Fresh moves edition!Demo DaysNext: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-62Previous: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-61Older: https://hackmd.io/LhEB6VCZSx-oBalI2cWWoAAGDG resourceshttps://hackmd.io/dLaaFCjDSveKVeEzqomBJwHelpful linksNew Threads: >>>/vg/agdgArchive: https://arch.b4k.dev/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 thread>>521603049
>Thread was made before limitOh, moddies...
>>521678727It's called spamming/flooding and is against the rules
I am unironically thinking of taking the Fygoon-pill when it comes to 3D and using basic primitives onlyI've been using blender for about 2 years now and everything I make, I fucking hate. I've done low poly, all sorts of styles, texture methods, sculpting, you name it. it's all just such a pain
>>521678808Already done. I recommend you do the same.
>>521678970learn to draw retarddon't become another "it's just my style" coper
This thread has been blessed by the metaphysical good
>>521678727>fygoon crying to the jannies whrn its convenient for himwhy is every shitposter a bitch ass hypocrite?
This thread has been cursed by the infradigital evil
Are there any tranny frameworks plaguing gamedev like there are plaguing webdev?
>>521679367You do it all the time, hypocrite.
>>521679537lol no but nice try
>>521678970>I am unironically thinking of taking the Fygoon-pillIt's not called the "Fygoon-pill", it's called Ico-Art.I can teach you its ways, but not here.
>>521679146I got into 3D precisely because drawing is so monumentally annoying pic related is most of my work, with the face at the bottom being my latest monstrosity. it's all a bunch of bullshit. making actual character models is the hardest part>>521679720where can you teach me
>>521679832Find my DISCORD username:floyryallk
>>521678460give the blobs of color on her hat some higher res texture, everything else on her is higher definition especially when it's that close to the higher fidelity eyes
>>521680132SOVL
>>521678460Will you make it to demo day 62?
Me on the left
>>521679367He's just pissed he can't sabotage the OP, par for the course for lil autism boy
My game seems to be getting some spread from worth of mouth and people are sharing it with their friends but no one is making any videos on it yet. What am I supposed to be thinking? I want to see how people are playing it.
>>521680353Gooncel uprising
>>521680390>>sabotage the OP>Adding in Soul Reaver music
>>521680132that username didn't work
>>521680353>do you need chat gpt to fuck you too??yes please
>>521678460W OP
>>521680353Cutedom is the only acceptable dom.
>>521680235I have loads of doodles for later enemies (and even some of Joey Fygoon in different, transmogrified forms)>>521680612You didn't use a keyword cipher, did you?
I want the Hon audience
how come sometimes i can't zoom in as close as i want in 3d godot scenes? it's like the perspective in the engine gets stuck really far out.
>>521680537You're literally not even old enough for that game. You autistic idiot.
>>521680993And you're too old to enjoy Dark Souls, and yet here we are.
>>521681141That doesn't even make sense. Holy shit, what a horrible comeback.
>>521680290Yep, the base game is already greatly improved, with some new features as well. Honestly everything right now is just icing on the cake.
>Every drawing recycles the same 2 personalitiesThis is everything wrong with anime and the anti-anime crowd should do better.
>>521680976Idk I work in 2d.
>>521681264How? You're the one bitching about a game I like not being from my time, so I'm doing the same thing but with a game not from your time.In fact, you shouldn't even like video games in general because Ralph Baer et al. invented the Brown Box in 1967.
>>521681275Wait she's actually in a game already? Which game?
>>521681595It's more about how autistic you are about a game not from your time that's not even like a major game. What did your uncle who diddled you like to play it afterwards?
>>521681929The fuck are you even babbling about? I know damn well you enjoy things from before your time as well, yet do I hound you over it like a mentally retarded bluebottle? Just admit your argument is fallacious drivel and you hate me because I like cool things.
>>521612584I've tried like 3 seperate times years apart to get this thing to work, it won't even open on my system and I'm just running a regular windows 10 install.
>>521679832i think your stuff looks cool for a game in the ps1/2 style.pic is my current power level.texturing seems the hardest part to me, as i haven't practiced much and it always look garbage when i do
>>521682309> I know damn well you enjoy things from before your time as wellNotice how you can't name those things and it's not posted constantly 24/7? That's your uncontrolled autism.
>get exhausted from making assets>look at spriters resource to see how many equivalent assets good games in the genre haveam i the only one?
>>521682606I use that and the model resource all the time. lemmy see those assets Anon
>>521682606I've never looked into other games to compare asset count to. I am exhausted on making things though. I have over 100 unique things already.
>>521680976just move the camerahold right click and press Wor just select the node you want to look at and press F
Working on the ending so it actually feels kinda like a real game instead of an unfinished demo.But now I gotta add sound effects, aaahhhhhHH!
a game where you shoot at the bad guys
4/5 bunnies done
>>521683020She's so pretty, why can't I have that irl? ;______;>that webm endingLel. Imagine your game making that much money that you could unironically buy that much gold and jewels just to pile into a room?What kinda game is this exactly?
>>521683020KINO
>>521683020I remember this game. Nice progress.
one of my algorithms relies on a PackedByteArray with a rather complex structure and i haven't programmed anything low level in a long time:/
>>521683020>It doesn't end with them having yuri sex on top of the pile of money
Did anyone from here ever get their game featured in one of these videos?
>>521683823Fly Knight dev did
>>521683823>wanting to be grouped with trashi hope not
>>521683910Oh shit Flyknight is /aygeedeegee/?>>521683942bwo...
>>521683823Literally in that video bro, fly knight
>>521683823Also that guy who made the Fall Guys + Dark Souls game got roasted on there for it not playing like Dark Souls at all
>>521683823I hope not. I don't want my game associated with any shitty youtuber shit if I can help it.
>>521683823Sadly all we make are cunnycore games
>>521682927thx
>>521682584That's because you're not important enough in my eyes for me to remember you or your interests.
>>521684601Weird, that contradicts the amount of times you seem to mention me every thread when I'm not even here.
What fucks me up is that I always used the excuse of work to not work on my own games in my free time.But now I've been 3 fucking years unemployed...what did I do these 3 years?Fucking nothing. Didn't write a SINGLE line of code.I could've at least done a bunch of tutorials and shit but nope. Wasted 3 years of my life. In 3 years I could've finished a game.I hate myself
>>521684851i've finished three games in a year bro, lock the fuck inmy problem is i suck at marketing, gghobby
>>521683020Absolutely zero chance this man isn't a trannard
>>521680353>do you need chat gpt to fuck you too??iirc claude was much better for this, has it changed?
>>521685108Stop trying to groom aggy daggers, weirdo
>>521683429Child molester
switching from unity to unreal wish me luck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbGQoc07cfYThis is why I will not play most /agdg/ games. I'm tired of nontent. I'm saving my attention for the games with some soul put into them (Dirk, etc)
>>521684696And you are...who? Do you even make games?
Honestly, I'm way too cheap and lazy to be creative with my marketing. I think I'm just gonna double down on the e-mails. I can't be bothered to set up facebook ads, keymailer accounts, discord servers, etc etc. Too fucking lazy.
>>521685286Yes and...?
>>521685108>seething this hardAlright lets see your hobby game that's purely done for fun and no money whatsoever but at the same time is GMI and submitted to Steam along with your tax info?
>>521685418Discords are a mistake unless you have a dedicated community manager on payroll. All they do is erode the distance of separation between you (divine creator being) and your players (smelly unwashed peasants)
>>521683309Probably Landsword.>>521683429>>521683513Thank you! It's nice to be remembered.>>521683765That would be another thing I have to animate and I'd have to think up why they'd start fucking and animate it, then if it's just a quick part of the ending animation, then people will complain that it's not a full sex scene aaaahhhhhHHHH!>>521685108Thanks but no.
>>521685576It's a fighting game.No childrenNo pornNo goreWholesome family experience for all agesIt's just redpilled like that
>>521685412Of course, you mention me literally every thread.
>>521685958I mention many people, you'll need to be more specific by naming which game you made.
>>521685808cris why are seething at a porn game
>>521684851Just like make game. Right now. Right this moment. Download Godot or Unity and follow the beginner tutorial for it. Not tomorrow. Today. You are not allowed to do anything else until you finish that tutorial. No YouTube. No Porn. No 4chan. Don't you even respond to this post.
>>521686070Instead of worrying about who I am why don't you learn how to use blender.
my game is fun but it sucks
>>521686275Then it's not fun
>>521686438you wouldn't get it
>>521686256Man, you sound angry. What's wrong? Too scared to share the name of your game because you know it sucks?
>>521684851What exactly did you do for the majority of your time during those 3 years when awake? Were you primarily gaming?As for me idk what even screws me over but somehow hours have frequently passed by without progress as a neet. It's only recently I discovered one of the issues.>My sleep scheduleMy day unironically feels shorter because of it. I need to fix it so I can at least get rid of one of the problems. I still need to figure out why I have such a hard time making progress even after switching over to a GMI game. I expected far more progress due to working on a GMI game yet it doesn't really feel like much when it comes down to the actual work done that makes the game. However in the end I've gotten better, frequent progress.
>>521685763Egg
>>521686523you're responding to cris
>>521686480You're right. My game is fun and doesn't suck.>>521686513Exactly where do I sound angry? I didn't even type in caps. I just said get good at modeling. If anything all I did was give advice that you badly need to take.
>>521686640the market will determine that
>>521686640>You're right. My game is fun and doesn't suck.Then why are you afraid of posting it and the name of it so we can play it?
Bros...is this the fate that awaits us???
>>521686193>>521685002bros...>>521686523>What exactly did you do for the majority of your time during those 3 years when awake? Were you primarily gaming?Absolutely nothing. Mostly sleeping and browsing the internet. I rarely even played games, I'd feel guilty over it whenever I tried.
>>521685763>Probably Landsword.Uhh what?
>>521685808Why does this general hate children so much?
>>521686790I don't want you to play my game. You're a weirdo.
>>521686848>he replied to my postYou dumb useless sack of shit.
>>521686819>what if jet set radio but crazy taxi but you're on a bike delivering packages >that reviewdon't make a shit game
>>521686770Probably, that's usually how it works.
