gamedev threadanonthe gamehow's it going?you just lost
Sick for a few days so I've got nothing
I'm working on undead people>>732951480shit sucks yggbro, hope you get better soon
Added character rotation on movement (but not when pushed), models that show movement direction, goblins that kill anything in 4 adjacent tiles, and a priest character that protects itself and anything in 4 adjacent tiles from death.
I've got nothing right now, maybe if the threads still up later tonight or tomorrow I'll post the level I'm working on>>732951480feel better dude
i'm gonna make a stacklands slop and watch the money roll in teehee
played some mewgenicssurprisingly few ideas that I felt the need to steal, that surely means my idea is cohesive enough as it is alreadytonight, working on a system to handle random events that player might stumble upon
Working on cutscenes, bug fixes, and some videos. One to show all the little changes I've made in response to feedback to the demo, for example, the little pulsing animation on the turn display to help catch the player's eye and remind them it's their turn. With how fast the game can blaze through enemy moves, I heard from a couple people that they'd just sit there for a few seconds before realizing "oh, it's my turn." Also going to make a bunch of shorts, each showing a playable character and what they bring to the party. I figured character bios might appeal to those who like SRPGs, those people do tend to like characters!
got our game up on the made in brazil sale on steam, hopefully it picks up some wishlists. currently working on the final area
>>732952087those barrels really need a shadow to tie them to the world
>>732950923OP is the biggest faggot. You don't lose the game by saying "the game" you moronic abscess. You lose by saying "i lost". Fuck your fake dev thread.
Started to work on the first level and the progress ground to a halt, which was expected so it's not demoralizing me. I'm learning a whole new skill after all, just trying to figure out how to do it on Blender and choosing pentagon shaped floors for a space station didn't make it easier. >>732951480Get better soon bro>>732951569Will they be spooky or sad undead?
>make a shitty game catered to trans people>they eat it up>use the profit to fund my real dream gameIt's that ez
>>732952668You're right
>>732953509my game is catered specifically towards porn star Valentina Nappi. I have spent the last decade studying Italian culture and 1950s-era mind control, otherwise known as MK Ultra.I cannot show my game here, because if I do and any italians see it, they'll try jumping through their screen in attempt at sucking my dick.Not gonna happen. My game is for Valentina's eyes and her eyes only.
As you may or may not know, Dragoons now fly and breathe fire. At the moment, I am working on optimizing the scenes such that more enemies can be present without tanking the framerate.Unity's mysterious "Other" strikes again.
>>732950923how would you go about adding some challenge to spice up a fishing game?
>>732954238That's too broad a question. Do you already have the base mechanics?
>>732953867nOoooOOOOO WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ITALIANS ARE SUCKING MY DICK RIGHT NOW HOW COULD YOU DO THIS
>>732953356>Will they be spooky or sad undead?more spooky than sad! I'm saving the sadness for the banshee. The zombies are all about wacking you, grabbing you and throwing their rotten flesh at you
>>732954359no, I'm an idea guy currently learning basic C# in order to make pongbut recently I've been thinking of a fantasy fishing game that I might make in 3 years or somethingjust can't get it out of my head
>>732953867why would you make a game for some troon looking whore?
>>732954548learn an engine, not a language. you can learn the c# fundamentals in an hour, learning how to do stuff in engine will take days.
>>732954531Most excellent, old school zombies have been close to my heart for a long time.
>>732954548Okay well first you need to have base mechanics in mind before you can think about "adding some challenge to spice up". You can't spice a nonexistent dish.
>>732954548Say you were to model your imagined game on an existing game's fishing mechanics, what game might that be?
>>732954629Take that back.
I have fear of success/ failure so I have trouble starting up
>>732954629>looking
>>732955294Just become delusional like us
>>732955401I partially am or wholly. Maybe it is the last barrier I need to break through. Thanks, will keep in mind
I feel my depression settling in again and can't bring myself to work on it
>>732955597Read the lizard devs posts and emulate his energy. Before you know it, you'll be the most delusional guy in your family.>>732953980
>>732955626
>>732955752I always like seeing your updates, I appreciate the blin. Means something to me, thanks
>>732955954thanks anon, I really appreciate it. Hope the goblin helped cheer you up. Life can be shit sometimes but don't forget the passion that drives you
Why is coding so hard to get into I feel like I unlearned everything or somethingi just want to make video games
>>732955626When I feel that way, I try to identify the less creative more little chore things in my project that need to be done. Small things. Gives small wins and let's you feel like you're doing something and making progress even if you don't have the creative energy at that moment. Don't know if you might feel similar.
>>732956252coding is like learning a language. You need to practice a ton and the more you practice, the more it'll become second nature to you
>>732950923Finished this character and the wand he is carrying. The top is a rotating four face thing
>>732956252Coding is like a puzzle game. You learn some basic operations you can do, and try to solve the problem with them. Sometimes you'll need more advanced tools and techniques to solve it, but fundamentals will do 90% of the work.
>>732956479looks real cool! have you decided what you wanna do with the game?
>>732956706Probably just a roguelite Hexen-style shooter perhaps with a village building element (for upgrades between missions)I am setting up coop but i dont know if ill go with it
>>732956374That's actually good advice. I'm going to fix some UI bugs, thanks>>732956479Great texturing on the robes
I'm actively suppressing the desire to work on my game, so I can focus on finding a new job - my contract expired and wasn't extended.feels like I'm trying to join an ICC raid with no exp and wearing greens
>>732956917>Hexen-stylehell yeah
I forgot how to draw
>>732958073that looks pretty good though
>>732958452thanks anon I was halfway fishing for compliments but good to know I still got it
>>732952849How can one lose when there is no chicken to gaze upon?
>>732955752soblin ;-;
Please hold me.You guys are so much better than agdg
Still working on Ellie. I made a script for the ponytail, which was harder to do and plan out than I thought it would be. The ponytail is one object with only one rotation point at the base of the ponytail. I use clever rotation on all three axises combined with curvature of the object itself to make it seem like it's flowing.
wall editing
I had all this written in my previous post and accidentally erased it before I hit send. Oh well.>>732951569>>732954531Oh dude, hell yeah. I love your guys. This looks like the guy in Kakariko Village at night that is the construction worker guys son>>732951673Grid movement is very hard to make. Feel good, but you look like you're on the right path. Good work! >>732956479I really like your style. Great work on the character design!>>732958073I don't know, doesn't seem like you forgot to me. I liked the zebra guy
>>732961796>>732960669Aw
>>732956479I like the Hexen thing.How did you model and texture those environments if you don’t mind me asking
Wanted to have some variation aside from the portraits I was doing, so I made this combiner robot that fuses 2 ship parts together. My brother says "it's ok", but doesn't have any suggestions to make it better. I need some more opinions because I'm thinking of scrapping it and just making another character portrait like I have with the other interactions.
>>732950923>plan v0.3.0 out to make game fun>completely ignore plans and work on game engineI need to work on assets. I should start with something easy like a button.
>>732962224looks good, your game completely mogs my space themed game. Fusion is a satisfying game mechanic.
>>732961796>I liked the zebra guythanks anon. likewise, I like Girl Osh
sick of my job>Go here anon>No tomorrow you're going here>Just kidding, you're going over there for three weeks>Ummmm nah, nvm. You can stay home, it's cancelled>WTF ANON why arent you here? We got the call 10 seconds ago that its not cancelled!!>How are you not prepared? Are you high again?I cant say what my job is, not risking it even on 4chan. But I hate it so much. FUCK.I just wanna smoke weed and mess around all day long.
Are the unity/unreal official tutorials any good? been learning rpgmaker slowly but kind of want to try my hand at the two big engines
>>732963361Unity's tutorials are hit and miss. They're good to help you get started, or if it's something new they recently added and you want to learn the basics, but anything beyond that and they leave much to be desired.Code Monkey is probably a better resource for Unity tutorials.No comment on UE. I use it a lot for work but I've never done anything game related in it.
Hopefully will finish today.
