Cabbeine 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: >>488575986
Had an epiphany: agdg devs aren't interested in each other's games, but they might be interested in similar inspirations and influences? What if instead of talking about your own games, you talked about the games that inspired you and the things you're trying to build upon??
>>488640091My game is unlike any other. There's a lot of games that are near and dear to my heart but I'm definitely not trying to build on them
>>488640091im inspired by the swamp level in sonic 06 but i doubt anyone else gives a SHIT
>>488640091Tomb Raider and Legend of Zelda are my game's main influences
>>488640091You fucker, don't impersonate me and copy my posts. This shit is why I stopped posting progress.
>>488640512I thought I was doing you a favor by posting in the new thread considering nobody would have replied or even seen it since you posted after the old thread hit bump limitSorry I guess
After a couple of contrived and non-functional implementations, I got my dodge working properly.I added a big block of math to my dash action, so now it gets the player's input directly without relying on finding which direction the character actor is facing, and dodges in that direction 100% of the time. Previously, it misbehaved if you turned too quickly.Next, I need to set the character to actually face that direction when there's a dodge input, because the turning rate can't actually keep up with frame one dodges.>>488640091No one cares, man. I can come in here and say>my game is all my favorite parts of my favorite fromsoft action games and none of the parts I don't likeand list off Sekiro, Bloodborne, Demon's Souls yadda yadda, but that doesn't actually add anything to the conversation besides letting everyone know I'm a raging ideaguy.My progress might be meager, but at least I'm posting in and making a little bit every day.I've already gotten some extremely good feedback from posting little bites of progress, like putting my turn speed variable in my animation BP since it's already ticking, rather than putting it on my character.Such things would be ideal to bring up when you actually have something to show for in those areas you're trying to build upon.
>>488640640Not when you post a fucking frog next to it
I'm trying to reset the x-position of an AnimatableBody2D in Godot. Why doesn't this work? This prints -2640 instead of 0.
Obligatory s&box post. Rejoice, Unity and Godot victims! You will soon be able to throw off the shackles of your current engine and enjoy the fruits of Valve and Facepunch's labor! Standalone exporting is already in beta and development is rapid. Juan Linietsky is sweating nervously right now.
>>488639193https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animal_classesThere's literal thousands of species of birds, mammals, insects, bugs, fishes, to be inspired from..
Just made a cube move with the arrow keys. Feeling pretty good about it. Think that's about enough gamedev for today though. Tomorrow I work on making the camera follow it.
>>488640729I don't see the issue. I'm done apologizing, should have just left your post rot with zero (You)s
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>>488640702Handles slopes and falling because it inherits the character's vertical momentum, and will always go in the direction you want it to regardless of the direction it's facing.Still need an animation, and to set the character's forward direction as it gets input. Once I do that, it might be simpler to go back to a mix of the old implementation by just figuring where the actor is facing.I did this without looking anything up so I'm a little proud.>>488641351>Unity and Godot victimsWhat about Unreal devs?
I WILL ENTER THE INNER CIRCLE
>>488640985maybe tryyield(get_tree(), "idle_frame")before the print
>>488640229same
>>488635872i saw you pumping out content updates fast when i saw the news feed or whatever its called for your game. you'll probably get a good boost in sales when it's full release. any idea when the full release is expected?>>488638887i restarted tracking dev time again a short while back. not doing so hot for august 1. currently occupied with capsule layouts for my steam page. it's not going fast. barely have 2 done out of the many steam demands. i dislike how many they require. it mostly fiddling with it to get it looking just right so a lot of scaling and moving stuff around.
I'm thinking about it and Jon Blow is starting to grow on me.When I compare him to other devs like the Pirate Software guy, despite Jon's schizophrenia and weirdness, he feels so much more relatable, even if his gamedev decisions could've been fixed if he just posted in /agdg/ and listened.When Jon says shit, it feels like he's being honest. I understand it. Not like that snake.Jon makes his money from gamedev but the other guys make money from youtube tutorials or twitch streaming. Jon is an actual gamedev and not a corpodev either, he's just an indiedev. That's why we post about developers like Jon and Eric, they're actually like us.
Idle animation good or bad
I have an idea for a gameIt's a roguelike deckbuilder farming sim cozy metroidvania survivorslike
>>488642339good enough for a goblike
>>488642379>no crafting mechanics dropped
>>488642317take the Ericpill, he's the superior aspiration
>>488642339add visible water vapor infront of his mouth as he breathes out
>>488642212Thanks, yeah I've been grinding pretty hard getting things out. Maybe August? We'll see if I can pull it off.
>>488642317>>488642498just noticed you mentioned Eric at the end, just read your post halfway before replying
>>488642436crafting is implied in survivorslike mechanic
>>488641609pretty good. 3D dev is a long and arduous road.
>>488642317I disagree with Jon about a lot of things, but I respect him and feel genuine gratitude for him and his weirdness because one of his software rants did genuinely help me with a problem I was having in my game.
How do i make an ocean that stretches toward the horizon?stretching a textured polygon infinitely far away seems retarded.a 2d projection going from the horizon to the bottom of the screen wont be in 3d space.I've tried googling solutions but i cant find any results, i think i lack the correct wording for what i'm trying to describe.
>>488642820sorry, don't play fotm streamerslop so I've got no clue what a survivors-clone actually entails
>>488641992I disabled "sync to physics" which seems to have worked. I only move it during the physics frame anyway.
>>488642974this is why your game will fail
>>488642820>survivorslike>craftingwhat
>>488640091i like how splatoon salmon run has enemies that feel different to fight, fill different niches, and push and pull the players around the map, even acting to spread them outI like how DCSS has enemies that are noticeably strong or weaker vs certain builds, abilities, and defensive stats.i like how gmod zombie survival encourages and adds depth to kiting and resource management by greatly tightening access to healing, and time-gating access to ammo.
>>488642925>i think i lack the correct wording for what i'm trying to describeMan I run into that shit so much and it's infuriating. Hardest part of learning gamedev is that there's no real comprehensive "everything you need to know before you can learn on your own" guide, so you end up trying to find solutions to things without having the slightest clue what a solution might look like. Tons of useful information out there but it can be near impossible to dig up if you aren't already halfway to knowing the answer.
>>488643173if your survivorslike doesn't have crafting it's not really survivorslike
>>488642317His work ethic and mentality around work helped me out
>>488642925Make the edges of the world curved (like they are in real life). Repeating water texture up to the curve.
>>488642925>stretching a textured polygon infinitely far away seems retarded.That's actually the exact thing you should do. There's absolutely no downside to it. No clue why you're looking for "clever solutions to non-existing problems"
>>488644613God damn. You're right, i tested it just now by scaling a polygon by a billion and there's no problems.Feels like the last time i did something similar, the graphics card started chugging.
Humiliation ritual.
>>488645630marmofake
After way too much UI work I finally got the full world-creation system in. You fill the boxes with symbols that determine the features, then open the portals to the world. Each symbol can have different intensity levels which increases the amount of things being spawned, or the magnitude of effects such as Radioactive Sun.Any unfilled cell is filled with a random already discovered symbol, so if you want a fully random planet you just open it without adding any symbols. I'll probably add some limits to this so you have more of an incentive to actually use the symbols. This also means that bigger boards create "fuller" worlds, as a tiny 1x1x1 box only has space for a single feature.You find new symbols and boards as loot around the worlds, and I'll make it so that you have to go through a certain tech tree progression where rarer symbols can only be found if the world uses a certain parent symbol, or any other limitations and interesting interactions I can think of.I can run most of the generation in the background before even entering the portals but there's still plenty of optimization to be had, and I have to deal with weirdness like filling an entire 3x3x3 box with Pine Tree symbols creating a ridiculous, untraversable amount of trees. This will be an insane amount of work to balance and fix but insanity is the spice of life.It also happens to be the 4th week of this milestone that is now CONCLUDED and I should be writing up a little devlog later telling my overall thoughts.Any symbol ideas? Weather, enemies, screen effects, hazards, textures, heightmaps, anything goes.
>>488645630Absolutely disgusting. I refuse to buy any game that does that and will tell all my friends not to buy such a game.
>>488645580 If your card was chugging I would have looked into a frame debugger or booted up renderdoc to check out what nonsense was going on. A long faraway quad doesn't really do anything different from a small close one.
It feels like 3D games nowadays don't really have an art style anymore. It's either photorealism or that sort of very-slightly-cartoonish photorealism that shit like Overwatch does. Very same-y and bland, even down to things like menu design. Can't remember the last time I saw a game that really stood out in any way other than copying a specific older game's style. You couldn't make De Blob 2 in today's market, that's for sure.
>clock: 2:16 am>wrist: painfully cramped >Monster Energy™ Ultra Sunrise™ Zero-Sugar Energy Drink: ice cold >Azumanga Daioh Tomo Character Single - "Poi Poi Peace": on repeat men? it's gamedev time.
Are there any good Godot tutorials for 2D games that go a bit more deeper than "Here's a tilemap" and "this is how you move a block around in script"? Stuff like particle effects, lighting and shaders, things that add more juice to the game?
you are working on side projects AND design documenting your dream project, right anon?
So basically I can get about 32k vertices on it before one of my cores gets fully used
>>488647585Nope. I'm not allowed to work on other projects until after the current project ships.
>>488645630weeabros...
>>488603603Why the FUCK would you make a visual novel if you know nothing about writing?
>>488645682That's amazing. I don't even know what I'd suggest. That's just so cool.
>>488647585You know you can just work on your dream game and package little bits of functionality from it as side projects, right?
>>488648018I never did like Marmoreal. Playing it always felt icky because it was so obvious that the dev was jerking off to the characters.
>>488648350not knowing how to write a VN != not knowing how to writewhat you're saying is>why would you learn to do X when you don't know how to do X
>>488648532this is retarded unless your dream game is a shovelware minigame collection you can't just take the crafting system out of your early access survival-crafting zombie mmo and market it as its own game
>>488648532sounds gay asf
>>488648546How do you feel about furry VNs?
>>488648746Can and have. The trick is to ship it on mobile where people are used to non-sensical mini-games without any context.
>>488648018>1 loud complaining faggot redditor VS 10,000 appeal enjoyers Jee I wonder if I shouldn't have attractive women in my game or not
>>488640091I'm inspired by first dark souls
>>488648968garbage as usual, boku
>>488648018Honestly I think Marmo just didn't go hard enough on the aesthetic, it's a very mild weeb that annoys one audience and doesn't entice the other enough
>>488648968bevel cube tits are not appealing you retard
>>488645630Nothing wrong with shilling your game.
>>488649007where is your game
>>488642317He made 2 games in 2 decades and recently tried to re-sell his first 2 decades old game for full prise with additional shader and dev commentary. And then he was surprised it didn't sell well. I am amazed how he has money to this day in general. Did Braid really sell that well in 2008?
I wrote myself into a corner where I can't add anime girl appeal and have it make sense in the game
>>488648581I meant to quote this guy:>>488637102Who's trying to make a VN without having written anything in his life.
If you are using small sprites in gamemaker should you scale them bigger so that you don't have problems with subpixel numbers in movement / collision code
>>488648984Ah, so Demon's Souls?
If you are using gamemaker you should stop being retarded
Does anyone need a 2D/3D artist to work on their game with them?
>>488649842No.
>>488649928I'm dead serious, thing is she works on commission, you good with that? I can give you her Disc if that's good with you?
>>488649842Yes, but post portfolio.
>>488649842I only work with artists who post a portfolio
>>488650082>>488650221Working on it, hold on.
i can't even draw a fucking blast mark decal in photoshop.i'm fucking useless.