>>521687028Whole lotta yap for someone with no game.
>>521686819>$30should be 10 at most~60k wishlists with ~2k copies sold means the game is just too expensive, ~3.5% wishlist conversionfor comparison, flyknight has ~300k wishlists and ~200k copies sold, ~66% wishlist conversionsee the difference?pricing killed this gameit's sad, because the game genuinely looks goodi think the reason people aren't willing to spend $30 on it is because it looks too shortan indie game like factorio might be worth $30 because it has hundreds, maybe even thousands of hours of contentthis game looks to be 10 hours at most
Idea guys, please bail me out: I have a rough concept of an artsy adventure game about a dirty neet digging through her painful memories in the basement. What's the story arc?
>>521687304Oh I have a game, you talk about it all the time.
>>521687375FlyKnight released with less than 10k wishlists btw. It had like a 1000% week 1 wishlist conversion.
>>521687141I'm sorry...I'm downloading Unity and Unreal...
>>521687454Name it and I might recall.
>>521687385she's looking through her memories because she misses her friend who abandoned her, during the process of digging through her memories she uncovers a secret about her friend that reveals why she abandoned her, the secret is traumatic>>521687484even better, both games are well past release, one game has 200k sales and 300k wishlists, the other game has 2k sales and 60k wishlistsflyknight was cheap, bike game was expensive
>>521687484>>521687375FlyKnight also got over 100k wishlists since this video went up >>521683823
>>521687561The last thing I would want to do is post the name of my game to people weirdly obsessed with me.
>>521687523Don't be sorry. Be better. Post a screenshot of the downloaders. I don't believe you.
Can my YouTube channel get banned if I pay for views?
>>521687680Thank you for conceding and admitting you have no game. Real game developers post their games and names with pride.
>>521683823>Put in a dodge roll>Put in cheap deaths>Label yourself as a Soulslike>This channel finds youWell anon, why aren't you a "Soulslike" It's as easy as putting in some castles.
>>521687672>it was real in my mindkys
>The loser has no game and disappearedFeels good to be right.
>>521687894I'll post my game if you finish your challenge. Otherwise what's the point if you can't be normal and civil for even a second.
>>521687819nyoo....
>>521688181I did your challenge and gave you multiple skulls; too bad your Australopithecus skull is too thick to realize that.Now, why are you so scared to share your game's name with us?
>>521688278Now you're a dumb useless lying sack of shit.
>>521688432rude...
>>521688418I've repeatedly told you that you were supposed to create a new asset that was high quality and not your typical shitty garbage. But since you're a fucking dense autist why don't you pull up the archive like you love to do and prove otherwise. Your shitty room that you had already posted and shared multiple times doesn't count.
how would you make a thing that can crush the player in godot, like a piston
>>521688602Collision shapes? If you want to have it be a little delayed, add a "trigger_smoosh" collision to the bottom of the character
>>521688602This seems like a dumb question. The model, the code, what exactly do you need us to hold your hand on.
>>521688579Whole lotta yap for a nodev.
>>521683934how you gonna add imo to the end of a question
>>521688567Rude, but not wrong. If after all this, you're still not downloading a game engine, you'll never be able to bring yourself to do so.
>>521688861So you still can't finish the challenge? Embarrassing.
>it works
>>521686994Trannies wanna fuck em
>>521689094progress x becky
>>521688967So you still can't share the name of your game? Embarrassing.
i think the most efficient way to market your game is to make a high quality trailer with an effective call to action and just pay money to promote iteven sending emails requires more effort for the same click countyou can just do a $20 steam gift card giveaway on twitter, attach your trailer to it, and enjoy the clickthrough volumei think the only way this would fail is if your game has an excessively niche hook, in which case, your trailer would still be important, you'd just need to put more effort into finding compatible communities to expose it to
>>521674023Why would you use either of those things when Blender is literally fucking free
>>521689257It upsets you so much that at this point I don't think I'll ever share it here.
>>521689264Blender just wins
>>521688725>If you want to have it be a little delayed, add a "trigger_smoosh" collision to the bottom of the characterthat's a good idea...
Imagine if you had spent less time on your flop and made some pro-Ukraine slop years ago, instant 1000 reviews
>>521689502name 3
>>521689502>Imagine if you had spent less time on your flop and made some pro-Ukraine slop years ago, instant 1000 reviews
https://strawpoll.com/2ayLQ4z0vn4The Vampire ImSim would play like Deus Ex.The RE Outbreak-like would play more like multiplayer RE4.
>>521689094>BeckypostingCome on I come here to nodev not to masturbate
Not adding kids to my game so the paedoes on here can fuck themDon't care how much they pay meI have standards
stances on low poly?also how do you study a games design, I just copy what I like about it
>>521689590Extraction shooter, obviously. Immsims lose money and kill studios.
>>521689674Low poly is just lazyness. Blender is so easy to make decent shit in + if you want to be lazy you still can be with asset packs and not look like shit.
>>521689264>>521689461>using blender when you could use AI?????>>521689616what about hebes?
>>521687385He moves through years he spent arguing with cris and avatarfagging/animehating and staying a nodev instead of JLMG
>>521689757NopeDegenerate.
>>521689747Idk I like using low poly it's a great art style i think but I feel like people use it for ps1,ps2 type of games I personally like the ps3 graphics idk if you can call it low poly thoalso yeah blender is ez it's just mainly about workflow and how fast you can make quality models. To me at least
Is Godot good for mobile games, or is it a meme? Brotato (one of the most successful Godot games) had its mobile port done in Unity.
>>521690004Once you learn blender you can make decent models extremely fast. The only thing that takes time is sculpting and retopoing a person basically.
>>521690009godot probably has terrible power efficiency, which is why mobile ports are in unity, because it's atleast had some professional effort into improvements.
>>521689590Extraction shooter is probably faster to make then you can move on to the vampire game after
>>521690009>Goondot>TroonityBro it's OVER
>his game doesn't have JCs
>>521690009I've only tested it once but it took me like 5 minutes to DL the android files and export from godot to my phone for a test.
>>521690009Unity is the best for mobile because it comes with interfaces to all of the monetization APIs, whereas Godot doesn't. Godot just compiles and runs on Android/iOS, so it'll be fine for a premium game, but not for IAP.
>>521690170>retopoingisnt their add-ons for that + rigging add-ons as well.. heard they're expensive
>adjust my code since I'm just using these local variables in far too many places>less lines now>it's harder to read now without comments made longerIdk if I want to revert this. It's shorter but unless there's a comment outright stating it, I have a harder time telling what the purpose of certain functions are.
>>521690329You talking to me?
>>521690394Idk, I avoid retopo it's like the main thing I can't do. There is rigging add-ons but rigging is easy you just add bones and weight paint them the parent with automatic weights usually works really well as well.
>>521690495>local variables in far too many placessounds like you need a struct
>>521690369...are we not making premium games here? Should I go to another general?
>>521690882Premium games don't sell (on mobile). You have to adapt to the market. Phone users expect freemium.
>>521691065I'm not selling to phone users, I'm selling to players who want to keep playing on the go and not on their PC.
>>521689378Your conceited attitude makes me believe you're a little attentionwhore screaming for the attention your mommy and daddy never gave you.Come on, just share the name of your game. This is a game development thread, not a neglected child safespace.
>>521690882Most of us are but you have to understand that the mobile market is different than Steam, and so monetization needs to be handled differently.
>>521691193Oh yeah, I totally need attention that's why I always post with an avatar and spam threads 24/7 with my garbage game.Oh wait, thats you. lmfao holy projection batman.
>>521690170>learn blenderuse AI
>>521679832>with the face at the bottom being my latest monstrosityGreta Thunberg simulator
>>521690329I love gyarus so much...
>think of a new idea>like it so much i immediately want to drop my current project for it>its actually achievable in scope and concept compared to currect projectfugggggggggggggg
>>521680659>use AI for programming despite the fact I can already program.>can no longer program or solve problems without AI helpDoes this mean chatgpt really did fuck me?
>>521692025marnixbros...
>>521692025Make good games then
>>521691274I thought Steam didn't allow different pricing that undercutted them.
Is twitter finally dead for real this time? Where do all the cool yesdevs market their games now?
>>521692067Did he at least buy you dinner first?
>>521692671>antiinflation furry fetish
>>521692058I see the flops coming out of agdg that people spend literal years of their lives on and just one decent project-hop could have been the thing they needed.
>>521692671kek. are those cookies btw? man i could go for a cookie right about now.
>>521692671Flat.
>>521692501/v/!
>>521692501Twitter isn't for marketing, it's for seeing an endless stream of shit that puts your work to shame. It's never been a wishlist driver. Bsky is a libshit ghost town so good luck with that. YouTube shorts, Insta and TikTok are probably best if your game looks good in short video formats. If it doesn't look good then I guess you just have to have a demo
>>521692025This guy is retarded. He has no clue and misinterprets Zukowski's data to fit his own narrative. e.g. He keeps pointing towards this game as some AIslop game>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3533100/Wrap_House_Simulator/but it's at >Outstanding wishlists: 7.6k>Daily wishlist additions: 148with storepage created >2 months ago · 20 February 2025At that wishlist velocity, it'll easily be a smash hit.
>>521688602Player.scale.y = URTIMERDURATION-yourtimerthere, compressed the player node recursively
>>521693582oh shit obviously meant to divide that by URTIMERDURATION
>>521678970you can go pretty far with primitives + shaders. make sure to UV them correctly (no long faces, triangulate all or most faces, etc), smooth the normals (I use shade auto-smooth since it lets me pick the threshold for what is and is not smoothed), and then map them well.You may think UV mapping doesn't matter for primitives, especially if they are going to be single color, but it'll make a big difference in how the shadows are rendered, and will make your life a lot easier if you decide to make shaders.
>>521679146im drawing right now
>>521694524>only 1 decent circle in the lotkeep at it
>>521694660My shoulder is fucked up I am trying!
>>521690329Pure pedo
>>521692996me too.oh wait, my mom made cookies earlier. So I'm gonna have one, maybe I'll have two.
