Blowpocalypse Edition>Demo DaysNext: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-58Previous: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-57Older: https://hackmd.io/LhEB6VCZSx-oBalI2cWWoA>AGDG resourceshttps://hackmd.io/dLaaFCjDSveKVeEzqomBJw>Helpful linksNew Threads: >>>/vg/agdgArchive: https://arch.b4k.co/vg/search/subject/agdg/Steam Games by AGDG: https://agdg-steam.netlify.app//agdg/ Steam Games: https://made-by-agdg.vercel.app/>Marketinghttps://howtomarketagame.com/>How to WebMhttps://obsproject.comhttps://screentogif.com/https://handbrake.frhttps://github.com/argorar/WebMConverterhttps://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/WebMPrevious: >>488443394
This is it, this is officially the worst /agdg/ ever
good morning gentlemen
>>488505054context in the off chance you haven't seen it yethttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KR5i98aCy0
>>488505054>all this coverage of jon blow saying his game sold badlysmart move, maybe he'll get some pity sales now
Braid was never good, it just existed in a market with zero other 2D platformers and zero other indie games beyond janky Flash shit
How much does a 2D game cost to make?How much do you faggots think you are worth per hour? per hour lol rofl even lmao.
>>488505347before this blew up he was at 632 reviews, now its at 645
in the mood for some deviiingcatch you later boyos
>>488505620>How much does a 2D game cost to make?judging by braid anniversary edition, a few million
>>488505620>How much does a 2D game cost to make?Literally $0, if we're being honest. Teens used to and still do make games for absolutely free.
>somebody downloaded my gamecould it be? marnix realized his mistake?
>>488505638nice
What are your marketing tactics to spread your game and make people buy it?
>>488506064Add lolis.
>>488506064The most important marketing tools you will ever have are -bribing youtubers -your steam capsule art -the quality of your game in that order
>>488505054I like his honesty but lol that picture wew! Here's your (you) good work
>>488360603>tfw no black agdg bf
>>488506064>>488506214Pretty much. Pic related, game made in 3 months, netted his developer $100k.
I'm planning out a game that has both stealth and action, with the stealth part coming first. It took me a minute to figure out how to visually get across the idea of stealth using limitations similar to what could be done on an NES. I hope the diagram on the right makes sense.Using palette cycling, the tiles could light up if a light source moves across them, like if an enemy is patrolling with a flashlight. Even if the light passes by your character, you can remain hidden in objects like barrels or other objects layered in front of the player like a bush. Certain tiles and objects could undergo palette cycling to further sell the illusion of a light source. Thoughts?
>>488506214>-your steam capsule art
>>488507131SOVL
>>488505054The OP image should be a caricature of Jon wearing a gas mask piped straight from his ass.
>>488507131that's good capsule art, bold and legible. stands out. capsule art is irrelevant for an already-successful game like undertale though.
>>488506945https://store.steampowered.com/app/1585910/Roll/>370 reviews >$4.99>Made over $100K/agdg/ irrevocably BTFO'd
Put in auto crouching when you slide into the wall, and standing up when you aim over the wall. Have to remake part of the camera system as theres starting to be conflicts between certain actions. Also started adding in a little cheat menu to give myself whatever I want or need to do. Will no doubt get much longer as developing goes on.
>>488507110>I'm planninglearn an engine. you're a shit eating ideaguy.
>>488507345It's really hard to fuck up capsule art so much that it affects your game in any way.Whoever made graphics for your game should make the capsule art. It shouldn't be an expense of more than a day of work.
>>488507973I got Unity and I'm ready to go when I feel like I got enough to work wth, which shouldn't take long because these graphics are a cinch to make.
>>488507997>Whoever made graphics for your game should make the capsule artmost games here have garbage developer art which is absolutely bad enough that people will ignore your capsule
>>488508323They will still ignore your game when they see it, so amazing capsule art won't affect your game in any way. Unless you get duped into paying a significant chunk on your budget on it, in which case it will affect your game negatively.
>>488507110cool style. who is the brunette woman? next to biden?one complaint: the protagonist sprites where he's lit from below look bad. it's specifically the straight horizontal line (bottom of jacket) that irritates me, I think.
Well, I just shipped my game on itch.ioI can finally put this nightmare behind me and find a non-self-destructive hobby.
>>488509061Congratulations anon! Mind sharing what game you made?
i think marnix is downloading my game
>>488507997>It's really hard to fuck up capsule art so much that it affects your game in any way.you'd think so, but first impressions really are everything
>>488509861>picYeah that's pretty damning
>>488505569...and zero time manipulation platformers with puzzle elements. And let me tell you, that number isn't much higher now. Its main gimmick is still uncontested.
>>488505965>check my creator dashboard>still 0...ok
I'm back
>check number of gay fart fetish 2D shartformers >there's none guess my main gimmick is still uncontested
>>488510449https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4R1WPK3u8II
>>488505638damn, I feel bad for his (ex)employees
>>488507110I like it, im interested how you wanna cycle the palettes, not sure which engines can support that. Kinda reminds me of Bonanza Bros.
more like shanghai mold lol
I can't make fun of shanghai because it's still more popular than my shooter
I can make fun of shanghai because I'm protected by the thin veil of anonymitybut I won't because it's pretty good for what it is
A big boss robot that shows up three times, apparently pursuing the player and becoming progressively more damaged with each encounter.
>>488513581You can't do that, it's called a nemesis and it was patented by Warner Brothers.https://dwo.co.il/the-patent-protection-of-the-nemesis-system-of-the-game-middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor/
>>488509861I don't think I've ever decided to click on a game based on capsule art. Maybe the title which is sometimes in the capsule art, but what I almost always do is mouseover every capsule art in whatever list I'm browsing to see the name, genre and the thumbnails before I decide whether to visit the game's page. In fact I'd say the capsule art is the one thing I don't pay attention to because it's pretty small and half the time I don't know what's on it anyway.I should admit that I'm a thirdie and that I only buy the games on specials so picrel is what I see of the capsule art (very little recognizable) and I check every one of them my mouseover as on picrel.
>>488513846I've read this before, it's a whole lot of nothing. If they sued every video game where a character showed up twice they'd get laughed out of court.If they were going to, they should have gone after Ultrakill for Gabriel's revenge fight a year or so ago
>>488513846I'd like to see them actually try to defend that pattern in court. They'd get fucked.
>>488514258>that patternpatentfuck software design patterns except singleton
>>488510405!!
>>488514420>singletons UGGHHH EWWWW BLEHHHH WEEEEW FUUUUCK DUDE gross
>>488511673>>488512183>>488512183I love people talking about my game.
>>488510221TEARS OF THE KINGDOM
>>488507131why are you posting good capsule art?
>>488514930>capsule art of successful games, therefore good capsule artIt's low effort shit proving capsule art is irrelevant.
blos (blow + bros)... is gamedev dying?
>>488505054Do any of you need a 2D, 3D artist?
>>488515019it's inoffensive. Which is fine. some capsule art is horrendous and makes me reach for the eye bleach.
>>488515041Mine isn't
>>488515075I need a AAA 3d artist who specializes in stylized art, who can also texture and animate.
>>488515041If I had a dollar for every time I heard gamedev was dying, I'd be a rich ham>Verification not required.>Error: You must wait 17 seconds before posting a reply.>4chan Pass users have lower cooldowns. [Learn More]
>>488514185>If they sued every video game where a character showed up twice they'd get laughed out of court.there's more to it than thathttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDEqREyb820
What's the best way to do cvars?Is it literally just std::unordered_map<std::string, std::any>?
>>488514930If Undertale flopped, everybody would be calling the capsule art bad. It's only good in retrospect because the game attached to it is notable and successful.
>>488515669make sure it represents the game in some way, even vaguely and that it doesn't misrepresent it and it's fine. at least until Steam allows A/B testing and then we'll know for sure
>>488515326gracie_004 <--- Hit her up on Discord and talk it out, she says she can do it.
>>488515882Nta but imo capsule art should be treated like box artIf you want your capsule art to accurately represent your game and look good as well, maybe look at old game box art for inspiration
Good capsule art done by contracted artists has become cliche. If you want to stand out, you need BIG BOLD BAD CAPSULE ART.
>>488516360The difference is how quickly and easily you can see what the game is about without even clicking on Steam. And when I was buying games in boxes, never not once did I buy a game without reading a review of it first (in a paper game magazine) so I didn't care what the box art was even then.Except for picrel, I grabbed that thing and didn't let go until I got home.
>woke up with wrist pain and 16 hours later it's only getting worse i deved to hard to the sun, it's over
>>488516702Get a vertical mouse.It work.
>>488516702That's why Jesus gave you two arms, stop slacking off!
>>488515921Yeah, but is she cute and available?
>>488516761its on my left wrist..
>>488516761one vertical mouse in each hand. Now this is game deving!
>>488516841You want me to ask her instead of you asking personally?
>>488516896be a good wingman dude
>>488516985I'll try to get a timestamp out of her.
>people without a game still obsessing about capsules
>>488517308Probably artists looking for an easy commission, like yeah send me all the assets for your game and I'll put them together in an appealing way and charge you $600.
>>488517472>my capsule? Just the name of my game in eye-catching color.
>>488515041marmos (marmo + bros)... is jon gonna make it?
Progress post: movement animation works, will add some thrusters glow later.
added a scrolling button for saves and a delete button for old saves.
>>488517308
>>488509861>>488514090on the contrary, I tend to wishlist things and mostly buy things on sale from my wishlist unless I really want it.often, I put off buying a game for a long time and then it just becomes a never-ever sale.the capsule art is the main selling point in that case, it's what I see every time I open my wishlist and think "what game was this again?" and the games that have very indistinctive capsule arts are among the never-evers.I've bought games from the wishlist with bad capsule art but at least those ones were unique and I could say 'oh, it's that game'.>>488515019>it's low effort shitit's very distinctive, it shows the name of the game, it shows the artstyle. that's all you need. I wouldn't recommend a simple title like that if your game isn't minimalistic as well.
What's one of the popular layouting libraries shared around here? Ideally support for flex box/grid style layouts.
>>488505638>But honestly when someone works in the game industry, 90% of the time you already know their beliefs on these things anywayWhat if most indie games fail because most indie devs are bitter leftoid retards, and all you need to be successful is a decent game and single modicum of business sense?
>>488522096Nice try artfag, not paying you for capsule art
>>488522523you can't afford capsule art because your game won't make enough money*
>>488521435>photorealistic house assetAccurate
>feeling stressed trying to think of a solution for my problem while staring at the ceiling on the bed>girlfriend comes and snuggles up on top of me >starts drawing something on my chest with her finger and rubs our feet together >relax a bit and instantly come up with the solutionHoly fuck I love this woman.
