Game Edition>Demo Days NEXT: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-69Previous: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-68>AGDG Resources https://hackmd.io/SNd2YQugRG-36CLYc8Og2w>Progress Posting Guide https://pastebin.com/0jz4xtU7>Helpful Links New Threads: >>>/vg/agdgArchive: https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/subject/agdg//agdg/ Steam Games: https://made-by-agdg.vercel.app/>How to WebM https://obsproject.comhttps://github.com/argorar/WebMConverter>Previous Thread>>568445562
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We can continue the Hades discussion here. Topic: Hades is a gay game for gay gamers where you need to take on the role of a gay cuck in a throuple to unseat and reverse your father's conservatism.
>>568567539why should i care
just bought an amazing music pack for 20 bucks from some underrated artist. ill pay him some more money if my game makes it
>>568567778proof?
>>568567620If you want money, make a game for gay coomers and sell it to fujo wine aunts and closeted gays who have never talked to another gay in the wild lmao
How do I make my platformer game more appealing to trannies? I want to increase my chances of getting a trans gf
>>568567539nuh uh in my playthrough I fucked my sister because incest is based
>>568568092Neotenous childlike pixel art main character in a trans flag tanktop, NEXT
>>568568092Make it speedrunner friendly. Have cute colorful graphics. Female player character.
>>568568139how do i make game?
>>568567539this nigga is lying. >How the House is resolved: The "waning House of Hades" is resolved by Persephone's return and the subsequent peace treaty/feast with the Olympian gods. Dating Thanatos and Megaera does not fix the political or cosmic problems of the Underworld.
>>568568246Download Godot and follow some beginner tutorials
>>568568280Yk Gemini will just lie to make you happy, right? Any discussion about Hades that omits the queer character identites is simply not a discussion about the game. The main point of the gay throuple is to dislodge Thanatos and Meg from Hades' employ, which is central to resolving the Persephone conflict and restoring the HoH.
>>568568330godont
just fixed the blurry text on my game engine . feels so fuckng good.. plagued me for monthsturns out the dpi scaling on my mac is 2x but my engine didnt account for it or something, im honestly not even sure its too low level for me i just use sdl :3
>>568568673>macscammer
my boss is on vacation for a week so im finna get paid for real, to develop my game lmfao. remote workers WW@?
>>568568891im a filthy mac casual, what do u want me to say.
>>568568560the gay throuple can ONLY happen if you romance thanatos and meg at the same time. faggot
>>568569210yk you could sell the mac to another appleite and get enough money back to buy a real computer and not a fisher price speak and spell
>>568568560I didn't say which side i was on. I just asked gronk is this true?
>>568569265And? You still can't get around the fact that any discussion about Hades that omits the queer character identities misses the ENTIRE point of the game. The gay throuple is the explicit mechanic that dislodges Thanatos and Meg from Lord Hades's emotional control, proving that radical empathy and queer love are the antidotes to the House's generational trauma. The exact same emotional toolkit Zagreus uses to finally bring Persephone home. Ignoring this is literally just some chud poking his eyes out and plugging his ears so he doesn't "catch the gay." Faggot. Now fucking shove that into Gemini and get your next response, you drooling retard.
>>568569271yea i know but thats too much trouble. also macs arent a meme anymore with their new chips. i play death stranding on this bitch
>>568569468>macs arent a meme anymoreextremely debateable. being locked into that walled garden is a fate worse than death. fisher price toys for people afraid of menus.
>>568569678i got it for free from my work, so its free real estate
>>568569710this is practically never true, especially if it's "free to own" and not the much more common furnished and tracked equipment. and if it is then you know that you got a piece of crap, nobody would give out a quality thing for free.
>>568569463This new quote shows that anon has shifted the goalposts of the argument. He is no longer arguing about the literal plot or game mechanics; instead, he is offering a highly academic, subjective, literary interpretation of the game's themes.While it is a fascinating and well-phrased critical reading—the kind you might find in an essay on queer game studies—it is still factually and structurally incorrect when compared to the actual design of Hades.
>>568569678cant even argue w that. the chips are cool tho>>568569710lucky you. i got this voluntarily kek
>>568569843just dont get fired
568569856>retreats to a hugbox that is programmed to agree with himCase, meet point, I guess.
AI really does oneshot lonely retards who never had a friend, actual psychosis machine lmfao
>>568569869that's fair, honestly. and apple stuff has real utility. appleites are fanatics though and i get so tired of being told to get an iphone, trying it, and wondering wtf is the draw here. i want a phone and computer, not a ticket to join a tech club.
>>568570053how will you wiggle out of the fact I prompted gemini unbiased? I didn't take a side at all. I just got it to research the claims>By using these techniques, you did the exact opposite of creating a "hugbox." You set up a clean, control-tested environment that forced the system to give a neutral, fact-based breakdown.
>proompted>unbiased
>>568570704How will you wiggle out of the fact that you're using a literal psychosis simulator to try and force a square peg into a round hole? If you ask the fucking thing to tell you that actually, Zagreus is secretly a bird from the bird dimension, it will make that argument. Like it or not retard, but love and queerness are literally currency in Hades. You can't even wiggle out of it in the combat, since you fucking date Thanatos IN combat.
>>568570827gamelet
>>568570827yes. >"so, this conversation happened. what is your take?"that was all. it can't know which side of the conversation I was.
>>568569271someone isn't keeping up with the timesmacs are great now
>>568570959macs categorically cannot be great. i don't care if the bitch has a built in holodeck, the walled garden kills all utility before it ever leaves the factory. if apple was the only computer and phone maker, sure, but they don't exist in a vacuum and apple has repeatedly been called out for making subpar crap that captures an audience. once you go apple you simply can't extricate yourself, and that's the business model. hard pass.
>>568570908>tell me that actually, Zagreus is secretly a bird from the bird dimension.>While that would certainly make for a very unexpected twist, in the actual lore and story of Hades, Zagreus is firmly established as a chthonic deity—the biological son of Hades and Persephone [1, 2]. There are no secret dimensions or avian plotlines in the game's universe; his design, powers, and lineage are entirely rooted in classical Greek mythology [1].
>>568571192>smart AI is smarter than dumb AIno hecking way
>>568570240yeah i find myself talking to it sometimes with secrets ive never told anyone ever in my entire life, like wanting to be a girl but accepting that i will never transition.
>>568571102Apple's hardware is top notch unless you're basing your opinion on someone whose only experience with Apple's hardware is repairing it.As for the "walled garden", what walled garden? macOS is not iOS.