>>521694825Cure pedo (bullet to the head)
>>521679146>learn to draw>when AI exists?????????
>breeding age female with giant knockers>halfway to hag>Pure pedo
>you will never make an indie game with this much of an impact
>>521694963AI art is like a light skinned latinx trying to pass as white.always uncanny, never looks authentic
Every time I said "just make a good game"I actually meant, make the best game in the entire genre that you're building something in. I'm sorry, you were not just supposed to make a good game, you were supposed to make the best version of the game you are making.
>>521695106kek
>>521694524>doing nerd exercises to improve your skills instead of learning by doingvery crispilled. next you'll tell me you're reading a book about art so you can totally work on your game 10 years from now.
im holding this together with duck tape
>>521695452Every time I said "Just like make great games", I actually meant that (You)r current game is almost certainly dogshit. There are maybe two games posted here that are capable of making back more than minimum wage.
>>521696032good
>>521696176False, my game is the best in the entire genre (It's the only game in the genre)
>>521695845I do 3 pages of circles and lines to warm up and train my muscle memory. Then I do 2-3 sketches and then go back to gamedev/gaming/3d modeling
HEH?!?!
>>521696176is one of them my game?? :)
>>521696342Sounds like you're making a shit game that no one wants to play. There's a reason your genre doesn't exists. It's the same reason "crying babies and fighting cats at 2am" isn't a genre of music.
I can't figure out Cmake to install sfml
>>521696563lol, lmao even
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBlSX_EG-UEIs it true? Is mobiledevving a waste of time?
>>521696579mkdir buildcd buildcmake ..make install
>>521676356Literally the worst, cheapest, screenless chink tablet you can buy is 100 times better than shit professionals were using just 15 years ago, and it will be x10 000 better than mouse drawing
>>521696579if you've never used cmake you shouldn't be doing enginedev
I just realized that I could just use my core gameplay mechanics in a PvP survival-slop early access game that I can shit out in a year and earn infinite money instead of spending 5+ years on a well crafted single player game...
Why do I lift? because little girls like big muscles
>>521692489>>521692025>deletedWhere were you when we discovered latinx retard is a massive crab mocking yesdevs while he can't even clear 5 reviews with his best game?
how does one make a game without any programming? like just wanna make something
>>521679146>>521694524original poster (this Anon >>521679832), I was actually learning to draw for the 10th time via Brent Eviston's course but dropped it last month, pic related was the last thing I did drawing is so fucking frustrating and feels totally overwhelming almost all the time. there's so, so, so much to learn with it and basically none of it is intuitive
The passion... the spark... is gone...
>>521697000I got my wacom ctl-4100 two weeks ago and it's one of the best pieces of tech I've ever used. $30
>>521697135Oh shit this isn't /fit/. Wrong tab.
>>521692671copying gives it negative soul pointswhy not make other effect like when clay is pressed by an hydraulic press
>>521697287
>>521697161QRD?
>>521692671why cookies?
>>521697345I've got a shitty ass Huion, that's like 70$ and that shit is unironically pretty decent, A4 drawing space and the pen is really comfy. Like literally the pressure sensitivity and accuracy on the thing is better than what literal pros were using less than two decades ago. I think most kiddies today can't into drawing on a table while looking at the PC screen.
>>521697914My game will have the israeli government kill a bunch of civilians and no one will complain
I spent 3 hours going through stylized art from other games, tutorials, YouTube videos, and booth models to strategize and come up with a way to create cool art beyond assets and Vroid characters. End up dejected and back at square one. This happens every day. I always tell myself that this won't happen again, not when I haven't even mastered unity yet, but every day, I end up doing it to find some solace in imagining my game with good art like theirs.
i hate level design, i hate level design, i hate level designi give up
>>521698017>tabletablet*
>>521697345>>521698017>these poor basement dwelling faggots talking about their tiny ass tablets with no displayLonger strokes = bigger muscles = more control = more accurate and precise lines. Go work at a McDonalds for one week and spend that paycheck on a real tablet. You will save way more than one week worth of practice time.
>>521698309Same, I made a whole level design mood board and when I check blender there is still no level, is my installation broken?
>>521697345I bought a $450 large screenless wacom tablet 3 years ago and used it twice. I still have it in the box. I eagerly await when it is Time to open it again. It smelled lovely of 3M adhesive (the best smell in the world).
>>521698442>Longer strokes = bigger muscles = more control = more accurate and precise lines.My massive cock already allows me to do all that + I live in Zimbabwe and McDicks doesn't pay that much
>>521698594>Zimbabwefunny name for your mom's basement
>>521698087is your game call of duty?
>>521697297
I didn't know branno worked at mccuck's
I hecking love level design
>open game dev thread on /v>100x more progress posting>no schizosthis is the last time i visit this place
>>521698706It would be funny if it didn't look worse. Maybe Zanzibar ...Point is, even if you're the most impoverished brownoid ever, you can afford better shit for less money than the shit that some of the best games ever were made on just few years back, so you literally have NO EXCUSE to draw with a fucking mouse, unless you game involves cubes and you can just use the straight line tool for the entire thing./essay
>>521695060Once a nonce always a nonceSimple as
There are too many video games.https://www.youtube.com/@GameTrailers/videos
>>521698998How much $ for you to make my level
reminder to never hire western VA's, no matter how cheap they appear. Use pitch shifted tones to beep boop as syllables, it's what players start hearing anyway after like 2 minutes.
>>521696737didn't watch the video but mobile dev is difficult, you need to pay a lot of money to promote your games on external platforms, and design your games to have high player retention and profit margins with ingame purchases if you want the platforms to promote your gamesmobile dev is not for games, it's for hyperoptimized products
>>521699357ZasedFuck w*stoids
>>521697297What you people call passion is what I call a passing fancy. You don't know passion if it can leave you>>521698280Spend that 3 hours practicing next time instead of seeking out more information, you have enough information already. Watching other people who are good at something doesn't make you good at something. Put in the work and get good.
5/5 bunnies done
>>521699856>tries to lure in kids to fuckSicko
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rvcJKIKWTJ4
>>521700157The pedophile phenotype
>>521699856
mirrored coal hit a new peak yesterdaytrust the plan
>>521699197and too many books and too many movies and too many songs, guess we better not make anything ever
Sup /agdg/ amateur just starting here, what ideas could I use for a game similar to Yume Nikki? I don't want to make it literally the same thing, the only thing I have in my mind right now is using Alice in Wonderland stuff
fuck this fucking hobby... i'm out
>>521699197Yes but have you considered my game is better than all of these?
i am sick of roguelike being boiled down to "choose one of these random three upgrades" now
I will kill every single nodev in here
>>521701195
marbles
Your game suddenly gets very popular, more than 500k wishlist's in 1 year.If you're a wagie your game is still 3 years from completion, do you quit waging? If you're a neet your game is 2 years from completion, what do you do to spped up development?
Videogames are for pedophiles
>>521700569>amateur music producers general>make something that sounds good and people might like>ugh you're making skinnervox slop>adjust my output to be what the thread likes>get lots of (You)s and praise>it actually sounds like shit and nobody buys it>we tried to warn anon his song was going to flop but he didn't listen>60000 to 100000 new songs are uploaded to Spotify EACH DAY>H O B B Y>O>B>B>Y
>skinnervox
>>521701321sovl>>521701347make a discord community and expand the hype, and reduce the scope of the game to release it faster so it doesn't lose cultural momentumif employed keep working, if neet work longer hours and consider purchasing assetsstart emailing influencers immediately to prepare them for the soonest possible release
>>521701159Make an Alice in Wonderland fan game that isn't le hecking dark and edgy.
subgraphs are so beast mode in designerputting all your hard work into subgraphs keeps your "main graph" looking nice and cleanand you can expose whatever shit you need to access elsewhere as an output
>>521701850Are there really that many?
Ick as fuck
>>521701850>Fangame>Allowed to make moneyWhy is it, that everyone else is protected except for Alice?
>>521701587The difference is that people making videogames want to profit. If someone wanted to make a narrative slop, they should just make a movie, instead, they make a game because they want to cash in.
>>521699076>no schizosAre we seeing the same /v/ threads? Like the main one of agdg posts on /v/ even more.
>>521702267Original Autor is dead after so many years, copyright can't apply to his stuff anymore
>>521702267Touhou seems to allow it too but I recall some sort of ground rules for it but no money is owed to the guy who made Touhou.
>>521699076wouldn't be surprised if the schizo eventually goes there to act the same way. though if he doesnt, then my suspicions of it being a /v/ anon just trying to ruin /agdg/ are very likely to be correct.
>>521702498literally all you have to do is not claim your 2hu thing is official and zun doesn't care what you do after.
>>521699197My game can win because its shittier
>>521702267>Why is it, that everyone else is protected except for Alice?Do third world countries not have a public domain or something? The copyright on Alice has expired for longer than anybody in here has been alive.
>>521699197>that shameless pikmin clone with ugly stock assets
Added three new chips, all of them work with the new dice, or "out of bounds" numbers you can roll with them.
>>521702267https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_in_public_domain
another day of not getting done the list of what i wanted to get done today
>>521703587You'll get it all at once down the line
>>521703587I did a lot of good things today. I made beef stew. I vacuumed for a minute. I laundered jackets. I did 2 bouts of 60 seconds of cardio on my exercise bike. However, someone knocked on my door a few hours ago. This has shaken me. I think my whole week will be disrupted.
Can somebody make a text based mercenary management game or point me to one?
>>521701347bocc game when
>>521704175>dude le anxietyis kinda cringe now
>>521704175https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObCOURw4220
>>521704278some people get a little nervous
can somebody play my game, i don't feel like i exist unless someone is playing my game
how do you know if your idea is good or cringe?
>>521704504play it while looking in a mirror
>>521704590write it downwait a weekread the idea
in my game you can doe veryhing
>>521704593fuck you
>>521704761Hasn't stopped my from retaining retarded ideas.
>>521702365You're better off doing literally anything else if all you want is profit
>>521704776>doe veryhingnpc name
>>521704776That's real life buddy (at least my life)
>>521705692in my real life i canæt do anything...
