Pixel art edition>Demo DaysNOW: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64Previous: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-63Older: https://hackmd.io/LhEB6VCZSx-oBalI2cWWoA>AGDG resourceshttps://hackmd.io/dLaaFCjDSveKVeEzqomBJw>Helpful linksNew Threads: >>>/vg/agdgArchive: https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/subject/agdg//agdg/ Steam Games: https://made-by-agdg.vercel.app/Steam Games by AGDG: https://agdg-steam.netlify.app/>How to WebMhttps://obsproject.comhttps://github.com/argorar/WebMConverterhttps://github.com/michaelmob/WebMCam>Previous thread>>538096468
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ban f*goon from DD
>>538221687>toxic waste>real threadlol lmao
>Nah dude we're totally bestiesThankfully aggy doesn't do things like this. Right, anon?
i click all the links
>>538222393all team cherry are my friends with benefits if you know what I mean
>>538221687you'll never be a real you know what fygoon
>>538223147I dont know what you mean
>>538222981sry i dont read things written by women
I only have 10 plays of my demo. Is that typical or a sign my game's not interesting enough?
>>538225384yes, agdg has like ~300 lurkers
>>538223147>”director”>”director”>coderSo it’s one guy?
>>538226618>The artist for Hollow Knight is Ari Gibson. He is a co-director at Team Cherry and is responsible for the game's distinctive art style, creating the in-game sprites, character designs, and environments seen in the game.
>>538226978>we have an entire guy whose work could be done by a style LORAso yeah one actual dev and some freeloaders.
>>538228140...lora of who?
>>538228140kill yourself codetard
I WON'T FORGIVE SILKSONG FOR THIS
Hi, I'd like some progress.
>>538229067nigga that's a flash game from 2006
>>538229325sure, here's a request I got: saving items blueprint rotation when changing aiming surfaces
>>538222393this is just trying to ride on their coattails and steal some attention
>>538222393-10000 aura
While background maybe doable, AI wasn't doing images for the majority of the games 7 year development.
>>538232608*meant for this goofy nigga >>538228140
>>538229067why buy this when I could play mongol for free?
>>538229067People can laugh at other indies blaming silk song all they want but i've noticed that I have 70% less sales per day on average after silk song came out.
>>538233794I run a damn porn site and my traffic has been down since it came out.
>>538234889upload silksong porn
>>538229067>7 reviews>mogged hypercoven>and heroes for hire>one day after silksong
Indie holocaust
>>538237989>nah bro if your game is good it'll succeed and the invisible hand of the market will bring it to the top, there are no outside factors that can influence this :) it doesn't matter how many games get released per day or what kind of games they are
>>538237989yeah I'm sure uh... "Tictactoe Sets井字棋合集" fans were so excited to play it but then silksong happened and now all "Tictactoe Sets井字棋合集" are playing silksong
nice
if your game launch fails, can you take it down, rename it or somethin, then slap it back up some time later during better market conditions?
>>538239837if nobody notices yeah!
I'm more of a pixel shartist myself
>>538239919Just call it a remake
i want to make one of those games like dwarf fortress where there's practically no gameplay, just some little avatars moving around and the game "says" things are happening and you're just ok with that. just easier to play for stupid people like me. i like games where its more about what changes you can do to the world instead of how good the combat system is or something
>>538222393I was confused why somebody keeps posting this but I'm warming up to the shitpostingAI generated lore, characters and social media posts and people don't give a shit because there's a maid outfit waifu
>>538239919sure.
I used AI VOICE ACTING to enhance immersion in my game.
Time to lock in, anon
>>538237989
>>538221365I always thought lufia was an mmo
>fps cap should be enabled by defaultI've had comments suggesting as much, but I can't think of any games where this setting is enabled by default. What would you set the default as?
>>538248448I set mine to 120FPS and I also have vsynch enabled. Some people have super powerful PCs and when they open the game, their PC starts flying as the game goes at 5000fps. The FPS cap is just there to prevent incidents like these, the players will later change to whatever they need or uncap it if that's what they want.
>>538248448I’m pretty certain it’s enabled by default almost everywhere. 100 Hz is a good bet.>>538248647The problem with enabling VSync, while it solves the uncapped FPS issue, is that VSync on older GPU SUCKS. As in, makes the game noticably, massively sluggish.
>>538237989>8 out of 10 games had fewer than 10 playersA normal day on Steam…?
>>538229067>>538236337well done
What's the point of it all, everything has already been made.
So, why am I supposed to be mad about Silksong
>>538249515It's a transbian game
I love making games so much bros. I just wish I could do this all day, every day, without worrying about bills, food, having enough money for medical emergency, etc.
>>538251068Same, but also having a couple cute girlfriends that liked doing it with me.
*Paging kannadev*Do you make your animations in blender? Recommend some good tutorials to git gud
>>538229325I redid some sprites and was workin on a new area. I like the color scheme of the background tiles but I feel that this area should be darker and this one used for waterfall caverns or something.
>>538251246You are selfish and tainted, I just want the pure platonic joy of game creation.
>>538251695>>538229325Also here are comparisons of Dirk's apperances. I like his Grug expression but it might be just me getting used to it. I think that maybe I'll leave him for Charm 1 stat though.
>>538252686lol dumbass
>>538252518You're infected by the sex = bad brainrot
I just realized the reason why youtube doesn't share my videos is because I don't do SEO.
>>538253346You don't put tags on your videos?
>>538253524there's a diference between using tags and doing SEO.
>>538253263No, I just don't taint my platonic love for game creation with bodily urges. You can have sex but not in the same room with your children watching.
>>538253585>You can have sex but not in the same room with your children watchingsays who?
>>538253585Thinking non-platonic love is tainting is sex=bad brainrot.
>>538253810Yes it is tainting, the same way any shade of gray taints pure white. What would you do if your dick was cut off completely when you were a kid? You would still be able to love platonically but not erotically. Platonic love can exist at a higher, more abstract level. If you don't see as much then you're the one with brainrot, probably just a hedonist who values food and sex above all else.
>godot>use preload for assets loading up>takes 3 to 5 seconds to load the game>see someone playing my game on stream closing it because he thought it was frozenI put a static splash image that says loading but I wanna put an actual loading bar, how can I do that when preload lags everything?
>>538254274https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tVyHgjzPJI
>>538254151The fact you use an incomplete, mutilated person to support your view is telling.Humanity cannot exist without sex, that makes sex a part of being human.I am a whole human, so sex is part of me.To love gamedev with my whole being is to love gamedev with all parts of me, including my sexuality.It saddens me that due to the sex=bad brainrot you're not able to love gamedev with your whole human self, as I can.
You fucking bastard bitch. You wanna get raped now, bitch?
>>538254621thanks, I feel like stupid for not being able to find that one.
Faggot retard tranny
I was wisiting my brother the other day and he said that everytime I visit he has to clean up his wishlists on steam. Truth be told I was adding to his wishlist /agdg/ games to boost their visibility, but he takes none of it. If you were wondering why suddenly your wishlist goes up and then goes down by 1, it might be me and my brother's doing. I thought you should know.
>>538255435stay in your containment thread, fygoon
FYGOOONNNNNNNNNNNNNNN WHERE IS UR GAEM I WANT TO PLAY
>>538255435wrong textbox, i think you meant to click on "Name"
>>538256432>>538256830Kill yourself retarded tranny. Your parents hate you and you're a waste of resources for everyone.
>>538256641Dark Grace:Combat too slowtoo much bloomnice textures and modelscombat feels badsound effects too loud
did you rike this demo day? i'm enjoying it
Are the people that are saying that Demo Day has reclined for real or are they just memeing?If you're for real tell me based on what you're saying that
>>538257931I feel left out again
fuck I'm such a retard
>>538260198maybe if you spent less time with old fag anime and more time on learning
>>538258416What game
>>538221365we're all going to dev hard todayhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/OhUG1ghZ9WE
>ADHD southpark (20 hashtags)poetry
>>538261343I'm gonna eat a donut and then watch some CS and then do my laundry and then jerk off
>>538260864
>>538221365holy soul, modern pixelshitters could never
You ever go out of your way to talk to normal gamers? You don't hate them enough.
>>538262637For me, /v/ is enough.
>>538262637I do talk to them and you're right, I really should hate them even more than I already do.
>>538262637What is a "normal gamer" exactlyThe ones who don't actually have tastes of their own and just gobble up whatever flavor of the month is placed before them?
>>538262637I love normal gamers.
nigga I'm boutta CRACK LIKE A WHORE
>>538262720This. Nothing will make you hate gamers like spending 10 minutes on /v/
I deliberately went out of my way to include NO LORE so youtube essayists cannot make money off my perfection of art.
>>538264274Go to the civilized niche threads and ignore the shitposters. There's no other way, the latter category barely even plays games so it's safe to disregard anything they say.
>>538264572It's been very entertaining to watch as /agdg/ has gone from worshiping lore and worldbuilding to despising lore and worldbuilding over the past ~3 years as the realization has sunk in that video game lore is now a popular topic and therefor must be hated.And to think I was called a faggot for making this exact same video essayist point way back then! That's the struggle of always being ahead of the curve I guess.
>>538251068me too
>>538264827>Go to the civilized niche threads and ignore the shitpostersDude, I've tried. All that's taught me is that there are people on /v/ who are so desperate for attention that they too seek out the niche threads and actively work to derail them with bait posts. I guess they've realized there's a smaller, but more dedicated audience for those threads and therefore it's easier to get people to engage with their posts.Just look at this place for an example of what I'm talking about. Tourists come to /agdg/ all the time to post twitter ragebait slop that belongs on /v/. Why? Because it's easier to get an audience here, this general moves at about 1/100th the speed on /v/.
>>538265654/v/ is really bad.
update: currently fixing a bug
>>538209720bro just turned everyone's 16:9 monitors into 4:3.
Okay, time for some community service streamhttps://www.twitch.tv/stepman5 (embed)~20 mins for every gameI'll play any requested demos. To start us off>Kludge>Wagie Run (Thanks for playing my game bro)>Guns and Nuns>Winds of Valor>Aculto>Castella>Plunderground>Heart of Evil
>Homelette demo 6Charming little puzzle platformer with a character switching mechanic, seems geared towards kids.Start menu works well, saving and loading works, options menu has everything you need.I found no bugs, played normally and finished level 3.Fairly straightforward controls, the pause menu shows you the controls but has French keybinds even if you're playing in English.Player is eased in and all the mechanics are explained as you play.The level select screen could probably use some beautification work.The platforming and puzzle aspect of finding your way and switching characters is engaging enough for you to want to continue playing through all the levels.Overall, not much to critique about this game, everything seems to work as far as I played. The art could probably be improved, the levels could use a bit more life and movement as is they are too static.
>>538265654nice
>>538266071watching the stream right now, property damage game would probably be really good with co-opdestroy shit with your buddies, tally up the damage, score points or something, idkit has potential
What size canvas should I use for drawing pixelslop? I don't understand scaling at all. I was going to use 64x64 for my sprites, but is that too small?
just refunded Silksong.can't believe people would play it over my game.there's something very wrong with the world and it needs to be cleansed with nuclear fire
>>53826658264x64 is huge for sprites.
>>538266582it depends on your art style and skill level, i think
>>538266503>turbonormie friendhaver opiniondiscarded
>>538266671What size would you recommend? I read some online guides that recommended 64x64, but in hindsight I think those guides may have been aimed at just making pixel art rather than sprites intended for a video game.
>>538266883if you're new to making games, i'd stick with something tiny, like 8x8 or 16x16it might seem too small at first, but when creating multiple assets with animations, you'll be able to learn the process pretty quickly, and scale your skills up over timeas you get better, you can increase the canvas size and complexity of your spritesi think it's important to continue actually making your game while improving your pixel art skills, rather than fully focusing on just the spritesmaybe try making a basic platformer with tiny sprites to get used to the whole process, and then begin working on bigger canvases
>>538266883Really depends on what aesthetic and design you're going for. The fact that you're asking at all means you should probably just work on your art in general before worrying about what you're going to use for a game. Once you get better you'll know what you prefer to work with.
update log #2: the bug is fixed
pushed an update that adds deck previews to help people figure out what's going on, as well as nerfing slimes and some color changes
>>538267393Did you make this in Visual Basic?