>>488523257I have a job, I could drop $1200 on some capsule art right now, but I won't because I don't have a game
:: Project Nortubel ::progress :: Turns out I still had to create something new. The design was kinda inspired by some assets from Nitrome's Dirk Valentine.
>>488522096>the capsule art is the main selling point for a game I already checked in the past and have in my wishlist Look man I agree that capsule art can be important but this is the most bullshit thing you can say ever. Or what, do you have 500 games in your wishlist? Every time I look through mine I instantly remember what each game was about. Not to mention the wishlists list gets a shitload more presentation space
>>488523649I see your progress posts and seen your YouTube and still don't wtf this game is.but keep going, proud of you
Are there any decent looking games that are pixel-art based where there's a lot of zooming in and out, or do all gamedevs decide to not use pixel art for that because of how blurry it gets?
>>488524146
>>488523489ugh
>>488524091https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B1rSn-4Wv8Hopefully, this gives a idea of Nortubel.>Group of friends lost>Companion based gameplay>Exploring different worldsPartially a gloryfied OC showcase of a game.
>>488524146https://youtu.be/E5o4ReqhcaY?t=210
>>488523727what, you instantly remember what each game is about because it has good capsule art?can you tell what these games are at a glance, or do you have to start reading the tags? If it's a game I added to the wishlist 1+ years ago, I could easily have forgotten and I'd have to check the store page, assuming I can be bothered. I added thronefall recently enough that I remember what it is and might consider buying it if I feel like I'm done with the games I'm currently playing.
>>488514926>2Dalso ToTK is just a glorified tech demo DLC mounted on BoTW, not really comparable
>>488505820is the drug effect temporary or am i going to need a vomit bag while i play your game?
>>488524235There's so many tricks like this in old games. I think the biggest pitfall for new 3d devs is not realizing that games are a trick and trying to go down the accuracy rabbit hole.
>>488524327To this day I wonder how the fuck they handled keeping track of a pixel-precision-tier physical map despite the extremely limited RAM available.I get you can compress the "image" into a monochrome one since you only need air/solid, but those maps are still fucking huges resolution-wise.
>>488522458interesting indeed
>>488522281>agdg >libraries
>>488524383>what, you instantly remember what each game is about because it has good capsule art?I instantly remember what each game is about from art + title because I've checked it before and don't have the memory of a 80 years old alzheimer's patient. I INSTANTLY remember what Thronefall is about too, a sort of top-down 3D strategy take on Kingdom Two Crowns. No idea what the rest of yours are about because I've never checked them before, but this was about one's own wishlists not others. I dunno, the oldest wishlist I've added was in 2021 and I still clearly remember the screenshots and gameplay. I'll let you know in 10 years if anything changes, but as it stands I think you need to take some Vitamin B and Omega 3 supplements to help your memory issues.
>>488523623I also have a job, I could drop $1200 on some capsule art right now, but I won't because FUCK ARTFAGS
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>>488522458If one had business sense, they wouldn't be making games in the first place.
>>488523727>do you have 500 games in your wishlist?uuuuhhh...
>>488515560I'm glad to see another anon implementing cvars.I have a cvar class with some metadata (cvar flags etc.), which also caches float and int versions of cvars when they're changed.Game code can get a reference to a cvar object directly instead of performing a hash map lookup every time a value needs to be checked.But I just did it that way because I felt like it, and because idtech3 used a similar system.
>>488525020I kneel...How many games do you own?
Just curious. In renpy, can you add clickable stuff to your screen during the visual novel parts? Like, let's say you wanted to add ADHD xp orbs that appear every few lines for the player to collect by clicking on them. Could you do this?
>>488515041Maybe games are just getting more competitive, and his cutesy 2008 puzzle platformer just ain't it in 2024
>>4885251051400+
>>488525017I know, but I can't really activate my autism trying to develop a cloud-based HR SaaS suite
>>488524970>gay's factory
If game is successful and has elaborate high quality capsule art:>There you see capsule art matters a lot. Hire an artist, pay $1200If the game is successful but the capsule art is only the name of the game>The game is famous so the name is enough, but it's a very distinct fontIf the game is successful but the capsule art is low effort or ugly>It's deliberate, that's the artistic hook of the game that it's uglyIf the game is successful but the capsule art is just a screenshot>It represents the game well, that's why it's goodIf the game is not successful>Yeah that capsule art is shit, he should have paid an artist $1200
>>488525017What should I do instead with coding and 3d skills? (I don't want to leave my basement or interact with another human being)
>>488525165I think even 8 years ago puzzle platformers were one of the least financially succesful keywords in analytics.
>>488524970That face on the right, absolute tumblr degeneracy
>>488525307If I knew, I wouldn't be here. I'm sure there is something out there, remember that the pioneer rarely get rich, but the fast followers and people selling the shovels do.
>>488524816Okay, let's make the crazy assumption then that when you see any game, regardless of its capsule art, you instantly remember exactly why you wishlisted the game, you instantly remember what stood out about it and made you think "I want to buy this" and that you can remember that much information indefinitely because you're apparently a superhuman being. Good for you and your superpowers I guess.Let's say you're going to buy some ketchup, and each ketchup section has the brand logo above it that's very clearly associated with the ketchup they're selling. If you look closely at the bottles you can clearly see what it is, but they have stands or something or boxes they're in. That's the equivalent of capsule art, it's the first thing that stands out at you and makes you think "this is the thing".Thronefall's capsule art looks nothing like the game. It's distinctive which is cool but when I look at it it's just that. It's an unlabelled cardboard ketchup box containing thronefall-branded ketchup. It already looks cheap compared to its neighbours.
>>488524235Is this your game anon? It's too compressed to see well but it looks pretty cool.I meant more just pure 2D pixel art, but that could be an aesthetic I could try (with lower res and less detail)
>>488525896check Desperados or Forager
>>488525896>game that looks good>Is this your game anon?are you new here?
>>488524235I wish gamemaker was capable of doing stuff like this
>>488525017>If one had business sense, they wouldn't be making games in the first place.Making games isn't the most lucrative path, for sure, but business sense still goes a long way. The biggest problem for most is that business sense usually doesn't align with their personal goals. It might make sense for a starting studio to do work-for-hire, for instance, at the expense of you not making your own game and not having much input into the actual game part. Is that worth it?
>>488525426>people selling the shovels do.almost every game middleware/tool company I know has an origin story as game tech developed for the company's previous life as a game studio. One company I worked at put it as "they were better at making tools than they were at making games".
>>488525307time travel back to 2019, get a webdev job, then covid will hit and everyone goes remote and then just avoid going back to the office or change jobs to keep working remote.
>>488526451Because you can't be good at making games.You can be technically proficient and efficient, but there is no method to making good games.
>>488525404to call it transcoded would be an understatement. I thought it was a man until I noticed the bizarre posture, then I thought it was a gay, then I noticed that the chest looks more like pancake tits than muscle. now I don't know which sex I'm looking at and that's the intent probably.
>healed to death>new boss>The dark master teleports you into a room away from your allies and you have to fight your way out to keep them healed
>>488525995>are you new here?The opposite actuallyI'm so old I don't know any of the new games
>>488527739But you thought anyone likely to post in agdg can make pixel art that pretty?
>>488527738>dis nigga name his game about healing>you still have to kill shitNo balls, couldn’t commit to your own idea
>>488527738needs text on the HUD that says you are being teleported away
>>488528007we've had plenty of good pixel artists like that lolivania guy
>>488527738Would be better thematically if you had to survive by healing yourself/kitting/etc until your team come to rescue you.
>hobbyist malding people are making/commissioning capsules
>>488528382>artfags trying to scam people to pay for capsules
Enginedevs... our response?
>>488525020Nta but I get annoyed every time mine gets shy of 100 wishlists. I have no intent on buying most of those games. I keep them there for art reference/ideas they might have that I want to make into a game someday. I want to keep the list under 30 but it somehow grows overtime
Character reflections in the gamescreen, only a few more to go, non humanoid characters.
Working more on the locomotion system. I should probably finish the head customization so the poor guy can have a head.
>>488529107After char reflections, will change the hands to suit the correct characters next.
>>488529345you know this is a meme here but this is actually a transcoded feature
>>488529434some might see it that way, good for them, i'll profit off of them... big corpo can do it, why not me to?
>>488527738very nice. Wouldn't it make more sense if after you defeated the bosses they became npc's? or at least alive? Would make more sense if you actually healed the enemies back alive instead of just double killing them.
>>488529434ok good to know.
>>488529107>top leftGib. The others below her have weird eyes
>>488529107Nice skeleton tits
>>488528794The answer is yes, it could be done in UnrealEngine and Unity and other 3D engines. But actually the answer is no, because while you might be able to create something that looks and plays the same, there is so much more going on under the hood that you can't replicate. Because it's Jon's custom engine he is in full control of every single aspect of the game. Every technical detail.
I'm prototyping the first minigame that will be featured in Bedabots. Just a very simple "autorun and jump" kinda thing, which we're using to justify making sprites for running and jumping. Thoughts on this jumping speed? Does it look crisp enough, or should I fuck with the numbers some more?
Taking some days off. Have some wisdom post.
>>488528794i think jon is just a control freak. unity and unreal games always have a certain "feel" to them and he wants to be able to control everything. most devs are willing to deal with a certain amount of jank in their game, but this guy just can't. casey has an article about the "walk monster" about working on the witness, talking about how he tried to eliminate any possibility that the player might get stuck. it just seems way to overengineered to me, but he goes really far to make his games perfect or as close to his vision as possible.https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0005
>>488529708>Because it's Jon's custom engine he is in full control of every single aspect of the game. Every technical detail.To what end? He's just reinventing the wheel in order to produce the most basic-ass puzzle games. I get it in 2007 he didn't have the option to just download a game engine and bang out Braid, but doing this in current year is retarded. If he were building a groundbreaking or unusual game that literally couldn't be done using third party engine I'd get it, but he doesn't. He could have released 10 games by now if he'd focused on gamedev rather than enginedev.
>>488530024Letters too small, can't read, wisdom wasted
>>488529517>i'll profit off of them... big corpo can do itanon, big corpo put tranny shit in their games to get ESG bucks. not to attract tranny players. trannies are not a viable target audience. oh shit, nigger, you didn't think all this gay crap was a way to market to the end consumer, did you?!
>>488530171Stop deving your game keyboard only, plug mouse and use the left click.
>>488530316that's good wisdom, thanks
>>488529517>big corpo>making a profitHave you seen the games industry lately?
>>488530284ESG isn't the only way they are selling to troons and lgbt? Nevermind, the middle classes and women who want to virtue signal by purchasing from lgbt safe "appearing" corpos.
my game really does suck
>>488530024This is bullshit. Having made a good game is small consolation if I have to suck dick for a living after a year because the game didn't sell enough.#1 gamedev objective should be to earn enough money to live comfortably. If you can't make a "good" (whatever that means) game within that one constraint, then you've failed.