>>521705692I bet you're an overweight african american women who stars in billboard adverts
>>521678970Welcome to aggy, Mr. Asset Jesus
>>521678970Sounds like you just suck at blender.
>>521698017do you need a graphics tablet for blender modelling and texturing?
>>521698442You got those muscles jerking off and your control/precision is from in program stabilizers you didn't know were active. Tweak them and watch how fucked up everything feels.
>>521708927No, I bought one and literally never use it because it's not necessary.
>>521697508Should I go for goldrod, piss yellow, or highlighter yellow for the new biome?
>>521710928>>521697508Oops, accidental quote. Was also going to share my art practice.
>>521705558>>521705692no you see you can make the way the movement and effect of spell ability like if want kamehameha or maybe rasengan customizable effects and drawbacks more powerful
what went wrong?
>>521697000>cheapest, screenless chink tablet you can buy is 100 times better than shit professionals were using just 15 years agotell me more. I am still using the intuos 3 I bought in 2009.
>>521711584Early Access Game
>>521685307so I tried it I like it, I might purchase the gamedev.tv unreal bundle pack but I kinda dont want to spend 30 dollars usd on something I'm gonna watch once... you know what I'm asking for wink wink
>>521697508>>521697287
>>521711584game description reads like something you'd see describing food on the menu at one of those theme restaurants.
>>521711584>>521712210>Take a stand in the eternal conflict against hunger, and tip the scales with 1/4 lb of beef, enchanted tomatoes, magical lettuce on one side of your plate, and your choice of fries, slaw, and chips on the other side in this fresh take on the classic Burger
can someone explain why you are supposed to get a bunch of wishlists before releasing your game? it just sounds odd to me, like you are supposed to market your game before people can even buy itisnt that just wasting money? theres no guarantee they would buy it when you actually release it, wouldnt it be better to market it after release?
>>521711370what
>>521712623they get notified that you released it. and when it goes on sale.
>>521712729yeah but>theres no guarantee they would buy it when you actually release it
>>521712623I spend 30 minutes every day going through about 10 steam discovery queues and marking every single game as Ignore no matter how interested I am in the game.
when I go to church I pray to jesus every time (and even outside of church) for a gf, especially a cutie pie teenager gf.happy palm sunday bros!btw I hereby declare war against the non-christian (satanic/demonic) lolicons.
>>521712623People are a lot more likely to buy when it's the new hot thing and just released. Also having time where they know it exists but can't play it gives them time to build it up in their head to something better than it probably is, and there's no reviews telling them if it sucks yet.It's for the same reason AAA games have a huge marketing push leading up to release.
>>521712623the whole wishlists thing is just dbz powerlevels bullshit but for gamedev. it's important but completely blown out of proportion.yeah, it'll help in the sense that you're more likely to get featured on the steam front page, but that doesn't necessarily mean you'll be successful.I have dozens of games on my wishlist, but I haven't bought any of them. Most games I buy on steam are things I hear about 30 min before buying. If I'm being completely honest, the games that go on my wishlist are the games that seem interesting, but I'll only play them if I pirate them or can get them for less than a dollar.If anything, going on my wishlist just means that dev will never see a penny from me.
>>521712767consider releasing it without wishlists. what happens? what does the steam algorithm do to your game? the answers reveal that wishlists before release is better for it.
>>521713395>If I'm being completely honest, the games that go on my wishlist are the games that seem interesting, but I'll only play them if I pirate them or can get them for less than a dollar.this is the same for me, if its on the wishlist i might consider buying it if it goes to 50% off or more
>>521699201nta but I'll make your level for 100
>>521713428If you release a game without wishlists, it's effectively shadowbanned by steam as shovelware.
Right now I'm in the process of localizing my steam store page into every language I can.
>>521714068go the marnix mile and localize your screenshots too
>>521703423>revolt against the modern world goes into the public domain this yearwell, chuds?
>>521714283I would if I could. Unfortunately, localizing the game itself isn't feasible.
>>521714375It went into PD on Jan 1st.
I randomly got this on my TL, and I don't even follow any agdg devs. GMI!!
>>521714754>"Featuring artwork from the creator of flyknight's"bam +100 sales
why is heartmachine gay now? i liked hld but this new stuff is offputting. is this what gaymers want?
>>521714754I just bought a copy with my leftover Steam wallet funds.
>oh cool 5 dollars for an indie game made by the artist of flyknight I'll check it out right now...>early accessyeah nevermind I'll just buy the hole game
>>521714754>13 days until the 1 year anniversary>Still in Early AccessLet it be known that EA will never be good for an anon game.
>>521715308>1 yearnice joke anon
>>521715248when will becky buy my game?
will I be made fun of if I use rpg maker? I tried godot but it's too hard
>>521716058It's fine if you have good art and writing.
>>521716068>using an engine is now considered engine devGodot 5 will fix this
>>521716068Don't give up! May I suggest learning Vulkan? I think it would suit your skillset best, as a 3D artist.
can somebody code the camera rig for me in godot 4.4
>>521692671mmm doberella beloved
So, did anyone here attend Steam's GDC?
>>521713563not fully true, it can still perform, it just requires exposure from external platforms to trigger the algorithmthis gamehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3107330/Nodebuster/released with <300 wishlists, and still got picked up by the algorithm because a big youtuber played it
>>521716508yeah, I met gabe and he said he's boost my game
>>521717207Are you the same guy that took a photo with a random bald man and came here to brag about it being Jonathan Blow?
Literally the only thing that matters is making a good game. Wishlist farming bullshit is a waste of time and a distraction. If your game gets shadow-banned on Steam, that's a blessing in disguise. It means it's a shit game and you should be grateful to not be embarrassing yourself.
>>521714754>67% off! Less than 5 bucks!!;________; Marmie....
>>521717354post good games
>>521717474I have thus far failed to make one, I have only made bad games shadow-banned on Steam, which as I have said is a good thing.
>>521717563post links to the steam store pages of good games
>>521717474https://store.steampowered.com/app/1466870/Hannah/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3172700/Banquet_for_Fools/https://store.steampowered.com/app/541310/Tiny_Thor/
>>521717315yeah. I'm pretty sure it was gabe though this time because he had a knife and looked homeless
>>521717615xD
>>521717037>If you release a game without wishlists, it's effectively shadowbanned by steam as shovelware.>Not if you dump billions of flyers over every major city via plane. You're wrong dumbass.Of course it is possible to succeed, under extreme outlying circumstances. But you specifically will not succeed with zero wishlists.><300 wishlistsAlso "less than 300 wishlists" is not zero wishlists.
material making is fun
>>521715308You're lying, there was a lot of hullabaloo around his release. It was like August or September.>tfw it's been more than 6 months since EABro's if I ever go EA how do I make sure it's not more than 6-12 months in EA if the game does poorly? I need hundreds of reviews in the first month alone to justify going beyond 1 year. I don't want to get locked into wasting a year or more of my life after a terribly low amount of sales!
>>521715129are you made because he gave you a boner
>>521717354What will you do if you make a good game and it still underperforms?
>>521717804You're that guy with blueprint looking thing from earlier right? This thing looks very nice, though I suspect it's a massive pain to even reach this level of skill and all the effort required to make it look like this in game. Very nice looking though.
>>521717860MAD*
>>521717615>https://store.steampowered.com/app/1466870/Hannah/Little Nightmares clone with a shit artstyle.>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3172700/Banquet_for_Fools/Top down CRPG with an Elderscroll vibe. Looks like its from 2005.>https://store.steampowered.com/app/541310/Tiny_Thor/Looks like a 2D game made for distribution on the N64, that got a playstation port, that was remade for the 3DS.
>>521718163post good games
Marmoooooooooooooo!!!!! How do I get pic related? What software.
>>521717804If this isn't a voronoi node, I don't know what to think anymore.
>>521717804did you make this in substance designer?
Test Post Please Ignore https://streamable.com/5his8a
>>521718225not him, but ask in the discord and i shall deliver
>>521691383You post with avatars, but instead of making an original one you steal other peoples' works and call it your own.
>>521717804
>>521718225https://store.steampowered.com/app/3301060/Desktop_Mate/
>>521717949That is impossible. If it underperforms, then the game was not good.
>>521718847Is a game classified as good purely based on how well it sells?
Why are people so jealous of sleeper builds?It seems to piss them off that some people want to be strong without showing it off.Right like only my lady should be licking my body. I don't want men thinking about licking me.Having a big bulky body with attracts the unwanted male gaze and increases your odds of finding yourself in a confrontation cause every roid tranny has something to prove and I don't want to be on the receiving end of xe/xer's melty tantrum. And I feel like it's the same way for game dev.Like I'll post on demonday for feedback, but posting in the thread seems fucking pointless.I mean life is actually very easy to have the bare minimum of "success" people just tend to make it harder and worse for themselves mostly because of ego.
>>521718946calm down
>>521718942No. Bad games are capable of selling well. But it is impossible for a good game to sell poorly.
>>521719068What are some bad games that sold well? Could you provide examples?
The Chu-Chu Charles guy started a youtube channel with the best yesdev advice I've seen to on the website. I greatly recommend watching everything on his channel if you want to actually make it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkO8rYcXZXY
>>521719230tldw
i realized my games suck because i have bad tasteoh wellhahaon to the next
I'm on my templar shithttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/k3buowc2Wog
I dont know if I wanna make a game anymore...
>>521719191https://store.steampowered.com/app/3164500/Schedule_I/
MAKE GAMEMAKE GAME!!!IF WE DON'T MAKE GAME WE CAN'T GMI
>>521719191
>>521720173>you make a game>it becomes very successful through a cult following on reddit
>>521720461jesus fuck. you could pay some 16 year old SEA kid $3.29 to make something better than this in 20 minutes
>>521720461frydarian tale lookin' good
>>521720461fygooncoded
>>521719230>MUH HECKIN ECELEB SAID SOMETHING
>>521719230>The Chu-Chu Charles guy started a youtube channel with the best yesdev advice I've seen to on the website. I greatly recommend watching everything on his channel if you want to actually make it.
So uhhh where's my fucking fanart?