>>732962149The models are straight from blender currently using complex collisionThe textures are mostly 256x256 parts from bigger photographs. Some are put together in GIMP, like the plaster wall.
>>732950923destructible asteroids are working better. balancing visuals with performance has been a real minefield thoughAnon from the last thread, you're right that the foreground particles are hard to read. I need to make them fade to black or disappear in some visually pleasing way
>>732954238When I got an idea for a fishing game, I thought about combining it with Monster Hunter. The big hunts would have you stabbing monsterous fish with harpoons and you could get knoced out of your boat. For the memes, I also thought of adding a romance option with a tomboy and a trap.
>>732956917Please do it with co-op, also, tell me how to do textures like that, I need to know. I'm trash at it.
>>732962807What does that have anything to do with anything? Post progress on your game or shut the fuck up.
>>732965676Very cool looking aesthetics.
>>732961796>I love your guysay anon many thanks! I love your characters too, the girl is coming along pretty nicely, love the sandals
>>732967557What does that response have to do with anything? You didn't post progress either.
FINALLY figured out how to make a webuild of my game that was supposed to be submitted to the jam last week. Spent some time sprucing it up, it's very simplistic but I'm happy with it. I have some ideas to expand on it with, but for now I'm gonna shift gears.toastrlord.itch.io/journey-to-zebulon-iv>>732954238Needing exotic bait for higher level catches? Having to go out to more dangerous waters?>>732956479I like the way this looks, very cohesive.>>732962224I've seen you post a few times, this looks sick as hell. How long have you been working on it? What did you make it in?
>>732968575Forgot pic
air charging
i'm tired of staring at decision trees all the time, but it did result in hitching enemies actively working together as a team to kill you
>>732968956I like!
>>732964750So they’re blender models. Gotcha>>732954238Underwater spear fishing
>>732954531I really like this
try my mod if you own arma 3
>>732971076I don’t
>>732971076I have arma III. I'll give it a shot when I get off work. (4 hours 24 minutes to go)
>>732971665You’re exact
>>732971665aight cool
I really need to figure out PS2 models
>>732971690Coolio
>>732950923The game.DFY8Q-KN6F0-8XARHQP48N-5RL4I-CV4AE70FTD-X4289-ZHPG3QY8TT-LXK6W-Y82DCLGKN6-3M22H-XFHFQH7JLK-VE43V-9HCJVM78E6-6PD8P-KY7BIPFQ3I-D9439-T8HX0TJ0GA-GX3B6-HXZD9T70JX-9BFQ2-7HIGNQRIMM-I2M7H-H9GDWYZVBB-6FW59-47457
>>732973661Wat
>>732973661>TJ0GA-GX3B6-HXZD9thanks dude
>>732973661bro giving away keys to his game nobody wants KEK
>>732974716That’s a bitch
It feels like no matter how much I scale down in scope, I still feel this pervasive anxiety
>>732975065AI does not have intent or meaning.
>>732975558>AI does not have intent or meaning.
>>732975558i usually don't either
>>732975065>AI good for gamedevMaybe get AI to write for you too, bud
>>732974716You could have been anything, why did you choose to be a faggot?
Made some decent progress, made the main menu theme, figured out how the main menu is going to function. I just always feel like i need to do more, would i be a fag if i tarted to use a tripcode in these threads only.
>>732976079Yay
>>732968575The v3jam? So out of curiosity, with the theme and the modifiers, how did you implement them in your game? (I ask, lying in bed with no way to currently play it)
>>732975639Raj, posting AI in this thread isn't going to save the AI bubble from popping, if you need to invest trillions into something and it's not even improving or working then it's never going to take off. There's no such thing as an AI artist, designer or developer. Notch is pro-AI and even he agrees with this.
>>732975639>thinking ai is sentient
>>732975065Fun fact anyone promoting AI is either doing it for money or because they have no skills and they are resentful / spiteful
>>732976976Yeesh
just made some cutscene and a boss fight music, now ill take a break form music makin to implement it allhttps://vocaroo.com/1bt0BxAdaMVihttps://vocaroo.com/186eJVNAN0WDhttps://vocaroo.com/1gDQA3BaUCMY
>>732979198Nicr
more leaf movement, falling in a vacuum makes it drop like a rock
how do you manage depression and lonliness?its been crippling me and my progress has been slowing lately
>>732979470Beautiful
>>732975065not even google AI forcibly showing up in my searches has helped me with godot. Believe me, i've tried. Sometimes it just makes up methods that don't exist.
>>732979474alcohol, porn and drugs
>>732968214this is the game dev thread, not the humblebrag about my job thread
>>732979474You matter
I got better at art and the style shifts kinda work now, but I'm fine tuning the display for the "testimony" portion of the game. The idea is that each testimony is a literal sketch in whoever is testifying's color, and that sketch gets more detailed/changes when the protagonist spots contradictions, intimidates the witness, etc.
>>732981030
>>732981030Neat
>>732961796>braceletsruined
>>732976079i filter all tripfags
>>732975951hes just an ai parasite jealous of people makin games
>>732950923Only did a couple iterations of numbers on games's paper version for this weekend playtest.My side laptop broke, so I've spent the whole week fixing that and installing windows on it after lolPlayed a bit of Mewgenics too, a lot of notes from that one, very similar to the game I'm making in some parts.
>>732976747>>732976747Yup. There's pirate enemies that will lock up your controls and require a successful qte to free yourself, the sfx are self explanatory, and you're delivering a bunch of long rods to the end of the solar system, and the game mocks you saying the journey was too long and hard for you if you lose. I kind of phoned in the theme honestly, I was considering adding a "long and hard" mode in the settings that would make the levels obnoxiously long
latest progressi think i might look into commissioning custom character sprites soon
>>732983175An SRPG? Looking really nice
>>732983175Looks very legit, great job
>>732950923Is there money in patreon porn games or is it too late? I have a unique concept and high quality 3d assets and an animator ready for a demo
>>732983175Very cool, I was also trying to make a trpg with those sprites but kinda gave up. Wish you better luck than me.
I've been working on a roguelike based on the cambrian period for 3 weeks now, already have all the core systems done and all the skills I wanted to implement, next step is to add more enemies and improve their ai, then make the map generation more varied. I want to have a playable build by the end of this month, then I'll decide if it's worth to keep working on it or if I should move to the next project.
Assembling an army of Dragoons together to follow you and destroy your enemies is actually loads of fun.It's good to be the king.
>>732984943Neat. What did you make this with?
>>732985363raylib with C
>>732973661thanks, manhave a great weekend
>>732973661>QRIMM-I2M7H-H9GDWThanks
>>732983897patreon allows porn now?
>>732983175I'm interested in making something like this someday. I haven't thought about the shit yet, but how do you go on making a creature that occupised 4 tiles, for example/
>>732986774This article talks about that topic, it's a bit of an extra challenge https://www.gridsagegames.com/blog/2020/04/developing-multitile-creatures-roguelikes/
how hard are adding normal sprite sheets? I need to apply it to every single frame?
>>732989384what? when you import a sprite sheet, the importer slices it via the rows and columns you set. then you assign those sliced frames(usually automatically numbered).
I can't think of a good title for my game
>>732989568I'm good with titles. give me some details
>>732950923I've made a small web-based puzzle as an attempt at marketing.>95% of traffic comes from US and Netherlands, which is mildly funny because the puzzle features a pirate, a postman and the dutchman.
>>732961796>Grid movement is very hard to make.It's not, not in isolation. But what is hard to make is grid movement in a non-turn based game with falling physics because you need to make sure that the events are in the correct order for every action.
>>732964409Reminds me of how I made command terminal minesweeper in one evening some time ago.
>>732975065It has its uses, but even in a best case scenario, for a non-trivial project, AI reduces the work from being 100% you to 90% you and 10% AI.
>>732989568Wooperdimple Chronicles: The Fuckening
I losted 2 wishlistings today and nobody still boughted my game...
>>732973661>giving out keys to this shithole board that shits on you and disrespects you for making a gameWhy? Most of the fat cunts that stole your keys aren't even gonna play your game, let alone talk about it. They'll probably just run off to some key reselling site to sell your keys.Don't share keys here.