I'd honestly rather have shitty developer art than hire an artist. Not because of money or anything, but because I'd rather have my project be authentically mine than be more pretty and marketable.
>>488648746You can if you're not dumb.
>>488648546Dunno sounds pretty based to me.
>>488645630>As soon as I see “cute character” I know I’ll hate it. Dumb boob jiggles, etc....Kek. Anyone have the liberals hate cuteness thing?
>>488650461>everything I don't like is (political faction) mental illness
>>488650221>>488650082She has a company Insta, I'm trying to convince her to make a portfolio of her work only.
>>488651057You are convincing someone else to work for free with people who never finished a single thing in their lives? Grim
>>488650073sure thing, either post it here or find me through my game's disc
>>488651190I've shipped 29 games and 3 books.
>>488651057>her... her or "her"?'cause I've seen enough projects crash due to one 'tard to know that you are better alone than working with nutcases.
>>488648968nooooooooDon't make a kids game then put weird adult shit in it you weirdo
>>488651286nice try kid, but I've shipped 40 games, a dozen novels, and a movie.
>>488651304I'd never said EVER that bokube is for kids iv always made it known that the game is rated M since the start of development.
>>488651057So why exactly are you trying to get her to work with us? Is she using us to become more social or something? Not a very open person or something? Why would she do it for free anyways?
>>488651431>AIslop
>>488649715good point then, you're rightweird
>>488651431>Poster shows off final bossName 1 other game that's so casual about showing you the final boss
>>488651497She's not doing it for free, but she's cheaper than most.
>clearly visible bug that fuck up combat massively>add traces to try to figure wtf is going on>bug doesn't show up anymore>remove traces>bug show up immediately again
nigga keeps saying "she" like it ain't a tranny
>>488651431Looks like mario 3d world.Why would that be rated M?What does a woman with no pants and red undies add to the game?c r i n g e Sometimes your posts are truly a look into the mind of a psycho
>>488651550The pokémon games?At least the old ones where your rival is the final boss, dunno if they kept that trend.
>>488646990kek no kidding, i'm still stuck with only one pontential artist for what i need but he's on a level where i'm iffy about contracting him. at this rate i'm going to run out of things to do and have to actually draw the backgrounds myself
>>488651662more cringe to not like beautiful women in your jap tier KINO games. haven't you seen anime games that have bright colors yet have waifu's? yeah the future is ALL games are kino and appealing Kill yourself roastie
>>488651590>not freeOh. Well then I definitely have to see a portfolio or samples of what she can do, I wouldn't just hire an artist and find out they can't even do what I need.
>>488651826wew lad calm it down
>>488651550nta but i sure wouldn't. feels like it just spoils the game for any potential buyer. which is why making a good trailer is hard, i can't just reveal the bosses even if it makes for good cinematics. well if i had the skill for doing something that grand that is.
>>488651826I just want more games made for kids and not anime weebs
>>488651853Working on it.
>>488651978lol kids should be playing outside while its still enjoyable or in school video games are for adult based men catering to anyone else outside of men aged 18 to 80+ is a retarded move if anything kids would rather play call of duty than a nintendo game marketed at them and 30 year olds are the ones buying nintendo games. If you haven't figured this out 10 years ago you are never gonna make it retard
>>488651550'sup
>>488652107Arent you tired of being an incel at 30 years old?
should rename him to faghead, considering how soft he throws hahahahaha
>>488651592Sounds like you have asynchronous issues, your test code adds enough of a delay to 'fix' it. I think I was having similar problems with godots physics system since it runs asynchronous to game logic and ended up implementing a simple buffer for each physics signal.
anyhow boyos, it was a good day deving catch you morrow
>>488648546if he wasn't jerking off to them that would just be a sign he didn't make them good enough
but what are some /agdg/ erotica games?
>>488652107just make porn games
>>488653086>>488652293Or just enjoy the game and stop seething and madling everytime you see an attractive women in a game because you aren't one and will never be one.
>>488652967A creator jerking off to his own characters is like a mother molesting her daughter.
>>488651592Found it.>>488652487If only.TLDR:>doing Line-of-sight by doing raycast to check if anything was closer than the target>forgot to exclude target itself, but since the elimination was on "distance to collider < distance to target collider", it (should have been) fine>except that part of the code was compiled with Burst, with all "gotta fast, fuck accuraccy" compilation options cranked to 11>so sometime the distance to target was apparently NOT equal to itself all the time>putting traces disable Burst and thus made the code execute float operations with normal accuracyWas fixed by just filtering the target from being part of the "is there anything in-between" test list.
>>488651978Games I played as a kid: Diablo, Doom, Warcraft, Heroes 3, Metal Slug. Kids never play games aimed at kids unless it's the only thing their parents get them. The closest thing you'll get for a "game for kids" is games that emulate the experience of children hanging in the playground together, like Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite and whatnot, since this generation lost that aspect of their childhood.Wait are you the boogers games for children schizo? Ewww.
>>488652107this is based but it doesn't change the fact that your game has an appeal towards younger audiencesyou gotta give bokube a gun, make him smoke and have him solve detective cases
>>488653178So... extremely hot?
I want to make the visual style of my game to be like these retro fantasy media. I know it is very common trope, especially since the "dark fantasy" trend, but I've never seen anyone from modern decades actually pulling this off correctly. Maybe except for DS1 and some Berserk game adaptations. People always try to mimic this style, but it seems like they never fully commit to it.
How did you get the art assets for your game? Did you buy them, use free assets, or make them yourself?If you make them, what art style do you use and how long did it take you to git gud?If you use free assets, how do you harmonize the different asset styles?I have no art skillz bros. Tried pixel art, but the cap is too high for good art. Low poly is the only other option, but it'd take awhile to git gud. How do u cope with being a trash artist?
>>488645630>>488645959if you think there's anything wrong with shilling your game and spamming it everywhere you can, ywngm
>tfw tomoko left, bc she has a bf nowIt's so over, bros. And here I thought, that I could win her heart by just like make gaem.
>>488653893I miss Tomo…
>>488653696Here's a lifehack, never tell it to anybody else.Make a fake "gamedev studio", make a website for it and start making job offer posts on linkedin or find people manually on artstation or behance. Aim for someone young, preferably under 18(they don't have to pay bills to live and it won't hurt them to draw for experience). Tell them that you offer them a "remote internship" and just task them with art for your game. You can "hire" a few of them. The most important thing is to specify in the internship paper that you will own all commercial and creative right for the work they will do.
>>488654082p.s.The only way you can face problems with it is if your game actually gonna make it, but at this point, just pay them like 1-2k and they will shut up.
>>488654082I'm trying to make a game, not collect grooming allegations
>>488654082thisworked flawlessly for starbound, you should do it too anon
>>488654082That sounds like a good idea actually
>>488653893>>488654031Jk, I bet she's still (hotily) lurking. Her stern, German gaze provocatively looking over my written letters, ignoring my posts seductively, as she always has. I would smell her cursor, as she was hovering it over my posts.God, I love what I had with her. She was the one, bros.
>>488654197If you worry about moral side you can always just tell them that they are working on an "experimental project" and they will get a cut from sales. Which is very nice offer from an internship. When I did my engineering internship I was literally just a slave for 2 months.
>>488653893>girl: *possibly exists*>nodevs: *brain melts and turns permanently retarded, unable to finish a game*
>>488654593>if you worry about the moral side you can lie brilliant
>>488653893When you were squeeing with happiness for getting a reply from her in this thread, she was probably posting right after getting plowed by her boyfriend, sticky and sweaty, hair and clothes disheveled.
>>488653696I just kept drawing pixel art. Almost all of it is made by me. And yes the ceiling is freaking high compared to the early 2010s. Their competition rarely had pixel gold skill. Where did all these pixel gold artists come from anyways?
>>488641609Unreal devs are on equal footing since Epic actually uses their own engine.
>>488654774I prefer the version of that meme with the dog.
>>488654774kill yourself
>>488654995Yeah, good point.Just wish they'd write some fucking documentation for it
>>488655156I'm sorry you had to find out the hard way bro. You think she's your pal, but she's someone else's gal.
>>488655385kill yourself
>>488654774Can't you read? She didn't have a boyfriend until she left, you retard.
when my demo will be ready I will shill it everywhere, I will make 10 posts in this thread every day, I will make my own game's general, I will make thread on /v/, I will post in every subreddit, I will shill it on every social media
>>488641523are you me?I write like 1 line of code a day on average
>>488655705https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCzhyUsDHPE
>>488655835If you're trying to be funny, try again
>>488655913depends if you include "market research" in marketing
>>488655496If I write a bot that gives you a (You) every 5 minutes, will you reply to it throughout the whole thread?
>>488655894marmo? you forgot your bocchi avatar
>>488656316Don't care what literal ntr coombrains think.
>>488656390Marnix did a lot of market research before BiteMe decided what games to make. Ultimately most successful indie games were made because the developer wanted to make those games specifically, not because they identified some lucrative niche.
report & ignore
>>488645630What's diablo-like about it thoughoverchancebeit?did he ever play diablo?
Is it me or brigador lacks pathfinding? So is landsword iircWhy??
I want to dev but I keep getting ass blasted on The Owl boss fight in Sekiro, can't start until I beat this old fuck.
Which way should he hold a gun? please ignore my shit tier wappon modeling, aye carumbahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfh1-K3NfUw
>>488656496i'm not marmo i'm just any old lurking (failing) enginedev
New Mongol house - W.I.P. vs the old 2D Mongol house.
>>488657258>only 50 fpsI have to assume frame limiting, but why 50?
>>488657369i'd set it to an arbitrary 500 but it was using 5% of my CPU so i removed a 0 and now it used only 2%
>>488656649He didn't do enough then, because he didn't make a horror game. He also said he's not doing porn because he can't get an artist, even though porn can pay for its own art.Granted, it's debatable whether doing a porn game is good profit or not. There are success stories of people making it with terrible games that people fund anyway but it's unlikely to become the same level of smash hit as certain other games, and wouldn't mesh well with youtubing/streaming. There are some devs that make more money than porn games just by doing youtubing/streaming about games.
>>488657258>50 fpsPALchad detected
>>488657453In the age of DAZ3D and AI there really are no excuses.
I want to name my game "Fierce Deity", do you think nintendo will fuck me up? Can you even copyright something like this? It's literally [adjective] [noun]
>>488657453>porn can pay for its own artyou still need a starting budget. real estate pays for itself too, but it still takes a significant initial investment to put a down payment on that first rental house
>>488657718You'll be fine. Now if you called the game Fierce Diety Mask, there might be a small chance of problems.
>>488657258if you set FPS to something really high you'll notice "Sooner" if you've made some catastrophic mistake.
>>488658140good wisdom mr flanders, though I'm not sure I want my game running at 5000FPS at 25% (1/4 cores) cpu usage at all times
>>488657606Not even garbage like that, Aura just drew their own.
>>488658245No, something like min 120-240 is good enough.FPS falls faster, the higher it is.
>>488653696I use simple colors and shapes, or geometric patterns. I use illustrator to make sprites if I don't draw them in game with the shapes asset. There are a few characters I have to draw. I only do art out of necessity over the years. I also chose games that I could do with no art skills specifically. If you want to flip assets, there are things like the sisyphus game and only up too which don't really harmonize the assets, they just choose a game where it doesn't matter
>>488657718The term "fierce diety" is used in Buddhism (or in the translation anyway) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrathful_deitiesEven if they don't sue you it's a bad name because people googling the name will have to plow through all the Zelda content to find your game.