>>521720942
>>521712046>>521712210coping to avoid facing the fact that we don't have a shot. those guys made a spiritual sequel to Arcanum, their game looks a lot better than anything I've ever seen in agdg, they have a proper publisher, but their game will never get to 1000 reviews.
>>521717860no I'm a girl
Good games ALWAYS will sell. A bad game MIGHT sell. That's the key difference.
If you look closely I have a rough framework for an arrow/projectiles to get stopped at the shield and stick to it. hacky but good enough for a prototype. I just have to make it larger, realistic arrow size is way too small to be reasonable in a game where blocking it is important.
My game will fail.
>>521721437sorry sweaty but you're a man, even if you are a girl because women love that shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn8Awg7qpjI
>>521721709physical labor is the solution
My game will have been failed
devving for money is possible but you'll end up hating humanity for realizing how much they love dogshit slopyou can spend years of your life making an intricate gaming masterpiece with amazing art and get outperformed by an idle game made in 3 weeks that was shilled to 100 youtubersdopamine sloppers are winningwe are one step closer towards the pleasure cube
>>521721582>women love thatwomen shouldn't be allowed in the games industry
My game sucks. It's bad.I enjoy it, but it's bad. It's not a good game.Nobody will play it. People will enjoy playing it, but nobody will play it.
>>521719330That's cool, what AI is that? Finally I won't have to waste my time watching the vlogs people post in here just out of mild curiosity.
>>521722486ChatGPT
>>521719330>>521722486>>521722565retard
>>521722486It's been super useful. ChatGPT. Copy the transcript of the video into it, and it'll summarize it for you. Saves me a ton of time.
>>521722612>retard
>>521722612>shill gets mad people won't watch his videos anymore lol
every autist with unique niche passion assumes there are people out there with similar taste to themthey are correct, but misguidedthere are people out there who would enjoy your niche titleyou will never contact themthey are hidden in obscure communities, enjoying similar traits from other titlesthey are inaccessibleif you want to make money, you need to give the market what it wantsyou can create your passion projects and upload them to steam, hoping for the bestdo not expect financial success
Mogged.
How do you handle online play for a game? Specifiy, PvE stuff. I've been learning Godot for a while but I heard Unreal has better support for multiplayer stuff.Since it's just PvE I think "Host event is true" is the easiest way in case there's a conflict going forward between player worlds but desu I don't have much experience in this either way
>>521723336Don't want to see either. Just fuck off and we'll all be better off.
does 5ch have a daggy equivalent?
>>521722917It's hard to wrap my head around client-side prediction and lag compensation, so I've never done it. All the networking I've done has been shit, where you have input delay based on your ping. That way is easy, where all the code is on the server, and all the client does is send packets to the server asking for things to be done, and receive packets from the server to display the state of the server.>client: hey server, please open this chest>server: you're too far away from that chest so i didnt open it>client: *clicks button*>server: *responds to button click*
>>521723907>You just earned yourself a Fygoonpost.
visual novels are the future
AI generated cum texture splatted
my fanart, nigga. Where is it?
>>521725143earn it
I mean that the path towards success seems to be shock value or having the right hooks rather than just quality. It feels like there’s an attention economy rat race where only “brainrot” content can thrive, and if you’re looking to make money as an indie dev you’re better off making 30 low effort variations on “Mr Krabs does Ketamine” than one really good game. Schedule 1, from what I hear, was developed over several years and had a lot of effort put into it. That’s great and I’m happy for its creator. There’s very many talented devs who put as much or more effort, love, and skill into their games, and the reason that Schedule 1 succeeded in such a large scale where others don’t seems to have very little to do with the quality of the game and its execution and very much to do with its vulgarly memorable hook.I wish mainstream audiences had better taste.It’s not just vulgarity, but is usually outlandish. I think the best way to describe it is to just call it “brainrot,” which is also seemingly what you need to succeed as a content creator on YouTube, TikTok, or Twitch. The first other example that comes to mind (because I watched this video and it kind of left a bad taste in my mouth) is Choo Choo Charles. There’s lots of other examples though. Even the indie games that have a lot put into them still seem to have to market themselves with outlandish hooks, e.g. Palworld’s marketing being basically “it’s pokemon with guns!” or Another Crab’s Treasure (Dark Souls but you’re a crab maybe is already a kind of “brainrot” premise, but I give them a pass because the mechanic of having to scavenge ocean trash for shells seems cool and justifies the premise to me) giving their crab a gun. I think there was also some “Squirrel with a gun” game that ended up being fairly successful.Not that any of this is unique to videogames as it seems like the same sort of thing is going on with indie artists/creators of any kind.
>>521725143gen it
Make the game you want to see in the world!
>>521725143working on it.
>>521725293yeah good analysis. The post-social media world is a hellscape. Thankfully I'm immune to brainrot appeal so at least I don't feel an attraction to it like most of you
>>521725546I'm making an MMORPG without human women.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCkUUm0zDLYcomplete AAA bankruptcy imminent
whats the best gen tool for making transparent sprites?
>>521725293my shock value will be me streaming my game while on fire on a jetski
>>521725825>The EU Yawn
>>521725842aseprite and your brain
>>521725938AKA the center of the universe
>>521725293I think the quirky chungus aspect of these games is just as or more important than the vulgarity or low class subjects. A gritty, realistic drug simulator wouldn't do as well as the "silly little guy" simulator style they used.
>>521725293No, the current path towards success is making your game the center of some culture war or have rage bait in it. Nobody would have cared about Schedule I if it didn't come out the same day as Assassin's Creed Shadows.
progress: level is almost done, although i need to start working on level art sooner or later and which im kinda stumped on...
How do I make sure the Itemlist shows only whole items and not trimmed in godot?
*mogs you with gmod rp 2*
If I squint my eyes while looking at my game it almost looks passable.
>>521726629use a vboxcontainer
oh neathttps://tntc-lab.itch.io/godot-voice-generatorhttps://files.catbox.moe/drf3yc.mp4
>>521721506My game is an ok game with some good bits and some bad bits. I will sell 10 copies and have a 50% refund rate. gabe will keep the listing fee and I will not reach the payout threshold. hope he enjoys his 30th yacht.
Fuck fuck fuck fuck I have so much work left to do ahead of me FUCK FUCK FUCK
>>521727169I hate these so much. Why have westoid developers completely abandoned normal, uniform typewriter effects? Everyone was complaining about how grating this sort of effect was Yooka Laylee came out. Then indie devs saw it and went "WAOOOOW THAT IS SO BRILLIANT"
yeah, i've actually given up...
>>521727489um, it depends on the game. this will suit cute games just fine
yeah, i'm letting you down...
>>521725938You are under arrest for posting antidemokratische desinformation
I'm so tired and it's not even lunch yet.
how many levels do i need for an arkanoid clone to be enough for a demo? ive got 5 so far with 1 boss.
>>521729169when will i be interviewed about my game...
>>521729258When you network and schmooze effectively
>>521725293it's just smart devs capitalizing on the marketpeople like this stuffif you make this goofy slop shitthey will consume itjust market it
>>521729453fuck... i don't really know how to do that...
>>521729551dumb devs getting dumb-luck their dumb ideas align with what the dumb majority want
>>521729569Same lol it's 4chan everyone here probably sucks at it, 99% of it is probably small talk
that anon was right, i had something interesting. it wont be a hit but it'll be fun for like 30 mins. im giving myself another week (1 week in so far) then wrapping it up. if it's something people like then ill keep working on it.
>>521729258I want to see cris interview you.
>>521729697some posters have the gift of gab. i tend to run away alot when i cant come up with decent replies.
>>521674458I womder where I could move to so I don't have to wage for years with savings of $40k. If I could not wage for 10 years straight I could probably make a succesful enough game, return back, and not wage due to the profits made
For some reason it still does this even after shrinking the player collision capsule
Do I go straight into building the game I want or should I do a bunch of follow along tutorials first? I tried option 1 and was stuck on trivial stuff but with option 2 it feels like im just following instructions
>>521730009How does it react to a sphere?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTQ1MciUlwo>4 years9k net
just make youtube slop lol
the passion project you spend 3 years making and 6 months marketing will make 40k usd gross revenue25k pocket after fees and taxeshobby
>>521730491that's more money than I've made in my lifetime
>>521730210nimrods but worse?https://store.steampowered.com/app/2086430/NIMRODS/
>>521730210needs cute girls>>521730572rixels and mixels yuck
>>521730549same. I get to make a mediocre game and feed my whole village...
the hardest pill to swallow is that your passion project will not make enough money to justify it being a sole full time pursuitunless you're a NEET or third worlder living with your parents, then have funif you need money you need to make market compatible productsyoutube slop for 13 year oldslittle kids play roblox gamesolder kids play pvp games or triple A gamesif you want money you need to make make dopamine youtube slop for third world preteenstake my advice
just spent four hours rendering out one billboard because Blender's fluid system is THAT bad...
>>521730752I am a neet. I'd like to make a game that my dad looks at and says "ok neat" and doesn't hate me.
>>521730210>MY GAME... LE FLOPPED >click on the video >2D pixel tranny shit Every single fucking time.
>>521730210all he needed to do was make the protagonist appealing. wtf is that moldy old man?
>>521730924the guy had a really positive attitude though
>>521730835good, i hope you have fun and accomplish your goalsunfortunately i was naive enough to assume the cool game ideas i had in my head would convert to salesthey didn't, L O Lneed to satisfy market demands to make money, it's just a regular business for jobby devsgood luck and have fun with your game
Prepare for a new wave of people picking up indie game dev after seeing Schedule's success and thinking they can become millionaires, just like how it happened with Balatro (we're still not feeling the full effects of that yet since it takes a couple of years.)All thanks to youtubers like pic related.
how do I tell my parents i'm persuing videogame development as a career?
>>521730210Kudos to this guy for still making games, 6 years later, after releasing 3 games that had a total of 3 reviews.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1095400/Cryptographer/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1552020/Mirrored_Pawns/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1330940/Sword_Slinger/
>>521730970https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNjn3BAYYNche mustve saved up alot from working in tech
>>521731106tell them you're a gay homosexual tranny pedophile first so they're proud of you before you give them the bad news
>>521730986stardew valley showed us this, most dev hopefuls will quit and fail, the successful clones won't reach nearly as much success as the originali'm not too worriedi still see low quality vampire survivors clones sitting at 30 reviews months after release
>>521731165is this suicidefuel or motivationfuel?
