This is a thread for game development. Whether you solo, or have a group, this thread is open to game dev discussion.
You'll never make a living out of it, this is a shitty hobby.If you genuinely expect a nigger likw you can make it on your own, then honestly kill yourself
>>720608459Poor sales, buddy? What game is it so we can both have a good laugh
Thank you for making a new thread. The last one died because I was too busy talking to my family to notice the Ronin guy replying to me.>>720604762Good to know the Survival mode is still there. I'll check it out and get back to you. I'm glad you liked the haiku: I'm not really a poet so it's not going to be as cool as my works of prose, and I tried to stave my desire to talk about dragons since you don't really talk about dragons in haikus.On another note, appreciate your comment. That scuba guy is actually a spaceman, more accurately Lieutenant Joseph Fyrondis of the Galactic Bureau of Security Army. I was having way too much fun posing him and I made a shitload of silly renders of him in cool poses.
>>720608840fygoon, you made the thread, don't thank yourself, you crazy bitch.
>>720609001You obviously never saw the one and only thread I made.Or did you, >>720600314?
its a fynigger thread, dead on arrival
He thinks we are using these threads
>Lost my job>All my time can now be spent learning to gamedev>Unity is gay and I don't wanna use it>Unreal is gay and I don't wanna use itIs C++ and SDL the only things you need to learn to gamedev, anons?
>>720609645>C++This is gay too, use C
>>720609645unironically just use Godot, its good enough.Still wish it had better tools, or that Juan and the core team weren't schizo's who sabotage the engine.
>>720608840No problem. Real fuckin funny people think im you but that is par for the course here. I haven't made a thread in over a month.
>>720610186Hey, when you make a cool game and aren't afraid to speak your mind, then you're bound to get a few enemies.
Give me your best idea so I can steal it.
>>720610335persona but with lolis
>>720609645>Is C++ and SDL the only things you need to learn to gamedev, anons?For 2D, yes. Although I would recommend a framework like RayLib to save yourself a bunch of time.For 3D, it's a nightmare because there aren't really any simple standalone 3D rendering libraries. And even when you think you've found one and spend weeks getting it to work, you'll realize it doesn't support animation or glsl or some bullshit and you'll want to give up and cry.
>>720609645C++, SDL for 2DC++, SDL, and some kind of graphics API or abstraction layer with shader capabilities: opengl, Vulkan, dx12, bgfx, SDL3_GPU, Dawn(c++ webgpu), ANGLE, Diligent Engine, etc
>>720608241>GPT has convinced me that my ideas are goodGreat, now I just need to actually make the games.
>>720610335Rocket League but with mecha
>want to make an h-game>can draw>can program>somehow can't come up with ideas or design documentsI need someone to hold my hand please help
>>720608840>another fygoon talks to himself threadCan jannies get this shit off /v/?
>>720610364this would actually be a huge success but persona is dogshit so im not stealing this>>720610801this would flop
>>720610819Why would you want to make a game if you don't have any ideas?
>>720610947Because I like playing them but not enough people make them
>>720610885>this would flopWell no shit-- if you can't imagine a way to make a fun contact sport featuring remote controlled robots that can transform and fly and boost with a tight and responsive control scheme then you're NGMI.
>>720610947not him but gamedev seems fun
>>720610987I see. Well, good luck to ya, anon. Idk what to tell you if you can't come up with a valid concept. I can draw and [sort of] program as well, but I've had 20 billion ideas zooming about that I never thought would be anything more than fantasies or comic books at best.
>>7206103358 v 8 spider boxing where each player controls a set of arms
>>720611191aw shit i meant 4v4 but 8 v 8 would be historically funny
>>720611191basedFUND IT NOW
>>720610335Needless and wanton destruction of a traffic jam on a non descript american interstate.But with chickens. Lots of chickens.
Tiny Chao Garden DX update Soon(tm), featuring an Android release, finally and also them running away if you neglect it enough you fucking monster
>>720611276basedFUND IT LATER
Decided to update my itch.io profile picture.
>have decision paralysis for daysthis sucks
>>720610364
>>720610678*etc for 3D
>>720611535Shut the fuck up
>>720611535this is the worst form of autism you can havezero talent and still a social outcast
>>720610819design documents are a meme
>>720612465Maybe, but I'm quickly learning that I need more than a one-sentence idea before I start making a game.
>>720612465>t. never worked with a large team of people
>>720610819Post your art. You won't.
>>720610819Just clone a popular game and add porn.
>>720612529If design documents aren't working out for you, look into agile development (or just user stories).As an example with this idea guy's >>720611276 one> As the player (role)> I would like chickens to pop/fly out of wrecked cars (goal)> So that I can score more points and shoot more stuff that isn't just eye level (reason)It's still basically one sentence but it's gotten me out of thinking "Get everything done." and running out of steam.
>>720609645Use Godot. If you're gonna bitch about that too, may as well just man the fuck up and learn ASM.
>>720610947You'd be surprised how many game devs are the opposite of idea guys. Not a single creative bone in their body outside of coding shenanigans.And they do exist. I know one personally.
>>720561852Timely reply1. Bloods are particles that request a splat once they settle2. Splat system is a viewport that takes a photo of the isolated particles and creates a sprite out of that3. Sprite fades in smoothly over the original particles, and the particles are deleted4. Once the fading ends, the splat sprite is blended into the quadrants it's overlappingParticle -> Splat Sprite -> Quadrant TextureQuadrant textures are a 512x512 grid across the level, the splats are baked at no additional cost no matter how many you get. This allows for complex animated effects like particles I wouldn't get as easily with something like painting on a splatmap.
>>720610819>take game you really like>ask yourself "which parts did I love the most?" and add more of those>ask yourself "what would I have wanted it to have that it didn't?" and add that>ask yourself "what didn't I like about it?" and don't put that in
>>720612640nope and i never want to, outside of already directing 5 others but they dont touch design.
I should built a podracer game using dual joystick after I am done with my furry fantasy action rpg. I already ordered the parts to transform my new second hand joysticks to omni throttles.
>>720612640A real job where I made real money and still do yes, but as a gamedev I solo. Fuck teams.
Got enemy projectiles working. Now to hook it up to the defending with the shield system so that defending negates damage.
>>720612640One of the worst things you can do in a field of creativity is work with other people on one project. Unless you happen to find people who share your views enough to not encroach on your designs but also challenge you to make them the best they can be (which, in the modern age of political brainrot and internet addicted coomers, good fucking luck), working with anyone is outright self-sabotage.
>>720617072Expecting players to own a stick, much less two, makes it way too niche.Make it VR, it comes with two sticks by default
>>720618068it's cheaper to buy 2 sticks than a fucking VR with 0 games
>>720618136Anon, no one is going to buy two sticks for your game, and no one is going to buy VR for your gameBut more people own VR than they do TWO sticks
>>720610335The Guy Game but with appealing characters.
>>720617872nice anon, keep up the good work, I want to see jiggle physics on my desk by next week
>>720609645Use Godot bitch, it's free and lightweight and probably the only bright future between the big 2. You can spend all your autism in developing plugins for it if something is "missing from it" instead of wasting time with "hur dur my own engine" troon shit. There are plenty high definition demos for it out there so making 3A style slop isn't impossible either.
>>720618471Name one successful Godot game.
>>720618523First, define success.Second, anything past 1k rewives is a major success in these parts, you ain't making shit here, especially when talking about "custom engines".Third, as I said, if you have autism to think of custom engines, you might as well use it on existing free and light weight on, aka - Godot, if anything you will help people with some pluginga at least.Forth, if by "success" you mean UE looking slopa, again, as I said demos are other, it's just no one autistic enough to finish them, you can refere to point 3 in this case.And lastly... You can see it for yourself (Godot Engine · SteamDB https://share.google/33JCGcIl4ZMSWLSOz)
>>720618932That's a lot of words to not answer my question.
Also have been diving into AI workflows. I am putting in an anime opening into the game. I don't care what the community thinks about AI art and if they boycot my game because of it. I will be one of the first devs who implements a fully AI workflow for art. Also been doing image to 3D.>>720609645Unity + Game creator 2 (look it up on the asset store) + Claude for coding is pretty easy.>>720610743That's about 150 euro's in cheese. If someone would give me that, I would be thrilled. Women.>>720611535Who is the spaceman? Is he in the game?>>720618068I got a meta quest 3 here. I understand that dual stick is way too niche. It's for a proof of concept and youtube video. Not for commercial use. >>720618446Already got that implemented.
>>720619528What ai are you using for this? Are you paying for it?
>>720619404It's almost like you never wanted to be answered in the first place.
>>720619793Nano banana (gemini flash 2.5 image) for image and video. Finally a model that is good enough in terms of quality. Not enough parameters yet, so I still mix with Stable Diffusion for upscaling. Meshy, Tripo, Rodin for image to 3D. They all offer the same workflow you would think there is only one and the same server farm/company behind it. For static models it's becoming good enough. For characters not good enough yet.
>>720619528Wouldn't it make more sense to do your intro in 3D? You're investing in learning an AI workflow for specific, static intro where learning how do facial animation for your models would help you throughout the entire game.