>>488530284>>488530395If anything, what I'm producing is appealing to the AGP troons, who happen to be the majority of mtf trans people out there. I'm not making "safe sexy", or pushing politics to these people, just something that is directed towards their main motivation - horniness. Big corpos i referenced wasn't just meant to be solely about the games industry.
>>488530415NOBODY is selling to troons directly, it's all for the ESG bucks. if you put all the LGBTQPETC together they account for less than 5% of the population.>middle classes and women who want to virtue signalthey could take it or leave it. if they are already buying your game they might virtue signal about it. but will they buy it just to virtue signal? no. absolutely not. SJW-coded games generally don't sell. at best they get a review bonus because all reviewers are big city trannies and WILL actually increase your score for echoing their politics. but professional reviews don't matter any more so you'd be a decade behind the meta if you put leftist cancer in your game to sway reviewers.
Good morning sleepyhead! Here, I made you your favorite! Get lots of progress done today, okay? I'm off to work. Have a nice day, my little game dev ;)
>>488530663>what I'm producing is appealing to the AGP troons, who happen to be the majority of mtf trans people out there.THE MAJORITY of 0.3% of men, wow.anon, the only way this could lead to money for you is if some rich trannies notice you and start contributing to your patreon assuming you have one. you'd be like those furry porn "artists", milking a few whales dry while absolutely nobody else enjoys what they produce.
>>488530641I have to agree. There's only so far one can go with pride in your accomplishments.
>>488530663>>488530807>>488530980do you niggas just wake up thinking about trannies or what
>>488530861Bitch you know I can't eat that shit. Cheat meal is on Sunday and it's a large pepperoni and 4 Nutella crepes. Now bring me my tupperware of sadness #2 and fuck off to work.
>>488531101>I can't follow a conversation and will never learn to
>>488531101its not like its easy to not think about it, they are everywhere. Everything has to constantly obnoxiously remind us they exist nowadays.
>Steam template for store graphics is shared via dropbox??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????They take a 30% cut but can't afford to distribute some PSD files????????????????????
>>488530462Yesterday's stream showed how low the bar for S+ rank is.On a scale from Marmoreal to Dread Booty Pirates, where is your game *objectively*.
>>488531221>its not like its easy to not think about tranniesanon...
>>488531221That skirt you hid in the back of your closet is calling your name, anon.
added a jetpack and moving platforms
>>488531335>>488531528turn on the news? put on a netflix show? scroll social media? scroll 4chan? They are fucking everywhere, or everyone else is talking about them, or their agenda.
>>488529345You better allow importing custom backgrounds.
>>488531242It's nice because you can browse the folders and download the things you specifically need.
>>488532205have obese people taken over all of public discourse perchance?
>>488532205> I see a hundred obese people a day but I don't think about them (and their cost to society) at all.But i do see obese people and think the same thing..and how the fuck they get that bad,how most women now are obese,i dont want to fuck or marry that,I dont want my children brought up by that,if i find good woman, how long before she becomes obese like the rest. etc
and...... done! i have officially give up!
>>488531605Looks good anon! Not sure why those explosions are so blocky though. Also you should use the black/white flash trick to add more impact.
>>488530641>>488531080Everything that you get, material or not, is not necessarily to be used as another fuel to the machine.That medal that you are free to put on your chest, or keep in your pocket, present or not, does not have to consume the achievement that has been achieved.You have a goal, a destination to reach? Fair. But aren't you just moving the goal point when everytime that you reach a milestone, you consume it for more?I suggest you accept the deeds, no matter how small they were, and realise that you can still pursue without consumming your prior achievements.What's the point of dying if all you did was burning what you obtained for more pain.
Does moving all gui elements into one control scene reduces the amount of drawcalls?
>>488531818To download you gotta sign up at dropbox for now reason ;)Hope you managed to avoid all those "yes please send me ads and I want to upgrade this account!" checkboxes while doing so.
>>488530024Hey that's my post!
>>488527738that's going to be really confusing unless you make some changes. I suggest lerping the player to the new position over time while covering them in some sort of effect, even if it is fast
>>488505820Kino and sovlKeep it up
>>488532394>spend 20 hours in aseprite to make an explosion that lasts .1 seconds>spend 5 minutes in Niagara to make a 3d realistic explosion vfxunrealchads cannot stop winning
>>488528794I don't know, can you?
>>488532501No you don't. Sorry I'm Dutch, don't know how to show the English version, but click here.
>>488530861I wish I had this...
>>488532496
>>488532205If all trans people were doing was trying to quietly get on with their self-destructive little lives I'm sure they wouldn't be so prominent in the cultural conciousness. But what you're seeing aren't trans people, they're trans/lgbtqia+ activists. If you saw fat acceptance activists all the time trying to change the school curriculum to teach our kids that being fat is perfectly healthy, or crying that a videogame doesn't have any fat representation, or trying to get people fired for saying that heart disease is real, then you'd probably have some more opinions about fat people.In any case troons are prominent in gaming simply because it's a hobby that appeals to losers.
>>488532909Thanks Anon.
>>488532909Slute.
Our guy just won an award for being the best software and game development streamer. Thoughts?
>>488533432Yeah still not gonna watch your videos dude, buy an ad.
>>488524552Since it says "generated landscape" with a seed number, I assume it's procgen magicMaybe they could keep track of the subtractive exploded regions as a single point + radius instead of every pixel
>>488533432Why is that guy "our guy" john blow makes more sense to be "our guy", he talks mad shit, his last game didn't sell well and he looks like an orc.
>>488533432Don't like his takes. Obviously cause of his piracy bias.But his take that you should never make sequels, DLC etc because it works for him is fucked since he has a secondary income stream through his streaming activities.
>>488533432This guy is seriously proof that anyone can make it and you don’t need any weird connections or anything. This dude got a job at blizzard straight out of high school, no degree, no experience, no technical knowledge just on the job training and ended up being there for like 10 years and having an ultra successful career with multiple released indie games that are smash hits and an indie game dev studio turning a massive profit. And he did all of that without any help from anyone
>>488534251His dad worked at blizzard with him and got him the job
>>488534251>This guy is seriously proof that anyone can make it and you don’t need any weird connections or anythingHis entire shtick is talking about his nepo job at blizzard.
>>488534251>This guy is seriously proof that anyone can make it and you don’t need any weird connections or anythingHis dad was literally the 'man with absolutely no life' that they parodied on southpark
>>488534648wait, I can't believe I replied to this bait
How do I make a game that kids would enjoy?
>>488533432>our guyYou mean because he's also a nodev? I don't get how he won in this category because he actually barely streams development. Also it wouldn't surprise me if they created this award category just to suck his dick.DougDoug should have won because is the only person who stream development of the nominees.
>>488506064Biggest things are:>Youtubers>Steam Tags>Capsule art>Trailer and the game's graphics>The game itself with everything other than graphics
>>>/v/684328401new thread.
>>488506064I will make a good game and people will just be interested and buy it
>>488534345>>488534648>>488534696Now that’s some good bait
>>488529237What kind of game is this?
>>488534093his grifting income is his main income. run the numbers, his game has 1700 reviews split 3 ways oer 5 years. his stream got like 300k worth of donations just on december.
>>488535886I bet you're one of those disgusting devs who'd make a sequel for their game to sell it instead of improving your existing game for free.
>>488536187I have over 14 games that I want to release before I die. Of course a lot of them are sequels. Franchises are a good thing
You guys are just jealous of Thor for being a self made man who earned everything in life the hard way - through skills determination and hard work. Simple as
>>488536351it's rude to pretend to be other anons
My game is already perfect, and cannot be improved upon.
>>488536576I wasn't pretending to be you. I responded to that poster with my genuine personal opinion on the matter
Scrapping my old idea>Diablo, but worseFor a new project, bigger scope and definitely more challenging but I think it's a good departure from my comfort zone which will allow me to grow. My new idea, elevator pitch goes something like this:>Diablo, but betterThoughts?
Serious. If you were offered $10 mil to add woke agenda bullshit to your game that is already a guarantee hit would you?
>>488537013No.
>>488536678t. cris
>>488537013yes
>>488537013only if it's in-game and i don't actually have to hire a darkie or a w*man on my team
>>488537013Um? If by “woke” you mean “just being a decent human being” then you wouldn’t have to give me a dollar to add that to my game. If you can’t handle treating everyone with the respect they deserve then you shouldn’t be trying to make art. And yes, games are art. Get over it
>>488537013they don't give you money for including woke agenda, they literally fund your game from the ground up on a condition you include it
>>488537212holy redditard
>>488537212Woke means including racist stereotypes of black people(fat, ugly, fatherless) like in spiderman, or any dei game and replacing native american people with blacks(like in final fantasy)Blacks are literally american holy cows
>>488536870you replied to his jab at me without specifying being a different anon, thus pretended to be me.
>>488537013Sure I would. I owe no loyalty to anybody and since I've been weeded out from the gene pool, I don't care what happens to society and the planet after I'm gone. So I'm grabbing everything I can to make my life more enjoyable.
Changed the intro area. I'm working towards adding battles as well as making the interiors of the Mongol houses. Also did some work on the UI.
>>488537013Get with the times grandpa, you're supposed to pay SweetBaby $100k for THEM to tell you to add woke stuff to your game.
>>488537620sadly this.
>>488537013i'm making arcanum with 10x the dog whistling and racism
>>488525307Remotefag job + 3d porn
>>488537352>>488537487Polchud incels crying about POC simply existing, what a shock. Truly rent free
how many reviews after 1 week?
my game will never be good...
>>48853782715ish
>>488524235Is this an rts?
>>488537828So what? It doesn't have to be good, as long as you have fun making it :D.
>>488537795Still cannot disprove that POC representation in media is racist chuddie
>>488537827depends on the price
>>488537827looks like ass
>>488537827The combat animations look rather anemic.
>>488537939>as long as you have fun making itI don't.
>>488537827>>488537923>>488537969>>488538153>>488538293>mogs my game in every way>looks like shit, won't ever get 100 reviewspass the rope boyos, time for me to reroll life
>>488537827>HoM&MNice>ScifiMeh>Those combat animations... and my interest dropped to zero.
I'm having a design conundrum.
>>488533432he preaches obviously incorrect information to way too many people. Like implying every game can monetize trading cards (I have almost a few thousand sales and still am not allowed to make trading cards), implying the 30% cut from valve basically doesn't exist because you can abuse the system to get keys and sell them off site?? like what? How is that relevant for small devs actually? Anyway, rubs me the wrong way because of that
it looks a bit worse than songs of conquest and that game was massively successful.they're overblowing it.