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>>732973661>Error: you already have this gameWhat game is this for?
>>732995315NightDirge
>gamedev thread>on valentinessee you on monday peeps
>be autistic>graced with the power of spending 100 of thousands hours on a single project>also spend autistic amount of time correcting little detailsthat's a curse
>>732997539I also have this issue. it's certainly a necessary skill to develop when making games, to know when to drop something you're not progressing in(temporarily), change approach, or when something is good enough and other areas of the game require more effort.
>>732983126Dang. What happened? Why didn't you make it in time?
>>732997539Learn to finish things. Perfectionism goes unnoticed unless you're already big.
>>732997984Correct
Pain
>>732997539haha this nigga is actually working on his project
>>732997413>>>/vg/557389498
I hate using Godot and "complex" SDKs that come with a megaton of IDE features like scene editors, etc. I like code-focused frameworks/engines, which one is for me? Been away for a while and would like to return to indie game dev.
>>732998401I wrote it in C using SDL3, first time using it so that took a chunk of my week. Then I left myself an hour to create the web build to upload for Itch, and it turned out to be a little trickier to do than I thought.Now I've got a much better handle on it though. Probably should just use an engine but I'm stubborn and had a fun time putting this thing together.
How
Rigging is done and I'm about 90% sure that I'm done with the detail work (the undercarriage might need something, but IDK what I would pick really).
>>733001426Legs look too human imo. consider making 3 pads instead of a foot style design.
>>733001426Nice
>>733001426looks really good
>>733000118Use RayLib and try find a library for it.Though personally I use Godot and RayLib. Godot is easy to make prototypes and figure out if a concept is good enough for a game or not.You don't want to spend weeks writing code just to realise that the concept you've made isn't fun. Game engines allow you to iterate over concepts first.This even happens professionally. For example Sea of Thieves was prototyped in Unity before they decided that they had a good concept, swapped to Unreal and started to create art and refine it.(They still use Unity for prototyping current features)
I vomit
>>732992323you give op gold and he gives you silence. absolutely fucked up
>>732975065I believe this in theory but every game I've ever seen employ AI for anything except prototyping has been mediocre
>>733001598That's a good note, but the issue with stocky Metagross-ass feet (which I did try initially) is that this guy needs to be able to "latch on" to other enemies to buff them (it's a shield generator you have to kill before specific enemies can be damaged, it can ride enemies and make them act as the shield carrier instead) so it needs little spindly feet to "latch on" because it can't just stand sideways on their back
I feel sick as hell
the 3d modeller I contracted has been delaying for weeks nowI knew I should have learned how to do these things myself
>>732999643>>733002167>>733003212
>>733002876Hey, ultimately the creative decision is yours. maybe it looks better in game.(even if it only has one foot the shape can be more different than a human's)
>>733003280is he still on time by the terms of the contract ?
>>733004051not even close
>>732950923Finally starting to vaguely understand the basics of compute shaders. Only half the performances of the project I was trying to match, so at least I'm getting in the right ballpark.3 millions boids at 30fps (without OBS). Gonna try to reach 60fps for a few more weeks then I will be able to start doing more game-y shit with that basis.
>>733004168so at least your money is not lost, but yeah some people will just waste your time, espacially graphicsfags. Musicfags tend to be more reliable
>>733004392I paid half up front...But this is the third thing he's working on for me, and the first two were on time
>gb studio gets an update>adds in a handful of things that helps>breaks some basic fundamental shit in my gameGonna be spending today getting everything back to working order. Have been designing levels and made a mario 3 esque world map level select screen. Have implemented much of the feedback I got from my first demo release
>>733005271>Have been designing levels and made a mario 3 esque world map level select screenNow I'm interested, what game?
>>733003392I went to pose a screenshot to demonstrate the concept and realized my rig breaks catastrophically when the entire thing is rotated because the legs have a notion of "up" that doesn't care about which way the torso is facing and that's going to require some fixing.Anyway this hopefully illustrates why having the feet be "syringe-like" is kind of essential, it already gets very cluttered with this thing gripping the enemy (to be honest, I'm not entirely sure I'm going to have it ever ride around on a regular-sized enemy, it might only be carried by larger ones, but I think the issue still stands and I'd like to design it to work this way if game balance wants it).
>>733005385Lucid.3AM, its a gameboy (somewhat puzzle) platformer that ive been hacking away at for the past few weeks. Been using gb studio since I wanted to salvage the scraps of a prototype I made months ago, will never use this shit ever again after Im finished with this project, way too primitive and lack of freedom to do wacky cool shit. Aiming to release the second demo in a few days
This map is randomly generated, i think it looks OK, just needs more variety. I'm trying to make a game that's a bit like risk of rain 2.
>>733005521what about adding a single part of the foot on the opposite side? like a raptor's talons
>>733005271I'm using GB Studio as well and I have so many fucking plug-ins that I think migrating to 4.2 is not possible or viable at this pointI made another game with 4.2 and I really like the changes they madeAlso my game is so big that the program is slow as molasses nowStill determined to see it through, but fuck me
THE UNENLIGHTENED MASSEEESits coming upNext I will add proper vision disks and hiding spots
>>733005135If it's not the first time then the guy is probably trustable and you are safe under your contract in case you need to get back your money. Sad he is slowing you down though
>>733005871With 4.2 the big main problem I got is when i walk to the left border of a scene my player just dissapears visually, doesnt happen with the right sides border. I did see they added some options for platformer scenes but even then I still dont know whats causing this shit to happen. Also sucks platformer plus plugin is just broken beyond repair with 4.2 so now im dabbling with the new platformer options to get a match with what I had originally. Gonna stick with 4.2 since its supposedly has better performance and my game has several moving objects and timed events
>>732973661Thanks anon, have a good dayI will play it and review it.
>>733005521>>733001426swap "feet" to spikes and have it forcibly attach itself to enemies?
I wish i could program
>>733006703basically when the clock signal comes if both of the transistor's inputs are high it's output it's high, otherwise it's low, from there just code rest of the fucking game
>>733006172ah I think I found your issueclick the little cog next to the platformer scene typelook the "Keep Within Screen Bounds" option, maybe setting it to "Both" would do the trickNot 100% sure but it's worth a shot
>>733006883I have no idea what this even means. All I know is when I was in college I watched computer science nerds who had been programming their entire lives struggle to put together a simple buggy prototype of a Newgrounds-tier 2D platformer. I don't think I stand much of a chance making a video game if I've never written a line of code before.
>>733007038If you're not completely retarded you can do it in Game Maker without writing a single line of code
I have a 10/10 idea for a physics-based 2d action platformer.I am very much out of the loop and can't decide what engine will make my life easiest.Godot is my main choice right now since I already made a few small projects using it in the past, I like the node structure as a Flutter developer..But I heard that there was some tranny-related drama with community forks etc - would you fellas recommend it still?
>>733007314Is that possible if I want to make a game that's basically all menus and calculations? I'd like to make something that sort of like a tycoon/incremental style of game where you just make money and spend money.
>>733007376Can you
>>733006703>>733007038just use AI, i used AI completely for this and i also don't know how to programhttps://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3569474876
Oh, nice a 10/10 ideas guy!We are in short supply of those!
>>733007459fuck off Joshua
>>733007376You're asking about internet drama without even having your game started. It was over for you before it even began.Just stick to playing games.
>>733007531you fuck off, tranny
>>733005925Nice
>>733007607ywnbagd
>>733007459"JUST USE AI LOL" faggots are the most obnoxious retards to ever use the internet.
>>733007543I may be autistic with how I phrase things.. It's less that I care about drama and more that I care about whether the results of it affect my purpose with it.Perhaps the engine got worse with time and/or got forked into a better version.And whether I should consider it at all for my specific idea in the first place.
>>733007781>>733007793
>>733007038>computer science nerds who had been programming their entire lives struggleMaybe they weren't programming their entire lives then. Everyone makes mistakes anyway, can't always think like a computer.Pick this shit up, look up basic things like "how do I move shit" or "how do I add UI" etchttps://gamedevbeginner.com/After spending a few hours/days copying code from there, you'll probably decide if it's worth learning more or not.
