threadly reminder edition>Demo DaysNext: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-65Previous: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64Older: 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 Screen Recordhttps://getsharex.com/https://obsproject.com>How to Webmhttps://github.com/argorar/WebMConverterhttps://github.com/michaelmob/WebMCam>Previous thread>>543399993
What are you progressing on lately?
>>543454014The fucking scale
When my game is published, I'll travel to the other side of the globe on a motorcycle. I think travelling and meeting new people will fix the damage done to my psyche by being a shutin for 5 years. I won't get a ton of anxiety when talking to people because I'll leave that place in a few days.Knowing my luck, I'll crash at the start of my trip and be a cripple, but if everything goes right I'll get the good ending.I think 2020s is the testing phase god is putting us through. Everything will be ok in a bit. WAGMI
Day 0 of making a fnaf clone to teach myself godot
>>543455938retard
Day 0 of making pong
>>543454014I've been reworking the combat to not be sucky. Turns out not getting good sleep makes it hard.
Day 20. I added a jetpack. Tomorrow I'll probably paint it and add particle effects, then disappear for a bit to cobble together some sort of game loop and fix bugs. Maybe I'll make it to demoday, maybe I won't. Thank you for attending my progress conferences this month.
>>543455090>Knowing my luck, I'll crash at the start of my trip and be a cripple, but if everything goes right I'll get the good ending.Motorcycle + driving on the opposite side of the road you are used to = disaster waiting to happen.
>>543456369so he's some kind of secret agent or what?
>>543454014My game feels so clunky and not enjoyable to control I hate it
>>543456132>retard
>>543456850>my game feel so retro and eurojank, sovl!
>>543456369>a month of work for thisGRIM
>>543455938>not using MMF
>>543457151>20 days is a monthwhat planet are you from?
don't think im gmi bros
>>543456369that's coolwhat's the goal? Action platformer or something more?
testing... testing..
>>543456369keep going anon, your game is attracting crabs already>>543454014 see >>543456369
>>543454014More level building stuff, I can add active objects, NPCs and enemies. Now the plan is to add dialog editing with all parameters configurable in the editor.
>>543457812i look like this
>>543457261Planet Business lol
How long until AI can rig?
>>543458310>How long until AI can rig?
>>543456804He's a Star Trek>>543457151Please understand. Networked physics are unpleasant to work with.>>543457508Friendslop is the genre. The ultimate goal is to have a game where you and some friends take on roles (science officer, security officer, doctor, etc.) and work together to complete tasks on some alien planets to earn points, which can unlock the next planet. Stuff can knock you over and you can knock stuff over. That's the big idea. I have some other smaller ideas about progression, item unlocks, and the different tasks you can do, but I'll worry about those if I can get to them. As for what I might submit to demoday, I have no idea what that might look like. I'll have to see what I can slap together.
>>543458310rigging is the easiest part of making assets (if you have good topology)
>>543458427This is only true if your assets are unambitious. If you start having to drive bones with logic it immediately becomes insanely annoying.
>>543458310accurig
>>543457876hey I like the busty gazongas on the lady keep up the great work just stopping by
There are ppl who work on their game everyday?
>>543458613post ambitious asset
>>543458701
anyone need an artist?
>>543458894
>>543459002art commission scammers are the worst, 50% chance this poster lives in jakarta
>>543459002I'm probably gonna have to end up hiring some kind of visual artist and maybe somebody who can make music if I'm not able to cut it. Feels like most people are naturally good at that stuff but somehow I missed out. I'm good at systems though
>>543459002Are you a hot girl?
>>543458813brownoids sure don't
>>543459002Yeah show me a high quality texture sample of your talents.
>>543458310>How long until AI can rig?The ability for Artificial Intelligence to improperly influence or "rig" an election is not a future concern, as the technology is already being used for this purpose. This timeline is not about when Artificial Intelligence will be able to do this, but rather how quickly effective safeguards can be developed to counter its misuse.
>>543459234You might not need to hire a music guy desu. Did you listen to the ai gen nipponese playlist that was posted in the prev thread?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08qWMhEZeF8
>>543458310some ai model gens come with rigging/animations. try tripo
>>543455090I've been watching this Italian guy ride the pamir highway without "adventure gear". Pretty cool desu. Someone should make a game that captures this feeling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZa8DcFnr0Thidies don't adhere to road rules, so travelling by motorcycle is risky.
>>543459224some people think i am a scammer because my prices are to low for fully rigged and textured lowpoly models, is 85$ really that cheap? i thought that was the normal price
>>543457876awesome level editor!
>>543459635these lyrics are so dreadful I can't listen. the curse of knowing japanese...
>>543459635how do you gen this?
>>543459798what do people typically charge for something like picrel, but more inthe 64x64, 128x128 size?
>>543459898*basically "it was a dark and stormy night" of lyricsevery song i clicked opened with a variation of>the night was quiet...
>>543460126AI can make that
Do you vros ever have to start doing shit like this once your spaghetti starts spilling all over the place just so you can quickly remember what the fuck is going on?
>>543460126400 sprites at 64*64, but one color? couple of thousand. it would take around 100 hours.
>>543460285Oops, hadn't saved over the version on my desktop yet.
>>543460345two weeks is actually not that bad desu, but I'd probably want to be able to have multiple layers that I could modulate the colors on to reuse sprite across levels
>>543459635Wait, this is actually good
>>543444384>not even the maintainers know where they come fromcan't they read the code exception/segfault to figure it out? lmao?
>>543460285>>543460450No
>>5434590022D or 3D?any work samples?
anyone need a programmer?
>>543460285I can't. my spaghetti is too strong. a set up like that would look like a biblically accurate unreal blueprint angel if i tried to figure it all out.
>>543460450I spent all my upfront time make a nice event bus system and everything just consumes it's own events. Some things produce events that other things consume, some things combine events. etc.
>>543460791If I needed screensize in godot and then needed a random Vector2 what would the code look like? (this is your hiring exam)
>>543460140I like to listen to calm music in languages I don’t understand when I’m trying to focus. It’s less distracting.
>>543459635Reminder that AI shit can’t be copyrighted so if you find a cool AI song you like you can just use it without credit like it’s public domain
>>543460791What are your skills/interests?
>>543461016Good question — here’s how you’d do both in GDScript (Godot 4): Get the screen size:var screen_size = get_viewport().get_visible_rect().sizeor simply:var screen_size = get_viewport_rect().sizeBoth give you a Vector2 with the width and height of the window.Would you like me to show how to constrain that random Vector2 within a margin (e.g., not too close to edges)?
>>543461331Yes
>>543461331You didn't randomize it. Failed.
>>543461016uh I um eh ah *groks it*(nta)
>>543460450might be worth learning some basic uml
>Cuffbust dev gets clearly burned out and dumps out a 10 minute demo for sale at $20>flopsJesus. Why the hell are you even doing gamedev if you don't enjoy the process? If all you want is to make money literally anything else is a better use of your time.
Anyone need an ideaguy? No need for payment, I will give them out for free.
The only way to beat reddit and escape wagie is make normie slopyour story game? nobody cares.your turn based game? nobody cares.your platformer game? nobody cares.your 2d non h-game? nobody cares.It's either that or REALLY high quality indie. heavy combat simulation(TCA, Bounty)/3d colony management
>>543462110>The only way to beat reddit and escape wagie is make normie slop>your story game? nobody cares.>your turn based game? nobody cares.>your platformer game? nobody cares.>your 2d non h-game? nobody cares.>>It's either that or REALLY high quality indie. heavy combat simulation(TCA, Bounty)/3d colony management
>>543461857they cut the full price to $10, don't think I've seen such a backtrack so quickly>Why the hell are you even doing gamedev if you don't enjoy the process?are you serious? the majority of games are made for the money first and foremost
>>543462309Sure if you're a corpo. All the creatives are in it out of passion. A programmer will get paid more to do anything else besides gamedev.
>>543462106post ideas
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1558130/Raige/
You lost the job offer. Easy question and answer times up.
>>543462106Sure, I could use one. I'm currently stuck on figuring out the story of my game. I need a compelling reason for the characters to be stuck inside a house and to go into the house's basement. Also would be nice to have some ideas for a compelling ending after getting out of the house and why it'd be a big deal for the characters.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1887960/Shadow_of_Egypt/
>>543462636- Farming sim without real-time timers- Detective CRPG with Ace Attorney gameplay- Top-down night-survival base-builder
>>543462838https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=998&supportedlang=english&developer=LTZinc&ndl=1dude's a machine, wtf
>>543462790What genre is the game? What do they do while in there? What emotions are the player meant to feel?
>>543462618>All the creatives are in it out of passionshow me 5 devs that made a successful game saying that
>>543461721I know UML. This is me doing a quickl lazy "doctor's handwriting" version or "chicken scratch" version of it. I would only do proper UML if I was doing a publisher pitch or something.
>wasted an entire day going down GOAP autism rabbithole>doesn't even work
>>543462106Ideas I got, kid. What I don't got is talent! Same as you!*Blows smoke in your face*
>>543454014Adding difficulty levels, similar to Balatro's. Need to figure out a way to change the color of all my UI elements, but it's going to fucking suck it seems. SAD!
>>543463425>67alphies will be all over this
>>543463807I went on a white water rafting trip like 2 months ago and our zoomer guide was explaining this meme to us. Is it still a thing?
>>543463425>Need to figure out a way to change the color of all my UI elementsEither make them grayscale and set the color in the modulate variable, or use a shader to change the color palate.
>>543461016https://pastebin.com/iFrAQc1Reasy
>>543463952They're all tied to a single theme, so I wish I could just set that to a single color and have it propagate to all the things that use it. But apparently godot doesn't work like that. The greyscale is a good idea though.
>>543463734most tranny groomers always are
Material Maker runs like ass, is there another lightweight shader/vfx art-assist program?
>>543464278>I could just set that to a single color and have it you can though
>>543464480How? It'd be super helpful
>>543464703>>543464480Never mind, I figured it out. That's great, ty
>>543464191Incorrect, you fail. Also so much extra unnecessary bs and a terrible var name.
>>543463941idk I haven't actually heard it irl.
>>543464703use theme_type_variation or theme overriding, themes propagate to children
If you had the choice of giving a key to a youtuber that would get 1milion+ views, but he's an asshole and will trash your game design unjustly, would you do it?
>>543462838all his games have more reviews than the average agdg game. bought the reviews?
>>543456369Croc Quest is so based. So much progress in such a short amount of time. Keep it up anon!>>543457876Neat. Making a level editor seems like scary work to a newbie like me. What is your game about? All the NPC's and enemies seem kind of dissimilar and a little anachronistic.>>543454014Working on attacks for the robot with the cock.
