbombs
>>551025675becky...
>>551025870FNAF clone. You're in an office with lots of government documents. You have to paint all the pages black before the timer runs out. You have to watch the cameras to make sure chuddies don't sneak up on you. If they reach the room, they will leak all your documents
Worked on the wordnet parser some more. Hopefully I can use it to help handle commands soon.
map screen overhaul
>>551024697sakura sex>>551025675becky sex
it sure is tough being a vampire slayer
If pedos vanished from agdg, what sector of demoday would suffer?
progress
>>551027426kino>>551027782slop
>>551027426bzzz bzzz zoop zoop wrrr
I find funny I am making an P!=NP celular automata to power a hentai harem game.
>cris on his CS student arc quite a rare one
Shut the fuck up cris. Take fewer meds, you're amped up on something and it's making you deluded.
Do horror games need to have a monster chasing you? I feel like most of the time this ends up being annoying and immersion breaking, especially if you have to solve a puzzle
>>551029718Sounds like you want to make a puzzle game not a horror game.
>>551029718she was 12 cris...
>>551029856I'm trying to do le cosmic horror where the atmosphere and lore are the interesting parts and a lot of the spooky stuff can be missed if the player doesn't look for it. I guess it's more of a walking simulator puzzle game
>>551029718have the monster really slow like IT follows. so the time pressure to solve the puzzle is there, but not annoying
>>551029718oh fug
>>551030538I was thinking about doing this too, might be the best solution
>substance designer>pixel shart>hand paintedno thanks, i will simply use photos!
>>551030434So a spooky haunted house
>>551032241can I see?
>>551032241using photos to imitate art is jewish
>>551013008Chat, is this real?!!??!
>>551032694This is what I fear it's going to end up being if there's no actual threat. Though it might not be a bad thing since there's not that many games like this and there is an audience that prefers it.
>>551013008AI cris looks philipino or something.
>>551029718why the fuck would a requirement for horror games be that a monster is fucking chasing you?
>>551033456I have an idea.Make "Fail states" scares. They don't kill you, but something terrifying will invariably happen if you fuck up
horror game where you chase the monster while being chased by the monster on a mobius strip
@551034680retarded
>>551033456not sure you have a grasp on your intended version of it if you're worried about an immediate threat.The point of the concept is instilling existential dread and hopelessness in humans, not necessarily just scaring them. Being able to have players possibly be oblivious to the dynamic kinda misses the point, unless you're really sure of your subtlety.So really you should think of what kind of establishing moment you'd want, that would set the dynamic and tone for the whole game that would also inform the gameplay.Which could be thinking about what kind of morality the entity has, which dictates if it's more trickster, malevolent, or seemingly evil indifference that wants to astrally farm suffering.
>>551034938newfag you don't fit in here
reminder we won and you lost
>>551035257no you lost
>>551035402wrong
>>551001392Holy autism
>>551035749fucking retard lmfao. that pic is not autism
>>551036412I'm not retarded, fuck you
>>551036412>fucking retard lmfao. that pic is not autism
how do i get good at character design?
>>551037018copy good character designs
>>551037238you had an aneurysm there, attempt that again
>>551037018You forgot the image...
>>550988150Really loving how this is looking. Demo when?
gas station in detroit worker simulator
>>551012368THERMOTRVCLEAR ANNIHILATION
>>551037975>and all the jannies can do is seethe.plenty here have a pass. but besides that, what are you even talking about here, new guy. pass users still follow the same rules
>>551014440skill issue, I heard about this
>>551034973I'm just considering this from a gameplay perspective and if it's going to make the game feel empty or leave you with a feeling of "literally nothing happened". Not having an immediate threat is probably the way to go. >>551034454This could work, but sounds challenging to implement without resorting to jumpscares
a fucking TEAM made this piece of shit with a $50k kickstarter and seven years of dev. what the FUCK is going on here? https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1psbkw1/postmortem_7_years_a_50000_kickstarter_publisher/
>>551012368watch me
>>551039279where is rule 2
>>551012368summer memories is calling, pick up
>>551038902makes sense, 50k doesn't even pay for a single junior programmera team of hobbists will easily take 7 years
>>551038902>Price: $14.99>Average playtime: 10.9h>Review score: 81%It doesn't look like it did too poorly for what it is. It's probably just overpriced. They'll continue to sell more copies of it for years to come, especially when it goes on sale for less than $5, because that's really what it should be priced at. Also, a publisher with no translations? What the fuck are they even doing?
>>551038902LMAO
your game flopped? GoodNow you know exactly what the market doesn’t want
assuming of course1. your game is priced correctly2. you did the marketing 3. it has sufficient content
I'm about to finish this book. What should I as a unity dev read next?
Too much slopdevving. Too much marketing. I need to make art again. I need to return to my passion.
