The Eternal Labor editionMarmoreal released:https://store.steampowered.com/app/1484940/Marmoreal/>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/>How to WebMhttps://obsproject.comhttps://github.com/argorar/WebMConverterhttps://github.com/michaelmob/WebMCam>Previous>>492229680
>make Stardew clone>become a millionaireBro, is it really that easy?
>>492299458No, I doubt it I could become a millionaire by making a Stardew Valley clone.
>>492299458Sure.
>>492299458the blessing of eric in action.
>>492299458>think about making a SDV clone>realize it's an RPG>realize you have to write tens of thousands of lines of dialogue>realize that you need to implement dozens of interconnected systems>give upJust another day at /agdg/
>>492299696just use chatgtp lol
>>492299458This took 5 years to make thoughever. but, if you can make a game that appeals to girls, yeah, women are the biggest consumers.
>>492299696It's rpg dialog. Just use chatgpt. "Hello!" "It's been nice talking." Goodbye then."
me watching my game's numbers stay the same because its dead
I have been doing some tutorial art, I need to embrace this art style a bit more. I'm also working on sound effects and it is a pain.
i will succeed
>>492299892Y-You're cute...
Godotbros how do I implement a simple fog of war into my 2d game? I copied this:https://github.com/87PizzaStudios/godot_light_fow?tab=readme-ov-fileInto my project and added a light to my character, but it only works when I turn "persistent reveal" off for some reason. When I turn it on the entire FoW disappears completely. What am I doing wrong?
>>492299910Bro just use zapsplat.
>>492299821Instagram doomscroll simulatorChild-replacement raising simulator
>>492299821I want to make a game that appeals to black women. I think if you hit that nerve you'd be a billionaire. Like a weave design game.
>>492300050Same!
>>492299791I tried this but dialog is obviously AI once you get used to it. even with creative prompting. maybe mixing AIs like Claude Grok and ChatGPT you could throw off the scent>First Meeting: “Oh, hello there. I… I don’t think I’ve seen you around before. I’m Harold. This is my store. It’s not much, but it’s home. Times have been… difficult lately.”>After Learning About the Robbery: “You’re back. Um, I suppose you might have heard… my store was robbed recently. They took almost everything. It’s been… hard to keep things going since then. I… I hope you’re just here to shop.”
If your game doesn't>make people listen to the soundtrack outside the game itself>make coomer fanartists draw porn of the characters>generate 30+ min essay videos on youtube>produce clones and ripoffs from other people on steam>make shitposters on /v/ shitpost about itThen you failed at gamedev, objectively speaking,
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/945878Punch Monkey is finally out
>>492300107It would have to be mobile. dey don't do pc or console. SquareEnix learned that tough lesson recently.
>>492299696>interconnected systems>farming sim
>>492300107the epitome of not making a game you wanna plaay
>>492300107Weave Snatcher 4: White Boi Tears Edition (NOW WITH EXTRA SEASONED SALT)
>>492300593but why on newgrounds?
>>492300538>>make coomer fanartists draw porn of the charactersMy game is an environmental puzzle game with only wildlife and a drone... oh god...
>>492300593Congratulations!
If you don't like writing why the fuck are you making a story-rich RPG? This is your game, you decide what's in it.
>>492300643retard
>>492300675I'm not giving Gabe Newell $100 and itchio is for squares who only know how to use the default aseprite color palette
>could have been a millionaire by buying bitcoin>could have been a millionaire by making vampire survivors first>could have been a millionaire by investing in gamestop>could have been a millionaire by copying stardew valley firstwhat am i going to fail at next?
>>492300657It would have to be after I already made it, and had like, money to fund some retarded side project. If that shit hit though I bet my new Blond weave DLC would sell more than a WoW mount.
mechas are in
>>492301027Not being an early adopter to Godot.
>>492301193Looks juicy nice job
>>492300643>WeatherManager>IPlantableSeedFactory>MilkableComponent>VegetableEatingPestSystem>ManureMeterSingletonIf you don't spend at least 6 months fleshing out systems and designing UMLs prior to making a farming sim, you are doing it wrong and you WILL fail
>>492301027>>could have been a millionaire by copying stardew valley firstAnon, Fields of Mistria is in no way the first Stardew clone. It's an entire genre.
>>492301397UML's lmfao. Not gonna make it.
>>492300593https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf1DkBQRQj4
>>492301397just fuggin crode
>>492300593jeez that eleveator. Can't I get a boneloaf to restore health? difficulty ramped up a lot here.
>>492301397Stardew Valley I'm not going to say is easy. There's a lot of work to do. Especially making your own art and music. But it's not complicated. It would probably be fun to program. Very little is interconnected actually. Keeping it bug free and enjoyable to write.
>>492301027>>could have been a millionaire by copying stardew valley firstcopying harvest moon
I hate how much harder it is to make first person melee to feel good compared to a regular fps
>>492301349thanks man
>>492300980>default aseprite color palettehey man, that goes hard if you know what to do>>492302471copy capcom's Breakdown
*nyahs in the distance*
>>492302652*Namco's Breakdown
Harvest Moon hasn't had a good game since 2003. You had more than enough time to make a clone. Why didn't you?
Hey mobile devfound your game but successful on pchttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1016600/Devil_Slayer__Raksasi/
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/945859Made a mini version of Dungeon Watchers for newgrounds, in this version you can only play with the witch and the bomber elf. Hopely I can get some feedback and see if the people like the way I'm making the game. I tested the game runs well even on an old pc with no gpu I have, with just small lag spikes when having many enemies at the end of the game.
>>492303118Because all farming games are shit and boring. Yes, that includes Harvest Moon. Yes that includes Stardew Valley. Yes that includes Fields of Mistria.
Why did marmo not participate in Steam's Anime Game Festival?
>>492303378>survivors cloneLook man we already have a survivors clone schizo, we don’t need another one
THAT BUG BEEN EATIN OUR LUNCH OUT THERE!GET OUT THERE!AND SHOW THAT BUG WHO'S BOSS!!!!!!!-team screams and yells with motivation-
>>492303378I think you should make a character with big tits next. As big as you can. Thanks.
maybe i can make it to demo day this time
>>492300593Congratulations on the release! Truly the gameplay is a blast from the past. I beat it mostly by doing the 3 hit combo, the special moves always got punished for me.I lost at the final boss. I wont spend 2 minutes on the final level waiting to try again though.