>>543465295Depends, probably though, youtubers don't play good games so it wouldn't shock me for them to shit on it because it's not something dumb
>>543465295no, "bad publicity is still publicity" meme doesn't work anymore
>>543465295no. my game is already going to go viral by virtue of being good.
>>543464959works on my machine
>>543465676I didn't say it wouldn't work. Dumbass.
>>543465340
>>543465764if it works, it's correct. Thinking otherwise means you're a nodev
say I'm making a helicobter enemyis it more performant to animate the rotor and blades with a simple script rather than an animation from blender?
>>543465340trooncoded flopslop
>>543466089depends how many copter enemies you will have. if many, animation is better. but for real performance, animating the blades as 2 swapping blurred sprites is better.
>>543466037It's not correct code and is overcomplicated. Useless variable names and no commenting. For example we're talking vectorsize and your random is going to 200000 lmao. Should be a min/max x/y using screensize.
>>543466289>moving goalpostsyou needed the screen size and a random vector2. My code gets you both. If you needed the vector confined to screen space you should have said so
Genuine question: What are some things that the devs who actually made it such as Project Wingman and World of Horror do to make their games a big hit? Why did they succeed while others from here failed?
>>543466568Why the fuck would you want the vector2 outside the screen space you dunce
>>543466593Take a wild guess, anon. I want to hear your thesis.
>>543466714you were the one who asked for a random vector2 retard
>>543465340*dies**keeps attacking*what a savage kek>the robot with the cock>
>>543466089>premature optimizationnever gonna make it
>>543467004You failed, good day sir. Goodbye.
>>543466267*btw look up vertex-based rotation, animate it via shader on the GPU, rather than spin it via cpu
>>543467008Heheh. Yeah that wasn't even intentional, but I guess it's just a common thing developers don't think about because I've seen it a lot in other games.Kept it in cuz it's funny :^)
>>543466593World of Horror was pure GMI, dunno why you have to ask about that one
There is no society in which /agdg/ is seen as a good place to be in.
>>543466593project wingman, almost as good as ace combat, btter in some respects, but 30% of the price.
>>543467252>>543466267I'll look into doing it via shader but if it ever causes issues I'll go with sprites since I was thinking of doing that from the start>>543467189generally I don't do this but premature optimization seems like a GMI behavior unless it's every little detail
He stopped playing my game just now.
>>543467861do you know what the word premature means
I moved house and productivity has increased during the hours I dev but the hours themselves have decreased.
I'm still really horny
>>543468340does your gf sit there and stare at you while you enginedev
>>543468616only a little bit she gets stuck into her own art quite deeply but we put the desks like that so we can see each other easily
>>543468616that's my niece's desk
>>543468105do you?
>>543468340this looks like two kids' desks, like a brother and sister sharing a room
play my demo, I'll play yours.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3176830/Monster_Freaks/
>>543465340I thought that mech was for its own game, not just an enemy in that onecan I please play as the mech instead?
>>543468673
>>543468858seconding this request. let me play one of the arcade machines and it's a simple Virual On clone
>>543468918arisu...
>>543468851thanks we are going for that feel/aesthetic
>>543468340>>543469153why would you do this to yourself
>>543468918wish me luck, arisu. I"m locking in
>>543468857based.
>>543467630no society is a good place to be in
https://store.steampowered.com/app/893030/Music_Racerthis is how easy it used to be before 2019
>>543468858>>543469045Okay anons I guess it could work if I let you play as the mech in one of the arcades, but that's also something that I can't promise since I have a ton of other stuff I need to do.Maybe if you keep pestering me about it down the line it'll happen.
>dev for 5m>shitpost on /agdg/ for 15mthis needs to stop, I will break the chain
>>543469153>neutral meme hoteldid you meet on the 4chan dating app?
>>543469539How do you possibly only dev for 5 mins? I start and can't stop til I have to. Last week I literally troubleshooted for 30 hours straight until I collapsed in bed.
>>543469526it's ok, I have other mech games to play. you've just done such a good job with the model it's stirring up that desire.
>>543468857seriously. give me some demos to play. I need to make content for my YouTube. let me play your /agdg/ games.
>>543469997we don't make games
>>543469526>you play as the mech but it's a costume
>>543469241sick and tired of always being based, and never being cringe.
>>543469997https://store.steampowered.com/app/3748640/Wasteland_Bites/
>>543470241I'm on it
>>543469724Thank you, anon. I am chuffed to hear this. I also remembered the other day that the design was inspired by another mecha I forgot to mention: The Woundwort!Someday I'd love to make a mecha game, but Tamabuki doesn't quite allow for that. (There *will* be more mecha enemies though.)
>>543469997Post your YouTube?
>>543469631I'm very tired, so I've only been doing a couple 'thoughts' of code before losing concentration.
>>543470135This could be kind of funny actually... You have successfully embedded an idea in my mind I may act on in the future when I have some time to do some silly funtime modeling.
>>543469997https://coomichoo.itch.io/paloo-spiralappreciate it anon
>>543470374I just don't code if i'm tired
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2701260/Idle_Streaming_Bonanza/
>ask him to post his youtube>he never doesSomething ain't right here, niggers...
>if he doesn't meet my demand within 15 minutes he's susanon...
>>if he doesn't meet my demand within 15 minutes he's susYes. Posting a youtube chanel is not that hard.
>>543468857either your screenshake imlementation is bad or it's extremely strong. allow users to tone it down, it's one of the most hated things in games.
>>543468340>bro got an arthoethis isn't fair!
>>543470241this game is hella dope, I gave it quite a few tries but i could never figure out how to prevent certain deaths>>543470308>https://www.youtube.com/@CorporateFilth
>>543471941yeah i got a tip from another anon saying that horizontal screenshake makes him dizzy, so i made it only vertical, and it looks a lot better that way
>>543473364I watched a vid by a dude that said he made all his screenshake rotate the camera instead of move it since moving it is what makes people dizzyit improved my attmpts as well.
It's getting brutal out there....
>>543473558duly noted :)
>>543473873People just autowishlist the newest slop their favorite streamer is playing at the moment and then go back to League
>>543473873Goodheart's law in action"when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
Reimplementing the cosmetic boku system I had to scrap awhile ago because it hurt the games performance. Since I didn't want the month long work I did last year on making the cosmetics I fixed the performance issue by making the bokube cosmetic dog shop be a separate scene but accessible still from any scene. You still spend a single diamond (1 hidden on each level) to unlock a random cosmetic by random from a list of about 39 of them or so. This version of the cosmetic shop is much better than the old one and will play way nicer on a controller since its all UI buttons mostly no more drop down slider menus and whatnot like before.
>>543474443i feel personally attacked by your commentwhy did you have to call me out like that...
>>543474950I encourage you to create your own engine in an open source library like SDL2 or Raylib.you obviously are passionate about your project (I have seen posts about boku for ages) so why not make it 100% your own intellectual property?We live in the era of chatGPT and AI, anything programming wise is possible unless you are an uber-retard.>t.moderate-retard.
I want to make a masterpiece like valhalla bartenderhttps://youtu.be/p_WBKVNi6xk
>>543475290>hey bokube, I know you've been workin on this game for 10+ years>but maybe rewrite the entire game engine from scratch mmkay?
>>543475763Post game
threadly reminder that luck is a factor.as this high fidelity quantum simulation shows, even if luck matters only 5%, the top 3% games on Steam will have >35% more luck than the average game.so it's not entirely your fault if your game flops. just remember that luck is random and that it's going to average out in the long term so just keep making games as best you can.
>>543476336>threadly reminder that luck is a factor.>as this high fidelity quantum simulation shows, even if luck matters only 5%, the top 3% games on Steam will have >35% more luck than the average game.>so it's not entirely your fault if your game flops. just remember that luck is random and that it's going to average out in the long term so just keep making games as best you can.
Why is there not a single good arpg that doesn't have a generic fantasy setting? I want to make "diablo but scifi" but I wonder if it's a bad idea because every game that tried that so far is complete ass. Take "The Ascent" for example. Looks beautiful, but that's about the only positive most people can give it. Gameplay is mediocre at best and it has tons of game/save breaking bugs. Is "diablo but not generic fantasy setting" just cursed?
>>543476405>Why is there not a single good arpg that doesn't have a generic fantasy setting? I want to make "diablo but scifi" but I wonder if it's a bad idea because every game that tried that so far is complete ass. Take "The Ascent" for example. Looks beautiful, but that's about the only positive most people can give it. Gameplay is mediocre at best and it has tons of game/save breaking bugs. Is "diablo but not generic fantasy setting" just cursed?
The best move for most of you would be to give up and go do something else
>>543476546>The best move for most of you would be to give up and go do something else
>>543470515love this games artstyle, this is awesome, and the music is a perfect fit, but man was i bad at this game lol.
>>543476689Glad you agree
>>543476814>love this games artstyle, this is awesome, and the music is a perfect fit, but man was i bad at this game lol.
>>543476546statistically the best move for everyone everywhere would be to get a job, build a career, and be financially responsible.
>>543476832>Glad you agree>>543476891>statistically the best move for everyone everywhere would be to get a job, build a career, and be financially responsible.
>>543476546>but not ME I'm special!!
>>543476546>for most of youWith a weasel word like that, you can say almost anything. Kind of a pointless statement desu.Regardless, I'm not like other gi- devs so I'm going full devtard.
Please spam quote this post as well.
Newfag here, if I only made simple games in Roblox, should I switch to another game engine or just keep practicing?
>>543477072Well yeah, I've already released games and they get well received
>>543477296that can change abruptly. your next two games could be flops.
>>543477296Alright post em
>>543477220Keep going until you start to feel like you're limited by your current engine. That includes the audience, I imagine most players of roblox are children, so if you want to make a more serious toned game it won't be a great place.
>>543477296>Well yeah, I've already released games and they get well received
I couldn't lock in.I failed...
>>543470241https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUT_4OKdm-g
>>543471373>>543471690>>543471761not him but this is my youtube -https://www.youtube.com/@lizardlizard4904
>>543477776>let me hijack this thread asking for one anon's channel with my ownautism moment
>>543477862pls dont bully me
Some signed angle fuckery going on causing the eye to jump from -22 to 22 degrees. I'll figure it out tomorrow (mega tired rn).But yeah, mono eye can now, kind of, follow the player!
oh if anyone is trying out the monster freaks demo, let me know if you want to play around with a couple cheatcodes
I'm not sure where to ask this but since you guys are devs. Does anyone know if there's an active fan translation for Dragon Knight 4 in either the DOS, SNES or PS1 version? I've seen the OVA but I want to understand the story more. They said it was popular in Japan back in the day.
>>543478736>I'm not sure where to ask thisnot here
>>543470515youtube.com/watch?v=i1JI3P-t7HA
>>543478813I see. Thank you.