>>488653696I made an art fren in the thread, and he contributes a lot. In general I'd say working with another person is way better than full solodev, especially when you lack in an area of expertise.
FUCK
is there a way to make godot text act like tmp's min size, or do i have to code it myself?
stencil is so much easier to work with than pixel artthings I need to learn>rotate/scale on stencil>uv unwrap not be trash>isolate drawing regions so you can't paint where you don't want to (applying different textures to different body parts?)
>>488659253most intelligible godot poster
What do I need to do to differentiate my game from the 99% of the ignored run-of-the-mill indie games on Steam?
>>488660296don't make a pixelslop shartformer
>>488660296Make it fun, make it original, and don't make it look like shit.
>>488660151it's pretty simple to understand desu
>>488660296make a good game with a good aesthetic and a good plotline and don't be a retarded autist that recreates something he saw previously
>>488660426Ignore him. Vampire Survivors clones all make bank.
>>488660493the first couple clones of the new big fotm streamerslop can hit 1-2k reviews but anything after that is a guaranteed flop
>>488660493vampire survivor cloners still don't understand that the theme was a pivotal point and will literally throw any pixelshit drawing they made into it like it's mom's fridge
Imagine this: a Vampire Survivor clone, but with deckbuilding
>>488660728true, its a cool profession.
>>488660728There are probably at least 10 developers working on this idea at the moment.
>>488660830>blocking the basement window not going to have much light to fiddle with your ratty old foosball table then
>>488660728Is it about depression?
>>488660296Pick a really niche category where your customers seek you out, like VR games.
>>488661142"make a VR game" is just about the worst indie dev advice possible, may as well tell him to make a metaverse-integrated crypto NFT game
>>488660830Deck-building deckbuilding game.You fight against other dads to get the biggest, fanciest deck by turn 10.
>>488661142A medium isn't much of a category.
>>488661142a Vampire Survivors clone, but with deckbuilding IN VR
>>488661220Nigga, nowadays VR integration is a matter of installing one plugin, 10 lines of codes, and making your UI in-universe instead of overlayed.It's fucking trivial if you do it from the start, and honestly the vast majority of new game should be VR-compatible.It's like no supporting stereo sound or keyboards.
>>488657060Stop hesitating.
>>488661680>It's like no supporting stereo sound or keyboards.Heh, watch me!
>>488660728imagine this: a Vampire Survivor clone, but you periodically get a choice of possible items for your deck that automatically attacks nearby enemies, and sometimes you get chest drops that also give you items.
>>488661680>making your UI in-universeruins the game for any non-VR players (that being literally everyone)>It's fucking trivialit's trivial to play a scat porn gif every time the player enters a menu, doesn't make it a good idea>honestly the vast majority of new game should be VR-compatiblewhy? may as well demand they all be Ouya compatible, no one plays that shit >It's like no supporting stereo sound or keyboardspeople actually use keyboards albeit
deckbuilding blockchain
>>488662405>>ruins the game for any non-VR players>render your UI in front of the camera instead of over it>0 fucking difference on 2D screen>now the UI work in VRWow, that was hard.
Ahh, these responses encourage me to keep going. The flood of Indian shovel ware hasn't reached VR yet.
>>488662484I think there is sucha a clone for Hearthstone
>>488661680Sounds like a bitch to test desu.
>>488661683Sure thing, tomorrow.
>>488663109If you don't have a headset at home to do a quick check then yeah, fair enough.
>>488663070Indian shovelware is the only thing that's on VR, the average VRshit is worse than a discount-bin Wii game. There's like one proper game on VR and it's a Half-Life tech demo.
>>488661680Meanwhile VR-fags:>Umm, where are muh MOTION CONTROLS? I can't believe I STILL have to use a CONTROLLER! IT'S 2024! WAKE UP, PEOPLE!
>>488663615There are some decent mods for real games as well.
>>488663615>Half-Life tech demoI'd say Alyx was more than just a demo.If there ever came another game like it, I'd possibly borrow a VR set again.But it has to be as good or better, VR is such a hassle.
>>488663615Skyrim VR is also really nice for what it is, a quick VR conversion for a game not designed for VR
>implement global pause/slow down/speed up UI so I can test AI faster instead of having to wait for them to finish fighting at normal speed>some part of physics break at x10 speedGoddammit.
>>488664541>using engine physics for anything ever LOL !
>>488664576... except it's my custom physics engine. Can't even blame Unity on that one.
>>488664761What are you using for your physics engine in terms of language/libraries?
>>488665489C# bastardized into not being managed anymore due to Burst compiler, and no real library outside of Unity's Burst-compatible Collections.
>>488660905Or escaping if an earthquake happens and only leaves the win- oh wait his deck is in the way. And thus anons life ended soon after as no one reported his neet solo living dev self as missing.
No one likes my game, it's fucking shit, and I give up.
>wake up>lie in bed watching porn for 2 hours>jerk off>make breakfast>go to work>get home from work>watch porn for 3 hours>jerk off>too tired to dev>go to bedliving the life
>>488666146Pretty sure Marnix would give it at least C+
>>488642317>Pirate Software guythis dude is legitimately a fucking fraud
>>488666146Same... Except I don't give up...
>>488666387yes we know blah blah wasn't a real dev when we worked at blizzard
After all, why not? Why shouldn't I goon? I'm an adult.
>>488661680>the vast majority of new game should be VR-compatibleVR is a dumb gimmick, the only viable use-case for it is divorced boomer simulator type games. It's a niche product for people who don't mind having a sweat box with an ipad in it strapped to their face.
I miss the old /agdg/this place is infested by zoomers who thinks they're funny
>>488667063I don't think VR will ever escape meme status until we develop the technology to fit everything inside what's basically a pair of sunglasses.
>>488667220That's nice honey. Don't forget to do your math homework.
VR will be viable as: >sunglass-sized eyepieces for AR shit >controllerless full-body motion-tracking haptic suits anything between will forever be gimmick shit (AR is inherently useless gimmick shit but at least it's marketable to a fair amount of people)
>>488667220>this place is infested by zoomers who thinks they're funnytrue, at least they’re too busy making TikToks to work on theirs games, so less competition for us
Can't remember if i posted about this before but i've now got an action log, and i've got a way to activate events on impassable tiles (need to rewrite how i'm doing impassable tiles, it's dogshit atm
>>488642317I'd prefer him over like, most big name indie devs, and i don't even like the guy that much, was nice seeing him telling people to fuck off after taking the "braid sold like shit" thing to heart
>>488667240> the technology to fit everything inside what's basically a pair of sunglasses.Since watching Denno Coil, I can't help but wonder how fucking great a Pokémon Go not made by Niantic & GF would be with glasses like that.Or the porn. Pass-through porn seems hella fun but my old Quest can't really do it.
>>488667550>controllerless full-body motion-tracking haptic suitsThis is already obsolete. All you'd be getting from it is the haptic feedback, which isn't enough to justify putting on an entire suit to experience. VR will move towards Kinect-esque video tracking instead.
>>488667550I think most people can't be arsed to move on their own so something like motion controls for hands and thumbsticks for movement might be what works
>>488668089kinect video tracking already exists and no one does shit with it except shovelware, the reason VR is useless is that it isn't immersive enough to deal with the hassle compared to just a controller and screen. the only way it's getting off the ground is full immersion.
You know, I would care a lot more about your games and reply to your progress posts if I felt something of a friendship between us. Maybe if you stopped acting like you're above all this and actually acted like human beings I would give a shit about your games
Working on making an updated bar area for Shanghai's nightclub level. The old one was just a fat rectangle shape that looked super weird and jank. So far this is just a quick "sketch" and I'll be taking proper time to gather and build better props and textures. Also building this makes me realize just how dire my asset collection is.
>>488666387is there anything in particular about him?
>>488668514Here it is without post-processing, looks like a fucking bad roblox level haha. I need to build a much better collection of just stuff like wood and plaster as well as props like chairs.
>>488666170You're a lot more economically productive than I am, congrats
>>488668451Is there a SINGLE active dev you think acts like a human being?If your answer is no, then you might be the problem
How many hours should a €5 game be on Steam?
>>488668514Hey bro I was playing No One Lives Forever again the last few days and it made me think you should definitely check out that game to get some reference for your style. It was going for a movie-like look as well, albeit a lot more 60s and cartoony, but it still looks similar to what you're going for in places.
>>488668752At least 2 hours to dodge the refund period.After that, it's just bonus time.
>>488668752you should never, under any circumstances, list a game for $5
>>488668848Thanks man, I'll check it out!
>>488668716pogodev but he hasn't posted progress in a long timeDirkdev is normala few others that I can't remember off the top of my headthe rest of you act way too corporate and needy and soulless
>>488668716>>488669012oh yeah and definitely (a)wokendev. He's normal too. I just hope all the dicksucking he's getting doesn't go to his head
>>488668451this is one of the most soulless and needy posts I've seen in a while
>>488668895Why?
>>488669160I just don't think there's any point in participating in a hobby community if the friendship element is missing
>>488669124>awokenfag >normal
you know, for a closed community of like-minded individuals agdg sure has a lot of insincere and hostile posters. It's almost as if you want your brothers to fail
>>488669245nigger this is the internet, if you want friends then crawl out of your basement and talk to people that or head back to your tranny ERP discord server and keep trying to squeeze parasocial "friendship" from pixels on a screen, you're out of our hair either way
>>488669364i'm starting to think we'll never all get to go to the comfy dev cabin
Man, gamedev is hard and exhausting as fuck, I feel like killing myself. Why do you guys encourage everyone who comes here to start doing it? Some weeks ago I recall a poster saying something along the lines "im shit at art and I tried programming for 6 months but nothing stuck to me, should I keep trying?" and everyone here was all "yeah yeah going it gets so easy later :)". shaking my head senpai
The people complaining about VR probably haven't tried VR since 2017 (or ever) and it shows. If you already have a VR headset and a first person game, there's no reason to not have a VR mode.
>>488669364They probably want me to fail too, so fuck them. If they stop sending me negative (FAKE) feedback, maybe I won't. :)
>>488669591buy an ad mark
>>488669364this. this is the main reason I stopped crabbing ever since I realized how pathetic it looks to others. every single time you crab it can only mean one of two things to other people - either you're a nodev who doesn't even belong here, or you're a resident dev whose game is known but are so shriveled up inside that you feel the need to tear down your own agdg friends. neither of those things paint you as a person worth listening to, which is why it's pointless
>>488669668>your own agdg friendsfor the love of god, talk to some real people anonymous posters on an imageboard are not your friends
>>488669472we ARE friends, and until you realize that you will never belong here. This place exists to be a friend group, not to be a shitposting channel for your deranged tranny mind
>>488669801I'm xer friend.
>>488669817>erm 4channel.org exists to be my parasocial tranny hugbox actually genuinely please kill yourself
Dirkdev is my friend
I don't want to be a crab. I don't want you guys to fail. But when you're in the game for this long, I can't help but feel satisfaction out of other people's failure. Not because I don't wish them the success, but because it means my struggles are real. I can use your failure as an excuse for all my failures. I did not fail because I'm bad, but because it's hard. I just hope that once I leave the bucket my mentality will change.
Today's progress goal: level up coding, code architecture, engine usage tips/tricks and project organization
>>488669124don't worry bro, i just spent a good 10 minutes figuring out how to rotate a brush in photoshop. there's no risk of hyping myself anytime soon
>>488669912but we're not talking about 4channel.org, we're talking about /agdg/, the gamedev community. This is a place unlike any other
>>488670259if you want a "gamedev community" where you and your imaginary internet friends can suck each other's cocks, r/gamedev is accepting new patients. this is a gamedev general and no one here owes you shit.
