agdg edition>Demo DaysNext: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-66Previous: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-65Older: https://hackmd.io/LhEB6VCZSx-oBalI2cWWoA>AGDG resourceshttps://hackmd.io/SNd2YQugRG-36CLYc8Og2w>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>>546814283
>>546886527>vandalism cleaned>dead link replacedOkay. I can forgive you for sniping the OP.
Check out my random number generator.
>>546887663Cool man check out my rocket engine
What's he up to these days?
>>546887696Like clockwork. This is why you have no friends.
>>546887696You will die miserable>>546887757Can you make it into a computer device?
>>546887876based
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTtt_JwNuTIITS UP
>bro is trying to flex his tranny mutilation collection
Ask yourself if you feel aligned with the metaphysical good. Seek to adjust your behavior if necessary
>>546888025Surgery is inferior to consciousness transfer
[TRAGIC NEWS]Good morning sirs. Unfortunately, I have come to you with tragic news that my game on the Steam Store platform managed by the Gabe Newell has flopped. It will be delisted in approximately 2 weeks because nobody boughted it. You will no longer be able to play my game anymore. This is it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0Uln_uynZAJonas Tyroller DABS HARD on cumbust>Marketing isn't everything, if you've been paying attention to recent releases you'd know what I mean.
>>546888018>ex-aggydaggy dev is best buds with Thomas Brush
>>546888124>DARPA>turrets you for dissent of their antitran ideology and wishes to contribute>how dare u not traffic
>>546888189>two more weeks
>>546888368DARPA
>>546888254whoa! is she a dev from here??? I thought /agdg/ was all dudes, nobody told me we have chicks in the chat.hello beautiful
>>546888368This is why you were bullied into dropping out of high school.
this thread is like a pub without alcohol. a gamedev thread without gamedev. it's basically a lie.
>>546888760Joshua is an alcoholic.
>>546888991>ruins your posture with a satellite>turrets your neck nerves>eh u
is it safe to post progress yet...
>>546889116Post pl sr
this is the school nortubel goes tohttps://www.ualg.pt/
>it works
>>546889281IP grabber
>>546889401:)
Time to get out of bed and back to work. Here is where I stopped last night.
There's three indie games nominated for GOTY this year and none of them are yours btw
2 types of people:a) "i have something nice to share with the world"b) "i want to figure out what to share with the world to make money, efficiently, without too much work"
>>546890720that's because my game isn't out yet, retard
*checks my github activity*>118 contributions in the last year the luddite xisters lost bigly today
>>5468886492 3 5 7 8psa was good for my self-esteem
If you have an inherently goofy premise should you just lean into the retardation or should you try to keep it grounded?
i spent the last 48 hours working on a custom shader for my main character's jiggle physics and i will not be taking criticism from that moron three posts up whose game looks like a flash animation from 2004.
I spent the last hour watching the player getting hit by a sword.
>>546890930
>>546891103Never go full retardYou can have a goofy premise, but you need to counterbalance it, otherwise it leans too hard into goofiness and get overbearingly cringe
>>546890868Why not
>>546890772c) "I want to fantasize about making a game and argue about pointless shit but not actually make anything"d) "I want to blackpill and demoralize people out of spite over my own failures
>>546888250Can't I hear Arnold Schwartzanigger
>>546891251I want my game to be successful so I can get closer to Japanese people.
progress>trade good system now automatically stockpiles goods in cities and sells them to nearby cities based on supply and demand>goods production, supply and demand, and goods consumption fluctuate with seasons>certain tradegoods like vino and garvm can be aged to improve quality; age them too long and they will spoil>individual wealth and prestige now display on the character in jewelry/crowns>overhauled marriage system, you can now arrange marriages with members of both Patron and Client housesit's fun seeing this world come alive bit by bit
>>546891785Move to San Francisco, Japanese people everywhere
>>546891785>so I can get closer to Japanese people.You don't need a successful game to achieve this.
I wrote an app...
what if the economy is great, gamedev is booming, your chances are high. and it's just your mental illness telling you it's all bad and hopeless?
Japan seems like a trap since the entire world is moving there
>>546890772>t. a
Any other /agdg/ flopcore muzak?https://vocaroo.com/174ckLlg0qts
>>546892219>what if the economy is great, gamedev is booming, your chances are high. and it's just your mental illness telling you it's all bad and hopeless?
what if the reason that i'm not motivated is because of my negative doomer blackpill beliefs?