I can't not use AI anymore for developing. It's too much of a timesaver. I'm beholden to the globohomo AI companies paying a monthly fee. Help
>>543478736learn japanese or wait for this troon to complete the translation https://twitter.com/ShintoCetra
>>543470515>TikTok>No YouTube shortsWhy bother if you're not gonna double dip? Reuploading is worth it if it hands out 5 more wishlists.
i made a fluid sim, but suddenly there's this bug that looks like i'm simulating boiling water lmao, now i don't wanna touch the fluid sim anymore as the bug might go away
>>543470515>>543478334your "games" look like transcoded shit
>>543478935oh, never mentioned it in the video, was more of an after-thought, but the demo is too short, i want more!
>>543479157you are not a real developer. you should give up immediately and transfer all of your wishlists to me.
>>543478334how do you texture everything? i want my game to look like this
>>543479515>how do you texture everything?how vague. what do you mean? just....texture your 3d models. what?
>>543479343>fluid sim for just one poolseems kind of overkill to me, just spawn some ripples on the surface and call it a day
>>543479680nta but pools are a staple of jusha. you revive in one each time you die
>>543479680very cheap in term of perf, but true, kinda overkill but hey! i can use it in other places haha
>>543479421>you are not a real developer.
why do more developers not sell a game on itch first for free before releasing on steam and flopping?
>>543479913because we're not homosexual like you
>>543479913>why do more developers not sell a game on itch first for free before releasing on steam and flopping?
>>543470940I'm too tired to do another video tonight, but I'll play this one tomorrow
>>543480185Tonight? Bruh, it's the middle of the day
>>543479913I thought about it, but if I'm gonna flop I'm gonna flop. itch first would only help so much. better to just do playtests
>>543479913>Sell>For free
>>543479861>very cheap in term of perfMaybe on your (good?) pc, but it's still ~1.3% of a frame at 60fps (.227ms). On target hardware it may hit harder. But I'm being a bit autistic, it's more than likely fine as long as there's not more than a few on screen at once.
>>543480185You're a good lad. You've earned your rest. however streaming bonanza isn't an agdg game. it's a reddit game irrc that got in trouble for using a real streamers voice clip in a youtube short.
>>543480064>>543480118
>>543480227Its 3:20 am for me.
>Session limit reached
>>543480274for free as in there is no fee to list on itch vs 100 on steam
>>543480468the $100 is given back after you make $1k in sales, it's literally nothing
>>543480468Ah, yeah that makes sense. I see my mistake.But to answer your question: I'm trying to make a product worth selling on steam, itch is full of very low quality jam games, I've done my time in game jams, I want to move up to the real thing. What better way to know if I'm ready than to go for it?
>>543480641You made it
>>543479515I'm not sure exactly what you're asking. If you specify I can answer better, but:My workflow for my texturing is to UV unwrap everything and then use an add-on in Blender called TexTools to set the texel density (124px/m for characters & 64px/m for environment). Once this is done I use the Pribambase add-on (for Aseprite & Blender) to see my texture update in realtime in Blender as I draw it in Aseprite. I block out colors and then typically go for a relatively simple style akin to Mega Man Legends. If I want something to look damaged I'll just sample a high-res image of rusted metal or something else, downscale it, despeckle it, then do 'new palette from sprite' in Aseprite limiting the color palette to ~8-16. I then change the color mode to indexed with dithering applied. This last bit can just help to get some nice dithering applied stuff whether it's a sampled image or something you drew yourself.But yeah that's about it. Hope that help sin some way.
>>543481370how's the transition going sister?
>Diwali>AWS goes downhmmm....
>>543480446>>Session limit reached
>>543474950Nice.
>>543481505Stop being Hinduphobia saar
>>543481793It's okay I switched to GPT-5 Codex it's gotten decent recently
>>543481913I can't fathom outsourcing your thinking so much you can't dev without it.fucking retard
>>543481960I'm doing the thinking and write down the high level logic then check how it did
>>543481960It's just a tool benchod!
>I will make a game>it will be trans-coded>it will contain subliminal messages>the other 59% will not survive
>>543481960>I can't fathomask chatgpt
G'day adgg. new branno kinohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6__nSWehWg0
>>543481960>>>/wsg/6005678
>>543482390You can always count on him to give his thought on what matters
>>543482390>silence from Chris Zuk>silence from GameDiscoverCo>silence from CodeMonkey>silence from Jonas Tyroller>silence from Thomas Brush Based Branno.
Is this considered as somewhat decent pixel art that would suffice for indie devs? I did it in 45 minutes and with mouse because I didn't have drawing tablet available.
>>543482669Branno is what we call an "independent thinker". Unlike most of the faglord ecelebs he's capable of forming thoughts and observations without waiting for a mainstream consensus or someone else spoonfeeding him what to think
If you're not talking money, I don't wanna talk
>>543482816yes looks good the top of the skull is a bit thick though
>>543482360
>>543482816yes>>543482952I disagree with this person.
>>543482816Gameplay? This looks like something pixillab can shit out in 3 seconds.
>>543482816your skull doesn't have a jawbut to answer, yes as long as it's not zoomed in, seeing the pixels makes it look worse right now
>>543482816Looks good.>>543482952>>543483319I think it could do with a bit more shading around the orbital bones to bring out the cavities there more, but it's not really needed.
nigga I'm boutta go FREAK MODE
>>543482952>>543483319>>543483319>>543483603Thanks for the answer. I did it on 64x64 grid and zoomed it 400% when I saved it which i posted here. I have literally no idea what Im really doing as I wanted to try pixel art as a lot of devs are making pixel art games
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wU3T21HapI>Make a wonderful game with interesting mechanics and early y2k art>People naturally flock to you and fund your gameNow, the key is advertising, goodgame-schizo. If he shadowdropped his kickstarter nobody would find it.This is inspiring hope though.
How do i stop realizing everything im making is shit and freaking out which interrupts my devving be chill and confident like Cris.He can just pump out rancid garbage and act like he just made the best game ever.HOW?
>>543477572His game has big GMI energy
>>543483958this looks nothing like a y2k game, and as a Gothic fan I'm appaled, since the main appeal of Gothic was never the fucking combat. It was the believability and depth of the world
>>543484079Lobotomy.
>>543484160He also put effort into worldbuilding and lore from what I can tell.>gothic but much improved combatwhat's there to dislike?
>>543484864I've been burned a hundred times by games that copy over the superficial layer of classic games but completely botch the essence and gameplay
>>543479913Like ten people know what itch is
>>543484989Fine, don't buy it. this dude gets millions of views on youtube on a DEMOhe's mega GMI. and that was my point. A dream game can become true if you know the crowd for it exists.
>>543485161you're a fucking retard. Your definition of GMI is always "guy who already got lucky". Your beliefs are based around magical thinking not anything real. How about instead of sperging out about the game's performance you focus on the game itself. Oh wait I forgot you don't play games or care about games, you only care about online discourse about games.
>>543480523I will never get back at 5 bucks
this general lacks loligames
>>543485323nta but what is your definition of gmi that isn't pure luck?If someone makes an interesting looking game and gets interest in the form of views and attention... That's luck and not a response to the game? How exactly did the inner circle manipulate the algorithms to direct viewers to his game?
>>543468340>that hand painted skybox cubemapcute...
>>543485589We weren't talking about game popularity or game sales in the first place. I was talking about the quality of the game. But you kooks always steer every conversation about games into a spergout about numbers. You're literally incapable of talking about a game without completely changing the topic to some shit that doesn't matter to the game's internal being at all
>>543482816Content per minute looks like an issue at that pace
>>543485589To drive my point even further, as an end user, I don't give a shit what jimjam or jumbo said about the game on blimblam. I care about what I'm getting when I boot up the game. This is something the lot of you will never get, because you just don't play games for its own sake. You don't want to play games and don't enjoy playing games so you've got nothing to say about games. Like a true exclave of /v/ this place truly hates playing games and will do anything to avoid talking about games themselves
>>543454014I started learning 3d modelling characters. it's supposed to be a woman, she looks a little sick because it's for a horror game.>>543457876love the vibes in this
>>543486102>anons don't play gamesthat's why /agdg/ games suck
>>543454014No real dev progress this time, but i uploaded the second Devlog Youtube video for Wagie Run:https://youtu.be/Eh2Kuh93oXkIf you guys have the time, please watch it and leave it a like. Thanks
>>543459224Scammers comes from India, not south east asia
>>543486395They don't just not play games, they actively despise doing it, which makes their brains completely averse to ever thinking about it because it causes them pain. A brain like that can't create a good game because it has a pain response to every topic that could understand a game better and improve it. I can't explain why so many people like that would get into this hobby to begin with
>>543486512most anime artfags are from SEA not poo land anon
>>543485860>We weren't talking about game popularity or game sales in the first place.The conversation started with how many views the guy's video got, what the fuck are you talking about?And no I can't download and play the demo right now because I'm at work. God forbid I have a conversation on the Internet instead. Fucking Christ you people.
>>543486713I didn't respond to anything you said in the original post. I only responded to the trailer from the perspective of a gamer.You were otherwise right. I just don't care about those things. I wanted to talk about the game in itself
>>543486840Have you played the demo then or is your assessment of the quality of the game based on nothing more than your cynicism from being disappointed in the past?
How 'bout da fact dat I hate my general
>>543468673kill yourself
>>543476336You cannot control for luck so you should do your best to control for all the things you can. Also known as making a good game that people want to play.
>>543469153why would you buy bourbon+coke instead of mixing them yourself?
>>543476405The closest we got is Hellgate London. Basically going scifi makes it into a shooter. If you want to make a shooter with Diablo loot then go for it.
>>543488094>Also known as making a good game that people want to play.impossible to know what this is unless "people" are already playing it or you fall for the survivorship bias or baseless confidence.
>>543487069The artstyle is that really overused pseudo-retro indie style that's already left a bad taste due to how shitty it is. The trailer overemphasizes the combat which is always a bad sign with any game, especially with game types that were never famous for their combat.I'll try the demo later but that's a really bad start. Maybe it's my fault for overdosing on trashy halfbaked indie games on twitter, but these games all look the same to me at this pointI'll really try it later but I don't expect anything more than Gothic but worse
>>543482816Anon here. How about this one? Its supposed to be a golden fruit with some devil fruitish swirls
>>543488094>>543488381I think you wanted to say "good game that people want to play along with some favors daddy called in with some friends at IGN and PCGamer, and your cousin's 10 million youtube/twitch viewers"
>>543488381>impossible to knowlol retard
>>543487069>>543488396this is how the demo is officially titled. The red flags just keep stacking
The usage of AI voice acting in my game facilitated enhanced immersion by allowing the foreign characters speak their native language and improved player experience by easing the mental load during gameplay critical situations. What's the problem in that? Huh? Why do you hate me for it?