I always reply to my friends' progress posts. I have no idea what you're talking about
/r/gamedev is way more aggressive and crabby than this thread is, but only when the circlejerk decides there's a target theyre allowed to jump on
>>488668895vampire survivors was $3-4 on release... its estimated to have sold between 5 and 10 million copies.
>>488670347friendship communities cannot form on reddit. There's at least 100 000 people in that subreddit alone. That's not a friend group, it's a pig sty of retards trying to get one over on each other. In /agdg/ there's about 50 people total that are worth a shit. It makes forming bonds much easier unless you're a jaded old fuck that's just angry at the world
>>488668895>>488670445Montaro is a game nobody has heard off, that was 2 usd and sold like 700k.Sometimes 2 usd is the right price for smaller jam like games.
>>488668895Retard
>>488670421r/gamedev is more willing to be honest and harsh because, ironically, an account-based forum with 1.6 million users is far more anonymous than an anonymous forum with sub-200 regular posters. no one's going to remember that u/fartballs69 shit-talked some game on reddit but the autists here will absolutely remember that fartballdev crabbed ballfartdev's new 2D pixel platformer
>>488670565jesus christ where is the schizo torture and kill yourself spammer when you need him
I have done a lot for some devs in these threads. They will never know it but it was always me who had their back, and they will never know which dev I was. You'll never realize you have people here who help you out and care about you until it's already too late
holy fucking shit importing models creates dozens of nodesthat shit better work out the box cuz there ain't no reorganizing it
>>488670806zoomertranny meme game
>>488670565>friendship communities cannot form on redditgood, they've got the right idea design-wise on that front. don't encourage parasocial retards to think the entire website is their personal circle of friends. you're supposed to be discussing game development, not "forming bonds". this isn't your freshman year at uni.
>>488670829You're wrong and retarded. A few months ago someone posted a screenshot of a smarmy reddit fag talking shit about SDV. I looked up the account and as of a week prior he was still being harassed for something he said years ago kek
Mein Führer... Steiner... has project-hopped again...
My new project is going to go way faster because I'm taking everything I learned from my last side project to speed it up.
Bros I want to make a horror game but I'm stuck in a creative rut, give me your absolute, no holds barred, bottom of the barrel, worst ideas.
I wonder what depths the profound misanthropy of someone who discourages friendship in a literal hobby friendship group has reached
>>488671068>yeah? well here's some vaguely related anecdote I just made up
>>488668514You need to use lightmaps bro. Harsher shadows (and statice for performance) under every object would definitely do your visuals good
>>488671258>hobby friendship groupthis is a discussion threadif you want a "friendship group", consider leaving your house
>mind melting from hours of programming>go have a walk to clear my mind>came up with 3 different side project ideaswhy do these bouts of inspiration never happen with my main project?
>>488671109I want all the nodevs to leave the room...
>>488671258clinical irony poisoning, their brain is scrambled like an egg
>>488671253a creepypasta based game.
Started my Godot orblike, got the player moving and colliding, and I set up an orthographic camera that tracks the player because I want to use prerendered sprites and let the 3d handle the y-sorting. Where do you go next? Attacking?Right now I'm using move&slide, but I don't want the player to slip around stuff. Is there an alternative that makes collisions 'sticky'? For example, if an enemy blocks a doorway, move and slide will have the player squeeze by like they are covered in olive oil. I want them to simply be unable to pass
dumbed down rts>added barebones game state (main menu/game over)>added stages (minions->boss)>added player characters (grants clickable ability in top right corner)>refactoring that you cant seegame time is sped up in webm
>upcoming Godot orblike it is NOT looking good for unitysisters...
i can picture it in my head, and it's extremely kino prolly ngmi tho
>>488661680Have fun optimizing your VR game to have 0 stutter, making every shader render correctly in both eyes, and more but I'm too tired from VR dev to think of. Not trivial
>>488671253You are a toddler trying to escape circumcision.
>>488671962Unfortunate Circumstances
WALLS
>>488670879don't make things local to the scenelearn to use get_nodeif you dislike having too many objects, join some together in blender with ctrl + J
Where do you think they are now?
>>488672394It's not my game, I decompiled wrought flesh. I don't have first hand experience with importing models yet.
>>488657742>you still need a starting budget
>>488671352They're not baked, since I'm just prototyping the scene.
>>488673527decomposing in my backyard
>>488673527sneedrx is in the discord, she's pretty active
>>488673527At my summer house having gay sex.t. john blowjob
>>488671585post orblike?>go nextinventory, attacking, spell casting, items, UI, etc.i'd go for attacking since it plays off movementno idea about the collision stuff since i don't use godotgood luck, fellow arpg dev
What's orblike again?
>>488673527yomih is on twitter more often than not
WHYYY CANT I VERTICALLY ALIGN TEXT IN GODOT????WHY IS THE ONLY SEARCH RESULT DEPRECATED SHIT FROM 2018DO GODON'TURDS EVEN MAKE GAMES????
>>488674217Not much what's orblike you?
>>488674559What did she mean by this?
>>488645630On one hand I understand trying to promote it in every subreddit you can, but on the other hand something doesn't feel right. I can't figure out what it is.also a diablo-like should not be in shmup
>>488674061I am in my wage cage, but it is simply a barebones capsule on plane, there are static bodies with collision to be pathed around and the camera follows the player using a pivot nodeI think next I will do>Holding shift has the character facing direction follow the cursor>Shift + click will attack in place towards cursorThen move on to>Click enemy paths to enemy and attacksI think move_and_collide is what I was looking for with the collision so I'll have to try that tonight.
My games are shit but at least they work.
>>488674217My game
>>488645630Marmotroon is nothing like Diablo. ToK dev is going to beat the shit out of him for saying that
>>488674650????
The game I made in my head is better looking, better playing, and better selling than my real game... how can I even compete with my own imagination...?
>>488675276>>488674650>vertical alignment with bold text?Nope! Impossible!No can do sorry!
>>488675276scroll down to control options dumbass>doesn't check everything>doesn't search the search bar>IT'S NOT THEREEEEE MOMMY ELP ME
>>488657046Anyone?
>>488675220When your game is so bad you have to compare it to other games that are nothing like it just to get people to look, it really is grim
>>488675276this is your competition
>>488651550
>>488675959that is my friend :)
Submitted my game to steam. Got a couple things I needed to change but nothing major, and resubmitted it yesterday. AGDG I'm gonna make it, I'll remember you guys when I'm on the top.
:: Project Nortubel ::progress :: if you ever wanna kill someone, demoralize them first.tell them they deserved to be raped or that mom and dad wanted it to happenturn their world upside down before lights out
>>488675787Marmoreal doesn't even have orbs, it has hearts. The guy is a such a fucking joke, I feel bad for him.
>>488653487Games I played as a kidMixed up mother gooseZug the megasaurNoddy's playtime
>>488676408> I'll remember you guys when I'm on the top.Please don't.Set yourself free.Link?
Well, time to get out of bed and start my shift at my 6 figure remote tech job (where I only work 1-2 hours per day). Fridays are awesome because it’s more like 15-30 minutes of work. I have so much time to work on my game and then every two weeks I get a huge check. I don’t even know how to spend all of the money lol
>>488677332>SpoilerNah I hate my game too much for that. I'm releasing in Early Access only to see if there's an actual interest, and if not then moving on to my next project.I'll just say that it's a roguelite inspired by Battle Network, and that I haven't posted any progress here in a while so you might not remember it.
>>488675404Same
>>488677347Lend it to jon blow
>>488677483Why don't you just post it, now I have to go on Steam and look at the early access titles and find a roguelike like Battle Network? Why did you even pay a hundred dollars to put the game on Steam if you won't even post the game so anons can buy it?Just retarded, althoughwhereverbeit you may be depressed.
>>488677483i remember...
Am I making something good here or am I making complete fucking garbage. I wish I could tell.
if you mi, will you abandon /agdg/ like hopoo did?
>>488677483It's not out yet though. But fine here's the link https://store.steampowered.com/app/2092000/Calamity_Sanctuary/
I'm just not fit for this hobby...
>>488677878Woops meant for >>488677669
>>488677857Obviously. Anyone who made it gets crabbed hard. I'll get 13 screeching autist replies every time I post. Nah, fuck that.
>>488677483Nta but i instantly remembered it from demo days, idk if i ever saw you post it in here. I keep forgetting its name as well.....>calamity sanctuaryKek i even have the steam page in my bookmarks
it's a great day to work on my gamedev hobby!
>>488677878Ah, that one.Dunno, seemed fun. Your blue and red plateau really need to be actual terrains tho.
>>488677878When did you make the steam page and how many wishlists did you get since that time naturally? And did you shill your page anywhere?
>>488677820post your game and multiple anons with good taste will tell you
>>488677483I visited the archive yesterday to look when dingodev started posting so I saw a post and remembered you
>>488677878Oh I couldve just sat here and refreshed the page instead of going back through demo days cause I forgot the name....How hard was it to make pic related? I have something like it in my game as well and still need to add more to it.
>>488678112>Your blue and red plateau really need to be actual terrains tho.Yeah I think those are literally the first graphics I made when I started the project, and I'm so close to it that I just don't see them anymore. But its something that comes up very often, I really need to find someone to commission better looking tiles, cause you're looking at them 90% of the time, they should look much better.>>488678135IDK a year or so back, when I created the demo for Steamfest. I did no shilling whatsoever, I was thinking of doing a soft launch and maybe getting some cheap advertisement once the game is up, but I'm not aiming for a big release. I just want a small number of dedicated players to play the game, give feedback, and let me know about bugs and stuff.Steamworks is so dogshit, I've been trying to find my wishlist count for 10 minutes now and cant find it, sorry.
>>488677878>roguelike deck builderMy normie friends talk about this genre the same way we make fun of 2d platformers. It doesn’t look bad but it is a very over saturated genre that I think people are kind of sick of
Does anyone know what it's called painting textures on top of a model's texture?for example, I have a model for a large patch of ground that has a simple grass texture, and I want to paint rubble/sand/whatever textures on top of it, preferably on blender. How do I do this? I know this is like extremely common but what is it called
>>488678675Oh shit, while looking for the wishlists I see that the build was approved. Do I press the button?
>>488677483>I'm releasing in Early Access only to see if there's an actual interest, and if not then moving on to my next project.How long has it been in development? That page has been up since 2022 from what I saw online. Idk how Steam would react to recycling a steam id with a new game or if theyll have you buy a new one. Since idk how theyll respond to a name change where the entire game clearly is different from what was originally intended but hefore you release anything eg gauging the interest via no releases but rather demos and wishlists/followers.
>>488678761stencil?
>>488678761decal?
>>488678675Nta but they have wishlists in 2 different places and judging by how youre acting I get the feeling you dont know about it. One place shows terrible numbers and is where you are at. The other is yet another steamworks page that demands you sign in evem if youre already signed in on another steamworks "page" its like the system is very separated. This page shows the imho the accurate wishlist count or at least close to it.https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/wishlistScroll down to Your Wishlist Data section. They have a link their to take you to the correct place
>>488679286it's more like decals, like the decal node in Godot that lets me paint a texture on a mesh, but I know there is something exactly like that on Blender. Basically I don't want a fucking 16K texture on a ground mesh just to paint details on specific areas. And I don't want to do pic related
>>488678837Not sure I understand what you're saying here. I didn't change the name of my game, it's exactly the same idea as in 2022, just more content.>>488678728Yeah I'm tired of it as well to be honest. I started work on this in 2020(!), though only a couple of hours here and there, and at that time I was really more into the genre. Hence why I kinda just wanna say the game is "done & released" and move on to something else, unless by some miracle people see the game and actually like it, in which case I'll dedicate more time into creating the 1.0 version>>488678561By pic related you mean generating a random sequence of nodes or whatever? It wasn't too bad honestly, I haven't looked at that code in a while, but it boils down to 1. Define a 2d array for the max size of your node map (e.g. 15x5 I think in my case)2. Define a drop table for each type of node, e.g. battle node -> 50%, shop -> 10%, etc.3. Define some global rules, like 1st node must be of this type, you can never have 2 shops in a row, etc.Then once that's done, iterate over the whole array, choose a node at random based on drop table / global rules. Then iterate again and add some connections. >>488679292I think I found it. I only have 341 wishlists, oh well.