>>733007793now post your own projects statistics, thought not, tranny, sad!
quick music production testhttps://voca.ro/1hYkPVeGRRtA
>>733007795don't bother with finding "modern bAsEd politics", all of their stuff is certified crap from music to enginesyou have to swallow your pride and realize that people that you dislike will make good stuff, so take from them. leftoids hate the opposite faction, but all of them learned from people that they politically disagree with.
joshua is just as mental as these womenhttps://www.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI
https://fallingcubes.neocities.org/2/not mine but I thought it was cool
how good is your refresh rate?
>>732990343Nice, I did the same. The decent portion of the code for that Love2D project is copied from the console based one. Yours makes me using chess coordinate notation beats whatever I came up with.>>733000118For frameworks I use Love2D.It has a comically large amount of community curated Libraries to choose from to speed up development. It has everything you need generally, from tweening, to UI, etc.https://github.com/love2d-community/awesome-love2d?tab=readme-ov-file#relatedAlso Lua, the programming language it uses, is a very simple.
>>732950923I got another review thankfully as positive one, I just need 3 more
you know, modern games have lowered the bar so deep into the fucking ground I might even be tempted to try and toss my hat into the ring
>>733009260no reason not too
>>733009227give out 30 keys
>>733009856those dont count toward review count, anon kun
>>733009856I don't think keys count towards to the review amount, even then 30 keys would only result in maybe 1 review at most
I have a simple gameplay loop of aping off a gameshow but giving the player the ability to skip and fastforward through the game show once the spectacle has worn off for the sake of making it an incremental cash farming game>play round>win cash through essentially clicking random boxes>round endsI have a shop in mind that when the player earns enough money will let you unlock other gameshow sets and host announcers. I don't want set #3 to give a higher payout than set #1 because I don't want the player to be inscentivised and rewarded for possibly picking their least favorite set, but nothing is stopping me from doing classic incrimental powerups as other ways to spend cash (payout multipliers, bonuses in a round), but how can I make the actual long haul goals of the game more rewarding? I'm hoping players will play enough to make it to the final set stage, perhaps I'll roll credits and call the game completed when you beat the last level (though I've not inteded to have set 1,2, etc mechanically differ at all, just cosmetically), but I'd like some recommendations or ideas on other ways to spend money or what could be added to raise the rewards so I can set up a blueprint of player progression beyond "playing X number of games"
>>733009227>9 Sep, 2022what happened?
>>732986670it always allowed porn if it wasn't real people
>>733010804I tried to sell an unpolished indie game at launch for $28
>>733010990>$28oof.
>>733010990legitimately, what were you thinking?
>>733012871I was very burnt out at the time so I really wasn't, BUT the logic was;I want to make £10 from each sale£10 is about $12 Valve takes 30% so I need to sell it for $18some country's have vat/sales tax included so that's another 20% so were now at $22I will also have to pay 20-30% in income tax which brings it up to $28
>>733013962You mean to tell me you never made your own internet game delivery service where you package and sell your games and keep all the money you make before expanding your operations into new industries where you can expand on the storyline of your game? How silly.
>>732950923Anyone know which engines work well with Winlator (Gamehub, Gamenative, etc.)?Want to start making a game but want it to be playable on all platforms.
>>733010990There’s a reason I intend to give out my game for free
>>733015665It takes a lot of pressure off thats for sure
>>733013962>Valve takes 30%This will never not piss me off.For the record, people have been tricked into thinking this is fair or reasonable when it isn't. Originally Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony took 30% (they set the 'industry standard') because you were publishing on their proprietary first-party console to include using their name, logos, storefront, dev tools, and assistance with PHYSICAL distribution. Physical logistics costs money because fuel, transportation, packaging, etc. It made some sense at the time.Then as we moved to everything being digital, the argument used to be "It will make games cheaper because less transportation and physical waste, yay!" yet no company followed thru with this promise. Eventually the 30% just stuck and Valve did it because "everyone else does it!" despite them always saying they aren't like console publishers or whatever slimy excuse they use.
>>732950923was using rpg maker to make my ntr ai porn game but, surprise, it's fucking garbage and every game I've played turns out is using mountains of plugins. so I'm back to unity.
>>733016274>unityHave some self-respect.
>>732960669you should give her different movement or jumping mechanics
>>733016331it's the only engine I'm familiar with and I know it has robust solutions for anything I'll have to deal with down the line
I hate designing UIs
>>733016835I wish I could design an environment
>>733016274I’ve been finding that RPG maker really shines when you use it to learn how to make those custom plugins.
trying to get players to play my game longer
>>733016835Same, I have been procrastinating making a button for over a week.
>>733016145Host your own servers and do all the payment processing and so on and so on.You people always bitch instead of doing it better.>but I can't so ValExactly, Shut the fuck up.
I need help
>>733016145>>733017538I personally don't mind the 30% cut its the rest that gets me, at least valve does something for that 30%
when playing through my own game I notice all these little flaws, but should I chase them when I have more content to do? should that be done later, in a polishing phase?
>>733017749fix them now
>>733017749Do whatever you feel more motivated to do right now, but definitely take a moment to write all the things you noticed down somewhere.
>>733017936>but definitely take a moment to write all the things you noticed down somewhere.literally just got done doing that, now I'm staring at my list hahasuppose I'll hop to it
>>733017749I take notes as I play and organize everything into “Major, Moderate, Minor” and “Affects Gameplay, Aesthetics” labels, then prioritize from there.
>>733018095that's smart
God I'm so fucking lazy, I wish someone would punch me everytime I start a vidya gaem instead of working.
>>733016145I agree it is bullshit but:>Xbox, Apple, and Sony is 30% even if it is all digital.>Valve works on lots of shit too: controllers, VR headsets, Steamboxes, SteamDeck, Linux, SteamOS, SteamLink.>Steam is best store front out of everyone. It is not even close. After Steam it is probably GoG, a bunch of other third party stores, then Sony and Xbox. I hope I get to worry about how much a cut Steam is taking in the future. That seems so far off for me.
>>733018494apple and google play only take 15% if you're small.
>>733016145It apparently goes down to 20% if you sell well enough. But yeah, for an indie dev it's a lot.
>>732950923>working on a performant ECS and spatial hash grid that work togetherI’m going to die. There are so many edge cases but it do be fast.
>>733017538>payment processingYou mean what PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, Zelle, ect. do? Beacuse if I recall correctly Valve literally openly stated that they are not the payment processor and they bend the knee to Vis and MasterCard's demands.Oh you mean Valve's own in-house payment processor right?>Servers are worth 30% of all proceeds before taxesSure, if you're an illiterate retard.>Just do it better!Valve has literally locked out all competition to include self-hosting publishers. Their release clause literally prevents any selling of games below Steam prices. Imagine going to a local grocery store and the eggs are $10 because Walmart said it can't be sold less than at their stores (despite the difference in logistics and operating costs). It's ridiculous and only serves to choke out competition. You literally can't sell your game on your own servers because Valve said no. Adding to this, unless a business decides to somehow give customers the ability to transfer all their Steam owned games to another platform for free they can not come close to competing. Steam has turned themselves into a monopoly over the years on PC and there is no way to compete.If steam raised their cuts to 50% no one would be able to stop them and players wouldn't care to lose their library.
>>733018095imagine releasing a buggy game bro
>>733016145yeah 30% is highway robbery and for some reason gamers get mad when we criticize they're favorite billionaire for it. Tim had a chance to do something about it but he couldn't get it through his skull that the audience cares about the store experience and people don't care about free games they never wanted to play in the first place.