>>543488834>lol retardlol retarded retard
>>543486405This is well edited and easy to watch. gj
>>543488885when you open the demo this shit takes up half the screen. I fucking hate modern indies so much it's unreal
>>543479913Who would even buy my game on itch, and if they did would they still buy it on Steam when I released there or would I be actually losing Steam sales by doing it
>>543488529These are alright, but messy. Looks like old PC game pixelart.
>>543489105absolutely atrocious memefilter that no sane person could be expected to tolerate in any game over 10 hours. Also game does that braindead thing where it telegraphs your controls to you like you're a lobotmized kindergartener
>>543488094>he doesn't luckmaxxngmi
>>543489356>desperately nitpickingthat game looks better than anything seen on agdg since time immemorial
>>543486405>ai voiceI want to hear your natural naselly lispy faggot voice.
>>543461857>Cuffbust devhe wasn't even the dev, lmaohttps://youtu.be/iXQV_btj0DYthe level editor was contracted out too
>>543461857what's the furthest toward release you got with a game?
>>543489356Planned gamepad support for a game that's supposedly recreating a textbook PC game. This dev is a retarded monkey
>>543453960I hope "my" (I'm a co-dev) game will fucking bomb. I fucking hate making videogames, I hope it won't sell shit so I'll finally be out of excuses and forced to go get a real job. I love drawing and modeling but I fucking hate gamedevvan'
>>543489731>I don't want your game supporting things I don't need!!1lol retard
>>543489453These aren't nitpicks. They are significant red flags which reveal more than enough about the developer - trying to be a AAA lite and piggybacking on retarded nonsense trends, not focusing to make a good game.
>>543489356Looks sick. Post more screenshots.
>>543482360>>543483284This has inspired me to make this IQ chart. Because I can't find any that actually show how people stack up.(Any claims of higher IQ have never been verified. China claims a couple guys in the 270's but that's statistically unsound.)
>>543489854You can't have it both ways. Any PC game that tries to appease consolefags loses something in the process.
>>543490007Change average to midwit
>>543489520what if he's indian?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWlv0N2yCTwAnyone tried using Substance Painter or something similar for low poly 3d? Basically going for a PBR workflow and fancy materials to bake a texture and then downscale it to get a retro look. Any more videos like this?
>>543490019so pretty much every non-strategy PC game in the 21st century?
>>543489731>Planned gamepad support for a game that's supposedly recreating a textbook PC game.Oh my GOD! Guys... Warhammer 40k Boltgun... it... it had MOUSELOOK controls and WASD movement... It's not like DOOM where you'd use the arrow keys to move forward and turn left and right! HOW can a game proport to be a boomer shooter but I don't have to fuck with my IRQ settings to get the sound to work? HOW is that allowed without the dev being summarily executed in the street by an angry mob? If I see a new game that says it's going to be recreating an old game, I expect it to be exactly like the old game with no modern convenieces or quality of life changes, but no I won't just install the old game because fuck you.
>>543489731Tried the combat. Seems initially good the tutorial is done terribly
>>543480684You should move up with a jamgame/demo/prototype that did well on itch so that you have some reference if it might do well.
am making something cool
>>543490446reminds me of
>>543488396>The trailer overemphasizes the combat which is always a bad sign with any game, especially with game types that were never famous for their combat.you can't make a 3d game with bad combat in current yearif he released his game with this level of popularity and it had bad combat it would be full of first day reviews complaining about the bad combat
>>543489453Monomyth came from here.
>>543490019>Any PC game that tries to appease consolefags loses something in the process.Truth. So many games ruined themselves to support a controller. To support a controller you're limiting the amount of keys you can use which immediately harms the potential complexity of a game.>>543490357Just because AAA slop does it doesn't make it right. They're aiming for maximum quantity of sales which means that they have to cater to console peasants and normies.
>>543490446Game is well done (from a technical standpoint)I have no reason to doubt the developer's technical ability to deliver the game from what I sawBut the game design has a lot of cracks. There's implications that they don't understand how to design a game like this from the pure progression/dynamics/experience side of things. I also don't see how they can scale the game without running into serious problems. I'd be cautious about expectations of how the game develops fully.
>>543490357Yes. That's like the whole issue of the consolefag takeover.
>>543486405>AI voicewhat nationality are you that would compel you to do this?
I cast many Vishnu curses upon you for your insolence, bastered bitch!!!!
>>543489636>this is the project he slapped together in a few monthsHoly shit, 2026 will be the year Steam is full of projects from fired AAA devs....next wave of saturation. Except this time it's not pure slop.https://store.steampowered.com/app/3439980/Moby_Dick_A_Tiny_Tale_of_Revenge/
>>543489878I just played the demo, it's fine and you're desperately nitpicking. Everything you've complained about is inane grumbling.>>543488885 - It's called that because it's a combat system demo, which it says at the very beginning>>543489105 - Oh no the menu isn't to your liking? What a serious and substantial critique of the game>>543489356 - Waaa the color depth filter hurts my dainty little eyes. It's far less obnoxious than what I've seen in demoday, at least it doesn't have fucking dithering>>543489731 - If you play the game's you'll see it would work perfectly fine with a controller, to think that you'd forgoe that feature for the sake of 'authenticity' is completely retarded and you clearly don't have your priorities straight.>>543490446 - Oh the actual gameplay part of the gameplay demo was... good despite your bitching? >>543491561 - You're complaining about lack of progression in a combat arena demo, what do you want next a battlepass? Fucking retard.Personally I liked the demo for what brief time I played, I only played as the fighter, I'll try as other classes later. It's meant to be a simple combat demo but you have a functioning inventory and equipment system, the starting area has items you can scavenge and books that you can pick up and read. When the NPC in the other room beats your ass he leaves you alive on the ground and just helps himself to your stuff which I thought was pretty cool. All of these things seem like a decent basis for deeper non-combat gameplay, and I think it looks promising.
>>543492281relax
>>543492091>no demoIt's likely an overly polished jam game with less than 1 hour of content.
I want to make an RPG where you can unlock different and upgraded skills for your party members after you spend time with them on a ‘date’ and a system where you can track your friendship status and hang out too without increasing your relationship level. Also I want to add a parry mechanic.Could this be done in any of the RPG Maker versions? I presume I might have to use plugins?
GOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING /agdg/. Just wanted to remind you that we are officially TWO (yes you heard me right) TWO months away from v3expo's show The /v/erdict 2. If you haven't made your trailer yet, I'm sorry to say there's no hope for you. You can earn that hope back by starting on your trailers NOW!All the information you need is here: https://thev3expo.com/submit/ trailers must be 4:3.
>>543492515ye
>>543491971Indian.
>>543492281You're trivializing the issues A) because you don't understand their larger implications of the developer's goals and B) because you're probably a consolefag who's in the target audience of watered down AAAlite games.Believe me, I want that game to succeed, even if only so that it leads to more developers wanting to make games like those. I have faith in the developer's skills. I don't have faith in the developer's intentions. That's all. Stop trying to gaslight me, because we've already lived through 25 years of PC game dilution and this is getting ridiculous. We all know how this goes
>burgers are waking up
>>543492573Cool thanks.
Having a hearty breakfast before I start today's devvin'
>>543494564Ayo Dis nigga eatin hearts!!
>>543494564Saar....
>>543494684Yummers.>>543494716Yeah?
>>543494684whichever animal's hearts he's eating, he'll gain its courage.
>>543495204Ah yes, chickens are notoriously known for their bravery.
>>543495384try to mess with a cock
>>543495204
>>543496546stop being a nodev crabyou know what he meant
>you're a nodev crab if you know basic english idioms
>>543494564I prefer a high calorie breakfast so I can work right through lunch time. In theory.In fact I'll be in a food coma until after lunch time.
>>543496546where do i buy honey badger hearts?
>>543496972yes if you see somebody trying to do something positive and your reaction is to try to twist it into something negative and hateful so you can try to demoralize people and try to make them as sad as you then you are a nodev crab correct
>>543459002>Art I got, kid>What I don't got is programmin' skills>Same as you*Blows smoke in your face*
>>543497040Looks delicious, but aren't you gonna end up scratching the pan?
>>543497525post your art cutie
>>543497590Forks are for stabbing, spoons are for shoveling.
How do I get back to developing games after being psyopped by dark forces beyond my control (they had more money)
>>543497525Artists don't know how good they have it. Just finally sit down for your own sake and learn what a for loop and an if statement is this weekend and you're basically set financially. Now me? Well, I'd have to spend at least 5 years to get anywhere close to where they are. Coding is the dalit caste of dev.
>>543497372You zoomers are so ill prepared for the real world, it's embarrassing.
I'm a yesdev crab
kek
>>543498017If you're really saying this that means you don't know how intricate programming can get. You could argue the same for art, just learn how to draw a few basic shapes, put them together, and you have an owl. You cripple yourself in your progress when you downplay the very skills you need to master. You need to have a mindset of "I know nothing" when it comes to all these things. Programming isn't just for loops and if statements, and art isn't just sphere cylinder and box.
>>543497590Contrary to popular belief, Teflon coatings have a higher rockwell hardness than the steel, copper, and aluminum of the pans they are on in thin layers, and often knives and forks. (Also, Teflon is entirely chemically inert and will pass through our body without reacting.)Teflon coating delaminate from pains with temperatures higher than 550F (290C), until your pan reaches this tempurature, your pans should resist light pressure from metal cookware.Pressing too hard can cause the teflon to elastically deform, which can cause flaking, but often scratches aren't the cause of delamination of the coating. Heat is.
>>543498017If you really know how to program you can get a software dev job where they pay you enough to hire an artist. Artists are poor and can't hire coders.>>543498783I've always wondered, how do they get a non-stick substance to stick to the pan in the first place?
>>543498082
>>543498985
>>5434980172d artists are stuck making boring 2d games(VN, puzzle games), unless they are also animators, but then they have to animate a shit ton and that takes a long fucking time.3d artists fair better, but often will be bogged down with level design and technical shit. 3d games are bug land. truly the ones who have it good are the musicians.
>>543498890For steel, the coating is sprayed into a formed pan. This is because the pan metal is smooth, and the tacky PTFE adheres worse to the surface.For aluminum and copper, no matter the finish, it always is a little porous so the PTFE is sprayed onto flat discs, and then the pan is shaped.You would figure that if the machine pressing the pan into shape isn't damaging to the teflon, it can handle your fork / spatula.
I have, for a long while now, been making my game as a a Half Life 2 mod, because I am racist against programming. However, it becomes more and more apparent the limitations of the Source Engine and how much of a pain in the penis it is to implement things outside of the stock gameplay features of HL2. Should I take the plunge and just make my game from scratch? What little programming experience I have is from trying to hack in my custom gameplay elements.