>>720620963Thanks for the information. How long are you planning on making the intro? That's a lot more than I expected to be able to do with movement, but I'm imagining anything too complicated of an action + camera movement starts causing problems. Too bad the workflow for 3d character models isn't quiet there yet, but at least it's decent static models. How familiar were you with 3d models already before using the 3d stuff? I imagine it requires a good amount of clean-up, so you have to know at least a little to be able to make it really viable for use. I'm not good at 3d, so I'm hoping they'll improve it soon.
>NOOOO YOU MUST BE A SOLO DEV!!! YOU SHOULD NEVER EVER PARTNER UP WITH ANYONE NOOOOOO!!!!And then you fucks wonder why none of you can make good games. The majority best games in the industry were made by teams.Also, all you retards talk so much about team members "encroaching on your vision" (as if any one of you porn addicted retards had one) even though in reality that doesn't usually happen. Especially not with paid workers.
>>720621689I partner with ChatGPT
>>720609645>SDLBaby mode for people who can't into the Windows API.>C++C'mon now, really? Gotta pick C at least, and don't you dare use any libraries. If you don't write your own hash-table implementation you're not a real programmer.Finishing games? What the fuck does that mean.
Thank you for being here gamedevWaking up and seeing this thread made me get to work right away.Time to get cooking
not much of an update since yesterdaystarted prototyping some layoutaim to have a template of most core mechanics set up during the following week and get back into assets
>>720623379pic didnt get attached for some reason
I got a guitar with me right now. Do you need help with music ideas?
>>720623579I would take you up on this but I'm not far enough to have music yet
>>720608241I wish I'd learned to draw instead of program honestly, anyone can program badly or just follow a tutorial but art? Modelling? Animation? Shits fucked up
Nobody will buy my game...Nobody will play my game..Nobody will like my game...It will remain a 5 review floppa...It's over...
I did it wrong for demonstration purposes, honest. Made the changes I was planning and moving on
>>720621490I already invested heavily in facial animation. I have made a fully automated lip synch workflow, but that is for non cutscenes/non key moments. I have a facial mocap solution for the more interesting moments. >>>/wsg/5952997I still want to incorporate anime scenes though, like Eternights does, Hades, tales of series, et cetera.>>720621597Somewhere between 30 and 90 seconds. I am not so familiar with 3D. I am a programmer, not a 3D artist. Basically, I am going for what looks good with decent enough polygon count and not too bad topology. Image to 3D workflows now offer a retopologize function, so the days of 500k+ polygon gens that are a complete mess are over. >>720621689Most people I meet in the indie game dev space can't code or art for shit. So, they bring nothing to the table, if they do they are slow or they have an opinion.
>>720624205Here's a grandiose elegant boss idea for youhttps://voca.ro/14gX0gVfmcih
>>720624901I have a busker NPC in my game and I found a tune for him online but it was recorded outside so it's kinda low quality, would you do a cover for it?
>he added voice acting on his game>teenager trying to sound mature by lowering his voice>sounds like he's pressing his chin on his chestcringe and embarrassing, just stop or get a proper voice actor
>>720625175>>teenager trying to sound mature by lowering his voice>>sounds like he's pressing his chin on his chest>cringe and embarrassingThat's why you use AI.
>>720625069If it's quick and you got tabs or midi
>>720610854I'm trying to get fagoon vacations whenever I see him avatarfag and troll threads with his shitty renders and shitty attitude but janny is too busy having a tantrum about anime horse girls to care I guess
>>720624901I use ai for music. I cant play it here because it is actually really good. You guys would 100% steal it.
>>720610743He played skyrim of course.
>>720624901lel thanks, I like it. If you're okay with me using it as is drop me a name to credit you as, if not that's okay too
>>720625332what AI do you use? Suno? I haven't genned any AI bangers since they first came out
>>720612465These documents are gold, if done correctly. Company building documents and workflow descriptions fall into this category, too. Unfortunately the execution is poor af in almost all cases.
>>720625332I recommend AI to people who don't have $, yes. Proper music is more expensive. AI can do some stuff good.>>720625449It's just an idea, you'll need to rerecord and develop it, it's fine go ahead.
>>720625521>Proper music is more expensive. AI can do some stuff good.with due time youll find out that ai created music is a crutch and cant replace musicians who have a personal styleai music is okay for placeholder stuff but it cant replicate genuine good musicthe more start to adopt ai to use this approach the more apparent its going to become
>>720625521Alright, thanks. If you stick around for future threads I'll make a post showing when/where I use it. I'll say it's a grandiose elegant boss song or something, cheers
Did this today. Still need some small fixes, but I'm happy with the result>>720624243His silhouette looks good.
>>720625304>you got tabs or midiI don't...
>>720625832>music is a crutch and cant replace musicians who have a personal styleYeah no fucking shit Sherlock. But I don't have the cash to pay a musician for an entire score worth of music.
>>720625832This is known>>720625846I browse often, will be interesting to see how you develop it>>720625970Post it at least, let's hear it
>>720626241https://voca.ro/19PbkLaGwAO7
>>720626012depends on your connections and if you can set up funds for it or just in general how you go about itit will be expensive surebut id rather have that than some quick ai generation without an ounce of authenticitywhether some dont want to admit or acknowledge it - a player will pick up on something being off subconsciouslybeing a developer and musician hybrid is probably a big relieftake people like toby fox as an example
Well I improved my inventory system to be more player-friendly. You can actually drink potions at the tap of a button now.
Don't do it for the money, do it for yourself, to challenge yourself to create your own game.>but there are successful indiesDo you know who you are competing with? Sure there are other basement dwellers like you, but there are also actual industry professionals with many years of experience who left AAA because it went to shit. Yes, this is actually happening. Your first and second and likely third game won't match the quality they can output.>b-but BalatroThe fortune that guy earned was just a happy accident because his main aim was to do a fun little game. Don't make your game for money, you will only end up disappointed.
>>720626578Very cool! That part(button pressing passing item info) alone took me months to figure out.
>>720627162look mange i agree with your sentiment but sometimes it does get very saddening when your game can't get past 10 reviews on steam simplh cause you don't have the money to advertise it. and this shit can really put you off game development, like get burnt out on it and hate it. you can go off intrinsic motivation for so long before it starts to wear you down my niggre
>>720626410That's be much for me to figure out and make into a neatly repeatable bithttps://voca.ro/1h1IuQhJA8yh
>>720625909Nice. Did you box model the hair too ?
I made a cursor
>>720627671 Based. Post it. Nothing like a good custom cursor to make a project feel personal. Is it animated or just a static pixel art job?
>>720627704it's in the clip but here it is alone
>>720608241Why do modern rpg feel identical to each other?
>>720627227CheersMy setup is actually very simple now. Tapping the potion button will just deincrement the potion count and do a heal effect. Holding the potion button shows a quick-select menu of 5 items (I only have 5 different potions) and mousing over the menu icons sets a value, which determines which potion to take out of inventory.
camera movement script test progress
>>720627642I just duplicated the head topology and extruded here and there
>>720628774I do that too, pretty effective.
Are these threads dying faster than they used to? Fewer schizos shitposting?
>>720619528>I'M GOING TO BECOME THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL AI PROMPTER DEV!
Changed the attack animations to have more body movement so they look less static, and also added a step forward to the 3rd normal attack.
Basic mechanics are almost complete. Unfortunately this means I need to start designing levels. Don't even know where to start.
>>720631310You're seething. You're raging and seething like a little bitch, because he made a budget-conscious decision and didn't pay you $5000 for an equal or worse result.
>>720622738>Windows APIAlright look, I know it's all fun and games, but there's writing your drivers with assembly, and then there is writing shit for windows.
>>720624243goblins are redbut good job>>720626578glad to see you got it sorted out>>720631934>Don't even know where to start.I recommend Trenchbroom. Even if you end up doing your finals levels with another tool, it's great for grey boxing.
further testing out player stop and go functionality for segmented areas whenever enemies will pop out of corners and suchgonna implement the pop-out-and-shoot mechanic like in time crisis soon
I used voice acting AI in my game... And no matter what I say, or do, /v/ will forever shit and piss themselves over my game, and I won't be able to discuss it on there because of that ever...
>>720633203you don't even have a game larper
>>720633262What makes you say that?
>>720631483Goblinshttps://voca.ro/16cwTuk5WI8q
>>720633203If your game is dialogue heavy then using AI voice sounds like a pretty bad idea. They sound fake as hell the more they drone one and it will make your game seem like cheap Chinese shit. If you're just using it for casual enemy banter that has a good variety of voices then that should be fine
>>720633551>They sound fake as hell the more they drone one and it will make your game seem like cheap Chinese shit.You can make them sound good by either putting in effort and curating generated samples or using the AI as a voice changer.
>>720631310You made me laugh haha>>720631483Loving the progress. Starts to feel like a game now. >>720631934If Unity, learn Probuilder.>>720632513Keep on keeping on.>>720633203I use voice acting too. I have no problem with it. It saves me a ton of money. I think voice acting has become quite good. Especially with elevenlabs v3. >>720632141Exactly. It is a cost saving measure. Plus it matches my 'experiment now, choose later' strategy. Some developers have everything pinned down before going into production. I make it up along the way. The fact that I can generate this character consistent image in less than a minute is nothing less than a technological marvel.
