Healing edition>Demo DaysNext: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-66Previous: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-65>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/>How to Screen Recordhttps://getsharex.com/https://obsproject.com>How to Webmhttps://github.com/argorar/WebMConverterhttps://github.com/michaelmob/WebMCam>Previous Thread>>550597616
One week until ChristmasRemember
luddite xisters do be angry that AI chads are smarter then them
>>550672321fuck off shill
Around 100 arguments about AI happen on agdg alone EACH DAY.About 700 arguments in the week around your bait.AI webm? Low effort social media repost? BOOM thread's done.Also, not only are you having to deal with every retard that has no game, but the entire backlog of faggots who asked a chatbot to do something for them and it made something better than they could because they're unskilled retards :)Take all the "thread success stories" you can think of in the past 10 years and divide it by the number of AI obsessed faggots in agdg who post constantly about AI (again, 100 arguments a day, 3000 a month) and there's your historical likelihood of "having a good thread."Blackpills, 2 weeks, Grok is the closest thing they've had to a gf, AND to top it all off: None of the people who claim that AI is going to take over ever seem to have used it to make a game. If you successfully win this "mediocrity lottery" by baiting the thread into arguing about AI you'll have to so it all over again the next thread>He thinks that we can just have a thread about gamedev in 2025HahahahahaF A G G O TAGGOT
>Six days left to prove you can make pong!https://itch.io/jam/12-days-of-christmas-paddle-and-ball-game-jam-2025
>>550672321retard
>mother fuckers and daughter fuckers
before: https://litter.catbox.moe/2ej0bhyxa2zhw0t2.webmafter: https://litter.catbox.moe/ae0he0csvz5xq4d6.webm
>>550672321Meds.
>>550672694>oyakodon
Eric here... I don't browse the thread anymore, too many schizos .
should I pick up game dev as a hobby?I wasted 2025 completely. Achieved absolutely nothing except whatever I did at my desk jobI need a creative outlet pretty bad, but have no code experience beyond what I did in highschool (text based adventure game being the most complicated thing I made)
>If I was an expert artist, I would have already made it.>If I was an expert coder, I would still have not made it.>If I was a music/sfx expert, I would still have not made it.Bros....>>550672321Based Eric Chad thread poster>never give upAiieeeeeee! But it's so hard Eric! But what other choice do I have, my odds in the wage cage are terrible!
>>550673294make an interactive CLI text-game
>>550672454damn this is like the one nerdy kid who stands on his chair to tell everyone santa actually isn't real
>>550673246The biggest proof that the keys don't come form Eric was right in front of our eyes. He would never post keys here or even lurk after it became clear that all the devs left and it became a den of shitposters. The only one who would keep doing it despite the desolation is eric schizo. This is just irrefutable
I have to finish proof of concept before a meeting tomorrow night with the rest of the team. Wish me luck
it's ok eric.. i mean not-eric, we believe you.
>>550673294Nah. Gamedev is a terrible hobby. Try Pickleball instead.
>>550673483anon this is amateur game dev general, not professional "i WoRk oN A tEaM" general. fuck off back to your high rise apartment you nepobaby.
>reddit tennis
>>550673246>>550673326>>550673443>>550673445>>550673528The guy posting the keys is the schizo who just now made this thread OP. Who is the one person we all know who loves to vandalize the OP and tries to convince everyone that the Eric keys are real? If only there was some regular poster
>>550673661I mean, he could also try tennis. Tennis is my main H O B B Y, but it's also quite hard just like gamedev and not particularly fun until you get really good at it, which takes years of practice.
>>550673643We're all equally neet losers, we just managed the step of "going outside and meeting people" That said core idea of the story and gameplay loop was my idea so if I can't cobble together a "look, it is a functioning thing" its gonna go nowhere so we're here now.