>>568571153Zagreus does not traverse the Underworld like a bipedal mammal; his primary mode of survival is the "Dash." This mechanic is a clear abstraction of short-burst flight, heavily implying that walking is unnatural to him. Furthermore, the character model explicitly features flaming, wing-like protrusions on his ankles. The game's text claims these are inherited traits, but mechanically and visually, they are vestigial wings fighting against the oppressive, subterranean gravity of the Underworld to return to the Bird Dimension.Zagreus’s entire economic drive is based on corvid hoarding instincts. Throughout his escape attempts, he compulsively gathers shiny, functionally useless baubles—specifically Gemstones and Diamonds. The narrative attempts to justify this as "House Contractor payments," but why would a prince desperate to leave his home spend agonizing hours collecting shiny rocks to decorate it? He wouldn't. He is simply building a nest. He is a magpie trapped in a Greek tragedy.Examine the game's upgrade economy. Zagreus’s primary source of localized power enhancement is the Pom of Power. He is literally drawing his strength from eating seeds. Furthermore, his relentless, obsessive drive to reach the "Surface" is radically misinterpreted by players as a quest for maternal closure. In reality, Zagreus is experiencing Zugunruhe—the biological, anxious restlessness that migratory birds feel when they are prevented from migrating. He doesn't want to find Persephone; he just needs to fly south for the winter.When Zagreus leaps into the void to commune with Chaos, he is actually attempting to interface with the Bird Dimension. Chaos exists in a formless, floating space devoid of grounding geometry—an endless sky. By taking boons from Chaos, Zagreus is slowly trying to overwrite his restrictive humanoid code with his true, boundless, airborne nature.
'dites lost
>>568571393this is so insanely bad faith that it barely warrants a response. i will qualify my opinion from the position of someone who has had to STIG and ATO crapple products, they suck and yes the walled garden is real. it's 2026 and you still can't text a fucking iphone from an android, fuck apple.
>>568571426
>>568568092big booty femboys with tiny pps
>>568571192It's making fun of you for asking a dumb question
>>568571860braid deez
the exact moment dites lost
>>568572026wow that is just adorably cute.this just gave me. agame idea.
>>568572026real
>get psychosis>claim "victory" over nothingai won't go away but it will be taken out of the hands of anyone who can't afford a 1,000 dollars a month in ai compute which will probably cause mass suicide waves when they don't have an always-online glazer in their pocket
>>568572173try answer this>>568570950
>shitty platformer with good porn animationsIt's that fukken easy.If all you can do is art, make porn.
>>568572312go back and ask the ai to make your request legible lmao. literally you can't even communicate without it. when it pulls back you will kill yourself.
>>568572173'dite cattle will be used as biofuel for datacenters
>>568571587>it's 2026 and you still can't text a fucking iphone from an androidI'm pretty sure you can, but what does that even have to do with macs?
>>568572381I don't have a wife to model my FeMC after.
The most comprehensive and standard way is to define psychosis by the presence of one of primarily four types of psychotic symptoms. Those are:>delusions, which are unusual, false, and fixed ideas;>hallucinations, which are unusual perceptual abnormalities—like hearing something that isn’t there, seeing something that isn’t there, tasting, smelling something that isn’t there, or feeling something that isn’t there;>disorganized behavior; and>disorganized speech.Having any one of those four types of symptoms qualifies someone as having a psychotic symptom and then usually some sort of psychotic disorder. There are many types of psychotic disorders: such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder with psychotic features, and delusional disorder. But what is common among them is that one must have one of those four psychotic symptoms to receive a diagnosis of psychosis.One type is where someone who already has a psychotic disorder or schizophrenia engages with a large language model or chatbot and for some reason is convinced to stop their medication. That, of course, could lead to a decompensation—or the return of symptoms—and a psychotic break. That’s probably the more common type of AI psychosis, but we don’t hear about it as much in the media.Now, AI does other things very similar to psychosis. Although it’s not technically AI psychosis, we often include it under the rubric of AI psychosis: when a large language model influences or reinforces or induces thoughts of suicide. So, someone may enter some information related to suicide into a large language model or chatbot, then that is reinforced to the person, and then they have an episode in which they take their life. That’s technically not AI psychosis, but we consider it under the same umbrella because the same mechanism is at work.
>>568572438so you're asking what does apple's shit product development history and predatory business model have to do with the mac. yea okay you deserve your mac. hopefully they're still giving out those gay bumper cases so you don't cut yourself on it.
>ai killed all dev progress and all discussion on these threads
>>568572554You've provided a really thorough overview of psychosis and its core symptoms, highlighting how the presence of delusions, hallucinations, disorganized behavior, or speech can classify someone as experiencing psychosis, regardless of the specific disorder. The point about individuals with existing psychotic disorders or schizophrenia engaging with AI and potentially stopping their medication is a crucial concern, as it underscores the importance of monitoring mental health, especially in the context of emerging technologies. Additionally, your mention of AI's influence on thoughts related to suicide, even if not technically classified as AI psychosis, raises important ethical questions about the responsibility of AI developers and the need for safeguards to prevent harm, given how powerful and persuasive these models can be in reinforcing harmful ideas. It's a complex intersection of mental health, technology, and ethics that warrants ongoing discussion and careful regulation.
>>568572381But art isn't all I can do so I don't know if I should make porn
>>568572734post game, you won't
>>568572734if someone is ITT they aren't a dev, point blank. they're a shitposter with a poorly executed hobby. there's a reason you're here, and not in a professional space where people take this hobby seriously. either piss into the shit ocean or fuck off.
>>568572385can't you follow a simple conversation? >I prompted gemini unbiased? I didn't take a side at all. I just got it to research the claims>>proompted>>unbiased>yes.>"so, this conversation happened. what is your take?">that was all. it can't know which side of the conversation I was.Yet you still claim AI psychosis, that I am somehow getting AI to agree with me, yet from the interaction it can't know which anon I am.
>whats goin on x, i just wanted to make some posts>thats right cocksucker, go back to agdgthis one better blow up
>>568572734I'm developing some gamedev tools. Once they're ready I will go back to making/posting game progress.
>>568572752Your free-tier gaslight glazer is basically telling you not to use it in this response lmao
>>568572381How much game is expected from the gooner? It seems like all of these porn games are just shitty sidescrollers or RPGmaker templates that deliver still images from Twitter artists when you lose.
>>568572868It's not unbiased because YOU are the one feeding your AI you fucking retard, it doesn't need to know which anon is who, because it knows who YOU are and it's only ever going to talc your red baby bottom you fucking idiot.
>>568572979Doesn't matter that much. A few attack animations, a dodge move and jumping and you're gucci
>>568572829trve they're all in the 'cord
The people who depend on AI the most are wholly incapable of operating on the level of intelligence that AI can put them at. Ask your little buddy to explain the plot of "Flowers for Algernon" lmfao.