>>720634227You don't understand, even though I will demand that you price your game below its actual value and even I will only buy it at sales where you'll be lucky to make a cent off it, you should still go to great expense and balloon your budget for features/designs you'd otherwise be unable to get because uh... Because I said so, okay!!! Clearly the barely 5 dollars you'll get off my purchase is worth going to debt for!
>>720634227>>720634512r/AIhugbox
>>720634613>PAY ME PAY ME, FUCKING PAY ME, CHUD!!!
>>720634737>BUY MY GAME MADE WITH FREE ASSETS LIBTARDS
>>720635096>WITH FREE ASSETSOld devs also used plenty of free assets, and yet you cherish and love those games.
>>720635165Nah I don't buy unity store asset slop either. Cope
>>720635361>unity store asset slopThis retard doesn't know about Hollywold Edge, General Series 6000 or Marlin Studios lmao
>>720635430Oof yikes Grant Kirkhope used sound packs to construct his music that he wrote. Maybe Charlie didn't deserve it after all bros...
>>720608241I've been coming across those hololive games on twitch and youtube. they're usually copied with their assets.I'm wondering how worth it is it to reskin a game for a streamer(not necessarily a chubba but they usually have easier recognition) and shill your actual game somewhere in the menu.
>>720630972Threads are being made far too often so little progress is posted between threads.
>AI relyers sweating bullets because redditfags are going to boycott them and anons won't buy their game because they don't play games
>>720621689>Especially not with paid workers.You obviously never worked with freelancers or other paid workers. That does happen. Although I'd argue a vision of an ultra low budget is easy to compromise to begin with. No loss, really.
>>720634227Even your posts feel ai generated.At this point i think you're a new ai shitposter hiro is trying out
>>720638020BUY HIS FUCKING GAME IF HE DOESN'T USE AI HE WILL GO HOMELESS
>>720633491very nice tune bro
You're all a bunch of real heroes for forcing some guy who is desperate for any sales at all to go to tremendous expense when we all know damn well it's not going to sell more copies with real actors.You can't force any big corporations to listen to you, so you just attack weaklings. Truly noble behaviour.
>>720638651I don't think good videogames need voice acting, especially mediocre one.
>>720638651>post has more likes than the game has reviewsdamn, lmao
>>720638651I didn't know there were AI voices, I thought the major complaint was how janky the gameplay was in general.
>>720638651>MGS clone with AI voice actingDamn that sounds terrible thank god they're getting actual voice actors. Imagine listening to a long codec call about the history of security cameras narrated by sterile AI voices
>>720638651If I was doing a game like this I'd do1) no voice, just text2) stretch goal or kickstarter, or x sales goal for adding voices if really necessary - definitely don't do it without financial incentive
Implemented enemy waves. A group of enemies spawn in from some side, you beat them, more groups spawn in. I intend to implement proper mechanics when you beat a level and move on to the next, but for now it just resets the current level.Still need to implement some more powerups and obstacles as well.
Where is the guy that was making the Star Fox gameIs he safe
>>7206397453) just ask your wife to do some voices
>>720640852That depends on what fits. There are only 2 voices I'm interested in for my game, I think both of those actors are dead, I contemplated getting an AI to feed their voices into but I think that's arguably unethical
>>720640705very Smash TV-esque, cool shit
>>720641529Thanks Anon!
>>720610626>there aren't really any simple standalone 3D rendering libraries.Ogre3D is simple as a rock.
>>720610626>>For 3D, it's a nightmare because there aren't really any simple standalone 3D rendering librariesfor my last game i used javascript with three.js. went alright
>>720627728>>720627671Make sure there is a normal cursor option. This LSD trip animation is already pissing me off.
>>720640820Which'n
AI voices are no go for characters. Only use them to voice robots, computers and other such shite.
>>720638651What is this faggydaggy post?
>>720641003>arguably unethicalI don't think there's any argument for that digital necromancy other than "my personal benefit is my only measure of ethics". Granted, that seems to be a very common position nowadays.I would suggests devs looking for VA at least try to look up midi speech and fantasy speech like in Monster Hunter, they're really not that difficult to set up.>>720642564Did you try multithreading? That's when I had to switch off of Three since it couldn't run in a worker out of the box.
>>720609645>i don't like things that will make production faster so i will not use themno wonder you lost your job
>>720638909To be fair it's something like every 1 in 40 people leave a review on average. So that probably is all real players.
>>720645275>>Did you try multithreadingI didn't, I don't think I tried anything complex enough to need it.
>>720631483Please please please get rid of the hit-pause and just have good sound design for the hitsounds
>>720645730He could keep hitstop for final hits that launch or trip up enemies
>>720645730sorry anon, but I believe hit-stop is an integral part of having melee combat that feels heavy and punchy. That said you will be able to tune it to your liking or even disabling it completely.>>720646148those cases have a slighly heavier hit-stop.
>next fest is in a month>I still haven't made options menuit's over for me isn't it
what's a more intuitive glyph for holding down? or should i just write (hold)?
>>720646348More (hold) is more intuitive yeah.
>>720646348Text > icons always
>>720646397(hold)>>720646507definitely not always, sometimes for quick glances an icon could tell you more, if it's the right one
here's some gameplay with less hitstop. Feels weird to me but that might be because I'm used to it being there.
>>720646348maybe darken the hold icon a little bit while adding a (hold) text
My Dishonored ripoff ninja game progressing well. I just have to find tutorials for the game systems I want in blueprints.
>>720645730Based hit-pause hater. That stuff is trash.
>>720619528That's the Lieutenant. He's from a completely different game that I made.
>>720647601I agree with that.
>>720647007This looks a lot better, you could probably amp up the hitstop on heavier attacks though. Light attacks should always be less committal with minimal or no hit-stop. It may not be a problem right now but when you start adding more challenge and variety to your enemy groups that give the player more things to keep track of, you don't want them feeling stuck when they're throwing out their safest move. This will be very apparent if you start adding in enemies with projectiles that would be pelting the player while they're mid-swing. I don't think hitstop should be something that you can change in the settings since that should be a balancing factor when you're designing enemies. You have to be careful with hitstop and hitstun otherwise you fuck up your game like Ring Racers did
>>720638651>check negative reviews>most of them talk about the shitty gameplay >if they talk about the ai voices they add that they dgaf
>>720649219Shut up faggoon
>>720647007I know it's not what you're going for, but this looks much better, in my opinion. It's neat that you actually gave players a slider to determine how much hitstop they want.
>>720649329Not that anon but my issue is taking damage and attack interrupt depending on which attack, which monster. Im redoing my ai enemy system and adding more traces for my combat component for to enemies, but need to rethink how damage is applied to my character.
enemy hit detection functionality implementation progress
Appreciate the feedback anons, but I won't be touching hit-stop until the demo is out and I get some actual feedback. I believe it's one of those things that might feel different when playing the game than when just watching a video.
>>720647007that does look better to me. id save hitstop for very powerful attacks
>>720649886I wouldnt, I dont think it really is as jarring. I agree testing it would be best but having the option to me is the best compromise. Like weapon inertia in crysis.
>>720649886Speaking of demos, when is it coming out? I've been following development since the knight was a green stickman and I've been wanting to try it.
>>720608241Unity stopped working for me so i'm in a massive game engine dilemma. I cant decide what engine to use and I have zero options. I hate gamemaker because of yoyo games jewish practices, I also hate godot because I fucking hate GDscript. And I cant wrap my head around frameworks.
>>720650690Use godot with c# instead of gdscript
>>720650150yeah I'll probably wont leave those options for a final build, but I expect them to be useful while getting feedback from people.>>720650272maybe soon. I was planning on doing some refactor of the current enemy AI and adding more enemies but that will take some time, so I might instead create a half-baked dungeon with some goblins for you to smack.
>>720650690Roblox
>>720651235it's one shader material with picrel as it's shader. First I set it as material overlay, to turn the enemy black while keeping it's original albedo below it. Then, I set it as material override instead, and proceed to lower the alpha. Might be better ways of doing this, probably, but this works.
>>720651556Aren't godot shaders made only via code?
>>720651646nope, there's visual shaders as well, and if you want you can turn those into code.
I would appreciate some feedback though I think it's always the same people in these threads. https://vahellis.itch.io/bullet-the-wizardspent 2 days fixing bugs and despaghettifying my code, added a barebones main menu, will expand on it now I think, I wanna have a level selector as soon as possible so i can start making new levels and new enemies.
>>720651837yeah I was worried about the swaping from material overlay to material override but it's probably fine.
>>720650272>green stickmanbased
>>720653230Yes, I'm an oldheadass
My current goal is to have my game ready for the Next Fest in February - kinda bad timing since it's a bit far away while the one next month is too soon, but I'm sure that between updating the visuals, working out weird hardware bugs and hiring voice actors everything will end up taking longer than I expect. Going to be scary having to lock in parts of the game by releasing a demo, especially parts involving the overall story, but everyone says that if you don't gather wishlists your game will be dead on arrival so it's not like I have a choice.Has anyone here gotten voice acting done for any of their projects? I'm curious what the turn around time is, what level of direction is expected, how viable it is to split up the lines between my demo and full game, etc.
What's this feast people speak of?
>>720654848I think my game could be ready by February, but I saw that Slay the Spire is launching in March so my roguelike would be competing with that pretty hard. Maybe I'd wait until April?