>>550672742KINO
>>550672742Aesthetic animation is rly good. Text speed should probably be a bit snappier to follow the flow of how your animations move
>>550672742yooooo which powerpuff girls season is dis
>>550673294>hobbykek i will never understand your type, you better hope it's>0% about money>0% about attention>0% about le gamedev communitycause be prepared when your game gets>max 10 downloads, $0 donations>10k joined gamejam only gets 20 plays max>making a good idea can result in thieves who will make it off your idea and crying about it won't stop itodds are you like video games, the idea of having a video game on par with AAA, but not the effort required to make such a game
can't wait to see the look on eric-doubter's face when Mr. Barone makes his annual pilgrimage and proves them wrong in front of everyone
>>550674202>it was real in my head mooooom
>>550673708if this is true then how does he afford all of those keys? surely not from his own game's sales.And how has he posted switch, ps4, and vita keys in the past? Steam keys on their own are easy to come across, you seriously think some schizo is driving up to Target every year and buying all of their game key cards just so he can pretend to be Eric Claus for a day? Get real.
@550673708>t. the guy who spams the generaldo (you) even have a game?
>>550672742prompt?
>>550673294making prototypes and tech demos is funmaking actual products that other people want to buy and play not so much, there's a lot of tedium involved, but it can be rewarding
>turns out Eric really does have jungle fever
Let me guess. "Eric Barone" is gonna add some meta-ironic comment about getting exposed as a fraud to this year's Christmas post. Almost like he constantly lurks here like a schizo with no life. He's a really busy man, it's amazing that he finds all this time to lurk here 16 hours a day and snipe the OPs of new threads with such precision.
Fuck Eric, I'm gonna request a refund, 50 hours and 10 years later.
>>550674673Calling it now. This year the schizo will make the card as generic as possible to avoid including any incriminating references
>>550673708>weYou mean you. You don't speak on my behalf>>550674565This. The work is way too much nowadays. This isn't 2010 with a lowbar anymore where a basic UI is good enough. Even game jams are having their bar raised.
>>550672321Reminder to stop rewarding this kind of OP shitting and just make a better alternate thread. Then bump the better thread and let this one die. Has worked in the past and will still work. It's all AI xister has left, just take it from them.
Give up
>>550675051so now eric schizo is the ai spammer? you people seriously need to get out more, this is getting sad.
>>550674091I should definitely add an option to change the text speed. Thank you anon.
i need to get good at making lolislop
>thread is about a successful yesdev>presumably from /agdg/>AI xisters explode seethingmy work here is done
>>550674713How do you expect me to buy more ferns...
>>550675342The answer to one shitty screenshot of text OP is not to post another shitty screenshot of text.
frfr though eric, hurry up on the chocolate game.
>>550675553i look like this fr
>>550675051>ericschizo removes the AI and chudot vandalismYeah, I'm thinkin' based.
>>550672321>>550672454>>550597616>>550597760These are all the same poster. He makes his shitty screenshot OP while nobody is watching then replies to it to make this the first post, THEN links the thread. Stop rewarding this behavior.
where is the lolidev general
>>550675553kek you're that bugs bunny poster aren't ya?>>550675678will you be my gamedev gf? can you draw art? i am in need of a 2D artist in particular. i can code. but we have to work on my game idea first, unless of your course yours sound super gmi.
>>550675987>he doesn't know
>>550675801>>550597629>12/18/25(Thu)09:16:07 >>550597760>12/18/25(Thu)09:17:23(1 minute and 16 seconds after)>>550672372>12/18/25(Thu)21:20:07>>550672454>12/18/25(Thu)21:21:01(54 seconds after)Fact Check: FALSE
>>550675987right here kanna-dev
Post you're games.
>>550675678you're fat and asian?
>>550676257is this 3d with some sort of filter?
game dev doko?
>>550676178>does the same thing twice>forgets that people have brains and can recognize patterns>thinks his ban dodging multi device posting ways can fool us
>>550676823Recognizing patterns that aren't there is a symptom of schizophrenia. I'm just here to prevent the spread of misinformation and encourage the spread of Christmas cheer.