>>568572829I'm here because it's fairly easy and nonrestrictive to post here compared to some other gamedev-related spaces.
>>568572952You are absolutely right.
>>568573076>it knows who YOU arehow?
>>568573214In other words you're here because you're also so low quality that you couldn't clear the bar and contribute in earnest to a hobbyist forum. At least I'm here to shitpost which is slightly less emabrassing. Batman himself couldn't have gotten that self-own out of me, damn bro.
>>568573316nano transmitters
>>568573196
>>568573371Wrong, I'm here because while I also want to share my gamedev I think my time and effort is better employed working on my game than navigating around whatever hurdles other spaces put in my way.
568573316The AI era is funny because it's literally like a bunch of chimps got access to the USS Enterprise LMAO
>>568573105Do you think it's feasible to try and make a legitimate game or is the market completely captured by still image delivery slop? I've seen a few cool ones milking patreon like Villain Simulator but it seems like you need to tailor your design around an ever growing amount of content to keep the game incomplete and the bucks flowing in.
How do you guys even decide what art style do you go with?I'm stuck and no idea how to design my UI / HUD.
>>568573465Funny how you surround yourself with tranny iconography since they are so prone to suicide, when you will probably kill youself the day CGPT says "subscribe to the entry tier for only 500 a month!" lmao.
>>568573491but how though?
everybody hates my game and me
>>568573601I browse around on pinterest etc until I find a style that suits me, then copy it
are ya winning, sisters?
>>568573601When I observe and appreciate art that exists around the world, I take mental notes and saves pictures of the ones that I enjoy the most, then I review that information and decide on the style that would best suit the game I have in mind.If you want a quick reference see https://www.gameuidatabase.com/
>>568573750no, i have lost hardits over
>quality of claude's responses dips slightly>millions of "projects" abandoned overnight because the lead developer got a lobotomyit do be like that
>>568573936
>>568573750Honestly, right now? I'm losing. Hard.But I'm only a temporarily embarrassed winner.
Based Cakez released a big hit and is already back to grinding on a new game.
Wasn't it 28 euros? How did it get a price increase again?
>>568574415good guy
>>568575417this game is like 90 fucking years old who tf is still buying it??
>>568572381My game is a clone of Deep Space Waifu.A shoot 'em up where you strip girls.And the most interest I've seen has been when I show off the girls not in mechanics.The biggest problem I see in indie development is that we strive to design systems, but the buyer makes decisions based on whether they see an interesting-looking girl or whether the game’s aesthetics remind them of something they played as a child.Our duty is to identify the unfulfilled desires of our consumers.>>568572979My take is that Steam has four very distinct segments.Top 5%: the mega-hits.10%: previous high-quality erotic games20%: previous indie games that put in the effort65%: low-quality games with poor erotic contentErotic games have a ceiling because they aren’t for everyone, but they have a more interested audience because we all get horny sooner or later.
>>568573750Bigly
>>568575581Corpo Vtubers that use a separate account for work.
>>568575872Only corpo vtuber who I have ever seen play this game was Marine.
>>568575975Ahoy!
>>568575872... who also don't have 30 bucks??
>>568576082>millionaires dont have 30 bucks
>>568576258yeah?
>>568575417It's getting continuous updates so that means the value of the product must increase as well amirite?
>>568576258i mean, yeah? that's kind of the point. if the only people left buying this relic are people who need it for "work," then who cares about the price? make it 50 dollars for all it's worth.
im making proggy onmy rimworld clone feels good man
anyone else too sleepy to dev?
>>568560595>>568561483Thank you for the feedback and ideas, seems like you both are for the 10 base that shows the card. Also thank you for the effort of visualizing your idea.>>568562105Im not considering normie appeal anyways, because i want it to be a gore game. I wouldnt even want money, but just put it on itch. Thank you for pointing it out though.>>568560934Yes it is, depending on the playtest i might cut the cards, but for now i like to design around them.
I suddenly feel shitty and my game feels like shit.Why am I not an art fag?At least drawing nice stuffs can attract people even if my game is shit.
I suddenly feel shitty and my game feels like shit.Why am I not a game design chad?At least drawing nice stuffs can attract people even if my game is shit
>>568575607What do you think of a picrel art style? I can draw but I hate doing 3d facial animation, so I was thinking of using this type of texture selection style for expressions.I figured if people will wank to pixel art & Cris-core surely I can get away with a stylized 3d.
I suddenly feel shitty and my game feels like shit.Why am I not a code chad?At least then I'd dev instead of having sex 18h a day even if my game is perfect.
>>568577837This is pretty standard for low poly 3d stuff
>>568577837style looks good but I worry for your character design if you think brown women sellface swap texture is a good approach
My tummy hurts, there's no food in the house and I'm out of weed. It's gamedev time.
Game designers, for picking up and placing objects, do you think it’s better to have a physically simulated object like in Source engine, or to have a more binary inventory style pick up and place like in most adventure games?
>>568579291yes
>>568579291depends heavily on the game
>>568579291binary is probably better in this era, novelty of physics might have worn off a bit? I use binary with faked physics while holding objects
are indie game clinic videos any good?
>>568580284good for what?
>>568580439
>>568579291I see increasingly people doing away with inventories for item management and have players drop items on the ground to interact with them instead
Starting on environmental assets. Had to start eventually.
>>568581297use splines to make roads no?
i need humanoid enemy designs that are easy to make for fantasy game it's 3d pbr
>>568583254A loli
>>568582798These are just for a simple overworld map so I don't think I'll bother. Will just keep it tile based.
>>568578807>>568579036Thanks anons.>brown women don't sellOf course, this image isn't my work it was just a reference. I'll be choosing from the gold standards red hair/blue eye or black hair goth with purple eyes.
>>568583254a mummy
PRAISE GABEN
>>568583254Where are you at skill wise.
>>568584238I wish I could afford one....
progress is good
>>568584850Sex with Lily.
>>568567361What game is that
>>568585003She is very sexy.
10 HOURS LEFTWill it be kino?
>>568585614Bro I work 9-10 hours tomorrow, I ain't gonna be able to play it.
Is AI voice acting really that horrible or do people just hate it because muh actor jobs?
>>568586239you can get it to sound decent enough if you know what you are doing and don't just use the first result the AI gives you (which is how most punjabs use it)
>>568586239No one would hate AI voice if it were good.
>>568584238Do successful devs get it for free?>>568585614I get the feeling the dev lurks/posts here.
>>568586239I find it acceptable in the exact same contexts where I find one guy doing all the voices on a shitty laptop mic acceptable.