>>546891808Good job
>>546892219Gamedev is booming and chances are high if you have the skills and resources. Most posters here are loser failure dropouts, and they are correct in thinking that gamedev is hopeless for them.
>>546892563it's because you're a NEET loser leeching off his parents, so you have no sense of urgency from having a shitty job.
>>546886527KINO !KEE GNO !KEY KNOW !
>>546892563that's why people hesitate to play hard games like starcraft. because the initially believe it's too hard and they'll just die and suffer.with games like counter-strike it's easier to assume that you'll be able to hit something, cause aiming is an easier concept than controlling hundreds of units.
>>546891251>I took my little memes>put them in your thread>showed them my progress>then sucked them dry>I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!
gamedev youtubers be like: "how to make a pixel art slop game that wont sell"gamedev watchers be like: "yeah this sounds great, i always wanted to waste my time"clicks: 100k+
>>546892036There are multiple ways to get to Japan. I don't think I can do it the same way as the person you posted but through making a successful video game just seems more feasible to me.
Insignia looks so fucking boring and will be a massive flop.
>>546890930>the github activityhttps://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24
>>546891808Will you finally submit to DD
Where do I submit my app?
>>546891446That's fair. Thanks.
>>546892219
>>546893463here
>>546893463What benefit does submitting to DD give to compensate for being associated with this thread?
alright continuing work on my headless sim today. going to make a 3D world space room and walk around in it via typing wasd on the terminal.
>>546893609Real... Itch?
>>546892990kek
>>546891785Have you been to Japan? It is just a normal place after a while. and way too hot in summer what the fuck
>>546893712Fan art. You might not get it outside of DD...
>>546891808Based
https://deathxmacabre.itch.io/quantumCheck my app
>>546892282Nigga with glasses seems smarter, I think his helicopter will fly
>>546886527Not again, not again, not again!!!!! I might have to drop this game as multiplayer is looking to be too difficult to implement. Months down the line but I can't sunk cost myself into working on it and ending up spending 10 years on it. This feels terrible! I wasted so many months on this game!
>>546894141I aint touching that shit with a ten foot pole
>>546894141I made it basically run forever...
>>546894141>IP GrabberNo thanks
>>546894264really? claude just implemented multiplayer accidently when i asked for something else lmao
>>546894271The thing ngl kind of works?
>>546894292It doesn't need networkOh it works even better when you background itHahaThis tool me years. Finally. Phew...
>>546892563I just suck at this. Can't get motivated when it takes me a week to implement what some anons can do in a single day.>>546893243Artistically high quality but I don't think it's gmi.
>>546894606Took*
>>546893482I got my own goofy concept going so I'm walking this balancing act right now
>waiting for the /v/ thread to be up so I can post all of the progress I made over the weekend
>>546895009Make it
>>546891103As wacky as your premise may be, all of your characters have to remain 100% serious. Only the audience/player should be in on the joke. Everything in the game's world should support that wacky premise 100%. So to answer your question, lean into it but make everything in the game's world support it.
What so great about japan? Come to thailand
>>546894058>fanartSo copyright infringement and rule 34 by mentally ill 4channers? Pass.
>>546894264what game, is it godot ?
Im drinking my go to sleep beer
>>546891103Show/Detail game. "Goofy premise" can mean literally anything.
>>546895009how do i even find these threads ?
>>546895271>rule 34The fact your mind jumped there let's me know you secretly want that. ;)
Which one of you is "the gabencunt dev"?>>>/v/726139950
>>546891808this is fcuking LVDO
>>546890134Is this about the Epstein stuff?
>tfw in the final stretch of my game, just polishing and bug fixing left so no meaningful progress to post
>>546895982I wonder if any underground lab has quantum...If they have a fusion reactor it better be the right shape
>>546886527I wasn't yesterday on agdg, how unhinged agdg is today?
>>546895938>the gabencunt devIve always thought it was gogem
>>54689620410 = worst0 = not unhinged at allunhinged scale today: 3
>>546895982I don’t know who Epstein is. That’s Donald the Destroyer©. Any resemblance to any person living or dead is purely coincidence.
>>546896204https://deathxmacabre.itch.io/quantum
>>546888649>no jewish ancestry mentioned
>>546895009just made a thread for (You)only yesdevs are invited
>>546896693Am I a yesdev if I finished my app?Program also.
>>546896418Gogem left. Nobody from the old guard comes here anymore. They all quit.
