you're GMI edition >Demo Days NEXT: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-70 Previous: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-69 >v3jamhttps://itch.io/jam/v3expos-world-famous-game-jam-2>AGDG Resources https://hackmd.io/SNd2YQugRG-36CLYc8Og2w >Progress Posting Guide https://pastebin.com/0xEt5atn >Helpful Links New Threads: >>>/vg/agdg Archive: https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/subject/agdg/ /agdg/ Steam Games: https://made-by-agdg.vercel.app/ >How to WebM https://obsproject.com https://github.com/argorar/WebMConverter >Previous Thread >>577223689
>>577437813I thought about it, but I felt it could still be a nuisance. Maybe it's the kind of thing I need to see playtesters playing to see their reactions.
aggy sisters, I've not worked on a single thing for my game in the past 3 weeks and the dread of the game becoming a flop is setting in
I dev
>>577438980REAL HUMAN BEANREAL HUMAN DEV
>>577437242>>v3jam>https://itch.io/jam/v3expos-world-famous-game-jam-2Just in case anyone thinks "world famous" means anything
real new>>577438929>>577438929>>577438929
Stylized Volumetric Lighting - First Pass
>>577436943It's grim isn't it? What happened in the last 10 years to cause so many talented individuals to enter gamedev?>>577438980I keep shifting between>working hard>not working at allAt least its better than before where it was>maybe work 1-2 hours>not working at all
>>577439098World Famous in New /V/land
Doing more work on my editor.:)
>>577439416pretty cool. but it's so sharp. second pass pixel edges or blur?
if game dev is so easy then where are all the good games? checkmate faggots
>>577440672you laugh but I'm getting almost disturbed at how easy its becoming... I have to rethink everything now
>>577440809You need more than ability to make a good game. You also need TASTE (something that I have and you don't)
>>577439905really cool. This is the kind of content I come to agdg for.
>>577441142It is, but imagine how much cooler Cris content would be if he stuck with something for more than a week
>>577440809easy to prototype. and to make a fully derivative game. might satisfy some cattle, but to make anything actually good, still hard.
>>577441239he would become too powerful. God nerfed his mind for a reason.
God has nerfed me so much that to make games first I need to build my own perfectly suited engine to my own taste and skills.Like ZUN and pixel.
>>577442426Exactly like them. They overcame the nerf and spat in the face of God. You have it in you to do the same, Kurisu-san. Ganbare!
>>577442426nobody knows who those fags are
>>577442826Every time I drink a beer while devving I think of ZUN the GOAT
>>577442826pixel made cavestory. the undertale of indiegames for millennials.
>>577442826we have a fucking board that is dedicated to talk about touhou.and there's a 4chan banner with cave story.
>>577443254>pixel made gaystory. the tumblrtale of indiegames for millennials>>577443520yeah you're all fags, I get it
>>577443520cris how many boards do you shit up on a daily basis?
>>577444162mostly /v/ /g/ /int/ /pol/ /lit/
>>577444287how many times have you gone to make a thread on /3/ only for it to be blocked because you already have too many up?
>>577444484I only make a thread on that board every 2 weeks or once per month.
>>577444161I'm not a fag though. and cavestory predates lgbt, there were no fags at the time.
>>577444287come back to /3/ to show your new skills
Pick a thread guys I can't post proggy with 2 threads
>>577444953I choose this one. I'm GMI edition
>unity>claude hooked up>claude code me a game, make no mistakesit's game dev time
>>577445081I see /r/aigamedev sometimes. they are mogging us silly.
>>577445208it's up and downs in all seriousness, i've spent a day today trying to slap Sol into writing a good shadow system
>>577444287>mostly /v/ /g/ /int/ /pol/ /lit/I guess we're not so different you and I
>>577445392There's a little Cris inside each and every one of us.
>>577445208that's because /agdg/ is full of transexuals that are afraid of ai
>>577445836this video BFTO the chuuddiss
How come cris is so recognizable?>>>/g/109550251
I am a x50 game dev now with an AI asset team, animation team, music team and more Not even joking, you can do more with a pro gpt plan than an entire medium size dev team could do
>>577445368I got some good stuff out of claude, suspiciously good. must be a repo out there it stole from
>>577446476tons of stuff is advanced boilerplate at the end of the day, code was all stolen from other people being pieced together from stack overflow. Never many people reading research papers on computer science boundaries to use the concepts in games
the animal pictures reflect his soul
>>577446597one time I fed it an advanced physics paper for rope physics, but it kind of screwed up the implementation. I might come back in a year for that one.
>>577446373He suspect he has high spiritual energy from his years of training
Posted this webm in the last thread but need advice, I'm trying to come up with a setting for the game.Does a sort of fantasy fight club manager game sound appealing? Like you hire and train fighters, you have to manage their energy, injuries and traits, sometimes they might even get permanent injuries, train their stats, you choose the best fighter for the upcoming fight, maybe you want a slow but strong brawler, or a fast fighter good at counter attacks or whatever.Then during the fight you actually play as the fighter, since it's fantasy you could have tournaments where you fight all sorts of stuff.sound - https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1786543523952474.webm
>>577446389I don't know how things shake out long term. No way a 100+ employee studio is sustainable.
>>577446389kys
>>577447604studios love pointless jobs, you will probably just see more women fill the roles as modern day daycare roles instead of only HR
>>577447367Yes that sounds cool but only if you set it in medieval times and they can get sick with the plague or be called away to fight for their lord. You could have a wench fight league too
>>577447604Legislation. Litigation. Lawsuits. Concentration of Power.
>>577446883Its better if you explain the desired gameplay reactions and have it suggest some ways of accomplishing it. Its seen a lot of repos.
>>577445836getting more of a fligugigu vibe from cris here
>>577437242I have wanted to make a strategy game for multiple years.I keep making prototypes, but they always bloat before any gameplay is ready.And then I began to wonder what I even want.
>>577447367I watched it with sound. and my feel was... like a dim underground bare knuckle fightclub, the arena is a bunch of rowdy onlookers surrounding you making bets etc.
>>577448174Many such cases. Game design is the hardest part of gamedev.
>>577447731it couldn't solve 3d rope physics tunneling(at a good framerate)
current reality, no I will not show the [thing] or say what it is yet
fablegornk, port CDDA to unreal 6 and fix up the graphics on level 3
>>577448662Congratulations on learning how to use the plan feature.
>>577449195hurry up, demo day is coming
gornk, combine every opensource roguelike together into the ultimate roguelike. also include falling sand physics
>>577449935How did you hack my grornk account and steal my prompts?
>>577450116prompt injection attack via the meme you showed it
>>577449935>opensourceYou wouldn't believe how bad things really are.
I have decided to use a chunky plush N64 Adjacent art direction for my game.
>>577451807
>>577435473time to take the next steperinohttps://github.com/facebookresearch/demucshttps://github.com/RVC-Project/Retrieval-based-Voice-Conversion-WebUI
>>577451221qrd?
>>577452304are you using that art direction as well?
>>577453953Mazinger... no... don't do it...
Thanks to China releasing deepseek, now I can make my own 2D fighter maker.Now I don't need Mike Z engine.
>>577454129no. kirby just came to mind when you said plush 64
Game Dev Music for when I make my game and then after some years of enjoying my wealth with my wife, me and her ascend back to Heaven.https://youtu.be/jXot-Tr58MA
>>577455226this is what you'll hear when you die https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GkuXfgUoro
>>577456035wouldn't it be ascending? is there something you need to tell us rotate
>>577456035Me and my Wife can't die.
STEAMWORKS
World of Warcraft and the N64 show us that Rasterization does not need to be Photoreal or Unity Asset Store Core.
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>>577462240kisha is gonna freak
>>577462786put your name back on gogroom
>>577462240this only took 27 hours for me. was nice and easy. then my demo page took SEVEN FUCKING DAYS BECAUSE THEY PUT A GREEN BANNER OCVER MY CPASULE COVERING THE CORNER OF THE TITLE
Is a low budget looking game with almost a dozen artists and programmers demoralizing?
>>577465067slap a "no gen ai" sticker on the trash and have redditors onions out over it
>>577465067Yeah. >ah typical, early PSX style is a good choice for solo devs though>nice animations, this solo dev is cooking>15 artists, 7 programmers, 3 audio designers, 4 muscicians>... get out of my territory AA fraudsters!it's dave the diver situation but worse.
>>577465768>4 musciciansIs that necessary when 2 japanese dudes did half the JRPG soundtracks?
>>577465943yeah, they get more funding if they hit the diversity quotas
The vision is a curse. I get so much dopamine from playing my game inside my head that I'm already burnt out by the time I sit down to implement every tedious little thing.
>tfw newer system might not be what i want>test it>not liking it>realize there's too many issues>adjust code back to previous systemWell guess I could've worked on something else for my game. I spent 2 days or so of on and off work adjusting the code for this new system.I don't feel like doing anymore gamedev today. This is demoralizing. Especially so with how many new devs are entering gamedev. My game has so much promise yet I can not muster up the will to work on it, why? Is it because I don't think I can actually pull it off as I see it in the mind palace?
>>577466576why are you calling me out like this
>>577466581It's a funny thing. I felt the same. was forced to ship with several incomplete systems. I felt really bad. but then turns out people really liked the game. and they assume the full game will utilize the systems more fully(I hope so...)
>>577466576what games do the 'but i did have breakfast' devs make?
>>577466576I get exhausted from how much effort it is to put all the little things together. It visually looks so simple yet the work involved to achieve that is much more complex. Oh the Dragonborn pulling out a sword to attack this Giant in this campsite during a snowstorm? Uttering this sentence, seeing the visuals, all a very simple looking scene. Yet the work required to make all of this work? A lot.>need 3D models of the character and enemy with all the required extras>need 3D assets of the scenery and all the other bells and whistles required for it work with lighting>need 3D model of the sword>need animations of the character and enemy>need code to just move the character>need code to use a sword>need AI pathfinding code for the enemy>need AI combat code for the enemy>need code for what the enemy drops on death>need code for what happens if the character dies>need a menu in case of a game over and all its associated code>need an inventory menu too in case the player wins and picks up items>need code for the items themselves to be able to get picked up>need code for the inventory itself>need code to save all the information of this scene>need music and sfx for all the events that just took place>need system that controls day/night cycle>need system that controls weather cycle>etc.AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! I wish I was rich already. I can just contract a team. I want to make my dream games but the more I look at it the more I realize I have to make slop in hopes of getting rich and then moving on to my true desired game creations. At least then issues like getting stuck on something that ended up not being needed wouldn't be so demoralizing as I posted here >>577466581I wish I could demoralize 90% of gamedevs, aspiring gamedevs, and those yet to be gamedevs just so I could lower the bar. At least then my odds would be improved. But instead I have to handle all this with a bar that just keeps getting raised.