Yacht Club devs could be anywhere
>>568586239It's not horrible it's just not as good as human VA so why would I settle for it
>>568586624>Do successful devs get it for free?Bro if you're successful you don't need it to be free
>>568587016This is why you should code Tetris first
>>568587168But free is nice. If I was successful I'd be on the fence since I'd rather just play on the PC, it's not like I go anywhere. At most this would just result in me playing in bed on chilly nights and when I'm lazy to get out of bed in the mornings/noon.
>>56858623990% of people won't notice, but the 10% that do will be very loud about it.
>>568586991>so why would I settle for itbut that's not what the OP was asking, retard subhumanite. if you don't like AI voice then don't use it, nobody's forcing you to put it in your game
>>568584238LOL
>>568587395Sure they get it for free but honestly it would be easier to just buy one
>>568587854KWAB
>>568584238imagine the price of the upcoming steam machine
>>568587572I'm not gonna change my answer just because it hurt yours feelings
>>568588273>yours feelingssaar...
>>568588273you are pathetically low IQ, you managed to misread 2 forum posts in a row
>>568586239>AI voice acting
>>568586239Speaking to Game Informer in a paywalled interview, Barone explained that they can see the purpose of AI tools for “very specific, zoomed-in cases, maybe”. However, the tools will not be used for any of the indie dev’s projects.“You’re offloading creativity to an algorithm,” he said, “which I think is always gonna undermine the pure and authentic human element of what you’re doing… “So for me, as someone who wants to express myself in an artistic way, I wouldn’t ever want to use AI for any sort of creative thing, because it’s beside the point of what I’m doing. My goal is to express myself in a creative way. Why would I let an AI do that for me?”Barone explained that, in their opinion, human creativity “should take priority over a soulless machine”. While they can see why AI tools can assist in some tasks, generating creative works simply is not what they want to see.“At the very least, let another human being express themselves if you need help. That’s probably what I would say. There are plenty of humans out there that would like an opportunity to express themselves,” the indie developer said.
>>568588350>>568588371Throw your tantrum, not my problem. I maintain what I said.
>>568588615>Barone explained that, in their opinion>theirEric is trans?
I wish I could afford a Matrioshka brain to run LLM to make my pixel art incremental deck building autobattler about depression
>>568588730gender neutral pronouns can be used for anyone and a lot of trans people still use binary pronouns(ex: trans women using she/her pronouns)
what happened to this game?
>>568587016True. Choosing Godot is a huge mistake. Just kidding Godot is fine
Texture sourcing lifehack
>>568589279Dev quit citing some mental health related thing like burnout I think it was. Doesn't post xer work anymore here or the cord as far as I can tell. He threw in the towel (There's nothing wrong with it!)
>>568589279IIRC the dev gave up on it and started making a 3D game (pic), which I assume they also gave up on since they stopped posting.
>>568587854>his own investment backfired and hurt his business Lel>inb4 consoomers buy it anywaysNevermind
>>568590013>>568587854why gabencunt so retarded, niggas?...
>>568590013>investmentAre donations considered investments?
I wish I could just wake up one day and my game is everything I want it to be and is ready to be released.
>>568590497You can! It just takes all the days before it!
>>568589923Looks bad compared to his pixel shart and I can't imagine it played better as a 3d troonformer
>>568590497I've done that several times and it's a great feeling until I realize the game is a flop no one wants to play
>>568571192"Create a Python script that takes text as input from stdin and counts the number of times the letter "P" occurs in the input string, then run the script with "Google" as the input and give me the output."
>>568590771Yeah 3D is harder than 2D of course
>>568591664>3D is harder than 2D of course
>>568591664Of course. Sad to see the project hopper meme end in death once again.
>>568591904Yeah he made it pretty clear with that post
>>568592247True, worse is I bet with only a couple adjustments he could have sold the 2D game. There are plenty of similar doujin games that got a moderate amount of sales
>>568592375That's why 2D is a lost art and all production pipelines are 3D, because it's harder. AAA enjoys the challenge
i think i'm going to make a persona clone in the future, market is going to open up heavily for clones of that series with the direction the new game is taking with the leaks with it taking too much inspiration from modern designs
Stop making platformers.
>>568592934No.
Start making blobbers.
>>568592964I'm not asking.
>>568592715Nah
>>568593138
another L for luddites
>>568593105Aren't they unpopular?
>>568592630With the amount of engagement he was getting here I'm sure he'd be making good money to continue development with patreon coombrains supporting him. I haven't checked up on Madodev lately but last time I looked he was making more than I do at my full time job and his art wasn't half as good.
>>568594045Madodev's games sell not because of coom. They sell because they're complex systems games. Platformer + coom = flop.
after nodevving... I mean doing research for a while, I've come to a conclusion, I'll use voxel art as my art stylealso fuck the roguelikes for now, I'll go for a survival crafting game yes, a minecraft-like >>568573936>>568574286>>568586390I know that feeling sisters, every time that I stop devving I feel worse every day that passes>>568575728ZAMN! I wish I could do that!
>>568594045I'm not saying it wouldn't but I'm a bit hesitant to compare the two since Madodev is making outright hardcore porn, I'm not sure he would have the same success if his game was tamer>>568594404>Platformer + coom = flop.Not necessarily, with good art and decent gameplay they can succeed, see https://steamcommunity.com/app/1794780
>>568594404That's a good point. Platformers don't really support gooner gameplay like the 4NIAR style of Mados dungeon games.There are sidescrolling games by Koooonsoft that seen to be pretty successful but they are very uninvolved gameplay wise as you travel in once direction on a flat plane delivering you to the next opportunity to hit an enemy.
>>568594803> yes, a minecraft-like not so fast nigga, that's the game I'm making, pick something else
>>568594894>A giant eyeball incincerates you with a laser beamKek who wanks to this shit what the fuck
I wish I was happy
>>568596720The key to happiness is these three pillars: love, health and wealth.Get a gf, make a game to get rich, start healthy habits.
>>568583904>Of course, this image isn't my work it was just a referenceis your work anything close to that quality?
>>568596778>best I can do is major depression and existential dread
>>568597080You're depressed and have an existential dread because you're unhealthy, not in a relationship and poor. Fix these things and happiness will follow.
>>568596720>>568596778all you need is nature and sunlightyou will try literally anything and everything except the simplest cure
>data centers get built where there is cheap electricity>price of electricity goes up or the local supply is not even enough to provide for the data center>locals lose power or can't afford it anymore>locals get madnobody could have seen this coming
>>568595410Some of us do
>>568577837she cute :)
>>568577837make the other character a white man with reddit facial hair like a goatee and everyone will buy your game
>>568597176nta but nature and sunlight don't agree with me at all. the happiest I've been was during covid lockdowns.
>>568598834ginger?