>>550676658Yes, it basically voxelates the scene if that's a word. I can show more if any interest.
>>550676257>around 1k wishlists in just 8 daysPretty good.>No menus, no demo>Release Date: Q1 2026Lol. Dream on.
>>550672742did you do the art for both? cutscene makes me wish the actual sprites were higher fidelity now. also sex with all 3
>>550676683she looks like she fucks high poly men
>>550677272no its okay
>>550678498Damn, wishlists are public? I had a hard enough time finding it on the partner site. An it's worse, I registered for nextfest in 2 months, demo needed. How fucked am I?
>>550679595um that's a lowpoly child she's not supposed to fuck anyone..
>>550679595What?
>>550679897They're not public, but they can be estimated based on other data. https://gamalytic.com/game/4241390 shows you at >Outstanding wishlists: 756but that's usually a slight underestimate, so I just guessed 1k.Typically, you want to accumulate wishlists BEFORE you do Nextfest. Nextfest is a wishlist multiplier. If you enter with 1k, you can expect maybe an extra 500-1k wishlists. If you enter with 100k, you can expect an extra 50k-100k wishlists, so it's best to participate in the Nextfest closest to your actual release date. For this kind of game, I'd expect lots of stat sheets and tables. I'm not sure really what your plans are, but based on the description on your Steam page, this game is massively overscoped, and so far, it feels like you have less than 10% of the features you describe the final game having. Your trailer is just a fake cinematic visual mock-up and doesn't show any actual decipherable gameplay. The only thing that shows anything resembling gameplay is the very last gif with the hexagons, and even that's not showing any actual combat.Unless you have a very skilled team of developers with at least a decade of experience and several commercial games under their belts, there's no way you finish a demo in just 2 months.
>>550672742
Luddite sisters..this is our last stand before the apocalypse
>>550680464>3d cucumbers>fully modeled burgertroonpoly
>>550672321why does the stardew valley guy post here of all places?
>>550682151lisa sinso so cute
>>550682151because he can be anonymous
>>550682151That's not Lisa, that's Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade.
>>550681413Oh good to know, I probably am overscoped but just because UI isn't presentable yet, doesn't mean it's not there. I don't make mockups, that was gameplay with the crappy old renderer. I might not make the deadline but I don't know, I work better under this kind of pressure.I recommend other devs here put a hard date for miletones or you'll be 'perfecting' some stupid aspect like I did for months.
>>550679101I hired an artist; she made basically everything you see in those cutscenes. As you can see, she's insanely talented. And the craziest part is, I didn't even ask her to make the characters so sexy. She just did it on her own. I was genuinely surprised when I saw Willow's bounce.
>>550682638
>>550682256erm no that's Shinobu her nerfed form
>>550682256isn't that the name a shadertroon devtuber uses
Woke up at 5am.. Planning what part of my game I'll be working on today. Makind a list of things big and small that I can cross off the list. Then I'm going to have breakfast and then I'm getting to work.No job since 2021. Gamedev is my only chance, but my game is unappealing because people find the wrong things appealing.
>>550682835Yes, Acerola stole his identity from Monogatari. You can tell by the way he edits his videos, also his logo has bats.
>>550682418It looks like a mock-up. There are several cuts in it that make no sense from a gameplay perspective. How did you squeeze the camera into a building to order the units inside? How did you manage to precision command the units to line up at the window and crotch for cover? Through what system did you order the aircrafts to flyover and engage? It all looks completely fake and scripted, and there's no real implication of any gameplay challenge yet. You're so caught up on showing cool visuals that you forgot to show any interesting gameplay mechanics. "Order units to go forward and attack" will be fun for all of 5 minutes at most.I'm also an advocate for deadlines, but IMO you're setting yourself up for failure. A playable demo will require essentially 100% of the game's systems completed, and for a game like this, that's basically 80%+ of what you need to make for the game, with the remaining 20% being additional campaign maps or whatever content you have planned. You've basically given yourself a "finish the whole game in 2 months" deadline, which is just unreasonable. Use shorter deadlines for smaller tasks instead.