>>488657046>>488675782LS dev here. Actual pathfinding is unfortunately really intensive in Game Maker, and the way it's set up it has to essentially generate a terrain grid of the entire room for every object added/deleted. So with destroyable walls it's basically impossible to keep optimized if you have dozens of enemies and hundreds of objects. Instead I have them use mp_step functions when they're near to buildings so they can scoot around them and find the player's last known position. For Brigador I think they just had a different play style in mind - the enemies move really slowly and I don't think there was a major need for "true" pathfinding.
I think more and more anons here are under 100 wishlists which is rather surprising. Why are we all near the same amounts anyways?
>>488678795You’re not supposed to release with less than 7000 wishlists
>>488679565>Not sure I understand what you're saying hereSorry I rambled without making it clear after the first sentence. I meant if you gauged interest via demos on steam. If reception is poor you simply scrap the whole page. Change name and put a new game. You save $100. But the amount of effort to change this isn't worth $100 imho. Your intent is to gauge interest and if poor you simply finish it asap/drop it, right?In any case when I changed my games name it was a hassle going through every single page to change the name of my game. It wasnt just changing it so its visually this name but all these other depots and whatnot that required it all while being obtusely difficult to locate.
>>488679858I have about 200 wishlists, but only like 15 sales.
>>488679858Bad games get few wishlists, especially the 2d pixel art style everyone here is making. You guys cherry pick the 1 in a million 2d pixel art game that sells well to normies and use that as justification, but 99% of the time 3D anything outsells 2D everything. Harsh reality
>>488679858A lot of developers here (I would say around 90%) place too much focus on how memeable their game is while completely overlooking how much quality and substance their game has. A marketable game needs both
>>488679858most anons either do not know how to market games or do not botherwhich is a shame since it isn't difficult, it's just busy work. dedicating months or years to a project only to not bother with the last crucial step is painful to witness
What is the next boomer-shooter for indie games? RTS will never catch on with zoomers and they are really hard to make. CRPGs also difficult to make.What can be done?
>>488678675>I really need to find someone to commission better looking tiles, cause you're looking at them 90% of the time, they should look much better.>commission That can wait.In the meantime grab some random RPGMaker tileset and half-ass some HoMM1-tier background, it will already be a massive improvement (with your blue/red map very thinly overlayed on that).The scrolling background are a good stopgap to provide some sense of place and "variation", but even shitty tiles would make it look significantly more finished - you can always find the perfect artist later.
>>488680459RTS was never that popular
I will NEVER support tower of kalemonvo
>>488679565>random sequences of nodesYeah. Your method is far more complex than mine.....>341 wishlistsBetter than me, last I checked I only had ~50
>>488680525It was relatively popular among the PC game market from 1997-2003.
>>488680459Survivors clones
>>488680525this nigga never heard of StarCraft, Age of Empires II, and Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos
>>488680187>Your intent is to gauge interest and if poor you simply finish it asap/drop it, right?Yeah, but I'm not going to swap it and put a new game, I'll just create a new one. That's probably against the Steam terms or whatever.>>488680168Or what? Will the steam police come and arrest me?
>>488680459Pongs/Arkanoids, but juiced to oblivion and with bossfights and RPG progression.Boomer-shmups.
>>488679858Yeah, it's surprising that Marmoreal only has 22 reviews. I expected him to have like 100 agdg anons giving him a wishlist. Okay no that is a shit post but that just gave me an idea. What if we all coordinate a pump on our games? 100 wishlists all in one day. Will the algo show us off more to randoms?
>>488680459>tfw the boomer-shooter craze came and went while I tried to develop my 2 month shooter prototype (which has taken five months so far)
>Will the steam police come and arrest me?Yes!
>>488680838Nta but its a meme about needing that many for the game to do well or something. At my current amount Ill need over 100+ years to get 7000 wishlists. Ehh higher population maybe like 70 years
>>488680917I like the idea but how are you going to coordinate it?
>>488680525I was very popular among white nerds, a.k.a the peak gaming audience.
What are all the hot genres atm? How do we preempt which one will be hot in 3 years? I like multiple genres so if I knew which one would be popular I could make a game that'd probably sell okayish, of my skill was better that is.
>>488673527all i know is that the bug fables guys are working on a new game focusing on humans. they said a bug fables sequel would come after. they generally seem to be running low for now.
>>488680459Jazz Jackrabbit / 2D Sonic, but with guns, abilities & ultimate, and also they finally fucking realize you can move the camera in the direction of gotta-go-fast instead of keeping it centered on the character - thus ensuring you have less than 1 frame to react to trap and enemies.
>>488681294I'm predicting the next hot genre will be clones of my game after it makes it BIG and all the slopdevs rush to make clones of it.
>>488681142Yeah if my lively hood was dependent on this then I would be taking the wishlist/marketing stuff more seriously but this, as it should, is really a hobby for me (though not gonna lie I wish this was my full time job), so I just wanna release, see a couple of people enjoy my game and move on.
>>488681184Trooncord? Not like you want to post publically and then someone bitches to steam about it all while godot devs on reddit seemingly got away with giving their games pumps on wishlists iirc
>>488681412Prediction, the next hit genre will be your genre when you inevitably put out a demo 1.5 years before releases and the cloners arrive 3 months after. 1000, 50000, 3000, 8000, etc all games who cloned yours and released in 3 months after your demo. 1.25 years later your game releases while the genre is now oversaturated, you get $2000 in net profit.....
What should my next project be? I've got a couple of things in the works1. Thinly veiled Culdcept clone for PC, with emphasis on modding, online multiplayer, etc.2. Turn based JRPG rougelite, SMT/FF X inspired combat3. Turning my current roguelite into an actual 5-10 hour rpg. This was my inital plan way back when : Create a roguelite with the battle system, then reuse that to create an actual single player RPG.
>please please just tell me what is popular so I can grift my way to a paycheck please!in case you missed the last thread, this is your cue to leave this place and this hobby behind for good. Game development is the most time-intensive and multidisciplinary industry that the human mind has ever conceived. Everything that can go wrong WILL go wrong. You do not have the endurance. You do not have the vision. You do not have the work ethic. You do not have the focus, the single-mindedness, the talent, the creativity, the experience, or the understanding of your own psychological processes to see this years-long undertaking through to the end. Do yourself a favour and leave
I'm going to write my game's wiki and pretend it was just a fan so people think there's a community for my game.
>>488657128Looks like Watto and Mewtwo fucked
>>488680558sorry
>>488680558crabs like you are why we can't all be friends
>>488681759ironically you can make easier money just getting a regular dev job. gamedev was never a cashcow so it's really confusing why so many treat it like a rat race to the top.
>>488681975Imagine how much better it would feel to find a community wiki for your game made organically? Why are you denying yourself this pleasure?
>>488677857No. At most I might use the money to make my own "AGDG" so I can enforce my own moderation.
>>488678675i missed your game in DD even though i think i would have been interested because the title & capsule art were bad and didn't indicate what the game was>thinking of doing a soft launch and maybe getting some cheap advertisement once the game is up, but I'm not aiming for a big release. I just want a small number of dedicated players to play the game, give feedback, and let me know about bugs and stuff.i think this is too optimistic. Branno did the same thing you seem to be doing and it didn't pay offhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyoiZzXQKAk
>>488682021
>>488682468>>488681759Game dev has an exceedingly high profit ceiling. People look at Notch and Eric who became billionaire and millionaire respectively from working on a game for a couple of years, and dream of the same level of success, or at least even a tenth or hundredth of it. I don't think there's a single industry that can potentially make you a millionaire in just 5 years unless it involves gambling or prostitution.So yeah these "peaks" give the bottom feeders hope that one day it might be them. It's basically a step up to the people with absolutely no skills hoping to get rich from bitcoins.
>>488651965you saw that image of some cube rabbit thing and immediately thought "ah, this must certainly be the last boss"?
>>488680414This. I have no idea how to market.>Just post a TikTok!Okay, but what would make an interesting TikTok that would get lots of people to stop scrolling and actually watch? And even if they do watch, how do I drive that traffic to my page? Just because someone watches doesn't mean they care to actually follow any link.>Just give your game appeal!Okay but wtf is appeal? How do I attain this? Someone could have the most stylistic looking game out there and yet it has no appeal.Marketing by itself is an art form and it's why there are marketing companies out there that do it for other companies. Maybe instead of gamedevving, we should try getting jobs in advertising instead to learn how marketing actually works.
What kinda game to get a gf like pic related? Do immersive sims attract woman and how hard could could it be to make an immersive sim anyways?
>>488652335does the gun have a stand like in jojo?
>>488683081Apparently, Stardew Valley.
>>488683081I wish I knew....
>>488670127why did you decompile wrought flesh?
>>488683081Social sim
>>488683081>edited CyanOwl modelThe OG is better
>>488657128Aaaaa not the disco pit! Kek this dance video hard, i hate women so much its Unreal, love from gamedevstan
So I've been keeping track of the work I've been doing. This started on Jan 17 since that is the date when I finally started to work on game dev seriosly after I took a very long break from everythingover the last 180+ days this is the full list of days when I have not worked on my game at all:>Mar 1 - 6 took a break because of DD>Apr 6, 7, 8, 16, 18, 19, 20 - did not work on game for unknown reasons>Apr 23 - May 5 took a break for personal reasons and DD>Jul 3 - 10 took a break due to reaching milestoneevery single other day during that time I have spent 6-12 hours working on my game except on the few days when it was 4-8 hours
>>488668895I'll sell mine for $1
>it's a deckbuilder
>>488680787See >>488681196Niche of a niche. It never had the chance with wider audience.
>>488683813It's not
I asked my father to transfer my phone line to my name. He didn't answer. I blocked him after a month because he didn't even answer. I messaged his mistress two days ago to tell him to transfer the gsm to my name. Today he did it. (which also pissed me off) I got into a bit of an argument with the mistress through messages. Because I was a bit straightforward when talking to her etc. She started to get a bit angry language too etc. I went into rage and now I blocked her too. Oh also I live in her house (separate, empty one) and am paying her rent. I came to her house because it is close to my father (her place). He had heart issues and and my mother had recently passed away. I thought we'd be closer and spend some time etc. Make up for the time when we didn't talk etc. Now I'm planning on signing an inheritance waiver paper. I just wanted my phone number because I've been using it for 25 years. I have half a house split between my step brother and he is in another country and not coming back, also blocked me because I asked to repay me the money he borrowed from me. I can't even sell house because of him. I am renting it tough. That's how I was able to pay my rent too.Anyways, so it is officially over. I have no one in my life. I have lost all the desire, will towards gamedev or even life. I have nothing to do left now. I don't want to do anything at all.
Highlight for NPC's and circle underneath the player.
>>488683845White adult males should always be your target audience. Everything else is setting you up for catastrophic failure
>>488684002nigga I don't give a shit. You have literally never replied to my progress what the fuck do you expect?