>>733007376>gets non-answersGodot's fineThe drama was the community PR manager said Godot is Wodot or something like that and that lead into a snowball because people just wanted to make games instead of politics.Godot's discord icon had the flag and people got banned from the discordForks got made because of that and also Juan being lazy and slow with improvements as lots of good improvements just sit as PRs on github as most of the people making them aren't in the dev cliqueRedot and Blazium are the main forks rn. Redot is focusing on performance improvements and Blazium has a couple extra features like better networkingBoth forks are fine, Godot doing fine rn but the people that were part of the drama earlier are still there
>>733019093>Valve has literally locked out all competition to include self-hosting publishers. Their release clause literally prevents any selling of games below Steam prices.If you're self-hosting anyway, why bother going through Steam in the first place? Sounds more like this is to prevent devs from undercutting Valve while still wanting to use Steam services.
>>733020223>why bother going through Steam in the first placeDo you seriously have to ask? The cultists will refuse to buy your game if you don't put it on their favorite corporation's storefront
I want a game about having ridiculously large boobs that impedes everything you do. For some reason you can only find this stuff in mods but I want a real game that focuses on it. Like your breasts will cover half the screen and NPCs can't stop staring at it and getting lost in thought.
>>733020223>If you're self-hosting anyway, why bother going through Steam in the first place?The same reason manufacturers and farmers place their goods on every retailer's shelves when possible. Being on more platforms/markets means maximum sales. >prevent devs from undercutting ValveThis would be somewhat true if it weren't for 2 things: Steam is the de-facto primary marketplace on PC, they are not a small market by any means and this affects self-hosting, so if a dev wants to offer a cheaper DRM-free copy or anything on their own they can not do it. It would be like Walmart protecting itself from small local businesses by strangling them
>>733016145valve gives you free servers, economies, and achievements
>>733020867i am making one but the fov makes them small
>>733021042>freewho's gonna tell him?
>>733021042Who told you that? Valve does not provide free servers, you have to pay for your own. As far as "economies" and "achievements" you deserve the bottom layer of hell if you think that's worth a third of my paycheck as a developer
my back is fucking me up and I'm losing some of the gamedev drive because of it. Still making progress but way slower than usual. Take care of yourselves anons, eat well and make sure to do some exercise or at least go have a wall from time to time.oh! and one last thing: posture check!
>>733021265I have bad back too. I have to walk every 30 minutes or my back will hurt and it gets exponentially more painful. I do stretches 3-4 times a day too.
>>733020856>Do you seriously have to ask? The cultists will refuse to buy your game if you don't put it on their favorite corporation's storefrontThat's not Steam's fault, is it?>>733020924>Being on more platforms/markets means maximum sales.Yup, but the price you pay is that you need to agree to those platform's terms.>Steam is the de-facto primary marketplace on PC, they are not a small marketSteam controls about 70-80% of the market, so you'd naturally have a better reach if you host your game there.>this affects self-hostingOnly in the sense that consumers have become so lazy that keeping a simple note with some web addresses is too much to ask.>so if a dev wants to offer a cheaper DRM-free copy or anything on their own they can not do itThey can, they just can't offer it for a lower price if they're using Steam keys to do it. If the devs want to make a DRM-free version that doesn't use any Steam services (keys, network, hosting, workshop, etc.), they can offer that at any price they want. You just can't undercut Valve while making use of their services.If anything, I'm baffled that Steam allows the selling of keys outside of its own platform, since they miss out on their 30% this way.
>>733021265I don't know what it is, but I feel so depressed that I'm physically ill and cannot muster the motivation to do anything at all. This is because of agdg
>>733022123I got a lumbar cushion and one of those mousepads with a little cushion in them and it's helping me a lot. Most of my back pains are on the right side and the moment I told that to me physiotherapist she instantly new I'm an IT guy and that I should fix my posture. Also started taking magnesium pills, a lot of people's diet lacks magnesium and it's great for the muscles.>>733022582how's the weather over there? are you getting enough sun? also yeah I haven't been in agdg in quite a while but if it's like when I left I'd recommend not browsing that place anymore, specially if you've already realized all the crab behavior is fucking you up
been pretty busy lately, did all this during the week>reworked audio reactive script now it can affect shader propreties, scale, trigger events, can be from individual audio tracks or based from EQ ranges from the master mix>made a bunch of one-shot sound effectsprobably wont use all of them, just building a nice library I can pull from whenever>worked on textures, still figuring out art tablet drawingthis ones fun, glad I picked up a drawing tablet last week>worked on levels, made the general layout for a few right now working on a pretty big one (not in this pic)hate this part. I'm doing a tracks level, but its integrated into a regular exploring thing, so I've gotta design a few race tracks + make it feel normal when not in the racings partstoday I was lazy, so all I did was get my water shader working with vertex displacement curves. took a minute cus the tesselation messed with it but it works now, pic rel is just it curving up for a better representation. gotta add a distanced curve for the foam intersections, because the skybox is a mesh for this level.also dont mind the trees in the ocean lol, Ive been messing with run-time procedural generation and sometimes the trees get spawned onto water>>733021265how's your back support for your chair? im broke as fuck so what i did to help is rolled up a thick sweatshirt and used the sleeves to tie around the back of the chairnot perfect but it helps a little, doing backs stretches and arms stretches also helps a tonfeel better anon>>733005925very cool, are you gonna do the shadows based hiding like in splinter cell?>>733005521I like this a lot
>>733022582oh also, hope this makes you smile :)>>733022870how's your back support for your chair?it was kinda ok but I improved it with a lumbar cushion. it was a bit annoying but once I got used to it it became a great help: it's comfy enough and a constant reminder to keep my posture in check. I was on my way to become an actual goblin but this will help me in avoiding that fate>feel better anonthanks! also congrats on all that progress on audio and assets. It can be a chore at times so happy to read you got some of that out of the way
>>733022851I don't even know if they're right
>>733023296you should work on your self-steem. Look at your game, you should be able to form your own opinion on it: is it fun? does it look cool? do you like it and enjoy working on it? those are the most important things and what you think about them is more important than what anybody on the internet could ever say about your game
>>733023431Well other people's opinions matter to me. Maybe too much honestly.
I hate sound design...
>>733023482yeah I mean, ofc they should mean something to you but you should still value your opinion above the rest. At least that's how I see it, otherwise I would have stopped working on mine the first time someone told me it looked like shit, something that happens quite often but I don't care, since I don't agree.
>>733023296I wouldn't bother with agdg its a cesspit. here is much nicer
>>733021265>do some exerciseI do running and stretching. I've "solved" so many computer science problems I've had while I'm 4 miles from home early in the morning on a run and when I'm deep in a stretch.It's what makes coding such an easy part of game dev. You can solve the problems without being at the computer, you can't solve music or art while running.
>>733023614They seethe about it, too, the last time I looked over there they were whining about these threads being too positive while somehow lacking the self-awareness to see that their thread had gone dozens and dozens of posts without talking about anything vaguely related to game development and instead just dramaposting like trannies
>>733023831But what if they're right
>>733023170>become an actual goblinme lmao my posture is horrible, i'm 1.88 tall but with my posture its more like 1.8-1.83and for real with the audio stuff. i like making music but i never make things for "something" its just fucking around 90% of the time. still gotta do a bunch more, i wanna get all of it out of the way so any future games i can just pick whichever from what ive madegotta get a youtube or just post webms to wsg, cus i do wanna show the audio reaction stuff at some point but the webms on this board cant do sound lots of it is more like the game proteus, where you walk to something and it plays an animation + sound, but its a really cool system now>things can spawn based on which instrument track plays from the music>can change their color, scale, or animation from the music>particles can play, also their params can change>>733023578same>>733023482dont worry about other ppl's opinions unless its someone you really respect. random strangers on the internet probably dont have your best interest in mind, so still give them a chance and listen but take whatever they say with a grain of salt or however that saying goes
>>733019604Doesnt Tim run telemetry on his service?
>>733023937Then go back? You have the option to not stay in threads you don't like.
>>733023937post here instead, you get fair feedback
>>733024083yea and so does Gabe
>>733024282heckin gaben would never!!!
>>732975065The fewer people use AI for gamedev the better for those of us that do.
>>733023937>doubt.jpgI'm pretty sure that agdg is a demoralization campaign, it might as well be called r9k of game development.