>>720655271Next Fest is for demos, if your game is ready by then you could just release it. But I think that you want to have a demo of some kind to boost visibility.
going to take a day off game deving. Wish you make tons of progress dudes.
>>720633203ai voice acting will eclipse real voice acting because its simply the best solution. no rerecording, less memory usage, easier to implement, cheaper, multilanguage support, etc.
>>720655707Yeah, it's there to get a nice popularity boost. People play a lot of demos because they're so low-commitment, event FOMO helps too probably and sense of sharing discoveries.Then like two months to iron out quirks would probably be good.From what I've heard you want to have "a" demo before the Next Fest, and get that playtested before submitting for the masses.
Hey all, sorry for the long pause on updates. Mostly widget, saving, and potions quickslot fixing. I dont have many pictures I tried something new with photoshop sorry if the image/video is crap.----main updates---->quest manager framework has been built. Quests will have main objectives and approaches based on the 4 weapon stances that provided bonus experience based on which approach was taken. All quest information is stored serialized for easy progression saving.>created 3 quickslots and a secondary weapon slot>added a simple quickslot selection widget to pick between the 3>the hud quickslot has a new active slot function and when the left trigger is held it reveals all quickslots and when let go only shows the active.>when held, use the dpad left or right to cycle between potions>added confirmation widget to loading, deleting, and overwriting saves.>inventory navigation when not in the scroll box sets to specific inventory slots.>all widgets have focus buttons when clicked or pressed with a touchscreen set the current button active to prevent softlocking.----bug fixes---->---huge bugfix----fixed inventory from s2crolling when on equipment slots by moving the function to the inventory widget versus the slot child widget.>saving now stores health progress bar and berserk progress bar correctly as shown in the top video.---next tasks--->rebuilding the 4 weapon stances to have full cohesion.>rebuilding the first ability summon with fire vfx on the cape and sword. Meshes already rebuilt.>updating enemy ai parent to segment components for easier tracking>skill menu made based off 4 weapon stances.>update hud with new texturesI have loads to go but im back
>>720650690Wrap your head around frameworks
>>720656070AI voices sound like shit. I'd like to see where AI voice changers go though
>>720656439Updated picture, forgot to mention i updated the potion meshes, too.
>>720657314READ NIGGA READ! it says will
>>720656439>>720657381From what I have read, it looks like you have been quite busy. Nice work.
Is Itch.io finally dying? That site have been barely usable this week.
Need info on how to explain that jumpsuits protect from hyper heat, explosions, plasma, freezing cold, and other extreme physical trauma. If someone's giving a kick ass explanation, I'll name it after his liking.
>>720659170Why explain it instead of just casually waving it off like it's just what they're supposed to do?
>>720658791Thanks man, it tough some days pushing through the pain and my leg still hurts a good bit but making progress has been helping at distract more than it bothers.
>>720658860Maybe funko pop is DDOSing them again
>>720642915fair point, it's to help find it in the chaos of the late game
>>720659170Nanomachines.
>>720659340I like explanations, unlike the mass effect devs. It's not the worst thing just to say: this is armor, it's good, sturdy, me like.>>720661038Was done before, but it's certainly appealing. Could be tiny machines, bacteria or magic mushrooms living on the surface.
>>720651880Change the font man that shit is ass.You can greatly improve particles, they are kinda too plain.Same with UI can add some custom borders or something to make it visually interesting.Maybe add a random spawning chest like in vampire survivors that gives exp or levels.Maybe some movement "juice", better gun feedback and feel.Besides that, everything is bare bones so if there is anything to improve is literally everything. Adding props will definitely fuck up the AI but it might be the first addition.
>>720658860I don't know. Try this link:https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/2345141
>>720646225Hitstop is essential to having a good and responsive combat system, good job anon.
art and music grinding are a pain. i wish i had a team...
>>720668009I like to make music>pitch me length, tone, locale - for a song>I'll post it here before the thread dies
>>720668082The theme that plays on the deck editor screen in a yugioh game
>>720659170Membrane around the suit generates gravitons, which accelerates light like a lens.Any energy that passes through it - kinetic, thermal, etc - is distended much like light passing through the event horizon of a black hole, stretching it out long enough to dissipate it before it actually contacts the graviton membrane.
Any recommendations for learning how to do dialogue and cutscenes? I'm using Godot btw.
>>720667169>31069Holy moly and I thought I let my files get too big sometimes
>>720668234ok, here's the songhttps://vocaroo.com/1heBLwuWhDLfand the link to the DAW if you want to change ithttps://jummb.us/#j6N07Unnamedn310s3k0l00e0mt2Ua7g0mj07r1O_U00000000i0o321T1v0pua8f171q8710Oa71d350AbFhB2Q2ae1Pa514R0000E1c072T5v0pu05f0000q040Oad030HU70U0000000000h0E3c0070807T8v0pu9ef040l51d32ka2p900q0D010s7000Oa4dd420x470WOE2c0b224T4v0uuf0f1a0q050Oa0z6666ji8k8k3jSBKSJJAArriiiiii07JCABrzrrrrrrr00YrkqHrsrrrrjr005zrAqzrjzrrqr1jRjrqGGrrzsrsA099ijrABJJJIAzrrtirqrqjqixzsrAjrqjiqaqqysttAJqjikikrizrHtBJJAzArzrIsRCITKSS099ijrAJS____Qg99habbCAYrDzh00E0c0b4z8OgOhj95cAkicg4h4i4ich8N4z4z004h4x4z4ich8N8M4h4h8y4y4y8x8x4wp25tDjFB-85szRsn8jjbZ0LQyKbIubGhbWcO-zcLjbZaCbAwJ8mEbj5EyQhqgJcn9YPDP1czQGew8RczSfiFysyFyXjGOj8ZaLnA-YsQzWwbX1vgbW9uap7EyewhO97h8W97h8U4zEAuC8WsACnVf8AtiDAYyhQyfhlal65ERWduzkEMl6Nh1j8YhGlczFkGh6HyX7yVaiCbJeCAChWd9n5RszR8-lN7i8WF7j8VszH4t8zAyeCq-GGOl45cki2Q1m6a9i5j520KhAbAxqoJ8mybApyVcnaN5OgJgmEbj5VaEn8Qmma9QAbBaeiD8n9QtF4n9QsB4mBj9pi8JmmiOshsHhOIhsFh0
>>720668082ntabut would you be willing do a favor and put something together for me?i'll put together some tracks to lend you the overall feel and idea of what im going for
>>720668831that's in a 140k line file, but you should see the index.html, it's 44MB of text
>>720668925sure, let me know what you think of the one I posted also if you would, always trying to improve
>>720668912that wasn't me btw
>>720668912its a masterpiece
>>720669102>wasn't methat's fine, do you have a request?
>>720663187Thanks for the feedback. I really like the chest idea, definitely need to add that.
>>720668989You're crazy
>>720669078many thanks anonappreciate your favourdraw some inspiration from these and try to give your own authentic personal spin on what you can extract from them:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVKBxVC-Bpohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCfRPT904uEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFjoFhYiW20https://youtu.be/okAeis_Pdgw?t=117the overall theme is about urgency and hasteyoure in the nick of time to rescue and/or complete a mission with a dash of coolness and heroic undertones
I WILL be making a shitty linear pixel VNIt WILL never leave early accessIt WILL run like absolute dogshit even with the best CPU and GPU on the market (Windows 11 DirectX12 only) (Windows 12 only once available)It WILL require 12 TB of free spaceI WILL insult my customers and call them poorfags for being unable to run my game
>>720669791Unfathomably based
>>720669791Why would you try to make a VN with Unreal Engine 5?
Remember to playtest your game anons
>>720670102i did for 4 hours today
>>720670102I use demo days for that.
>>720668989For the love of god, get sveltekit or astro or something. You don't have to torture yourself like that anon, you can just run SQLite in memory or start a rocal server with your game.
Seeing these threads encouraged me to try and get started with gamedev. I wrote down my main ideas and now I'm trying to learn godot. Thank you for the push, niggas.
I found some bugs and expanded on gameplay. Good working day
ive been coding all day and constantly craving something sweet so im constantly drinking green tea. anyone else have this happen?
>>720671016green tea makes you soi anon, don't drink it
>>720671307specifically its green ice tea. i drink a lot of water but i wanted something else to drink that wasnt overly sweet or has too many calories or sugar in it. not a big fan of most soft drinks
>>720669078>sure, let me know what you think of the one I posted also if you would, always trying to improveregard the track feedbackim not much of a chiptune guy but it sounds alrightpersonally i dont get yugioh connotations with it thoughthen again im not big on yugioh so i might not know what im talking about
>>720670874whats with the ghosting
>>720671783I think it's the hbao+ plugin from asset store
>>720669791>pixel VNyou say this like it's a common thing, is it?
>>720667169>that font>that line count
>>720668483>like light passing through the event horizon of a blackBit overkill, but interesting. The problem would be that it's energy hungry, but the energy it defracts (that the right word?) could contribute to it.>nameI think I'll take that. That's like the coolest tshirt armor in vidya.
>>720670102must have killed a thousand goblins already
>>720670391F for respect
>>720610335kingdom hearts but you catch fish
>>720670678Do it anon, you can do it
>>720670678based anon. What's your game going to be about?