>>577468345all that would only take about 80 hours. without AI. so a couple of weeks of poking around on your computer.
>>577470170Alright, anon. I expect to see it on my desk in two weeks.
>>577467573>was forced to ship with several incomplete systems>people really liked the gameOne of my last games was too dependent on too many systems. I couldn't see much reason to continue it when hope was so faint on it so I cancelled it. The newer game is simpler and seemingly more likely to succeed. Yet I have doubt in my abilities to pull it off.
>>577470572I use AI. see it in 3 days.
>>577455226Fuck the... Club... Yeah, that's it.
>>577466576You have to change your mindset to love the work, or at least push through itYou're staring at the mountain and crying over how tall it is while imagining how nice it would be to peakyou may fall, you may diebut that fight is for something important isn't it
any anyone sent 300 emails to youtubers/streamers?I keep seeing that advice, but the streamer I sent 300 emails to reported me to the police
>>577479461Its raining right now outside and this is so nice
>>577447367Any sort of boxing game is going to have very limited appeal and will be entirely carried by its visuals and their ability to excite people to play the game
LUDDITE COPE is the LOOSH that SUSTAINS ME in the SIZZLING ORC FACTORIES of CLOD
>>577466576>>577466795This is cope. You are afraid to fail. That's why you avoid finishing.
make game about stickmen fighting
>>577473995I sent emails to streamers. It worked out for like 25% of people I sent it to.
>>577437242cant believe nortubel was blinded by the eclipse
>>577454129I now will buy your game.
>>577468345That's not just this scene. That is like 80% of the game.
Got a powernful new PC. Gonna make some mad progress starting next week. It will be incredible.
>>577496313>starting next weekngmi
i think i finally understood why i don't play indie games. it's like they are trying to extract the tomato out of the bolognese. but i want a bolognese, not a tomato.
it's not because you aren't good enough, it's because you don't feel well enough.
how to I get someone to let me make their game (for free) (slopped)
>>577498406offer to be their live-in sexslave
>>577498406Host a game jam and dangle a $100 prize over their heads
>>577462786>Re-submissions of this app, even with modifications, will not be accepted.Imagine being told this after years of working on a game.I can just imagine Kisha's crooked, fake HR smile while she toys with the lives of game devs.
why are there still 2 threads going simultaneously?
>>577499176because we are the only general on this board that deserves it.
9% of my players have played my 10 minute demo for 2 hours. 10 peopleI just need to find a big herd of this species of gamer and show them my game
>>577499176Because schizos get mind broken that a certain community event dare be in the OP
>>577497138It's my birthday today so I'm allowed to be lazy today!!
>>577496313why does a more powerful pc mean you'll make more progress?
>>5775010810.05s less time to compile duh!
>>577501143once I tried to compile my game on my mom's laptop and it took literally 25 times longer than it usually does on my PCI'd probably give up game dev if I had to wait hours to compile each time, I do not have that kind of patience
>>577501401I hate that unity is so fucking slow nowadays you basically didn't even notice the compile back in the unity 5 days like sure it only takes a couple seconds but it adds up and there's this interruption to your work because the editor freezes while it does it
>>577501401your mommy huh aw look everyone anon loves his mommy ``````
i need a 2 player co-op idea (online and local)
>>577504125why 2?
>>577504231scope
>>577479749thanks>>577479461need to sync wind with weather
>>577504275why are you making a 2 player co-op game if you don't have an idea for one?
>>577504538im not making anything, thats why i need an idea
>>577504582take an idea you have and make a game from it
>>577504734i dont have any ideas
>>577504909I'm not so sure gamedev is the way for you
>>577505726tell me something i dont know
Whats your "dream game" to dev?Mine is a fairly small contained rpg like Arx Fatalis
Spent the last few weeks redesigning a good portion of the game. Hopefully this will be the last big redesign. Sorry for the small webm. Working with video stuff is so confusing.
>>577507193babe wake up the furry pedophile piss play game just posted an update
>>577481385I fear success.
>>577501401>>577501695I have 10GB of space free and that drops to 400MB when I load a project.
>>577501081I installed Substance Painter and it gave me warnings it would slow or crash due to small amount of RAM.Back to texturing in Blender.
Sophmore slump is real
>>577508086>4 Reviews alreadyHe'll be fine. The 5$ prices tag is a mistake IMO, he should have done 7$ with a discount to 5$ to start.
What will you do after you make at least 1 million dollarinoes with your game? I am just going to invest it in an ETF and retire at 25. No, I am not delusional. YOU are.
Precision platforming pillars, players who manage to hit the marble on top get a boost!
>>577509947Compared to Rusty? It's a massive flop
>>577509985i calculated that $500,000 gross profits annually is $180,000 in net in germany (after steam cut)it's looking extremely bleak
All is coming together.
>>577510207Yeah this is GMI
>>577510207remind me of silver surfer.Add some trail like ice particles or dust.
is there a secret to making a cast of characters that people will like and spend money on, or should i just make 8 with big boobs and one loli?
>>577510207contact Pepsi to revive Pepsi Man
>>577510207Are you from Japan?
thanks geminia programming question triggering your safety filters is what we needed in your ai revolution
>>577507378May I ask why?
>>577511802Plus I'll look up your name and place of residence. Cucked ass country this is for making money.
>>577507004These are the sorts of dream games I am unlikely to ever make because for them to be good the scope is too big for what I could handle>pre-WoW style MMORPG>Daggerfall but good>third person co-op loot ARPGI have too many ideas and not enough time or money to chase them so for now I'm making small ass games hoping one of them goes even a bit viral
>>577519073just put up a fake address and tell them you mistyped o algo
>it's real
>>577511802>>577519073Europe is extremely shit for building wealth but I guess that's the price we pay for having poorfag life better than anywhere else
>>577511802I also have to pay wealth tax if I make more than $200k in Norway
>>577515717the real secret is having good character designbut gamers eat up disgusting slop so you only gotta have like 6/10 designs with coombait and you'll be fine
i wanted some pixel art effects and particles so I asked a mildly good pixel artist and he said he charges 50 bucks an hour for painting goddamn squares KEK
Opinions on photobashing your own references over using AI slop?
he literally cannot stop winning
>>577519574>>577522437lmaonow the real question is what did bro had to blur/pixelate to the right of the pot in the back
>>577519574>>577522437did he purchase them or did levis sent em over all the free publicity he gave them over the years?
>>577522774Calling ericschizo, can you cross reference with other office pics to see what's pixelated?
>>577523390They would probably send other items too
>>577522774>>577523391a dragon dildo
>>577511802Game developers need that health care for mental illness and poor posture.
>>577523612it literally couldn't be anything else
>>577522437nigga is Squall maxing
Me and Eric will have a lot to laugh about and reminesce about after all of this is over.
One day this general will post pics of my ugly face because I made it and all will aspire to be me.
>>577523821get me out GET ME OUUUT
>>577522437>guy makes holds-up-spork type joke and takes a photo of it>posts it to social media to share with strangers for attention>strangers pretends to laugh and enjoy it because he's successful and made a video game people like"winning"
>>577525257he's just havin fun and enjoying his wealth and fame.
>>577524075reminds me of a german guy I knew on discord that didn't know about this and years worth of unpaid health insurance caught up and they sent him a bill for like 12k euro and then had collectors come to his place lolgotta somehow get that money so that turks and syrians can get their socials
>>577525257Your life really won't change that much if/when you become rich. Not sure what some of you expect, honestly.
>>577525257it is genuinely funny, ,the jacket his a meme at this point
>>577525503yes it will>only healthy unprocessed food and/or private cook if extremely rich>no 9-5 5 times a week>young prime pussy on rotation>best sourced steroids, gh etclife quality would go SO SO UP if I had a lot of money
>>577525654>>young prime pussy on rotationuhm, chief, that's for BILLIONAIRES, not MILLIONAIRES.
>>577525654hahahaha you guys are so funnyyou will still come here each and every day
>>577525870yep, after I make it I'm not gonna forget this place.A lot of you are on the Mansion Party List.
>>577519574>>577522437humm... is it not summer time?
>>577526154preparing for fall
>>577511802can't anyone just be a NEET in germany if they want to? makes sense things would turn out that way.
>>577525654>>577525810
>>577525503I get that. Just doesn't make me think he's winning at life or something, just makes me think he's attention-starved and socially stunted like many nerdy game developers.
>>577527030
>>577527173do you not comprehend he is saying he would rather be building the death star lego set than fucking 22 yos?
>>577527326unlikely. what he's saying is you can simply hand money over and bring a random club chick home
>>577527163That's my point yeah, the money won't actually change your personality or your tendencies.
what's with 'tists and legos?
>>577518268Gemini's safety filters are retarded but they're super easy to bypass. I don't recommend it because google actually will ban your gmail account for doing it. I don't touch that shit anymore.
>>577525257>>577525526>>577522437hahaha ok jensen hahah leather jacket yeah yeah man badass!!!!
>>577527996Man its fucking mind blowing Google dropped the ball so hard. They should have been #1 on this shit, by far.
generated this with AI when pinging AI for concept art. This is not how I want my game to look, I'm going for more of an N64 adjacent plush style, but this was such a cool gen.
>>577528205wow grats jeetson
using ai is the most creative hardest task a human being can achieve in life.
>>577528205I can't describe how fucking fun it is to explore styles and decide how your game will look before even opening up the stupid increasingly irrelevant game engine. Future is awesome.
>>577527173The problem is Notch thought being a billionaire would make him fit in with other rich and famous people. He needs to be pursuing normal or autistic chicks not hollywood thots. Notch suffers badly from learned helplessness. He could have bought a castle out in the country and had a loyal autist gf but he bought a dogshit modern house in the fakest and gayest place in the world and tried throwing parties with actors and shit and surprise surprise he didn't fit in. Women that game and are into legos and shit do exist. Shit all my mom does these days is build legos and play fortnite.