>>733024591Post your game, I want to see the results of using it
>>733024683already did>>733007459
>>733024624Is it though
>>733024624agdg is a bunch of feds trying to keep us away from making based and fun games
Got a character select working, as well as using different characters in local multiplayer.>>733016376Yup. I plan to. Same for Salaryman Shi. They will all have different weapons as well. Osh has a baseball bat that he swings, Ellie has bombs she throws, Salaryman Shi has a homing boomerang suitcase. That may seem like Osh has the shirt end of the stick, since he is missing a projectile, but he is invincible while using the bat, and using it doesn't slow him down or take away his control. He essentially becomes his own projectile.>>732990245How do you handle what grid the object counts as "in" if falling is analog? Like, during the fall, when does it shift from counting as being in one grid into another?
>>733022870looks like you got a white background and filled it in Paint
>>733024683>post your game in these shit threads>for no benefit to yourself>just so maybe you make me more productive (if I were genuine, which I am not)lol lmao
>>733024747Are they
>>733024832>nodevwhat a surprise
>>733020856I think your biggest issue is that you think all your customers are cultists for liking a central hub to keep their gaming instead of having to go through 20 billion individual launchers or shops.People trust Valve, they don't trust your shoddy third party side, and that hurts your ego, but you can't admit it so everything and everyone else is at fault.
>>733024882go back nigger
>>733024778>How do you handle what grid the object counts as "in" if falling is analog? Like, during the fall, when does it shift from counting as being in one grid into another?Something like this:>After move, check if standing on something>If not standing, fall 1 tile>Repeat until hitting something or reaching -10 y (to avoid eternal falling)
>>73301960430% is literally the standard and people just smell obvious bullshit when only valve is singled out for something everyone does
>>733019604>>733020856
>>733025116>not a cult btw
>>733016145I don't think 30% for a high quality service is bad? But I don't do indie dev to make ends meet sooooo....
>>733025196>>not a cult btw
Trying not to quit out of frustration for once in my goddamn life. 3D is a pain in the ass.
I need to make a map, enemies, and so on
>>733024807yeah, a bit, but I don't care how it looks when the rendering stuff is disabled.
>>733025056it doesn't matter, 30% is too much. we single out valve because on pc people refuse to buy from anywhere besides Steam.
>>733025554Nice
>>733025695>steam is... le evil!then don't use it, lol>b-but the cultist won't buy my game otherwise :(then don't pander to cultists>b-but I'll make less money in the endwomp womp
>>733025695starsector didn't even use GOG
>>733025943I have been... le trolled...
>>733025554How does that look in motion?
>>733025503Yes it is, but there are some advantages such as animation being easier.
How do I deflect libtards that will sperg about me using AI in my game? Can I just pretend I outsourced that stuff to jeets?
>>733024264I'm going to admit, my biggest problem is my inability to be fast about this, even if the game I have in mind is pretty simple
>>733025056>it's the standardWhat a shit argument. If the percentage kept creeping from 30 to 31, then 32, and so on until eventually it hit 99%, would it be okay because everyone was doing it?
>>733026106If they can tell you used AI then your game is shit anyways. If your game is good there should be no way to tell.
I've been trying to draw a regular hexagon for like 40 minutes in Krita and GIMP.
>>733000118uroh rebelfork. C++ dedicated. and more light weight than godot. it has a scene editor tough
I'm surprised how many devs feel entitled to things.>game flops because it uses AI>it's not my fault for using something my target audience doesn't like>it's the gamers fault for being [buzzword]
>>733026106Idk ask chatgpt
Yandere dev here. I just want to say, I’m sorry. I’m such a fuck up and now I ruined everything…
>>733025695>too muchAccording to who? you? valve gets singled out because it’s a sweeney shill campaign despite tim himself admitting 12% isn’t maintainable. wait till you find out retail can break over 50%
>>733026106just don't disclose, fuck are trannies gonna do?
>>733018694>steam cut lowers with more salesIs this why indie devs when they hit a big success just keep rolling out updates for that game to pull in new players/sales, rather than making something new and unique?
>>733026304Gabe's not gonna fuck you bro
>>733026503no but i can see why a thirdie 90 IQ would think that
>>733026541Neither would tim bro
>>733026160if I had serious, legitimate concerns about an industry standard % cost, I wouldn’t single out 1 specific company for it and no one else ever
>people who'll never finish anything and people who will but earn maybe 1000 dollars arguing about sales tax
>>733026503no, they do that to game the algo which essentially keeps their game advertised in perpetuity
How exactly do people animate run cycles so they don't look too slow or fast for the character's movement speed? Do they just eyeball it?
>>733026721>tranime
>>733026106No one would care if the game is good and there are only a few textures that are obviously AImYou should certainly try doing creative stuff on your own tho, or at least heavily modify the AI output so you can still pretend it's your visionBut I'd say go full on AI for prototyping and only fix shit later down the line. Art shouldn't hold down your project.>>733026503but indies never update their game?
>>733026721It's almost like taxes disproportionately affect poor people.
Finished another character portrait this week, starting another background asset.
>>733026787you don't pay taxes lil unemployed bro
>>733026803Nice
>>733026787>It's almost like taxes disproportionately affect poor people.
>>733026771Yeah, kinda
>>732989568Cock Chronicles: Legend of Rooster Cockburn
Yeah it was dumb of me to waste my time here
>>733026262people don’t care about AI if they can perceive effort. people just don’t want to pay for something that isn’t backed by labor and was instead shit out by a prompt
>>732989568Same
are we being raided by agdg
>>733018694>Steam actually takes a variable amount that goes down to 20% once that game sells very well[...]>Amazon's effective U.S. federal corporate income tax rate has historically been very low, often in the single digits—such as6.1% in 2021 and around 1.2%-5.1% over recent years—despite a 21% statutory rate.I don't even have to argue that a 10% tax affects a poor person more than it does a rich person, because rich people pay less tax than poor people do.
>>733027226>rich person pay less tax than poor peoplehow is 10% on a million less than 10% on a thousand???
>>733027181obviously
>>733027226it depends on how poorworking class and middle class get shafted the hardest. below that is just takers and above that people abuse every cut, write off and loophole to maintain their wealth (aka also takers)
>>733026721Yeah it's hilarious, like people worrying about their handwriting for when they have to give signatures to their fans, but they haven't even installed an engine yet. Or people spending entire days thinking about the name and logo for their future company, or preparing mental interviews for after their big hit.>>733026771Start with a couple of frames and remove/add later as needed.
well, gamedev has a lot of commies so I'm not surprised by these retarded takesbut for some reason, I don't think I've ever seen a RELEASED game have a rant about that 30% steam cut?
>>733026674>no no no, don't criticize Steam! What about these other companies?>no no no, don't criticize Apple! What about these other companies?>no no no...Great. Guess we're going nowhere.Also apparently you don't know what an "example" is. I advise you look it up.
>scope creep rapes my assholes>reduce scope to single re-usable feature>scope creep rapes my assholesHow do I escape this loop
>>733026252Figured it out. It is Filter>Render>Gfig. I hate doing the art. If I need to know how to do something in programming, the search engine will give reasonable result, AI can walk me through it step by step. I do it for art shit, AI hallucinates incredibly, there's 15 convoluted ways to do same thing in search engines.
>>733027626My solution? Plan to finish a game in 6 months so I can actually finish it in 3 years.
>>733027626Scope out a release, stick to scope. If you have a good idea, add it to backlog. I just use a markdown file to keep track of releases and backlog.
>>733026282kek
>>733027502I’m just pointing out the obvious insincerity. the 30% argument came from sweeney and just as a means to attack his competitor while on the record in court documents he’s paying shills to spread it. before that no one said a word about it or gave a fuck.