>>488683209>CyanOwlLink to that modeler? Jewgle return nothing but hippie art & craft, and reverse image only Akali from LoL.
you guys seeing the>"The player character from our indie game."trend?literally all of the are femalewhy is there so many female indie game protags?
>>488684172I will reply to your progress now. What's your game? I'm sorry, anon./
>>488684230AGP hobby im afraid!
>>488684002>”ew it’s ugly”>”heh heh heh ackshually I made it look hideous and unwatchable on purpose!!!!”Cool man, I just don’t care. Make something that doesn’t suck shit next time
>>488684230Because women are pretty.
>>488683517ok
>>488684230
>>488684225The modeler died a while ago.
>>488683980damn that's crazy
>>488684225how new are you marnix tourist?
>>488684230I guess my game is going to stand out for having a male main character. I mean just look at Helltaker.
>>488684230Trannies and incels
>>488684006Those don' pay for games anymore. The market has moved on.
>>488684230>I'll just do what everyone else is doing to promote my game! That will surely work!
>>488682468>so it's really confusing why so many treat it like a rat race to the top.Because people spend your whole life playing videogames as a way to escape from the world, and you grow up not knowing or caring about anything else you start to think that game development is your only viable pathway out of the miserable life you've created for yourself. The actual path is dealing with your social retardation, addressing your mental issues, and getting a job. Working on an external project such as a game is a far less terrifying prospect for many people than the idea of working on themselves.>Game dev has an exceedingly high profit ceiling. People look at Notch and Eric who became billionaire and millionaire respectively from working on a game for a couple of years,For every Notch and Eric in game development, there's 10000x more such people who made billions or millions by developing some enterprise HR management SaaS web application suite, or some cybersecurity alerting tool. It's far easier to make money with any other type of software development because you're solving real-world problems faced by big corporations with unlimited money to throw at those problems, rather than just building a novelty toy games for children and developmentally stunted adults barely willing to spend $15 on something you poured years of your life into.I however am also one of those developmentally stunted adults, so I'm only interested in gamedev as a hobby, I get in the wagecage to build enterprise web applications.
>>488684230Sex sells
>>488684230i don't have a player character. I'm making an RTSthe protagonist of the first story campaign is a girl
Is it true that the devs here resent each other and want to see each other fail? Why?
>>488685467They started it.
>>488685467No, I want to see everyone succeed especially me
this oughtta cheer you blokes up
>>488684846Based and reality pilled. If you're making games for money you are unironically retarded and hopeless.
>>488685467anonymous interaction always brings out the worst in people. hard to crab in real life without looking like a loser or when your name is attached to it.
>>488685467Seeing the success of others reminds them of their own failures and they lash out to divert accountability.
>>488685467A rising tide lifts all boats
>>488685467some of the ones that had some success ended up turning into total tools.Hopoo, Vine, Ghor, etc. Didn't respect where they came from, they were one of us once.
>>488684487>>488684553Yeah well fuck you and praise the archives.>tomodevOh, it's someone from here. Well nevermind then, was hoping it was an artfag doing commissions.
From this day on I swear to only crab with my game attached to it
>>488684230Women are more marketableWhy do you think gacha casts are almost always 90% female
>>488685942Most people here already do that(they have no game)
>>488686083most of their player bases end up being male too, they certainly aren't 50/50.
>>488685891Be honest, how did you find this general?
>>488686083game studios were completely aware they were marketing their products to virgins all the way back in the 1990s
>>488686262Was hanging in /g/'s general for game & engine dev. Then someone mentioned /agdg/, and it was an improvement.
>>488685942you shouldn't be crabbing at all
>>488683178did you read what I wrote?
>>488686556/dgd/ is the superior general. I would move there if I was an actual programmer instead of just a generalist
>>488686556AGDG is so much better than GEDG that it's not even funny.
>>488679838>mp_step functionsWhat is it?Something like micro navmesh generation?
>>488686650Games are often saved by harsh words. Not always, but often.
>>488686661>Today's progress goal: level up coding, code architecture, engine usage tips/tricks and project organizationi don't get how this relates to you decompiling wrought flesh
>>488686664WTF is /dgd/?
>>488686946I meant /gdg/ but I have dyslexia
>>488686830I'm attempting to look at what more experienced and successful godot devs do because the way I do things is not great and there are no tutorials for code architecture.
>>488687034and your choice of "experienced" dev is an e-celeb with 500 reviews on his game
>>488687034he's a notoriously lousy and sloppy dev
>>488684230Because if you're a straight dude it's just much more enjoyable as an artist to make waifus.
>>488687231You got any better suggestions?>>488687176500 reviews is about 10x the average recent agdg game so I wouldn't mind achieving that level of success. he also has a game in a pack which has 24k reviews.
>>488685942why can't my game look like this...
>>488687034>Shitty YouTube eceleb dev >His games look and smell like shitIf you want to copy The Slopmeister just start a YouTube channel and make tutorials on how to download the Godot engine, once you get a few hundred Indians following you it won't matter what you release.
>>488687485Post your Game?
>>488685942looks kinda....woke....
>>488686946It stands for "dykes get dicked" I believe
>found a photo-scanned mesh that I wanted to use in my main menu>for some reason gpu is screaming when I load up the main menu>do some debugging and realize the mesh is 1.5 million trianglesLmfao
Is that acceptable disposition?
>>488687779if you dare be this racist in your game you'll sell nothing, but of course you're too much of a pussy.
>>488680578So turns out it isn't exactly like I said. I generate the nodes and the connections first, and then assign each node a "type" (battle, shop, etc.) depending on global rules/drop table.However I'm rereading the node generation code and I'm not sure how it works anymore. Maybe it can help you thoughhttps://pastebin.com/Dq30kV0g
>>488687847it's the most chuddish game in the agdg lineup
subway/train suicide is the best method right?
>>488687458Same.
is there a equivalent to the UE's data table for godot? where do I keep the data for all the different variations of something like an item.
>>488687847Have you played it?
>>488687923Make input[i] a variable
>>488687949Keep an eye out for my game on Steam:>Gender Clinic Assault Squad 2: The Zionic Nose
>>488688047No, the best method is to Just Like Make Game.
>>488688204Godot is the most feature incomplete engine available, it’s for high school programming projects, not real games
>>488688246the name's already taken by >>488685942
>>488683980you can fix it
>>488687923is regex available?
>>488688204If you already know how to use UE why the fuck are you using godot??? There's literally no good reason.
>>488688515Too newbie to even know what it is
Does anyone know any good and free blog platforms? I don't want to buy another domain name and stupid github pages. I remember 10 years ago there were plenty of them, but they are all dead now for some reason. Tumblr is literally the best one out there, as far as I know. I would use it, but I don't want any of "that" crowd in my audience
marmoreal will be a mega stinker and only get 5 reviews on day 1prove me wrongprotip: you can't
>>488688597I'm making a card game. No point of using unreal for something that is mostly UI.
>>488687458>make your mc woman>huge disbelief tax to anything she's doing, unless it's a horror game in which she has to run away or a fantasy game where she can cast magic >of course she has to be the best at anything, so another Lara Croft trope or quirky, le funny violent bitch like Harley Quinn>get tired of that character super fastmeanwhile>make MC a man>also make dozens of female companions that you can help, date, belittle and make fun ofI really don't know what you guys are smoking
>>488689030I didn't post that.My genuine opinion on marmoreal is that the long years of hard work will pay off at least a little
>>488688895neocities?
>>488688895itch
Any cool groypercore AGDG games?
>>488685942I'm pretty sure most of the shitposts come from you anyway
>>488689271Mine
>>488689310only 98%
>>488685942Crab begone
my marketing strategy is to make one of the characters super objectified sexualized bimbo in barely any clothing, make a new twitter account and start spamming it in replies to every pozzed account like "ewwww look at what these chud did again, did these incels ever seen a real woman"
>>488689405those barrels look fuckable
>>488689457Yes surely you’re the first one to think of this
>>488689153>>488689030marmo won marnix 4chan stream so not really
>>488689695I told Marnix to do that.
>>488688204external .json files that you load up into a custom class or dictionary
I have a pretty good idea for my game, only problem is that it's a multiplayer game that won't be fun unless you have 8+ players in a match so that'll make it really hard to take off. And I don't think CPU bots would do the trick.
>>488689786isn't it kind of weird how marnix was so good at marmoreal and said it was the best game? even the names... marmo... marnix... they're kind of similar, almost like they're the same person...
>>488689786Incel circle rigged the stream.. I knew it.
>>488677857Haven't even made it yet but I'm ready to abandon this place anyways. As much as I hate all the libtard devs who spend more time on Twitter than they do making their game, this place isn't much better. If you're truly a yesdev you'll close all of the tabs for your timewaster social medias and work on your game.
>>488687923if "!,.:;?".contains(input[i])
>>488688270I was considering the helium method but I learned that your body can make a move at the last moment by reflex.
swimming
>>488690721bruh this liminal af
>>488690721what do you do in this game?
>>488689695>>488690021Anons, I think we fell off...
anyone try the bloodthief demo?I'm demotivated now
>>488690609Even in suicide the nodev gets wrapped up in analysis paralysis kek
>>488691110oh wowanother qUirKy~ boomer shooter!
>>488691724Do you know what the word shooter means
>>488691691He’s just an attention seeking faggot
for me it's the coomer shooter
>>488691110why?
>>488691972Because it's fun and my game is shit in comparison
Why are there no gloomer shooters??
>>488687485Because you spend your time shitposting on 4chan instead of working on your game.
>>488685467you're only allowed to succeed after I make it
>want to make coom game>hate goonersI will shill my game in relevant communities, but otherwise I'll never participate, interact or respond to anyone.
AGP coded mechanics>FAST MOVEMENT>FLOATY JUMP>NEON>1 HIT KILL>SYNTHWAVE>FEMALE PROTAGONIST>ONE LINERS WRITTEN LIKE A MAN>TRAIN LEVEL>SEWER LEVEL>COMBOS AND LETTER GRADED SCORE>ROGUELITE PROGRESSION>NEW GAME +>DYSTOPIC SETTING>GRAPPLING HOOK>WALL RUNNING>CROUCH WHILE RUNNING TO SLIDE>THROW A SPEAR AT THE WALL AND THEN YOU CAN STAND ON IT
>>488692376that actually sounds pretty fun ngl
I just had a reverse bug where something only worked as intended because it was buggy and fixing it breaks it.
>>488692025>>488691110Actually looks fun to play and is made in Godot.Will 2024-2025 be the year of the Godot?
>>488692376Where can I play this
>>488692376>things normal guys like are troon codedjust say you hate men
>>488692376THIS
>>488692376all of those are good though
>>488688895substack is nice.
>>488691869Hey, hey, hey! Watch your mouth buddy. I am NOT a faggot!
What would be the most fun for a Total War style game?>completely retarded units, just rushing forward and piling on each other>super smarts units, dueling each others like some meme dark souls PvPfags, but there is 4 times less of them
>>488688895I wanna know this/something similar to this, too. I just want to buy a domain and add forums and blog system to it. But I want it to be under my domain name. How can it be done?
>>488693073>H-helium?! *GULP!* But w-what about the involuntary reflexes?? Isn't there a Steam release you should be analysing for your next thread long argument on why it did or didn't succeed
>>488693112>super smarts units, dueling each others like some meme dark souls PvPfags, but there is 4 times less of themWhy less of them? Kingmakers already has this with like 100,000 enemies all running complex animations and behavioral logic and that’s a team of like 2 or 3 people
I created this sound 7 years ago and now I have no idea how I did it. Damn I was pretty good back then.https://vocaroo.com/1c5ncYDntFdE
>>488693376Oh no I'm on mods watchlist!