>>5382668831x1One pixel is all you need, baby!>super easy to design anything>filters out colorblind shitters. Get the fuck out, you literal cripples, you can never even be an electrician or on the bomb squad. What wire are you going to cut? The grey one or the grey one? Go to hell>super easy to animate>super easy to work with
my game is almost donei have probably 3-4 more systems to implement, then i'll need to playtest and re-balance the values, add some polish, and i'm finishedvery exciting news!maybe 2 months left at most, if i'm being lazy
>>538267773>new systems>need to playtest>2 months left at most
Have you ever wondered what if a one shot doujin is made in a game engine like godot instead of it being a static printed punch of pages.Like have it animated and with basic interactivity like a pop up book and have some songs.
>>538267163>>538267252Thanks for the advice.I'm an okay artist I guess, I just have very little experience with pixel art. I don't know the "rules" of the medium, and I know even less about to translate that art into an actual game.I'll start with a fairly low resolution and limited color palette and work my way up from there I guess.
>>538268321so like a novel thats visual? interesting idea cris
>>538267773So you're implementing new systems after your game's levels are completed?Seems kind of backwards desu
>>538268369not a VN.more like an interactive manga,
>>538268401i have to make the levels too, but that'll be easy once the systems are done>>538268134i work hard
>>538268321I don't like it. I've read one of those fancy interactive comics before and I prefer the traditional purity of the medium. I'd rather have a virtual comic inside my game that behaves as a comic would in the real world, without any music, animation or interactivity other than flipping pages.
>>538265654Missing the anti-2D crab, but otherwise a pretty spot-on depiction of the last few threads.
>>538268321>tfw I had this exact same idea last week>tfw my brain has started organically generating cris ideasI feel like my doctor just gave me a terminal cancer diagnosis
>>538268517>i have to make the levels too, but that'll be easy once the systems are doneThere should be a term for this kind of thinking.That once you have the engine done that the game will come together quick because you're just slapping together a few levels.But in reality the levels are what is going to take you the longest and you haven't even realized it yet.
>>538268747the longer you spend on this thread, the more your brain crisifies
>>538268772we'll see
Leap Galaxy is really cool, even if a bit basic. The palette system and the visual style are super cool. Does the dev post regularly here?
>>538266421>Planets For SaleAsks to connect to internet first, good.Game is still in the early stages of dev.Two types of menus.Lots of placeholder art, it's hard to understand what's going on, still lots of default Godot buttons and art.Looks like a finance and management sim game where you have to sell a planet's resources in the galactic marketplace to make the planet profitable.Has a pause menu but once in-game there's no way to get back to the start menu.I like the background music in the menu.Once in-game UI gets a lot better, nice animations for the planets, menus are a bit sluggish, could use more juice and sound.Maybe I didn't play attention but it's not readily apparent what the win condition is, earning starts?Market analysis could probably be a scrolling ticker somewhere for easy look up.I'd need to read the tutorial with more attention but I think this game could be fun once it's more polished and has more intrigue.Overall, game is still uncooked but has potential to be fun, already some interesting 3D animations.
>>538268772content treadmill?
Wagie Run made me nostalgic for PS2 era games. I like the relaxed style and the flavor text. The dev should probably not charge too much for it when it releases though, because it's so simple.Dirk is emulating a retro adventure game pretty well, the music and graphics are perfect for what the game is going for. Wish the game was more straightforward about what you're supposed to do, but it's alright.Aculto is really intuitive and made me nostalgic for The Sims. But it's not my kind of game since it's aimless, I know one of the streamers went nuts over it.
>>538269158it's more like the "wow these systems aren't ready for level content at all and coding shit still takes 80% of the time" treadmill
>>538268860I think Cris is the one that's me-fying. Many of his ideas are similar to mine but I'm pretty sure I posted them first.
this is how beginsfirst you make something that's shit. then you get lucky and the shit thing becomes popular.
>working on a PSX style game>decide to play some PS1 games to remind me what they actually look like>every environment is literally like 100 polygonsdamn dude I was trying too hard
>>538269946I always liked the top down Hollow Knight.I think there is potential for a HK Zelda-like.
>>538270025a good artist will make each of those polygons count. a shitty artist won't make something as good with 3x the poly budget
>>538254708I was going to write a long ass rant about how you're completely missing my point and instead just projecting some strawman on me that I think sex is bad. But honestly after spending 3 hours working on a feature and then running it and seeing it work perfectly, I'm on such a high I don't even care anymore man. Maybe one day you'll think back on this conversation and see what I was actually trying to say. Maybe not, it doesn't matter. I hope one day you'll be free.
>>538269946>dont update your game at all>suddenly goes from 1/5 to 4/5 because you're famous and released something popularThis hobby isn't at all merit based.
>>538269946>then you get luckyI'm the unluckiest person in the world.
>>538269946Halo effect in a nutshell. >game - by itself>1/5, not very good >game - after developers become multi-millionaires and very popular>wow 4/5 amazing
>[game] exists for years>never see [game] discussed anywhere>sequel to [game] releases>sequel to [game] becomes popular>suddenly [game] and sequel to [game] are the worst things to ever happen to gaming>I have to scroll past contrarian retards ranting about how terrible [game] is in every threadDo you faggots ever get tired of this shit?
I think I'd get more useful feedback out of a house spider than the average GAYMURRRR.
>>538270952gamers are like women on dating appsspoiled for choice, always demanding more and more while offering less and less. and it's getting worse, faster.
>>538268772>But in reality the levels are what is going to take you the longest and you haven't even realized it yet.
Bungie was able to make this game with a box of scraps and a Mac in the Washington woods.
Itch is dead
Ctesiphon is good, I never felt lost even though I'm not really into FPS games. One of a couple 3D games that runs over 60 fps on my 10-year old laptop too. The enginedev work pays off, very cool.
Another stream incoming in 2hrs 30mins (5PM GMT, 12PM EDT/EST).40 minutes per game, as usual.List of games that will be played (in no particular order):1: Jargon (Beta Demo) - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/38638942: Wagie Run (Prototype) - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/38641413: Nine Star Barrage - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/38679664: Plunderground - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/23130135: The (looping) Trolley Problem - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/37718286: Untitled Dome Game - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/38632117: Slide Game - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/20527028: Castella - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/38656729: Putt Down - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/322503010: Pirate Princess Lilly - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/372736711: WASTELAND BITES - DEMO - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/362694712: GlitchPick - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/rate/3778687https://www.twitch.tv/brimstonewalker
>>538272296>your game will never change gaming so hard you get THREE exclamation marksfuck this dogshit im out, fuck thiiisss SO MUCH ATHIS ISNT FAIR
>>538272501gay stream lel
>couldn't log in to steam and checking the ID said "this account has been deleted" but it fixed itself 10 minutes laterh-haha thanks for the jumpscare gabe you got me g-good
>>538272501>no Silksongyou're asking for 0 viewers my man
>>538272296Halo was such an extreme case of pure luck and skill. The game went through so many iterations of failure before they decided it should even be an FPS game.
>>538272296Halo looked pretty bad in the Mac builds desu.You can see hints of the final art style but it wasn't until it got rebuilt for xbox that it starts to look good.And even then the art style isn't solidified until Halo 2 really.
>>538272908It was still an RTS in that screenshot.
>>538272581kys fagtroon
>>538272908i think that looks good
>>538272908Halo 2 actually looked better prior to the final release. It's really clean and distinct. The final game simultaneously looks blurry as fuck but with a single repeating grunge texture applied to everything for "detail".
>>538270306psychology > everything
>>538270025low poly requires good texturing, otherwise it's chunky slop
>>538266421>>538269073Nice thanks for these
>>538270306On the bright side it means that every AGDG game can be redeemed later if the developers actually release a successful game eventually.>streamer onions face>"5 indie gems you COMPLETELY missed out on!"
>>538272975No it wasn't.>>538272908Halo looked fucking amazing in 1999, and the physics behind it, especially the vehicles, were mind blowing. I had never seen a game that mixed running around on foot and vehicles to that level of fidelity before, and honestly, it wasn't until Halo (and Operation Flashpoint) came out in 2001 that you could play a game like that. Tribes had vehicles, but nothing like Halo. All that said, personally I think Halo's visual style peaked with Halo CE, and it's been all downhill since, with some literal bright spots here and there.
DD games are soo good, I realize I'm completely outclassed even in this place.time to find greener pastures I guess
how do i get good at character design
>>538274110What are you yapping about? There's only one good game
>>538273802As an indie, marketing means building a following through consistent output, making yourself a household name. Way too many devs think they'll magically hit it big with some nebulous reddit frontpage big break moment.
Bros, they're beating on Jonathan Blow...>>>/v/720030330
>>538269002I don't think I've ever seen him ITT.
>>538274510
>>538274324Yeah, mine.
>>538221365nortubel stop having culture war brainrot on tumblr and just make game
>>538273802Is marmoreal developing marmounreal?
>>538274778The trailer for his game features a lot of /agdg/ related names on the high score screen, so I'm not sure if he's really a whodev.
>>538269073>Conviction ChroniclesGame takes like a minute to load.The initial dev's splash art skips too fast to even read, as do the warnings.The tips in the loading screens aren't centered.Start menu looks good and intriguing,Two different kinds of menu styles, should probably be more uniform (opinion).A bit too many loading screens.The hourglass icon to continue should probably be another type of icon, a blinking arrow for instance, otherwise it makes one think we need to wait instead of pressing a button.Once in-game there is no indication of controls anywhere.Need to spam buttons to find out WASD/Arrows to move and Space to interact, Tab for menu, Q/E to rotate camera.Mouse and keyboard both work for menus but makes it a bit jarring to use both, should only use keyboard imo.I think each character should have their own distinct dialogue color so you can really tell who's speaking, or some other way to better understand at a glance, the current colors are also a bit too vivid.A few typos here and there.Overall, the death game idea and setup is cool, there is certainly potential to be a commercial success here but it takes a bit too long to get started and there are no clues for anything to ease the player in, there's a bit too much telling and not enough seeing. I can appreciate that this type of game takes a lot of work to get right, I was intrigued and wanted to learn more but the introduction prologue required too much investment and reading right away without letting go. Everything also gives me this feeling of beeing too "zoomed in".
>>538275252we should also tell him to NOT kill his family because apparently he's a ticking time bomb
>>538241535This is the most "serious" marketer in a long while.If this 50K betrays them, then anons are entirely right to not market.
>>538275615good to know the game is still as shit as it was before so i don't have to touch itretard dev churns out copycat slop and wouldn't know a good game if it fucked him in the ass
Y-you still believe in me. Right, anons?
>>538275925this is kind of game that thinks it can release at 30 dollars, and theyre baffled when they cant
>>538276198fuck off retard
>>538276198As long as you believe in me I believe in you.
>>538274510I fucking love this stream. I don't understand how this guy made a platformer while being so shit at platformers. It genuinely looks like he's never played one before in his life.
>>538273980Even nowadays I think Halo has the best integration of vehicles (and physics) in a first person shooter.The fact that it all also works in a multiplayer environment with practically 0 issues is incredible too.
>>538274151i love loli diana so much. I should 3d model her
>>538275615>CastellaGame starts up, still a prototype it seems.No indication of what you're supposed to do.Straight into the game, no menus for anything.GPU going full load.Interface and UI looks refined already, good feedback.After fumbling around with no idea it seems kinda like a god game where I have to give orders on what to do, what to build without having control over the minions.I like the art style.Minions work on their own.The red [x] for actions seems a bit counter-intuitive, another symbol should be used to better understand what it's doing.3 PM everyone is having a siesta including the animals.System cursor appears above game cursor.The actions and buttons should have a hover label or something else telling you what happens if you click them or what they're used for.Overall, not much I can critique about this prototype, it certainly has potential, what's there looks good and has good sound and visual feedback, I can see this being really fun down the line and certainly want more but right now still uncooked.
>>538276198No.
No bocchi posts. Is marmo okay?
>>538278553she went to a better place
>>538275327He was in the Latin American Games showcase a few months ago, which I thought was really cool.
>had some trouble with Godot's multiplayer nodes not replicating properly if a player joins a game in progress. So had to make my own.There's an npc bully that wanders the map and will eventually fight you, will make a different sprite for him soon.
>>538278853Does this game feature rape?
>>538278553Who cares, post game dev or shut the fuck up.