>>521730986These early 20s zoomers are brutally mogging us Millennials.
>>521731165look up orangepixel, dudes been making the same game for over 20 years
>>521730970That's half the problem
>>521731165the fate of all hobbydevs
>>521722014>pleasure cubeWhats this
supermarket simulator where you play wagies with your buddiesweedman simulator where you play weedmen with your buddiesboth made 20+ mil in revenue
>>521725546What game to make to get an irl Hinata-like wife?
if you want to dev for money then make games people want to play
>>521731418>>521731431the normies crave small business ventures
fuck, i just can't figure out a good boss design for a 3d space fps, like, my best try was some geometric shit with wings. Any ideas that (You) think might work? Theme is cosmic horror. It all breaks down once i get to the animation part, it's always either too hard to animate, or looks stupid dumb.
>>521731165>Cryptographer>nothing to do with cryptography
>>521731580truth
level design is crushing all desire to finish my game
the truth is games outside of live service pvp games are meant to mess around in and laugh with your loser buddies on discord.they're more like a side dish then the main course.
>>521730986Oh no its another>1 guy made this by himselfAnd suddenly 1 million people probably think "I can do it too!" Even if only 1% stick with it thats 100k new game devs
>>521731932you're delusional if you think 1 million people are gonna attempt to gamedev because of schedule 1 or ballatro
>>521725293>I mean that the path towards success seems to be shock value or having the right hooks rather than just qualityYou need to stop trying to do market analysis on mega runaway viral giga-hits and pay for a games-stats subscription so you can research the market properly instead of only being aware of something because it got mainstream attention.
>>521731212>stardew valley showed us thisYou mean harvest moon showed us this?
>>521732016Even if you dunk it to 10k people and change the numbers just becauase theyre more serious, say 10% stick with it, we now have 1000 new gamedevs who refuse to give up. That's more games for gamers to sift through before finding yours
>>521730970No he didn't. MY GAME LE FLOPPED is also the a marketing tactic. More people will watch that video than would have ever clicked on the Steam page.
fire breathing attack when at close rangei need to buff it a lot
A cryptography game about decoding an undead army's enigma code
>>521731580THRVE
>>521732242he never said that
>>521729169no one has ever played past the first level of an arkanoid clone
>>521732565no one itt has ever played past the first level of arkanoid
>>521732565i wouldnt say its a clone but youre right, each level only lasts 30 seconds rn
>>521730986>>521732016Serious question. How long have you been doing gamedev for? How long after the day you decide to take up gamedev as a hobby can someone reasonably expect to publish a game that gets 30 reviews?Do you think that people are going to see schedule 1 and they're going to be releasing their first game in the next 1-2 years? I don't. Gamedev isn't a hobby for tourists, this shit either grips you from a young age and you've always just done it, or you're ngmi. This is why there's so many youtubers making beginner tutorials, and not so much for intermediate or advanced problems.The torrent of asset flips and retarded baby projects that flood onto steam are not your competition.
>>521732706i think i have but i cant guarantee i haveit was not a memorable experience
why are there so many devs claiming a topdown twinstick roguelite is supposedly their dream game?
>>521732919you are fully convinced on things that are nonsense when youre dreaming
>>521732919To be FAIR I would love a fusion of starbound and v rising
>>521732919My dream game is the one that let's me pay off my mortgage.
>>521732565>>521732706Done both (Blockbreaker Deluxe 2, SNES Arkanoid)
>>521732305>slowly limps towards you>slowly limps towards you
is there a guide somewhere explaining exactly how to make enemy logic in action games? pretty much every tutorial has them just get in range of the player then attack if conditions are met.
>>521733289Look up behavior trees and then GOAP
>>521733289behavior trees are good for bosses yeah
>>521733358i just want to know how they can surround the player in a non obvious way like a flanking maneuver. im not good at vector maths though.
>>521730986So where is your Schedule Survivors like?
>>521733462You just program it in. It's not magic.>im not good at git gud
im trying to figure out a small game idea that would be fun with a group of loser friends
>>521732817im taking up gamedev at 28, im gonna try to make it before 30 if I dont at least I tried (I have a comp sci degree so I'm not just starting from absolute 0)
>>521732191>pay for a games-stats subscription so you can research the market properlyWhst kind of info does it provide besides estimated sales numbers to even be worth paying for?
>>521733726is being bad at math a sign of low iq?
>>521733248grandpa it's past your bedtime
>>521733709upskirt anomaly
>>521732817>this shit either grips you from a young age and you've always just done it, or you're ngmi.Wrong. Plenty of people switch from programming jobs, artist jobs, or any general jobs with the money to gamedev when they're 30 or something.I mean I don't blame you for not watching the brainrot youtube videos, but 99% of them are like that. They've been playing games their entire lives, had normal jobs, normal lives, then they saw a huge hit like Hollow Knight and decided they can do their own. There's prostitutes being posted in this thread regularly who just decided to start a studio with their OnlyFans money.
>>521733943well there probably aren't that many low iq people who are good at math
>>521733959Gogem is older than me
>>521732919At least they have a dream game. I only game dev because the coding and music is fun. I haven't even played a single videogame in years.
I blame the world for my problems
>>521733462>parse player position to npc>let them approach player but jiggle around him in a set radius (some nav agent settings can be tuned for that)>at random time intervals, let them lunge toward player for attack>let them return to their encircle stanceFor flanking stuff let them calculate a non direct way towards player, perhaps with random waypoints they must reach that are not on the most obvious, direct path.The exact implementation depends on the language and engine you use. But before you start, make a plan what exactly you want them to do.>Not good at itDocumentation exists for a reason. Rest is trial and error fren, trial and error. But when you get it working, you'll feel like Frankenstein after he instilled life into his monster.
>>521734220how you gonna be a gamedev and play no videogames? Thats like being a director who doesnt watch movies, or a writer who doesnt read books
Solitaire Schedule Survivors
>>521734260The pathing part is the hardest for me, I would need to use assets to get random paths. I can't go with the approach and wait because the player has a gun.
>>521734287Games are just an accidental sideproduct of getting practice in coding and music to me. I draw from past gaming experiences stored in my memories for ideas.
i replace my players sprite which was a circle into a cute girl and suddenly felt a burst of motivation
>>521730210Computer you are my greatest ally.
>>521735684bioiba
>>521708927I think it's a lot more avoidable than for drawing. Pros will probably tell you to get one.
2025 is almost over
>>521735261smartygmi
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY SHIT VIDEO GAME I SPENT 1-2 YEARS OF MY LIFE MAKING JUST FLOPPED!!! MY LIFE IS FRICKIN RUINED WHAT THE HECK WILL I DO????>I KNOW! I'LL USE ALL MY LEARNINGS TO MAKE ANOTHER SHIT GAME
some games just don't sell
>>521736465And (You)?
>>521736465kekyou can learn to dev, but if you don't learn the market, you're cooked
>>521736465This is exactly what you should do
>>521734173yes and i had an snes and their aint no way i was ever renting arkanoid from the video storeliterally no one
>>521736548it's better to burn out than to fade away
which general and board is good to ask about ai, im serious about this. im looking for something only ai can generate for my assets.
>>521736981>>>/g/ldg
>>521736765Then how would I know about the level with the cage of indestructible blocks with 1 block gap and the teleporting slimes that kept snatching your ball out of the cage and teleporting it outside whenever you managed to send it past the gap
>>521737142ty
>>521733726>comp sci degreepeople with cs degrees can, in some cases, not solve even the most basic programming problems, and then they will cope about this by telling you that cs is a theoretical degree about computers, not a programming degree. This is why in order to get a job as a developer we have to go through the humiliation ritual that is a technical test or coding interview. The degree isn't enough to ensure that someone knows what a for loop is. Turns out you actually have to be a hobbyist to be a competent programmer.Also where's your art and music degrees? Gamedev is a multi-disciplinary endeavour, it exists at the intersection between many different skills, all of which you need to have been practicing for multiple years in order to make a game at the ever raising minimum bar for quality expected by today's gaming audience.>>521734160Same goes for you, programming wagies and artist wagies suddenly turning to gamedev have a severe skills gap that they can only fill by somehow forming a team. Even gaming industry veterans from Riot and Blizzard who have a midlife crisis and decide to stop being a cog in the AAA machine and go it alone decide that what the world really needs a well-drawn but otherwise shitty metroidvania (pic related) that gets sub 1000 reviews.This shit isn't easy, it isn't for tourists, and you're far more likely to 'make it' by picking literally any other method to make money. If you're 30 and you have no direction in life honestly just start a power washing business.
>>521737256you probably read that in a strategy guide article of a games magazine you read cover to cover because you didnt have the internet yet
If I wasn't lazy I'd make a game that'd easily sell north of 1 million copies.
>>521737616Okay, but you are lazy, just like every other human being.
>>521737683Human was born tired and yearns for sleep.
i think i have something, there would be times where i would play it for 15 minutes just because. it might just be procrastination though. its not a game that i think about when im not working on it but its kind of engaging.
>>521736510like yours
>>521736510And some games do sell. They could be mine!
>>521737487sounds like no degree having cope
>dev leaves seething reply on every negative reviewbased or cringe?
>>521737616I only want to sell east of 10k copies.
>>521738240he should be grateful that they even took the time to write out a review
>>521738240based. more devs should do this. show those customers who's boss.
>>521737616If a few other people weren't lazy they would outsell your game so hard you would be back to 0 sales.
>>521738253You're NGMI if you "only" want to sell a small number of copies. You're mentally preparing yourself for failure.
>>521735261>next fest 2023>game isn't out the next month in 2023bro who taught this nigga wrong kek
>>521738240Based
>$600 on assets ill never even usehow much have you spent on assets?
>>521738316>>521738240I want more people to do this, so I can stand out as the nice guy who takes criticism well.