>>733027626whenever I get an idea for something I might wanna add, I'll write it down in a notebook.then once a week, I go through all of those ideas and come up with reasons why I shouldn't add it to my game and reasons why I should add it.9 times out of 10, I have more reasons why I shouldn't add them than why it should be implementedthe biggest thing was deciding on 100% what will be the core systems/functions for how the game works. if any new idea for a feature needs to change that core systems, then it's scrapped immediately. don't even give it second thought, it's gone and lives forever in the ideas notebook.then when I start a new project, I have a huge list of ideas and how they should work with my existing stuff. That way I can re-use scripts from previous projects, and anything new will be outlined right from the start.
>>733026771I think if your game movement is locked in you can calculate how fast you move per second, then animate with movement in blender, then remove the spatial movement keys.
>mfw it's been 13 months since I started this project and I still don't have a demo
>>733027645next time just open inkscape and do it in 1 secdon't be retarded
>>733028287Well, what does the actual gameplay look like?
>>733027864>before that no one said a word about it or gave a fuck.
>>733028385it's the game with the 'blins, you've probably seen it already
>>733027864>before that no one said a word about it or gave a fuck.wrongJust say you like giving 30% and sucking cocks.
>>733028287Dude, same.I'm in day 442.However, I have submitted to DD 3 times.
haven't deved in almost a month, i'm losing my job this month and need to scramble to find another one. and since the job market in my field is in absolute shambles right now, i'm also trying to learn something completely different, which also isn't going very well so farthings are looking grim
>>733028451Does your game have any grapples?
>>733026771>Do they just eyeball it?Yes if it's an animator who based on animation experience can intuit what feels good. Non-animators will have to experimentYou animate the run cycle for the target frame rate of your game and then adjust the anim speed in-enginee.g. If you're making a scrimblo that's 60fps and want a 24 frame run cycle, you animate that at 60fps then in engine you increase/decrease the speed like if the player gets a speedup powerup
>>733028464You think he's giving 30%? Bro, he's sucking cock for free.
>>733028287I've been making assets since 2020 and no playable build since.
>>733028625not a grapple move, but you can grab enemies that downed and throw them around
>>733028287I'm 6 months away from release, after 2 years of development and I still don't have my gameplay loop finalized.
>>733028941Henry's come to see us!
>>733028935How about a kick?
>>733026106Disclose the use of AI, but completely ignore any attempts at getting you to talk about it.Just be stoic and don't engage.
>>733029050there's a shield bash already, a kick would be just the same thing
>>733029080dumbass
>>733029147I mean for launching downed enemies (shorter than throw)
>>733028941>I'm 6 months away from release>I still don't have my gameplay loop finalized.Then you're not 6 months away from release.
>>733029189oh! mmmh yeah could be cool, but sadly I'm already out of buttons lol. You can grab them which doesn't take a lot of time anyway, or execute them, but I'll think about the kick, maybe it could be "hold down the normal attack button to kick enemy". Thanks!
>>733029165I'm not the one using AI. There's just no avoiding shitposting if you do, and if not using it isn't an option, just be honest and stay above engaging detractors.Anything you say is just more fuel to shit on you for.Basic social media/bullying literacy my dear retard friend.
>>733029375Yeah, just thinking it could add some 'player expression variety' and a different type of hitbox you can mix in. It would also be visually satisfying.
>>733029226The assets are nearly done, I just need to make some fun gameplay with them.If I can't then I'll just have shit gameplay I guess, but I'm running out of money as I quit my job, so I'll release it come what may.
>>733028935Your nice effects made me realize how much I am lacking in terms of effects. How did you go about deciding what to add? look at what similar games do?
>>733029527yeah it could be cool to be able to thrown them around with a quick kick. No need for another hitbox since the already existing one is tied to the body bone so it rotates with the enemy so it wouldn't be that hard to implement. Biggest problem is the lack of free buttons but maybe I can come up with something that works. Could be holding down the normal attack button ir RB + X.
How hard is it to make a retro shooter? old school marathon, doom, even beyond citadel leveli dont know anything about code though
>>733030091to clarify, by 'different type of hitbox' I meant being able to hit things at different angles, like how different inputs in a fighting game give you options against different directions.
>>733029985Not him but look up particles.Weapon trails, impact effects and blood splatters are all pretty common and you can probably find tutorials for them for your engine of choice.
>>733029985you mean the particle effects? I had a look at Ocarina of Time and other games yeah. Sakurai also has a few videos on the subject with some nice tips:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcYDrtRvuKg&list=PLgKCjZ2WsVLS_VcVMrFF6eeiI_ER7c6a2>>733030160not sure I follow. You mean having different hitboxes for different parts of the body? I already have that, for example hobgoblins take more damage if you hit them in the head, forcing the player to use vertical attacks instead of more horizontal and wider ones which are usually better at crowd control
>>733030443I didn't literally mean hitbox, I just meant 'a new area of the screen/angle from the player the player can hit'
can i make milion dollers with making indie games?
>>733030443You gotta fix up that hair and skin
>>733025704thanks>>733026060pretty good. I'm on mobile most of the time when I post in these threads, so no webm, sorry.if it's still up tomorrow when I can reconnect my PC to the internet, I'll post one for you. but to stay focused, I keep my PC offline during the week.
>>733028941I have my gameplay mechanics almost finished.All I need to add is enemies and stuff.But I can’t model or animate
>>733030573don't think I'll touch the skin but I agree that the hair is kinda shit. The MC overall needs a redesign.
>>733030570theoretically? yeswill you? doubtfulbut are you willing to try?
>>733030570Is it possible? Yes. Can you? Probably not. You can make a million dollars writing a book, you can make a million dollars showing your bussy on Onlyfans, but all of these things have very very small probabilities.
>>733030658The enemies are ghosts!
>>733030570even better, you can make a million goblins!
I just want to make something I can feel proud of
>>733030908That's too many goblins
>>733030626>no webmOh so it looks like shit while moving? Got it.
>>733030908i love goblin ladies, but this is ridiculous
>>733031874>too many goblinsno such thing!>>733031958>this is ridiculouswell then make a million goblin ladies, or travel to colombia
>>733032180Colombia does seem to have a wealth of women under 5 feet tall.
>>732950923had a really good 8+ hour day this week. felt kinda nostalgic for when I was still working full steam on my project. I want to get back into it but it feels pointless. knowing it's my first game and therefore will not find any players any way. blackpilled rn
>>733032368it's basically a goblin kingdom, yes
>>733032669Coke goblins.That sounds terrifying.
>>733032909don't give me ideas
>>733030227I know about all of those, it's more a problem of knowing what to apply and when. recognizing that something is missing too.>>733030443Thanks, I'll watch it tomorrow.
>>733032957Gob
>>733033469yeah!
>>733033870https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlggZMpKAHc
>>733034129kek, perfect
>>733031916ive posted webms before, sorry you missed them. heres one from something else im making. its cross hatch shading that matches the direction dictated by the vertex color on the mesh.>>733031405believe in yourself!
I am not thrilled with my progress lately but I'm hoping it's just because I'm at an annoying juncture and my motivation will pick up when I'm past it.
>>733035170Looks like shit
>>733035246You can try making progress in some other area of the game meanwhile.
>>733036091I could but what I'm doing now is kind of a fundamental pillar of it so I really want to get the bones of it down now instead of putting it off.
"Hey Statler?""Yes, Waldorf?""It seems we've made our way to the /v/ dev threads.""Yeah. It's almost at bump limit.""Don't suppose you want to wait here until 500 posts and go out on a high note?""That implies I want to be here to begin with!""D'ohohohoh!"
>>733036137Yeah, that's the right thing to do. I delayed the difficult but essential a bit too much.
are any of you planning to use toyota's new game engine?
>>733035246Maybe your game sucks.
>>733036369I think there's a good chance it will suck but that's okay, I'll just be glad that I saw it through.
>>733026787taxing productivity/labor is stupid yet every country does it.
Anyone used the Blender engine?The unified workflow seems tempting but I'm not sure if it's capable enough to cover my needs.I wonder if there are any good games made with it.
here's hoping this will look cool in-game
>>733007038everyone has to start somewhere. what’s never going to get you closer to making a video game is bitching about ityou could be learning to program right now and that statement remains true every single day of your life until you’re out of time. the clock is ticking
>>733037013its vaporwarewhile not leaving the modelling software is a massive productivity boost its not worth how dogshit blender engine is
>>733037013No. Nobody here has used Blender, you're the first one.