>>538278553I've just played the Marmoreal demo. Just in case the creator is still around, I think the game is really cool. The anime-style cutscenes are awesome. The gameplay is interesting, but I wish there was an easy mode, it's taking a while for me to progress because I suck at videogames. Also, I wish the walls and ceilings had their top modeled like isometric games do, the see-through shader is cool and all but the levels would look better without it.
>mutt creates a new thread >devs post here instead>comes here and acts belligerent because aggies don't post in his containment thread>maybe treat people nicer and they'll do the same
>>538278989No it features wholesome Christmas fun
>>538278350>he doesn’t put on his Kamina devglasses while working on his gameyou will never pierce the heavens
>>538279886blud got scammed
>>538279987It's normally bigger, I just got out of the pool.
>>538278071>Void CrawlersAnother prototype game.No options for anything yet, a volume option would've been nice.FPS uncapped, GPU full load.Interesting menus, well animated.I'm playing a Saturn game within a PC game?The boosting mechanic seems a bit wonky and goes backwards instead of forward.Some enemies can get stuck behind the pillars, or hidden behind map textures.Kinda looks like a Binding of Isaac setup with labyrinthine rooms you have to clear.You can just stay still and tank all the damage from enemies, not much of a challenge.Going back into old rooms seems to bug out and freeze the game for a bit.Aiming at enemies seems you kinda have to lead your shots.These beeps & boops aren't that engaging.Going through a bunch of rooms with repetitive gameplay but no end in sight, so I got bored.Overall, there is some potential to be fun here but since it's still early in development not much I can critique that would matter. My opinion is that the ship should have more grip, more juice, cooler gun types, you should never be able to get stuck in any kind of geometry it should just flow, be fast, and shooting should be really enjoyable with nice feedback and cool sounds since that's the most important part of the game: shooting.
>>538279536Dude is the definition of attention seeking. Needs literal therapy.
Going live!https://www.twitch.tv/brimstonewalker
>>538279886Do they make them for dev sight (myopic)?
>silksong at home
>>538282216>looks awesome thomash you really are talenteddoes having sycophant toesuckers like this feel good, feels like id get paranoid if someone described my red box on an asset store/ai background as "awesome and talented", like something is wrong
>>538282216Thomas Was Alone (RTX On)
>>538282216>check silksong gameplay because of the hype>yet another generic 2d platformer metroidvania slop>generic flash game graphicsI don't get it
>>538281624i look like this
>time to play some demoday games>sort list by popularity>play from the topIt's called the wisdom of the crowd, better luck next time unpopular devs.
>>538282737>plays the five porn games over and over
>>538282737This, but unironically.
>>538282737>sort list by popularityYou would just play the same games as last DD this way
>>538282589>slopNew buzzword when
>>538282565The average person can't even manage that, to them he really is talented. And there's nothing wrong with making a game like that, the luddite could not tell quality apart from slop if their life depended on it, they just go with the general consensus so if you can shift the consensus while peddling shit then your shit is good.
>>538282987>buzzwordNew cope when
>>538282216That looks fine on its own. The issue was him saying he's going to replicate Silksong's visuals over and over again in a 2 hour livestream. Massive ego.
It took jblow 30 million dollars to make this, and he still isn't anywhere close to how far this guy has gotten.
>>538282607add me please
>>538283571Mina will nuke Game Boy pretenders as much as Silksong nuked -vanias.
>>538283571Slide Game unironically looks better than Sokoban game too
>>538280702>Untitled Dome GameStraight into the menu, no options but at least a small tutorial to indicate controls.A 1-bit tower defense where you have to gather resources to upgrade your dome.The risk-reward and tensions are easily understood while the resource management and dome upgrading can keep you engaged and wanting to go "faster and harder".Uses both the mouse to aim and buy upgrades while also using the keyboard to navigate and gather resources, could probably be better implemented for everything to either use only the mouse or the keyboard (and both being an option).I didn't realize at first that you could pick up more than 1 resource even without the upgrade, which slowed me down.UI at the bottom could probably be larger and I didn't realize that it had a countdown for when the next wave hits.Player character sprite is too blurry compared to the other pixelated assets.The map is always the same every game, that might be a good or bad thing, but it could be procedurally generated to add a bit more variety.Overall, nice little tower defense game that is engaging enough but at the end of the day it doesn't do anything different from other games of this type. I think you should go harder with the upgrades early on and allow more time to build up and gather resources, this then allows you to also go harder with the enemy waves and for the player to enjoy the shooting more instead of this gradual 1 wave > 1 upgrade > 1 slightly bigger wave > 1 upgrade etc.
>>538283571I have no idea what he's doing. It looks like Isle of Sea and Sky, but 3D. Where did the money go?
>>538283631sent
Lf White, beautiful, elegant, graceful, fiercely loyal, monogamous, racist, funny, smart, avoidant of social media and cool gamedev girlfriend.If you fit the description, but you think I don't deserve you, you should know that you're wrong about that and you should try real hard to contact me.>mfw getting a gf is super easy.
>>538283063>copeNew buzzword when
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16vV3wBA3rAJLhTbRpBT-R4lWTx8aVXG7fGBUWBApmLw/edit?usp=sharingCan you pls review the plot of kaliina?
>>538277385Thank you, fren. I'm rooting for you.
How did heroes for hire flop? 0 marketing?
>>538268367this is too fucking hard I give up
>>538286360it turns out that a windows-like style isn't really appealing for gaymers
>>538286360Early Access meta got nerfed a couple of years ago, but aggydaggy doesn't want to hear about it.
>>538286360>heroes for hire
>>538048472 >I seriously don't get how the games file size are so large. A game like defend alice looks incredibly basic in the screenshot yet is 100mb.It's mostly the music. The other half is Godot becoming bloated as shit. Empty projects are now 50+mb.
>>538286360For how long have you played it?
>>538286858>Hype game up>Make insane promises>Use fake gameplay trailers>Release>It's just a longer gameplay trailer>Welcome to LATE ACCESS, you filthy subhumans!
>>538286858thankfully indies have found the solution to this, just release it unfinished :D then finishing the game is actually "huge free updates"gabe wants this
What to do when my current prototype feels too close to the gameplay loop of the game it's cloning?I want to do something different but the original mechanics really feel well tuned and work off one another.
>>538287461>What to do when my current prototype feels too close to the gameplay loop of the game it's cloning?Nothing? Just release the game anyway.
>>538287461Boast about it on twitter and shit on the game you're copying, saying that yours is superior and challenge them to a duel to the death.
>>538287021Like an hour or so. I mean it has some quirks but the game is addictive enough.
>>538286360It's a bit too original. Gamers don't want to play original-likes until they are proven to be fun. Plenty of marketing work went into it, but there's only so much a solodev can do. Posting on social media does nothing for a game that people don't already want to play. One of the biggest mistakes indies make is thinking that they can gaslight gamers into thinking that they want to play something that they don't already want to play. That is a privilege reserved for AA/AAA studios with multi-million dollar marketing budgets.
>>538286360it's very niche
Which one is the real thread?? This one or >>538094441 ?
Beefed up the parser a bit. Nothing crazy.You can now use synonym commands and the parser does proper tokenization.>two threadsNow I can be obnoxious in two places at once.
Hypothetical scenario:You release a game that sells well enough to get some eyes on you, then you have an idea for a simple game that you make in three weeks and you can tell it's more fun than your first game.Now the question is would you submit this second game to a demo day and put it in steam's next fest to promote it knowing that it's simple enough to potentially be ripped off in less than a month?
>>538289307why would you post this? i can't see your game
>>538289365>this question again
>>538289448Look in the command line friend. The game is right there.
>>538289365Start with Pong.
>>538289245The other one.
>>538269002Thanks anon!>>538274778>>538275327I've posted progress here a few times, but it's been a while since the last time I did. Most days I just lurk the thread on my way to work.
>>538287279this isn't funny
>>538289245>Which one is the real thread?? The real thread or fagtroon attention grab?
>>538289546>command line>game
>>538289245Hi
>>538289485>>538289595answer the question
>>538289245You can't be serious? Is it a requirement to be retarded to come here or something?
>>538289642Cool. I spent a while just admiring the palettes and how the game looks. It also controls like a dream, in the first world at least. Keep it up.
>>538289546based textchad
>>538289702https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToEllOW2r1Y&ab_channel=Joltonline>>538290090I'm getting imagination-pilled
>>538289864Go back to one of the dozens of previous /agdg/ threads during DD where tourists have asked this exact same question if you want better answers.No one is going to steal your game. Stop using this made up scenario as an excuse to be a nodev.
>>538290189>zorkgo to sleep unc
>>538289365Yes. Just start promoting the shit out of it and if someone actually rips it off just cry wolf.
>>538284636>Project KingA King's Field-like?Basic menu but already quite a few settings available which is nice, frame limit should probably disable if vsync is enabled.No music or sounds for anything.Using the "Quit Game" button makes the game crash.Saving and loading works.Only the basic traversal and item gathering mechanics seem to be there.Not unpleasant aesthetics, already kinda reminiscent of the game it's trying to copy.The camera panning with the arrow keys is too sensitive, it seems better to look around with the mouse at this point.Going up the ladder works but coming back down you can still move around at the top when you're waiting to attach which can make you fall and die.Overall, it's too early in development for any kind of critique since it's barely a game but what's there seems fine. Looking forward to more, some monsters and sword whacking.
>>538290329>No one is going to steal your gameNice try, game stealer
>>538289864I'll need some more context, can you elaborate on the "a game that sells well enough to get some eyes on you" part?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIBO4MJ82Wsdev music
>>538288523>>538288834I guess it figures but still looks like its very high effort for what it got
>trying to relearn Blender again after a year away>forgot literally everythingI can barely apply a Mirror modifier without looking up a tutorialit's over...
>>538287461Instead of worrying about hypothetical reddit drama, worry about realizing your game instead, because actually releasing a finished product is infinitely more challenging than tardwrangling goo goo ga gas who will call your game a ripoff.
I am working on an /agdg/ killer game. It's a game that everyone here will praise as amazing, but I'll do no marketing and it will flop disastrously and demoralize everyone here. My flop will leave the thread unusable for weeks.
>>538292576Hasn't that already happened several times already? It turns out agdg is not representative of the actual market.
>>53829257690% of your marketing is your product.
Why does /agdg/ shitting on me for use AI voice?
>>5382908816000 reviews overwhelmingly positive in a year
>>538293039You can use ai voices but you can’t use an ai grammar checker?
>>538290480>Cross Box OnlineNot sure how I would classify this game and what even the exact rules of it are, but it seems fairly straightforward.No menu to config anything, you create a player and go straight to the board.Reminds me of PSP/DS puzzle games.You can spam emotes really fast, maybe it needs a small delay before it can fire again.A bit of relaxing or exciting music would go a long way, maybe it could even be tuned to how much the board is filled.When changing the AI level slider the number always stays at 9.Hard to discern any kind of strategy or what a good starting point could be.Overall, it's a very basic game but that what is there works just fine, with a bit more juice, music, pointers or helpful tips, maybe some variety could be added with certain squares giving out bonus points if captured, or maybe even some kind of special item you can capture that can destroy other player's lines so it's more of a battle, or it could make your lines uncrossable if you manage to capture it. Could be made a lot more fun but right now it's too basic to keep any kind of interest.
>Why does /agdg/ shitting on me
>>538289245jannies delete fygoon threads from time to time. he gets banned fot ban evading and all his threads go down with him.never rely on them
Spending 40 minutes on a word puzzle game is kind of painful ngl
>>538293259Fygoon is a fagoot gooning. Got it!
>>538290480Thanks for testing it!>Using the "Quit Game" button makes the game crash.Weird, I'll have to look into that.>The camera panning with the arrow keys is too sensitiveMy bad, I completely forgot about the arrow keys. I added sensitivity options but forgot to adjust the arrow keys.>Going up the ladder works but coming back down you can still move around at the top when you're waiting to attach which can make you fall and die.Not sure I understood what happened but I'll look into that.Thanks for the feedback man, you're doing god's work with all of these reviews.
>>538292576Not a single game has ever flopped due to a lack of marketing. If your game fails, it's because it's shit.