>>492303904Kludge looks like it can be a quirky portal-like game.
its turning into an im-sim i guess
>>492303551Stardew Valley has very little farming. It's all about users having freedom to create. Find a way to make users have fun being creative and you've got gold. You can't just give a blank canvas, that's overwhelming. Stardew and Minecraft both found ways.
>>492300593>>492303378Lots of people trying to spread malware and keyloggers today, be careful out there anons
>>492304207You have the ground work for a cult classic, you will now need to spend a couple years adding puzzles, levels, new enemies, new mechanics etc. but this is a successful proof of concept
>>492303118Didn't think anyone other than me liked it.
>>492302845what does it do?
Game idea:Munch's Odyssey.... but how you imagined it in your head as a kid.uh oh, think I just struck gold.
>>492303749If Marmo was in 1 less Demo Day, the game might have aligned with that.Also there's no server or newsletter that said there would be a festival.
>>492304698sorry I don't know that game, I only know super mario odyssey, and abe's odyssey, and enslaved: odyssey to the west, and homer's odyssey
YouTube Zoomer Shooter Devlog"So guys, I added a bit of 'juice'!" "Now you can slide, wall run, and grapple!"
>>492304698Never heard of that game but I always thought Oddworld was a bad game because the character on the cover is ugly.
>>492300593Good stuff. I don't remember my account credentials from 20 years ago though, so I can't rate it unfortunately.
>>492304129its going to be kind of like like blast corps, the goal is to cause as much property damage as possible before security robots kill you. im adding more interactivity but its just there for sandbox purposes the gameloop will be fairly simple
>>492300593>>492305215Nevermind, turns out I still have the same email account. Wrote good feedback for you & rated.
>>492304387yea the temptation to add shit has already extended the demo launch by quite a bit i just need to polish what i have or i'll never get it out. i thought it would be funny to have all the bots in the game be unlockable to play no matter how shitty they are.
>>492305179So basically you also keep getting Blood Thief and Project Feline videos in your recommended.
>>492304207This is the most promising game in Aggy daggy
>>492300593Congrats, I really like your artstyle.
>>492299458Why call it a Stardew clone when Stardew was also a clone?
>>492304654combo punches, so like, backfist twice, then three rapid backfist. POW.. POW.. PAH-PAH-POW!!!!
I miss her...
>>492306696Because Stardew brought innovations that Mistria (and others) directly copy. There are tons of direct Stardew clones. There are near zero direct Harvest Moon clones.
>>492306853I wish I had a gf like her
>>492303378Cute art.
>>492303378I played it.My thoughts:starts out decent. then the variety dried up kinda fast. picking abilities didn't seem to matter. Sometimes I'd be dropping bombs and then accidentally click an ability when the screen popped up.The summoner at the end died I think, but I was spamming bombs and then a menu popped up for "return" and "restart" and I hit restart by accident because of the aforementioned bomb./click spam. I recorded my last 3 minutes if you are interested. the bomb girl is fun, I didn't try the other one. I wish it had more to picking abilities mostly. You should play path of achra for ideas, not a VS but I think it might help you come up with unique abilities and passive effects/combos etc
Making 3d characters is hard...
>>492306853a blast from the past... month
>>492307763Yes...
>>492307763it's like knitting with your mouse through a chain-link fence
Demo Day in One Week.Will (You) Be Ready?
Why do people keep calling Stardew Valley a Harvest Moon clone when it's obviously a Rune Factory clone?
>>492303850>I think you should make a character with big tits next.I already have one, maybe I will another one.>>492307528Thanks>>492307531>I recorded my last 3 minutes if you are interested.Yes I am, I always value seeing someone else playing the game because I'm alone testing the game most of the time.
>>492299458Further proof that art > everythingThis game took 5 years and is optimized and bugged as fuck
>>492308449My game is too embarrassing. You'd find out my real name and my criminal record. it was an accident I swear!
>>492300084Made this work by only sending out the light moved signal once every 3 physics frames. Not sure why this works exactly, but anything more often than that immediately disables the entire fog for some reason.
>>492308567There's actually good reason to believe Eric has never played Rune Factory. The only mechanic he took from RF was the quest boards, which could have been inspired by other games.
>>492299458>>492299821>>492308630I imagine more than one person worked on this as well.
>>492308449noi give up
>>492308449no. too much to do yet before the slop is presentable. it will have to wait til DD59.
>>492308595Boobs wayyy too small
>>492308449No I'll be skipping this one 85%
>>492308595https://streamable.com/5669olforgot to mention, There was no summoner at first, or maybe he as chasing me and I didn't see him. so I kinda wandered around an empty map for a while. I thought he'd be at the summoning circle but he didn't show up there til later. And "Rise your bullts size by 50%"should be "Raise your bullets size by 50%"
>>492308956>fantasy setting>combat>expansive crafting systemIt has more in common with RF than HM.
>>492303378Overall, not bad, but I don't think it's competitive in the current VS-clone scene.The lightning strike VFX lingers for too long. Maybe make the particles fade out faster.Bullets from the eyeballs are not prominent enough. Give enemy projectiles their own unique color not used by any player VFX. Right now, it clashes too much with the lighting VFX, making lightning a terrible pick simply for visual clarity reasons.Game continues to run after the game over screen, including firing bullets, picking up exp, and the level up screen.Some particle emitters continue to emit while the level screen is up, leading to a dense build-up.Towards the end-game, the level-up pop-ups become meaningless and therefore annoying, since I already have all the power that I need. You need limits to the power-ups.Certain powerups are way too OP, like the +50% exp.Too few powerup options. Very shallow gameplay.The BGM loop is too short and gets tedious very quickly.
Alright, its harvest moon same cozy atmosphere but its set on Titan. Theres a backdrop of Saturn in the background as you look up in the sky. Your love interests include becky, stacy, and a cute green alien farmer girl. Theres alien sex and alien half breeds.
>>492309567The combat, setting, and crafting are nothing like Rune Factory's. You're shitposting and haven't played any of these games.
>>492303378Also, I don't know why you decided to make it twin-stick controls, but IMO, it detracts from the gameplay. Fireball girl sucks because you have to aim, while Bomber girl is OP because you can just click and hold LMB, but why would you make me hold LMB when there's no meaning to it? There's never a situation where I wouldn't want to continuously fire.