>>543499565>truly the ones who have it good are the musiciansbeaten by me routinely muting music when I start a game
>>543499576making a mod of a game from 2004 in 2025 is wild. yes you should remake it. programming isn't so hard now, use AI to explain it to you.
>>543499565Or you are a game developer for a 2d game and don't have an artist, so you are spending all your time animating a ton of shit and not making a game.
>>543498890Which skillset would qualify you as a real programmer? Not even trolling.
>>543499565It's true, I need someone who can compose module music, I can't even get a single bar right.
>>543499576Why are you building a game as a mod for HL2? The Source Engine is a game engine right? Can't you make a game from scratch in source?Is Source Engine like roblox?
>>543499738I suppose so. What do you think of making it on Godot? I certainly will need the help of AI for most programming related tasks. Art, on the other hand, is all fine. No problem with that.
>>543498391He got paid. Gavin's stupidity shouldn't reflect on his contractors
>>543499565You have to know how to code to make a game. You have to be the one coding it so you understand how everything works and you can fix bugs. Music and art can be outsourced, but never outsource your code.
>>543500021I'm making it as a Half Life 2 mod because Valve doesn't freely give access to the Source Engine as a whole.
>>543499907Knowing what you don't know. Question everything to the extent deadlines permit. Don't overcommit and know which things you won't implement because of constraints. At least knowing one or two programming languages really well.
>>543500024AI is pretty good with GDScript and really good with GDShader. Also GDScript is basically Python, if you know Python you can learn GDScript in a week or two
>>543499576I'd make a mod and see if anyone actually wants to play it. You could make it a Fallout mod or something more modern and with better documentation and a bigger community.
>>543500065His video probably made more money than Cuffbust already
>>543499907The goal is to be able to design complex interconnected systems. System complexity grows exponentially as the number of interactions between different systems increase. Beginner programming is quite easy because all you really need to do is create small self-contained independent black boxes.
>>543499738>>543500021How are subhumanized niggers on this board THIS clueless? What the fuck? Do these subhumans even play games at all?
>>543500024https://github.com/H2xDev/GodotVMF
>>543499907It doesn't matter what languages you know, companies expect you can learn that on the job as long as you already know a few languages coming in. A "real programmer" is someone who has an understanding of systems and how they interact. For example, my job used a lot of AWS so I had to understand what each AWS service is good for and how to connect them. You should also know how to debug, not just with a million print statements. Another good skill is the ability to abstract repetitive tasks into objects you can call in a modular way. The biggest traits you need to have are curiosity and patience though.
>>543498783>>543499572Based
Can I use SDL to make a 2D game without having to learn OpenGL?
>>543500796yes
>>543493119Disagreeing with you isn't gaslighting, you're acting crazy, maybe you should lie down.
I do not give a shit about the struggles of artfags, no matter how much they whine here. Your clique doesn't want to make art or games for the sake of it, you ONLY want money and fame whilst undercutting everyone else around you so you charge exorbitant prices for mediocre work.I'm not even gonna talk about their faggy and hysterical nature.Learn to code, or price accordingly, or fuck off and get replaced by AI.
>>543500073templates, code assets and tutorials(for the assets) go a long way.
>>543500209I see. I've no knowledge of Python, or any other language for that matter, but a man must learn.>>543500230I had considered Fallout before, but I ended up going with Source in the end. With my dissatisfaction of Source, I declare that I must make an actual standalone game. Whether people play it or not doesn't really matter since this is just a hobby to occupy my on my days off work. >>543500557Oh shit, this is awesome. Say, for an obscure non-commercial game hosted by myself, what are the chances of Valve raping me for stealing their assets?
>>543501184>Say, for an obscure non-commercial game hosted by myself, what are the chances of Valve raping me for stealing their assets?In this day and age you can find same quality if not better assets for free commercial use even, no point really.
>>543500796sexoalso just learn love2D instead
>>543500557how would they know though
>>543501391how does love2d compare to something like sfml or raylib? i dont want to use lua if possible
>>543501914just like make gameam i gonna fucking ask you if you made your game in raylib, love2d or sfmlonly retarded ngmi autists do that
>>543502004i guess so... i think im ngmi......
>>543501914lua a simple thingit just werks lol
>>543501184Python, and by extension, GDScript, is the easiest language to learn. It's practically English. You'll be fine.
>>543500021>he doesn't prototype in Garry's Mod
>>543501281I just like the look of them.
>>543502505They're just fotos stretched over low-poly meshes most of the time with AO baked into the diffuse.
So fagoon switched from cp to gore?
I wish I had been secretly working on my game like I fantasize about doing every day, instead of doing nothing. I would have had a game now.
>>543473873I use my wishlist to keep track when the game drops below a specific price. If I want a game, I don't need to wishlist to remember to buy it, I just follow it organically and buy on release.
>>543494564Nice, I bought some too, but I'm saving them for the weekend.
>>543473873It's almost as if conversion rates aren't good numbers to look at.
>>543473873Biggest takeaway: don't make indie sequels
>>543476814>>543478935thanks for trying it out! really helps with seeing someone play for feedback on things i overlookI got to add key rebinding eventually, the kb controls are not very ergonomic >>543479273we do have both, very hard to catch the algorithm though
>>543473873anons who even cares about sales and coversions. if you're so desperate for money just have your parents give you some.this is AMATEUR game development general. if you care about money you shouldn't be here.
fun fact: when you ask the slavix marketing guru worshipper what games his idol made, bro freezesmakes me kek every single time
>>543505272@grok can you translate this post
tourist xister needs a 'lator, wont somebody help xer
>>54350527282 reviews in 2 yearsmogs me
>>543505671https://store.steampowered.com/app/2685900/Mind_Over_Magnet/shartubers have it easy
>>543505982that's Zukowski?
Working on a new level. What do we think so far?
>>543506339no this redditor https://www.youtube.com/@GMTKfraudowski made a garbage shartformer about depression or something
>>543506425Insincere post.
>>543468857I tried it. The voice tracks are funny. The gameplay is pretty fun and simple, which is good. Though I wish there was a way to auto-fire the pellets and to switch the weapons (if there is, then I missed it). I don't understand the advantage of the bat. Graphics are good, but I couldn't get very far because firing every pellet manually is tiring.Also, there's this bug in the first room where the red glow is stuck and motionless on this room for some reason.
>>543478635I do. Might be nice to keep them in the itchio page, cheats are always fun.
>>543469997https://bigdogdamon.itch.io/jargon-beta-demo
>>543506653https://store.steampowered.com/app/1654810/Mix_Universe/
>>543507860maybe he should have learned how to market a game?
>>543507860>early access
Miegakure still isn't out. 4d bros... was it hubris?
>>543507948>This game is a passion project of mine that I have been working on since late 2018. Early access just makes sense since it will constantly be evolving and changing over the next couple of years.H O B B YOBBY
>>543508187sounds like cope
>>543508187I hate goodlifers who can afford to have hobbies. I can't wait for the apocalypse so I can start hunting them down. First stop: my neighbor and his harp collection.
guys please stop posting loliyou're giving me the urge to make loli modelsthank you
>>543508525I WILL play my electric guitar at 8PM and there is nothing my neighbors can do about it
>>543508551You're the one posting that garbage tho pedotroon, leave.
>>543508525>I can't succeed in good times>That's why I'll be successful in bad timesYou're not scrappy or hard boiled from being a loser anon. Hobbyists will unironically grill your corpse on their expensive smokers over applewood.
>>543508551All according to plan.*plan means keikaku
>>543504147Not linked on the Steam page. If it's not in that right section it doesn't exist
i give up, i cant make anything
>>543488529Looks like something I'd see from a Sierra point and click adventure. Very good. You are talented.
>>543508965Get a job schizo.
>>543489815exact opposite for mei love making gamesthe only part i dislike is making capsule art, i might pay an artist to make this stuff for meeven advertising is fun for the types of games i make
>>543509148oh true, though at that point they are already on the steam pagethanks for the heads up
>>543508525but anon you're in a hobby general right now. Nobody actually takes gamedev seriously unless they have a few million in investments.
>>543509338He's gonna reply to ximself with the boomer jap, watch.
renpy is too much for me im moving back to rpg maker
>>543494564????? wtf is this? turds?
>>543509646No harm, babe.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/Metal_Garden/Make small games.
>>543510101Yup, you sure do love this place to post here all day every day. Are you bed ridden or something?
i hate making characters i hate making characters i hate making characters i hate making characters i hate making charactersi wanna dev i wanna dev i wanna dev i wanna dev i wanna dev i wanna dev i wanna dev
How did you pick your genre? Gut feeling? Or something more data driven?
>>543510789I'm away quite often, but when I'm here, I'm here.>>543511432https://games-stats.com/steam/tags/
>>543511212she looks like she rapes shotas
progress update: i installed an engine (but havent opened it yet)
some games are simply destined to fail
>>543511432I chose the genre that best fit what I wanted to work on.
my game doesn't conform to any genre. I'm simply too creative to be bound like that.
>>543511597I willingly dev in the red gaming sector
>>543511597People like open endlessness and dislike linear challenges
>Make small games.>links a big game
how do i code AI
>>543513089run towards player
There's only a single screenshot posted on my game's community page... There's no hope...
a game where you kill and dismember white women
>>543513690SAAAAAR
>>543513510Show us it
>>543513089AI fags are not real gamedevsI would never buy a game with AI
>>543514436anon I...
why can't aggy daggy come up with such a simple, yet fun premise?
>>543510594I did. but... I took a long time. >5 years for this? sure I only heard about it just now, but I expect more. sure it was only $10, but 5 years man!real in my head btw
My game is compiling.
Quick test of a level title card similar to NGE
>>543515232Start with Pong, nodev.
>>543513690vile pedotroon, die
>>543499576Is your game more complex than EYE Divine Cybermancy or Dark Messiah? Source engine is capable.
>>543515530too quick I didn't have time to read it all
>>543515232there are too many games with the "build a kingdom" premise and not enough with "destroy a kingdom"i assure you it's a starved market
>>543515694pong could be the future, just look at the breakout clone.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2062430/BALL_x_PIT/
>>543500796>>543500171>>543500825>>543501391kill yourself
>>543506425AI slop
>>543515232Modern PC gaming is an enigma to me. I don't see how any of these games are fun when you barely even interact with them. I only recently found out that Vampire Survivors isn't even a twin-stick shooter. You can't even shoot. What's the point then?
>>543515904Not sure if I should keep it quick for the aesthetic. At the moment it won't have any important details aside from the level name and order. Maybe some stats later.
>>543508551>>543508987kill yourself
>>543516223in any kind of entertainment, mass appeal was always about dumbing down. the kind of "people" who like VS are analogous to those who liked 50 shades of grey or fast & furious movies.with PC gaming this trend has lagged somewhat because the earlier you go in PC gaming history the more skill you needed to be able to install and run a game. the kind of guys who could tinker with autoexec.bat and config.sys wouldn't tend to find games like VS very interesting.