>>550683239Don't be pessimistic, anon, it’s taking me 3 days to make my game menu
>>550683239>No job since 2021. Gamedev is my only chance, but my game is unappealing because people find the wrong things appealing.Assuming you're not a trannoid making pedo slop, I wish you success, anon. I've been in that "do or die" long term unemployment abyss before, and I somehow escaped with an eventual victory. >>550682712>
>>550684357It couldn't be pedoslop because people find pedoslop appealing.
I wanted to make a low poly porn game years ago and you guys called me delusional and gay and said no one would ever pay for it so I made a horror game instead and it flopped and now there's low poly porn games blowing up all over itch. YOU FUCKED ME AGGY. YOU FUCKED ME IN THE ASSS
>>550684760You have no taste and no game and would've flopped either way.
>>550684760proof?
>>550682712Get sucked, bitch.
>>550683838> Let me tell you about your gameI can do this all day, units have indoor pathfinding, they crouch and stuff according to morale and stance. Sorry for low quality, trying to fit under 4mb.Now I did make a mistake for making a cinematic for an unknown IP but the UI wasn't in a presentable state yet.If your definition of a mock-up is doing video cuts in a cinematic, then I don't know what to tell you. And there's nothing stopping me for doing a gameplay trailer later.About deadlines, you're probably right, I should move it back, but I'll try to no-life this for a bit first.
UI panel pre-render.
>>550682638KINO!!!!! For me it's Aurora
>>550685528OHNONO LOOK AT THE TOP OF HER HEAD>>550684760Word on the street is that vampire survivors/7daystodie hybrids are the next big thing
>>550685528whats going?
>>550672321>never giveACK!!https://www.techspot.com/news/110592-nearly-half-19000-games-released-steam-year-went.html
>>550686269That's what we call Cinema.
>>550686450Valvecultists love that their store is a litterbox, a mountain of sand covering an even larger mountain of shit.
>>550684357>I somehow escaped with an eventual victory.how big of a victory are we talking here, your game made half a million or something? i'm hoping for that kind of success.>>550682712see >>550684357>>550685528erm who's the sexy bystander with big hoo-ha's?
>>550685783nta but is this an rts?
i have chicken powder and spaghetti so im making cup of noodles because the only things i have are spaghetti noodles and this and i have very little money
>>550686774>erm who's the sexy bystander with big hoo-ha's?Tsubasa Hanekawa
>>550686963Yes, is realtime but without the focus on actions per minute. You can pause and give careful orders and it's slower paced and larger scale than stuff like Gates of Hell. It has an operational/logistics layer for the campaign in full 3D so you know what terrain you're going into for battles. Closest game is Graviteam Tactics but with more intuitive controls and sensible UI.
>>550687423she's beautiful>>550687850got any snow maps?
>>550687850Nice, kind of reminds me of Bungie's Myth series based on the graphics and your description of the gameplay.
Our hobby poster?
>>550684760If I were online at the time I could have given you a word of encouragement, but I guess fate had other plans in store for you.
>>550684760Always do the opposite of what /agdg/ says. If Vampire Survivors was posted here anons would say it was going to flop.
>>550687989I'm hoping to do better with shaders but here's an example of winter frost.>>550688853Oh I was skeptical from the name but the crunchy pixels are exactly what I'm going for, I'll check out the gameplay too.
It seems bokudev only replies to his demos steam group discussions now... how do we get him back here bokusisters.... https://steamcommunity.com/app/1149490/discussions/
>>550690092I come here sometimes to shill my game
So is that one fag finally gone from these threads?
what went wrong?
>>550687065food is fuel so you do things that need doing
>>550687423she owes me neko milk
>>550690418Where is your tripcode? Are you really boku? I havent seen shilling in here for about a month now... feels like a troll I can tell hes been gone from here for awhile
>another day of zero progress
Working on UI today. 550 hours worked on the game and it's barely a prototype. The game won't be appealing to streamers or zoomers. It's not even 3D.The fuck am I doing?