>>720669592https://vocaroo.com/1kFblJKyK9EFI kinda let the time limit play into the feeling more than any of your examples, but here's what I ended up with. https://jummb.us/#j6N07Unnamedn410s3k0l00e0qt3fa7g0qj07r1O_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_8N9B-1SkI1SkIPIFo7jrZ2CFmBhj8ZXflE2ChU4hM9BQie1cKzgEAtcnk2QhqoJ4mybj5FyQNqoJcmEb8yQxqgJ8mg50Fyyom0aq8J4FEyQiCybhE4t4Fj8Nlckh5Q0J8FEyQiCybhaq8J6whQhsDjOgJxyy5gJi8GoEwbAEyQEyV0n9h5Fh5O0J8n9iO97AF2FAoEMOckACa9yQOcl9yywKjO8KiO8KlOwKiO8KlO8KiO8KjO8E0>>720669137>>720669575Thanks>>720671573The song I tried to ape was this onehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSe-yeqopUcthanks for the feedback>>720670558it's mostly JSONs stored in script tags lmao
>>720670678What's his smug face sayyan
>>720609645il shill for urho3d rebelfork again.no faggy scripting languages, c++ or go fuck yourselveslightweight, no overheating GPU on your faggy low-poly gamessimple editor an component system
I'm getting the hang of using the Timeline Editor in Unity for making cutscenes. I thought I would have issues blending animations but it already supports masks.I might finish this cutscene sooner than expected.
>>720672310Probably exist but I was mostly just mixing up two traits commonly found among low quality indie games, pixel/low poly and VN games, for the joke.I would have added Synty models in the mix, but I thought the joke would be funnier if it was a 2D sprites game where there's absolutely no fucking reason for it to require such ridiculous hardware/software requirement.
I made you guys a funny little character.
>>720675705I've seen quite a few terrible indie VNs made by really pretentious and idiotic developers like Depression Quest or Video Game Critic Simulator or EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER, but I'm not sure how common VNs really are in the indie space. There might be a whole bunch of them I'm not aware of, I've mostly played the ones /v/ always recommends like AA, Ghost Trick, Hotel Dusk and Zero Escape
>>720674608Thanks anon, I'm fairly sure it'll take a good while but I'm no stranger to having projects taking ungodly amounts of time.>>720675031I think I posted about it a few threads back, but I've always found mutilation very fun, so taking a page from IVAN and Dorf Fort Adventure mode I'm aiming to make a game where the main draw is hacking off limbs with well-timed attacks. For the moment my vision is to have a combat system similar to the first parasite eve or Vagrant story, but with the addition that enemy attack animations will influence how exposed certain joints are and how much damage they will take, leading to dismemberment being a reward for exploiting openings.I'm gonna aim for the stars and actually try for a 3d game.
>>720676368>I've always found mutilation very fundon't tell that to the feds
>>720669791>>720672310>>720675705>>720676297I submitted a pixel VN to agdg's demo day 64 so this all feels like a personal attack.
>>720676631Pixel VNs can be good. I just said I happened to know some really shitty ones made by pretentious dipshits. As long as you don't screech about politics on Bsky and think gameplay gets in the way of the sermon you want to preach at people, I'm sure it's fine.
>>720676297>but I'm not sure how common VNs really are in the indie spaceThey're extremely common in the indie scene because they're very low maintenance games that don't really require any coding knowledge to make (unless you make one from scratch) so they're often used by beginners, so the quality varies wildly.
Guys please, this is a game development thread. VNs aren't games so please, stay on topic.
>>720610335civil war rts where all the historical figures are girls you can date
>>720677384That's just Sengoku Ranceyes please
>>720676538Too late, this is /v/, it's not quite fed central but it sure as hell is fed suburb.
>>720610335Lethal Company but with monster girls instead of monsters and you have to sit there and watch your friends get raped by a spider while listening to them on the walkie talkie
>>720610335Battle Royale Pornographic Visual Novel
>>720677904>Battle Royale Pornographic Visual NovelIMMA STEAL THIS
>>720677904>it's fuck or be fucked
>>720677904100 people competing on who can hold off cooming the longest
>>720678061Hanging on the edge.
>>720675214Are there programs that deconstruct songs?
Is there a game or rather rpg that gets layered armor correctly? I want to make layers meaningful, lack any hema knowledge, nor am I good with "damage formulas". My idea is to have 3-4 layers and each is strong against one physical element, like plate blocking slash and chains blocking pierce aso. Was this ever done?
>>720678217>programs that deconstruct songsyes, ableton(?) and FL(?) addons can rip a song into components, but it's 'AI' powered (neural networks, not LLMs)Also, they're junk(ish), I prefer to hold onto the construction
ok i think i got the full action bar reworked now, from 4 keys down to 2 with hold actions
>>720631483you should make a playable level with everything you have so far
I'm not even sure why I'm trying to learn Godot when I want Switch as an eventual target platform.
>>720679803Console backporting fucking sucks, there's no engine you can pick that will make it easier.If you're serious about it it'll be easier to pay a publisher to do it for you.
>>720609645If you need to learn programming from scratch I wouldn't recommend making an engine, its so much easier using unity for 3D
>>720679987>there's no engine you can pick that will make it easierMy experience is that that's not true. Some engines do a lot of the heavy lifting here for you, while the others force you to do the tedious things, presumably to ensure you doublecheck them?
>>720610270Know anyone who has made a cool game and everyone hates?
>>720681761Getting the game to run on console hardware is the easy part, unless your game does something esoteric or obtuse.The hard part has always been the laundry list of requirements Nintendo and Sony throw onto you before they'll agree to host your game. No matter what engine you pick, expect 6+ months of extra work if it's your first time. Even paid publishers that know what they're doing take 2-4 months to jump through the hoops. It's nothing like publishing a game on Steam or mobile.
>>720679803porting godot to switch isn't that hard. if you got approved by nintendo you get access to a free export module i think
>>720682357And it's a pain in the ass to work with for Godot, unless you want to give another company a large cut to do it all for you.
>>720681941I'm aware. I'm just saying that with Unity you have to do shit like "oh you can't use persistentdatapath you must use another word for it that Nintendo approved" meanwhile in Gamemaker you don't have to change a single line of code.The laundry list is not as bad, but it has some funny clauses, like the game being failed because it doesn't run properly in 480p in 2025.
>>720683121>not as bad*not that bad
>>720682357>i thinkHow can you measure difficulty of something you have never done before?Curious as this attitude is very common among Godot users.
So after the Hollow Knight incident, we're all charging $15, now right?
>>720683538kekno
>>720625175>Pay voice actors what they are worth.No thanks I would rather use a synthetic voice
im converting all of my manual math over to glm and its gay and unfun but i gotta do it
>>720683538Whenever I finish a game, I was always intending to sell it at $10 or under. $15 is pushing it, $20+ is career suicide after Silksong.
>>720679803>I want Switch as an eventual target platform.Nintendo fanboys will not support you if you aren't their IP. You want indie support? Go literally anywhere but Nintendo.
>>720625175Just voice the characters yourself.
>>720671848maybe dont use it thenat this point you would have just been using ue5
>>720684178NTA but you'd be shocked by how well games sell on the Switch
>>720684178Some indie devs have said their games sell better on Switch than on Steam, Nintendo is also pretty good about shilling random indieslop in directs.It's Playstation and Xbox that aren't worth porting too since the people who play that only play sports games.
>>720684915>Your Nintendo Switch Access request has been denied>We will not give you a reason for thisPost Iwata Ninty will only let you in after your game already did well.
>>720684412>>720684915I'm making an SRPG that has a FE look to it from a glance. I'm scared Nintendo will rape my existence if I even do slightly well.
>>720685173The fact you think Nintendo is going to give enough of a shit about your game to spend the resources to sue you is hilarious.Nintendo has shilled blatant clones of their own games in their directs before like Wargroove. Unless your game somehow gets Palworld tier popular they won't care (and if your game is on their console, they also won't care.)
>>720685173Nintendo don't care that much, Palworld is being dragged through the mud because they're pissy they let it get away with being "pokemon but with GUNS" and getting super popular but even then in a case THAT high profile they're still having to edit patents mid-trial to even get it to work in Japan of all places.Of course this all depends on how close it looks to FE in the first place, if you're tracing sprites I'd be worried but really even Nintendo have trouble patenting a grid based selection system and literal dice rolls. You could play FE on tabletop its so simple.
>>720685173FE doesn't have to sue you to kill you.
>>720685610What am I looking at?
>>720685818All of these games moved out of fear of Silksong. Your game will be no different when it comes to reacting to whatever Three Houses 2 decides to do.
>>720686181Silksong releasing on all platforms is worse than Fortune's Weave releasing only on Nintendo consoles.
>>720676246Nice
>>720676246The Legend of Fenta: A Floyd to the Past
>>720683538$19.99 for me
>>720685610Megabonk is such a gay and retarded game, its gonna make millions and then become irrelevant after a month or so. I can only hope to be so successful someday
>>720683538my game will be free
>>720676246>Pink nipples>>720686890>Make fun of murdered black man >Oh no that's just free speech, bro>Make fun of murdered white man>No that's white genocide, where's the left's empathy??
>>720687896Shut the fuck up, rasko.