>>492309557*first 12 seconds are blank because I didn't realize Kdenlive had scrolled to the right when I pasted the file in.
>>492309587>Bullets from the eyeballs are not prominent enough.Yeah I noticed this too. They should be shooting out flaming/bleeding eyeballs or something. not small fireworks particles like you have.
>>492306731it kidna does like that, if a punch connects you can do a 4 string attack
>>492309943I've played RF4, RF1 and FoMT and I find it feels a lot more like Rune Factory than HM. That being said, I'm willing to accept that the coincidences might just be a natural consequence of adding RPG elements to a farming sim.
One day Godot will will make inverse kinematics functional. One day...
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kainemonvo
>>492308449Maybe...
>>492308449sklime will return for this demo day
Everything I want for the technical demo of Galduen of the void is done. This week will be mostly art nicety I guess.New shader for for planet shadows.
>>492310850Great job
>>492310643go on…
>>492310546Harvest Moon was a fantasy setting (see the Goddess, the Witch, Kappa). Rune Factory is much higher fantasy. HM also had simple combat that functioned like Stardew's (see HM:DS). RF is famous for its crafting autism, which Stardew borrowed nothing from. There's no way somebody who played Rune Factory would come up with combat/crafting this dull. Like I said, the only Stardew mechanic that bares any similarity to Rune Factory's is the quest board. Eric clearly never played it.
>>492311213>Harvest Moon was a fantasy settingok but the aliens..
>>492311213Did any of the Harvest Moons have any combat at all?
>>492310002After reading your comment, I think I will add a auto aim mode, so everybody is happy.>>492309587Thank you for pointing all that stuff, I will work on that and keep polishing the game.>>492307531I will fix some of those issues later, thank you for testing.
>all those game ideasbut who's gonna make the art thou
>>492311447
>>492311649>who's gonna make the game art thouYes.
>>492308449of coursh!
Should a strategy/colony building game include non violent missions? I would like to have the option for the player to perform their autism in peace, but when I'm making the game include violence (defending your stuff from enemies or building enough to seek and destroy the enemy on the map) I'm having a hard time thinking of how a non violent mission could be engaging. How do you design non violent gameplay?
>>492308449If I can put this mess together I haven't touched in over a month yesOtherwise no
When people do these contrast value checks, do they just apply a normal grayscale or some special one specifically for this?
implemented volumetric fog in the soulless cube game engine
>>492312771No one knows what contrast value checks are. You just made it up.
>>492311649Just gen it.
implemented volumetric fog in the blue robot game engine
crabbing and negging better artists than me
>>492313052Is saying "I don't know what you're talking about" too humiliating for you or what?
Is having an item guessing puzzle where you have to figure out what presents the townsfolk want so they'll sign a bill reducing domestic mana expenditure too cynical lets say for a final fantasy game or is that just the right amount of silliness for such a title?
>>492313585Oops image didn't upload. Talk about being humiliated.
>>492313585I've been making a living from my games since 2016 and I never heard of contrast value checks so it must be something you made up or something so obscure that only left handed trans technical artists do.
Is there a godot equivalent for music making without music
>>492308449yes
>>492314028Because it's not really something most game developers care about, it's more of an art thing, but it crops up occasionally in discussions about games.My question was clearly aimed at the people who do know about it, you don't have to respond to everything friend, it's okay to admit you don't know something, it's fine to just observe and learn.
>>492314028>since 2016hello kiririn
>>492273385Cryengine is still alive?
>>492312771So more contrast = more soul? Am I qualified art guy now? Seriously though what is the deal with all new games being washed out eye sores?
>>492312771Can I ask what the point of one of these "contrast value checks" is?
>>492314673Fine I'll learn about contrast value checks. Always learn this practice that implement this refactor that, this jobby is fucking bullshit
Thinking about my "game" makes me nauseous.
>>492312607those are pretty much different genres.Do you know of indie FPS (with guns) with a grappling hook and platforming as a big mechanic? or just doom eternal?>>492313806gamers of non-puzzle games tend to be pretty dumb. just make sure it's not hard. and it sounds like a power struggle, not silly. silly is if you don't get it right you'll have to serve them for a day.
how do you quickly get new ideas so you can try out what you like and don't like
>>492314028post game faggot or you're delusional
Look at what I found in my taters
>>492315491>fat and brownAverage agdg tard
>>492315351Fine I'm delusional, I must have been living on onlyfans money but I can't face the facts.
I'm peeing my pants right now
Want a free idea? Here you go. Copy Ys I/II's bump combat system. I'm already using something similar for my game.
>>492314673so, uh, how do you know if you've past the contrast check?
Want a free idea? Just remake Super Mario Bros 3. That'll be 15 dollars, I came up with this idea all on my own.
>>492315130It's an aesthetic choice really but it makes the game look more bold and punchy, as opposed to foggy and hazy. I'll post some pics after this.
My ideas aren't free, piss off.
I don't mean new game ideas I already know I'm making an RPG but I mean ideas for the world and style
>>492316168
>>492316168No one knows what major and minor keys are. You just made it up.
how many reviews, fellas?https://store.steampowered.com/app/2805070/Screenbound/the gimmick seems completely retarded to me but it got 1500 updoots on reddit so...
>>492316451~120itll get some initial buys from the meme factor but word of mouth will be really muted because the idea is shitty
>>492316412
I already shitted 3 times and fapped today when both things are all bloody I knew I shouldn't use those apricot preserves in the back of the fridge but we're out of syrup for my mini pancakes
>>492316451Can't tell without playing it. Concept sounds retarded, but maybe it works.
>>492316451there's no release date, your thought experiment as a way to gauge our 'grasp on games chance to gmi' is worthless.
And loading screen added.Are you progressing /agdg/?
Why do I look like an undead ghoul
>>492316451Looks pretty gay honestly. How the fuck do they expect you to pay attention to both of those things at the same time?? You probably can't, but I don't think reddit people would be smart enough to realize that. I expect 1k+ reviews anyways
>>492316750few weeks ago i ejaculated a little bit of blood when i finished fapping, i think i need to stop gooning so long because my dick's skin is getting a bit dark
>>492316795GjNo I'm waging right nowhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=7zTei5RMhQ8
>>492316649
>>492316451>Outstanding wishlists: 108.6kInteresting gameplay concept, but it feels like something you'd come up with for a game jam. I doubt they'll be able to expand on it to longer than 2-3 hours of gameplay, in which case, it'll be a 50-300 reviews assuming it's reasonably priced at $10-15.
im making the title screen!