Whats the dealio.
Is anyone going to participate in the surprise /agdg/ 12 days of Christmas Game Jam? Starts on the 15th and ends on the 27th?
What's a good amount of time to give myself to attempt adding multiplayer into my game without getting sunk cost'd? Right now I just need enough added in to see if I can>make a lobby>get 2-4 players to connect to it>said players able to join the same game and move around it
>>546896762sure buddy, come have some fun
>>5468971922 hours
>>546897192You really should start out with multiplayer first. Anyhow, it very much depends on what engine or tech you are using. Just get text chat, ping, and player UIDs working first in a separate project. The only one who has any remote understanding of how long that would take to integrate into your project would be you.
>>546896690>poor coping skills>alienation>narcissism>inappropriate humorjewish ancestry would be redundant
>>546897604After text, ping, and UID, you add a heartbeat message from the clients, that provides the server the clients current game state, checks it for sanity, and sends it to the other clients.
>>546891318fvark i kneel>>546893273i dont get whats happening did he ping everyone on github?
>>546898059I’ll probably do a how to info graphic with some source to show people how easy multiplayer is, but if you’re making an indie game in 2026 and not including some basic network functionality for social engagement, your NGMI.
>>546897217Not the place my poor father jerked
>>546893874No, but I'm used to places that are hot. And it can be normal in a Japanese way that is also nice. For example, I like listening to taiko drums performances but it's not easily done where I live because there aren't any schools that teach taiko drumming, so I can only do it when some taiko drum players come to perform here from other cities during tanabata matsuri and we don't even have one every year here. Perhaps in Japan I could go to the tanabata matsuri listen to the taiko drums every year, and maybe there would be taiko drums performances even in other times.
>>546897604Unity. Adding multiplayer at the start would have been good but I avoided it. Anyways most of my lengthy code can avoid the issue of a rewrite as I only need the data it outputs in the end. For right now I'm considering Mirror or Unity's netcode option. Since I have little knowledge on this how much time do you think it should take me setting up what you mentioned?
>>546896987cook 'em, pedroCHAD
>>546899072>Unitysee OP for my live reaction
Done... I would like to thank Patrick for providing top notch ASMR waves
>>546895967>>546894064>>546893406>>546892583mille gratias, amicis.i promise i'll submit to the next demo day. even if i still can't fix the two gamebreaking bugs by thenoh by the way, character creation menu is now fully in latin because anon called me out on it. also check out all the new familia sigils i made really curious to see which civilization will be most popular for players to choose. they each have their strengths and weaknesses
>>546899072>UnityNo clue. It takes about 30 minutes to set up a basic chat, ping, UID system with C and Python, then about 200 hours to finish it.
>>546897192I don't know how your game is architected, but in my current multiplayer project every item has to be spawned and despawned by the server which then propagates that change out to the connected clients.If a client wants to throw a snowball they request to the server that the snowball be spawned, which then does some checks and spawns the snowball for everyone currently connected. Collision detection for a snowball only really happens on the server, as if it happened on the server and every client separately, you get weird results. Also when a client joins a game already in progress the server iterates over all currently active objects that have been spawned in that player's absence and then syncs the new player to the current state on the server.I don't think multiplayer is something you can easily add later in a project, it pretty much has to be the first thing you do because every feature you implement revolves around it and knowing what the server and the client should be doing in relation to that feature.
Not the place you sure you wanna go you knowYou know whatIn the...ThemDegenerate the wicked one
>>546898059>you add a heartbeat message from the clients, that provides the server the clients current game state, checks it for sanity, and sends it to the other clients.So a sanity meter that slowly degrades and sends updates to the host (p2p game) and from there to all other clients? I assume a UI to track the sanity meter would be a good idea over debug messages, right?>clients current game stateIm not sure what you meant by this.
do you think 2d top down viewpoint (zelda) is a debuff to appeal when compared to a 2d sidescroller (metroid)
>>546899590>heartbeat, sanity checksSee >>546899571 for a more detailed explanation of the process.
>>546899587You are not macabre enough, my dude.
>>546899692Depends entirely on context.
>>546899470>30 minutes to set upOkay, okay>200 hoursKek
>>546899692My not make it 3d?
>>546899971your screen is flat so even 3d games are still 2d
They hate me if I dev or if I don't dev, I do it anyways to try and get them to stop but they keep doing it.