>>543515232Coming up with small but fun ideas is difficult.>>543516223>incapable of considering why some people find a game fun if he doesn't enjoy it himselfNGMI
>>543515694Post your pong game. You have one right?
>mic drop.gif
https://x.com/AlexBurlis/status/1980289522593050905if you ever get scared of having your own multiplayer/online architecture, you can do it for 5bux a montheven running an indie gacha as a solodev is possible without having to pay 10k monthly in aws markup
>>543515970pong has no depth to exploreball x pit can only be made once there's no room to clone it
>>543511597>https://games-stats.com/steam/tags/>my main genre is right near the bottomit's over for me already
>>543516792>>incapable of considering why some people find a game fun if he doesn't enjoy it himself>NGMIif you find Vampire Survivors fun, you're low IQ. sorry you had to find out like this.
>>543517156>reading comprehensionNGMI
>>543517262it's okay, anon. you're no less of a human being despite your low IQ
>>543516994>listening to an AI vibe coding grifter
>>543517628You are less of a human being for your inability to consider things without inserting your own feelings into them.
>>543517741dont care about xim, we use hetzner at work and i can also vouch for iti remember the steamdb dev crying about muh costs and paywalling his scrapper it almost made me want to call him out on main, i dont get why people are so scared of multiplayer architecture, its not 2005 anymore
>>543518321What's the difference between Hetzner and other web hosting companies? My web host offers all the same things more or less.
>>543518321>hetznerbased based based their server auctions are lit
>>543518321>i remember the steamdb dev crying about muh costs and paywalling his scrapperWhen was this? Cause in 2023 he said it was very cheap to run the site>In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34548908
>>543453960says a lot that fygoon shat on the dead or alive creator but not ian watkins like everyone elseguess being a perv is only bad if it's with fiction and you're not white
why does steam allow this?
>>543519346free $100 for valve
>>543519346They'll approve this, but not sex with robots game
>>543454014Did a bunch of water stuff today.
>>543519346>4 dollarfor premium unreal game good deal saar
>75% weekly limit Codex reached>Claude 80% weekly limit reached
>>543519026It was not Steamdb but SteamSpy iirc and it was a while ago, he tried to grift but Steamdb btfo him.
>>543519643nice water
>>543519643that looks very nice
>>543519749What's a typical task you use those services for when coding?
>>543520142make xdo it professionalkthnxbai
>>543519346Do you see this game as a threat? If it was next to your game on Steam would you be afraid that people would choose it over your game? If not then why do you care, if so then your game would also get filtered by whatever standard you wish to apply to that game>>543519824>if I just make a game and put it on Steam people will buy it>An Asymmetrical Horror FPS - this is a perfectly adequate description.These are what goes through the mind of the ngmi dev.
>>543453960My body hurts so much
good morning sirs
>>543520328sorry to hear that, bundev.I hope you make it!
I just bought your game,downloaded it,uploaded it to a pirate website for everyone to download for free and then hit refund button and got all my money back as soon as i was done.Your reaction?
>>543520467I can't even tell what this is, other than gore.
>>543520548>Your reaction?
>>543520548I detect if it's been tampered with and I have a guilt tripping screen (also with "implications") for players who play more than 2 hours.
>decide to make a game with ps1 aesthetics>shitty 3d or pre-rendered background>or bothWhich way western man?
>>543520548well almost everything i used to make it was pirated, so fair game.
Imagine a pong game but each paddle is held up and balanced on two anime girls heads, and they run the width of a tennis court and it's 3d models. And one girl has to run backwards
>>543521251this is impossible to make.
>>543521251no way someone would do this
>>543521251stealing this idea
>>543521161>he forgot the gore picLMAO
My Steam page is up for approval but I don't have a trailer yet. Should I wait to publish it until I have a trailer?
>>543520303>Do you see this game as a threat? If it was next to your game on Steam would you be afraid that people would choose it over your game? If not then why do you care, if so then your game would also get filtered by whatever standard you wish to apply to that gameDo you not understand that this damages the store's image?
>>543519346$100 in gabe's pocket
>Slay the Spire 2 releases right after next festWhy would they do this?
>>543521548Nah. No one watches trailers.
>>543521749Theres going to be a sequel to Slay the Spire?Today i learned.
>>543454014Redoing old art to match my updated style and scale, while slowly adding polish to this level.Thanks for reading my plog (my progress blog.)
>>543521919Yeah, it's coming out in March. My game is a deckbuilder which I was planning on launching in March too. Tough competition.
>there are 3 people according to steam who played my game's demo for more than 2 hoursWtf? It has at the very most an hour of content.
>>543521619How so?
>>543522394That means its either fun enough to replay (gmi) or so uninteresting that they went afk with it running
>>543522394One time i fell asleep because a game was so boring i couldnt stay awake while playing it and i had 9 hours played without even finishing the first chapter.
>>543519280I didn't see any Ian Watkins threads being pinned for days on end and it was not worth my time to even make a thread about literal human feces like that. He will be forgotten like stake urine down the drain of a toilet like the excrement he is.
>>543519346NOOOO too much shovelware for my game to compete with now I will never reach 1,000 reviews (my arbitrary cutoff marker for making a profit with a game) and will die in poverty NOOOOO
>>543520328Bundev, or whoever you are, did you poison someone with radioactive materials to cause them cancer, and now you are dabbing on them as they are slowly dying?Not very nice of you, if that is the case, Mr. Bunny.
>>543518321>i dont get why people are so scared of multiplayer architecture, its not 2005 anymoreIgnorance, general inexperience in the matter and companies like Amazon overpricing the fuck out of them making it seem expensive. If an indie dev were to use a service to host their game there's a very real possibility of bankrupting themselves doing it and looking at those numbers is scary. It creates this false image of it being expensive even if in truth it is rather cheap to do it on your own.
>>543520303>Do you see this game as a threat?shovelware like that does get its own position in the new releases tab that takes away time and space from proper gamesthen again I suppose you could make the argument that many games being shovelware like that would make a decent game stand out if someone were to be looking through new releasesI do occasionally search while sorting by release date and when I do I don't even look at the games that don't have a visible review thumb
>>543522572Have you ever considered why people decided to only rely on breadtubers and streamers telling them what to play? This is in no small part the cause of that.
>>543523083>shovelware like that does get its own position in the new releases tab that takes away time and space from proper gamesValid concern.Bring back greenlight. Indie dev is a joke right now. But a very profitable one for the right games marketed correctly.
>>543518321>ximYou realize you're the only anon who still does this on 4chan right.
>>543522710>>543520495No, I'm not Bundev. I just have a spinal injury
>>543523592>Bring back greenlight.developers with a bunch of friends will be able to go through greenlight regardless of their games' quality and appeal.no, they should increase the Steam fee to $500 or $1000.
>>543516223fantasy, imagination, storytelling, narrative, worldbuilding, contextit's a mental thing, not purely mechanicalwhat matters most is how the context of the game makes people feel, not the actual gameplay itself
>>543522691I hope some millenial dude sold his house because of you
>>543521548ye
Nobody should bother starting a project that would take longer than 1 year at this point. AI is gonna shake games up so much the player expectations are going to skyrocket and nobody will want to play your shit
>>543520303A flood of shit 0 effort games/movies etc. like this can cause damage to your sales even if noone wants to buy those shit games by sliding your content off the view so people dont even get to see your game and see how good it is.Potential players will not be combing through 10k games thats just not very realistic.They will see 100 games like this in a row and then just say "indie games are trash" and close the tab.
>>543524007>developers with a bunch of friends will be able to go through greenlight regardless of their games' quality and appeal.How did this not become a problem when greenlight was still around though? Care to explain that?
>>543524007>developers with a bunch of friends will be able to go through greenlight regardless of their games' quality and appeal.That would still be a fraction of a percentage of the AI generated shovelware coming through. Make it so only steam accounts of a certain level or seniority can vote on greenlit games.But really it's a pointless topic of discussion. Steam does not care about this chart >>543522705 and neither should devs.
>AI generated shovelwareAnd there it goes. AI out of nowhere.
>>543519643very cool
>>543520548you bought free unfinished game?
>>543524291>They will see 100 games like this in a row and then just say "indie games are trash" and close the tab.Good. Start rewarding devs who actually do their job as expected of them for the past 8 years and do MARKETINGYou better learn to love it because it's a fact of life. Marketing is the meta game in game development. It is the science of making your game a CHADgame amongst gamecels.
>>543522596>so uninteresting that they went afk with it running3 people at the same time leaving it running because they were AFK? I'd buy it if it was 1, but 3? What's the probability of that? Probably somewhere around 0.0000004% or something.
>>543524264>>543524337>>543524419do not be mentioning of AI saars you are brown!
Alright, I'm trying to ask for some game design stuff.I have two weapons>Fists>A swordI'm not intent on adding ranged attacks to the game because that's at odds with the core design.I feel like I need to round out that loadout with something.A spear, axe, or scythe's function can already be done by the sword, and a mace or club can already be done by the fists.So what's missing?
>>543520548jokes on you nobody here has a game
>Umm excuse me sir there are too many products on your shelves. Get rid of them please and make sure mine gets it's own special display case at the end of the aisle like all the other products. Thank you.
>>543524304it was, as detailed in this historical document: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x75JJm7Lgvw
>>543524337>Make it so only steam accounts of a certain level or seniority can vote on greenlit games.eceleb has thousands of fans, they already have Steam accounts, his game goes through greenlight easy.>How did this not become a problem when greenlight was still around though? Care to explain that?who says it wasn't a problem? if you have friends, you can get them to vote for you on the internet. I have zero friends, therefore I would be at a disadvantage to games of same quality and appeal, therefore it's unfair.
Any good books on character design?
>>543524980two paddles, one ball
>>543511212She cute
>>543525228So just stick with those two?
>>543523592>>543524007Greenlight should be something like>every month x amount of games are greenlit>the most popular 50 or something>require a demo to enter game into the greenlight program>$500 fee>AAA must submit their games as wellbut I realize this is never gonna happen.Instead more realistically the steam direct fee should go up to 500-1000. It would cut out the turd world slop.
>>543511212She looks like a pokemon character
>>543525198>MARKETING CHAD has thousands of CUSTOMERS, they already have Steam accounts, his game goes through greenlight easy.Good good. As nature intended.
>>543525149This analogy doesn't work because shovelware asset flips like the one posted are overdue products which should be expunged from store shelves.