>>488539960>>488538648
>>488508989Kamala Harris. In case she wins, the game could rotate between these three, the ending of the game being that you rescue the president from aliens. As for the up lit view, I'll keep making adjustments.>>488510853If ChatGPT isn't bullshitting me, Unity is capable of doing palette cycling. It would save on space a bit not having unique sprites for lit and unlit tiles. And yeah, I'm thinking this is a game you would be play with the mouse, a cursor onscreen you move around and click to shoot, just like the NES Zapper. Except here, you can use the WASD keys to move the guy around and press the space key to jump.
>>488538648um sweetie i said depends on the priceit looks like the kind of game where the devs think they can charge 30 dollars for it, so im guessing ~40 or so reviews
>2 user reviewsThis should have been nostalgia bait worth more than 2 reviews
>tunic + brigador
>>488541438Nostalgiabait is a tricky genre. Are you just incapable of making a good game and using the layer of supposed old timey graphics and mechanics as layer of defence? Basically the same issue as parody games.
>>488541438if this is the pic theyre showing on the steam page its pretty bad
>>488541694Add a cute/sexy waifu and it might have a chance
>>488541438I think most boomers are comfortable replaying shit from their childhood/games they didn't get to find because discovery was way segregated back then.you need to cross a threshold so they might see your game organically o nsteam.
>>488537013Of course.
>>488541438I'm looking at a 5 dollar game that has 0 reviews after 4 years. Checking out Twitter, developer worked 2 years on it. I'm getting a knot in my stomach imagining it happening to me.
>>488542607Well it shouldn't happen to you because you already established that people are interested in and want your game before you sank years of development time into it... Right?
>>488541694how many nickleback posters is that worth?
>>488541438>Note this game is a Card Battler with a Adventure part.>It's not a conventional RPG. *an adventureesl bros, our response?also where are the cards?
:: Project Nortubel ::progress :: The second Lahiurn level is kinda gimmick based. Press the blue switch and the water rises up.
>>488542607that's what happens when you're making something and don't evaluate if it's good or not by giving it to other people. you stare at it for so long and grow attached to a piece of shit game because you worked hard on it, but other people only care about being entertained.
i am irrelevant
I am here once more to tell you that my game is progressing, as I am adding in a neat bonus that, currently, is 40% complete.
>>488541438do you think Skald keeps him up at night?https://store.steampowered.com/app/1069160/SKALD_Against_the_Black_Priory/
>>488543780Is this fygoontranny?
>good art>unique gameplayhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1799730/Fall_For_You/Why did it fail?
>want to make a simslike>realize I can't even make placeholder assets that don't look hideous>and have no idea even where to start with the development/programming of the game in the first place, i.e what system to implement first>can't decide between using unity or making a custom enginepain
my cake is clear, invisible, impossible to even see, no one knows the cake I made is on the table
>>488543946That trailer was so kino
>>488543946Skald has hidel fidelity graphics and did the marketing about as well as that caliber of indie can.
>>488544078>check reviews>top one is complaining about constant crashes, can’t even make it out of the tutorial, bugs, glitches, bad gameplayLiterally every time
>>488544078no gameplay UNTIL ONE MINUTE FORTY SECONDS into the trailer. How can someone be so stupid?
>>488544134You made jelly?
>>488544065Dude, “fygoontranny” is not the preferred nomenclature; “FygoonFag”, please.
>>488544081start with a square that represents your player and have him move around and do a daily routine by just walking to different colored squares that represent a bed, kitchen, shower, tv, exercise etc. then show stats on the side for hunger, energy whatever.then do the next smallest step you can think of to improve it, and the next, and the next... and one day you will have a full game.
>>488544081Posts like this remind me that just by coding every day you are in the top 1% of wannabe indie game devs. The 99% can’t even figure out which engine to use lmfao
>>488545036I agree.
>>488544486Yeah, slapping your whole intro sequence in the beginning like that is pretty retarded. And the massive tonal shift after most of your trailer is over is also very questionable, especially when the moody vibing at the beginning doesn't even seem to reflect the game.
>>488544081 >want to make a simslikecool>realize I can't even make placeholder assets that don't look hideousdon't overthink your assets for now, since you will redo them multiple times anyway. >and have no idea even where to start with the development/programming of the game in the first place, i.e what system to implement firststart with rendering the world i.e terrain, walls, floors and objects. After that implement the systems to edit those things (build mode). After the build mode is done, add the characters and their interaction with the world. But you could skip the build mode and jump straight to the characters.personally I went the build mode route. >can't decide between using unity or making a custom enginecustom engine obviously ;)
>>488544602 Φ GOON
>>488524543What are you talking about, no there isn't. Old games didn't render 2D sprites as flat objects in 3D space. Even the few games that mixed 2D sprites with 3D space just drew them on the screen, with no consideration for perspective.That kind of shit was neither possible nor necessary until 3D rendering became so trivial that fixed-perspective 3D was actually viable, and everyone started using stock game engines that were built to only deal with 3D.Also I recognize that game, it's Songs of Conquest.
>>488524543>”NOOOO I CANT JUST USE A SPHERE TO DETECT COLLISION I NEED PHOTO REALISTIC MOVEMENT TRACKING TICK BASED LINE TRACES OF THE SWORDS MOVEMENT PATH TO DETERMINE IF THE MESH OF THE ENEMY WAS HITTTTTT!!!!!!!!!”
>>488544081Make a simpler game, you're clearly a complete beginner. Try to incorporate some aspect of your dream sims game into the practice game, like social interaction and relationships, or building or something I dunno
>>488545145Фaйгyн is how you render “Fygoon” in Cyrillic script. It’ll become important later.
what's a overarching term i can use for health/mana/stamina?i don't want to use resource because le godot
oh no im appealing to the woke agenda.
>>488545910Energy
>>488545972ock on 'eck
>>488545972Cool reflection anon.Do the fingers move? IF the fingers move, the gamepad should jiggle slightly and cause the reflection to move. Do this and you'll get 5000 reviews
Unity or godot for a turn-base dungeon crawler?
>>488545972autoornitophilic pause screen
>>4885469573d? unity. 2d? godot.
>>488546648It was meant for the pause screen/menus only really, but might expand it for all gameplay, although it wouldn't be an ideal way to play.Yeah, I have different finger positions drawn in for button presses and left thumb moving on a pivot. Jiggling the gamepad, characters blinking, yawning and other character quirks at this moment in time is scopecreep. Not ruling it out though, I do love little bits of personality like that in games.
Fygoona please explain
>>488543780>Dude, check out my ENEMIES. The best that an anon can offerDev... your enemies die to a single fire particle and then they drop enough magic for even more fire
>>488547263Fuck off back to Discord
>>488545531Friendly reminder that Halo CE still has one of the most soulful physics engines, driving one of the most iconic video game vehicles of all time, and it's literally spheres all the way down.
'ick on 'eneboy
my wrist is killing me, if this doesn't get better in a couple days it's unironically over
>>488547910stop watching porn
>>488547910It's ok to take a little rest. Be careful not to sit too much because then you'll have a bad back like me.
Hey guys, I'm a professional 3d game artist and wanted to learn some programming so I'm more effective at communicating cross teams and can take on more roles. What would you guys recommend as avenues for learning? As a 3d artist we use mainly unreal, but the projects I'm going into for now are going to be smaller in unity
>>488547263discord is disgusting
How do people take marketing seriously? This is just Schrodinger jerking himself off.
>>488547910Just get a wrist strap for RSI. I got one with a metal strip that kept my wrist from bending, wore it for about a week(mostly while sleeping) and the pain was gone.
>>488537932game is Songs of Conquestit's a clone of Homm3like every game after homm4, it completely doesn't get it and ruins the formulawhich is that Homm3 is a mix of turn-based tactics and RPG on the ADVENTURE mapall homm games since 5 and this clone get it wrong by not having any meaningful objects on the map that add to the "adventure" aspect. They just turn the adventure map into a shitty turn based strategy, focusing on resources and positioningoh wait we're talking about the graphicsyeah it looks nice but something about the blurry bloom-y post-processing effects on upper-mid pixel art is just rubbing me the wrong way... there's no soul and crispness that pixel art of Homm2 had.Personally not a fan of 2.5D with the 3d ground either, but that's taste
>>488548141it also lost the town screen with unique faction music that every single homm ever hadInstead, your buildings are part of the adventure map and are individual just like other adventure map objectsWhich is interesting for like 5 seconds but the damage that's done to SOVL is immeasurablethe stupid shit where you no longer have mana for magic, but instead you get mana from how many units you have, just so that you can win EVEN harder if you have a big army, is retardedit's called might AND magic, not might equals magic[nitpick territory] and why are heroes walking on foot now? where horses?!
>>488545972Imagine playing this with one of the girl characters and while paused you notice the reflection is animating.>girl getting fucked from behind>indifferent as ever>spurts of cum launches over her shoulder and hits the screen
>>488544078>>good art>weird-ass 3-color pastel paletteIt has dogshit art. The kind that's aggressively annoying to look at and can't be brushed off as bad-but-serviceable.
>>488548480A G PGP
>>488548141Homm5>homm4 and almost as good as homm3
>>488548556also it's a rhythm game with awful music.
>>488546957Do you want to make game? Unity.Do you want to fix someone's else engine? Godot.
>>488548141It seemed alright to me when i was playing it, i stopped only because i dont like going too far into unfinished games did it full release?
>>488548656boxes get stuck on things, balls are slippery.
>>488547263Oh man, you found my epic plot to take over the world. If you think that’s wild, wait until you see my plot to take over the entire universe!>>488547402I’ll rebalance it in the forthcoming update. I appreciate you for your comment.
>>4885486955 is okay, still doesn't quite get it right with a lot of things, also not a fan of the warcraft designs4 i'm biased cause it's dear to my heart for being weird and janky, but i admit its faultssoc is like a zoomer version of homm3 to take it back from russians and introduce to the western audience>>488548780no
>>488548573What is a "A G P"?
>>488549331Fetish where you imagine yourself as a grill getting fucked
>>488549331>sharing a general with zoomers...
>>488549331>>488549483The tranny brain disease that makes men think they’re women because they watched too much porn
>>488549483That explains it, and not the direction I intended it to go.
>progressUsed some vector normalization math and screen aspect ratio to get my pickup item indicator widget to stay visible on the border of the screen no matter what retarded heinous resolution you retards decide to resize your window to (also fuck you)
>>488549331Autogynephilia, troon syndrome.
>>488537013>cute brown anime girlsthere problem solved.
>>488542607>0 reviews after 4 yearsnote that this does not mean anything. there is no difference between 4 years and 4 weeks when it comes to review count. if it's at 0 after a month nobody bought it and nobody will ever buy it.inb4 somebody brutally misses the point and posts some silly exception that gained traction because a streamer picked it up randomly years after release. irrelevant. not gonna happen to (You)r game so don't cling to exceptions.