>>538293146>doroboarashi onara shizopidorasMeme game only played in the browser.Needs English subtitles for those of us not versed in Pidorism.This is actually a nice CS surfing map, you can surf fast, go off the map and boomerang back.I found the hidden bunny beneath the map.It has anime girls which is always a bonus.Overall, this could actually be really fun if the dev fleshes out the movement part instead of trying to shitpost.>>538293643Cheers, keep up the good work.
>>538278071zomg! Your reviews are quality.Yes the game is uncooked, raw even. Thank you for giving it a shot still. The GPU goes crazy because the framerate is unclamped, not sure how to do that yet.I see that you've figured out some building stuff. I have some additional questions for you if you don't mind answering...1.Have you played Rimworld?2.When you were fumbling around initially, did you have any expectations on how the game should be played? As in, when you realized it was a managerial "god game", was it different from what you thought the game might be?Thank you, I wish I could see a video footage of your experience. Maybe I can post some reviews of my own...
>>538267437no, it's enginedev with opengl
almost every successful indie game could have been ripped off ten times before it got released.the reason this doesn't happen is that nobody knows which games will be very successful like Hollow Knight, Braid, Papers Please, Stardew Valley, Lethal Company, etc.this is unknowable.and if this is unknowable when the game can be seen and in some cases played, it's even more unknowable when you're deciding to make it.this proves that every breakout success is a fluke. (You) can't beat this logic.
>>5382950271. No.2. My first idea was I needed to select and command one of the toons to interact with stuff and build something, but that didn't work. I didn't don't understand what the Area button and Stockpile does. I think it requires just a bit of guiding and a goal to work towards maybe or if it's open ended just say so let the player have their fun in their way.
>>538293105Any links?
>>538296081God I should proofread before I hit send.
>>538293757>Not a single game has ever flopped due to a lack of marketingFear and Hunger was sub-20 reviews for 2 years before it caught on. Imagine if the dev didn't immediately start working on the sequel out of pure passion and just gave up game dev after 1 year of no sales.
>>538296057You can't tell whether a game is good or not until experiencing it. You only get the full experience late into development, which takes a lot of time. This is why farming sims for example are so had to develop. They don't come together until it's almost done, by which point you're too far in to start over.
>>538296575It was not available on steam. That's not a lack of marketing, that's a lack of serviceability.
>>538296057what makes a game good or not, successful or not, is how well it's executed and that is very clear and objectiveyou have a very ideaguy-y notion of success if you think games can be "ripped off"
>>538296057I didn't understand half of the schizo shit you said so I guess I can't beat it
FANART.NOW.
FART.NOW.
Galduen of the void will release next month. After one year and a few months of dev. I'm officially gmi.
>>538293168Fucking bitch
>>538298096what does "galduen" mean?
>>538297683I sharteed
>>538294878>Dungeon Crawler TestAsks to connect to the internet.Interesting menu, music level is really loud on start.Options have everything.The UI is huge, looks like it's geared towards mobile.Really generic and unappealing style.The movement of the character seems rather clunky and stuttery.The speech text seems rather frequent and hides a lot of the combat underneath.Hard to understand what this is all about.Now it's asking me to watch an ad to earn 800 gold...Quitting the game makes it lock up (probably because the internet is blocked?).Overall, I can't say much about this game, kinda looks like asset flip to put on a mobile store. The combat isn't fun and that's the most important part besides the looting, there are too many systems right away and they're confusing. I forgot it was supposed to be a dungeon crawler. Not a good experience, needs to be polished and the player eased in.
>>538298096You are too powerful, so this is how the right type of autism looks like...
alot of insight from demoday, thanks for playingwill look at criticism and see what i can do to fix itglad the tutorial wasnt bad
>>538298096>Literally in the middle of NextFestThat day is somehow worse than September 4.
I still remember reading this on the long drive home from the store. I opened the box in the car and I was reading the first pages of the manual and I was so excited. It promised so much freedom and so many possibilities.My mom took one look at me and told my dad there was no way I'd sit through dinner and they got a pizza along the way. I was eating pizza while installing the game and I got permanent grease stains on the box, disks and manual. I think it was the first week of the winter break too so I had weeks to explore the galaxy.How do I make a game that has this effect on players? Is it the Is it even possible for an indie dev 33 years later? I don't mean making a game like this but the feeling and the desire to explore a game world given what resources we have as solo devs.
>>538298096>10 followersBro how?
>>538296057Nah you just make the antithesis or parody of whatever the worst-fears, caricature version of the current American president is.Obama -> anti-family corporate hyper-bureaucratic technocracy -> Stardew valley, papers pleaseTrump -> anti-human, death camps level fourth Reich, violent bigotry, apocalyptic world war-> Celeste, Hollow knightBiden -> fucking mid -> no good gamesTrump again -> see above -> make a cute faggy game idiot
>>538298096>gmiHoly delusional. I know you have mental issues but thinking your game is going anywhere at all is fucking hilarious. It looks like shit and no one cares about it.
>>538298816that feeling is the excitement of youth
>>538298816I dependsIf you were 5 just make something dope looking for 5 year old, better than roblox.If you were 25...
>>538296881Okay what the fuck are you talking about? It was released in 2018, here's a snapshot from 2021. The one from 2020 still had only 20 reviews but it got corrupted and I can't check it on wayback machine for some reason. That's 2 years until 20 reviews, 3 years until 200 reviews, anyone here would have called it a flop but suddenly, magically after 3 years the game becomes good right? Because marketing wasn't the problem right?
>>538299262Fear and Hunger is evidence that good games will sell (eventually).
>>538299518And we're back to square 1. It took 3-4 years for the game to pick up, what if the game developer gave up game dev in the meanwhile? What if he died and gets no money from it anymore? Does marketing matter or not?
>be me>work on game for nearly 2 years>slowly fight my way to 5k organic wishlists from absolutely nothing>choose september 30th as launch date>steam decides to have an "autumn sale" on september 29th, one day before my release>I am now competing against every AAA game ever made being sold for 90% offIt's been real friends but I fear it is officially over for me. Maybe I will have better luck with my next game.
this fuckertheres suppose to be a sound that gets louder the closer he gets - its not in the demo???it works fine in editorexplains why everyone keeps dying to him
>>538298816The problem is not only the resources but rather oversaturation of games and digital entertainmentIf it is possible to invoke similar feeling, Id go with something like cdda but with really unique setting and approachable mechanics
>>538299856I didn't have that problem but people may be dying because they look at him, he doges and they look away. They don't know you have to keep looking for him to reset.Also in my feedback I forgot to mention I needs sound for fire (maybe it was there and I didn't hear it tho)
>>538299856cosmicalligger... I tried to warn you about your game being a flop but you refused to listen. Why? Now you're chasing low res horror trend? Why not make something unique and original truly from the heart? It would be good for your soul.
>>538299817Why are you talking to this moron? He's a literal brown subhuman, ignore it.
>>538299046>>538299141If I can inspire that feeling in kids, that would be something too. Kids have credit cards these days, right?>>538299881I agree. I mean I played Elite Dangerous and even though it's bigger and better by every metric, I didn't get that excited over it. Maybe it simply can't be done on such a scale? Maybe the best I can realistically hope for is to have that effect on a few hundred players.
>>538265654a tranny made this 100%
>>538289642your game is fun. add more songs. make more challenging levels, I did 3 stars on all the demo levels and also the tournament, would be nicer if there was more challenge in my opinion
>>538298357It is the name of the starting planet>>538298989It is a hobby anon. I'm just happy to have a completed project. it is a pneumatic thing I don't hink you can get it.
>>538300356hmm, the fire has a sound, might make it louder>>538300458>your soul
>>538272757>Halo was such an extreme case of pure luck and skill.also marketing from one of the biggest corporations on the planet. don't forget that part
>classical roguelike but in space
>>538301365If it's just a hobby then "gmi" no longer applies dipshit.
>>538301390Suspected it have a sound. Maybe I didn't set volume right because I didn't notice it having sound (despite having fire multiple times).
>>538301365Did you call him a hylic? Some guy itt was really triggered by this word
>>538300569>literal brown subhuman casually works on SOVLful art without worrying about sales numbers>aryan white ubermensch stresses himself out day in and day out over 100 games releasing on steam alone each day
>>538301634Why are you bitching so much?
>>538302049Why are you so mentally ill?
>>538302004Are you retarded?
Can (you’re) game compete?
>>538287590is this a clone or a mod or DLC of FTL? looks sick
I don't like the streamer.
>>538302532https://store.steampowered.com/app/2853590/Void_War/
>>538301484classic roguelike but it's animetrust me this is the greatest idea ever
Skipping "precomputed occlusion culling demo", not a game, nothing to do or see in it.>>538298443>TamabukiAnother game early in its dev cycle.Simple menu but has options.I quite like the lowpoly 3D assets and character.Intriguing atmosphere.Not sure how to feel about the Tamagochi mechanic to be allowed to shoot, not something I'd personally consider engaging unless there is more to it, maybe more interaction with the player itself as a kind of familiar or maybe even as limiting factor where you have to rely 100% of it to make progress - survival-style, the pixelization makes it hard to understand what you're looking at for the Tamabuki.The range of the gun seems rather short.The toy shop with all the /agdg/ game boxes on the shelves is really cool.Overall, there is potential here to have something engaging and even popular, but it's too early to say much else about the game. Dev needs to start memeing their game, aura farm by posting art of the characters (especially if cute girls) and that's already halfway to success. After that it will need an engaging story and good atmosphere and exploration.
>>538298816You need a really good hook. When you get it, the player will dismiss any pebbles in the way. I've felt that way over the Jazz Jackrabbits games a while ago, they're just awesome, forgotten gems of the 16-bit platformer era.
>>538298816
>>538302324Are you okay, retard?
>>538302623>The toy shop with all the /agdg/ game boxes on the shelves is really cool.*discord game boxes
Thank you for your service, reviewer guy.
>>538302598Isn't that the Alice game? There's no mention of the dumb -lite mechanics.
>>538273980there's something about an fps where you run around in a big, empty, grassy field that awakens memories doing the same thing irl with friends as a teenager. It's like double nostalgia.
>>538302994Yeah, you're retarded. I'm arguing against the moron who says "only good games" sell, I was essentially agreeing with you. But I guess you're so brown and low IQ you can't even comprehend it. Sad. Maybe one day there'll be a cure for low IQ. For now, you should kill yourself and save us all the trouble.
>>538303254Yeah I guess so. But the bad thing about that game is that the actual roguelike mechanic of permadeath is in a gamemode called "wanderlust", so you have to manually activate it
>>538302994
>>538303128*trooncord
>>538303573Back to this I see...
>>538302623Thank you for playing, 15-san.The tamagotchi mechanic will get more tied to gameplay as things carry on; as it stands it's still a bit shallow so I understand your concern.The range of the gun IS short! I've heard many complaints. I didn't want to give it infinite range since that felt a bit too easy, but I'll definitely be extending its range while thinking of ways to balance the game around this (I'm at least adding damage drop-off so you can't snipe things from a mile away).I appreciate your optimism on the potential of the game. It warms my heart to hear that and gives me developer energy! I'm very excited for when I get to add more story and exploration to the game, but I've been focusing on more core things. Hopefully that can come in the next few DD's.I haven't thought much about posting character art and meme'ing the game. I'll definitely give it a shot although I'm not 100% sure what that looks like (I've mostly just been posting progress pictures and videos on Xeeter).Also, the game has a cute girl AND a cute guy! (See pic related; he's got a model, too, but there's no point to having him in the demo yet.)
https://www.twitch.tv/kusoge00starting with kludge then probably chthonic
>>538299852Surprise launch on the 25th
>>538304857Wouldn't that just cannibalize the final week of organic traffic from steam that I would have gotten from the coming soon section? The coming soon section is how healed to death and devil spire 2 got a bit of pre launch velocity
>>538300569I dunno man, sometimes I just mistakenly believe everyone on the internet is just like me and merely not informed enough on the matter. At least that was the case 20 years ago when I was browsing and the top 3 countries on the internet were US, Japan, Finland and Germany.
>>538305852Yes, I give bad advice, you’re fucked idk
>>538306208>top 3 countries on the internet were US, Japan, Finland and Germany.>3>US, Japan, Finland and Germany.I strongly suspect that you are Finnish
>>538306208Well, he's in every thread constantly posting his retarded shit, and I've caught him making spelling mistakes that are common to brown turd worlders. You can identify him by the lack of logic in his messages. So unless you feel like getting into a shitfit for whatever reason, it's best to ignore this retard.His ability to talk in circles and ignore evidence is kinda impressive, though.