>>543525228Kek'd.>>543524980What's the difference between the fist and the sword? How would a scythe be different than a sword? How is a mace similar to the fist?Vague posting is the mark of a nodev, that is to say you are not even ideaguy'ing good enough for anyone to find your post interesting.Imagine trying to build a game on these blurry, half baked thoughts. You can't even make a good post, how the fuck are you gonna make it into a good game?
>>543488529google one piece devil fruit.you aisloppa isn't even tweaking shit enough to make it distinct.>>543491561>But the game design has a lot of cracks. There's implications that they don't understand how to design a game like this from the pure progression/dynamics/experience side of thingsYou do know he already has a fully functioning open world with some AI schedules, at least for beasts, from what I saw? Did you do any research or did you assume the combat arena is all he had?I played it, it's cool. It'll probably be the first kickstarter I ever participate in.
>>543525485>Instead more realistically the steam direct fee should go up to 500-1000. It would cut out the turd world slop.in the interest of fairness this steam fee should be adjusted by country so developers from India (superpower by 2030 btw) don't have to pay as much as developers from the US.
>>543523974Sure thing, Bundev or whoever you are.
>>543525149This is something Nightcrawler would do. A great movie btw free on tubi. I think a videogame about being a stringer (someone who chases down police reports and accidents to get footage to sell to news stations and magazines) would be amazing but a ton of work and maybe a little too dark for my tastes.
>>543515530When are you making the player anims?
>>543521749Why not?Zuk's data shows there are more releases right after the fest but competition doesn't apply to big brand names. they're as close to silksong as any indie can be.
>>543523083>shovelware like that does get its own position in the new releases tab that takes away time and space from proper gamesNobody's trawling through the new releases tab to find something to play. This is a non-concern. I'm sorry but you don't get to just shit your game onto Steam and expect people to flock to it.>>543523519Probably because influences have influence, and always have, there's nothing wrong or unusual about that. People have always outsourced their opinions and taken recommendations from others. 30 years ago that would have been games journalists and critics writing in physical videogame magazines. You seem to think that the attention of these influencers is something you can never even aspire to. I'm not sure why.Your alternative to influences existing is some type of technocratic utopian ideal of a perfect recommendation algorithm, which doesn't exist anywhere, the biggest and best-funded companies in the world haven't figured that shit out. Every website or service I visit that has a recommendation algorithm is clearly just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. Amazon recommends me shit I don't want to buy, Youtube recommends me shit I don't want to watch, and in all cases those algorithms are subject to backroom deals and artificial boosts from having the favor from the platform.>>543523592Instead of the organic gatekeeping of player interest and algorithmic signals, you'd prefer to be gatekept by the whims and fancy of some wagie in an Indian call center that Valve has outsourced the Steam validation process to. That seems... stupid. It's delusional to think that you'd be capable of producing a game that can get through a manual review when you can't even produce one that gets organic interest from potential players, and thus you have to spend time seething about the asset flips that are out-competing you in the new releases tab. Get a grip retard.
>>543524980yes melee weapons are just melee weapons. by your logic why do you even have a sword when fists can do the same things?
>>shovelware like that does get its own position in the new releases tab that takes away time and space from proper games>Nobody's trawling through the new releases tab to find something to play.And he genuinely can't make the connection here. It's a terminal pathology at this point.
>>543525712
>>543526472You do realise changing the fee won't stop the asset flips, right? Slop farms and key reselling sites will just band together instead to keep releasing shovelware to fill up their sites instead of being disorganized like they are today.
>>543526134>I'm sorry but you don't get to just shit your game onto Steam and expect people to flock to it.But anon all it takes is the game to be good and it will magically attract people. No hidden gems anon. There are no hidden gems. >It's delusional to think that you'd be capable of producing a game that can get through a manual review when you can't even produce one that gets organic interest from potential playersI just like the idea of something being done feasibly to help real devs not get drowned out but ultimately I am a marketing advocate. I listen to Steam when they tell me in their documentation I am responsible for awareness of my game and sales.
>>543524419>>543526304>mumbling to yourself when you disagree with someone Get your testosterone checked.
>>543525531The texturing style and shading is based on 3DS Pokemon games.It's especially noticeable with the skirt pleats.The eye and eyebrow shape, I used Koikatsu, so the face is coincidental.
>>543525609The fist is faster and has longer stun times, but less damage. It's meant for sharp, immediate attacks that can lead into combos.The sword is a bit slower, but is your primary damage dealer and combo machine.Maybe I should just stick with the sword
>A job simulator where you are a medieval guard patrolling a wall every night>Lean on your spear>Keep torches lit>Spot figures in the darkness>"Halt, who goes there">"Reveal yourself">Shoot them with a crossbow>Blow a horn when there's danger
>he gets mad if he doesn't get a (you)Just not gonna do it, okay tardie?
>>543525609>>543527283Also, the reason I don't included a scythe or spear is because they both just "Swing and stab" AKA just what the sword does.I want to avoid redundant weapons to keep the combat clean>>543527330I really like this idea, I'd play the shit out of it if it had some FNAF-style gimmick enemies
>>543525226kill yourself
>>543525226Love yourself, you overage 4channel native.
>>543527382>>543527465am I doing it right?
>>543527432>I'd play the shit out of it if it had some FNAF-style gimmick enemieszoomer genocide when?
>>543525712Life isn't fair. Turdworlders shouldn't be allowed on the internet. You should be happy to have that privilege. It will not last.
IT'S UP https://youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s
>>543513169>steam next fest dev be like
>>543524980If it's an action game you get two options>1 weapon that feels really good>a (wide) selection of weapons that have different playstyleshaving only 2 weapons to choose from feels like a scam
SAAR DO NOT REDEEM THE PLATFORMERSaar platformer bad genre nobody want play the platform game! Please saar I ask of you make RNG gambling game for high gains!
>>543525226>>543527465>>543527548Selfpost?
>>543527674not going to watch but I'd rather listen to his advice than Eric one-hit-wonder Barone's
>raise entry point of putting up steam page to $300 usd>you must acquire 1k wishlists within a certain time frame and before your game launches, otherwise your steam page is deleted and you have to pay againThis will mitigate low effort slop from getting published and make sure you make a decent effort into putting up a good steam page. Sure you can buy the wishlists somehow but people with actual good ones won't be stifled
>>543526134>Nobody's trawling through the new releases tab to find something to playthey absolutely do it might not be the majority but there absolutely is a subset of steam users who look through new releases for cool gamessimilarly there's people who go through the entire demo list for next fest in hopes of finding hidden gems
>>543528067>just have 1000 friends with steam accounts>just be a youtube shillsimply raise the price to $1000 and 90% of the problem will be solved.
>>543526134>projecting your failures onto othersAnon just git gud and make good games.
>>543511212>>543527193Model looks good but it's just an anime girl. What sort of game are you making?
>>543453960the portuguese ed gein
>>543528187>>543528489He doesn't even understand WHY the majority doesn't look through the new releases tab, even when the answer was already quite literally spelled out and argued for in the same sentence. He doesn't understand cause and effect and you continue to debate him.
>>543526856>But anon all it takes is the game to be good and it will magically attract people. No hidden gems anon. There are no hidden gems.Right... And you think this happens on the new releases tab how? It happens through word of mouth.>>543526856>I just like the idea of something being done feasibly to help real devs not get drowned outI don't see how it would help. If anything legitimately good games have a higher chance to be rejected by a manual reviewer who had a bad day. You make the problems of human error and bias worse when you out that power in the hands 9mof a reviewer rather than leaving it up to the aggeegate traffic of many interested players.Sure there's stuff that Steam can improve on but bringing back Greenlight and putting Sandeep or Esmerelda (she/they) in charge of deciding if your game gets onto Steam isn't an improvement
>>543528238if you cant get 1k wishlists organically your game is shit and shouldnt be on steamresorting to buying wishlists is just a consequence you have to deal with, but it burns the pockets of the dev
There's a good /agdg/ game that flopped that would've gotten at least 500 reviews if it released in 2019. But you would still call it shit.
>>543525149this is more like you go into a store, and the entire store is shelves and shelves of MEGABONK-Os and then yours, in the corner, on its on shelf, buried under PEAK-CRISPSthen the shopkeeper (evil) says, in his evil accent "well more people pick up PEAK CRISPS so my plan is working or something"
>>543529148name your game instead of playing coy, dev.
>>543529316If you know, you know. Otherwise... Good luck.
>>543529148i know youre talking about mine
>>543529586No I'm not. I know what your game is and... You're NGMI. Sorry.I'll give ONE hint: this game hasn't been posted here in a long while.
how do i get good at character design?
>>543528710JRPG that plays like FFX-2.I like its flavor of ATB.Here's an old image from when it was gonna be a 5th Gen console-inspired situation.After my big brother died, my mental got all fucked up and I didn't wanna touch the project 'cus the story was originally about a kid discovering the strange circumstances of HIS brother's death.When I got back to it, I decided to bump the graphics up and tell a different story.
AAA music for my indie game please and thank you. The right kind of music can make even AAA games feel like AAAA games, such a massive effect on the atmosphere and theme of a game to hear something like this walking through the cityhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJQiGRQS8Q
JOEYFYGOONthats it, thats the xeet
Redditors are seriously, unironically saying that you shouldn’t put the letter Z in the title of your zombie game because then you are siding with those evil Russians.
>>543530246i look like this
>>543531093If you browse Reddit to see what the Redditors are saying then you are the Redditors.
>>543531093>being ragebaited by bot farmsYou probably take /pol/ seriously too.
>>543531093Well having unalive americans in your game is problematic anyway. They face many harmful deadphobic stereotypes and your game is probably helping to perpetuate them. You need to do better. Take this as a learning moment.
How the fuck am i supposed to compete with this...This is so peak...
6 7
>>543531587s..so... much flashing effects and particles... it makes my brain light up so its probably fun...
>>543531093Big news for the jobless
>>543531587vampire survivors in 4D
>>543531587
>>543531845snkrx but 3dyou can have the bajillion dollar for free
>>543530763You now remember Grimes
>>543531587remember when pc indie games had substance instead of being mobile arcade games?banquet for fools lost while this won, we need sharia law men should be executed for buying this
Everything will be Megabonk.EVERYTHING.
>>543531587You can't. Give up.
>>543531962Ive had that thought before too actually
>>543532132*sound of gabe newell blowing a load*
>>543525829Maybe after the first stage is done or when I implement the other action moves
>another meltie over the 'bonkcuffbust next do cuffbust next
>>543531331TRVKE. Reminder that it's also eceleb worshipers like >>543527958 who call others that. I wouldn't even know who any of these people are if these losers where coming here to cry about it.Grex predicted this btw.
Useless feature just added: bloody footprints.
>>543532927Whats Grex?Did you mean Grok?
>>543532052>men should be executed for buying thisunironically this. if I find out someone I know is playing this, I'll provoke them into a fight or make their life hell.I have unlimited hatred for people who have fun wrong.