>>720687896>where's the left's empathy??Never existed
>>720687896lmao
>>720688452You will never be Rareware.
>>720687896George Floyd was a felon and OD'd on fent
I don't see you guys working.
>had to create an extra animation because timeline doesnt support mask weights
>>720690616I wish i didn't see you.
>>720691204what a straight looking fella, i hope he doesn't gets erections while wrestling twinks
>>720685173As another SRPG developer, please give us a look at your project!
>>720692164You know he does.
well it's monday and i'm slaving away not really doing much at the office
Upscaled the sprites.
>>720608241I'm the anon from the other night where I cut ties with my publisher. AMA while I crunch on datasets. Anyone got more questions about the industry for indies?
>>720610743GPT is probably the worst fucking thing on earth to ask anything related to gamedev. It is polluted with low level garbage and will only send you back garbage.
>>720695246What went wrong? Do you think a publisher is necessary?How much damage has been done to your project now that the publisher is gone?Finding another one or publishing it yourself?Any tips on how I can sell myself?
>>720695246Last time you brought this up you said publishers urge devs towards certain things, can you expand on that? Like what kinds of things and how pushy are they? Also why did they cut ties with you?
>>720695692>What went wrong? Publisher had link with platforms but I really didn't like that they allowed scams and scam-tactics. I repeatedly said I didn't want to be part of it or allow it. They decided I was too difficult to work with. Cut ties.>Do you think a publisher is necessary?Do you want to be financially successful? If yes, then yes.If no, then no.Some folks, god knows why, just want to publish games without profits. These games are typically trashy and won't be looked at by publishers anyways.>How much damage has been done to your project now that the publisher is gone?None. I will continue to work as I have always had. If anything, I learned to make a lot of things, especially visuals, modular to appease different conditions.>Finding another one or publishing it yourself?Will find another, but will do so later.>Any tips on how I can sell myself?Without a publisher? Sex, niches and videos that show off easter eggs.
>>720690616Looks slick, anon. Can't wait to see those spacemen in action!
>>720696097It's going to be a few centuries, especially since I have no clue how to make a multiplayer game.
>>720695921On my side, the publisher pushed a game that was destined to fail after 6 months (not my own). They had a lot of in-game gacha, and they pushed me into gacha as well. I don't mind it and I also added packages that gave you guarantees at very low prices (like 5$ for guaranteed results, instead of gambling).Well after folks wasted money on that game, both the publisher and platform told players "too bad".I got wind of that and had lengthy discussions with them and they wouldn't budge and actually encouraged me to do this and move onto a clone project.Which to me is a scam. Again, we argued. After a lot of back and forth, I was labelled as "too difficult to work with".So here's a couple of things they push for.>compliance with credit cardsSurprisingly, this has been going on since 2010. There are a lot of rules that you have to abide to. Examples:>no gore>no fluids like urine, vomit, etc.>nothing non-consensualThere are workarounds, there are things that could be acceptable given certain contexts, but they got a long list of things. So if you want to make a gore dismemberment sim, forget it.They also push games as a service and gacha. The worst for the player, the better. This is something I was against, because I don't endorse gambling.They also push a lot of DEI, even if a cameo, because a lot of syndicates they are buddy with are run by DEI pushers. So if you want to be invited to events, you need to comply. If the publisher vouches for you, it's a free pass. Otherwise, you won't get invited or will be on a waitlist. It's easier to write in a lesbian or something than argue.Finally, they really chase trends. Sometimes they ask for you to put stuff in there that make no sense and 2 months later, something else even forgoing the previous. Hence, make your game very modular ready.
I added a really good debug feature for testing stuff in my game. I added Global Positional tracking and rewind. Now, if you press the DPad Down button, you'll rewind 3 or more seconds in the past, positionally. It tracks the last 180 frames, so long as you're not on a moving platform, on the ground and if you're not in the same position you were the frame prior. Holding it in will loop you through the 3 seconds, so you can dial it down to exactly where in the 3 second period you want to stop. Using it multiple times in a row kind of fucks it up, how I have it implemented, but this will GREATLY improve my ability to debug platforming challenges.>>720696224Real neat design, fygoon.>>720617872good shit, anon.>>720624243I don't know, man, I kind of dig it, but I get where you're coming from.>>720631483So good looking, goblindev. You're developing so quickly. I agree with what the other anon said, it's starting to look less like tech demo and more like a beta for a real game, you know?
>>720696224You got this, what I have seen from your Fygoon game is really impressive for one person. I'm sure implementing multiplayer will be a simple task.
tengu boss
>>720696013>Do you want to be financially successful? If yes, then yes.Wanna explain this one? Sounds to me like publishers are a waste of time and they're looking for suckers more than they're looking for devs.
>>720696013Post your game, I want to see if your perspective has any merit
Would you burn a bridge with a former team you worked with if they went on reddit and blamed you for the game failing when even the negative reviews say it's the only good thing about the game? The game already tanked and most of the community turned on them. Feels like it's not worth it but some of the recent comments really pissed me off.
>>720696013>>Do you think a publisher is necessary?>Do you want to be financially successful? If yes, then yes.Publishers and Steam will give you about 40% of revenue. Publishers are a scam
>>720696794Yes.I have self-published in the past and it was really hard to advertise or breaching through.Youtubers had no interest or those that did really sucked at making it look good since they sucked at the game.If you're all alone, you're also constantly blasted by scammers almost daily.What publishers bring is contacts, exposure, crowds and deals.It always depends on the publisher, I cannot comment on which is better, but they can work in your favor considerably, especially if you want to focus on the game instead of doing the rest.For instance, iii, the triple indie i event. You couldn't have access to this without a publisher having a membership into a video game syndicate vouching for you.You can also work together to create a following as opposed to doing it wrong on your own.So if you want $$, you should work with a publisher.Look at studio mimimi, they decided to forgo the publisher on their later releases and they shut down due to bad sales.Now if you just want your game out, then it won't matter. Do what you want.If you want to work with publishers, get a working demo, make it modular, make it easy to work with and contact publishers.Then ask for terms and conditions, and negotiate.>>720696975The current game I am working on isn't even demo ready. I will publish it on here in the future, don't worry.>>720697220I used to think that until I self published and realized the massive gap and work that needs to be put into breaching. If you want to make games instead of dealing with this, get one.
>>720697009Sounds like they burned the bridge with you
>>720697436>Youtubers had no interest or those that did really sucked at making it look good since they sucked at the gameWhere were the /v/ threads anon? NextFest "organically" introduces the game to anons and then you can make whatever shill-bait thread you want.
>>720697436>I have self-published in the past and it was really hard to advertise or breaching through.>Youtubers had no interest or those that did really sucked at making it look good since they sucked at the game.sounds like the problem was with the game and not with the lack of a publisher
made a not so secret optional cutscene going into the mc's backstory. also added hitstop to heavy attacks to really make her hits feel meaty. the dwarf mission is otherwise 75% done and should be out on the playable build in a week ideally
>>720697623Next fest can be a boost but not something you can depend on. My game isn't even going to go on steam, so that's irrelevant.The biggest issue I had was bad players trying it on youtube and making the game look like crap because they couldn't make a jump.>>720697642Remember, some of the worst AAA games outsell the best indies because of advertisement and nothing else.
>>720697838>some of the worst AAA games outsell the best indies because of advertisement and nothing elsesuch as?
>>720697838>Make thread>Why are YouTubers so bad at vidya?>WEBM is footage of your game>Someone who is totally not you askes what game that isMan I'd love to gain 5 Wishlists from 1 thread. That sounds nice.
>>720696658Can you name the publisher and the syndicates?
>>720697749very fuckable dragon
>>720698193NDA, can't :(The syndicates are plastered all over events.>>720697989A good strategy but very low reach.>>720697946Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown for instance.It's a 2D platformer with static portraits. Probably one of the lowest hanging fruit in terms of development.
>>720696682Thanks.>>720696739See the problem is Fygoon's story isn't even complete yet; cutscenes are a bitch, and the story is the most important part of the game. Also doesn't help I spent my entire day reading over business contracts. I only began posting the Impulsehazard Lieutenant because I found his model while creating models for characters who are important to the story of Frydar Island, which were being made as visual aids for my two best friends since they keep pestering me on helping with the backstory of my game as seen in The Zmeian Compendium.
>>720698397>Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown for instance.>the worst AAA games outsell the best indiesthat's 2k reviews with a full team of professionals, not even a quarter of silksong
>>720697749please be porn please be porn please be porn
Posting again since the last died. Added new enemies plus new AI and other stuff. https://dead-imagination.itch.io/reinboLooking for feedback if anyone has the time. >>720608840Thanks, it works well. What name do you want credited to it? > That scuba guy is actually a spaceman, more accurately Lieutenant Joseph Fyrondis of the Galactic Bureau of Security Army. I was having way too much fun posing him and I made a shitload of silly renders of him in cool poses.Oh cool, look like Clone Troopers poses.
>>720698397This game and its nonexistent /v/ threads jobbed to Peripeteia so I'm convinced that anons offer more than publisher-paid YouTubers do.
>>720698516>the problem is Fygoon's story isn't even complete yet;Like you need all that for such basic bitch game.