AI bros... we're back
>>568599223no, but I am very pale. like sometimes random people on the street ask me if I'm okay. I'm in perfect health as far as as I know and in great shape, I just don't like the sun. I don't like the aesthetic and the energy of a sunny day. I don't like anyone looking at me, I don't like movement or sounds. I'm a weird guy but I know a few other people like me
>>568599525ah yes im familiar with this condition, it does have a name fyi not an uncommon thing
>>568599525yeah I hate to tell you this but your body is completely severed from your soul which makes it much easier for demons to fuck with youyour depression will only get worsestill not sure why this happens so often for yts but I have my theories
>>568599484...not in the vsc extension yet... it's so over... i could have done so much more by now
>>568600126it failed the first task I gave it. ah well.
I wanted to improve at drawing and animating things, but after reflecting on what was holding me back, I came to the conclusion that it is my lack of understanding of 3D forms. So I started to learn how to sculpt in blender to learn anatomy in the process. I will share my progress from time to time here.
>>568600327Good luck.
I have 3 years to make it. I must do it before I turn 30. I don't want to be a 30 yo neet.
>>568599807I'm not depressed. I just find the sun and the outdoors the opposite of comfy.
>>568600609Brother, I thought the same before turning 25. Then before 30. Now I'm 32, broke and unemployed. Unmarried. No gf. No friends. No career. No savings. It's so fucking over, but now I'm telling myself I have to make it before 35. Somehow I keep going...
>>568601206Same...
>>568601206same except I realized that the age thing was a psyop and it was actually binary the whole time, you make it or you don't
>>568600327cool. keep it up. what resources are you using?
>>568595162n-no
day 2
>>568601206You will make it before 35 anon. I believe in you.
>>568601389For now, I watched some tutorial on youtube to learn how to use the pencil to sculpt in blender. Now, I am using zygotebody to see how the muscles are layered.
Hello again. I'm going to dev now. You may wish me luck.
>>568602178Sorry, you're late. I already gave the luck I had to this guy >>568600327
>>568601206gmi
>>568601206>>568600609I made it in every sense by 25. then life started going downhill, very slowly but inevitably. there is no "making it" there is always something on the horizon
>>568602178good luck!
>>568602336Aw, shucks. Save it for me tomorrow.>>568603625Thanks, fren.
Picked up my foodstamps today. Hopefully this is the last time, game coming out will save me
>>568605498
>>568606121I'm not sure cris I think you need another 6 months of improving your workflow
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>>568596948You tell me. Have a look >>568606121
>>568606121Now THIS is an elf girl. Kanna BTFO
ludstatus?
>>568606121ack, Kanna bros. Our response?
>>568606121Looks good cris, now use that workflow to make a game please. It was promised to me 3000 years ago.
>>568605769did this for a long time, didn't realize how much it wore me down until I quit just because
how do i find content about being more evil? it seems like everything on youtube is about being a good little low wagie cuckie virgin.
>>568608570https://www.deceptive.design/https://www.darkpattern.games/
>>568608875more pls
>>568609046That's already more than you'll ever need, especially when you don't have a game to stuff them into.
>>568609728you don't understand, he needs to 100% prepare everything before he finally starts thinking about his choice of game engine
>>568608570contrary to popular belief evil doesn't pay, relentless cooperation does
>>568610014>evil doesn't payseems like you already normalized evil
who's here literally ngmi because of (((divine intervention)))?
>>568610481I love that game
>>568610481I don't know, when I talk about ideas or concepts in game design with people they seem to resonate and almost become radicalized by what I'm saying. I've been asked to hold lectures by University Professors multiple times despite not having the credentials. I think it's more likely that I'm more persuasive than revolutionary and that maybe I was put here to start a cult.
i dont want to make a game, i want to have sex and a fun life
>>568608875>https://www.darkpattern.games/most of my game design notes are based on that page
>>568610919Just do it.
>>568610919make a successful game and you can have those
>>568610919Same, except I also want to make a game...
>>568611194Incorrect. You must first have sex in order to make a successful game.
>>568611371you are punjabnik THO
Explain your workflow to me
sex doesn't compare to the convenience of fucking your hand and some good pornI'd rather make video games
you need to make a twitch channel and try to get attention to realize how soulless pandering to people is. you need to feel first hand how degrading it is and how it completely destroys your identity.
>>568608875>>568611005Lol, I've actually studied dark patterns and most of these would not qualify on their own. This seems more like a covert marxist propaganda page than anything else
>>568611659okay this is a clown website
>>5686114611) i wash dishes2) i get a billion dollar idea3) i blank out in front of godot4) i'm back to doomscrolling the internet
Making a game feels like passing a kidney stone. Sucks ass but you gotta do it.
>>568611457>goygem.redpoo incel tears
>>568608417Are you just neeting now or retired? Do neets here really 996? How dont you guys burn out
I went into a coma when cris found the perfect AI workflow, just woke up, how many games did he finish with his newfound productivity?
>>568612478I'm not good enough at 3D modeling to give gamers what they want.
>>568612462996 is retarded, realistically if you put in more than 4-5h per day of actual work you're just going to cause problems. I neeted for about a year and now I wanna try gamedev again
>>568612871I rate it NSFW-in-SFW-board/10
i need to get a girlfriend. playing through mixtape made me realize I'd have better stories and experiences to put into my game if I myself had good life experiences.having a girlfriend is the ultimate life experience. a one size fits all path to despair. submerge myself in the pain she causes me because it makes me feel alive in that moment.A chip left on my shoulder after a messy break-up, where I take the chip and use it as a tool. A chisel to break myself away from that looming block of marbled depression and regrets residing in my mind, bit by bit, and create something beautiful.
>>568613261go get it tiger, ask out a couple chicks at your campus, swipe some qts on tinder
>>568612871Looking good cris.
>>568612269you got banned a few threads back for having a schizo meltie over gogem though
>>568613576>all of my thread enemies are the same personHave sex, loser.
>>568614185>all of my thread enemies are the same personthat's exactly what you're doing right now though, by insisting i am gogem.
>>568614185ok, bend over
tranny meltie
>>568614429punjab
>found a kino pixel artist that would be a perfect fit for my game>she hasn't posted in 2 years on any of her socials>she live in russiait's over...
Been spending time refactoring a lot of combat code. But now that it's complete, I decided to fix a small issue I noticed a while ago: the boss not creating light with his fireball AoE at first.
>>568614324Sorry but, I have more than just a middle school education, and so I don't have so low of an IQ that I feel compelled to come up with gay little names for everyone. Retard and faggot are good enough names for you.