>>577528719>Women that game and are into legos and shit do exist.And they still want the same guys the club thots want
>>577528917Notch has tremendous pull being a famous billionaire he just doesn't have pull among other famous rich people.
>>577528719>Women that game and are into legos and shit do exist. Yes, they're called prostitutes
>>577524075>>577525478The ACA did that for a few years. Back then and today no one seemed to care the ACA provided insurance companies tens of millions of new paying customers.
people seem to forget notch was literally married at some point, it's not like he's an incel
all notch needs is to square tf up. he has all the money to buy the best supplements and the best trainers and yet he's still a repulsive fat fuck
>>577529351he married an intern, and she divorceraped him only a year after marriage
>>577529351and he got divorce raped which is exactly what will happen to these retards thinking money will give them "le charisma"
sex??? money??? those are worldy things that dont show the splendor of your soul. why are you focusing on that . ?
>>577529357There's no gym in his 70 million dollar mansion
stop posting eric i feel depressed
>>577525257>>577525384>>577525503It's all about perspective.
>>577529569>rotate somehow has more spiritual energy than the average aggy dagggrim
>>577527726That's actually pretty cool.
>>577529357>>best supplements and the best trainers>maybe if I buy stuff I can become better?not how it works. if you want it, you can get into top 1% shape at planet fitness and eating rotisserie chicken and green beans. if you don't want it, no amount of "supplements" or "trainers" will get you there
>>577529569there's tons of sex going on in the Highest Heavenly Realm. You think this stuff is necessary? It's all a game.
>>577527726Legos are more fun and creative than gamedev.
>>577528719Hook your mom up with notch
>>577529816nigga that's what im trying to say
>>577529767asceticism is the spiritual form of virtue signaling. The very focus on asceticism is a worldly focus. True spirituality is going to come from the actual underlying philosophy, not the blips and baubles of asceticism or outward ritual.
>>577529643Chads don't waste their time entertaining brainrot kids on X for attention though. I've never seen a Chad go out and buy like 10 levi jackets or something to make Undertale fans laugh for attention, I hardly even see them on social media to begin with.
>>577529984
>>577526248why do people spend hundreds on shoes that look fucking stupid?
>>577530043The fact you even see it as "denying yourself" shows how far you still have to go
how would this general be like without the crabs?
>>577530182I've reached the pinnacle of spiritual enlightenment. I'm the All Seeing Eye that they reference. I'm the Black Sun. I'm the Father and I'm the Son.
>>577530185which post(s) hurt your feelings
>>577530172it takes him 5 seconds to make that money and they are probably extremely comfy
>>577530063Ozempic claims another
>>577525503Never having to work again would mean feeling like a human being for more than two days a week
>>577532175>browsing 4chan at work:|>browsing 4chan at home:o
>>577532175the kind of people who get rich are not the kind of people who'll want to stop working. those that are usually aren't rich for long
i think the idea should be good, as long as i don't fuck it up
Your ideas can only ever be as good as your ability to execute. An idea beyond your means is not a good idea.
>>577534218>frog boomer doesn't know about ai
>>577509985If we are talking $1m from my game after steam cut and taxes, then I will be taking a short term vacation from gamedev. I will look onto potential ways of turning it into more money via stocks albeit if now is not a good time just park it in various bank accounts and start working on a new idea or maybe DLC for the game.>>577511802That's grim. I have calculations for this already and iirc something like $1m revenue after steams cuts but before taxes would result in at least $670k profit in the US provided its a state without income tax. The math is more precise on my libre office excel sheet but I uhhh am laying in bed atm lol. You Europeans have it bad when it comes to wagecage escape.>>577519574>>577522437There's like 3 or 4 different varieties of this jackett. Have 3 of one type (not the same as Erics, I tried his it was not very comfy compared to the ones I have)>>577529643Damn it really is>see left>assume they are laughing/mocking at him (negative)>see right>assume they are laughing/cheering at him (positive)
>>577530185
Anyone here worked with splines in Unity? I'm trying to attach an object through SplineAnimate, sometimes it works and sometimes it gets attached to a point so far away it doesn't even make sense, I already transform positions from world to local, don't know what else to do there.
>>577530063what a fag...
>>577519073Ah yes I remember Marnix having tongive their business address. Giga cucked. They sure don't want their serfs becoming nobles.
>>577530185A hugbox like discord
My game is coming quite nicely
>>577535483incredible, saar
>>577535483>my grandkid's inheritance is coming along quite nicely
>>577535979
>>577536464>spending 4k on a map editordo sloppers really...?
I'd like to thank all the AI paypigs for financing my 100% free use of AI for everything I need
>>577528205make a boating walking simulator spooky game where you have to avoid the sea monster
>>577530063He sat all his life so he has no ass muscles to cushion his sitting. Many anons probably suffer from the same. Remember to exercise.
>>577536992so Subnautica but without the sub-part?
>>5775301855 posts an hour
>>577536842>not using 200eur subscriptionluddites are retarded
>>577534887>I will look onto potential ways of turning it into more money via stocks albeit if now is not a good timeIf you want long-term gains, you should always invest into an index ETF (one of the safe ones, at least) as soon as possible. Even if it dips, you'll always recover and make more money than you've started with a few years later, especially since you're collecting dividends.https://www.macrotrends.net/2526/sp-500-historical-annual-returns
>>577537172no more like the 20 minute horror games that steam is full of
God I hope I can finally finish this game up by this weekend so I can get back to work on my space game.
>>577539091looks like a glorified walking sim
>>577539091whoa, looks good anon.
>>577539424Not too far off
>>577540106your game looks so cool
>>577540106intensely atmospheric game. This looks great.
>>577539091>GirlSnow.webmI can keep her warm...
it's called dream game, not "best idea you have".it means you had a dream and you need to make that dream real. it doesn't mean you have a good idea.
It's called a dream game because you'll eventually wake up and realize you wasted a decade of your life.
It's called a dream game because with your lack of discipline you can only dream about it ever being finished.
wish i could have dreams that felt like a decade desu
Hello. My project has reached a point where I can share it. Please take a look if you like strategy/tactics games and share it with friends since it's pvp. https://charliesel.itch.io/pastel-tactics
i like abandoned ambitious early access games that are broken and buggy. kenshi is better than stardew valley.
>>577544618>with friendsnormoids OUT
>>577544618>5 different art styles in one screenshot>nonsensical game designSo this is the power of vibecoding...
iam making progress to enjoy life again. playing vidya, drinking soda, eating candy. undoing all the minmaxing that made my life shit. maybe some day i'll find the fun again that first got me to gamedev, cause i didn't start for the money, i started cause it was badass and fun to program.i wanna be that chill guy who plays wow relaxed for 20 years and keeps maxing progress and not that tryhard who quits after 1 month of 24/7 grinding.
>>577545470https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/balance
step 1: wear fedorastep 2: get overweightstep 3: make voxel gamestep 4: buy la mansion with m&m dispenserstep 5: live comfy life with infinite money
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dLeOa6Oan_w
i wore a fedora when i was younger and a girl kissed me in it.
>>577540106The shoveling looks wonky. Ask AI to make it more realistic.
>>577545470millennials are so fucking pathetic its unreal
Is making connections irl even a thing anymore? I live in LA and went to a gamedev mixer and it was all dreamers who have never made a game. You're always going to have access to more talent on the internet anyway. It seems like there's no benefit to living in a place like LA nowdays.
>>577547896this guy is going to be considered a prophet in 20 years
>>577547896notice how tanned he is - not a coincidence
Do we think it's a rosary?
when you have no girlfriend you feel shit.when you have 2 or more female friends you could possibly date and you like all of them but you have to decide for one of them you always feel like shit for having to stop contact with the others ones.game mechanics that function like this? like "you can only bond with one thing, even though you have multiple options you care about"
>>577550872just make a erotic roleplay game
somehow i always dont know what to dev the same time i dont know what to playi need to open my third eye and see what i want to play but what doesnt exist yet. thats the only way forward.cause i dont even know what i could potentionally like to play.
here's an idea: make a good game
$20 or $15? i feel like anything lower than 15 will make people think the game is shit and not worth it and anything higher than 20 will make them hesitant to buy it
>>577551467both are too much for an indie unless your game is targeting some sort of an underrepresented niche
>>577550836change your socks eric
>>577550836I'm more interested in missingno on the right
>>577551467whenever I see an indie game from a no-name solo dev that looks pretty nice but flopped, I check the price and see $15 and go, 'well of course'
>>577547896>/shorts/
>>577551714he could have just cropped the picture. probably something innocuous but will get people talking
>>577551467Why only $20?$25 is more premium
>be me>friendless girlfriendless jobless>excess male, zero value>friday night>rotting in my childhood bedroom making a gameI'm running out of copes bros
>>577551467step 1: make sure players would play your game for free
>>577550836based and christpilled
>>577552616at least you are not making things worse for anyone. you could be a politician or in a gang or something
>>577551569while it's solo indie, i would argue it's AA quality, at the very least it's 15 hours if you're really good at the game, most would take like 25 hours and has decent amount of replayability, and it would have content that rival AAA games in it's genre, the only things that would be really bad are no voice acting and the soundtrack is going to be copyright free music.And it's kind of niche it's a mix of a popular and niche genre>>577551921it's an ue5 game it doesn't have the look of a cheap indie, i feel like pricing it lower than 15 will make people think that it's shit.>>577552293too much without having a nice soundtrack or voice acting, and at 20 i only need to sell 10k copies to reach my goal.>>577552770obviously i would be releasing demo and updates to it and try to create a community before i put it on steam it would have no chance if i just released it on steam just like that.
>>577552616my life changed when i tried to bond over honesty rather than trying to impress.in my opinion thats the only way to bond anyway, everything else is just sexual trade.
>>577552994>obviously i would be releasing demook so why worry about now whether to charge $15 or $20?
>>577552770it's legitimately good advice, I've said this in the past that I wouldn't even play whatever game they're making for free, and they don't even consider any other possibility than, it's not my type of game or something
>>577553283Worrying about shit that will never happen is much more fun than making games.