>>720699048I don't think he's wrong about the youtubers making the game look bad because the youtubers themselves are not presentable, game or otherwise.so if you're saying you can get by without a publisher if only you had a good game that would make youtubers shill it, what would that game be?
>>720698397>The syndicates are plastered all over events.Are any of these considered syndicates?If not, are syndicates things like Griffin Gaming Partners, BITKRAFT, TGF, or Makers Fund?Note that I'm only asking what is considered a syndicate, not that any of these are the syndicates you were talking about.
>>720699024Since your game is set in what I presume to be a fantasy version of Feudal Japan, I'll go with something appropriately Japanese-y:>Ryu Nobunaga
>>720699293This guy is telling us that all of these YouTubers would have skipped the game had it not been for the publisher, and he's right. But I just think that all YouTubers are useless with the review count to show for it.
>>720699672I've (we've) had some small youtubers play our game and it didn't really give us a bump up. so yeah.
>>720699048After working with Anons, I beg to differ.And as >>720699293 said. What happened is a couple of anons and youtubers shilled my game but they were so fucking bad at it that I had to ask them to pull their "reviews" down.Remember the cuphead reviewer that couldn't dash the tutorial? This is like every other person out there, they really suck at games but they want to be youtubers and reviewers, in spite of no-skills. Most of their hits were walking sims, which should've been a red flag for me...>>720699405No, they are sponsors that give money to a syndicate to organize the event itself.I joined one but I can't talk about it... I had to do a LOT of digging to get them and ask.You pay a fee and you're in. But you gotta sign a shit-ton of paperwork that basically makes you deny their existence.
>>720699024>>720699586Played it again now that I know where to find the survival area. Gotta say, the enemy swordsmen are great: difficult, but hacking them to pieces is quite fun.Since you're here, I might as well tell you that I enlightened my Japanophile sister of the Bake-danuki, especially since it was because I was telling her about your game.
>>720699672>>720699895And I'd agree. Youtube reviewers aren't all that.Facebook ads and being on the front page of steam do way better and publishers can get you there.
>>720700091>You pay a fee and you're in. But you gotta sign a shit-ton of paperwork that basically makes you deny their existence.Is there any way I, as an outsider, can search for their existence? Not a specific one, but the existence of this...species as a whole, so to speak. You say those companies I listed give them money to organize the event, is this public information or is it something only an insider can know?
I was thinking of doing a dress up game, other than doing the dress up part what other gameplay should there be?
>fygoon spends all day lolcowing on 4chan>thus his game can never actually be sucessful because he will just get cancelled if he ever achieves the smallest modicum of famelol
>>720700128>default unity skybox and materialsSoul quotient, less than zero.
>>720700415You don't even have a game.Prove me wrong.
>>720700415>believing he will actually finish his gamelmao even
>>720700247In my area, it's called a guild.In others it may go by another name. But they are basically syndicates where you buy into a membership and get benefits in exchange.The only condition we had was to be local, have a game published and speak the local language.
>>720700552I actually like his game.
>>720700419Oh please, that's just an in-engine render.
>>720700207What makes Facebook any better than Reddit? That just sounds like a jobber site where none of the users can get up and press the wishlist button.
>>720700634sure you do fygoon
>>720700634Uh oh. He's about to call you "fagoon" now in a braindead stupor.
>>720700675Facebook ads actually permeate through the apps and they are quite incessant and they will target people with disposable income.It's also one of the cheapest ad service out there with worldwide reach.>>720700747Yeah I know, figures.>>720700680I'm the AMA guy. I played all your games on here. I like most of them too.
>>720608241Shit's too expensiveI hate artistsI also hate music guysFucking reeeee tbqh
Small dog barks the loudest.
These publisher games can get whatever number they like but if it can't get a measly 5 /v/ threads, what's the point? The game has failed to leave an impression on anyone and the publisher went on to the next guy.
>>720700982Rasko is the size of manlytears chihuahua then.
>>720701161>Mahjong Gee, i can't tell why. It totally sounds like a winner that one.
>>720700813Well what can you expect from losers who spend their entire lives on the internet? As soon as they see there are others who support people like me, they will either crawl away or try to dox you.Aside from that nonsense, it's interesting to see that Facebook ads are better than ads on other sites. Then again, considering how Meta owns both Facebook and Instagram, then it begins to make sense, especially with how scarily accurate their tracking is. It'd be cool to see how this whole shebang would work, and I am curious to know how good it would be to advertise a game that'll be exclusive to the Mac App Store (for about two weeks or so before being released everywhere).
>>720700492Considering you spam CSAM and dox anyone who slightly has an opinion against you, I'm happy you don't think I have a game
>>720701346>Well what can you expect from losers who spend their entire lives on the internet?kettle met pot
>>720701161The example here is bad. Mahjong is quite niche. It's like monopoly. And there are already so many variants, it's like, why would I buy this when I can play a bot game for free? or on mobile.
>>720701353Hey Alicedev. Do you even make games anymore?
>>720701346Bark louder for me, microscopic dog.
>>720701463Mahjong isn't even that popular in China with the youths anymore either.
>>720701320>>720701463There's a whole /vg/ place for it and they don't like it either. Anons opinions are more real than all 1,865 of those reviews.
>>720701346You been sucking kiwikiddies dick today, rasko?
>>720701590Post your game.
>>720701471I have no idea who that is
>>720701507Neither is monopoly, but that's my point. Like, let's publish this age old game like backgammon with waifus.Why would anyone actually spend money on it??>>720701546Dude 4chan is 60% bots and with AI, it's around 70% now.Most of you in this thread aren't even real, you're just servers ping-ponging around.
>>720701647Sure you don't, Alicedev.
Anyone doing a kickstarter? How much money do you ask?
>>720701620Post your groomer discord, rasko. Post it so everyone can see you asking nudes from the kiwifarm kiddies.
>>720701653>Most of you in this thread aren't even realSome of the retardation here cannot be emulated by a machine.
>>720701161Roguelikes are very niche on /v/ already so I can pretty easily see why a game for chinese people that's just Balatro but X gets no discussion here
>>720701653>Most of you in this thread aren't even real, you're just servers ping-ponging aroundJust because rasko looks like an AI golem doesn't mean he's fake, i wish he was but he isn't.
>>720701724Search away, loser:https://discord.gg/HMf9X4yMFY
>>720701682>I'm so retarded I can't comprehend people other than some random made up boogey man thinking I'm a bit cringelol
>>720701851Shouldn't you be combing a Discord, queer?
>>720701829>asking for circumcised dicksThat's low even for you.
>>720701471>everyone who hates me is some random /agdg/ devdude ive seen you in a bunch of /v/ threads always starting shit, im starting to feel like you live on this site
>>720701718Kickstarter has been a failure for me and what's worse is the absolutely fucking insane amount of scammers on it.I managed to get 1k out of 10k.Frankly, either lowball it and if it works do another later; you will at least have something.
>>720701927Oh, so you're too lazy to get off of your ass and instead spread nothing but gay lies.Post your game, bottom-feeder.
>>720701829Hey rasko, i saw dogshit on the street and reminded me of your face.
Gaither's pond lookin ass models god i hate your artsyle so much f*goon
>>720702019>deflectingYou gotta stop doing that shit man, go be gay with adults.
>>720702058>>720702065>>720702147This thread should be more to your speed (or should I say "sped", cuz you all are retarded):>>539136130
>>720702220tard cant even link properly
It appears this thread has been ruined by the faggerdaggers.
I'm tired of making cutscenes. Time to call it quits and finish the rest tomorrow.Hopefully there's a /v/ thread next week to post my finished proggy.
>>720702220Rasko your face looks like those walking ass things from po'ed.
>be me>check /v/'s agdg thread to see if there's any potential new indie stuff on the horizon>it's unironically just that one greentext about thread schizos/namefags/lolcows, beat for beat
>>720702014even 10k is kinda low. Are you just by yourself?
>>720702550It appears you a bitch nigga, rasko .
>>720702681Watch out, you alerted the thread schizo and he will call you "fagoon" and dox you for your transgression.
>>720702772he's talking about this thread
>>720702772Rasko wanna cry?
>>720702681/agdg/'s here are actively ruined by one insufferable guy who won't stop taking advantage of community goodwill in the one place where people are meant to shill their own shitHis continued mediocrity and aggression towards competition single-handedly drags down every single thread he makes himself a part of
>>720703006very true, and very unfortunate
Rasko is prime example of why russians must be erradicated.
>>720702704yup
Whole lot of game development here.
>>720703359Kill yourself rasko, i mean it.
Just realized it's Indian/Chinese hours; no wonder the thread quality is so shit.
>>720702681Oh htey're bitching about underspace again huh
Minigames in a dress up game? Would just a static doll with clothes get boring? Should it be combined with a dating sim or something?
>>720703359>>720703618Usually these threads are encouraging and constructive. Better luck next time I guess
>>720703165damn, 1k won't even last a month
>>720703359No, this is just fagoon yapping to himself.
>>720703359I can guarantee any game other than Fygoon's would get actual feedback if posted
>>720697749Are you Awesomesauce?
>>720704080The last guy that did that just made fagoon more annoying for months. He would think every poster was just that guy harassing him. Dude is fucking mental.
thoughts on UI?