>>488548695>>488549003>Zoomers thinking HoMM is old schoolThis is the granddaddy of HoMM, made by the same people except when they had sovlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZmFx-x72CE
>>488550674>mom look at me I know kings bounty mom
>>488550597>it will never happen>except when it happens
infinite amount of work for so little reward...
>>488551082think like a gambler, end up broke like a gambler.
I'm making a visual novel and point-and-click game, all in 2DShould I be using vsync in this application, or not?
>>488551307Probably.
>>488551307why would you want your game to have unrestricted FPS?
Good morning aggydaggy.Today I will add an animation to my dash and an input buffer, as well as clamping my character's rotation during jumps.
>>488551307obviously
GOOOD MORNING AGGY DAGGERS!You *are* going to be using S&box for your game after they add exporting, right? It's like Unity, but not shit!
>>488537013My game is already woke, so thanks for the money, I guess.
>>488552431No. Not Free/Libre Software.
>>488552431If I can make money, why not
>using someone else engine
>>488552431No one knows what that is
>>488552431noi dont like sausage men
>>488552431yeah im gonna rely on garry (renowned retard) not rugpulling and fucking me over
>>488551981Ok keep us posted.
>>488552816Impressive meme, very nice. Now, let's see your engine, and the game therein.
>>488552816hey grug, hows that wheel creation going? me? oh ive been enjoying cruising in my truck -- it does everything i need it to and i didnt even have to wait for it to arrive! i drove it right out the dealership
>>488551970I need 200+ FPS in my VNs for maximal immersion
>>488552973What has Garry done that makes you think that'll happen?
>>488553029>>488553095 Goyslop goyslop haha!
>>488553095>he needs a dealership to fix his cuckmobile>he could have easily fixed it if he built it himself
>>488552935who says you need to use the sausage man
>>488553095>hey grug, hows that wheel creation going? me? oh ive been enjoying cruising in my tru-- GODDAMMIT THE ENGINE BROKE AGAIN I CALLED MY DEALER AND HE WON'T ANSWER FUCK THIS AAAAA(https://www.cars.com/news/recalls)
>>488553285facepunch
>>488553379>>488553441See, if any of the supposed enginedevs actually had a game, they'd jump on the opportunity to post it.
>>488553604enginedevs keep winning
>>488553604>See, if-- AIIIE I RAN INTO AN ISSUE AND THE DEVS MARKED IT WONTFIX FUCK THIS AAAAA
>>488552431isn't that made by the guy who rippidied off skibidi toilet?
>>488553604Slop slop slop slop I have an engine of my own I will not show any progress because you don't need to see it. Enjoy your slop. I win.
>>488553441>"hey we need you to move this load over to a job site">alright boss, but ill need 5 years to do it, this thing will move stuff so good >get fired
>>488553441>>488553532My web dev business failed because I insisted on rolling my own CMS instead of using Wordpress or Drupal.That's why I now use Unity because it's the most popular and widespread. When that changes, I'll change engines. Never again will I be the weird kid in class. 100% conformism for me, I've learned my lesson, world!
>>488553727*framework users, the good compromise between goyslop engine users and enginedev nodevs>>488553741God fuck skibidi
>>488553727>using someone else's coding language>using someone else's collection of APIs
>>488553841>engineslop user is a webdevevery time
>>488553532>>488553739yeah i'd imagine its easy to not have recalls if you dont have a truck at all
Everyone is mocking /our guy/
>he didn't make his own OSFake devs, the all of you!
>>488554052Ooowee, look at this intellectual who thinks assembly is the best and does bad faith arguments that you should only use your own APIs, I bet he watches Rick and Morty, what an intellectual
>>488553561What about Facepunch studios? They're very competent at game development, and they're already proving competent at engine development as well.
I'm making the next indie hit with Godot, GIMP, LMMS and Blender. Nobody can stop me.
>>488553441>he needs a dealership to fix his cuckmobileNo you don't?
>>488554052you have to stop somewhere otherwise you end up like blow. bald and malding. I recommend "Language of choice", GLFW, OpenGL.
>>488554080Was. I started as a .NET dev (sounds similar but it's not) but web dev paid better.
>>488554107>yeah, *sniff*, i-i'd imagine it's e-easy to not have recalls... WHY DID I GET A FORD GOD DAMMIT WAAAAAH *unintelligible coping*
>>488554291I know someone that will stop you.Juan
I spit on youtube for recommending me this charlatan! *ptew* BEGONE!
Imagine being a truck cuck. https://trucksafety.org/truck-crashes/
Should I get a publisher?
>>488553817Sure, and I'm the King of England.
>>488554463Resorting to mocking? Looks like s&box won this battle.
>>488554792How does one even get a publisher? What are the steps?
>Source engine
I'm destined to never finish because I constantly get caught up on story autism that doesn't matterIt's owari da over for me methinks
>>488554832>Resorting to mocking? Heh-->*HOMER SCREAM*>TRUCK SWERVES>SLAMS INTO SIDE OF ROAD>FALLS OFF CLIFF>DIES>FAMILY SUES FORD FOR DAMAGES>FORD WINS
>>488554792what are you publishing? is it an erotic novel?
>>488554249I code my game with punch cards
>>488554940it's a classic, respectable engine. you can trace back 50% of modern gaming to source
>>488555159*to quake.Source engine and the like can be traced back to quake.Carmack mogs every other engine so much his engine is literally the grand daddy of engines
>>488553095so then are you gonna play someone else's game instead of making your ownright?who cares about artistic expression, the hweel is already inventedxd
>values art over money (bankrupted his studio on commentary tracks)>neurotic, self-destructive passion>autistic fixation on aspects no one cares about>high intellect>deeply troubled loner>misunderstood in his timeA true artist.
>>488554291>BlenderAmazing software>GodotVery good, albeit with some distinct limitations>GIMPMeh>LMMSooof. idk if any good music has ever been made in lmms
>>488555258If youre going by that logic then you can trace back to maze war
>>488555371>cries about how much money hes making despite all of thisum, that R (in artist) is supposed to be U! (it would be autist if you changed it)
>>488555489Except that source engine and even the CoD engine literally are based on Quake.
>>488555371that's what you get for not making Braid but with waifus, Blow! we're in the coomer era, you have to adapt or die.
I'm gonna make it
>>488555358What do you mean play someone else's game? s&box is its own engine at this point, built on top of Source 2. They already have working standalone exports. What kind of artistic expression would there be in something as functional as a game engine?
>>488554291Same, except without Godot and with Krita instead of GIMP and somebody can stop me.
Unity? Mogged by the Quake engine.>bu--Mogged by the Quake engine. No buts.Unreal? Mogged by the Quake engine.>bu--Mogged by the Quake engine. No buts.Godot? Mogged by the Quake engine.>bu--Mogged by the Quake engine. No buts.KNEEL
>>488555898quake gets mogged by the hovertank one engine, chud
>>488555662...no, i mean, by your logic, if making your own engine is cringe because it's reinventing the wheel, then so is making your own gamesome people just want to make their own engineit's funit's expressionit's freedom of controlit may even in fact be innovating. Inventing something that isn't a wheel, but something that doesn't exist. But not necessarily
>>488555659...is what you are telling yourself, but you are actually super-NGMI.
>>488556096anon this is a general for game development, not code masturbation
I'm a hardened gamedev acolyte after the shit ya'll have put me through.
I'm glad I'm not a cuckmobile haver since I never learned how to drive anyway
I'm hardened ;)
>>488556194game development != sucking off your local car dealer
>>488556194this is a general for discussing life and times of eric barone, not game masturbation
>>488555107I PUNCH YOU'RE CARD! *SMACK*!!
>>488556471if you think we're talking about cars you mightve put too much mental energy into making a rainbow triangle appear in a window
>>488556617>into making a rainbow triangle appear in a windowI'm well past that phase, pleb.Also, anti-enginedevs were the ones who made the car analogy first. All I did was tear down said stupid analogy bit by bit by pointing out car defects/recalls and crashes
>>488556194POST YOU'RE GAME
More of my """rainbow triangles"""
>code thing>thing is good>me is happy>make really sure thing is good>me feel great>play game regularly>framerate dips down to 15 fps>me is sadFuck me dude why am I doing a 3D game with physics...I'll see this piece of shit through the finish line but I bit off more than I can chew every time I try adding a feature I murder framerate...
>Bananamana>CoinSteam is now flooding with these scam games.
>>488556775this is < 2 days of work if you use an engine
>>488557121>see picrelalso iirc, it was 1 day of work in my custom engine for me
>>488556986where's the gameplay?
>>488554291Godot, GIMP, LMMS and Blender will stop you
>>488557330I'm focusing on getting the basic framework implemented before implementing gameplay>>488557354This
>add more tags to max out the limit of 10>suddenly get views and downloadsto the anon who recommended this a few threads back, thank you
>>488557285>it was 1 day of work in my custom engine for meLooks like you haven't written code to correctly compute the face normals yet, though. I expect the terrain doesn't even have uvs.But at least doing that in a day suggests the engine/framework you created is a reasonable environment to work in, which is pretty cool.
>>488556775Hot dang buddy, are those BLUE and GREEN triangles? Just a few more years and you might have skinned meshes and lighting in! Keep at it lil guy!
>>488556124...is what you're telling me, but I am actually mildly-GMI.
>>488557081>stick of truth trending 10 years after releasehow
>>488557561Bad faith.>>488557550Thanks!
>>488556986>some solid color boxes and a sprite moving aroundengine users... we're so cooked... this guy might have an engine soon! and then holy crap he might have a game in another 3-5 years after that...
You ever have those days where your body can't seem to be comfortable in your chair no matter how your shit? My brain is making the dumbest excuses not to dev.
godoy
>>488556986transcoded
>>488534992>You mean because he's also a nodev?He has a game. Do you?
>>488557778>What is a tech demo>>488557871Literally me for the latter but never for the former, I always feel comfy but my stupid ADHD brain keeps finding new ways to procrastinate
is it possible to use unreal engine without having a crash every 15 minutes?
>>488557871Try gargoyle perching
>>488558098install 256 GB of RAM and the crash will come later.
>check /agdg/>we're back at the enginewars arc
>>488558163Why are they doing a suicide pact
>check /agdg/>Frogposters still exist
in a perfect world all those free unreal assets would be for unity and i could make a cool game. meanwhile i have to use either jank engine or be stuck with no assets in unity.
>>488558089usually a tech demo presents some kind of technology thats notable or novel my nigga this is neither
>>488558212who cares what these clowns are doing, my game is in full production and I'm two weeks from delivering my first milestone to the publisher
>>488558212It's a rerun while we wait for the continuation of the bitme saga
>>488558310ye
how do i into music? am i supposed to learn how to play an instrument first?
Engine-devs are gonna be real quiet when Jonathan Blow finally folds because he was so enthralled with doing everything himself autistically instead of just liek maeking gaem
>>488553441>t.