>>577553283How does releasing a demo affect the pricing?
The $20 argument is pretty mundane. If you're claiming roughly 15–25 hours of content, replayability, and unusually high production value for a solo indie game, asking whether $15 or $20 makes more sense isn't inherently avaricious.The more interesting thing is that the thread contains two completely different developer mindsets:"I want to make a cool game and hopefully people like it."versus"I need to position this product correctly so I can sell 10,000 copies."The latter is absolutely the vibe of >>577552994.
>>577554354>/agdg/ is less sovlful than AI
>>577488916Carrots come in many colors. The red ones here supposedly have more lycopene per gram than tomatoes.
>>577550872I don't understand why not date the 2 female friends.But to answer your question, skill trees
I should throw the soulslike on the backburner, I'm not built for the asset grind right now. the dream can wait.the other idea is a job horror game where you're a kidnapped work slave. some 'figure out how to escape without alerting anyone' loop.
Made a blood effect.
the ghost of creativity keeps haunting me
Do indie game players accept just farting out weird presets as dark ambient music?https://vocaroo.com/1hQUUqH2u1w9
>>577555537CONE-HOBOS HATE THIS ONE TRICK
>>577555657wdym
>>577555813I mean I am creatively bankrupt
>>577555657Depends on the games look. This sounds good. I like the layers, the random rattle etc. Maybe would fit in some plastiboo looking game
it's kinda depressing that to me music is the 2nd important thing in a game after gameplay and i'm gonna have to use royalty free music because i have 0 budget
>>577555434why are you talking about fucking carrots
>>577556839I have royalty free music in my game and nobody has said it's good or bad. but I did catch a streamer bobbing his head to it so idk. probably fine. but I know a killer soundtrack would elevate my game a ton because I used to play it with temp tracks from killer soundtracks...
>>577556924Because I asked him.
>>577556839>music is the 2nd important thing>doesn't learn how to write music>after gameplay>doesn't learn game designWhy are aggies like this?
what's the gamedev equivalent of pirating daws, vsts, soundbanks and drumkit?
>>577556839You can always befriend a musician, they're social people.
>>577557267stealing assets
>>577556924do root vegetables trigger you rotate
>>577557267https://www.spriters-resource.com/
>>577557317yes
>>577556995where to find good ones? is there anything similar to nier or ghost in the shell sac?>>577557142i did learn game design and my game would have fun combat, i would never learn music or art because i simply have 0 artistic talent it would be a waste of time.>>577557276i'm a shut in.
>>577556839well at least royalty free music sounds better than what I make >>577555657making good music is even harder than good gameplay
>>577557510Game design is the highest form of art.
>>577437242>>577437242Working on rock columns to make up the terrain for my side scroller, coming out very AAA
>>577558128How they'll look snapped together
>>577558449>>577558128how many billions of vertices is tha
>>577558563higher number = better
>>577558449kino
>>577537153Nice try, ass lifter
>>577558563Each platform is like 100k lmao, nanite go brrrr
>>577558958bro just bake the meshes holy shit you only need a few thousands verts here in total, maybe even less
>>577558563>>577558958feels good being an UNREALCHAD
>>577557815>>577556839you didn't give me a review so now I feel bad
>>577559162>gramps still thinks we bake like its the 2010skek
Having sex is integral to being a yes dev.
>>577559162Bro have you seen the tri counts on the megascan assets? I'll be alright lmao
>>577559294not bad at all but it's not what i like
>>577550872Picking one of three upgrades in Vampire Survivors
>>577559390you are retarded, people still bake, the entire sculpting modelling flow relies on itand japanese anime game studios still do poly modelling
>>577557510>is there anything similar to nier or ghost in the shell sac?no. nothing remotely close. people making music of that caliber get paid.
>>577559551obviously not in quality but the type or vibe
>>577510207the beautiful polished wood breaks my fucking immersionit should be a FILTHY GUTTER to CONTRAST with SHINY MAN and BALLS
>>577559540my protag will be one million polys and you will be happy
>>577559650maybehttps://chrishuelsbeck.bandcamp.com/album/royalty-free-music-vol-2there are vibes, but, idk maybe too much funk.
>>577557267Pirating 3DS Max, Bryce, Maya, and SolidWorks.
>>577560053why not speedtree, character creator and clo3d? too obvious?
>>577559976*this is up there in quality but also 10 bucks. but royalty free.
>>577560053>>577560209AI replaced all that shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkiarj67xXgthis is what a soundtrack should sound like
japanese detective game. rainy day, camera flies slowly through the streets. people sit in bars and small restaurants. a man is smoking, staring into the void, calm yet somewhat sad.all this while this song is playing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASrGaWqGyyMand then you start playing in the bar. asking questions to customers about the crime that happened.
I will hire a free orchestra to make my soundtrack
>>577561030I'm in. >Nani kyorokyoro shiten no sa.
>>577561030>thing>thing japan :O
>>577561827>having your own opinion>copying your opinions from memes :O
>>577442826>>577444161Hey Shartynigger, your failed website is two blocks down.Why don't you go over there instead of the website you bitch about having "diddy ahh vibes"?
Japanimation is not that good
>>577561993yep, japan is a crappy meme
>>577561827no other country got nuked twice. it creates a whole vibe.
>>577562294the peaks of it are unmatched albeit. so it is that good.
>>577562294>Pretends Western animation wasn't taken over by woke Tumblr Millenials with arrested development and hacks like Seth McFarlane who view the medium as a joke, so Genndy is like the only one doing something meaningful with the medium
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6DmmEjuF3U
genndy was the original weaboo. (that's a good thing)
>>577562704American Dad is funny af doe
>>577447367Boxer here. Get those elbows in. Nice slip, but he should have his hand up while doing it. I'd ditch the cross-guard: Actually try that some time, it just means that you're getting punched in the wrist and getting hit by your own hands.I like how the camera moves while fighting and the foundation is solid.
>>577483001Most of the people behind those Xiao Xiao games are probably dead by now.>>577439416I kinda hate the misaligned pixels.>>577562937He learns from anime but in more subtle ways, as opposed to "diet anime" shows like that one with Superman where Lois Lane looks like a generic tomboy.Makes sense given he's half Russian, since they do have an interesting history with animation.>>577562995Seth shows can be funny but only in older episodes when they weren't as cynical and had a bit of proper animation.Now it's just ads for recent shows and celeb shill cameos.Also there's an AD episde where they have Kamala in it because you can tell they made it in hopes she'd win.But there's a reason why they're popular with the YT short/Insta Reel format, because it really is "turn off your brain" shit.
why not play with some dolls while you watch your cartoons lmao
>>577563989i'll never cheat on my hand
>>577563989i play with my peanus weanus
>>577563684how would you rate the episode where Hayley turned into a fish and got pregnant with Klaus' babies
>>577439416>mixelsngmi
a sign of professionalism and experience is the realization that you cannot make a game alone and without a budget.
>>577558449Wherever I look I see him.. Saddam
>>577555537It's ok, but do you plan on having multiple patterns? Looks pretty samey. The further ones should probably be smaller or streaks.
>>577563989i'll play with dolls and watch cartoons and i'll wear my hair in twintails and pretend i'm little :3
>>577564225Yeah, that statement is far too absolute to be a meaningful definition of professionalism.“A sign of professionalism and experience is the realization that you cannot make a game alone and without a budget.”There are several problems with it.1. “A game” is an enormous category.You absolutely can make a game alone, with essentially no monetary budget. The existence of solo-developed games across everything from tiny puzzle games and experimental projects to commercially successful indie games disproves the universal claim.What you can't necessarily do alone and without a budget is make every kind of game.There's an enormous difference between:a two-week puzzle gamea solo RPGa 2D platformera simulationa multiplayer shooteran open-world AAA-style game with thousands of assets, cinematics, voice acting, etc.Saying “you cannot make a game alone” because the last category is impractical is like saying you cannot make a film alone because you can't personally operate a Hollywood production.2. Solo development doesn't mean doing literally everything yourself.3. “Professionalism” isn't synonymous with having employees or a budget.A professional approach can mean understanding your constraints and designing the project around them.In fact, there's something arguably more professional about saying:“I'm one person, so I'm going to design a game whose scope one person can actually finish.”rather than:“I need 20 people and $2 million before I can make anything.”The professional realization isn't “I cannot make a game alone.”It's:“I need to understand what I can realistically accomplish with the resources available to me.”And that can lead to a solo project, a team project, or a heavily outsourced project depending on what you're trying to build.
>>577539091And just like that I figured it lut, you are Spurdo dev>inb4 its the other guy who went from 2D to 3D space gameRegardless which I could 3D model at your skill level minimum
>>577566287>Solo development doesn't mean doing literally everything yourself.I always see whiny developers who need to cope say this. If you don't want to solo dev, don't obviously, but you don't have to redefine a word just because you want to seem "solo." It's not a selling point anyway and literally no one cares besides the most nerdy of gamers, so it really doesn't matter that much.
>>577564225I'm built different
>>577550836but what if he loses/gains a ton of weight? irresponsible consoomerism!
>>577566490>whichwish
>>577564409kek
>>577566596I'm not really sure if that is an agreement, disagreement or simply adding something extra, since it's slightly ambiguousI redacted that section since the post was at the length limit and I didn't feel like making a multi-post postalso, I'm pretty sure that's a disagreement with what chatgpt said though I also don't disagree, since I am an engine dev doing everything myself, and I haven't personally purchased or used any assets anywhereI also do not copy gpt programming, since for me, I enjoy the learning process and I make things I enjoy regardless of financial situationsalso, I don't really care about definitions personally, I identified myself here as "an engine dev", however only for context, I usually simply do rather than define
i have an urge to say it
>>577567550ChatGPT is basically a redditor when it comes to his opinions so yeah he thinks solo dev just means anything to him. He'll say the same thing about the word "indie" too
>>577569115sex...
>>577555537I've never seen a game so gmi in a long minute here
>>577569252thanks to normgroids those words have lost all meaning
>>577568986void echo protocol the bastioning echo?
>>577568986six seven?