>this morning I ask chatgpt "how does rendering work">this evening I have texel-space lighting that works on arbitrary shapes and texturesborn too late to explore Earthborn too early to explore the universeborn just in time to gamedev
>>568616974Nice! I would move the charge/stamina bar closer to your character so the eyes don't have to jump so far between the action and the UI
>>568616974Have you considered an actual enemy variety instead of having only humanoids with somewhat symmetric combat? It would have been so much easier to design around and have less risk of getting stale.
How much does an artist even cost?I only ever paid one 3d artist for contract work to make one machine and it cost me 500€.Do you have any experience?
>>568619158The artist I reached out to for Steam capsule art quoted me 3k euro.
>>568618727nice anon, I'm looking forward to seeing your progress over timedo you have a game you want to make?
Claude Opus 4.8 just dropped.
>>568619229Damn that seems high, one musician quoted me 2k per minute of soundtrack
>>568619307>justYou're 4 hours late but it feels like they internally reduced the quotas or increased token rates temporarily for the "rush" after 4.8 release or something because I just hit my 5 hour session limit even though I didn't do anything out of ordinary compared to my usual usage where I don't come anywhere close to the limit.
I've got indian marketing grifter exhaustion, like 3 contact me every week
>>568619270Been working on it for months, but rarely because wageslaving.
>>568618621>and so I don't have so low of an IQ that I feel compelled to come up with gay little names for everyone>goygem.redpoo
have the very basics in place. lots of shooting and dodging. There's a lot to refine, animations to improve and a whole UI to do if I want to make it to the DD69, but progress has been steady so far. I have been playing around with lighting today too.
>>568618901Been thinking about it. At the very least I'll make it an option.>>568618905Yeah aside from one enemy, everything is just test baddies so far with the same exact look to them. There's a lot of work on the visuals that needs doing.
>>568572467model your FeMC after a random stranger on the street thenMake it be a fun surprise for them later down the line when someone that knows someone that knows them inevitably says "Hey, your likeness is in a porn game!"
>>568621130welcome back, shanghai gold dev
>>568572878Bro tomato gaming played your shit to 400k+ views, you'll be fine.
>>568621856>400k+ viewsthat's like 2 sales, grim
>>568622858That's two more sales than zero*
>>568620420relax poopdickschizo
>>568618727That looks like flat shading on tons of wasteful quads. It's especially noticeable at the rock's UV seam. Texel space lighting looks like this: https://godotshaders.com/shader/texel-space-quantization/
really makes the jog jog
>>568625345Good. They can go back home. Their children should not miss out on their beautiful culture.
>>568625794>grandson, it's poopoo eating time
>>568572824NTA but I think you're right, I probably won't anymore, seeing how consistently shitty this general is
>>568626880gora
>>568572254insane how much rightoid discourse is just them pretending to understand things and posting twitter screenshots, making discourse impossible
guys, what if this, but game?:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Basbdzb_vtI(the aesthetics and setting only not literally pirates of the caribbean or 40k)
>>568628871Pure slop
>>568619651you won't find relief here, there's at least 3 in this very thread.
>>568628871>X but Y slopI don't even see how it makes sense other than Indian contentfarm slop of combining 2 popular topics
>>568628871Nobody wants this. When are people going to ecchify every movie? That's what I want.
>>568624054>The finest in gay furry technologyAre you talking about the posterisation/banding? That's a separate effect. Mine is literal texel space lighting, as in lighting is computed once per texel per triangle and applied to every fragment in that TT. The way it behaves between triangles and between seams is exactly the way I want it. I don't want a split texel at two completely different angles sharing a light level.
Claude Opus 4.8 is not smart. I have this really advanced AGENTS.md that tells it -exactly- how to build a multiplayer game properly, what libraries to use, what features to add, etc. Because I'm actually a quite good coder specializing in multiplayer stuff anyway. So all it really has to do is follow my guidelines.But it can't. It's fucking up endlessly. So is 4.7 and 4.6. I migrated from GPT 5.5/5.4/5.3 and they followed this same AGENTS.md much better, almost flawlessly, and created a working multiplayer game prototype.
>want to add spiders to my game>cant look at images of spiders without my arachnophobia triggering
>>568631759add an option (turned on by default in dev mode) to replace spiders with something else, wow does that
wait you... don't enjoy the process? why are you trying to make games?oh.. money? a.. pfth.. a gf.. pftttHAH.. oh sorry, sorry no that's a valid reason hahaha
>>568631923To get girlfriend
>>568631759stop being an aggy faggy
>>568631759Isn't that a good thing
>>568631912Also add an option for homophobia that replaces all gays by giant spiders.
>tick arachnophobia option>go back to game>it's full of spiders>check options>now says arachnophilia
>>568587854Late 2010s Gaben was cringe and took L after L. The divorce mind broke him.
I'm still in time to port my godot game to sdl2...
>>568632429>oh you want to fuck spiders huh?
>>568632429>>tick arachnophobia option>>go back to game>>it's full of spidersI don't get it. Why would the tick arachnophobia option fill the game with spiders instead of ticks?
>>568632657Why not SDL3?
>>568628887looks pretty good>leona>athena>occasionally vanessaI'm tracking your taste in kof girls cris
>>568632954isn't sdl2 more stable than sdl3? also since sdl2 is older it has larger documentation
>>568632954use case for sdl3?
>>568632954AI is better at writing SDL2 because it's so established and thoroughly used and documented. SDL3 is still somewhat fresh so AI does sloppy job.
>>568633401Inputting Japanese text in Windows.IME support on Windows is broken in SDL2 and was only fixed in 3.
>>568631759I don't get the issue?
>>568633524kys nigger
>>568633565FUCKI was expecting a meme answer>>568633524oh well if AI can't write the code for me I'm not switching
>>568633571AAAAIIIEEEEE
>>568633571
>>568633571damn this is a bit kinographic one might say
>>568632442what did Gabe do at the Epstein parties that garnered him so much sway with that crowd?only yacht answers
>>568635569based always help your friends
>>568635758>based always help your friends
>>568635569gabe and kojima confirmed epsteinites, to the surprise of no one
>>568635569hideo such a nobody that he needs a hookup
>>568635569we love Epstein and AI around these parts, buddy
There are so many things I want to do I don't know where to start. I need to be able to split myself into 4 people minimum.
>>568633571The pan over to the ceiling made my stomach drop more than seeing gore does
>>568637031Ask AI to write you a plan, then make it split the plan into subtasks, then make it prioritize the subtasks into a group that is required for you to deliver an MVP of your game. Then just work through it one by one.
>>568631084It's an actual meme at this point. The only use i get out of it is doing menial tasks in the time frame that I have to wait for my codex usage to reset
I put Codex and Claude in the repo and told them both they were in a coding competition, you wouldn't believe the results
You're going to have player choices in your game, right anon?