Why is everyone so obsessed with AGP in this thread?
>>488693656Pretty good...
>>488692376>CUSTOM ENGINE
I hope players enjoy playing my game as much as I enjoyed making it.
>>488692376>THROW A SPEAR AT THE WALL AND THEN YOU CAN STAND ON ITTOO MUCH! TOO MUUUCH! YOU'VE CROSSED THE LINE!
>>488693783Anything to avoid gamedev.
>>488692450>[>>488692559>>488692781>>488692952oh wow...they weren't kidding
>>488692376>>SYNTHWAVE>>FEMALE PROTAGONIST>>ONE LINERS WRITTEN LIKE A MANIon fury was THE SHIT
>>488692376Half of these aren't even game mechanics you retard
>open godot>stare into space and think about how tedious it's going to be>close godot>repeat
>>488693656Shit I actually knew how to write songshttps://vocaroo.com/1hTVHNZ9KMuVhttps://vocaroo.com/11IZiUtuKImc
>>488694113>open UE5>dev like a fucking psycho for 15 hours every day for 6 months>ship a game and get 10k reviewsGodotards never stood a chance
>>488694343get a job
>>488693990It's not a joke, it's not a drill. Add fun mechanics and people will want to play you game.
Wait a secondhorbor is "kitty" popeshe has female vocals exclusively in her songsand never streamedI'm thinking she's a devgirl
>>488694453She streams in the secret discord all the time
>>488694395I’m 6 figure remote tech job dev (with 1-2 hours of real work per day btw)
So I ended up releasing my game, and now I'm getting a bunch of spam from "interested gamers" who want me to send them free codes so they'll review the game. The internet has really gone to shit eh.Here's one such "curator" https://store.steampowered.com/curator/44911437/
>>488694453youre stepping on the inner circle's turf here, I advise backing off unless you want to reap the whirlwind
>>488694624that kinda thing has been going on for indie devs for at least a decade or more. You aren't special.The either want free games, or they'll make money selling the key to a keysite while prices are inflated seeing that your game is "newer"
>>488694613>>488694395forgot to mention I have a trans goth girl sucking me under the desk rn and 2 side femboys
>>488694113Skill issue.
>>488695040I wish I had a cis goth girl sucking me under the desk...
>>488695040Kek, I generate so much seethe in these threads that fags have to larp as me and pretend I’m gay. I’m gonna make it
>>488693339in your case just use wordpress
>>488695165trans girls are real girls, chud. you can't pretend to be me, I'm rich and accepting of all genders. seethe privately please.
>>488694789>that kinda thing has been going on for indie devs for at least a decade or more. >You aren't special.Oh I know, they have automated web crawlers or whatever, I remember editing my page before the game released and got an email "Congrats for the release!", fucking retards.
I can't code anymore, after college something broke in my mind and I can't learn new software concepts or remember old ones. But I don't want to use Unity or Unreal or Godot because they are all associated with trannies.
>>488695791excusescry like baby
>>488694453and sarah is the self insert
End of the week is coming.What're you working on this week-end?>A bg for one the planet.
Made first enemy with an attack "animation". Going to see if I can build off this for most enemies. Just basic state machines that give some communication they are attacking, without need for any fancy animations. I could easily do some sprite swaping here too, but didn't have good ones.
how come these guys can lecture me when they have released zero good games. are they just making shit up that sounds good? lol
If you use any free assets in your game you are TRASH and should quit game development.
>>488696097They have an audience. Do you?
>>488695870it's not an excuse, no code I write works no matter how many docs I read or stackoverflows I read
>>488696191Why?
>>488696391If you can't make everything yourself then you suck, sorry not sorry!
>>488696097That's literally all of gamedev youtube anon.
>>488696097the average gamedev copium inhaler doesn't think that much so congrats, you're not an npc.It's a good hustle, making 20-30m vids every 3 days isn't easy(it could take 4-6h) but it generates them 5k a year in sponsers.>that's less than min wageperhaps, but the average indie earns less than 1.5k per game.
>>488696489How so?
>>488696739It just is, stop asking!
>>488696790Claims unsubstantiated. Opinion discarded.
The remote tech job spammer pisses me off because I actually have such a job and therefore know from personal experience that it's an absolutely miserable life.
>>488696916get a job in a steel mill faggot>t. sufferer
>>488696530TOP 8 reasons why YOU should STOP working on your INDIE VIDEOGAME and start buying this ONE book for the SECRET RECIPE to gamedev SUCCESS: How I got a GIRLFRIEND online by posting my SPREAD anus on Discord for ONE MILLION FANS
my lil patches have improved the average playtime of my game it appears
I'm so tired of missing the /agdg/ goon seshes.Can we start coordinating these better?
>>488696204You know who else has an audience? The demented hobo pissing himself in front of Chuck E Cheese at 2 PM
I'm devving out of spite for marnix now, I can't let him beat me.
My game will not be perfect but it will be unique enough.
>>488696363>gender-obsessive can't do intellectual workWhat a surprise! I'd tell you to fix yourself but since the root issue is either lead poisoning or long covid there is no cure.
>>488697596
>>488697596Join the agdiscord
>>488696363No code I write works either and I've been doing this for 10 years. Coding is a pass/fail kind of thing. Your code either does what you want it to, or it doesn't. Until you reach that threshold, every single thing you do will result in abject failure. You can't measure progress though success. All you can do is pile up all the things you learn until you reach it.
>>488696097Blackthornprod is the biggest offender of this imoSells overpriced classes for gamedev and marketing even though all 3 of his steam games flopped despite having a YouTube audience to funnel into his games. They also always shill collabs where some other youtuber without a single successful launch will be a guest lecturer on one of their paid video courses.
>>488697883>I can't let him beat me.It's not a high bar, you only need 27 reviews.
>mom has psychotic breakdown and she lives in different town and i have no car>literally scared she suicides and i cant help>welfare not paid out in second month in a row because they take so long to finish my application>got a letter that my landlord wants 1200€ payment for heating costs last year because prices went up>can't get that money from welfare until they finished my application>two more weeks to pay the 1200€>absolute stomach pain, afraid to become homelesshow come i still don't feel suicidal? somehow my brain is hardwired to know things change over time.
agdg more like agpg
>>488698253>afraid to become homeless>has a mom that lives in a different townhuh? what's the problem? you can just go live with her. i'm sure you can scrap up for a train or bus ticket.
>>488697604And the hobo gets to lecture his audience however he wants.
>>488698132I used to be able to code things in college thoughI simply cannot into graphics or game loopsEvery loop I write no matter how efficient it should be lags or crashesIf I change or add something to a loop an AI writes with the libraries I want to use it lags or crashesI can never find out why no matter how much I look things upI wish death on OOP boilerplate faggots and the people who made it the norm>>488697995I can't code anymore but at least I'm still not an evil pedophilic jew like you
>Mixed
>>488697596Ok, let's coordinate it. I just finished doing it for 2 days straight so I will probably not do it for 1 or 2 days.
>>488698253The system is trying to kill you, take the squatter pill.
>>488698253Your brain's purpose is to help you to survive, not to get you to fall apart.When I was a kid I used to play this game https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eHZ-NCjyJM that made adult life look so simple. Just keep getting educated and getting better jobs and your life will be sorted and you'll be happy. Turns out it wasn't any more true to life than Leisure Suit Larry
new character, darcy the goblin girl.Gotta do her reflection image then back onto working on hand variants.
I want to make a "hero school manager" game, where it's like a school tycoon game and you intake students who are proc-gened rimworld style to have unique talents and you build their dorms and classrooms and you send them on dungeons too. is this a cool idea. would it be better if it was sci fi themed and you were a cadet academy or something like that?
>>488699248so basically just Valthirian Arc: Hero School Story 1 and 2?
>>488699248you had me until rimworldplay some actual people-management tycoon games to understand what's fun about them
>>488699248Yes, it sounds like a cool idea
>>488699148what even is your gameplay
>>488699591Recommendatons?
>>488699772vamp survivors like autoshooter
most of y'all are some pussy ass tight niggas, just like make game and quit bitchin'
>>488699918>2d pixel shart survivors cloneKek, good luck. There are about 100,000 of those on steam.
>>488693476'cause I'm not a studio with the same budget than them.Also, did they actually claim 100k? Looking at the trailer it look more like 1k-10k
>>488699591any recs? I think it could lean more sims-like and lighthearted, where the students need to peepee and poopoo and romance and all that. I'm struggling with 1. the theme (whether it should be persona-style school or bodysuit boing boing space cadet academy) 2.how sandbox-rimworldy it could be. are the building mechanics tile by tile so that the players can customize to the max. do the students work on the buildings and mine shit and starve to death... or is it more casual
>>488700293>my game is worse, but it’s not my fault!Do you genuinely think the consumer cares? People will play the game that’s the most fun. Compete or shut up
>>488696025>cannibal tomato... wasn't there a cartoon with that premise, somewhere in the 80s-90s?Or was it just a fever dream?
>>48870018190% of them are low effort with bought assets.
>>488699248i was working on something like this before i dropped it. i think making it a cadet academy would be more fitting, feels a bit weird sending teenagers into a dungeon to their death.
>>488700416>Go frontally against a bigger studioOk so you are just retarded, got it.
>>488700850would it help if they shot themselves in the head?
>>488699248> if it was sci fi themedAnything but the cheesiest silver age american cartoon setting won't do.Everyone in spandex.
>>488700851>my game sucks shit but everyone will feel sympathy for how pathetic and small and irrelevant I am, and pay me anyways No, you are the retarded one
>>488698143Who are the viewers? I don't understand what kind of person consumes this media. If our competition is being educated on game design by Marnix we're all gonna WAGMI.
>>488700395Something more up close and personal should be a lot better for a concept like this, I'm thinking something like The Movies where you have to cater to each actor's whims and personalities while trying to make movies, building is only secondary to that. Evil Genius too fits that niche.Actually nevermind now I'll start making my own X-Men special-ed management game where you have to build a slime swimming pool for slimeboy and scratching posts for the catpeople.
>jerk off>still horny>jerk off again>still horny
>>488701351>no ulmao
>>488701359kek thisi gotta say their tastes are awful, no wonder their games don't sell.
>>488696191That settles it. My game is just going to be free assets and I am going to make a billion dollars because gamers are retarded. Thanks anon!!
>>488701406Jerk off to more arousing shit.I recommend horse porn.
>>488701538>pretend my argument isn’t completely accurate and trueCognitive dissonance and denial of reality, like the entire thread
>>488701406What are you jerking off to?
>unsolicited animation advice from people who can't animate
>>488701406I wish my gf (male) had your sex drive.
>>488698715College is supposed to be easy to do. It gives you goals that the curriculum already knows the solution to. Teaching yourself something doesn't have this luxury. You can't rely on anyone else knowing the solution to your problems. That idea is something you're tricked into thinking is how things work because that's how education works, and because you can find lots of answers when you're a beginner. You have to figure out the solutions yourself. The most that other people can do for you is to give you their perspective that you may be able to use to think of something new that might solve a problem you have.Not being able to do something is the default state. A musician wants to release a hit but he does not know how. He fails to release a hit for decades. No matter who he asks, no one can tell him how to do it. It's no different that you cannot find an answer when you look it up. Every piece of information on the internet is entirely or partially faulty, and the vast majority of it is aimed at beginners, who are the only audience large enough to sustain an industry around teaching them. The moment those beginner videos and texts don't help you, you're almost entirely on your own.If your code lags, you can only rely on yourself. Your understanding of your code. How computers run. The innumerable ways in which software can be made to run slower or faster. And only if you just so happen to already know exactly why some code runs slower than you expect, will you be able to solve it. The same for stability and crashing. If you think it should not crash and yet it does, then there is necessarily something that you do not know, or that you misunderstand, or that you thought you wrote once piece of code but you actually made a mistake.Every sentence has a paragraph of things wrong with it but it all just comes down to the paradox that you have to solve your problems yourself, yet you also have to sift through what other people say to get new ideas.