>>538306675Finland is such a nothing country that he subconsciously read it as blank space.
there's this engine called BYOND that does something amazing despite being incredibly old in every other way: it allows you to make multiplayer games -truly- as if you are making a single player game, and i mean literally no difference at all, never do you have to touch netcode. it's massively multiplayer too, 120 players per server before lag starts usually.i dont get why no modern engine can follow the same model they did. it's genius if you look into how its done.
>>538306675top 4 countries actively ruining the internet for everyone: india, russia, brazil, china
>>538307220>massively multiplayer >120
>>538307397India is only at 40% power.Imagine 90% of indian population on the internet.This is the best the internet will ever be from now on, better enjoy it.
>>538306208>>538306718All of the whitest ubermensch know that all you need to do is market your game. Bad games can succeed on marketing alone, so you should just shit out any slop and focus all of your efforts onto marketing.
>>538307220the sad part is BYOND would still be very good for making games despite being outdated in every way except netcode, but the dealbreaker is you are locked onto their platform and cant put your game on steam/etc and their platform is completely dead.>>538307486you could add sharding yourself so each map is a separate server so if you have 10 maps (typical of byond games) thats 1200 players
Just passed 1000 copies sold.
>>538307397>russia>chinaThey're mostly secluded from the rest of the internet due to language.>inb4 MUH MULTIPLAYER SLOPMultiplayer games are all shit and for subhumans. Period.
>>538307742yea i was putting most of the weight into their behavior in multiplayer games
MIDDLE ZERO IS NOT HOW GUNS WORKRetard that has never held a gun in his life. That lever opens the action and is always in the middle.
>>538307719Your pgdg invite is on the mail
>>538289307I'm also working on a text game. One thing I struggled with is synonyms, but I decided that I have no interest in that and it doesn't really offer any meaningful flexibility. So the only alias I allow is a one character shortcut. I've spent way too long on the repl part, and decoupling it as much as I can from any other aspect. I think it will be worth it because my ultimate goal is to use some kind of engine/framework for something "close to" a text adventure, basically a minimal UI.I see you're using Scheme, something I've always been interested in, but I'm just working in Python though I originally started in C (as a way to learn C, actually)
>>538307971i hate people like this. soulless dead eyes. open gaping mouth. i hate them because i researched biologically why they do it. why evolution made it that way. they're hylics, which is the same as npcs, nature created them to be the bottom of the human heirarchy, ruled over by others, gave them very little soul so they'd be okay with it too. nature gave us a slave class purposely because it benefited human's overall survival. their gaping mouths literally signify for you to put your dick in there, shows they're fully submitted to you or in this cause whatever authority they perceive and therefore serve. showing they're willing to be dominated at the severest level without any resistance.
>>538307843Then you should kill yourself.
>>538307397
>make competent sandy tactical tank game>perfect for military autismos>put anime girls in it for no reasonWhy are aggy faggys like this? I get it you like anime girls, but clearly the game is for tank enthusiasts. Having anime girls is kinda like having fursonas, it's something you leave to the modders. Or if you're an absolute mad lad you release it as DLChttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2263460/DV_Rings_of_Saturn__Deep_Weeb/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1938680/DV_Rings_of_Saturn__Anthropogenesis/
>>538307623I suspect that every indian who knows english is on the internet already, so we are safe for now
>>538299852can't you just delay the launch until it's over?
>>538307627Is that Kris Tyson? I thought he got cancelled for being a tranny pedo.
>>538308504
>>538304175hey man ChthonicDev here. I silently watched the stream. It was really useful to see someone just figure shit out by themselves, thanks.
>>538307623Huh, so that's google always includes at least one "in Hindi" search result every time I use it.It's scary to think that over half of human life on earth exists on continental asia.
>>538308658Every second, three Indians go online for the first time
>>538309185
>>538307623>jeets below 40% and they've flooded with 500 million alreadyholy shit it's actually fucking overseems like chinks are actually smart for having their firewall so no foreigners can mess with their shit
>>538308504Anime website
>>538309185If Covid was a real threat it would have wiped out half of India due to how they live on top of each other; alas no such thing happened. Maybe cow urine is the cure or maybe it was clearly just not a real threat.
>>538307623>2018-12An indian made this infographic, that's how bad it is.
>>538309663That's from 2006 to 2012 you dum dum. Is math too hard for you sir?
>>538309172Yes, algorithms that favor popularity are going to be the end of us. Every single medical problem I google ends up with some indian sites on the first page. Same with anything food related. In the future all your youtube feed will be based on what indians watch. It's a good thing they don't have money to buy games yet cause god knows how Steam would look otherwise.
>>538308663Sure, but the problem with steam is there is always some sale, some next fest, some AAA launch or III launch designed specifically to fuck you over.The only winning play is to say "fuck it we ball" and launch when you want. I will not move my launch date because of some lame "autumn sale" (something I have literally never heard of before until just now)
>>538309861>That's from 2006 to 2012
>>538310264based market ignoring creator
>>538310330That's an additional information. Graph literacy truly is going down with gen z.
>>538310454I'm a millennial with a degree in engineering, learn how to make graphs. Also go back to india.
>>538302623>Astra BestiaryA critter-collecting adventure game similar to Pogeyman.First time launching the game it didn't go past the dev logo, had to relaunch for it to work.Polished menus, all the options needed for this type of game are there.Right away one my nitpicks is with the pixel font, these are always hard to read the bigger the game window, an option to have a different font would be appreciated.Playing at 2x window size and it looks better.Another nitpick with the menus is that there's too much of the brown/yellow paper color and the buttons tend to blend in with the rest of the UI.The intro and setup are fairly basic, we're dropped off outside of a town right away to explore.More emphasis should be put on a goal for the player to keep in mind and work towards.During combat our critter has a visible health bar with a percentage but the same cannot be said for the enemy critter (is this a bug or do we need to know about the critter beforehand or sth else?).It seems certain critters straight up appear in front of you to fight, there is no apparent condition that says you're entering a fight like tall grass or NPCs in Pogeyman.The game seems quite hard out of the gate, all the monsters are too strong for my critter and I keep dying.The pixelart is well done and charming but the color palette could probably use more work, more complementary colors instead of everything being analogous.Overall, I can feel there was a lot of work put into this game but it's not quite there yet for me, the beginning is too rough, it should ease the player in with a shallower difficulty curve and more setup.
any of you making mobile games? i keep seeing youtube vlogs of randos making fucktons of money from mobile compared to steam, and the quality standards arent as high
>>538311352You need 20 playtesters to even get anything on google play now where if any of them leave after 2 weeks then the period of review resets.
>>538311352No, mobile has been saturated since 2012 and you'll get even less exposure than steam. Think of whatever game you want to make and check the app store/play store, there's already thousands and thousands of them. The only way to get exposure is through paid marketing, it's not like PC where some guy is going to see your shitpost on a basket weaving forum and then go check out your steam page.
>>538311526that sounds difficult but probably means its a barrier to entry that would make those who can pass it make even more money
>>538311526Fun fact if any account maybe associated with you is any of those accounts, the app will be removed and you personally — not your account, but your legal identity — will be permanently banned from ever publishing anything to Google play again
>>538312329>any account maybe associated with you is any of those accounts, the app will be removed and you personally — not your account, but your legal identity — will be permanently banned from ever publishing anything to Google play againall this shit and slop and viruses still infest google play like the plague. amazing work, these big tech giants sure deserve the money they get.
I'm working on my game, to prove you all wrong.
These commercials from the 80's are triggering me.
Having 400 corn stalk objects adds immersion but it takes 40 seconds alone to load the sceneAny ideas for a compromise?
>>538312874make "390 cornstalks" and "5 cornstalks" and "2 cornstalks" and "1 cornstalk" and "1 cornstalk" and "1 cornstalk", but 6 things actually in total.
Whitest amateur game developer found: >>>/pol/515054578
>>538312721Don't worry Google found a solution for that
>>538312874retard
>>538312874Woah sometimes I forget how retarded the average dev here is. Wtf lmao
>>538313320Pretending this is for safety should be some kind of crime that human people should be imprisoned for. I wouldn’t even care if they would just say “we’re leaving money on the table from not getting the 30% cut from sideloaded apps”. Just don’t tell obvious shameless lies to my face.
>>538312874Godont 6 will fix that.And they say nodes have no overhead, fucking retards.
>>538313320not india of course, never india
>>538313949>>538313981What??
>>538309067and then everyone clapped
>>538313278I want you to be able to walk around freely inside of the corn
>>538313320I'm sure the Russians will come up with a workaround for this.
Also each corn stalk is made out of 45 deformed cylindersI think it looks nice
>>538313320my game will be browser basedyou will send payments through stripei am the unbound
I thought that pasting them into the scene as game objects would be faster but if I simply instantiate them all in it cuts the time down to 16 seconds
>>538299856for me I was hearing him only when I was rotating toward the front and he was dangerously close to the window. Every time he was going back though and I was waiting for him to disappear before returning to the kitchen. It also sounded like that piano off-note in horror movies so maybe there's another sound as this one was playing at the right time.
>>538299856Turned on again with higher audio. Personally I need fire louder.Volume slider moves only by 2cm per click (why)Press anything to continue: *clicks mouse, nothing happens*
>>538314527
What hardware are aggies devving on?
Reminder that while the brownoid /biz/ jeets busy themselves with making a "good game", us superior white aryans know that only marketing matters. Just like market your game.
>>538316151computer
>>538316208ok, well, but you aren't working very hard. WHat is it, like 3 games in 3 years? Meanwhile chad anamik is mogging everyone herehttps://store.steampowered.com/developer/anamikmajumdar
>>538316151my cumpooter
>>538316531Impressive that he's made so many games yet only a single one has appeared in my discovery or new releases queue. After looking at over 10k games that way.
>>538316151laptop
Also I promise I'm not copying the other corn guy my game is totally different I didn't even see his post
>>538317557I honestly wish people would copy me so I don't have to make my game.
>>538316531Out of all his games he's sold two of them and his highest sold has 4 reviews? Who cares? Dude has spent way more money uploading these than he's gotten back.
Hey guys, happy demo dayGot an optimization problem with my farming simbasically I want to have a whole bunch of corn stalks but I don't want it to slow down the game too muchSuggestions?
>>538316531>bespoke hand-drawn assets>unfiltered childlike soul>english only>0 reviewsLmao look at this retard brownoid who didn't bother to market his game.
Grift status?
my game will be BASED
i still think about that bochi that gave up because of an aggy's words
Fine fine I will buy your game
>>538317339
i forgot to lock in...
>>538316795why does your Windows look like that
>>538317339cute troon
>>538310854>Bainok City of FightersRudimentary menus, the logo has some soul but everything else needs work.Options have the needed settings except for fullscreen toggle.Once in-game it seems the fullscreen window shrinks and some it gets cut off at the bottom.Played a bit of the intro, it explains how the combat works.I'm disappointed this isn't a beat 'em up but turn-based.Lots of placeholder art, every NPC is a male goon, no females in sight.Once outside our apartment we need to find an enzyme to keep on living, we can talk to a bunch of NPCs and have fights.A few typos in the text here and there, the anime-style character art doesn't really match the tone of the rest of the game.The dialogue text could probably use a bit more juice, there is an option for typewriter text but it doesn't seem to be used.Menus need more feedback, game in general needs more SFX, background noise etc.During the fights the two character sprites are always the same ones.Overall, it has the makings, or the beginnings, of what could be a decent game, seems the dev(s?) have a knack for stories and creating characters but sadly the gameplay isn't that engaging. During fights it needs have some voiced grunts, more feedback, too many moves available from the start, they should be gatekept and earned as the game unfolds. It clearly needs a lot more work to get everything looking on the same page, it needs more action, more violence (it's too softy atm), more grit, more vixens.
>>538316795>192.168.254.138/24lmao way to dox yourself retard
>>538318161It's Macintosh.
>>538318181Are you just picking these games at random?
>>538318335anon i...
>>538317842White and successfully breeding jealousy.
>>538317339I’m jelly
you guys really need this advicehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-Rq48wWlMI
>>538318567No I'm going through them in list order.Still 28 games to go.