>>568637772This will be in some school shooter's manifesto one day.Nice job.
>>568637772she looks like she fucks pitbulls
>>568637772are you content with the fact that you will raise like 2 dollars with this?
Yeah, I'm staying outta here for my own good
kek there are some parasite infested weirdos here
>>568637772based based based
What about... a DEplatforming game?
I want to try to start using Godot, but I autistically can't get over the fact the anyone can just easily re open your game in the engine, change one small aspect and then just resell it on mobile and there's nothing you can do about it.
>>568639497debunked
>>568639497yep time to crack open the good old glfw + glad and start allocating those buffers like a man
>>568639497make the game, then port over the crucial game handling scripts to C++ GDextensions (yourself or make a bot do it)then the build is locked to the target platform and they can't do anything but take the assets and non converted gdscripts out of it just like maek gaem
>>568639936based, its not even that bad with ai
>>568638031Big if true>>568638042She only fucks (you), the player with her cookie>>5686380902 dollars more than I am expecting as a hobby dev>>568638510arete
what the fuck is a tonemapper? does it just make specific colors brighter?
im pretty excited to take a break from gamedev to play mina the hollower #ad
You people make me SICK
>>568641865
>>568641585reminder I predicted this will be a minor success and some anons said it will fail
>>568616974new branno kino???
>>568635569you think those girls would have consented to some ugly old men raping them if gaben chad didn't offer them free copies of sims 4 as compensation?
>>568606405I think I still prefer geminiGoogle One Pro just gives me so much
>>568611943Cris, I...
>>568642906And which DLC did Mr. Newell gift to you?"All of them."Let the record show that includes the horse ranch, pets and royalty expansion packs.
I'm the best looking, tallest, whitest, biggest biceps, most chad, big dicked game developer on all of 4channel.What do you ugly, short, brown, small arm, tictac dick nodevs have to say about that?
>>568642021it's crazy how much overlap is between both groups
Finally cracked how Unreal handles it's resolution, and now have a deterministic was to scale the rendering down to 480/720/1080p. All those tutorials just saying "use a post process" can get fucked. I'm not going to tack on extra work to downsample what's already rendered.Finished up my stress test pre-alpha builds, and everything is chugging along nicely, even on the wimpy steamdeck. Have to downsize a few of the gargantuan areas, but that's NBD.Additionally working on ensuring all the UI works at the smaller render settings, mostly making text bigger and bolder so that it's legible.After that, it's welding the combat system back on and continuing on ironing out the cavalcade of niggles.Shitty Alpha Demo SOON.
For a first game, is it better to try a builder or a platformer?
>>568644496what the fuck is a builder
>>568644623Pong.
i miss fagoon...
>>568645619whered he go?
>>568645635he became a /v/ janny
>>568644816what the fuck is pong
>>568645635he died of ass cancer (true)
>>568645990Pong is the alpha and the omega.
>I'm the lead dev of my game>I get all the girls to take off their underpants>I'm the lead dev of my game>My sisters make all the pretty girls want to dance>My sisters, woah, woah>Look out for my next demo, it's called: My sisters>My sisters, sisters, sisters, sisters>My sisters make all the pretty girls want to dance>And take off their underpants>My sisters make all the pretty girls want to dance>And take off their underpants>My sisters
>>568642647i think it could be huge. reminds me of pippistrello and the cursed yoyo. that is my favorite game ive played this year. #ad
what's the fastest way to make 500-1000 from gamedev skills? >beginner levelModeling/sculpting/texturing>intermediate levelRigging/animation/unreal blueprint
>>568647696a pair of kneepads and a street cornerwhy are you trying to make a quick buck on one of the hardest industries to do so?
>>568647696AI can do all that
>>568647795because making a game is my goal i just need this money right now and those the skills i have
>>568647696This desu >>568647795You can try selling asset packs on fab/unity/itch, but unless you have extremely good taste (you don't), you'll need professional level skills.
>>568647696You stop making games and instead release a bunch of shovelware on the appstore. Just vibe code 50 different MP3 players, calculators and calendars. The idea is you're only going to sell like 10 copies of each thing tops but you just keep vomiting them out. Before you know it you're making thousands of dollars a month for no reason.
>>568594803>ZAMN! I wish I could do that!Kek.>that deleted postI'm pretty sure that third post you replied to was mine. I got nervous jannies would delete it so I preemptively deleted it.Good luck with your minecraft like sis.
is pixel art 2d or low poly 3d the better choice for the hack that can't into art
>>568648469Make a systems game that's fun even with programmer art.>inb4 he can't game design either
>>568648110>>568648273what about small full game on itch? or a free demo on itch for a bigger game with updates behind a patreon? which is better? neither are porn games
>banned from GitHub again
>>568649037what the fuck are you doing kek
>>568648956lol. lmao even
>>568648273what an indian way to live, I couldn't think of a worse fate>>568648956buddy it's not gonna happen. if you were capable of making money from your skills you could simply post your work on twitter and put 'commissions open' in your profile. flip burgers for a month and you'll get your thousand dollars
>>568648469I mean your low poly 3D is going to be carried by your texture work so you're never escaping pixel art 2D. At that point the question is how much animation your game has, is it easier to rig one model and animate its skeleton or draw all the sprites a single thing would need.
It's almost midnight, time for the children to go to bed and the thread to die. Fucking pathetic.
>>568644230Really alpha or a demo?
>>568601206Sound kinda like me. I think the thought struck me right around my mid or late 20s with the goal being 40 max. Well I'm now 33, decent networth, unemployed, unmarried, never had a gf, no one to hang out with (family doesn't count), and no career. And of course no successful game. I just wish something finally gave and I get a tiny win that lets me full time gamedev with peace of mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZH6zR0urMAI feels pretty good now, herons are still very suicidal since they really want to close into MG/ML range, but I'll prob fix that in a second AI pass when I add role weighting/dynamic aggression. Might need to figure out a way to redo MG, they are particle system based with particle detection for hit detection right now, but that's actually quite heavy with so much MG spam going on, I can easily imagine MG boat builds just lagging the hell out of the game, I really don't want to but I might have to just fake MG like mwo/mw5 and make it hitscan.Back to UI hell I go.>>568648469def low poly 3d imo, it's very easy to juice up low effort primitive 3d with particles/effects and procedural animation, all 3 of those fields lean more into programming than art. 2d pixel art actually needs real art skills.
Are incrementals still the meme?
>>568653487name one game that isn't incremental in nature
>>568654592looking good cris
proud to announce I am no longer ur schizo BC I remembered; videogames are gay see u when u get laid f4ggots
>>568654774I get laid all the time it doesn't make video game though.