>>521738520Probably like $200-300
>>521738493This. Always aim for the stars.
>>521738574you gotta neg your customers or they won't want you
>>521737947that's why i posted that
>>521738493>You're NGMI if you "only" want to sell a small number of copies. You're mentally preparing yourself for failure.But 10k is a large number for me and something I'd consider a success... I'm not making the next Undertale here.
>>521738758The Steam algorithm doesn't care if 10k is a large number for you. It's not a large number for them, so they won't promote it, and you'll end up with <100 sales.
>>52173875810k copies at $5 each comes at $35k after Steam cut, which comes at $28k after taxes, which is probably even less after accountant fees and other bullshit. You'd make more by stacking shelves at a grocery store for a couple months.
>>521678460>my character was used for the OP image woah awesome
>>521738493i'm confident my game's going to flop, 1k usd in sales would be a successmy next game will be betteri have bowed my head to the demands of the marketpeople don't like hard games that require skillpeople don't like using their brainsthey just want to press the win button and feel like they've accomplished something for once in their livesi understandi'll give you exactly that :)
If you do literally anything differently than I do, you are doomed to never make it.
hey if you're desperate to make money just find a couple popular youtubers that play similar games and make something they'll all enjoytheir 13 year old indonesian viewers will happily spend $10 on a game their favorite talking head makes funny videos aboutimagine if northern lion never played nubby's number factoryit'd be sitting at a generous 50 reviews at maxbut nope5000well done youtubeno, the big youtubers won't even consider touching your passion projectmaybe some small channels can make a couple 10 view videos about itand a reddit post will get 30 upvotesthat's itmonths of marketing will peak at a couple thousand youtube views and a couple upvoted reddit threads because the only reliable vectors for exposure refused to touch your non-slop gameit doesn't matter how much you like itno youtube slop = no exposureyou can spend 20k on paid advertisements and hope it works outgood luck have funXDgood industry guysXD XD XD
gamedev is really unrewarding. it isnt life changing experience like a traveling musician. you spend time on your ass looking at screen for years making a toy. you learn nothing other than getting better at making games where as people who travel and meet people for their careers gain tons of life experiences that mold them into someone better.
>>521739284$10 is like 3 months office wage in indonesia you can feed a family for a year with $10 over there
>>521739313it's fucking retarded to be quite completely totally genuinely honest with you
Protip: you don't have to dev from your mom's basement. Go outside. Dev at a library or coffee shop.
>>521739651sounds inconvenient
>>521739651you don't have to dev at all
>>521739651sounds kinda scary
>>521739684>>521739784It's worth it. You'll certainly be more productive. There's this strong social pressure to look good and not just dick around when you're out in public.
>>521739395Boomer post
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3228180/Click_Mage/
>my husband is an executive at a law firm and runs a charity organization. what does yours do?>my hus--boyfriend..he makes video games>games? like the ones you play on your phone?
>>521739651I don't want the baristas to steal my ideas
A reassessment of my current situation has revealed that I'm not the problem. It's everyone else. Not me. I'm doing it right, they did it wrong and now I have to suffer.
>>521739874that's a lot more reviews than I was expecting
>>521738520hardware too? I bought a vive for dev and never finished a VR game
>>521739651This reminded me of that guy who devved a whole game from Burger King kek
>>521739857they dont buy games over there, they only play f2p mobile games
>>521740102slopmaxx
>>521739651i can't focus if I'm anywhere else
>>521740435You're not focusing where you are right now. You're browsing 4chins.
MAGE? MORE LIKE GAYGE LMAO>EWWWWW I DON'T WANT TO GET MY HANDS DIRTY I'LL JUST STAND OVER HERE AND USE MY MAGIC POWERS I LEARNED FROM READING OLD NERD BOOKS AND MIXING HERBS AND FLOWERS LIKE A WOMAN>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY FRICKIN HEAD HURTS NOW I HAVE TO TAKE A BREAK AND RECOVER MY SPIRIT!!
fuck video games
i've never heard of rhythm doctor or magicraft yet they both have 10k+ reviews
>>521740548>t. guy who wants to get rich via the internet
>>521740548thank you for typing that out
reminder that a troon released two games for free called nightmare kart and bloodborne demake. idk what his end game is.
>>521740616rpg maker is a popular choice
>>521739284this guy is bitter af ngmi
I will not be using AI to create art assets for myself, but feeding it work I have done and seeing the results is very fun. Fygoon turned into a turtle. Have also tried feeding it excerpts from my scripts, and showing it videos, kinda amazing how it can pick up an extrapolate upon themes and gameplay elements.
i bought a soundpack bundle that has 1k sounds and all of them are like this. do they even play games? i want the sound to play IMMEDIATELY. if i wanted anticipation i would code it in myself.
>>521741010probably AI generated
>>521740750>rhythm doctorhttps://youtu.be/6cnYPPVbnBMhttps://store.steampowered.com/app/774181/Rhythm_Doctor/trailer released in 2016, game released in 2021just market your game for 5 years bro>magicraft100,000,000 chinese netizens descend upon you
>>521738114>no degree having copeDo you have a job? I'm guessing not since you only mentioned that you have a compsci degree and not that you were a professional software dev with n years of experience.Don't project your cope onto me.
>>521741301NTA, but I have no degree and 10 years of professional experience and your post does sound like a big cope
>>521741010yeah I have a job developing corporate slop I dont enjoy should I preface all my posts with this tidbit about myself?
>>521741460if you're talking about taking up gamedev at the ripe old age of 28 then yeah
If there was honesty, truth, and justice in this world I would have 47 thousand wishlists.
>>521740862>idk what her end game is./agdg/ takeover
>>521740862patreon status?
>>521735261>>521730210>9k pre steam cut>this can't sustain my life style>still calls it a moderate success
>>521741010don't tell me your engine doesn't have a built in waveform editor?
This is interesting. Feed chatgpt my splash image, asked it to recreate it in the style of Gendy Tartakovsky, it could not, it was against content policy, Asked it to create it in the style of Samurai Jack. Same answer. Asked it to recreate it in whatever style it thought was appropriate. Here we go. Clearly, it kept the previous notes in mind.
>>521742431sadly not
>>521742465>terrible trigger diciplinestill somehow looks like slop
>>521735261>muh wishlists>muh discount strategy>muh Steam algorithm>muh devlogs>muh email outreach>muh visibility and creator coverage>muh Next Fest ideal window>muh potential hypeCan't wait to see this faggot flop for the 5th time
>>521742724Its not something I will use, its just for fun. Main point is that there is a way around policy limitations, and it is pretty simple.
>>521737487You can take 10 people with a comp sci degree and they won't be the same, but usually your basic programming knowledge is tested in the first year a lot of people that I knew were shit at coding failed or dropped out in the first or second year. Also a lot of degrees are basically scams that you could easily learn yourself, Toby Fox didn't have any of these degrees and people bought his game
>>521742831How many penises did Tumblr Toby have to put in his mouth?
>>521742953He is rich and you are not so it was probably worth it
if you dont have the skill you can make up for it with SOVL
Interesting...it seems you only want progress if spoonfed.
>>521741010its always like this
>>521742465are you a paying customer or are you almost out of image credits?
>>521743169I don't want progress. I want results.
>>521741010I don't want the sound recorder guy to decide when to clip my sound effects, I'd rather do it myself.
>>521741010Are they built for games or are they built for everything? Tv/Movies/music would want more control and wouldn't care about the extra space because they're already working in a DAW space.
>>521741010edit them in audacity retard
>>521743481Paid for chatgpt for work, it instantly corrects students texts and can create a lesson powerpoint from pointers in a minute. Just playing around with it this week, I have a week off from work.
>>521743510Is progress not results?
>>521743564its called ultimate SFX bundle from the unity store so i guess the latter.
Good morning.I am pleased to announce I have defeated the final boss of RPGmaker, menu design.
my dad is my role model. he makes cozy games.
>>521743653Are we playing your progress? Are customers buying your progress?
>>521742724
>>521743603>go to restaurant>order a burger>they serve you an uncooked burger patty, an unsliced bun, and unwashed toppings>jUsT cOoK tHe pAtTy oN a gRilL rEtaRD
>>521744165Anon I don't care
>>521743952That is AN result, not THE result. If you spend time making x feature works and it works when you're done that is A result.
>Check out other people streaming their game dev>See someone 8+ hours into game development>They look like they have way more relative progress than I do>Feel bad>Open twitch for background noise during work day>See the guy is live again>Realize he's unemployed>Don't feel bad anymore
>>521744165>he's never had korean bbq
>>521713546Huh, I was ready to pay 1000 If you don't value yourself correctly, I can't work with you
i gotta stop lying to myself, its the only thing i like doing but im not the chosen one
i need to wrap up this project quickly, im running out of thomas brush pods to listen to
Nothing can save my game.
>>521744982try JSON
>>521745084I only use playerprefs
>>521744150>reddit finger
>this is what Redot devs are focusing on>turning it into Scratchhttps://github.com/Redot-Experimental/reblocksWell since this project is going nowhere I either have to return to Godot in shame, or look towards Bevy or... enginedev
>>521745487lol. they should be making c# default so AI can make your redot game for you
godot uses the avx json stuff right?using binary shit in gdscript is unironically going to be slower in exchange for the temporary large sparing of RAM usage and the negligible sparing of RAM thereafter, right?
>>521745487You can enginedev using Godot as your hardware interface framework. Every part of Godot is independent and can be replaced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei1AZXAp7AQ
If your game is great, it will sell.There has never been a truly great game that didn't sell.If your release "flops", it was most likely mediocre, or at best, good (to some).Please stop worrying about strategies concerning release, great games sell. Notice how no one can ever unearth a hidden Hollow Knight from dumpster diving on Steam? How at best you can "unearth" some 7/10? That's because great games sell, no matter what. Yes, even if stealth dropped and instantly hidden by other releases. There has never been a case where some autist like me went down into the steam mines and unearthed a 8+/10 game no one ever heard about before.I cannot stress this fact enough.Please focus on making a great game.
>>521745723why would one not just use opengl for that?
>>521745487Most redotbabs have never touched gamedev before so this is smart.