I'm so demoralized
>>492316451holy fucking SLOPPA, this is S+ tier sloppa>retarded and unneeded gameplay gimmick>le retro gameboy and pixelshart nostalgia>bright saturation zoomer color palette>le wholesome game directthe perfect reddit upvote game
I'm so revitalizedI will make nice progress tomorrow!
>>492316451More reviews than any /agdg/ game in the last 3 years
dekinaiwa ore... muriayawa kore...
>>492315491Pomatoes
>>492317735Murishinaide... Faitingu!
The moment my luck finally rings through, my game will take off towards stardom.
>>492317361She cute
>>492317472Even better, the lore behind the game is that your hyper genius black single mother invented the 5th dimensional game boy with her genius science powers (as we all know is common for black people to have)This game is reddit personified, truly
what separates games like undertale from rpg maker shovelware?
>>492317361Did you draw it or place the pixels individually
>>492318108Average playtime > dollar price
>>492318108Nothing, just be internet famous before you make a game and steal a fanbase.
>>492318108Literally nothing lol. That’s just the game dev lottery. Why did vamp survivors make $50 million but every vamp survivors clone barely gets 10 downloads?
>>492317361I think I recognize you from /pag/ a few years back.
>>492317557>So energized with ideas I'm too excited to sleep, I keep taking out my phone to write down ideas because I know I'll forget by morning. >Next day I'm zombie and get nothing done
I want to make something with a bit of a following at least, how do you build up a following for your game? Social media?
>>492318108success
>>492318424>every vamp survivors clone barely gets 10 downloadsMine will get 11 downloads. You'll see.>t. asset flip survivors clone dev
>>492318595attentionwhore on discord and 4chan
>>492318108Undertale wasn't made in RPG Maker
>>492318595Man my expectations might be too high. But I see something, a gap in the market that nobody's filling. Or maybe there just isn't a market for my idea.Some of my game jam games got upwards of 50 downloads, I'm being serious. I want so much more than that.
>>492318108the bullet hell mechanics and the saving and reloading mechanics.
>eat McDonald’s for the first time in a couple weeks>30 minutes after finishing, feels like a bomb inside my stomach>sit on the toilet and have explosive diarrhea Is it literally poison? Is all American fast food specifically designed to kill people?
If the player presses EXIT GAME on the main menu, should they be asked "Are you sure you want to exit the game? {YES, NO}", or should it just instantly exit the game?
Is your RPG better than Kingdom Come Deliverance at $3?This is going to happen with every game. In a few years new indie games will compete with AAA from 2020 at the same prices.It's over boyos...
>>492318779>my game will get 11 downloadsIf you are willing to pay 11 people money to play your game, then yes that is possible
>>492319054The extra prompt is only acceptable as an "Unsaved progress will be lost" reminder. If your game autosaves or is not the kind of game that needs saving, then just exit.
>>492318595You have to make a good game. appealing game. followers will come on their own.you can't force popularity. that's how 20k followers 20 reviews games are made.
>>492318108Made in game maker so the dev was able to put in tons of small little minigames and little things that aren't possible to do in RPG maker.
>>492319185You are wrong though, 99.99% of people who wanted to play or buy this game already did. People don’t base their purchasing decisions on relative cost to games they don’t want to play, that’s retarded
HOLY FUCK, i didn't realize how longwinded and annoying it is to make sprite sheet particle effects in photoshop to unity. so many freaking steps
>>492282801Yeah I think what eeally helped that game is that the dev used the obviously decent looking female as the fsce of the company. The sign was there when it was just her and her coming off as if it was solodev. But then the sign, if you paid attention, had her reveal that code was someone elses, a males. Oh but it's just an insignificant detail, someone's open source code. Not soon after she reveals a "new" team member, as if equals too but idk. Now who goes from solodev and the first person they hire gets a 50% stake? Not like she revealed that but man it sure feels that way. The guy's smart in using her as the face. Pretty, but not so pretty to feel out of the league of most 1st world males of today.I just need some busty Latina to be the spokesperson for my game and I'm sure I can gather the simp crowd and with enough time the normal crowd where I won't even need her to maintain momentum
>>492319357I bought it today. And I bought Civ VI for $3 last week.
>>492319389>me: I pooped after eating fast food>obese incel on 4channel: you have cancerWe live in a society
>>492319510Aren’t they literally married lmao
>>492319578sounds like you won't have any time to dev, not that you would
>>492319357NGL. I just might buy it and play it this weekend after seeing it here.
>>492319578Look at the modern cuckold. Buying and playing another man’s game, rather than making his own. Truly something to behold.
>>492299458You're still whining about this? You seem to wait and post about it near the start of the thread every single time I've seen you post it, and far apart throughout the day to get it in at least 2 threads too, almost like you're just astroturfing it for sales. Anonette, you know this isn't the place for sales, right? Or is your goal insidious, push develoment in this genre so it gets ssturated and all the new ones fail and thus push the popular ones further up as the masses just can't be bothered to sift through the new and just fall back on the one's that sold well?
>>492319578>>492319794Samefag
Goddamned netcode is so fucking tedious and finnicky
>>492308449I haven't even started making a game yet
>>492319936retard
>>492319185>there are 3.2 billion gamers in the world according to AI>let's assume a gamer buys 1 new game every month on average>that's like 100 games per gamer for a total of 3.2 gorillion games >you only have to make it in the top 100 games for your price point
>>492320162>according to AI
>16 wishlists in 1 daywonder how many of these were from watching my trailer and how many were people randomly browsing through upcoming steam games
I think brush smoothing works well on normal art for me, but it is actually terrible for pixel art. You need precision and every pixel must be in the right place for pixel art to work. There's too few pixels for it to work.Now what do I use, Krita or Aseprite? I already have both installed, Aseprite through compiling it. I think I'll stick with Aseprite since it was made specifically for pixel art and comes with stuff for animations and (probably) tilesets. I didn't like pixelorama.