>>488693476>>488700293Checked and Kingmakers is limited to 4000, according to the dev themselves.lol
>>488703026I wish mine (female) still had a sex drive.
This anon's gf >>488703269 is fucking this anon's gf (male) >>488703026 behind his back
>>488703269I wish I had one
>>488703037Amazing grasp of tautology.I didn't realize my code didn't work because I didn't write working code!Faggot.
>>488696025what, no, you were supposed to make a systemshockie, not a chex quest. I'm deducting points now.
Post your best spell idea>Hardmode, don't post a retarded unfunny joke>Impossible mode, don't attach a depressed looking image of pink hair cartoon girl
>>488703668If you don't know how to do something then you'll fail to do it and have no idea why you failed. That's not tautology that's just reality.
i wish i had an art friend who never touches code, like never written a single line. but they know how to draw and animate. they could send me all their stuff and i turn it into a game (in unity)where do i find someone like that?
>>488703916Just get BG2's spell list. Before the vidyafication from 3.5, old DnD had very unbalanced and niche spells with dumb/amazing/both effects.
>>488704215Artists make their own games. They don't need programmers.
>>488698715>I can't write a simple program and debug it because I'm a college NPC that learned nothing and overestimated my knowledge>must be OOP's faultkek
>>488639879:: Project Nortubel ::progress :: guess which character is a canon futa
>>488699148what name of game?
>marnix is in the agdg discord
>>488704415i can use an ecs, do burst compiled jobs, write my own c++ libs and hook them into c#i can make their bullet hell dream game or their colony sim with pathfinding etc.
>>488701406I have simmiliar issues, but when I fuck my wife my horniness is gone for like a weekfind a sex partner
Who let this grifter in the discord
>>4887043263.5 was vidyafied? I thought that was 5edwhat was d&D like before 3.5
>>488704957marmo
>>488704215Hey I'm a former industry artist (worked for AAA studio which I cannot disclose due to an NDA over ongoing project they have) I was laid off four months ago.I have nine years experience working on games that includes 2d and 3d projects and I'm familiar with entire development process as I've been onboard from start to finish for four complete projects in my career (although I have done some work on countless smaller projects there were only a few opportunities to be involved the whole way through without getting shuffled around.)Basically, what I'm looking for is to take my years of industry knowledge and artistic abilities and have some retarded idiot who's never shipped a game waste my time and effort by having me draw up some anime fag shit for his stupid dream game that sucks ass and will never sell.Interested?
>decide on a naming convention for project>come back to project after a while and decide I don't like the naming convention>make new progress with a different naming convention thinking I'll fix the old stuff later>godot crashes if you change names of files because it can't keep track of all the references>never fix old files>project ends up looking like a mess of all the naming conventions
agdg rap battles when?
>>488704723just stopping by to steal some more ideas
>>488704957Who let shitcorders into this general
>>488704858I need to find a wife so I can make video games
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1638500/The_Garden_Path/>3,744 followers>13 reviewsExplain?
I̶'m̶ w̶o̶r̶k̶i̶n̶g̶ o̶n̶ m̶y̶ g̶a̶m̶e̶ I give up.
>>488705161>pascalCasewrong
>>488705178When you do it.
>>488704764Whatever it is all that matters is what value the artist thinks you provide to them. You have to think about it from their perspective and whatever they care about.
>>488705161skill issuehttps://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/scripting/gdscript/gdscript_styleguide.html>b-b-but my preferencesstandardized style guides and naming conventions exist for precisely that reason anon, so that you don't HAVE to have a preference
>>488705550my gf can draw and she has 0 idea about anything technical, just installing software gives her a mental breakdown sometimes. but she doesn't want to make a game, cause she already has a full-time job and just wants to play vidya all day..(while i neet on welfare)
>>488705161how about you follow the engine's fucking convention it tells you to follow instead of mixing things and creating imaginary problems
>>488704957this 23 year old zoomer is trying to teach us anything? Imagine that he was born in 2001. Max Payne was released that year. He was too young to play GTA I-IV, he literally can't comprehend what was good in Unreal, Quake or Doom. His way of thinking could be formed around the release of The Last of Us or GTA V. He has NO idea what makes the games good. A literal baby. Remember that Halo was babby's first FPS? He was still shitting in diapers when it was released. What FPS was his first, what do you guys think, uh, DOOM 2016? Shit, he probbly didn't play Return to Castle Wolfenstein, actually I'd be surprised if he even played Call of Duty 4, from 2007. He was 6 years old at that time. That's not even zoomer-tier, it's worthless-tier
>>488705989I'm younger than him and I played all of those games.
>>488704998>what was d&D like before 3.5Objectively: a fucking retarded mess. There was no effort to make mechanics, items or abilities easily comprehensible or even coherent with each others.Which is why spell lists of that era are a goldmines of "wtf did I just read" and other "this thing can assrape an entire army or do nothing: time to channel your inner Kaiji".
>>488641523>>488646810>>488650436>>488651550>>488653696>>488654774>>488657046>>488657718>>488668061>>488669324>>488671413>>488673763>>488675782>>488676119>>488683081>>488684230>>488687485>>488694820>>488696191>>488696489>>488697596>>488698058>>488701120>>488701406What does Japanese cartoons have to do with it?
>>488706147>this thing can assrape an entire army or do nothing: time to channel your inner KaijiI guess that explains why the wizard in the D&D anime was like that
Only epilogue scenes missing (about 2 weeks of work) and then the first ending of the game is finally done.
>>488706121post your GTA I avatar with high scores
>>488698143Literally the only respectable one is Jonas Tyroller, all three of his games were big hits
>>488706434Wtf aura is hot
>>488706303
>>488706303I get a potential bonus (you) from you if I attach anime girls to my post.That's all.Thank you for your service.
>>488660830Ive built a deck beforetook me forever but Im happy with it I guess, just dont look too closely (and dont look at it from one specific angle where you can notice the crooked guardrail post)
>>488706434Not a big fan of wegs but I do admire consitency and hard workGood job cunt
>>488706434>>488706508>>488706512What does Japanese cartoons have to do with that?
>>488706434>WEG>doneWhat sorcery is this
>>488706303'cause the discussion was about AR glasses, and that's the theme of that anime.
Does marnix have any self-awareness? Why do the younger generations think it's a good idea to broadcast your retardation and incompetence to the world and having a permanent record of every failure you make? Are zoomers really too stupid to understand why social media is the destroyer of civilizations?
>>488706442uh no
>>488706303glegle is not japanese cartoons albeit
>>488686806It's not very clearly explained how it works in the GM manual, but instead of generating a grid/navmesh with a path, instead what I think it does is call a check of an object in the way's collision mask and then sort of brute force it by picking the least likely direction it'll collide with, and then if it does it'll repeat the check. It's a bit dumb but it works great for small horde enemies honestly.
>>488695791wait for gpt-6
>>488706845What does Japanese cartoons have to do with it?
>>488706765all those anti-bullying campaigns when they were growing up
>>488706610>>488706303Can I have a (you) too, plz?
40 to 60 games release on Steam alone EACH DAY.About 350 games in the week around your release.AAA release? Successful release AAA or indie, in your genre? BOOM you are done.Also, not only are you competing with other new releases, but the entire backlog of games on every system a player owns. :)Take all the "indie success stories" you can think of in the past 10 years and divide it by the number of devs in that time who have tried (again, 50 games a day, 1500 a month) and there's your historical likelihood of "making it."Steam cut, higher self-employment taxes, no benefits, no retirement, AND to top it all off: Your sales diminish over time, so even if you hit this "mediocrity lottery" you'll have to do it all over again in a couple years.>He thinks that indie gamedev can provide a sustainable primary income in 2024HahahahahaH O B B YOBBY
>>488669226>no reply
>>488706303New goal: Get this poster to reply to my game's original art
>>488706836so I don't believe you, you genfortniter
>>488706992>feel bad when i hear about how many games get released per day>actually take a look at some of those """games""">chuckle>feel 1000x better about my own game and my oddswe're all gonna make it bros
>>488706982What does Japanese cartoons have to do with any of that?>>488707104what game?
>>488705889Gamedev is a full-time job by itself. Barely anyone wants to do it on top of a job. Serious gamedevs are either neets or work as little as possible, on the brink of starvation, just to spend more of their 8 hours a day of time they can physically and mentally sustain doing work on the thing they care about.
>>488706992please update this to include demos, its around 128 to 160 a day now
>>488707206niggerkiller 3000 (sequel to niggerkiller 2999)
Fuck shaders, I'm just gonna bite the bullet and buy some.
>>488673812>she
>>488706483I want to rip off that really puffy mole off his neck
fucking level design, fuck finding textures. Why hasn't someone made a free texture library site
>>488707757https://3dtextures.me/How bad is your googlefu?
>>488707757they have you're just a retard
>>488705798>>488705905I don't LIKE it, it's my game, I'm gonna make what I LIKE.I've settled on this for now, folders are going to be PascalCase and actual files are going to be snake_case, unless they have a number like file01 in which case I will omit the _ for the 01. The whole point is to avoid shit like barrel_01_ashpile_albedo.png.
>>488707757nigga, just go outside and make some pictures nigga, go for a walk and see cool walls and shit
>>488707757have you tried to google free texture library site?
>>488707925in that case i need some textures of my next door neighbor's bedroom window
>>488673527my game is going to beat all of them
>>488707908Enjoy dealing with filepath case problems between OSes, since the initial problems didn't clue you in I doubt this will so just have fun doing the same dumb shit over and over.
94% of my game's systems are finished. Just 6% to go
>>488673527https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7irjGFyzxgk
>>488708292Congrats on being 20% of the way to being done
>>488707206>what game?I can't say. That would be cheating.
>>488708470
>>488708405see you again in three days when I'm at 96%
>>488682981>I don't think there's a single industry that can potentially make you a millionaire in just 5 yearsfinance or big tech
>>488708250>between OSesFuck linux trannies and macfags don't play games.
heh, videogames
New thread>>488708823>>488708823>>488708823
>>488687001you mean /gedg/?>>488688895everyone uses substack and its what you should use for blog postssince a lot of people use it you can gain subscribers and they make it very easy to monetize if you want thatfor "micro blogging" use twitter, and use twitter as your main means of online networking>tumblrnobody uses tumblrjesus, how old are you?
>>488708716Can a fresh college graduate become millionaire in finance/big tech in 5 years? A senior could, sure, but the point was that Eric started from scratch and just built his skills along.
>>488701406hypersexuality is caused by high estrogen
>>488709881>Can a fresh college graduate become millionaire in finance/big tech in 5 years?$1million net worth in 5 years is technically possible in those fields if you save as much as possible yesfor finance you have to be a quant or quant devin tech you have to be at a high paying FAGMAN equivalent, something like openAI needless to say you have to be exceptional
>>488711801*exceptionally well-connected
>>488711801You're not gonna make a million in 5 years cause it would take at least 4 years full-time to make that money and you couldn't learn enough in the remaining year to be able to land the job.
>>488716249what?