>>521745715Don't worry about performance until you have a functioning, playable game.
>>521745739lower the bar please. I'm so fucking tired I can't keep up
>>521745723and should be replaced
>>521745857the key word here is great, not just good but great.
>>521745870Godot's renderers interface to more than OpenGL can, is more optimized, and is less boilerplate.
>>521745857google "Underspace"
>>521746087i lol'd. Good work, my carly my darly.The punch is way too slow.
>>521746087replace the protagonist with an anime girl
>>521746087just publish it on steam. this is badrats 2.0
>>521746087this isn't fun to play, there is 1 mechanic
>>521746087Make it faster, add challenge
>>521746414More mechanics than in my game
>>521746087Holy KINO. The only way you can improve this is to publish it on steam.
>>521746087https://store.steampowered.com/app/3241030/Hack_and_Slash_Fury/thoughts?
>>521745487Chudbros this can't be happening... did we get btfo by some trans cuties?
>>521746087>Schoolgirl sound effectsUh oh
>>521747171looks better than fagoon's game
>>521747360Using Godot for a CHUD project is permissible just tack on the [+NIGGER License] to your project.
>>521745965kekek
>>521747171Evil Cris be like "Here is my finished game, it's free"
dont compare gamedev to musicians,writers, or w/e. by the time you made one shit game they would've put out at least a few projects. the time it takes to produce a good game takes way longer, that along with realizing your potential.
>>521747720I'm looking at the recent market data and it seems if you get chudded, you get bankrupted. I would advise against this.
hmmm today i will run anon's totallycleandemo.exe that he sent me on 'cord
>>521738503Chris Zukowski says you should put your Steam page up as soon as possible and participate as early as possible, because Wishlists don't "decay" or "get old".
>>521747628Not hard to do>>521747867Correct. I could write, record, and post a new song here in less than an hour with real instruments and a decent high quality mix.
>>521748286Branno is going against this advice for his next game, would have told him this if I had a google account
>>521746087Hey there! I'm with Two Left Thumbs, and I just wanted to say your game Pantsu Destroyer looks absolutely incredible. Super fun, stylish, and bursting with personality! I'd love to get in touch and talk about the possibility of publishing it. We specialize in helping unique indie games reach a wider audience, and I really think this one has huge potential. If you're open to chatting, feel free to reply here or reach out directly at graeme2lt@gmail.com. I would love to connect!
Why aren't you fraudmaxxing game dev? Think of the ez money from angel investors and Patreon
>>521748750I don't want to commit fraud. I want to make a good game and own its IP.
>>521748286I don't think he said join nextfest 2 years before you release. nextfest wishlists are different psychologically to other wishlists. wishu risuto
>>521748912You won't make it if you make a good game, you have to make the best game in the genre
>>521746087the guy can only punch sideways lol
I need to get rid of my dependency to tutorials. How can I do it? Let's say I want to make my character run a bycicle, there's no tutorial for this (let's assume there isn't). How do I tackle it without searching for someone that did it the same I want to implement it?
>>521749064I won't make what?
>>521746087cris won
>>521749194There's nothing wrong with tutorials. The only thing that changes is you're better at looking for the info, eventually you'll go straight to documentation for information.
>>521749194draw 3 sprites of the guy riding the bicycle (with the legs alternating ykwu) set isriding to true, override the normal walking sprites accordingly, profitif you are retarded just pay a programmer (is this a thing btw? Can i get artists to pay me the way programmers pay artists?)
>>521749269smdh... ngmi
fuck. i give up.i'm going to do it.i'm going to make a shitty porn game that promises massive coomer potential but only updates once a year with the most insignificant of shit.and i'm going to open a patreon
blah blah blah im going to blah blah blahwaaaahh no im too good for it im above that!
>>521749482Cris it's too late for that gravy train AI killed coomer patreons
>>521749724nooodon't ruin the last hope and dream i have leftdamn you aidamn yoooou
>you will never have literal slop served by Valvehttps://howtomarketagame.com/2025/04/14/what-i-heard-from-valve-at-gdc/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3444870/Rogue_Bricks/i dont get why anyone would even buy this game let alone leave a review. they're either bots or just bad with money.
FANARTNOW
>>521749482Just make good game. Simple as. Coomslop only leads to misery. Besides >>521749724 is right you and you know it.
>>521750149um thats not slop its a Rustic Hand-Crafted Brekkie Bowl
>>521750149that looks hearty and delicious
>>521738876I'm not depending on Steam to promote my game though. It's just a storefront, I'll do my own promotion and guerilla marketing. I feel like lately people are taking Steam's discoverability for granted. >>521738918Achtkually it's 10 dollars per copy, and the game will hopefully be done in 1 year. 10k sales would be an amazing success. Even if I make the same as a burger flipper, at least I did it doing something I enjoy (and improved my skills in the process) and didn't have to put up with serving karens and fat people.
i never download games off itch even if they're free, the zip file is so sketchy and there could be a virus in the exe
>>521750206 velet 5422 reviews masaj makinesi 40003 reviewsit's his mom and sister
>>521750483
>>521750409>I'm not depending on Steam to promote my gameNGMI. Using Steam to promote your game is by far the number one most common way to reach success.
>>521750149So literally nobody outside of Valve knows how the algorithm works, everyone just gives out bullshit interpretations based on the data they see but with no actual proof.The more of this "how to market your game" blogs/videos I read and watch, the more I think they're completely useless and I'm better off isolating myself from the internet finishing my game and just dropping it on Steam, maybe buy an ad on 4chan or something.
>>521750483well, especially if they are free no? if you sell one and it has a virus you lose customers
>>521749194You leave tutorial hell as soon as you grasp all essentials to your engine and language. As soon as you know how things work, your mind comes off with the solution naturally. For a bicycle you'd need first to decide what approach you need. Scripted, physics-based or whatever else. Then you pick the fitting node or whatever it's called and expand from there. It all comes down to the base fact that all you see in games is nothing else than simple shapes moving around doing whatever you want with some fancy models plastered on top of em. Know how the basics work and you can make anything.
>>521750557Dev is from the US and the reviewer from Turkey
the best thing zukowski said adding horror to an unpopular genre makes it tens times better
>>521750686Also wishlists are weighted, thirdies accounts that don't purchase a lot of games don't count that much.
>>521750837>as soon as you grasp all essentials to your engine and languageso never?
>>521745857Truthpill right here. Most people produce slop and hope to become rich with it over night. That's not how it works.
https://steamdb.info/app/2765490/charts/The last 2 /agdg/ multi years games flopped...
>>521750686>So literally nobody outside of Valve knows how the algorithm worksthis is the case for almost every (promotional) algorithm in existence. this is like saying youtubers shouldn't try to game the algorithm and make clickbait thumbnails, because only youtube employees really know how the algorithm works.
2d is so nice, you can get away with way more stuff
>>521750149According to this employee, there are 3 tiers of player accounts and a wishlists from each of them have different weights: The lowest is an account with 0 purchases, and 0 play time (most likely a bot account) Middle tier is an account that looks like a real person but one that isn’t that engaged with Steam (I forgot all the factors the Valve person said but I think it was something like, they haven’t spent a lot of money, haven’t played many different games, aren’t doing much wishlisting) The top tier wishlist is from an account that spends a lot of money, logs in frequently, wishlists a lot of games.
>>521745857THRVTH NVKE
>>521751408You can't really click bait people into buying a game
>>521750656>but the numbers say-Don't care.>but statistics show-Don't care.>but everyone else does-Don't care.
if you make over a million in rev steam sends you...a box of chocolates. this is fact.
>>521745857Wrong, games become "good" via factors outside your control like amongus. It was a flop then COVID happened.
>>521751691>>NGMI>Don't care.
>>521749445Never gonna make... What?
Done with my work for the day
Soon.
>>521751747When Steam Deck came out, they sent one to every single developer who had at least 500 reviews.They're 100% going to do the same with Steam Deck 2. Will your game be out (and successful) by then? Better hurry anon.
>>521751747Eric schizo why do you keep posting this? Like yeah it's funny but what you want us to say? It's just a PR gesture
>>521751571Going 3D as a solo dev is setting yourself up for failure
>>521751980>>521751980>>521751980
Why don't games use bass heavy sound effects anymore? Gunshots and explosions in games used to shake the room with deep bass, even back when the sfx were bit crushed.Why did every developer switch to "realistic", anemic popcorn noises for guns and bombs?
>>521745857Post GREAT games made by solodevs besides minecraft
>>521752094Everyone uses a headset now grandpa. Also viewers need to hear the streamer talking.
>>521751040Look at how games are designed and how to the basics function. Tutorials can help during this phase, but are only the introduction most of the time. An example: Many characters you see in vidya have a primitive shape collider (most often a tick tack shaped capsule) that is responsible for collision and smooth movement. Why a ticktack? Because box-shaped colliders tend to get stuck in edges etc. Movement is done via script which processes the player's input. Tutorials can help here teaching you the basics of movement. This collider is invisible and in its centre is the actual playermodel, which, depending on the action the player inputs, plays an animation, like run etc. Attacks and interactions can be done in different ways, but in fps games many are done with hitscan or raycast techniques. Those are invisible lines drawn from one position to another and trigger events on the target when a certain action is performed, like firing a shot or something. One could continue endlessly here, explaining all the techniques you could use, but for your own project, see what things exactly you need research how others have done it. When you have those basics down, you should be able to dev on your own most of the time. But at the end of the day, you mostly command geometric shapes to do your bidding and display the result to the player.
>>521751998The market is crying out for a wholesome chunguslike indiecoded side scrolling 2D gemerald
>>521752527it is thoughseriouscoded 2d sidescroller doesn't work, remember the game from the "big dog blizzard artist"? Me neither.
>>521752910It isn't, thoughever
>>521751606lmao, my guess is that they detected Jeets botting wishlists.
>>521753184whales have a lower wishlists/purchases ratiothis heuristic should be in place from day 0
>>521715248Tranny pedo sexpest
>>521745857cosmically; in the great eternity; in the infinite of artistic legacy; you are correctin the flesh and blood reality of a creator and their creation though you are wrong