>>488558352A tech demo doesn't have to be novel. It's a demonstration that the tech you're using can do the thing it needs to do.
>>488558352>akshually a tech demo is [headcanon] therefore you are nothing to me because this is not [headcanon]A tech demo is a demo of a technology. A demo/sandbox/test of a custom engine is therefore a tech demo.>>488558492Just get someone else to do music for you. There can be only so much talent one man can have. I'm specializing in game programming myself.
>>488558525how many games did blow make? how many games did you make?
Uploadin a few GIFs. Does the direction of each flash read clearly? It's crucial that these can be easily read since they warn the player that they're about to be hit by an enemy's shot or a hazard from that direction.
>>488558098Lol
https://youtu.be/PjVrwMYpejM?si=hrGpSPhhESirgexX>a full fucking minute of no gameplay or even titleCringe and flop. People don't know how to make trailers.
>>488558492>how do i into music? am i supposed to learn how to play an instrument first?
>>488558525I'd say doing a remake/re-release is the opposite of enginedeving and much closer to just like make game than even making a new game is.but it sold like dog shit...
>>488558549>t.
is this a good main menu theme?https://voca.ro/11BigMaDgE9i
>>488558212>meanwhile me that started the flamewarfight for my entertainment aggy
>>4885586762/4
>>488558310I'm not a frog poster
>>488558560if all your game needs to do do is show solid colors and one sprite im not sure your game will be very good
>>488558853it's a little compressed soundin'i could upload the raw file on catbox but apparently that's a IP logger(?)
>>488558051Yes, but not an Undertale clone that has been in development for 8 years. You got me there.
>made from scratch by a one man army in C++ with a custom engine>loved by allYes it took 5 years but hot damn the results were kino
>>488558693bad faith. Why did you do it?
>>4885589083/4
I don't know much about Jon Blow, but I have actually gotten useful actionable information from some of the blow fan compilation videos that have helped me fix and improve my game, so unless I ever personally meet the guy and he personally insults me or something, he's okay in my book.
>>4885586672 and 3.5. I won.
>>488559150How well did your games do? What are they?
>>488558676Holy fuck the soulLooks clear to me.
wow the thread sure is active since that Marnix stream huh
>>488558736He announced the rerelease forever ago lmao it took him years to add some commentary and upscale the art
>>4885591344/4
>>488559254not more active than usual desu
>>488559150>.5
>>488559390ok newfag whatever you say
>>488558693their first trailer showed gameplay 10 seconds in. When you have multiple trailers and thousands of people already interested, it's ok to do big budget cinematic trailers
>>488558832lmao the gnu car wouldnt even be able to make it to a road, it'd struggle getting out of the driveway
>>488559338Okay this one is confusing maybe, but it doesn't help that we see it in the context of the game.
guys hear me out:what if pissing but also shitting?
>>488559150Blow has shipped more than Braid and The Witness, but yeah his pre-Braid stuff is completely forgotten.This should actually be a lesson to just get over yourself and ship. People will only remember your first big success and praise you for being a genius who got it right the first time because no one will remember the 10-100 flops you shipped before it. See also John Romer shipping 90 games before Doom.
>>488558212Are you surpised that League of Legends players are still blaming their team every time they lose?
>>488559453Copium
>>488559085Cave story had the fortune to come out at a time where indie gaming hadnt exploded yet and was a fair amount of quality higher than its peers, its a similar story with a lot of early indie successes, the bar is a lot higher now and engine devving will only put you further behind. Players don't care that your game has custom tooling and is from scratch, they just want to play your game.
>>488559819Counterpoint: If you develop in Unity, players will get upset because >Unity, and if you develop in Godot, you will have a bad time because >Godot, and if you develop in Unreal, poorfags will complain they can't play on their potatos.
name one game concept that would require a custom engine that isn't in paradigm shifting MMO scale>non-euclidi-Unity and UE can do it
>>488559237'tis a fools errand to post one's game in this general when asked for it
>>488559994Lifesim-ish games that don't suck>But CoQ--I said games that don't suck.>that isn't in paradigm shifting MMO scaleSounds like you're basically saying "name one thing but not that thing"
>>488559065Post game.
>>488560008So you don’t have a game. Got it.
>>488559994actual 2d and not not having 1GB+ for a nes metroid clone
>>488559458I'll make adjustments to that one. I think I need to add more blue to the top of his coat for the top flash, too.
>>488559994earthquake simulator with real soil physics.
>>488559985The majority of players wont even know what engine you're using (unless you didn't pay for a license OR you put a splash in for some reason), and an even smaller subset of those players will actually care about the engine. Also Unreal is perfectly optimizable for low end systems, just dont put everything on tick and disable most of the new "good" rendering features.
>>488560165>Sounds like you're basically saying "name one thing but not that thing"We're talking about enginedevs here, they aren't making Planetside 2 X Star Citizen in their bedroom
>>488560008Sounds more like your game did poorly and you're ashamed when you say that
>>488559985>and if you develop in Unreal, poorfags will complain they can't play on their potatosLuckily no one cares about poor people. Don’t have a dedicated gpu in 2024? Play something else loser LMAO
>>488559819>Players don't care that your game has custom tooling and is from scratch,And even if you want to use custom tooling, it's so much faster to do so in an engineI think any big AAA open world game uses custom tooling, but they're sane and don't waste time writing everything from scratch. They will hook up Houdini to their engine, write some custom editor features, etc.And they use the custom tooling to get good results, rather than as an excuse to get sub-professional results (which is unfortunately part of the appeal of indie enginedeving)
>>488559994NOOO YOU DONT UNDERSTAND MY DEPRESSION BASED DECKBUILDER NEEDS A CUSTOM RENDER PIPELINEIM GONNA IMPLEMENT SO MANY ADVANCED EFFECTS LIKE SPRITES AND COLORS
>>488559985if players see the Unity logo and lower their expectations, that's a win because I will surpass them
Done with configurable input and difficulty settings. Other than that just touched up some maps and models a little and made the beginning of the game a little less punishing.
>>488559085>2004I wonder what the difference is between that era and current yearAlso, Cave Story was essentially unknown in the west until WiiWare, and Nicalis isn't exactly beloved or a major studio-publisher
>Web development? What are you, a spider?
>>488560224>>488560345didnt even post the game(s) and yet anons are already shitting on it, thus proving my point :^)
>>488560465Which side are you making fun of, indie enginedevs or unity slopfags?Also >>488560510 is an enginedev btw, so not all enginedevs are so called "nodevs"
>>488560664>Also >>488560510 (You) is an enginedev btwBut I'm not.
>>488560634imagine this nigga trying to wrap his head around a react project lol
@488560650 (not giving you that You)>thus proving my point
>>488560742Really? I thought you were that guy making an early 00s-style FPS in C++/OpenGL3 from scratch using Quake as reference or something and making fun of Awoken. My bad, maybe I confused you for someone else
>>488560909>posting wojaks as a rebuttalthe absolute STATE of this general god damn
@488561098>he HATES wojaksSkill issue
>>488561063That screenshot is clearly Dead Sector not Ctesiphon...Though this may be a sign the devs of those 2 games might want to think about making their art directions stand out more.
>>488560551kids at my HS were into it in 2004. and called it Doukutsu monogatari.
>>488560634
>>488550597So games get softlocked to 0 reviews after 4 weeks? What am I supposed to do in that situation?
>>488559994Retro platformer that can actually run on a NES emulator.
>>488560783I think he could probably understand it easily if he could overcome his rage at the modern web stack
>now webdevs are patting themselves on the back for being webdevs as if that's something to be proud of
>>488561579Nodev best dev.
stonetoss tits and ass vs feet comic but it's enginedevs and engine users vs webdevs
>>488559994ASCII roguelike that can be played over telnet
Yeah I'm never touching 3D. It's the 2D life for me.
>>488561289>they both try to make their art directions different>they accidentally both choose the same art direction again>cycle continues
>>488561969I have a friend who's basically doing this. Though it's not a roguelike and more like, well, hard to explain, it's kinda schizokino with a fuck ton of minigames, a virtual computer, and RPG gameplay
>>488561289Ctesiphon looks more like late 90's than Quake though
>>488561745kek
>>488562039Babby’s first noise texture lmfao
>>488562039
>>488562208>zoomies reinvent MUDsi guess time IS a flat circle
>>488562208That sounds cool, especially the "virtual computer".
>>488561745This one with game devs on top and web devs on bottom
>>488562562telnet is more like an optional way to play the game though, and the main way is via a windows forms frontend (it's a game made in C#), and the ascii art stuff is a lot more involvedHe literally made it so that he can convert videos into "frames" of ascii art that play in the background, it's fucking insane
>>488562551Crab.
>>488561579Enjoy getting paid less for more hours. There's a reason for the pay gap you know
>>488562039sick dynamic wallpaper, but where's the gameplay?
>>488507748Looks good as always king, nice
My favorite thing about web dev is only working for like an hour a day then just working on my game the rest of the day
>>488507748What engine?
>>488562560
The reason why you argue with stupid people is because it's easier than arguing with smart people.
>>488562551>Babby’s first noise texture lmfao
>>488558163I love this image
Ideas for alternatives to Warrior class?>Fighter, Barbarian, Paladin need not apply
>>488563984Really hits things hard guy
>>488563984MercenarySellswordSoldierSpearmanTrooper
>>488561394what the fuck would be the point of building a new game to run inside an emulator? emulators are for bringing back games that are "stuck" on old hardware. if you make a new game you can make it for today's hardware, no need for an emulator.
Lets stop discussing enginetrannies, webtrannies and AGP for a minuteDoes anyone know multiplayer twinstick shooters?
>>488564476no
>>488564476nobody likes twinstick shooters. all of the would-be twinstick shooters are wasd+mouse pc games.
I'm using this referencehttps://cubebrush.co/mels_art/products/rurhpq/badass-beauty-gun-poses-inspired-by-harley-quinn
ain't no rest for the crabbies
>>488561367start over and this time:1. make sure your game idea is something people want, by marketing it. if it feels impossible to spread the word stop what you're doing and change the game until people give a shit.2. make content and polish. FINISH the game.3. only after these two steps, release your game.0 reviews means you didn't do 1. or 2. or both.
Every muscle in my body is sore from the gym and my cock is permanently hard causing an extremely noticeable bulge due to day 21 of nofap and I’m starting to think that I might accidentally cum inside of my pants while doing something completely non sexual like grocery shopping
>>488564783>14-18 employeesWhat the hell are they doing?
>>488564783>we wanted braid anniversary to sell more than the original
>>488564476helldivers
>>488564476Bing Xenocrisis. Your twin stick shooter should look like the pinnacle of neogeo graphics and also be designed with retro autism in mind to such a degree that the game is built to run on old hardware nobody uses. This is the bare minimum to get noticed as a twin stick shooter.