>>546900064Not in virtual space
>>546900068I only hate you when you hate me
>>546900068
>>546900269Huh explain
>>546900296Something I've been thinking about lately that your picture reminded me of is that people keep saying my time is valuable but no one wants to pay me to do nothing but give them my time so it seems that they're wrong and it isn't my time that is valuable but something else they imagine.
>>546900219Yeah and I own land in the metaverse, so what?
>>546899571Neat info thanks.
>>546901118https://deathxmacabre.itch.io/quantumUn-norviqdetta,3,
My app will work even in rainIt wipes the floor with enemies
>when a 20 year old aggydaggy schizo hits on you
steam is a perfectly fair platform
>>546895204true comedy understanderer. This is why modern hyper-self-aware quippy marvelslop is unfunny shit.
They attacked me for releasing my app
>>546901685Is a meritocracy fair to low-IQ low-skill retards?
>>546900458no
>>546901852More fair than the alternative. Them being your boss.
>>546901852>a system where nepobabies and AAA slop gets promoted despite lacking clear qualities is a meritocracyhttps://x.com/Normal_Emo_girl/status/1989872605864612300
>>546901852Yes, but only if you take into account the shortcomings beyond their control when evaluating their merits. It's the usual equality vs equity matter.
>>546902098Pookie u dumb :cry:I agree tho
>>546888018Wait why's he editing the chins to be so much bigger than they really are?
>>546902274>if you take into account the shortcomings beyond their control when evaluating their meritsThat is no longer a meritocracy.
>>546901852But the Steam is not a meritocracy though..........................................................
>>546902363>no one cares
>>546902393Why not?
?Well?
Write a simulation programmable from within
>>546902615this is a series of 4 second videos. ai is animated autocomplete it doesn't actually make games
>>546902743That’s called an engine with scripting. You just want access to the console.
>>546902615total cultural failure for the 'dites xisters
>>546902870Omg
Poet wishes hm
>>546902439>>546902492>>546902228Merit != your feelings. Merit != things that you like.Merit == revenue. Merit == how much money your game can make for GabeN.That is the only metric that matters.
my game has been in development for 5 years and all i have is a title screen that says "press start" but the start button doesn't work. is this progress?
All markets are perfectly meritocratic by definition. If you disagree, your definition of "merit" is simply incorrect. "Survival of the fittest" is always true because "fittest" simply means "what survives," not "what I personally think is fit."
>>546903000Kill more innocents.>my head ow
>Unity
>>546903271fatfuck gabencunt
how to fix?
what if i just sold the source code to my unfinished game instead of actually finishing it
>>546903473>what if i just sold the source code to my unfinished game instead of actually finishing it
Steam literally makes no fucking sense.They have a 30% cut... except actually that's only for you goyimYeah cause steam gives extremely favorable cuts to their bigger clients.So a nontrivial amount of steam's profit is from filter feeding the 30% cut on volume/bulk... and yet they don't market your game at all. Majority of indies can't afford to market. If they have a budget at all it's 100% going into development.If steam just marketed your games enough to get your WLRR from 0.1% to 0.2% on average then they would make twice as much profit.I'm not even fucking joking, cause uhhhh duh if steam sold more games they'd make more money.Steam is not doing enough for us indie devs, and they're literally doing it just to spite us against their own interests.Steam needs to fucking hire a mathematician to rebuild their shitty ass store algorithm.I bet the reason it's so bad is cause the retard who built is used poisoned data by using their existing data set.Oh uhhh gaymores play uhhhhh le AAAslop so I'm just going to show that non-stop.You're favorite game ever could be on steam and you've just never seen it.For me it was Hylics and Fear and Hunger. I had to learn about them from a youtuber. Someone else marketed a game cause they liked it and steam made money.Ineffectual trash.
looking for an artist to make all my assets for free. i can't pay you but i will give you a "special thanks" in the credits that no one will ever read.
my main character is just an untextured cube. i'm telling everyone it's a deep metaphor for the hollowness of modern society.
how do i code a feature that automatically gives my game a 5-star review on every platform the second it's installed
>>546903731Gib
>>546903647already been done
i was going to implement combat but i think it's more profound if the player just runs away from every problem
my computer science professor told me my code was "a war crime". is that good or bad
>>546903647>brutalist player model got popular
do i need to know how to program to make a video game or can i just think really hard and it'll appear on my hard drive
>>546903647>>546903820zoomer gamedevs are the worst thing to happen to mankind
i spent the entire day changing the color of a button from dark blue to slightly less dark blue. i feel very accomplished.