>Larian does literally -LITERALLY- the same thing Valve does - using AI for concept art>They are subject to a massive backlash that forces them to publicly backtrackMake a handful of good games and even twenty years later you really can do whatever you want kek.
>>550689168>If Vampire Survivors was posted here anons would say it was going to flop.What exactly is the reason behind this phenomena? It's not just this place, even reddit would have likely said the same thing. Even Zukowski was saying card games/deckbuilders are all dried out in the current market and you should make something else...right before Balatro hit. And he isn't an average person but a professional. So why are people bad at recognizing successful ideas before they become successful?
fatfuck gabencunt did this
>whoops>wrong thread
>>550692131no one knows anything.>thousand people make predictions>one gets lucky and gets it right >he and everybody else think he's a geniusif there were a method to reason out and engineer a major success (relative to what was invested), big studios with very smart highly paid employees would be releasing a new Balatro and Vampire Survivors literally every week. but thankfully no one knows anything for sure which is why we have a chance.
>>550692324thought the logo was a pepe for a sec
>>550692324Qrd? No wishlists? Removed by dev or valve?
>>550692324the correct decision. the trick is to know whether the game is gmi as early as possible.
>>550692653>interesting game gets delisted because gabencunt fucked over indies with his promotion algorithmGreat.
>>550692735>fucked over indies with his promotion algorithmThere is NO promotion algorithm for games in Early Access dumbass, it never gets recommended to people unless the game is already selling millions.
>>550692735it's not gaben's fault. gamers are low IQ trash cattle and they like the wrong things
>>550692324>>550692653>wasting 100 bucks instead of re-using the steam pagelol
>>550692831>There is NO promotion algorithm for games in Early Access dumbassthat's exactly my point dumbass
>>550692831>>550692883which brings into question, is megabonk the new strat? release an early access game without using early access and then release content and improve it?
How many games in early access have been completely abandoned? There is a reason there is no promotion for it, they should have never allowed it.
>>550692880$100 is nothing compared to the amount of time (therefore money) it takes to finish a game.
>>550693035qrd
>>550693014>fat retard doesn't want to do any quality control on his platform>lets scammers fester on it>scammers ruin user trust>fat retard gimps the system for devs and ruins the market to deal with scammersAbsolutely genius
>>550693148You're absolutely right, Valve should be charging $1000 per game added to Steam.
>>550676257>>550677272How did you manage to do this? Low res filters in screen space really get noisy when you move the camera
>>550693205That's not the solution. It won't put an end to scams, they'll just switch from asset flips to stuff like The Day Before.
>>550693014Early access wasn't a bad idea but it should have been a way for developers to host free alpha/beta tests. Letting them charge money for incomplete games was retarded and they only did it because they were hoping for the next Minecraft to be on steam.
>>550692883I don't want to see the front page flooded with your trash early access games you only use to "test the waters", Ivan. Get a fucking marketing budget. Never at any point in your development process should you rely on something you have no control over such as the algorithm, that's such gambling.
>>550693794>that's suchthat's just*Fuck it, no more 4chan for me until the weekend is over, better work on my game instead.
>>550693148Small indie company. Can't hire someone to moderate greenlight. Please understand.
Ai
>>550693981is good when valve uses it
>>550693794>I don't want to see the front page flooded with your trash early access games you only use to "test the waters"Projection
>Be told that low level gamedev coding is imposible and a waste of time>Try to learn it>It's actually one of the most interesting subfields of computer scienceI mean, writing a 3D game about beating up waifus to capture them in your male balls, is more interesting and dificult than writing some hospistal or goverment shit and also more interesting than writing a crypto trading scam app.
>>550693247Yes your right, so if screen space is too flickery what might be the solution?
>>550693931It helps that there's hundreds of suckers (in this very thread included) who will defend being exploited by Valve. Because it's okay when Valve does it.