>>551040079make pong
>>551040079your own source code for a game you're making
>>551038902holy fucking shit all of the devs are 40+ that explains a lot
>>551038902sorry zoomer but this is peak
>>551038902had a publisher too btw
>>551038902 Big open universe with lore and secrets Planet exploration and harvesting (5 planets, 88 creatures, 108 ingredients) Planet combat Cooking and mini-games Crafting and resource gathering Ship upgrades and space travel Level systems and unlocks (114 blueprints) Farming Decoration and base expansion 30 NPCs, some with huge dialog trees quests and romance Space exploration and combat30 npcs with dialog trees... I've got 5 and have been writing and rewriting just one for 2 weeks now.
>>551038902success would have been possible with the right marketing approach
>>551040507First off you don't have a game.
>>551034680scooby doo public domain game
>>551040114>>551040159Development of major software projects is an intellectual activity that requires planning, preparation, and research. You need to plan and take care with your decisions, otherwise you end up like the retards here.>>551038902Just skimming this post makes it obvious the developers were inexperienced with software development and had never had real jobs before. Mindless spaghetti coding of tech demos without adequate preparation will ultimately waste time.
>>551040604projection? I have a game. You don't know me bitch!
>He fell for the pong humiliation ritual
>>551040949No amount of planning, preparation, and research will help you get it right on the first try. Right now, you don't even know what you need to plan, prepare, and research for, which is why you've come to an anonymous basket weaving forum to ask retarded questions. The best way to figure out is by trying and failing and trying again.
>just 3 more books bro and i swear i can finally start my gameCris behavior
2 days
>>551041203kek
>>551041204Who says I haven't written code already? Why do you automatically relate "studying gamedev" with "person not developing game"? There is more to software development than just programming.
>>551041559you are like an uncle
so utterly stoked for x-mas this year. first we get a sick /v/3 expo for x-mas eave, then we get to hang out with the real Eric Barone on x-mas day.its truly a miracle. i wonder if Eric will bring any news about Chocolatier? or maybe he'll make a cool meme sprinkled with words of wisdom and some insider humor?can't wait!
>>551041505It doesn't matter if you know how to code or not. "Code" itself is less than half of what is necessary for a full video game, and I'm saying this to you as a senior software engineer with a decade of professional experience. There is a tremendous amount of domain knowledge that you're not yet even aware is going to be necessary. The best thing you can do is to try to make some small games from end-to-end. That includes some central gameplay activity, but also visual effects, sound effects, music, a title menu, a pause menu, settings, loading and saving, packing and exporting, creating and uploading to a store page, etc etc. That's not even including extended common features like multiplayer and i18n.
>>551041937Why go on this rant I don't give a shit about instead of providing recommendations on books to read next, like my original post requested?
i enjoy how uploading a game to itch is free
>Steam is downGABENCUNT HAS TOOK HIS PAY AND RAN
>>551042294but you pay intetney
>>551041931I'm getting my haunted chocolatier fan art ready.
>>551042445use the browser you fucking nonce
>>551042119>he doesn't care about making gamesWe know. May we offer you a tall bridge to throw yourself off instead?
gta but india
gta but zombies
I seriously see no error with this bug.
gta butt zombies
>>551043192not a single honduran has ever visited this site
>>551042445
If you're looking for dev music, try Vashti Bunyan. She has a soothing voice and her music is not too distracting.>>551001152SHUT THE FUCK UP CRAB
>>551043787shut the fuck up retard. you don't have psychic powers
>>551043773little guy in the foreground and big guy in the background in the fog slop
>>551043142Please take your meds.
>>551043787take a picture of your bedroom and upload it here
Ok, I got this done now.:)
>>551044403ugly fucking incel just shut the fuck up already you attention seeker
>>551044403i remember thatupload it again
>>551045119so a larper?
this you, /agdg/?
what fps games have advance movement without bunny hopping? trying to find an easy system for beginners
>>551045319>californiaeeewwwwwwwwwww
1.how many years have you been game devving? 2.how many games have you made?3.do you regret all the time you've spent on this?
>>551045640maybe TLOU2?or just take the omni-directional gimmick from modern black ops
>>551046439>1.how many years have you been game devving? >2.how many games have you made?>3.do you regret all the time you've spent on this?
>>551045319are you a jew?
>>55104643923no
>>551046439>1.how many years have you been game devving?since klik & play came out>2.how many games have you made?maybe 100 idk>3.do you regret all the time you've spent on this?sometimes
>>551046463>
>>55104643919 yearsfinished 1, started dozensno
>>551046628>123.png
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=02Ah5VQrzvALa Creatividad...
>>551046645you're up there for greatest amount of time ever wasted, retard. were all of your grandfathers like that too? just pissed away their time?
>>551046628what did thomas brush mean by this?
it's lovely when a loli artist is able to capture the beauty of a little girl without resorting to nudity or sexual acts
>>551047150my next game will make up for it, I just need to wait for godot 5 to add some much needed features.
Thanks to modern tools I can do literally everything except animate. Where do I pay someone to make a mario-like animation controller?
Now that the year is wrapping up, I still think the "flopdev ballads" were the funniest thing to come out of /agdg/ this year.https://vocaroo.com/1ejh26Uextjx>That's the Steamie way...
>>551046735456.pickupsticks
>>551046645I sure hope that 1 made a fucktonne of money
This the thread to come to if I'm making a visual novel?
>>551047843Post Art?