>>492320172This is quite possibly the funniest and most unironic billion dollar corporation bootlicking I have ever seen. Americans are completely mentally sick
>>492320238Did you promote it anywhere on social media or anywhere except here?
>>492308449No...
>>492319843>>492319728>I am a musician who doesn't listen to other people's music>I am a chef who doesn't eat at other people's restaurantswtf why did I fail? weird. how was I supposed to know about comfortable seats in my restaurant and mixing music to make it not shit.
>>492308449>letting people play my fully featured game for freeYou can buy it on steam like everyone else greedy little faggot
>>492315349Put aside $100 every month to buy a bunch of random games and spend at least two hours a day playing them.
>>492308449guess I should start making something for demo day
>>492320162why not at least pretend to try and use steam numbers instead of "number of gamers" which is certainly not relevant. Btw steam peaked at 37 mil users online recently
>>492320448just this YT video (160 views) on my 300+ sub channelhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeZp6_OzYWAif that's where they all came from then it's quite a high response to my "call to action"
>>492316451Trover saves the Universe?
>>492320367So do you think there should only be one state owned mcdonalds and it's illegal for anyone else to make their own mcdonalds or that all mcdonalds should be destroyed?
>>492319357This. You think I thought carefully when I saw a game I wanted? No I just bought it. You think I waited for someone to tell me "this game has 5 hours, 10 hours, 100 hours or gameplay" to decide? Kek no. If the game is good I'm dropping that $15 even if its just a 2 hour game. Only if I want it bad enough otherwise I wait for a discount like 50%>>492319680Kek! He got a banger that's for sure. Plain, decent face, and skinny body. She lacks some of the qualities I desire, being busty, but is otherwise physically respectable.
>>492319185you already are up against a million f2p games, like look at what valve offers, dota, deadlock, tf2, counterstrike, all free
>>492321092>multiplayerNot interested in the least.
As a former McDonalds employee, back during high school almost 2 decades ago, I may have done some not-food-safe things in the kitchen before, and I have witnessed far more from the other employees. You can only imagine how much worse it's gotten post-enshittification.
>>492320367Ahahaha the coward deleted his post. Cringe ass weirdo
gummy fleshy tunnel
>>492319054Big state changes like exiting the game should always have confirmation prompts.
>>492279039>he acts as if it's impossible when there are literal teams (not solo indie devs with 1 hour of free time a day) cloning gamesYou know sometimes I wonder if there non agdg-ers here solely scoping out for ideas to copy with the way some of you talk and act like ideas are worthless but then most games out looking like something Id never play. Perhaps most just cope and say ideas are worthless because they cant think of a good idea. I've got at least three in my notebook. One of them has been proven to be solely from seeing a dev show good interest in his with art so low quality you wouldn't expect that level of interest. Meaning the concept, the IDEA, is good enough regardless of execution. But once such a market is saturated? The bar only goes up.>no it doesntThat's a lie and you know it otherwise make pong and sit back as you build a video game development empire on pong, pacman, and tetris alone. Now stop pretending clones fail>Trove (cube world clone in my eyes)>20 seconds until dawn (vampire survivors clone)>deep rock rogue (vampire survivors clone via succesful indie teams game)>wall world (dome keeper clone that appeared while the original was still in early access)As if I need some indie team with millions of dollars deciding to just clone my game. They'd finish before I could finish mine.
>>492321349>POV: you’re a mcchicken I just ate 30 minutes ago about to be rapidly expelled from my lower intestine
>>492321349SEX
pongress, i totally forgot i am supposed to make the enemy ai
>>492316451I literally just had a similar game idea today
>>492315951>>492316168This how do I know? What settings do I adjust on a screenshot to know
>>492321650It's little things like how McDonalds meat patties are not made-to-order. They're precooked and stay in a warming bin, but you're only supposed to leave it in the warmer for 15 minutes (there's a timer you're supposed to start when you put it in there). There's nothing to stop the employee from completely ignoring that timer if orders are slow and they don't want to have to grill one or two fresh patties for your order. Just use the ones that have been sitting there lukewarm for 2+ hours.
>>492321169Wow so brave!
>making player character and stuff>nice this is pretty understandable I can do this>enemies>yep>projectiles>no problem>health system etc>coming along nicely>now I have to think about how to set up chunks with persistent info for my game worldI think I might be a fucking retard bros anything past "10 minute godot tutorial" is too high level for me...
>>492315491it's growmao!
>>492317361Does she have ASS/BREAST/THIGH/SHOULDER FRECKLES?
>>492319510afaik, Anastasia Opara is actually legit as a technical artist. She did some really cool talks on procedural trees, and contributed significantly to a texture synthesis technique they published.And she has released courses on procedural architectural arthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7J_9Xf_h_U>The guy's smart in using her as the face.I don't really think that's what's happening, the project is totally within her artistic wheelhouse, and might have started as a prototype in Houdini.Of course, a game of that quality wouldn't be possible without a good 3d programmer on board, and it probably is smart for him to stay in the background for pr purposes.
>>492321857Kino
>>492321349nice sex game
>>492322113Just use maps involving every game object's static unique id and save all that to a file or something.
dear programmers of ayy gee dee geewould you consider yourself good in programming?
>>492321349Anal InvadersCoomers will eat this up. Great job anon.
>>492322779No.
>>492322779no
>>492322779Yes
>>492320880They cook with vegetable oil which was never really meant for human consumption. In that sense, it's basically poison.
>>492322779My games work the way they're supposed to and for me programming is the relaxing part of gamedev. So I guess I'm good enough.
>>492322779I know how to fizzbuzz and google
>>492322779I'm not a programmer and yes I am good at programming
>>492322779I'm alright I guess. Just don't decompile my game.
>>492322779Saying you're a bad programmer is like saying you're a bad legos player.
>>492322886What is your Game?
>>492321745>>492322467>>492322846I thought it looked more candy/gummy/jelly like... but yeah I get it>>492321651lol
>>492323260I miss Tomokodev
>it's demoday againShit lads time flew like a bitch, Summer days drifting away
>>492322779I'm good at understanding how machines work, writing efficient systems and designing robust solutions.But I can't be bothered to write "clean code". Sorry, if you can't understand my code maybe fk off.