>>538316531>https://store.steampowered.com/developer/anamikmajumdar"just ship your game bro"
>$20 minimum to advertise on danboWhy would I pay 1 Silksong for an ad?
>>538318984who are you quoting
>>538318181Oh wow, you're unstoppable, really going through them all. Thanks for the review, I'll add a few more things to the to-do list.
>>53830850Great ideaI will have a dlc which replaces all the anime girls
>>538221365>another DD missed
>>538319073It's what the white man would do. Didn't you watch all the ChrisZ lectures about how any game can succeed so long as buy a lot of ads? Just like market your game.
>>538316795I’ve seen this triangle ASCII art screen before. All I know is that this is some flavor of Linux.What’s the reason for it looking like this? To me this looks like it would be absolutely insufferable to use. Does everything look like this or is it only for this screen? I know there are other versions of Linux that look like normal operating systems with desktops, icons, windows, etc, so why would anyone choose this over that? I just don’t get it.
>>538319562Post game
This is the current state of the art in 3D generation.
>>538319729It's just a window. when you open up command prompt in Windows it's the same thing.
>>538319619>Didn't you watch all the ChrisZ lectures about how any game can succeed so long as buy a lot of ads?but he literally says the opposite. if your game isnt gaining any traction from free festivals, demo release, streamer outreach, social media posting etc then buying ads will do nothing
>>538319729It’s called arch and is optimized for use by child predatorsIt’s designed to look ugly and weird to anyone not sexually interested in prepubescents as part of its opsec, so your reaction is normal
>>538316795Are you a hacker Harry?
>>538319812
>>538319812Wrong, this isEven this was just the worst rig job out of otherwise ok ones
>>538320036Yeah bro, I'm hackering into fygoons computer right now. All I see is gay reptile porn so far, though.
>>538320310Can you hack steam for us?
>>538320392Yeah, I'll raise the price Valve takes from 30% to 69%
>>538320560I hate you. Hacking is for troons now.
>>538319812AI is proof that no matter how much people are enabled by scifi-tier technology they'll always be hard capped by their low IQ and stay forever bad.
>>538320310proof??
>>538319812funny how I can spot cris in 0.034s even after a 4 years hiatus from /agdg/
>>538319930Brown subhuman detected. A pure Aryan such as myself knows that the difference between a successful game and a flop is just advertisement. As a superior white ubermensch, I know this for a fact. Too bad I can't test it because I don't have any money to buy any ads for my game that doesn't exist.Also, friendly reminder that approximately 54% of American adults, or about 130 million people aged 16 to 74, read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. What that means is that they'll read everything literally, without any critical thought, meaning that they are unable to detect sarcasm.
>>538318146The tiger is out?
>>538284636thanks anon
>>538309563no i dont think så
>>538321258it's not funny precisely because it's the opposite of what he actually says
>try to think of game ideas I can make as a codelet>visual novel, pong, walking sim, brick breaker>realize I wouldn’t want to play any of these games and certainly wouldn’t pay money for one>realize likely no one else would eitherfuck
>>538322782>he can't into 3D ngmi
>>538322782visual novel but you have to get into character design, hm hm
>>538318932Why is this what every game dev video says?
>>538323437“Character design” just means coomer shit, be honest. I don’t want to make a coomer shit, I want to make an alpha male action game with characters that young me can look at and think “that is literally me”.
>>538324137
>>538324267What’s this supposed to mean
>>538324639that you need to make pong
so uh who was flickering the lights ?
>Wagie Run got 5 commentsThis is literally my first post on demo days. I only expect to got 2 comments, but wow. Thank you all!
>>538325012I look like this and flicker the lights
>>538325218Brim streamed it too
>>538318181>Dark GraceStraight to main menu, nice background music, there is something lurking behind the curtains.Options and credits button don't do anything.Starting a new game leads to some type of character creator, still placeholder menus and buttons.In-game the graphics look really nice, game gives us hints of the controls.Zooming the camera into first person allows us to see our cut off neck when looking behind which is unsettling.Sometimes running with shift doesn't seem to allow jumping simultaneously.Jumping seems rather floaty.I'm a fan of this game's style, very early 2000s.Moving away from a container should close the item dialog so you don't have to click the X to close.You can get stuck behind doors when opening them.The windup when attacking is brutal but it also makes the combat engaging, I need it needs to be adjusted slightly, hit detection also isn't great.There's some kind of bug where I constantly hear running footsteps.There is no pause menu to quit the game or adjust any options, need to ALT+F4 to quit.Overall, I enjoyed what I saw of the game and I'm eager to see more and where it leads. I like the environment and assets style, it reminds me of old Harry Potter games. Still uncooked atm but what's there is already interesting.
>>538325218wholesome
>>538322782>try to think of game ideas>cant think of anything at all>bored, suddenly got an urge to play outdated PS1 games>Hey, wait a minute, i got some ideasIts that simple, anon
>>538325421I prefer to not play commercial games made by teams of trained professionals for inspiration because I know that’s setting myself up for disappointment.
>>538325597Thats the fun part m8. What counts as "games made by teams of trained professionals" back then, is realtively easy and cheap to make today. Why do you think big companies outsource literal newbies and solodev to remaster their old IPs?
I'll gladly burp out music for any dev practically 4 3. Got a few decades of experience and a distinct style.No gay shilling intended, just want to help out; having a project to work on is always a good source of motivation/inspiration
>>538322782No such thing as a codelet. Asset creation is the gatekeeper of gamedev.
>>538325893100,0000,000,0,0%%%%% I can code anything but engines barely even have an interface for code.Unreal and unity have more in common with photoshop than an IDE.Someone needs to make an engine for coders.
>>538326118>Someone needs to make an engine for coders....You mean like Unreal (without pooprints), Bevy, Lumberyard, Darkplaces, Jenova... I mean this list is really long and I don't have all day.
>>538326118>Someone needs to make an engine for coders.You need to make a game.
>>538308504Anime girls would be ok in that tank game if they were dressed properly and had more of a realistic anime style like patlabor movies
>>538326118>Someone needs to make an engine for coders.that engine is called the C++ runtime
>>538323824>Why is this what every game dev video says?Because this is what the market is looking for. The market being all the people who lost their jobs or are trying to escape wage slaving because the social contract was completely shredded by women and the government.
>>538326776I don’t have a gpu so I can’t use unreal, and I refuse to use engines even more inferior
>>538327963Woah woah, chill out Threat Interactive. I thought you got that patreon money coming in?
>>538327963>I don’t have a gpu
>>538325373>Ultra PlaneNo menus, straight into game.I like that it has a tutorial for the controls, well made and diegetic with the rest of the game.It has a pause menu with a few options,Ship is extremely hard to control, I don't think it should roll with the mouse.Even at the lowest sensitivity it's really easy for me to lose control and struggle to look in the direction I want.Boosting helps maintain control, maybe it's played better with a flight stick or controller?Sometimes I'm pressing A or D to yaw and it doesn't at all, almost like it's stuck, and then just starts rolling over, pretty frustrating.Game seems resource-heavy for such barebone graphics.Gun and rocket sounds and animations seem fine but because it's so frustrating to aim where I want it kinda ruins the rest.I like the vibe it's going for, in a way it reminds me of Blur (the racing game) with how the UI is shown.Overall, I wanted to enjoy the game and there is potential underneath for it to be fun but the controls are too frustrating. Needs more polish and more game.
>>538310854Thanks for giving a try. Valid complains and good feedback. About the difficulty: Did you try it with the tutorial? I made that optional but I think it isn't a good take.
>>538325373>>538328389Do you really hate pre-menu cinematics? Are they not cool anymore?
>>538328510I don't quite remember but I think I accepted to do the tutorial but it still took me to outside the town.>>538328804No I like them but all these games are missing them. They either just take you straight to the menu or in-game, but that just a function of still being in development and missing features.
These ratings literally mean jack shit, but I've implemented the image export so I'm gonna export the fuck out of them.Streams are done. Fantastic games this DD. Thanks to everyone who submitted, everyone who played demos and wrote feedback, and ofcourse to everyone who watched the streams!And now I fuck off for another 2 months. I will see you on DD65!
>>538329084It starts outside of town but gives you an easy battle,another mon for your team and explanations on how to train ( its similar to monster rancher) and a couple free power ups
>>538329190You guys are delusional, drop those ratings by 20 points at least to get some idea of how the public will see it. This reminds me of when marnix gave marmoreal an S ranking just before it flopped.
>>538329190Its an honor for Wagie Run to be included in the honorable mention. Thank you
>>538327963>I don’t have a gpuof course you don't, you have AGP
flop circle
>>538325893>programmer autist tries to empathize
core loopmonetization ceilingmarket saturationchurn ratecontent treadmillvalue proposition
f-fanart?
>>538330754no new games, no new fanart
>>538330754I'm too busy, maybe tomorrow
>>538328389>Nine Star BarrageNo intro or menu, the game starts right away.Some kinda top-down Metroid lookalike?I like that the character closes one-eye when aiming.The UI is well done and easily understood, good tutorial.Music is tied to how much health you have, but is also not constantly in panic good when you're low health.There is a lot of unused screen real-estate which could be use for... stuff.Environments are repetitive but not displeasing.The stamina recovers a bit too slow compared to how fast it can be used but I guess that's a balance choice.Enemies reacts well to the player but they swarm a bit too hard and to use melee you often need to take damage.Reloading, acquiring health and ammo could use a little SFX for more feedback.Overall, nice atmosphere for such a simple game, the game flows well but combat could probably be more satisfying and strategic. Needs a bit of story, different environments etc.
>let 3 subhumans playtest the game>they have zero sense of exploration and miss out on everything.>"Hurrr durr, only 1 weapon in the game">"game is too hard"Finally some good news. My game will filter <100 IQ shitters
fuck fuck fuck I need to shit so bad but I have 5 frames left in this sprite and I don’t want to interrupt my flow state
Wake up?
>15 hours leftIf I start a new project now I think i still have enouh time to submit it right?
A game should be fun or interesting or make you horny.It doesn't need to look good, if it can reliably and I mean>RELIABLYprovoke those feelings.Many devs tell themselves this:"Well, with a little bit of imagination it could be fun for someone who might be into it.. right?"Not good enough.
>>538332182Yes. There are game jams with a prompt shorter than that.
>>538332182Hey! I'll help you!I'll start a new project at the same time, that should give you a multiplier, right? I'll also compile it right away, so you don't have to do it at the end, when it's slow.
secondary project is pretty much done, it only needs the cover art finished which will happen sometime this week, then it can be dumped on steam. gathering feedback from the main project and planning out solutions for implementations too.
>>538331989oh no
>>538332570Looks like you entered a different flow state.>carlos.jpg
>>538327963>game developer with no gpunigga get a gpu.
>>538294878>really fun if the dev fleshes out the movement part instead of trying to shitpostIt also has hidden webxr mode
Holy fuck i hate jews
Current automatic solution for fixing a problem in the background is going to take 200+ days. Thankfully I already plan on taking that long anyways, so I can wait.
>>538333354kill yourself bocchitroon
>>538331119>ZHEROAgain no intro, no menu of any kind.Typical Godot stutter until it loads all the assets and sounds.Interesting visuals.Some Godot default assets are visible.After completing each room you get to pick one of 3 upgrades, I like how it looks with the Windows 2000 dialogs.At some point I was in the upgrade scene but enemies where hitting me and I died, the game underneath should be frozen when picking upgrades.You kind of lose track of your character during combat and it's hard to tell if you're taking damage, everything blends in a too much.Needs a bit of music to set the tone.You can spam R to quickly switch between sword and gun in combat, not sure if intended.Made it to room 9 but didn't try very hard, is there some payout at the end? Maybe some boss enemy?Overall, I like the aesthetics and the idea it's going for but it's still raw and thus hard to find the fun in it. I didn't understand what the cards thing at the bottom are supposed to do. Dev needs to lean further into the schizo parts but make things more readable, maybe some swearing here and there DMC-style when you kill monsters. I'm imagining a huge tower you have to climb and fight through 'Let It Die' style, just an idea.