>>543533270I think its fun :-)
>>543532927Trvke coffee
>>543533198ew
ser why you said making hobby into mobile gambling slop bad ? are you whore ? mothertoad basterd it make so much lakh so it good, whore !?
>>543531587>>543533270more like make people resistant to it
>>543531892The webm that mindbroke sloppers.
>>543532052>Millions must die because they like a fun game while my unfun game lostHave you thought maybe... about making a better game that people actually enjoy instead of lashing out because people dont like your unfun trash?Just a thought.
>>543533683my game not in either category even though it still flopped
>>543533675>Millions must die because they like a fun game while my unfun game lostCorrect
>>543533683>Majority of games successfully made their money back and then someWe are so back gamedev sisters
>>Millions must die because they like a fun game while my unfun game lost>Have you thought maybe... about making a better game that people actually enjoy instead of lashing out because people dont like your unfun trash?>Just a thought.
>>543533683wrong conclusion: people aren't buying games anymore we're doomedwrong conclusion: every day 100 high quality games come out on steam and 99 of them flop miserablyright conclusion: steam is drowning in a never ending torrent of diarrhea tier games and if you can rise above that low low bar you're gonna at least make $1000
>>543533675>Just a thought.>having original thoughtsYou're asking far too much of him.
>>543534140>steam is drowning in a never ending torrent of diarrhea tier games and if you can rise above that low low bar you're gonna at least make $100-AAACK!!!
>>543533871first FVARKING zazed bosci post in human history
>>543533198No such thing as a useless feature. Games are 90% polish.
>>543533675that "fun" they're having with Megabonk and VS is analogous to the fun in "girls just wanna have fun"it's the kind of "fun" that destroys civilizations and must be regulated with a firm hand.
>>543531587Yooooo! That look fire bruh
>>543534536>puzzle platformer
>>543531587so this is Megabonk? This is the game that sold 1kk copies?
Problem?
the only thing puzzling about platformers is why people keep making them
>>543534954They're among the easiest genres to make. Every beginner tutorial in every engine is a platformer. It's not that puzzling.
Winners win.
>>543533198very cool, demoday status?
>543534836>543534965Samefag
>>543535184I get itThe game has just pretty cosmetics and skins that player can unlock by playing the game. You're not having fun by interacting with the systems, you grind the system to get pretty skins and that gives you dopamine. Unlocking stuff.
>>543533518>gamers are mentally retarded people who enjoy flashing lightsYou literally thought this was some kind of revelation or trvke enough to save this webm and keep spamming it for months lmaoIt's really the most seething low IQ take possible and demonstrates how upset you are that your flops didn't earn $20.
>>543535559>You're not having fun by interacting with the systemsWe need a new word besides "cope". But Cope.
>>543535584The way it makes you seethe every time is very funny. Probably because it hits way too close to home, doesn't it, brownie?
>>543534730It's the same kind of fun as eating a juicy medium rare steak. Sure, we're killing the planet with cow methane. Sure, we could've fed 100 African kids with the amount of feed it took to raise the cow. Sure, cows cry on the way to the slaughterhouse because they're smart enough to know what's about to happen to them. However, look at my face. Does it look I give a fuck?Stop promoting gaming veganism here. No one gives a fuck.
BASTERD BITCH!!! WHY ARE YOU NOT BUY THE VAMPIRES SURVIVOR CLONE!! IS VERY GOOD GAME YOU BASTARD BITCH PLAY IT NOOW!!!!
>>543534926honestly, the way every piece of media or thing we interact with getting slowly turned into gambling is a problem yes
>>543536149>It's the same kind of fun as eating a juicy medium rare steak. Sure, we're killing the planet with cow methane. Sure, we could've fed 100 African kids with the amount of feed it took to raise the cow. Sure, cows cry on the way to the slaughterhouse because they're smart enough to know what's about to happen to them. However, look at my face. Does it look I give a fuck?>Stop promoting gaming veganism here. No one gives a fuck.
>>543536349not really, there's what like 2 genres (card likes and VS likes) adn the rest of it is SEA autism like gacha and pachinko
anyone making a game here?
>700 posts>0 progress
>>543534926Is this a game? Can I play this today?
>>543536405I look like this and my favourite games are Peak and R.E.P.O
>>543535906This is the first time I've ever acknowledged it. You post it constantly.
>>543536541My game will never be better or even as good as Megabonk so whats the point...
>>543536541Becky...
>>543535360Thanks, and not in this demo day, was in last demo day. It's not fair cuz my demos been out on steam for like a year, getting updated as I work on the game... (Which means the demo has majority of the finished game compiled in the files, just not accessible in-game)
>>543536541I'm in the polishing phase of my game now since I'm releasing in a few months. Nothing exciting to show off unfortunately, unless you want to see my UI with a slightly bigger font or something
What's YOUR excuse?
>>543537092im lazy
I'm still making the game bro let me cook
>>543537092I've only released one game cut me some slack. Need to get the training wheels off first
>>543537092im naive and thought games that aren't literal slot machines would have a chance in 2025
>>543537092Steam destroyed indie games with depth. If you're trying to make something that isn't streamer bait and you don't have an established audience valve is going to fuck you.>inb4
>>543536149>Stop promoting gaming veganism hereThey're not really promoting anything constructive, they're just protesting. Anon comes here to protest that a videogame made money. Why? Because he's dumb and thinks he is influencing videogames by bothering indie gamedevs.
Oh don't worry, you'll be the different one.
>>543537282And your solution is to cry about it forever and ever and ever and everYou have never made anything with depth.
>>543536496I was but then the wife wanted me to spend time with her so now I'm watching something with her on the couch. I dont have TIME for this shit
If youtube was run like steam everyone everywhere would be recommended nothing but t-series and mister beast even though there's obviously demand for other content.Oh wait...
i hate hate hate algoslop content unless said algoslop content costs me 30 dollars
>>543536496I'm making a game!
>games that take years to make are the same as videos which take a dayuh huh
>>543538164nice, let's see it
>>543538035Steam isn't like youtube though, for example one I haven't spent 3 years of my life making content for youtube therefore I'm not in denial about the algorithm changes being a net negative to everyone but gabe newell and the company he buys yachts for.
>the algorithm saar my games flopped because of the algorithms steam is brown fix it now
You'll be the different one!
>>543538035On youtube the "don't recommend me content from this channel" button actually does something. On steam the "not interested" button doesn't do shit.
The Steam algorithm change is a net positive to anyone making a good game that people want to play and a net negative to anyone making a bad game that people don't want to play.
>>543537602>>543538520Yes that's correct. I did the work to make sure I'm making something worthwhile. So I'm not going to end up seething about algorithms and how steam doesn't hand out free money to everyone who clicks publish.
>>543538272Soon™.
>>543538534>On youtube the "don't recommend me content from this channel" button actually does something.Anon...
>>543535807do you really wanna tell me this >>543531587 looks fun?
Stop feeding pogonigger
>543538647>543538443>543538174Look at him seething when you so much as DARE to criticize his deity fatfuck gabencunt
Actually its a good thing Valve only promotes 400 games a year while letting 20,000 games onto their platformMmmm so goodIts literally impossible to tailor recommendations to costumer taste, there's no way to do it
>>543538534
>>543538754https://store.steampowered.com/app/3405340/Megabonk/I knew it was going to be a huge success the first time I saw the trailer. Watch it again. You were insane to think this would not be fun for people. And now you're still implying that it isn't fun or looks bad or should have failed etc. Nobody cares.
>>543536541>>543454014blind nigga
What happened in 2019 that made the ratio of games with 1000 reviews start to drop? Did covid REALLY ruin our dev sense!? It's that.
>>543539058You're arguing with a hole. She doesn't know how to appeal to the male fantasy. That's why she's running low on eggs.
>>543538901>GIVE ME FREE MONEY VALVE YOU ARE BROWN SAAR
>>543539093People got into game development because they had a lot more free time and supply exploded faster than the demand.
>male fantasy is gamble slop
>>543539313>Expecting access to customers on the storefront you have to pay to put your product on equals wanting free money
Daily melties about megabonk since the day it released. Anon must have been so certain it was going to flop. Totally mind broken.
>>543539561He's seriously going into turbo shilling mode for fatfuck gabencunt.Gogem was right.
>>543539664Im not meltying tho im praising it.I love Megabonk i wish i could make a game as fun as this one day.
Digging a hole is gambling.Hunting is gambling.Farming is gambling.Basebuilding is gambling.Gambleslop is fundamentally grindslop since variance decreases as sample size increase, but I wouldn't expect a midwit to understand that.
just make megabonk
>>543539996No, thanks. I'd rather make my game.
megabonk but lolis
>>543539313The only people getting money for free are valve lol>Gib me $100 gib me 30% gib me gib me gib me
>>543539058all I see is gotta go fast memes with number go up. Then again I'm not 12 anymore.
>>543539561>I GIVE YOU $100 I PAY FOR SERVICE YOU GIVE ME $1,000,000 THAT IS THE AGREEMENT SAAR YOU ARE BROWN
>>543455459>>543455459>>543455459
>>543477572really cool, thanks anon :onew demo will be out next month, will probably be the final one
>>543540182I'm already making that thoughbeit.
>>543540270>$100You really need to find a job. $100 is nothing to a working adult. Gabe wouldn't even bother to bend over to pick up a $100 bill lying on the ground.
>>543540552Great, drop the fee
>>543540308Cool you're so much wiser and mature and better a person than the gamers who bought megabonk. That's what you want to hear? It's not. You want apologies from the universe for other people succeeding in life. You endlessinfinitecrybaby.
>>543540676You mean to say increase the fee to $10k to reduce the amount of low effort shovelware.
>>543504275Is there a /pgdg/ ?
>>543541748Its invite only.
>>543541826How can I get in? I hope you don't mean the 'cord?
>>543540802I'm just disappointed that people are so shallow when choosing their entertinment.
>>543541954Megabonk has more depth than whatever movieslop walking sim you'd otherwise prefer people play.
Should I post a prototype here already or wait for demo day and keep working on my shit? Not gonna make any real levels, just prototype enemies.Or maybe make some prototype levels.I dunno...
>>543542841(In the time between now and demo day I mean)
>>543542841your choice. but if you're going to post on DD make sure to post progress somewhere beforehand or crabs will try to other you when it comes around
>>543543298I think I posted some stuff here a while ago. Have a little lod gif I made for background detail.
>>543544042neat
>>543531587make a fun game
>>543536149humans need meat to survivemeat provides essential nutrients for developmentmeat is a major reason why IQs rose and civilization developed further
>>543469539>prompt for 5 minutes>15 minutes wait for ai code to finishno excuses. you can progress even while shitposting
I don't ask for AI to code for me. I ask it to code and then explain it to me