Can we not talk about being inside cute giant girl's rectums please? Thank you.
>>492322779absolutelywish i had at least 1 artist so that i could be a codemonkey in peace
>>492323612it's in 7 days, don't scare me like that!I'm Totally ready for it! ahah I have so much progress to show!
>>492323260Unannounced FPS project
>>492323612imagine being alive during that time and watching it all fade out in real time only to be replaced by the 00s and the 10s and finally the 20sI would kill myself in your places
>>492322624idk how to do that
>>492323230>stick legos together backwards with superglue and duct tape>"you're not supposed to-" >"shhh, no such thing as bad legos players!"
>>492323810Is it the wolfensteinlike with the convenience stores?
>>492324209no, I haven't posted any gameplay
>>492324314Oh, ok.
>>492323815I was 13 when that movie came out and I prefer the current times to the '90s.t. not American
>>492318062Thanks!>>492318148i used the pixel brush, but I had to place some pixels individually. I used a sketch underneath.>>492318437I never used that, sorry.>>492322202yes.
>>492324473I prefer the 2000's to the 2020's. Especially regarding phones and internet.t. european
>>492324097Sorry I can't hear you from my flying bed with wings, I wonder what cool game options I'm going to add to my master switch statement today.
>>492324097>>492323230>Cannot resolve symbol 'legos'
>>492322236>technical artistWhat is that anyways?
>>492324314Please include verticality in your game. We have way, way too many Wolfensteinlikes on agdg. It's like everyone here who wants to make an FPS is afraid of height.
>>492324683I'm a Balkanoid and we had it rough in the '90s. Good for PC gaming though because you'd just go to a guy with a bunch of floppies and get all the games you can fit on them for like 2 deutschmarks.
why the fuck can't i focus on anything? even if i'm not at a computer, even if i'm just staring at a blank wall, my mind literally cannot think about the same topic for more than 5 seconds without jumping to some random other topic.
>>492320294>Aseprite through compiling itIdk on the answer but I dread doing this. The process feels so convulted
>>492325189doomscrolling braindamage
>>492325189Because you touch yourself at night
>>492325206god I despise modern build systemscmake and automake need to die
>>492325189We're just tired anon, we just need better sleep. I'm not going to even THINK about getting in my bed and watching monster killers episode 20 after doing animal crossing chores until it's bedtime. Might even get messed up on a delayed release melatonin tonight so I might be hungover tomorrow.
>>492325189Social media has destroyed your frontal lobe. This is impossible to reverse by the way lol.
>>492322779Not at all. My code is spagettios, i should go buy some, flavor gets old fast tho.>>492323786Im not ready at all. Another one comes and goes with no demo available
>>492315130The point of it is that new artist tend to rely too much on color. It’s a huge reason programmer games look like ass.By checking grayscale, you remove color and so you now have to actually look at the Saturation and Value and how the scene reads.For example take a game that is infamous for its use of color - Mirror’s Edge. The specific colors they chose were determined not just based on Hue but on saturation and value. Notice that the red in grayscale is the darkest object in the scene? Followed by the blue wall running objects. And how the roof tops you can run on stand out from the sides of the buildings because they have a higher value?
>>492325189My problem is that my mind doesn't shut up. Constant flow of thoughts is annoying espiaclly when it veers into stuff you don't want to think about, like when getting told irl "now imagine that granny naked" aaaaaa!!! Very distracting when Im devving, makes it hard to focus on working
>>492324936An artist with technical knowledge. Mainly it means that they fully comprehend the pipeline from "art program" to "finished game", so they know their way around the game engine to get their shit working in an actual game, know how to write their own shaders, and so on. Whereas a typical "non-technical artist" might be like "here's your concept art and/or .blend file, good luck"
>>492326048>Mirror's Edge>red means go here>everything else not redit's not that complicated
>>492303840who?
>>492324936They're generally good 3D artists that became very skilled in engine tooling/shader programming, or vice versa. They commonly write custom shaders, setup art pipelines, create procedural Houdini tools, etc. In general just helping bridge the gap on what the art team is trying to do and then making it work and perform in the engine and target platform (some stuff may get too deep though and then get sent off to engine devs to implement).
dogshit webm quality, but making progress on my game. >Skelly bros will now die after a certain amount of time outside of a building>Added a visual indicator for them once they have less than 25% of their life remaining>Added really bad controller support that will need refiningNext I am working on the building upgrade system, which will give your skelly bros abilities like extended life, boosted speed, weapons to defend against enemies, turrets on buildings, etc. Then it will be on to the enemies.
>>492326048I see. Thanks, I think I need to update muh game.
>>492325056I definitely plan to include verticality, I love the sensation of height in fps games.>>492324936Basically an artist who knows some math and how 3d games work, e.g., they know what vertices are, how they're represented, how they're shaded, what data can be stored in them. They can handle technical details.Someone who can work on procedural content, and won't create a rock with 1 million polys.Usually they don't code much, but they can use stuff like Houdini or Blender's geometry nodes.
>>492324936A guy who makes the shaders and video effects and the tools and the art pipeline. Like a bridge between programmers and artists.
>>492326048Mirror's edge is infamous for its use of color? I thought it looked great.
>>492326048You say all that but I cant really make out much in the color lacking pic in terms of "oh thats why they did this." Just feels lile a black and white photo
>got a pax pass for friday>eric is there on sundaywhoops ;(
>>492326048Can you show an example of game art (even programmer art) that fails the grayscale test, and what that looks like?
>>492326048I can tell that you're just parroting something that you've seen in a video and have no experience yourself.
>>492300847>>492301768>>492303951>>492306671Thank you anons!>>492302106Kek yeah I can imagine it being pretty tough. If you understand the enemy AI it becomes easier and you can get rid of enemies one by one without much trouble.>>492305764Thank you for the feedback! You've brought me one step closer to escaping judgement
>>492327424>the roof tops you can run on stand out from the sides of the buildings because they have a higher valuebecause of the sun
>>492327868What makes you say that?
>>492316168>formulasthis is how art becomes slop
>>492305179Garbaj-dono...
>>492327568here's one that fails on purpose
Easter peep gamedev bros... Not like this...
>>492328238Didnt that guy give up on game dev to become just another youtuber?