>>577568986bibisi protocol
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3091140/Lootbound/>indie pixel art project by some pixel dude and his programmer friend maybe?>look inside>lootbound was made by a team of 40 developers. AA DEVS!! YOUR ATTENTION PLEASE!!!STOP STEALING THE OUR AESTHETIC! YOU ARE NOT INDIE! GO BACK TO RIPPING OFF TF2 OR WOWthank you for your attention to this matter
>ask AI to generate me some editor tools>now have like 50 different editor tools doing all sorts of crazy shit>names are all jumbled up so I have to open them one by one to find the one I actually needI need help
>>577574117I did this too. but claude remembers the names so I just say "claude, pull up the editor that lets me put the keyframes on the thingy"
>>577574117Get it to make an all-in-one god editor tool menu c:
how many tools in a god-editor before you have an engine?
pretty happy with this new workflow that generates me correct proportions.So happy now.:D
>>577575829cheiluo me casa el brehomo delucho!
>>577575905*sorry I slurred my speech¡Te juro, me gastó una broma de lujo!
>>577577160rakuga tony?ガ should have the dakuten marks, green. not purple on the left of the ト
>>577577525yeah, pun on rakugaki and tony (the blue guy is tony). thanks for catching that, i really need to actually learn japanese one of these days instead of pretending i know anything.
>>577564225That's why I set a budget to buy assets.
>>577575750Ufo 50 but it's a game engine inside a game engine
>>577555657based
Some concepts I'm working on. These are enchantments for items.
>>577575829after 20 years cris finally unlocked correct human proportions with AIwhat a time to be alive
>>577581620pretty cool dude
who's your indie dev hero? for me: scott cawthonnigga spent 20 years making games until he finally put his style together and created a worldwide phenomenon
>>577563989The reason I don't do that is that quality dolls are expensive and I can't afford them.
>>577564225I can make a game alone without budget. I can't publish it on Steam without a budget though.
normal people>can model humans in blender in 30 days cris>can't model humans in blender in 15 years>has to use ai to get "correct proportions"
>>577573887>40 developers-_- are they even profiting at that point? Seems they're invading the solo indie dev / sub 4 man team indie dev space while giving off vibes of being solodevsUgh they've already started cloning games now they're giving the illusion of being quirky 1 man team devs
>>577583728For me it is Eric Barone. Even before I was a gamedev too many things about him gave me vibes. By that I mean he is mentally like me. Then I later learned I was in fact right kek. Also uhh getting rich, Id like to be rich too but I dont think I will get that outcome :(
>>577588182You get $1mYou lose 30%You have $700kYou lose 40%You have $420kYou lose 50%You have $210kYou add up the 1 guy you hired to help you dev the game, he helped you for 3 years and you underpaid him, 40k a year using debt. You pay back the debt>you have $90k left overEqual to $30k a year to make the game. The guy you underpaid got more than you. Your ex wife got more than you. The government got more than you. Gabe got more than you. Grim
grok is in high spirits today
>>577445836im confused again...so, if this is chris, doesnt fygoon look the same?is chris fygoon, or why do they look so similar?
is there somewhere like an archive that has lots of examples of juice or soul ?
>>577588182>>577588463Sell your game on Epic Games Store, Itchio, PS4/5, Xbox, and Switch/2 instead.
>>577589130>PS4/5, Xbox, and Switch/2all do 30%
>>577588182>government has took 40%luckymeanwhile, germany>19% VAT>42-45% income taxes>18% mandatory health insurance (maximum 1,200€ per month)>[Planned] 18.6% mandatory pension insurance (alternatively 700€ per month flat rate)>3.5% trade tax
>>577589058 https://made-by-agdg.vercel.app/
Get neetbux for 10 years to offset what the gubby steals from your game earnings
>>577589883Most of the taxes are marginal and VAT depends on region. You don't literally pay 45% on all of your income, the effective tax is usually lower.If your game makes 1 million euros on Steam, you take home 33%.
>>577544618>made a pvp game with 0 playerslmao
Here's a portrait I'm working on for my side project. He is the Lardinal of Condiments.Thanks for reading my plog.
>>577551467>>577552994I think to do over $10 your game really needs to compete with AA. You might have enough content but does your game have the production quality to get there? If you don't have that sort of 9/10 quality then you're gonna lose sales early on because of the price. Some of those people might pick it up on sale but by then it's too late. You want to price for those early sales to boost your Steam algo. I have friends who complain that a game is too expensive when it's over 10 even when it's a genre they like. They gotta know through the demo that they love the game for it to be priced higher and still a release day purchase. >>577553757If 5 people play it then no matter what you price it at you won't get sales. If 50000 people play it then you might get away with a higher price.
>>577588694Cris is old enough to be Fygoon's dad.
>>577591181neat
>I think to do over $10 your game really needs to compete with AA.
The Minecraft test is very useful. If your game has shittier graphics than Minecraft, the original Notch programmer art, you need to kill yourself.
>>577591815
>>577591946
>>577592074
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>>577591181Here's the Lardinal of the Southern Bun.That's all I've done so far. See you next plog!!!
uh oh artcope meltie
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1405500/Angel_at_Dusk/>first and second imageerhmmmmmhmhmmhm based?????
>>577566596Where do we draw the line? Can you buy music for your game? Can you buy assets? Can you use an engine? Do you have to make your own OS? What about the hardware?Obviously very few games are truly made by one person. I'd say when it's you working alone doing like 90% of the work then you're a solo dev.
toby fox is a solo developerhe had help from other people, but he the vast majority of work and all of the direction himself.
>>577591815An exception to this rule is if you basically invent or dominate a niche sub-genre.Like Factorio or Zomboid
>>577592478now do this one >>577591946
>>577592560House House are AA with a publisher
>>577592679>no argumentk
>>577592782They got a prime spot at the Geoff Awards, they have a AA marketing budgets.And I think you forgot their previous game.Retard.
>>577588147>are they even profiting at that point?Hell no. They launched at a steep discount and the game still hit mixed with only 200 reviews. For 40 developers it needs to gross millions. To pay 40 developers a poorfag wage of 1k a month they need 480k for the whole year. They're located in Moldova so maybe that's enough but I doubt the game's gonna get there. The game is a low effort combination of a bunch of indie game mechanics. Nothing original and what they put together isn't particularly good. The art is nice and that's about it.>>577573887>indie pixel art project by some pixel dude and his programmer friend maybeThis is what I expected as well. It doesn't feel like a game from a large team.
I've never used AI, not once, I just... I'm just not into AI, what even is that? Like a toy? Like E.T? No, I read actual text. Dostoyevsky, Anne Frank, I Killed A Mocking Bird, The Color Purple, ever heard of these? No? Well maybe you should heard of these... Maybe you should. *smokes cigarette and looks at the sunset*
looks like im still rightmotivational song of the dayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXiHgb5Qgys
>>577589883>>577590651Looked into this for my country in the EU and supposedly the health and pension insurance is tax deductible. So you need to pay the insurance but you get to deduct it from your income taxes.
>>577593797what the fuck is this garbage
this game gives give made-in-unity vibes
Hey anons. I spend the last 2 months working on the demo for my monster girl dating sim, "Dreadlines". My steam page is going up soon, along with a trailer. For now, you can find my demo here: https://zimt-games.itch.io/dreadlines-demo I'd love to hear your thoughts/feedback/ideas!
>>577593797YouTubeVideo unavailableIt was blocked due to the claimed content by UMG.
>>577595617works on my machine
>>577591815>>577591946>>577592074>>577592173>random slop went viral which means my game will tooshitty business strategy
the new twitter media sucks dickwhy the fuck did elon have to be such a stupid fucking chud???
Made a pushable object, but I'm not sure if I need to make it more obvious somehow?It gets pushed by just walking into it
>>577595518/agdg/ only plays demos during demo day
>>577595518not playing unless the moth girls have huge futa cocks and rape regular women or lolis
>making 2d games in 2026
>>577596003add more foliage or kill yourself nice game >>577596096ikr
>>577596003make it look more interesting. it's the same black and brown color as the background elements you walk straight through. or add yellow gamer paint
>>577596003add an animation gesture the character looks like he's ready to grab it or whatever as he gets near itthe game looks good but its just as easy to just make a 3d game that actually looks unique now
>>577596003give it a highlight border when the player gets close?
>>577592886Ah I see so long as you are popular before, no matter how low quality your game is you can command a higher price.>inb4 anon claims these games are of top tier quality and it's not about building a playerbase who will pay higher and higher prices just cause you're popular in the gamedev scene
>>577596954pricing is a shit-test that's backed by setting expectations which is backed by marketing.quality certainly helps the expectations, but it has always been optional.I agree BW is a $10 game, but Goose was also $20, so likely the price was insisted by their publisher.
>>577596165th-thanks i'll add more>>577596224I'll give this a go, though I'll probably will end up with the yellow gamer paint as I've already got some on other sprites that provide cover>>577596287Could try this but I hate animatingI'll try 3D one day>>577596876Was tempted to do this but I have highlight borders on stuff you press a button to interact with, but you just walk into this and it starts pushing
>>577597381get a claude sub = no codingget a cascadeur sub = pose only 3d animatingrun trellis2 = no modellingE to the muthafuckin Z boysu do u tho
>>577597381>Was tempted to do this but I have highlight borders on stuff you press a button to interact with, but you just walk into this and it starts pushingdifferent color border? a dotted/dashed border?
>>577598149it's amazing how everyone had subscription fatigue from streaming, and then along comes another sub hell, and it magically goes away because people got dopameme hits with automated github scraping.we truly are a cattle species
>>577598149Whats ur game?
>>577598637Unfinished unity cube prototype asset project #3245i now have a fully generated 3d cube fully automated animated and programmed to claude to move in 3 directions and fall off a flat plane all with white default materials and no polish whatsoever
>>577598149nah>>577598320Yea good idea, will give this a go
hey I haven't been here for a whileis there a better place to discuss actual vidya dev instead of having to deal with jeets posting ai concept art or ritual posters? is the trashchan /agdg/ any good? It seems slow.
>>577598617I have yet to come across a subscription service worth paying for. They always cost more than what I get out of them and end up wasting money when I don't use the service.
this short track i shat out deserves its own PSX stealth action sneaking gamehttps://vocaroo.com/1dgBt4EO1zkK
>>577599334based and vibeshitter pilled now copy spinter cell chaos theory OST and make a banger blast section go loud part or kill yourself (jk)
new feature in my engine
I've been a good boy yesterday so I rewarded myself with bananas after breakfast.76 days left until I run out of money. I owe 2200 minutes of work. Spent the last 2 days diagnosing and fixing a nasty bug. I don't know what I'll do today. There's one last big system I need to implement but I'm not sure how to even get started. Maybe today I'll just fix some bugs and add some sound effects.