>>488558163I'm both of those guys
>blowseph's employees are getting paid 250K+ a year to release zero gamesNo wonder /agdg/ is jealous, you guys don't get paid a damn dime for the damned ass thing!
Made this while I was on my lunch break.I want to go home and dev.
>>488564783Thekla didn't need 14-18 employees anyways. This was a wake up call for Jon.
AI bros... we lost...
>>488564981He didn't say that, althoughbeweit
>>488564783>4 million dollars a year to run the studioI just looked up this Braid game because I've never heard of it and holy fucking slop, he must have released this before the current meta of YouTube tutorial platformers
>gamedevs thinking they're above web devs>need to know only one programming language>don't need to know databases>don't have to think about security breachesI used to have nightmares about one of my sites having a breach and me getting sued. One time a client (a big municipal company) told me to come to their offices and threatened to sue me for damages because they couldn't access their CMS that I made for them, but it turned out one of their moron interns changed the password.Gamedev is a breeze compared to web dev. I just have to make a fun game that looks pretty, and if I fail I just try to do better next time.
>>488565164This nigga is 18 years old working at Walmart lmao. Can you even imagine how much his coworkers hate him? I’d be unironically bullying the shit out of him daily
>>488565201False! If Voidstranger was done by two Finns, he needs ten times that to make a game that's better sokoban-like!
.AI bros... we lost...
>>488564783>14-18 people>over 20 million>for a shokoban puzzle game
>>488565164Show us your face fygoon I want to see if you really do have downs
>>488565402Having more problems than someone doesn't make you superior to them.
>>488565360Zoom zoom
>>488565462B-but how am I supposed to get 500 pages of plot for my pong clone without it?
Is Marnix okay?He looks really sickly
>>488564783How do you become a millionaire and have no idea how to manage money?
>>488565696I hexxed him for what he said about my game.
>>488565462FUCK Open AI.Isn't actually open.We need a true FOSS AI foundation.
>>488564783>14-18 employees>California good wages>for an indie game
>>4885647834 / 18 is 2.22.the AVERAGE employee of Blow's studio made over 200k dollars a year before taxes. nigga, that's NUTS.
>>488565696The circle got to him. He has about a week left to live
>>488565402>i had a bad experience with x therefore x is worse than y>no, i do not have any experience with y
>>488565462LOLLLLL AI tech scams finally going under, actually happened way faster than I thought it would. Sam (((ALTMAN))) successfully tricked billionaire goy investors yet again
>>488565702Gotta spend money to make money.There are more retarded ways to burn a fortune
>>488565801I think insurance and other bullshit takes a good chunk from that as well.
>>488564558>>488564729>>488565027>>488565041I mean why dont we have something like cs or cod or bf but topdown?I remember something like this on mobile or even psp but not on pc despite multiple twinstick shooters roguelikes
>>488566374it's called league of legends
>>488565461Braid was basically just 2 people too. Jon might actually be way more successful going back to his roots with a smaller team.>>488565801Cost per employee is more than just employee salary. You also have to deal with insurance, legal, and other overhead. Rule of thumb is that cost per employee to the company is about 1.5 the employee's pre-tax salary, so the average is probably closer to 150k, which is pretty standard for mid-level programmers in California.
>>488566502Jon doesn't want to be succesful! He wants to be big!
>>488565420I’d tell you where I work but I know better than to prove anything to a NEET who lives in his mommy’s basement like you.>>488565545Here you go.
>>488566374>Why don't we have this?We do. There have several of these and they never retain a player base. Did you even look?
>>488566659https://youtu.be/rFFlOn4VXww?si=6-Vv9zP5k3SvXPMb
>>488566502>Rule of thumb is that cost per employee to the company is about 1.5 the employee's pre-tax salaryif that formula has been around for more than a few years it assumes you have a BUILDING, office supplies, a parking lot and all that bullshit. Blow doesn't pay for any of that boomer nonsense.>so the average is probably closer to 150k, which is pretty standard for mid-level programmers in California.how many out of the 18 are going to be programmers?
>>488566659Nta but it looks like you work in some kind of low wage retail environment based on the pic.
>>488533432i don't know who this is, and thats a good thing
We are living in the worst /agdg/ timeline
>>488567135Are you kidding? My game is coming along nicely.
>>488567135False. In that timeline everyone would make it and there would be no /agdg/ anymore.
>>488566904>Blow doesn't pay for any of that boomer nonsense.Really? I always heard Thekla had an office in San Francisco.
>>488566113I've been a game dev since 2017
>>488564783Honest question, what are those employees doing? What are their roles? Like an artist and a composer maybe, but who else?
>>488567456IIRC they did have one at some point but not in a long time.
>>488565164this nigga drawing his fursona while at work lol
>>488567135Post the picture of her ass already
laptop saga continues
>>488567613two games and a programming language, so mostly programmers, some artists I would presume. composer is doubtful. I would expect Blow to outsource that sort of thing. reason being, his games take so damn long to make, a musician just wouldn't have enough work to stay busy. keep in mind even Marty O'Donnell was responsible for all audio on Halo, not just the music, and even got involved with writing sometimes. and those games were made in about 2 years each.
>>488567135i want RARE ARMPITS
>>488567079My office space is very sad, I know. I drew Mr. Fygoon just to make it a little less lonely since all of my coworkers are not here.
>>488567135No offense but I bet she has a really nasty blown out pussy
>>488563661Not really.It's because by definition smart people will already be agreeing with me.
>>488565462these articles are complete nonsense and if you are falling for them you are simply retarded
>Blow spend 250 grand usd per year for 5 years and had 18 employees>For a fucking indie 2D pixel shit platformerWhy are americans so retarded when spending money?
>>488568058what a coincidence that a narcissist disagrees with me
>>488563984Are they different in any way from a warrior class in any other game or are you just trying to seem original?
>>488568095The discussion you're trying to start is not about game development or even video games so it is off-topic. Go somewhere else.
>>488564476Wizard of Legend? I couldn't get into it, and the sequel looks like a Hades clone, but it has coop.
>>488567872Apple hating niggas will spend $50,000 on testing 100 garbage Dells and HPs instead of biting the bullet and shelling out 5k for the max specd top of the line MacBook Pro>inb4 apple hating faggots start screechingThe performance is better. The usability is better. The security is better. The hardware is better. The materials are better. Built in bash terminal and Python interpreter.>t. unironic 6 figure tech chad that has used every laptop in the $5-10k range
>>488565462>Downgrade your product's power by 99% to make it judeo-approved>struggle making profits with itsurprised pikachu.prompt
>>488568369Nah
I knew Joe Blow sucked when he played Hollow Knight and criticized it because he didn't know where to go
Glad to know I debunked the minimum wage allegations.So, gang, where are (You) all working at?
>>488565402You think similar things can't happen in game dev? You think some helicopter parent won't threaten to sue you for putting "inappropriate" content in your game (regardless of whether the game is actually intended for kids or not)? Or blame you for their computer getting a virus? Or say your game was responsible for a school shooting (yes, that's a thing that happens)?Of course, both of our examples require a successful product in the first place.
>>488564476battlerite was cool, the devs went on to make v rising. true gmi energy
>>488568709ironically when the entire gimmick of the witness is retarded environmental gimmicks where you don't know where to go
>>488564476what does Japanese cartoons have to do with it trannyfaggot?
>>488566889Hang on, bro, let me summon my Arachnid army.
>>488568709>>488568825he said in a interview that he hated how modern games hand holded gamers and didn't let them explote games on their own, be confused and be surprised.
>>488567613Fun fact: he literally contracted an architect for The Witness. Who fucking knows? Maybe he's building the Sokoban boxes IRL for realism
>>488568932>what does Japanese cartoons have to do with it trannyfaggot?
>>488569157>an architect>implying 1dude it was a whole team of architects
>>488568932Appeal sell vidya, that's all.
>>488569326I was serious, for the record.
What do I need to know if I want to make an online multiplayer pvp game?
>>488569323I'm not talking to you gorespammer. Mind your own business
>>488569448You need to know how to make an online multiplayer pvp game
>>488568095he was also working on a 3d sokoban game, as well as a programming language and custom game engine
>>488569414as was I?"We’re working with two different architecture companies," Blow explains. "There are some that are building architects, and also landscape architects to do grounds around the buildings and island shape in general. Before we started working with them, I was doing things kind of like I did in Braid. I’m going to build some puzzles and build some buildings, and I don’t know anything about buildings, so I’m not even going to try to make it interesting. I’ll make it a box with whatever I needed for the puzzle inside. For a long time, The Witness had a bunch of these box buildings, and then some of them I made a little more like actual buildings. But the idea was always that someone who actually knows about buildings would come along later and make it better. So that’s what we’ve been doing lately."The architects that Thekla has employed from the firms of FOURM Design and David Fletcher Studio were tasked with an interesting dilemma. Bring an authenticity to the game world, but maintain the goals of game design that Blow considers paramount. "There’s actually a lot of iteration and back and forth once the architects proposed what the design for a building or landscape needed to be. We go back and forth until we figure out what is going to work for the game. We usually minimize it a little, strip it down to the most basic list of interesting elements, so that’s a very carefully constructed flow of movement, interaction, and intention. Architects don’t usually think that way. So it’s been really interesting for both of us."
>>488569504>I'm not talking to you gorespammer. Mind your own business
>>488569558
>>488569640Ok, chill out. No need to be upset. Fucking sicko
>imagine people playing and enjoying my game>smile for the first time in a couple years>return back to reality and resume feeling dreadive figured it out, i don't want to be a gamedev, i want to be a daydreamer and engage in escapism all day
>>488569626lmao what the fuck? I thought you were kidding. Holy shit.
>>488568754Lol no it doesn't happen in gamedev or at least it happens so rarely you're literally more likely to get murdered say by your grandma.Security breaches are very real and very common and there's ample data on how much companies pay on average in damages and mitigation.I'm glad I'm not in that business any more. Now when I fuck up I get a negative review.
>>488569448Depend on the game, because that shit vary wildly depend on how much shit you have moving around and how precise you actually need it to be.Networking for a fightan is vastly different than from a shooter, an RTS or a tab-target MMO.
>>488567135>start game last month>OST already completed>animated cutscenes in the works>gameplay lookin' goodi feel sigma
>>488568425Im talking more about pvp part but still something>>488568817Was it popular? Looks like topdown panzar. I guess so if it was enough to fund v rising
>>488569448>>488569558>>488570073A more specific question I suppose.Online cheating and hacking is a huge issue especially in competitive games.Hosting dedicated servers is also very expensive and would require a 3rd party hosting service.Would I be a crazy person to release the first version of the game with p2p networking and then work on implementing dedicated servers and all that shit when/if the game is successful?