How do you keep yourselves motivated to continue development? I just can't focus half the time.
>>733037642Force yourself to keep going.You'll get used to it over time.
>>733030156HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>733037642I treat game development a lot like gooning and edging. Always working on my game, never releasing anything.
>>733030156>>733037706You pick a doom engine and start changing it, or just using doom level editors. >I don't know anything about codeLearn.
>>733030156Legit map design
>>733037642>How do you keep yourselves motivated to continue development?by working on something that I really like. If you don't feel passionate towards your game then what's the point?>I just can't focus half the timeclose the browser, make some coffee, put some nice background music and start devvin
>>733037642It's about discipline, not motivation.
>>733038173not at all. Discipline? no way you make a good game if you have to force yourself to work on it. It should be a labor of love, not pain
>>733038359You've never made a labor of love or pain, dude.
>>733038359You'll never finish anything with that attitude.
>>733037787>>733037874but i have no clue how to code, how good at coding do you need to be to be able to make one of those though?
>>733038437you don't know me>>733038498I've been working on my game for more than a year almost daily and I don't need to force myself or use any kind of discipline to do so. I do it because I like it
>>733038627Depends on the complexity.The Doom engine already comes with preset movement and whatnot
>>733038716So you have never finished anything.Figures.
Blender people, is this tutorial not great, or is it a me problem? Maybe the model I'm using, which I downloaded. https://www.instructables.com/Blender-Basic-Rigging-Process/Around the end of Step 4, I'm not seeing any arrows. The bone also looks way bigger relative to the image I see.
>>733038728I see, thanks.Well something likehttps://youtu.be/0ih8zpHXi_Mwhich was obviously more advanced than the original doom and such games
Drawing is hard.
>>733039292If you're a beginner?This shit can't be done.BUT the best thing you CAN do is release a Doom mod to practice your skills.A lot of good devs started out with modding
>>733040898Can't be done huh...why?
>>733041137Because it's excessively complicated.
>>733041137dont listen to him. a doom clone can be made by a beginner, there are a fuckton of tutorials out there.when you watch tutorials, remember to write things down like any mentioned concepts and then do your own studying later. dont blindly follow them.
Has anyone had success with getting the first bit of attention coming in for their game? Been posting a couple times a week on a bunch of socials but haven't had much interaction or engagement. It's a bit disheartening after working on the game for 6 months.
i naively tried to make this shooter retro ish thing in 3d a year or two ago, yeah a pain in the ass. i had no idea what i was doing at all>>733041325I might just turn my shooter into a VN then...I dunno how to code and who knows how long that will take
>>733040596Brother, you're not gonna believe this
>>733036484Based glass half full anon
>>733041379first one pulled 100k plus views. current one is about double that
>>733041379I'm at 1.2k followers on X. All my tweets get a few comments at least and even some fan art from time to time. Thing is nobody will notice your game until some with a ton of followers gives you a retweet, or at least that was the case for me since for the first few weeks I barely reached 60 followers. My advice: engage with other people, give them likes and respond to their tweets; this will make you more visible to them
>>733041854congrats, what has been your approach or do you feel its just a matter of luck?>>733042015Is it worth engaging with people working on similar projects to yourself? and if they're around a similar follower count or miles ahead?
>>733042307>congrats, what has been your approach or do you feel its just a matter of luck?i just post it around never had an issue with people not being interested
>>733042307>Is it worth engaging with people working on similar projects to yourself?sure, why not? The Sword Hero dev has given me a few likes and sometimes posts responses to my tweets, which I guess make them visible for their followers which is super niceKey here, way I see it (I'm no expert) is to engage with vidya related accounts that have a ton of followers so they notice you and maybe give you an RT that will boost your account to hell and back.There's also those accounts that post shit like "hey indie devs, post your game below!". Don't miss on those, it's a very nice chance to put your game out therethe Knight's Path gave me a like once too lol>and if they're around a similar follower count or miles ahead?better if they are miles ahead ofc. But be nice and give some feedback to fellow devs that don't have a lot of followers, I'm sure they'll appreciate it :)
>>733042015AHHHHHHh
I realized I couldn't do a face in Blender. So I opted to do a mask for our protagonist
this week we're adding little rabbits that run around and you can kill for food
>>733043432Awww
>>733043178did you cum?
>>733005761Looks great
>>733005761How long
>>733043432BnuuyAlso I have done no progress on anything.How do I stop being afraid of failure?
>>733045091by failing, then realizing it isn't that much of a deal
>>733026503Indiedevs tend to be one hit wonders, why do anything other than update your success when it's almost guaranteed that a new game will make less than a tenth the sales?
>>733022870>very cool, are you gonna do the shadows based hiding like in splinter cell?I want to. Basic sounds + shadows would be great.Then I will move to combat. My vertical slice will be a stealth segment, then a combat phase and a boss.
>>733037642If I don’t make the game, I won’t get to play the game. When I get to play the parts I made, I have to stop myself from playing, and I always want more.
>>733037642I don't know
What genre should one go for if they're decent at drawing but not animating?
>>733047350Visual Novel seems to be the obvious answer here.
>>733047350Dungeon crawlerShmupRPG MakerVisual NovelSome kind of puzzle game
>>733045224Wrong, every time I fail at something I feel like killing myself
>>733047787you sound like a fag with a weak mind. Endure dude, be a man
>work on 3D game with placeholder assets>get the general mechanics working well enough>polish character controller to perfection>time to do art/models>quitEvery fucking time boys. I love programming and tweaking but the art/modelling is just tedious.
>>733047350Literally any game that's primarily UI/menu based. Some popular examples:>BalatroThe entire game is literally just static card images with some incredibly simple animations>Case of the Golden IdolPoint and click mystery game where you search around mostly static scenes looking for information>Cookie Clicker/any sort of incremental gameAgain, literally just static UI images>World of HorrorEncounters are static art, UI is all static art, once again it's all just static art with minimal animations.
>>733047919Welcome to my world
vibe coded a game boy emulator in 25 minutes
>>733047350I have the opposite problem.I'm able to animate something like a hand closing on fucking ONES in the span of a day and in fact have, but ask me to make each frame actually look good and I'm stumped
>>733047919I fell the same. Art is fucking hard. Drawing simple shapes is too hard for me. I was hoping AI could do the art for me, but it is fucking terrible at any specific and cant even do small changes. I have to watch a 10 minute video on how to small shit in GIMP>don't forget to like and subscribefucking kill me. Imagine if when you looked up how to initialize an array, the only resource was a 10 minute video.
>>733047584I don't have writing autism, so no.>>733047659>ShmupI considered making a Touhou clone but I feel like designing bullet patterns would be a pain in the ass to code and test.>>733048008>Cookie Clicker/any sort of incremental gameI might do this since it's one of those brainless games.Originally I was prototyping a DKC-like game since I love platformers, but then I saw the Steam 2D platformer statistics and scrapped it. Also a game called Windswept was recently released that's basically my idea but better executed and more substantial.
>>733047350Literally any genre that isn't an action game.
Anyone have experience with func_Godot? Toying around with it to bring basic world geometry from Trenchbroom into a game while using Blender for the more intricate parts.
>>733047863fuck you but also you're right
>>733048682its trash compared to godot vmfjust use that instead
>>733048783Elaborate please.
>>733048750>fuck youyeah I deserve it. Could have put it into more kind words but I chose the path of hatred, sorry anon>but also you're rightrealizing the issue is the first step in making amends and becoming, unironically, a better man
>>733041376Got it, sorry didnt read this reply.I'll still try with tutorials then, would you rec a modern engine or work with the doom thing?
>>733050843
"Well it looks like we're in the autosage part of the thread now.""Yeah, with any luck the next one made will be the same as this one.""Full of progress and mild shitposting?""No! Automatically saged!""D'ohohohoh!"
>>733047350JRPG. That's literally why they were made.