>>538329190thanks again for streaming
>>538329854All games they played on tier list. They didn't want to be rude giving us 0-10 points
>>538331607They're a good indication of what streamers will do, they spend 90% of the time focused on things that will make their stream look good/bad like trying 20 times to change the window resolution instead of actually criticizing the gameplay. They also missed how much their own interaction affected how fun they found the game to be, for example the 'gameplay' of wasteland bites where brimstone devolved into markiplier and his buddy piled on. In reality a guy sitting alone in his room playing a chore simulator is going to be bored out of his mind.
Death to Santa deniers!Added networked flinch on hit, death and respawn for players and npcs.
>>538333985While I agree with steamer take for me that game was the best I played this DD
>>538329571Those are agdg ratings, not steam ratings by piggies who only crave slopcore skinnerboxes
>>538316151see pic related>>538308062> One thing I struggled with is synonymsAre you parsing with tokenization? If so it makes that kind of thing and other areas you want to expand in easier.>>538316795nice
>>5383161512022 gaming laptop. It just werks.
>>538333524Nah, but I most likely will have to pay money straight up to make it 4x faster, or purchase a secondary computer to always run in the background to do it there instead. Either way it's going to cost me.
>>538298816Your players must be 10 years old. They will find magic in everything. I've noticed my own game a few people just really, really latched onto and it's kind of cute, but also I think kind of out of your control. Sometimes somebody out there just really loves your game and as long as it inspired a youthful imagination it can really go places even if it's all in their head.
>>538336871kys
>>538298816will never happen in your lifetimeits all csgo skins and get rich quick labubu schemes and shitcoins
Does your game have a main character players will want to fuck?Sex sells, after all.
>>538337696
>>538337910she look like she dates black devs
>>538338168No such thing
>>538334280Awesome xmaslike. Can we get a demo on the holidays?
i made some coffee to enjoy a productive dev sesh...but the foam formed a scary skeleton :(
>>538338894WTF spoiler that shit
>>538338894/agdg/bros...
>>538338894i see 2 skullsthe big one in the middle, and one of its shoulders also forms a skull
The REAL demo day starts now, 14 hours to go, I'll make a game before it ends!
>>5383388946 spooky 8 me
spent a long time trying to rig and animate a low-poly snake only to realize that one of its teeth pops out when not in rest position. it's also hard to pose the head because the head is essentially the root bone.
>>538338894
>unreal
>>538333825>Wonder of BlueNice dev logo, menu looks cute and has the needed options, I like the palette and music style picker.The different menu entries could probably be centered in the center if there's not going be anything in the frame.There should be some indication of which buttons to use to accept/go back, especially for keyboard users.Game plays a lot better on a gamepad.Reminiscent of GBA games, music is a bit repetitive.Enemies almost always leap at you when you enter a room, after a while it becomes predictable and you can just dash right away.Sometimes going through a door too early makes it not switch to the next room until you step out and go back in again.Almost never used the cat attack seems pretty useless, often trying to hit enemies you stop just short of them and need to move closer and then take damage, maybe the range of attacks could be a *tiny* bit longer.There is some readability issues with certain enemies blending in, the health bar also has those issues.Alice is very cute.Certain items from the queen/fairy/shopkeeper NPC don't have a description and often I don't buy anything from her because nothing sounds appealing or useful.The map hide a big chunk of the corner.Overall, a cute little Alice game with 8-bit soul, it has some issues of readability and repetitiveness, needs a bit of story as well and maybe some omake to earn and a goal to work towards (I'm guessing just not in the demo?). I don't know what will be in the full game but I'd pump up the juice more to break the monotony, maybe have rooms with more enemies or traps, maybe more variety of room setups, big bosses zelda-style?, any secrets to find?, maybe a different character to unlock etc
I just realized the key to BTFOing japan is to use my gamedev skills to make a videogame, but the output is not some .exe but a collection of .pngs.
>>538340050That's a visual novel. Good job, Cris.
He's lost it
>>538338743That's the plan.
>>538340274That's not even a VN. It's just a comic or CG set. DLsite is full of them.
>>538340050>my gamedev skillsI'm sure Japan is shaking in their boots
>>538340662whatever nerd, i don't watch your mangaka caca's or whatever they're called.
>>538339930>There should be some indication of which buttons to use to accept/go back, especially for keyboard users.When did games start to do this? I don't remember that happening.
>>538329190Jargon dev here, this demo day was the first time I ever watched someone stream a game I made. Surreal experience. Glad you liked it and thanks for playing!
You shouldn't bitch about fanart, AI is good enough to gen anything on the fly that's SFW.
chat gpt told me that my new idea of using a .png as my game engine is coherent with my astral birth chart.
>>538331119Thank you for taking the time to check it out, appreciate the solid feedback
Time to show them how it's done.
>>538341536Most games from the N64/PS1 gen going forward have on-screen prompts. Devs probably wanted to include it in older games, but lower screen resolution means the display real estate might not have been worth it.
>>538341895very cool
CRIS PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD JUST HANG YOURSELF ALREADY
Cris are you in danger of AI induced psychosis?https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psicosis_por_IA
>>538343235I just had the idea of using a .png as my game engine.lmao.
cris CHAD
>get_parent().get_parent().get_parent().get_parent().get_parent().get_parent()
>>538343353Chatgpt told me to make and drink holy water to ward off bad game ideas
>>538343483bruh I see his dick root, please delete this we're on a christian board.
>>538343483>not get_great_great_great_great_grandparentngmi
Multiple people have complained about the controls for placing a word in Jargon. Is it really that bad? What is a better alternative?
>>538343483I use that some times. I've been programming since 2007
>>538343695I'm not gonna play your game but maybe click and drag in the direction? Easier than having to click a tiny button however having the button available should also still be there.
>>538339787Damaskus...
Imagine if cris had grown up in a normal country and not columbia, if his brain hasn't been deprived of oxygen his whole life due to living on top of a mountain range he might have actually amounted to something. Instead he's a deluded unmedicated bipolar schizo retard who, despite spinning his wheels for the last 15-20 years, is still no closer to becoming the next Zun
>>538343695What do Word Play and Wordatro do? Have you played them?
>>538343996I deliberately haven't played Word Play because I don't want to steal ideas from it. Never heard of Wordatro
>>538344083NGMI. Great artists steal.
i fixed the menu buttons
>>538344150I suppose I should look at it
>>538342252People who've used Stable Diffusion can instantly tell it's Stable Diffusion.
>>538344153Why are all the characters so grumpy? This is clearly an American dev, a Japanese dev would've made made some of them smile, or do a peace sign.
Is this good or bad?
>>538343996>>538344083>>538344150Just looked it up, it's pretty similar to how I do it. You click the letters and they go in the order clicked. The only difference is my game has a board so you click the direction first
>>538344513they're just like that
>>538343939Cris is just a fictional character isn't he? I don't spend every day in these threads so I wouldn't know.
>>538344805There's a little cris inside each and every one of us.
>>538344516prompt?
>>538344956I'm experimenting with portrait edits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCcJnffie48I had a dream. Sonic ARPG in the chemical plant zone.
>>538343695drag n drop you dum dum
>>538343695Buttons are the least of your worries, the kind of person that plays your type of game isn't going to be bothered by that. They will be bothered by the retarded ass balancing and how you only have xxyyywwzz's tiles left on round 7.
>>538345215>I'm experimenting with portrait edits.
>>538345674it's best to try it out on garbage before putting any effort into it
>>538345257Sounds kino.
I sort of found a way to extract outlines from portraits using color indexing, has some small details to fit, but seems useful if I need a portrait workflow.
if you're not making a game, you're not doing gamedev
any tier rankings for DD64?
>>538346831Numero Uno
>>538345340That seemed too tedious to me, but everyone seemed to expect it so I'll give it a try.>>538345565Did you try the game? There are items that let you reclaim letter pieces from the board to your draw pile.
>>538346831Closest thing we got is just looking at them in order of popularity, but I'm not sure if that includes downloads from outside DD or not
>>538347648it does include outside data
>>538347869Then that's not a good measure because it heavily skews towards games that were already uploaded before DD
>>538347648devs that have the page public appear higher.if you mark it as unlisted it pretty much goes to the bottom
a game where you clean little girl with your tongue
How do you guys keep all your backups? I'm running out of space on Google Drive.
>>538348552over 10TBs of hard drives and github
>>538348552it's called git gud
>>538348112
>>538275615>UI also UI also UI also UI also menus also UIholy fuck dude talk about the gameplay
>>538348552I've got backups on flashdrives, a separate harddrive inside my PC, a synology server at my grandparent's house, and on a git server I run off my laptop.
>>538348862
>>538349895He's right though, especially for a game whose gameplay is majority menu traversal.
>>538347469>There are items that let you reclaim letter pieces from the board to your draw pile.Yeah and I already told you that it completely breaks all the bonuses from the books if you do that and there's no way that you'll get 800 points in 6 turns without those bonuses. Did you even play your own game?
>>538339930why post these here and not on the dev pages?
Well, demo day feedback seems pretty consistent in saying the game idea is not viable. So I guess it's time to throw everything out and make something else. But what to make?
>>538350975https://www.bafta.org/programmes/young-game-designer/idea-generator/
>>538350975What ain't viable?
>2 views>0 browser playsYes, I am too proud to beg
>>538350975Half-Lifelike
>>538353513I'd seriously be down but only if other anons are interested. Half-Life took ~20 people to make so it can't very well be done solo.
>>538354297Weak.
>>538354297>Half-Life took ~20 people to makeDoesn’t that also include making the source engine?
>>538347373>he had to post outside of his containment thread for attentionagdg cultural victory
>>538356084i look like this (real)
I have mastered the syntax.I have mastered all programming patterns.I have mastered serialization and de-serialization of both XML and JSON files.I have mastered drawing graphics exclusively using "draw" calls.I have mastered writing shaders.I have mastered UI and GUI creation.Now... I will finally... start making my first game.
>>538355419Even if you used all prebuilt tech and assets only to remove the need for any artists or engineers, Half-Life still had ~10 level designers making all that content.>>538356071Half-Life 2 involved making the Source engine and ultimately had a team of 60-80. For Half-Life and its team of ~20, they just modified the Quake engine (while also having Quake 2 source code for reference) to add features they wanted (mostly 16-bit color and skeletal animations).
>>538357247you are BASED because you posted a happy korone I wish (you) success and happiness
>>538357346neat
>>538343695>drag and drop first letter>drag and drop 2nd letter>game figures it out from thereThen for nerds>hover over spot>type corresponding letter
>>538347469I finally beat it, it's crazy how broken the balance is if you don't find the right books. I got to round 7 first with the book that returns all your played pieces immediately, then I used:>0.2x for every multi letter piece>4x the longest word>raven: copy the first book>ulysses>turn every vowel into a multi letter pieceThis build is so broken I beat round 8 in two turns with 2500 points. How good you do in this game is complete luck since most of the items are useless while a few are OP.
>>538335449I meant I struggled with whether I want to have them or notI'm sort of letting chatgpt guide while also guiding it so I'm a little out of my element, haven't ever programmed with LLM help before. It kind of sucks and I hate it, but it's nice too. Recently I just changed things around to do this "envelope normalizer" which seems like "tokenization" maybe? Standardizing commands into a dict form like { "op": "MOVE", "actor": "player", ...} so I have "aliases": {"move", "m"} too. But I'm not going to do travel/journey/meander/walk/go/go to/ ...If that's not what you meant by parsing with tokenization, explain if you'd like.Learning with an LLM is such a double-edged sword though, I never feel like what I write is truly mine and have to spend a lot longer refamiliarizing myself after a day or two, than I have had to in the past, with coding on my own.
>>538343695a better alternative is to not use those tiny buttons and icons that you're using, look how balatro does, the cards are massive (if you know what I mean) look how much space are you wasting with nothing in the bottom left and all those useless buttons at the top that you won't use 95% of the timea drag and drop would be the most intuitive one because when making words you don't always start from the beginning>>538345565>and how you only have xxyyywwzz's tiles left on round 7that's exactly what happens in the original game kek
Added exit descriptions.>>538359030Tokenization in this context is just breaking up a sentence into separate words and then attaching meaning to each word. Text games use imperative sentences so you don't have to do something too fancy. We aren't writing a compiler.Most cases should be "verb then noun"or "verb/noun">Recently I just changed things around to do this "envelope normalizer" which seems like "tokenization" maybe? Standardizing commands into a dict form like { "op": "MOVE", "actor": "player", ...} so I have "aliases": {"move", "m"} too. Yeah that's what I'm talking about. >>538348740>and shithub
/v/tards are talking about games with less than 50 reviews.Go shill your shit there.>>>/v/720062737
>>538361649They're asking for gems not TURDS.