>>720704423That sucks. I only check on these occasionally, I very rarely post anything that could identify me incase he decides to target me next for some retarded reason
>>720704712it's a clever idea, but honestly it seems like a mess. How many buttons do you really need?
>Play game>Get idea>Start working on it>Play new game>Get new idea>Abandon other and work on it instead>Rinse and repeatI have like a dozen of solid concepts that will never be finishedWhat should I play next
>>720704712ballsack core
>>720704712I think you need to cluster them together more tightly because otherwise different color lines invade each others space. Unless that's a necessity? Also give it some space and try to make them smaller. That's how I make obsidian graphs be readable.
>>720704712I feel like it should be spaced further so there's less node shoving (and also prevents the passive jitter which seems off). Additionally, I'd argue that you should make the hover expansion slightly more gradual/less sudden than what it is currently.
my videogame will be like this
>>720704712maybe don't have it all expanded out at once. Once you hover over a ball, then you drop down more balls in the branch
>>720704981good point, I adjust the draw-in now.>>720705021Hover expansion fix, yes slow now.
>>720704775Yeah, I stopped coming here in like January because every day was just this bullshit. It's wild to see almost a year later fagoon is still just talking to himself every single day posting the same images.
>>720705954You could probably round to 0 if pushing motion is less than something like 0.05 to get rid of the slight rubbing jitter for elements that are nowhere near focus/the cursor. Not too sure what this system is for but I hope it goes well nonetheless
>>720700569>a guildoh it's one of those. I think we have a local one and it's full of literal out-of-touch DEI and wahmen empowerment grifters
>>720706178thank you, it's not quite a physics based system, it's a geometric solution but it depends on instability to some degree to prevent overlap.
>>720705064wholesome
I modeled the office I worked at in 2017 just because I wanted to feel like shit or something
>>720707909Is the narrow room with one entrance an elevator or storage?
>>720683398I haven't used Godot, I just know they have a Switch export module and that I'm pretty sure you can get it on the Nintendo dev forums but I'm not sure if it's still on there, hence "I think".
>>720656439>>720657381Final update for the day. I managed to load the proper item counts for all potions, all slots now load an image, but slot 2 is being silly with its potion count number cosmetically but has the right number count in the array. Im so happy to be near 90% complete with consumable quickslots and hud im more ready to work on the quest component for the first set of quests. I intend on having all four forms ready at the start with experience and progressing to build upon each. Im honestly so happy I fixed the scrollbar issue that was the oldest function I needed to fix. As a silly backtrack here is an old video of my progress from last year thinking how much I've done so far.
Oh hey the thread is still up in the morning oh my god what happened
>>720710673it happens
>>720710673Most threads i start end up good quality. Especially considering when I started it.
>>720710673fuck yeahnicejust woke upgonna grab a bite and cop of coffee then get back into gamedeving
>>720675214>I kinda let the time limit play into the feeling more than any of your examples, but here's what I ended up with.dont sweat it anoni appreciate the effort
>>720701161>roguelike deckbuilding mahjong game with chinese anime girls
I'm contemplating just using a bitmap font for my game, with a metadata file with it to declare the atlas contents, spacing, kerning, etc. It would make it easier to add workshop support so people can do unofficial localizations without me worrying about handling multiple types of font encodings.
>>720711275Hell yeah brother
>>720679416I was thinking of doing that, but there's still stuff I need to polish. Wouldn't make much sense to put out a demo and get feedback ons tuff I already know I have to improve>>720665748Thanks! Might still need to make some adjustments to it but I'm happy with it, and people who've tried it said it felt nice. But I'll wait until people are able to play it before touching it more.>>720696682appreciate it man! really enjoyed my time with your demo by the way>>720710510hey good to so you around again!>>720707909Trenchbroom bro, I updated not long ago and there are brush shapes now. What the fuck.
>>720711716Trenchbroom is usable for shit other than Quake? I've just been using Blender here and making modular mesh component for layout out my environments & buildings, but if I can just export Trenchbroom maps, that'd let me prototype map layouts fucking quick to populate with proper assets later.
>>720711793We use it in Godot, I saw some addons for using it with UE and Unity too but not as popular
>>720712021I wish Godot had support for instancing from a Blend file. I'd use its 3d tilemap thing for my modular environments, but they're a fucking nightmare for drawcall counts and collision calculations.
>>720711793with func_godot you can import trenchbroom maps into Godot at the press of a button
>>720712121What do you mean by this?
>>720712198You can't batch render from Godot's tilemaps last I dabbled with it. So even if I'm using 50 copies of the same 12 meshes to LEGO my map together, it's rendering every single one individually instead of grouping them.
>>720711716Yeah man, happy to be active again. I'm still recovering but I am feeling a lot better. But wow im really impressed with your progress! I haven't started my settings menu but I will eventually get to it.Im also glad to get back as I had many ah-ha moments in my head about problems I faced i just had to get back to it and fixed most of them. I still need to work on unequipping priorities with the slots but with a lot of new structures I've made im looking forward to completing the first area.
>>720712459glad to read you are feeling better man>Im also glad to get back as I had many ah-ha moments in my headit's funny how those happen the most when we are away from the computer. Are you planing to release, or maybe already have, a demo available to try?
>>720678623>prefer to hold onto the constructionMeaning?>aiReally? There's no way to deconstruct them without ai? Pretty sure I saw YouTube videos where the parts of songs or tracks are deconstructed like 10 years ago.
>>720685173You think if palworld would be on Nintendo, they wouldn't care?
>>720713146People think algorithms = AI. We've had audio to separate instruments from music for decades.
>>720713136Definitely! Since what i believe are only a few cosmetic bugs once the first area has more gameplay elements ill release a demo. The big piece to that is making sure the quest manager is at least providing some feedback since I have it ready to update my widgets.Ill probably release a demo with a save that has freebies to try out.
On the AI subject, here's a hypothetical: If I use it to generate design ideas, and then use those as a reference to build shit myself without the use of generation tools from there, is it still considered AI assisted? How would that be any different from just Googling references and working from those if so?
>>720713573Outside of twitter that should be fine, people care less about how you get your ideas than about getting a product that people put work into. What could hurt you is if you only take the path of least resistance and make only stuff that is easy with AI, as that will make your game look the same as all the other devs being lazy with AI.
>>720608523Borderlands 4 ;(
>>720713460Right?>AIAlgorIthm = AI
>Make game>Get sued by Nintendo because Mario invented jumping
>>720701161This game is actually awesome but >chinese voice acting>MTL english (supposedly fixed in yesterday's patch)>made by chineseprobably nuked any interest it might've had, both in the west and japanthis game is juiced as fuck and puts Balatro's effects to shame, if any of you likes Mahjong and Balatro this is a great game to take few pages from for your design
>>720705954You should make sure the balls can't leave from under your cursor randomly.
>>720709459the narrow room on the top left was the executive bathroom only the CEO was allowed to use
>zone out and get distracted when it comes to actual dev>but I can write notes and ideas for hoursMinor suffering
>>720714331>tfw spent all day using AI to animate my porn game and now I have over 3 hours of porn that I need figure out where to cram in my game
>>720714494I don't want to see an office ever again, fuck those places
>>720714664I'm really looking forward to killing people and destroying furniture in said virtual office
Aw sheeettt I'm gonna make BIG money
Been studying other game's of recent for workflow ideas on my own shit. Anyone got a clue as to why the main walls of this building from the TLOU1 remake have so many subdivides? Only thing I can guess is either it's for UV shenanigans, or they just mandate a general standarized texel size on every texture being used.On that note, I don't even know how you decide what size your standard quad size should be in a game, so you can make everything else around it consistent in that regards so there's no obvious low-poly portion of an environment sticking out like a sore thumb, or overly stretched texture. Least as far as the ground goes, it's looking like half a meter for anything not subdivided.
>>720714842you need at least 7000 wishlists to be considered a game good enough for being promoted on steam's frontpage
It's a bit better with furniture but I still haven't modeled or sprited a chair
>>720715237nice
Made a shrink potion
>>720715543what does it do?
>>720715724Makes you small. Obviously.There'll be places you can get to by using my mushroom potions cleverly. You'll also be able to use them on other objects and enemies to make them small.
>>720715689huh video seemed to have not uploaded rightmaybe this will work
>>720715210Yeeeah I know, and it's getting even higher in a month
>>720715921Nice lighting bro
I made chairs 2D because fuck making a whole new complex model for it when I can just reuse a sprite
>>720716172You mixing 3d and 2d in a very weird, very specific way
>>720715921Are these green dots like point-n-click locations?
>>720685173Nintendo only sues over monster catchers, so unless you make it REALLY look like FE they won't do a thing.
>>720710673>oh my god what happenedtake a fucking guess
Got a youtuber lined up to play our next build.
>>720716426for the moment they serve as ground markings of locations where the player would hypothetically stop up and a shootout would break out with a wave or waves of enemies a la time crisisive elevated it to being automatedthe player will only move on once all enemies are defeated at a given shout out point
>>720716691>>720716426also to add yeah i intend to make such points be the locations where you you can duck into cover if you press and hold a keyand snap back out once you release it
>>720704712depends on the purpose. if it's going to be something that the user often goes through, its probably going to cause a lot of misclicks. most menus are supposed to be something you can eventually muscle memory your way through without thinking about it too much.