>>492308449I'll submit old build with new, game-breaking bugs and call it a day
>>492328238>garbajthat's a literal tranny
>>492328417okay, so if the art makes my eyes bleed I can throw it in a greyscale filter and see if it's technically correct or not
>>492328605Like a year ago, yeah. So much "I'm gonna make the bestest movement shooter in Godot that's going to save the FPS genre!" only for him to burn out and give up just as he was about to release a demo.>>492328701Anon, he uses Godot. Is he really?
>>492328796you'd have to really try to screw up the contrast like that in a whole game.
Can we send Eric loving and healing energy for this troublesome times?
>>492329306Beaming all my available sun energy his way
saying you need a lot of contrast is like saying that a blue painting is bad because more colors = good
>before vacation>I deserve this break, I've been working so hard (for so little reward)>on vacation>counting down the days until I can get back home and devThe eternal struggle.
>>492329306He just shat all over that attempted crab
>>492329558enjoy your skin cancer
tfw you're a yesdev!
>>492326048Instructions unclear, made Cruelty Squad
>>492329558Anon that's so thoughtful.Let me guess, no girlfriend?
>>492321857Awesome models. Any more examples?
Thoughts on my game's page? https://rasna.world/
>>492322779>game programmingNot particularly.>fintech/medicalGod tier. I love working on legacy software, I specialise on depajeeting .net solutions.
I'm going to start adding achievements tomorrow. Then it's going to be the start of doing a lot in Unreal engine.>>492299458It's mostly art that means a lot, and it's part of the appeal which is also tied with game mechanics. The appeal that people see/hear in the first 10 seconds of the cover art and trailer matters the most. But making a farming sim type game with those elements isn't a bad idea. Maybe in the future.
>>492330473Looks neatDid you steal the waypoint post from project arcane?
>>492299213I didn't realize it was this bad, it seems only 4 reviews or so are actual normal customers. You don't think aggy daggy ruined his chances by tripping the algo with that many reviews, do ya? Besides that, this feels unusually low, don't know if I was expecting a set amount of reviews for Marmoreal but, it feels so low, why is it so low?
>>492329306
>>492330735That's normal. it's 1 in 30 people who buy through steam leave a review. Sometimes it's 1 in 50.
>>492330156No my girlfriend is here with me (she has huge tits btw)
>>492329306I think he revealed the game too early.>>492329558Crab dead or you just flipped him upsode down for the pic? Are crabs even safe to touch? I mean the bacteria and stuff. I know turtles are dangerous due to what they have, kek at people wanting to take them as pets with all those warnings petstores have
>>492330473I couldn't even watch more than 15 seconds of the trailer, I'm not going to read all that. I think you were a bit premature with your website.
My game will have its own lego set one day, you'll see
>>492327568Just look at bloomer shooters, the Gears of War era wasn’t just a lack of color but a complete lack of contrast. For example, the most prominent part of the enemy is their arm rather than their head. The background of the scene is all very similar greys. The characters are largely just blobs without a defining silhouette.Programmer art tends to look flat because they don’t use any shading or highlighting, much less with purpose. They rely almost entirely on color to distinguish objects and characters.
>>492302471I can only think of mirror's edge where that was fun vs all the 3rd person action games.why'd you make this pov choice?
>>492331180nigga it's fuckin legos just build that shit yourself
>>492331180My game will have a playmobile set one day, you'll see.
Anybody knows where to find freely licensed bdsm assets, preferably spanking paddle with SLUT on itI swear I'm not making erogame
>>492331002The crab was already dead. I wouldn't flip over a living crab, that's mean.
>>492331002>I think he revealed the game too early.He had too because most people and news outlets were running with the story that "the creators of stardew valley(Chucklefish) are working on the new magic school game Witchbrook!"
>>492329306>makes a game using microshart proprietary garbage>it's hell to port to other platforms>surprised_pika.jpg
>>492328205Because the artist lit the level on purpose in such a way to do that.Guess what they did for their night levels? They added lights specifically to highlight the rooftops.
>>492330473Looks like an interesting project that might appeal to a niche audience of history nerds. But an 8 minute long trailer & webpage gushing about your terrain, foliage, and historical accuracy isn't going to win over any sort of general audience. The environment does look nice but the only substantial thing we see is a default Unreal character with default rigging and animations wandering around an environment. If the game is going to be anything more than an interactive history lesson / walking simulator, it's not apparent at all.Could be a neat project eventually but right now I think it's a couple years of work out from being in a state where it'll actually gain any interest.
>>492331454this is exactly the sort of thing you should just be making yourself instead of hunting around for. should take less than half an hour to make even for a beginner, you'll spend more time than that digging through a dozen asset packs.
>>492329306I will send him healing energy when he sends me $500 000(chump change to him)
>>492331454I would assume those kinds of assets would have extremely onerous, even sadistic licensing requirements
>>492331909Thanks conscience, stop posting on agdg please
>>492331180This is the sort of autism fueled aspiration I can get behind. Good luck anon.
>>492330473first thought upon seeing the page was an Etruscan city builder with nice terrain sounds like absolute kino, then I saw >single player open world gameand immediately lost all interest
>>492332119I appreciate you anon
>>492332007He could unironically give us all $1m and still be rich. Literally so close to wagecage freedom,
>>492330473I’m sorry anon but I’m simply not going to be clicking your drive by malware installing keylogger website. I know,I know, it’s just that I’m not going to do it is all. Sorry!!!
>>492326048There's more than one way to grayscale an image. I think Value is closest to how bright I perceive the colors in the scene.
My game…. Has no contrast…Is it………. Is it… Is it over…..?
colorschizo please don't ever go away you're 10 times better than our resident ones
>>492332645Can you grayscale my game and give me improvement suggestions?
>>492332007>>492332617Eric's funds are better spent on more noble endeavors. It's not like he had a patron giving him hundreds of thousands yet he still got his game made
>>492328605>>492329009Is that the transition now, developer to tutorial maker?
>>492332645The best one to use nowadays is OKHSL's Luminance.
>>492332795Yes, unless it's a 2010's anime.
>>492333145Is having a super ugly man ish looking gf the secret to making it?
>>492330735Marmoreal flopped because it's a shit game. You can only polish a turd so much.
>>492329306Did he even have to release an update?
>>492326048Do I pass your color test anon?t. code monkey first
>>492333431it's not polished at all
>>492333314its not.... when you all make it.... dont forget me....