>>577596096I'm gonna make a 2D pixel art game and I will like it.
>>5775960963D simply takes too long in most cases
>>577601356Same. It's an even more uphill battle with getting attention though. 3d just works better for any trailers or whatever. Since you and 'film' it. Even 2d games with full on 2d anime cutscenes are struggling compared to average 3d games.
>>577596224Yellow caution tape on a stack of metal sheets wouldn't look out of place...
>>577600934I just remembered you had a drivable vehicle. Been a while since it saw it.
>>577595518I have eczema so I won't be playing it. But the art looks great, artist to artist.
I need the shameless mindset of a third worlder who just slopped something together and is posting 3 times a minute on 30 different subreddits daily charging 5 dollars for a beta
>>577604283That's more of a youth mindset than a 3rd world mindset
>>577596003>>577596224>>577602452Added tape, better?
@kannadevi found this cute image of arisu on s4sit's colored like bury pink girli thought you should have it.
>>577605397Yeah. That fits in well. Osha certified
>>577600934I always wondered how you could make roads on generated terrain. Does this approach have a name or something I can search for?
oh yeah I'm cooking nowdefinitely gonna pivot to an mgs-likehttps://vocaroo.com/17ckks0uGG3V
I hate animating so fucking muchWhy hasn't anyone made a way to automate ts yet? We have fucking text-to-video bs, but no image-to-animation? What a gay ass world
>>577605397it stands out a lot better, but I would try to teach it through gameplay by putting a crate somewhere where you have to bump into it and see the pushing animation, then put something visually interesting on the second floor above the broken stairs so they have to use the block to reach it
>>577604283I wonder if it's their lack of honor and morals or is it simply that living in the turd world is so awful that they're desperate to dig themselves out of it even if it means scamming
>>577605397Hmm... maybe some scratch marks? (badly edited image for inspiration purposes only)
>>577607087What are you animating? 2D skeletons? 3D skeletons? Hand-drawn?
>>577604283>>577608084you're talking about the /v3/ s*ammers?
>>577609880nah
im joining v3 now just to spite this retard lol
>>577606509Great>>577607502>but I would try to teach it through gameplay by putting a crate somewhere where you have to bump into it and see the pushing animationMaybe I'll put some loot the opposite side of the object so the player heads over there>then put something visually interesting on the second floorYea I was hoping the light shaft would be enough, but because the room isn't dark I think I'll have to do this>>577608117Good shout, will give it a go and see how it looks
>>577610080and I'll make sure to give it an extra view >>577439098
My game is starting to feel fun to play
What sort of singleplayer MMO should I make? Erenshor and a few others have shown that there's a market for these but there's so many possibilities I can't decide what to focus on.
>>577583728Me.I'm my own hero because no one else will save me.
>>577610434you're the first dev here in a long while who mined the diamonds
>>577607063mgs is a movie game and you can't write or direct for shit
I'm far from being the only loser here and I know this isn't the best place to ask but I also don't know of any better place.I went in game dev a few years ago in hopes of making it a jobby, or get skills to get hired.being a 1MA is inherently contradictory to being a wagie. Wide skills, medium level. you want high proficiency to get hired. even if I do get highly proficient, there are 50k laid off devs more skilled than me.Making games is a gamble. I can make all sorts of games "like other popular things", I don't know if they'll be popular until 1-2 months into a prototype.I can also make a deeper game, and that's my deepest desire, but I'm miserable stuck living in this shithole country in poverty.>get a jobI likely will next month, but a mcdonalds type job will make me more miserable than attempting to solodev, so if I can't get something decent I won't.I can continue solodev in trash conditions, not being able to realize my potential. I can also try to get high skills in a single profession, likely technical art. I tried becoming a webmonkey before and couldn't do it. If it bores me I don't think I can study it. I don't know what to do.
>>577609309Hand drawn cartoony shit, hollow knight style
>>577613314So was the point to just bitch about your life or did you have an actual point or a question?
>>577613496How do I go from here to self sufficiency and a job that lets me immigrate?
>>577607087we have image to video
lol, v3 opened up its borders and is taking in outsiders now
>>577613897>gamble on small projects and do a couple releases per yearor>find a wagie job that pays enough that you can save up to leave your shitholeor>figure out something else you can do for money while making games on the side
>>577613314If you can't handle web programming, idu how you think being a solodev will be enjoyable. Your day is still just in front of a pc programming all day.
It's been something like 10 years since the last time I was here. Back then I was trying to make a pong clone using lazyfoo SDL C/C++ Tutorials.In general how did the rise of AI Tools change the game dev space ?
>>577614527There's like a million times more dogshit games being released but the same number of good games.
I kinda love my job working at a game studio but at the same time I feel a little worried. Just now I opened up my laptop at home to start concepting up an idea for a new armor set i had only to realize it's the weekend and I would be working for free. But at the same time I probably won't have time to do it ay work because we gotta get shit done fast so there's not much time to stop and think about design too hard
>>577614527>In general how did the rise of AI Tools change the game dev space ?Destroyed these threads through spam for sure
>>577614527AI absolutely let's people make more complex games than they otherwise would have. It speeds things up dramatically. But it depends on the dev. Actually probably most devs struggle to use AI. They are fags who are like "wah wah it takes the fun out of things." "Wah wah I have to check the code so it's probably faster for me to do things myself, except I'm neurodivergent and can't focus with meth." I have a theory that if you're more of a sensor on the Myers Briggs test, the less you like AI. Not that you totally dismiss it, but the more of a sensor that you are, you less open you are to AI. The more intuitive you are, the more you like AI. And then the other issue is low caliber devs from a moral standpoint can't handle the power, and give over thinking to the AI 100%, and that'll only lead to hell and stagnation. But if you're intuitive and a person of lordly caliber, it makes you much more effective.
>>577614154I think I would actually prefer to drudge through the entire drawing process than screenshot->remove background->compile to sheet for every fucking frame. Or kill myself.
>>577614527Now I have my own personal AI cheerleader to keep me motivated while I dev which is nice but otherwise my dev process is about the same
>>577454393Damn this looks cool would love to use this myself.
>Don't know how to do thing>claudia, how to do live terrain deformation in [engine] like "a game about digging a hole">the general idea is X, here are the scripts I madeNo one doubts this is the most optimized way to dev, but it's also the surefire way to get mushbrain. I'm cooked.
>>577615525It's a real danger.Especially calling it Claudia
>>577614860
>>577615726Isn't Richard Dawkins the retard who wrote "The God Delusion"? Why would I listen to anything this faggot believes
>>577616575Imagine being completely and totally wrong about everything you said for a decade, and still giving your opinion publicly. He's a fucking idiot.
>>577616575>>577616657>they're not atheists in the current yearno wonder you were kicked off reddit so you had to come here
>>577614785>than screenshot->remove background->compile to sheet for every fucking frameyou're a fucking gamedev why the fuck would you do this by hand?
>>577615525it's kinda insane how AI can handle things that normally only a fraction of devs would have had access to like the terrain deformation in those gameslike at first it was impressive to see it but once a dozen of those games showed up it's like right AI did it for them that's why those games suddenly showed up and it stops being coolI admit I made a prototype of such a mechanic with AI when I realized it could figure it out
>>577617234"Oh no, I can make anything I want now, but that means I need to have original ideas, I'm cooked chat!" Many such cases.
>>577616831How else would you do it? Code a fucking ffmpeg decompiler?
Top or bottom?(Or for those who don't want to reveal their sexual preferences, A or B?)
Played around with the effect to make it feel more organic. I like the clip with the bigger splotches at least on this big flat background.>>577564760Now that I have the system setup, I can add variations pretty easily. Though I like the current look a lot already.>>577569880Thanks anon!
>>577616575>>577616657Why are chrstcucks so obsessed over him? No atheist has thought about the guy for over a decade, retards still think he's some kind of 'Pope of Atheism'.
>>577618615Seems like you athiest cucks are pretty butthurt about the comments. This is two responses now. Go castrate a toddler to appease your gods faggot.
>>577618493Bottom- The empty space looks annoying amonst all the lovely visual clutter.
>>577618681>post stupid bullshit>several anons call you out>"Haha obsessed!"Take the L
>>577617370You have no idea how bad things will get.This game had its demo up for like, a couple months -- it's incremental slop, but has pretty competent hand drawn art and such and suchhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4157430/Diggin/estimated revenue ~60kThis game copied the game above and launched 2 days earlier - pretty blatant AI art, no disclosurehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/4297840/Rock_Bottom/estimated revenue 200k usd
>>577616575To be fair, The Selfish Gene isn't bad. Though Kaczynski's essay on self-propagating systems (released later than Selfish Gene I think) basically covered the more interesting parts the Selfish Gene in a more generalised manner and far more succinctly .Never read God Delusion, seemed low quality. And hey the dude did give us the world "Meme", his true lasting legacy
where are the satanistdevs?what are you drinking this morning? just coors lite for me.
>>577618969What a fag response. "Muh take the L" Go fuck yourself. Atheists have paraded around like retards my entire life. "Without sky daddy I'm pretty sure people will like, act rationally and follow scientific processes and we can finally advance!" Fast forward a decade - "Ok, let's abort post birth children, if they aren't aborted let's vaccinate them til they are retarded, if they get passed that let's castrate them or chemically castrate them, if they get passed that let's have tranny story time where they get molested. Let's just rape them." Wow, very rational world you've helped build without skydaddy. It's even worse than the ancient child sacrificing cults.
https://www.sciencefictionclassics.com/why-modern-blockbusters-cant-stop-explaining-their-bad-guys/i wish every gamedev was forced to read this article
>>577619378No, that's pretty much exactly the same thing lmao>>577619105Just a cranberry juice for me
>>577619683>>577619378"No that doesn't happen!""I literally want to consume your aborted fetus and period blood. I want to eat the umbilical cord."www. tiktok.c o m/@yagirlgabby_/video/7603524603402636557?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc
"Evil becomes a problem to be solved rather than a force to be reckoned with. It is nothing more than post-modern psycho-babble pretending to be a plot."