>>488570179it got buried by the MOBA craze at the time
>>488568552this thread is for game developers
>>488569626literal autism wtf
You all may ban my IP range now.
>>488453870Hey man, don't get too discouraged. Your game is not perfect - there are some odd quirks here and there, but it's by no means bad, I'd even say it kind of reminded me of ROTT but with actual level design.Marnix feedback was 90% bullshit, "i'm a boomer shooter guy" my ass, spouting the most mouthbreathing takes ever and ignoring the most obvious shit in a very linear level (nightclub).It was obvious from the very beginning that they're just grifting, and it shows by the fact that the only games they couldn't shit on was ToK and Marmoreal aka "extremely polished games". It's fine to try and salvage pinches of feedback from the slop that was their stream (it was very hard to watch for me), but don't take it too close to heart. I understand that it's painful to hear someone just bashing your game for no reason, but consider it not as a "dev giving feedback to a fellow dev", but "a noname casual grifter trying to lift themselves up by punching down". Cuz that's what they did.Keep your nose up, man. That stream was a shitshow, and every game streamed got the short end of the stick.
>>488570462Working backwards on netcode, IE adding servers later, would be monumentally more difficult and time consuming than programming it that way from the outset. Choose carefully
>>488569626>hires two architect firms for some brutalist garbage lollmfao evenmaybe he should've hired a geologist too because his island makes no fucking sense
>>488570462Here's what you do: You focus solely on peer to peer. Don't even THINK about dedicated servers. Because if you do, you'll be doing a lot of worrying for nothing because your game probably won't be popular. However, if the game turns out to go popular after all, it's not a big issue to take some extra time to get the dedicated server working. In other words: Don't take the risk to do unecessary extra work early. Take the risk of doing extra work later on.
I made a function.
Looks like it's time to get out of bed and make some progress.
>>488565462how is cris coping?
>>488569882Get back working on your game 'till you release, or March will rape you in your dreams.
>>488570870You need to learn about event dispatchers my manThe doctor doesn't call you every day to check if you're sick. You call the doctor when you're sick.
>>488565696too much gooning to marno
>>488565462Good, I hope their devil technology dies with them.
I will start working on my dream game any day now any day now...any day...
https://youtu.be/XcG9IME2iJwbros...
>>488570809He forgot to hire a cosmologist. How was the planet the island is on created? This is unaccounted for.
Hello all.I've taken up gamedev this year after quitting my job to pursue my passions! Would love to be directed towards some Discord communities or otherwise where I might be able to share ideas and talk more with other devs.
>>488565462>>488571172that just jewspeak for "we need more money goy, pay up"
>>488570462Make dedicated servers and let the community host them themselves. This way the "find a solution for cheaters" won't be on (you).
should i tell people i'm hated minority so they seethe about me online so i get exposure so people buy my game?
>>488571431Rust has community servers and it's still on Facepunch to find solutions to cheaters.
>>488571431I mean that's basically how p2p already works. As long as the host isn't cheating then the netcode should be robust enough to deal with anything game breaking.If the host is cheating it's all over though.
>>488571534>should i tell people i'm hated minority so they seethe about me online so i get exposure so people buy my game?
>>488568037It's not any offense when it's a fact my friend.
why is low poly so hard to get right bros?
>>488571904To get "right" entails mostly good texture work, and that involves already being good at drawing and art.And people already good at art can make more money from high poly or illustrations.
>>488567964>Office full of cheap clothingR E T A I LKek, fygoon I thought you were supposed to be based?
Guys I swear I'm not waiting for the new thread to post my progress for extra (you)s. It just so happens to be the case that I need a little more time before I can create a proper webm.
now onto the hands etc
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>>488571070I'm actually doing that right now; The functions I have are mostly functional stopgaps that I'm learning by doing myself, without looking stuff up. Then afterwards, once it works, I look online to see how other people implement it.It's a two-step learning process that keeps me from just sitting and watching tutorials all the time. In the end, this character controller will be completely scrapped in a couple months and replaces with a state machine I'm sure
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>>488572271SOVL
>>488570870Why not do it in the animation blueprint since its already ticking?
do you have to declare a custom minimum size of texture rects that are going into a hbox container?
>>488571904Because you can't draw. That's it.
>>488572271So you have to play the entire game with that still image imposed over what you're trying to see?Just so you can pretend you're a girl? Just wear a wig anon
>>488505054soulja boy sends his regards
>>488572853it'll be for the menu/pause etc.I'll have an option to turn it on/off for during gameplay, it seems to interest some people.
>>488572096Check it. Let’s see what (You) got, peasant.
>>488572517I hadn't thought of that at all. Let's try it for fun
if you don't make your models by manipulating every individual vertex you're cheating
>>488572271screens literally don't work like that this would be a fun feature if it only appeared in loading screens that where fully black with a loading dial in the bottom corner( you know the only time you actually see your reflection on a handheld?)
>>488573163What exactly is the advantage/purpose of that stand?
>>488571904>the head having less triangle density than the legs>face made of 4 triangles, meanwhile individual fucking finger digitslook at how genuine low poly games used their budget.
>>488573261yeah like i intend with the pause menu as the background will darken enabling you to see character.... Or you know, being a stylized 2d videogame, it just doesn't fucking matter how "realistic" it is.One of the characters is a fucking space chicken with bodybuilder arms... REALISMdipshit.
>>488572210Be not ashamed anon, you need no excusesIts just like fap, everyone does it even if he denies it
>>488573492cope and seethe
>>488572517>>488573224I'd have to do a cast and my Character BP would end up being loaded 24/7 anyway so not worth
>>488573492based, get his ass
>>488565462crash this bubble with no survivors. i want to see jonathan blow paying his workers 40k/y
savings are dwindling bros... i dont want to get a real job, i cant handle the normo life............
has anyone taken the old prerendered aesthetic, and made it real time rendered?
>>488573346It’s one of those stand up desks that allow you to work standing up instead of sitting all day. My last desk didn’t have such a setup so this is a mondo upgrade.Now, get back to working on your game.
Still makes me smillehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc26EKhZNyM
>>488573374why would you reference garbage for calculators?
>>488574016bing "tower of kalemonvo" or render96
Honest question, how are you supposed to play porn games and beat off at the same time? It makes no sense to me
>>488573895You should only cast on construct or begin play, store that object reference into a variable, and access that variable directly (with an IsValid check to avoid crash/errors)
>>488574404This dude only has 1 hand
>>488574404You're supposed to ask someone else to play it for you
>>488574404>>488574404its called edging son,its a sport
>>488574469Good point, yeah
>>488574404Porn games are a true puzzle.
>>488574584I've always used both of my hands to choke my chicken, is that weird?
>>488574271>Braid and Limbo fade into obscurity>Mario is still one of the biggest franchises in existencelol
>>488574719This, but with those porn games where the sex scene only happens when you lose.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DANlXBJvzAwDid you make this much progress in 6 months?
>>488574824Mario also had like two games coming out per month.
>that's odd, i got a hit from bing>>488574320that explains it
>>488564783I always thought Braid was already a huge hit back in the days, and flooding the humble bundles after.There's Skyrim cases where you know this shit is going to sell well for the time involved on it (and that might have change a bit since Starfield), but how can you expect Braid, so many years after the fact, to have such a powerful impact?The guy definitively ain't dumb but all of this over expectation seems very weird to me. Almost alien in terms of disconnection.
>>488571534yes ser do the needful for it maam
>>488574897What's hard to get? I want to be raped, but getting raped after "winning" the fight doesn't really make sense, the ludo-narrative dissonance kills the boner. So the improved gameplay loop here is>Lose to Character -> Sex scene with character >Win -> Get to next level with more possible characters you can lose to
>>488571534what minority?
>>488570870is this how you socialize? with tiny incremental progress posts?
>>488575443you don't need to be so mean...
>>488570870UE ignorant here. Would not it be more intuitive if Target was instead called Input?
>>488575560>Would not it be more intuitive if Target was instead called Input?no, it would not
>>488575132I guess it's just him living in a bubble. Imoho the point of remaster is either accessiblity(both in hardware compatibility and QoL improvements) or graphical upgrade, neither of which Braid suffered from. Also puzzlegames in general don't have much replay value, if you played Braid back in the Xbox arcade days, how much you'd wish to try it again? So the most notable new feature is the commentary.
my game is hard to test because my gpu quickly goes to 99 degrees C while it's running, so i have to close it before my PC shuts offgodot is expensive
>1 view>1 download100% conversion rate, let's fucking go
So the default character movement component in Unreal would be equivalent to Rigidbody3d in Godot?
>>488575883post game
>>488575514the worst thing about this generation is that they tried to get rid of bullying
>>488575986>>488575986>>488575986
>>488575341I just don't get what you are trying to do. You lose on purpose so the rape can happen? Can you even call that a game? More like foreplay if you ask me.
>>488575923take meds
>>488575916no you idiot, shut up
>>488575887I kneel
>>488576056Just replace the label of the mechanic from "losing" to "winning" and maybe you will understand. The game consist of taking damage until you "win".
>>488576520>try not to lose>object is to loseNah, I still Miyamoto was on point.
>>488567964is this some kind of ward in a mental hospital?
>>488562039>all that just for an aurora borealisUhhh yeah idk about 3d. Id have to get rich first and then hire someone to do the annoying stuff like that for me
>>488575419literally a jewish tranny
>>488564783Kek sounds like hes coping and malding to me. Those profits from the game didnt yield enough to make up for the cost, unless of course he's talking about the netflix deal which seems to have probably been more substantial considering his whining about sales
>>488564783>14 to 18 employeesSo what exactly did most of them do? If we got 14 to 18 anons all forced to work together and make a game we'd get more reviews than his Braid remake along with more money
>>488567964>cameras pick it up>ai tracks down anon>we have noticed youre a schizo and we have decided to fire you
Some of what I did today:>at runtime, script scans a specific folder in game directory for resource files>each file is loaded into a dictionary, and keyed by its filename (after the extension is trimmed off)>options list is populated with these keys for the player to select from>when one is selected, the script arranges the given name/family name fields in the proper order for that language (determined by a boolean in the resource)>script then generates a name in that language, by drawing randomly from PackedStringArrays for given and family names in the selected resource>by keeping it all modular with each language contained to its own resource file, the hypothetical user can pick and choose which ones they want to feature (or make new ones to mod in, only requiring a regular text editor)This is my first time dabbling in finding/loading resources automatically via script instead of manually specifying them in the editor, so I'd like to imagine I'm making progress.
>>488570870>on tick
>>488577805>If we got 14 to 18 anons all forced to work togetherok I'll be CEO and creative director.
>>488580803I'll be the Ideaguy.
>>488580968Creative director is just corpo speak for ideaguy
>>488580803Ok I will be the project manager.Since you're the creative direction we need you to write the game design document before we start. Please do.
>>488580803I'm here to join as a Coach!