>>538361746Marmoreal is a hidden gem albeithoughever.
"Hidden gems" do not exist. If your game is good, people will play it. >B-but there are 100s of games released on Steam every day!That doesn't matter. If your game is good, it will stick out even if a thousand games get released every day.Look at those "hidden gems" in that thread. They all look so uninspired, low-effort, low-engagement, etc. Can you find me a game with ingenious game design on par with Spelunky, FTL, Slay the Spire, with less than 50 reviews? No.
>i don't like them so they're bad!!!!
>Single player games are a dead end unless you have an established fanbase and millions of dollars to marketTrue or false?
>>538362539Trulse
>>538362110Hidden gems exist. Any game that took a long time before it hit big was a hidden gem at one point. Fortunately life isn't so black and white.
>baseless generalized statement>True or false?trualse, frue even.
>>538362671>Any game that took a long time before it hit big was a hidden gem at one point. Any examples? A single one? No?
>>538362539True, obviously.
>>538362769marmoreal
>>538362769Fear and hunger.Now please, promptly kill yourself so we won't have to read your retardation anymore
>>538362769Amongus, Vampire: The Masquerade, and Psychonauts, to name a few. They're all famous now but they weren't on release. Among Us took 2 years sitting on the steam store. Vampire took many years because of HL2 overshadowing it. Psychonauts wasn't really a huge success on release and it took time for a cult following to bring it up to what it is now. There's probably even better examples but succeeding well after release isn't exactly uncommon in *any* artistic department including music, paintings, movies, etc and those usually have proper marketing.
>>538362769Also to add to what I said here >>538363441I think you're confusing the idea or sentiment that time or the right eyes could make a bad game good but that's not what's really being argued here. If your game is just objectively bad by all metrics it's just going to be bad forever. There is some objective truth in what makes a game some what good.
A whole month later and I still feel like this last dev phase is gonna take 4 months again. I need more positive energy to dev but I can't get more playtesters or else il have to share the current late beta build over the internet and someone might leak it to a pirate site early... how the fuck do I get more playtesters over the internet? Make them sign NDA's?
>>538274151follow this
>>538364005It's called Early Access
>>538364005Silksong came out and raised the bar for what people consider difficult. It's over, all you can do is release now and hope that player competency hasn't skyrocketed yet.
>>538363441NTA, but pre-Steam games aren't relevant to a discussion about modern day algorithmic visibility. As for Among Us, it didn't take 2 years to hit a reasonable level of visibility. It had a fair high daily CCU within a year, and wouldn't have been able to capitalize on the peak covid spike if it didn't already have thousands of daily players beforehand.
>>538364024nortubel dev...
>>538364606speaking of which>>538286858>>538287279>>538289660
>>538364670>pre-Steam games aren't relevant to a discussion about modern day algorithmic visibilityYou used to have to pay money to get featured in magazine's, kiosks, as well as producing physical copies of your game and getting a license deal with a big publisher. Now you gotta pay for youpoopers, ads, and grass root marketing through X and other social media. Oh how the times have changed SO MUCH.
>>538363441What makes you think Among Us is a gem? It's low effort in every sense and capitalized on other social deduction games like TTT and Deceit not being as accessible to normalfags.
>>538365140Wrong. Now you just have to pay one steak plus 30% and make a good game that people actually want to play (impossible for /agdg/)
sssssnek
>>538364606Games not even done for that. Theres a certain final product that has to be done for that
I suck at character design...
>>538366016nice balzac
>>538364005>>538366238>https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/playtestJust get Steam playtesters. If it's good enough for AAAs, it's good enough for you.
>>538364005>how the fuck do I get more playtesters over the internet?do it in person.
>>538363441>amongusIf lockdown hadn't happened it'd still be rotting in the back catalog, random viral meme success elevates shit games all the time, it doesn't make the games good. >Vampire: the masquerade>PsychonautsThese released 20 years ago, they weren't on Steam initially and if they were they wouldn't have been languishing in complete obscurity with 50 reviews as they sold 75k-100k in their first year. You're a retard for bringing these games up in this discussion
>>538365140>Now you gotta pay for youpoopers, ads, and grass root marketing through X and other social mediaIf you have to pay for any of these things to get your game noticed, you're game is shit and is a good indicator it will flop
Recettear clone in which the sell and buy is done exactly like Recettear or is the customer sprite going to the display table, grabbing the item and bringing it to the counter where they wait for you to initiate the sell/buy better? The second one takes longer but it's more interactive.The actual haggling would be done like Recettear in either way
>>538366238>Bokube isn't done enough for early access
>>538364670>>thousands of daily players beforehand.>concurrent player counter never goes above 3 digitsSmartest /agdg/ posters
>>538364005I play games for Playtestcloud and Gotestify as a small sidegig and a playtesting thing to throw on my resume, services exist for this
>>538238676what game?
>>538366706I played amongus with some friends on mobile around the month of release, not sure where i heard of it but it must have gotten some amount of buzz.
Just barely made it in time.https://why485.itch.io/mirrored-tanks
Bastard bitch!!! YOU PLAY MY GAME NOW!!!
>>538366323Don't overcomplicate it. Even the most basic of designs can be very appealing if done the right way. I mean, look at Kita in your pic, and the other Bocchi girls. They're all schoolgirls wearing typical schoolgirl things, yet their designs are incredibly recognizable. Presentation is far more important than being unique.
>>538369235kino
>>538369235good. also make the wheels fly off in the explosion
>>538367951over a 24 hour period, that 3 digit number is comprised of different people. thousands even.
>>538367951you're assuming that concurrent players and total daily players mean the same thing and you are incorrect. maybe if your game has 0 international appeal would that make sense.
>>538370036>that 3 digit number is comprised of different people. thousands even.And you know that with 100% certainty?
>>538364005We got silksong before you released bokube. Just press the button already. >and someone might leak it to a pirate site early...If you can't even find playtesters nobody is going to pirate your game you dumb fuck.
>>538325373For better or worse, the dev really enjoys digging into authentic 16th century environment, and asset creation. Which is great for the vibe and look, but there wasn't much time for actual gameplay yet.
>>538364005Bro you got like 1000 wishlists. Whoever wants to pirate your game is completely inconsequential to your success or lack off
>>538351139I can’t read this
How many AI voice actings can I use, legally?
>>538367951>>538370159Even if you want to get really pedantic, yes. It had over 1k CCU every day for around 5 months before it hit its all time viral peak. That timeframe also nicely coincides with when my own IRL friends gathered together to play.
>>5383710151,464 for a puzzle platformer with 0 marketing means il make enough money to survive next year to do full-time gamedev tho im excited
>>538372059>blud doesn't know about wishlist decay and all the sub-1% wishlist conversion flops>blud also doesn't remember that he has the give away a gorjillion keys to his kickstartersIt's bokover.
>>538371685Okay, I take it back. Still, the point that was made still stands. It might not have been a gigaflop but it was still a fairly "obscure" indie game. Whether it deserved it's playercount later or not is a different matter, point being is that games CAN and DO get overlooked a lot of the time
>artists tell me my art is shit but non-artists tell me my art is goodWhat does it mean?
>>538372915artists are NOT your audienceartists are DEAD
>>538372915Non-artists do not have an eye trained for aesthetics.
>>538372915artists think a banana tapped to a damn wall is worth 20 million dollars
>>538372915That you used generative AI
>>538372835>1k CCU is still a fairly "obscure" indie gameMost devs here would kill for those kind of numbers. How many /agdg/ games have ever gotten past 1k? Like 5? 1k CCU ranks you at around the top 500 of ALL Steam games at any moment, or at around the top 0.1% of all games on Steam.
>>538373625By normalfag standards, it was obscure. Hell even on /v/ 1-5k CCU is considered "low playercounts", just so you have some perspective. This is why Amongus is so divise when it comes to game popularity and recognition.
>>538373625Also it's worth keeping in mind that Amongus is a multiplayer game, and CCU matters more for multiplayer games than it does for singleplayer games. Most aggies make SP games, so realistically CCU matters less for them.
>>538373897>listening to /v/ opinionsYou're completely brainrotted, and you're NGMI. Leave for >>>/v/ and never come back.>>538374062CCU is strongly correlated with total playtime between all users and total playtime is one of the main metrics the Steam algorithm uses to determine how much visibility to give a game. Yes, CCU and playtime still matters for single player games.
>>538362539False. You don't need millions of dollars for advertising if you're willing to design your game for a verified audience and spend the necessary time building up support before release. Even if you want to make a niche game based purely on your individual passion, you'll still be able to build up a community of supporters given enough time and effort, assuming the game isn't absolute garbage.All you really need is 50-100 positive reviews for bigger content creators to consider picking up your game and expanding its reach. If you don't believe in your game's ability to organically achieve at least 50 positive reviews, then why would you ever delude yourself into thinking your game would make money?
>>538374497>Yes, CCU and playtime still matters for single player games.Did I say "it didn't matter at all"? No, I did not. Obviously, it does matter somewhat, but people here have figured out that the single most defining factor that your game's performance has is the amount of purchases near it's launch. CCU matters way less than that. As long as you can get thousands or millions of retards to buy your game at launch, without even playing it, Steam will still promote your game
>>538365326>What makes you think Among Us is a gem?people enjoyed it>>538366706>it doesn't make the games good.now you're just being stubborn.>if i don't think the game is good, then the game isn't good!do you forget how many people genuinely enjoyed playing the game with their friends?yes, covid increased the demand for social games, but the fact that people still had fun playing it mean that, aside from your personal opinion, the game was good enough to be enjoyed
i think it's okay for people to enjoy playing low quality games
Best kind of pov for tileset?
>>538372915clearly the other artists are just crabbing you
>>538372915they have different standards, probablyall that matters is if the players enjoy playing your gamewhy do we forget this?
>>538369235will this be Bocchi Battlefield!?
>>538374669Launch doesn't matter much. Retards like you believe a game is dead if it didn't launch well, but that's clearly not the case. The only thing launch gives you is a relatively minor visibility boost in N&T. Meanwhile, the Steam algo looks at momentum. Valve has explicitly said this. That minor boost from N&T can help a game gain a little momentum, but there are still tons of other ways a game can gain momentum. So long as a game is fun and people continue to buy it, then a game can continue to gain momentum across several months or even several years as was the case with Among Us.
>>538375329>as was the case with Among Us.retards need to stop taking games that got randomly lucky with viral success or extraordinary circumstances like covid lockdowns and using them to build a model of how steam works.
revenue = promotionat any point during the game's existence this is truehttps://youtu.be/qkmAqBvUBOw
>>538374896Its okay for people to enjoy mcdonalds but it pisses me off when people say that we need more fine dining while refusing to eat anything but mcdonalds, you dig?
>food analogy
>>538375797fair
>>538346831I will make on once submissions are closed
Assetlet here: what's a good way of doing things like cabinet faces where it's not central enough to justify a high tri count but also will also look bad if it's completely flat? I came across the idea of making a high tri model, baking the normal map from it, and then throwing it on a low tri model, but I don't know enough to say if that's retarded
>>538374669>the single most defining factor that your game's performance has is the amount of purchases near it's launchthis is correlation and not causation. marketing drives sales and marketing saturation peaks for most games at launch by design because that's when the product is first available for purchase. for games with little or no marketing budget, they may reach peak marketing saturation after launch due to influencer discovery or whatever so long as the new marketing wave eclipses the original.
>>538376131Yeah. Baked normal maps are great.
>>538376070*I mean the template
>>538376131>making a high tri model, baking the normal map from it, and then throwing it on a low tri modelyes normal maps are a super efficient way to get extra detail
When this thread dies can we just jump to the other one instead of having 2 at all times?Please
>>538376175>>538376787Well, shit, guess it's time to try baking. Thanks
>>538376971yeah surenext thread>>538094441>>538094441>>538094441let the goon have his moment
>>538377946>>538377946>>538377946
>>538377010>let the goon have his momentDon't feed the attentionwhore retard
>>538379003by sperging out and spliting the thread multiple times you give him more attention than just ignoring it and using the thread as normal