>>577618493bottom for sure.
>>577619604But I like villains that are sympathizable...
>>577619604Not one minute in and he is already wrong. Hal goes rogue because its given conflicting orders? Just because right before the villain dies you dont have some faggey anime flashback to some kid stealing his pokemon cards in his childhood doesn't mean his motives aren't clear and explained. Same with the xenomorph, bud just wanted to breed, pretty clear motive
>>577620142>>577618731Thanks, I was hoping to hear that. I did the second one after someone told me the top looks too empty, but I spend so much time staring at zoomed in pixels I lose track of what actually looks fine or not. My first attempt to fix it was pic related but that felt a bit *too* noisy/busy so I tried to tone it down a bit.
>>577620339>Same with the xenomorph, bud just wanted to breedWhoa he's just like me...
>>577620243name one, and tell me why you'd like when they stand in front of you and kill your loved ones. if you'd understand a muhammed who kills your daughter, would you have sympathy for him?
>>577595518Damn those character designs are great and I love the old windows interface, I'm already jealous of your future success.
>>577595970You're using Firefox aren't you?
>>577619604Villains/heroes dichotomy is played out. It's suitable only for children and simpletons. I'm not going to tell the player who's the good guy and who's the bad guy. In fact I muddy the waters and subvert their roles as much as I can. I got a kick out of going on my game's discord and seeing players arguing about who's the worst piece of shit in my game
i think the real genius isn't capable to do everything from scratch, but to utilize everything at his disposal.utilization is the most underrated mindset.everyone is obsessed with being "selfmade".
>>577618415there's infinite ways to solve the problem but if you're video genning then comfyui has some background removal options and I'm sure there's nodes there to make sprite sheets as wellI haven't done video to sprite animation per se but I have done 3d to sprite animation in unity and it can do it just fine so any modern engine should be capable of it though I suppose background removal you might wanna handle elsewherethere's tools like corridorkey to solve background removalin the first place you should use an image that has white, black or green background though there's always a chance the video gen will fuck it up
jon blow be like "i make everything from scratch, i wanna have full control and understand everything".also jon blow: "i hired 3 graphics programmers to write the shaders for the game" (he literally said that on stream, not made up)explain this
>>577620435Alma from F.E.A.R., because she's just an innocent little girl that was born with a psychic nuclear bomb inside her head and was tortured to death, she don't know any better
>>577615726>famous person who has no qualifications to seriously talk about AI or consciousness says something retarded about AI and consciousness
>>577618997One game is rated 'mostly positive' other game is sitting comfortably at 94%. That's all I need to know.
why to play this game?>proc gen'ed world? ok so exploration is boring>no real conflict between good and evil? ok so its only about number going up?>it's inspired by other games? ok so nothing new?those games nowadays dont answer why i should play them. they all feel like a random collection of ideas.
>>577622058>jon blow be like "i make everything from scratchHe never said this. That's just a vibe an uneducated viewer gets when he watches clips.
>>577622815the irony. he shits on unity even though he never used it. oh i forgot "he looked into the engine for some hours in 2012". oh then he probably knows what he talks about, right?
>>577623091>he looked into the engine for some hours in 2012". oh then he probably knows what he talks about, right?Yes? Do you need more?
>>577623091That you talked out of your ass about JBlow does not mean that JBlow can't talk out of his ass about other things.These are not connected.
>>577621841For me the power ranks are:Good vs Good > Good vs Evil > Anything with grey morality flawed characters Characters who fundamentally are good people with reasonable understanding of morality who still come into conflict due to conflicting interests and beliefs is top tier. I clean good guy vs villain can be fun too if a bit simple usually. Personally I've grown tired of all fencing sitting grey characters. Its always some variant of "check this guy out, he tries to go the right thing sometimes, but is also a degenerate retarded and cant help but have incest and try and kill children sometimes". Give me character with an internally consistent moral frame work and who can actually uphold themselves to it.
>>577622678Stellaris is all 3 of those things you said. >they all feel like a random collection of ideas.If the random collection ideas is fun and is a unique combination, your golden
>>577618997This is why you gotta be ready to launch after your next fest demo. We're gonna see more and more of these sorts of demo snipes for small games. I'm leaning towards a timeline like>register for next fest>reveal your steam page>have demo up for 2-4 weeks before next fest and patch it for bugs>participate in next fest>finish game in 1-2 months and release as that would leave no time for snipers to steal your shit. Only applies to small games that are quickly cloneable.Honestly I think Rock Bottom trailer showing the late game chaos in the first few seconds might have made the difference. Of course releasing a couple days before is big too.>>577622647That is a good point. Diggin complaints in reviews seem to be centered around repetitive and grindy gameplay with poor progression pacing. Rock Bottom has some similar negative reviews but also a bunch complaining about AI art. Another thing to note is that Rock Bottom has 1 hour longer average playtime.
>>577621841>I got a kick out of going on my game's discord and seeing players arguing about who's the worst piece of shit in my gameyou mean you fantasized about players doing this in your imaginary discord because you don't have a game
i don't have a game and i'm tired of pretending i do
>>577623209unity in 2012 and unity in 2015 were like night and day improvements after 2015 were a bit more incremental but it's still gotten quite a bit better in many ways
>>577624029>seething envyJust like release game and make it okay and you'll get fans on discord and fanmade wiki
>>577624424Sure. But 2012 was when he decided to work on his next project so he had to make a decision based on what was available at the time. You don't just change engines 3 years in development unless you have really good reasons. (And then he'd work 3 years on it, and Unity pulls off that change of ToS stunt, and he'd likely change engines again just like Road to Vostok and Slay the Spire devs did.)
>>577624029I got a kick out of going on my game's discord and seeing players fantasizing about having sex with me.Too bad I am saving up my virginity for Saber from Fate Stay Night
This is why I can't buy a new computer in 2026
>>577619797So? They're vampires, just like christcucks
I got banned from my game's discord for asking about where I can find a pirated version. I was just curious and got a ban. they didn't know I was the developer
im going to put the most problematic people ever in the credits of my game to farm seethinglike you'll see groomers and ppl like yandere dev in the 'special thanks' sectionand ppl will be making videos about itit's the perfect plan + it makes the hater shit themselves
>friend keeps sending me texts every week asking how my game is going>tfw don't have the strength to tell him I've given up on my 20th project this year
>>577629835I haven't given up on anything. I'll get back to them eventually.
this could be ur game
>>577629835>>577630415this is what happens when you're not forced to make games to survive
>>577629835just don't tell your friends you're making a game, problem solved
>>577631041I think about that sometimes. On one hand having a job makes me more sloppy and meandering with my gamdev since their is no pressure. On the other hand, I have a job and this is a hobby, why shouldnt I project hope whenever I feel like it
>>577631804You will end up like Scott Cawthon. Pumping out 70 shitty games to pay the bills
a hobby you do for money lacks both the professionalism of a real job and the creativity of a free passion
>he doesn't love his H O B B Y enough to make a sustainable income from it, so that he may spend more time with it
>>577628308>he poorlmaot. posted from my RTX 5090
>>577631041I'd have died from poverty
>>577610439Erenshor dev spent 4 years on the game before the EA release so you better decide quick.
pegfinity won the pegwars
>>577636989all the time I've spent project hopping is starting to haunt me
>>577588182don't forget bank fees
>>577595518looks very cute. do you draw the backgrounds too?
>>577588182>taxesWays around that>divorceDont be married>>577639502If your rich enough the banks pay you to work with themAlright, maybe gaben is too, powerful he is the only one you cant realistically avoid lmao
>>577595518please post a demo at demo day so I have another excuse to draw your girls in fanart. Also who's the artist?
It's almost like game devs try to teach each other to make games I don't want to play. Yeah I understand scope has to be managable, but that's not my problem as a consumer. I don't play your games just to not hurt your feelings.
>>577640921If you're a dev you understand why this trend exists. Making games with any bit of scope takes a long time. It's a bit more manageable when you minimize other parts like art by going roguelike and such but it's still a fuckton of work to make a game with content and scope. It doesn't help that gamers are rewarding devs for making these short consumable games in the form of friend slop, horror slop, incremental slop and idle slop. If releasing a game is a gamble it makes more sense to gamble on shorter games that you can dev quicker.
>>577640921>teach each other to make games I don't want to playbig plague in indie dev is hacks desperate for success, who succumb to slop. Subsequently, all their opinions start revolving around "Slop Success", which turns their "advice" into essentially telling other devs to lower their quality so they can ship faster.
>>577640921who cares about what games (You) want to play? there's all kinds of gamers out there and they like everything from nubby's number factory to baldur's gate 3. every developer has constraints and they're supposed to work within those constraints or never release a game.
>>577641486I almost tried to just make a slop game for the hell of it but I couldn't bring myself to do it. It just feels so soulless. This is why I'm ngmi.
>>577641986all the games i loved were MASSIVE hits. making a good game doesn't mean making a niche game.
>>577641986>who cares about what games (You) want to play?same trash mindset of the AAA
>>577640921this is why if you have a big scope for your game you have to make a quality demo first and then ask for financiation. if you can't make a good demo then you can't make a complete game therefore you should just quit
>>577642139I know the feeling. Just gotta grind out the longer project and put enough soul into it that it's worth it.>>577642221There's a lot of great niche games but there's also a lot of "niche" games that are "niche" because they aren't so great. For the former I love that they have room to exist in the current market. Mech Engineer for example. Not a lot of people are into that but for those who are it's great that it exists and Steam allowed it to find an audience.
>>577642384i don't think current devs have any concept of kickstarter, early access, investors etc. anymore - they think you have to make the whole thing alone from scratch and it has to be a complete game. it's the exact people who complained about early access who make games now. they didn't understand that early access was necessary. they think a game should be made with 0 budget and 200 hour work weeks.the cargo cult problem of modern society is growing, yet still nobody mentions cargo culting. this problem gets worse every year. people who have no idea how something works are trying to make the same things.and ofc if you have this shit approach to gamedev you can only make sloppy scoped incremental shit.
95% of indie devs abuse early access, which is why it got the stigma.
>>577643121EA is just poorman's Patreon. You're promising your payers that you'll work on the game, when all you're doing is drip-feeding them with content over years of minimal activity.Dwarf Fortress mastered this.