>>546903939Why don't you ask your professor since answering your question is his friggin job???
>>546903939You must have cast an int into a bufferNo biggie
Thank you for rebooting your AI spambot again, Fygoon. Thread was kind of slow there.
is it scope creep if i want to add a fully functional 1:1 replica of the entire earth to my tetris clone
>>546902228>emo>don't wantnoice reminder for gamedev inspirationhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHj7BvUHJIY
i think i just accidentally deleted the entire internet trying to push a commit to github. whoops.
instead of a health bar, my character's health is determined by my actual real-life blood pressure.
>>546904410I will direct you to the right people
why write a good story when i can just add 300 pages of item descriptions that hint at a backstory that doesn't actually exist
>>546904290you blame fygoon too much its hard to take you seriously, xis
>>546903057>put games scripting and console on a texture on a computer screen in game>simulation in a simulation, its really not hard, thats why Notch got bored with 010xC or whatever it was called.
my game's only control is the power button on the player's computer
>>546904728My engine has that
just replaced my main character model with a hot dog. game is now 100% better. no further questions.
>>546904852furfag...
i just spent a week writing a complex lore bible for my game, which is a tetris clone.
>>546904731Yeah, that could be done easily in a bootable DOS image that hooks into the BIOS and intercepts the ACPI messages. That’s why consumer devices use Secure Boot now. That game could steal your passwords and credit cards too.
>>546904731Mine hears my wishes...
>>546901852Meritocracy destroys NepotismBut it doesn't disregard the merits of the working man nor the thinking man. Though it does disregard the solely literate man. Someone who reads is more useless than someone who thinks or someone who doesn't think but simple does.It's like this, we need people solving advanced engineering problems, and we need people to build/implement those solutions. We don't need people on xitter explaining why that's actually racist and homophobic and transphobic and not media literate.It's a classic bell curve scenario, and I can actually explain why the bell curve meme is actually real.A bell curve is randomly sampled, but if you measure within samples you will get a mixture of gaussian which is NOT a bell curve, it's a multimodal distribution. So when someone is very intelligent 130+ IQ, they will naturally bifurcate into their superior and inferior functions. Their superior will likely be something analytic and inferior be performative. Someone with a much lower IQ sub 100 can only do performative things so they're good at sports, they're good at building stuff etc. The low IQ and the high IQ actually compliment each other. Meanwhile the middle wits are underperformers in both functions and thus essentially zero sum and will over value simple and useless things.Nepotism has no analytic or performance control, so you get averaged out middle wits most of the time. They're a pox on society. Literally the only existential purpose of middle wits is likely to do something socially useless but emotionally appealing.
what if the main character was just a jpeg of a rock that you can drag around the screen.
Alright /agdg/ I want to know why I haven't gotten your trailer yet. >You said it needs to be 4:3We did until we backtracked it as long as you understand we'll squish it on our end. Next!>My game isn't readyAnd it never will be with that mindset. Next!>I don't know how to editRajesh will show you on YouTube. Next!>You guys are cringeUhuh. And you aren't? Prove it. Next!Now you have no excuse. https://thev3expo.com/submit/Also welcome to JargonDev as a co-writer on the /v/3 team!
my game is a roguelike but when you die it formats your hard drive. it's about consequences.
>>546904839I’ve decided to turn my engine into an IDE and add a Clippy style mascot named “K.P. Learnicus” who teaches you C.
is there a button in unreal engine that just says "make game"? i cant find it.
I wanted to warn about a scam going on the v3expo discord some moderator is pming users and offering to give away 1 year of claude code and comet browser to make gamedev easier. They then give you invite link to comet browser which gets them 3 dollars and then they tell you to login with your gmail account, they tell you to login on mobile first to sync your mobile data like gmail, contacts, etc to it. Then this google account will be connected across multiple devices and they will steal your your data.I tried telling the owner of the discord but he blocked my private messages.
i have a revolutionary idea for a game but im not going to tell anyone what it is because you'll steal it. just know that it's good.
>>546905417I’ve already stolen 3 game ideas from this thread just last week.
my character controller feels too responsive and good, how do i add that janky feeling that makes it feel indie.
>>546905137>JargonDevAt least you found someone well read to be a writer
I'm a steeeeeeamie I make slop, I don't care if my games will flop!
>>546905507inertia and animation transitions