>>492332645What always bothered me about Mirror's Edge is the lack of effort on the branding and logos in the game. Here compared to Dishonored.
>>492333145he did have a patron. it's called a GF.
>>492333458no, it was free. then again it brought the number of players to new records so its not like he didnt profit from it
>>492333570Plenty of anons have said that your game is ugly/muddy. I tried to defend it by saying that you're just drawing focus to the VFX. kek
>>492329306The correct choice of action would have been to hire somebody to do maintenance updates and expansions for the game while he works on other projects (see: Binding of Isaac). Stardew still still has a lot of money to be milked.
>make low poly model>mark seams, unwrap >find 1k seamless texture off ambientcg>apply materials with triplanar mapping >bake out texture to diffuse at low res >apply vertex colorsidk how retarded this workflow is but it seems to Just Work™. I feel like most people wouldn't even care about how generic assets look, but using the retro look as an excuse to be lazy seems gayalso can't decide on which style I like, blurred N64 or crunchy PS1
>>492329009Yeah, it's one of his latest videos. The comment section made me want to throw up
its ogrehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBdDt4BUIW0
>>492334024ser
>>492333797He was backstabbed by his right hand mr. shitdunkian
>>492334024>[YouTube] The future of game development... has no game engine?
>>492333584Tbf one game is about methodically exploring and crawling over every inch of the world. The other is about momentum and moving through it quickly. Efforts better spent elsewhere
>>492333753>plenty of anonsI'm pretty sure that was just one extremely angry schizo
So this is an RPG, which is fine, I don't really see it as that but that's fine.As my "idea guys", I want to run this past you. I will put in certain skills that level up as you complete missions but they're things like "confidence", "empathy" and erm... "dominating presence" etc.This ok by you? Nothing obviously retarded there ja?> as payment accept a shopper in the market unloading a fucking banal rant about the cost of fucking baked beans (of all things)
>>492333753I don't think that's the same game.
>arrays>dictionariesman this shit is so fucking complicated I'm feeling legit retarded right about now :(
>>492333940Honestly when you are using textures this low, the art style should be cartoon/anime based, not trying for realism.
>>492334080They could have hired one graphic designer for one week to redo all the billboards and posters. Someone from Fiverr would have done better. Look at this shit. Why even have anything there?
>>492334329array - list of stuff dictionary - list of key/value pairs aka "fruit1":"apple", "fruit2": "banana", etcyou're not dumb everything seems complicated at first
>>492334417I'm not an expert artist capable of Vagrant Story tier work, thoughbeitever
>>492334172>seams fucking everywhereWhat engine is this?
>>492334573looks fine to me *shrug*
>>492333570What game is this?
>>492334329What is complicated about it?An array is pretty much a contiguous block of data, where elements can be accessed by index.Dictionaries are associative and map arbitrary keys to values
>>492333584nigga it's a speedrun game not an IMMERSIVE sim
>>492334703uh the one i built i guess
>>492334329Array is a list of stuff where every item's "address" is a number.Dictionary is a list of stuff where every item's address is a word.
>>492334708uhh.. umm... haha.. have you ever heard of concord?
>>492334698It's just vertex painting. You can easily sample VS or heck make AI backgrounds. Alternatively you could just do megaman legends.
>>492334329Dictionaries are simple, just a 1 to 1 reference between a key and a value Arrays aren't that bad either, you can get into some arcane shit with them but you shouldn't really have to if you're working within an engine. I still personally prefer lists fors most things because iterating through one axis feels cleaner than through two.
>>492334749You spend time in elevators. The displays also have text. You're not going to be zooming past those.
>>492334573it's a minimalist ad for a minimalist dystopian city what the fuck else do you want
>>492334725>>492334801Retards who don't understand the topic at all and just mindlessly regurgitate what they saw online>>492334593Literal genius who understands how to explain complex topics to people who aren't experts, thereby proving mastery of a topic
>>492334767No wonder. Just give up and use a real engine.
>>492329306Yes I'm sure the millionaire with a trad girlfriend really needs our help to get through life. He's not your friend dumbass, stop jacking him off.
>>492334989Art style choice. Simple as.
>>492334172What's retarded is the way you're handling the camera/rendering and pixelsBe serious, what the fuck are you expecting someone to tell you when you post the most bland featureless webm of a sprite walking.OOOH YOU'RE ADDING STATS TO AN RPG, DAmn DUDE. Not even crabbing, fuck off and come when you have something that's not generic pixel guy walking you put up after a couple of youtube tutorials holy shit lmao
>>492334417that looks so good>>492334573>>492333584You're right, these look really amateurish. Maybe they were instructed to make them minimalistic to fit with the art style. But in that case, something about the serifs bothers me
>>492333584>>492334573I'm with you, seeing shitty, blatantly phoned-in ads takes me out of a game just as much as if any other asset looks shit.Fallout just stole designs from actual ads, which works fine in most cases
>>492326714Looks good, also what genre?
>>492308449no, someone will steal my idea and beat me to the finish line
>>492333570Isn't this just the default scene for an empty project in unreal engine 4?
>>492333969>Looked it up>There's a video on it>Looked it up even further>There's a tweet from May 1st 2023 straight up saying itChrist. I used to be subscribed to that clown.
Dictionaries are a handy way of mapping one value to another, picrel converting "true" and "false" to something more context-sensitive to help with debugging
>>492335123>>492335182Great, thanks for posting.
>>492333584I think that's part of the worldbuilding. Glass hosts a handful of megacorporations with over-optimized logos that don't stand out so as to not offend. Poster boards, handwritten notes and the like aren't tolerated. This is happening IRL, sometimes it's called refinement culture: https://lindynewsletter.beehiiv.com/p/refinement-culture>>492333940You should add some baked AO (shade the parts where the handle intersects with the blade darker).
>>492335258Honestly vertex color can make even shitty texture combos really work.
>>492335115>don't understand the topic at all and just mindlessly regurgitate what they saw onlineThat's delusional. And I learned to program from books btw (and looking at the assembly code generated from my c++)Sorry I didn't pretend to answer the question for a literal 5 y/o
>>492335115Retard who didn't earn more than a million dollars (and counting) from programmer salary.
>>492335493Grim, I know.