>>577643121there are still kind people with a shit ton of money out there. if they see that your game is real and that you can make it and have the resolve to do it, they will support you
>>577642221>>577642272>everybody else is like me, I am like everybody else. if I don't like something that means no one else likes it eithereven the most popular games have a low single digit market share
my plan is to peel off small games from the tech used to build my dream game. so that it all builds forward. Have a mining Mechganic? Make a small bite-sized mine em up about mining.
>>577618554Much nicer with the little splatters!
my engine rendering a duck from the Khronos Sample Asset repository; https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glTF-Sample-Assets/tree/main/Models/Duck
>>577645301Khino
>>577618997Vindication after vindication. I told you guys your ideas will be stolen and behold idealet thieves are making off like....thieves kek.I will stay a whodev and keep all my games secret, even from Steam itself. You never know if Steam/Valve themself, one of their wagies, or a friend of one of their wagies somehow gets access to your non-published game, see's the vid, pics, and description, and decides it's a huge successful idea in the making and thus copies it.Nope, nope, nope! You can all keep chugging the kool-aid that nothing like this happens despite the surge in this happening, you will never gaslight me into showing my game early. Even the longer development timeline games are far too high risk to share because now you open up yourself to being targeted by AA, AAA, or indies with a lot of money that will just steal the idea. Sure the game took you 2 years to make with 1 more year to go. But an AA, AAA, or big indie company with 40 employees could copy, make better, and release that game quicker than you going from year 2 to year 3.
>>577618997i would never feel bad for an incrementalshit game being stolen (most of them are)
>>577636989I don't need to be in direct competition with Erenshor. It also has a very sloppy asset store vibe to its visuals which means there's an opportunity to make something that looks better. Overall I think this is going to be one of those long lasting subgenres. People are nostalgic about old school MMORPGs but most of those people also do not have the time anymore to play a real MMORPG like that. These offline games with MMO vibes slid into that space but they're all these sort of 7/10 games that sell because there's not much else like them. There's also the co-op dungeon crawl type games that are trying to appeal to the instance running crowd. Not much competition there either and the games that exist aren't so good. Another thing to consider is that they're quite suitable for EA releases which is nice. You get to build the MVP and expand upon it in both width and length assuming you are able to build an audience that sustains your development.
>>577642679you bring up cargo culting in every thread though
>>577645850thisincremental games are textbook definition digital goyslopthey're easy to make and their only purpose is to release cheap bursts of dopamineif you make them, you recognize that your craft is merely a ploy to make money.
>>577645648>Even the longer development timeline games are far too high risk to share because now you open up yourself to being targeted by AA, AAA, or indies with a lot of money that will just steal the ideathat reminds meannouncing too early is a suicide now especially when you got a solid appeal high concept gameyou are opening yourself to copycats stealing your idea and making it to market before you
>>577645648Noun Who Verb's isn't an actual game idea, it's just a very generic concept that anyone can turn into anything.Actual ideas aren't easy to clone so they rarely get taken.
>>577640314Nope! I suck at backgrounds. She goes by Menaria>>577620856Thank you!>>577640836Will do. I didn't know about demo day, know I do. I drew the character sprites!
>>577647425Iron Nest showed up on SteamDB one day before PVKK
>>577648237PVKK also forfeited when they decided to scope creep and push back release.The one silver lining with the current market, is devs not holding ideas hostage anymore
>>577648237okay that's a weird coincidence
1 success that's all I need, one game that makes me several hundreds of thousands. Do you know how much easier and comfier it is to dev with 1 success like that?
>>577649675>Do you know how much easier and comfier it is to dev with 1 success like that?I do agree. But you do also run into the risk of stagnating and not trying if your too comfortable
>>577630415>minecraft creative worlds be like
>>577649836There's that but it can also bring you confidence to keep going. Maybe it depends on what kind of person you are and why you got into dev.
>>577648237Even so PVKK may have shown up elsewhere first, have a steam page up first doesn't mean you made your game first. After all can you really trust Steam or one of their associates won't steal your unpublished idea?
>>577649675what when you run out of money?
>>577650274sure but both games look pretty high effort for small teams.if it were just a matter of having an idea it would work with papers please graphics.
>>577650889You could make a 2d game with the idea but it doesn't have nearly as much appeal as the first person 3d simulator game that these are going for.
>>577650186I "comfydev" strictly for the thrill of making games and it has just resulted in me having like five unfinished projects. Maybe someday one will be finished. No idea if I would be faster or more focused if I had to work, then go home and game dev, just commenting that I don't think having money or not makes a huge difference unless you are stressing for basic needs that get in the way of game dev.
>>577651028you could make it first person 3D but like Flyknight or something like that. you could also make it without that world building flavor. the appeal is in synthesis of the mechanics and polished presentation, and that's not something as simple as stealing the idea.now if meccha chameleon posted the game long before releasing it and someone stole the idea, that would be different. if your game's strength is its idea then keep it hidden, keep it safe. but if you're making something that caters to a fantasy rather than offer innovative mechanics, you're probably doing yourself a disservice by not building an audience
>>577606157Erm... thanks?
>>577655785Becky...
>>577649675Statistics show that if you actually get a super successful game you'll stop making games for whatever reason.
>be me>friendless girlfriendless jobless>excess male, zero value>saturday night>rotting in my childhood bedroom making a game no one will want to playI'm running out of copes bros
>>577656530at least you are not making things worse for anyone. you could be a politician or in a gang or something
i can't even get through a 45 min youtube tutorial, im ngmi
new strat is look at all upcoming steam sales and festivals and make a game that combines every one, so you are eligible for all of them. PvE Survival Crafting Fest 2026Programming Fest 2026Party-Based RPG Fest 2026Cooking Fest 2026Steam Scream V
>>577658120I remember those days>see 45 min tutorial>don't watch it, just check comments for the code
>>577657523>at least you are not making things worse for anyonethat's going to be my life's contribution to society, not making things worse. and a shitty game that's never going to be forgotten because it's never going to be remembered
>>577596096Sodomites still need entertainment.
How do progress posts work, is there a bot that scrapes and collates them or sth?
>>577658120>>577658315I read books and watch multi-hour tutorials for the code, I actually learn.The books usually have source code on GitHub or whatever you can copy and paste if you want.
>>5776019213D is faster if you're trying to animate. Unless you're doing one of those weird indie games where basically nothing is animated.
>>577659408I learned by copying code and then modifying it to suit my needs, then one day without knowing it, I had lifted my son for the last- I mean copied a unity answers post for the last time.
>>577608117another idea, have a divot in the ground with an item(or hatch/ladder?). pushing the box to gain access comes naturally.
I'm making a 3D Expedition 33-like open world porn RPG with lolis and space travel and inspired by South Asian mythology. Should i Use Blender or Godort?
>>577656530Same except I hit my 30's in the meanwhile. I can't believe I completely wasted the best years of my life all alone, in a dark room in front of a computer, dreaming that the beeps and bops I'm programming will one day make me a millionaire. I'm growing bald, growing weak, no social life. Even if I make it now I'll just be rich and miserable instead. It's so fucking over for me bros.
>>577661086There's no reason to be weak in your 30s. You can be in top 1% strength if you do strength training. Though It's not going to do anything practical for you, just make you feel better.
>>577660943You're making star ocean? truespace and bryce3d
>>577612256Neither can kojima
>>577659158We used to have that 10 years ago but nobody wanted to maintain it anymore.The gist of it is that you posting progress motivates me, me posting progress motivates you and so on. That's about it. You can also ask for feedback or a second opinion alongside it if you want.
So yep I architected the great system where I peel smaller games off of the tech used to build my dream game. Everything building forward.I won
anon really wants a (You) for the basic idea devs have been doing for decades
my tech? it's a character controller. push W to walk forward. space to jump. I can use this to create almost any game thinkable.
Anyone else avoid posting progress or anything identifying because you don't want your work associated with 4chin? Seems like if you "make it," being associated with agdg will just haunt you.
>>577662815sorry to break it to you, but 4chan is normie/mainstream now
>>577662898Maybe it is but hyper lefties from tumblr/reddit spaces (which is a huge chunk of gamers unfortunately) will think you're some incel nazi type and whine a lot online.
>>577662815yeah just post proggy on reddit or sum shiet just to be safe and earn leddit points
>>577663047they make a lot of noise, but they don't buy games, they just talk about them. the people who buy games are normies who heard about it from their friends or saw it posted on social media
>>577663047There is literally an LGBTQ board on this site.It’s not right or left wing. And right wingers from pol just try to co opt it.
>>577662815Has there been a single example of this happening?
>>577663230They buy games in the genres I make games in, especially "cozy" games. I worked on an AA game recently and the audience was hugely like teenage femboys and trans people who sit on Discord announcing their pronouns and sexuality all day and they participate in "toxic positivity" constantly. 4chan to them seems to be some kind of taboo scary website they won't even look at.
>>577662815I don't post progress because I stole your game and it would be a bad look posting progress on how my clone is going.
>>577663608No.
>>577663306thanks for reminding me of that depressing blackhole pile of shit
>>577663306Most Internet LGBTQ people who are aware of that board see it as a cesspool.
agdg is a cispool. no trannies allowed
I'm trans and I love /agdg/Or at least I did before the AI spam garbage ruined this place
>>577665438you'll start seeing slop mysteriously disappear soon
>>577645974>It also has a very sloppy asset store vibe to its visuals which means there's an opportunity to make something that looks betterErenshor dev had a day job so if you are a NEET then yes I imagine you could make a better product in a shorter amount of time.>co-op dungeon crawlersI agree. I've asked for related games in this thread but nobody has suggestions.
>>577665438im trans too but more like buckethead would be because i'm kinda sick
>>577665438>>577665515>>577666870Commit suicide.
>>577666870stfu rotate
>>577665515>translates my text to mongolian, then japanese and back to english using deepLnice watermark
>>577665515based
>>577588694>is chris fygoon>chrisIt's Cris, and no they are not the same person.>>577528719He should have taken a page from Lord British>>577536039Went to visit my grandfather in California recently. He took me to a casino. Place is depressing man, made me feel sick.>>577548096It's that easy?>>577645301Good job
>it's up