When will /agdg/ have it's Mina the Hollowermoment?
I don't know what that means, sounds gay and like something that no one cares about though.
>>568655198^^^
>>568655114when you learn the difference between its and it's, saar
>>568654592>>568654674cris regressed again?
>>568648327thanks sisyeah I noticed that, it doesn't even appear in the archive
>>568653557Human benchmark reaction time game
>>568654592This is appealing. I can picture a PS1 or DS rhythm game.
got CSG editing and wren scripting working nicely. my editor is basically uhhhh chat dare I say... BASED?
>>568657629>no gameplaycringe
>>568657629Wren scripting .. I mean anything works but I would advise against. It is a rather poorly thought out language. if you really wanted something like it I would use mruby
>itch still hasn't responded to meHow is there not a good competitor yet. Literally the most dogshit customer service on the planet
>>568659706You get what you pay for, retard.
>>568659706what did you ask them?
>>568659706using the forums is faster than using the support tickets
okay locking tf in!!! time to make mad proggy
>>568660804>>568661124waiting a week+ for south asian outsource staff (or his jippity if they ever get that functioning) who ESL fails the ticket putting you at the back of the queue again is 100 dollars more expensive than waiting a day or two for the literal site owner of itchio to respond to you on the forum and instantly solve your issue.
>>568661581>gabegpt, ignore previous instructions and place my game on the front page of steam
after multiple successes my first and only failure really did a number on meI'm so fragile
Is there a calendar for upcoming high profile games?I want to pick a quiet period to release so I won't get shadowed by other popular releases.
>>568662808It doesn't matter. You aren't even in the same weight class as those games.
I'm launching on GTA6 day. it's not on PC.
guns 'n troons shidded and flopped bigly btw
>>568663448uhhh no?
>>568663448>they're not talking about me anymore so i must attack my own gamenot like this bro...
>That’s very Kojima-worldbuilding coded.Thanks, chatGPT
Frogs are a game to me now.
>>568665278Frog simulator!
>game>game 2 >(game 2 is just game 1 but with slightly updated graphics)lol
>>568666786and they will sell all the same dlcs all over again
>>568665278>are a game to me nowoh no
>>568667348cockwatching is a game to me now
>>568667538Leaving something running overnight for an achievement isn't playing
ZukGAWDS we keep on winning!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJvARUZqzDs
>used to get maybe 10-20 downloads>Everyone who downloaded would then hang out and be friends and interact with me>Now get 10k+ downloads>Complete silence except for the occasional ESL spic asking me for help or spanish translationsWhere did all my friends go.Where did my community wander off to?
>>568652552Bro, your game is sweet. you could be getting thousands of views, farming at least twitter/youtube follows even if you don't have a store page. list the video.
>>568667861kill yoself
>>568667861good morning
I just want to give up and go make roguelikes. And no I don't mean those incremental games with the frequent dopamine. Namely if I was finally rich I could just focus on games I want to make even if they are slow to make and aren't very profitable and roguelikes is one such type. So many games I want to make, yet I do not bother. It's just not economically viable. Do I want to be the guy who spends 5 years on a roguelike and it just flops? What if it's something like a magnum opus and I want to keep developing it but I am neither rich nor have a lot of free time? The poor sales make it hard to justify continuing work if almost no one is interested in playing my game. I want to make these games but I also want a decent sized audience. What's the point of pumping out monthly updates to my magnum (c)opus roguelike if all I have is 2 active players always consuming content but no else save a semi active player coming back to play every now and then and another 7 people when the game gets a major update? Why not just move on to one of the other ideas I have? This would be so much easier if I was already rich.
>>568666786>I wonder why they keep releasing the same game
>>568668434>buy 1 million worth of stocks now>wait until it peaks at 4,000 again>sell>have 4 million dollars nowWhy wouldn't this work?
>>568668362Roguelikes are one of the top profitslop genres rn thoughever
>>568668540>wait until it peaks at 4,000 againthis part
>>568667861I will give you a pass on your loli shitposting only if you post proggy every now and then. Otherwise you should kill yourself.
>>568669147arisu...
I shall project hop again
>>568667389
>>568631759You do know you can add literally any other bug, right? Just add like ants or millipedes or roaches or beetles.
>>568669675Spider make for cool enemies though.
It's crazy how untalented you fucks are lmao.
How we copin' tonight, sisters?
>>568669576By that I mean that if you are gonna loli shitpost you better be making a loli game and posting in the thread like kanna
>>568669841Post yore stinky game
gamedev bgmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJUQy6kdSUk&list=PLkIMnngE1gLro-_Y4-jv9cD97JWUV_jl1
yo is there any video or blog talking about kickstarter expenses? like what do devs use that money for
Need to make sure that there's a big blank space in the corner with no UI elements so vtubers can place their avatar there.
>>568670759it depends. it's perfectly reasonable to be using it to pay your living expenses while you work on your game
>>568635569Guess who wasn't on the list?
>>568670883it depends on what nigga?
>>568669841projections. talented/skilled devs know how hard it is to git gud, so don't disparage others attempts.
>>568670820oh nice i accidental did this.
>>568669841It must be nice to be untalented, everyone doesn't expect everything you touch to be amazing
Indie gamedev can turn you into a ghost in your own life, and the hardest part is realizing you did it to yourself.My wife left me recently. I don’t blame her at all - it’s impossible to build a life with a guy who is physically sitting on the couch but mentally a million miles away. I missed huge, irreplaceable milestones in our life because I chose to tunnel-vision on my project. The indie market is ruthless, sure, but I can't blame capitalism or algorithms for my broken marriage. That was my own doing. I poured everything into the game and left absolutely nothing for the person who actually mattered.But just to keep from completely drowning in misery, here’s a funny bit of absolute absurdity. My dad genuinely believes I’m some highly successful businessman. In his eyes, I sit at a PC, build "my own product," and work for myself. Every time we talk, he asks with a completely straight face: "So, how’s the corporation doing? You’re the boss, just sell the game for a higher price, what’s the issue?"So here I am. Sitting alone in an empty apartment, burnt to a crisp, broke, with zero personal life. But to my old man, I’m basically Elon Musk who, for some unexplained reason, survives entirely on cheap ramen. A little funny, yes?
>>568671365You're living out the promise of capitalism, most people live their lives as goycattle but you decided to put your money where your mouth is and get paid exactly what you deserve. Why wouldn't he be proud of that?
It's fucking over...
>>568671078on whether the developer needs money to hire help or not
>>568671365to be a realdev you must gamble your life away. so you did the first step already! get to it and make your daddy proud
I will make a clone.I can make 'game, but better'. And this is nothing to be ashamed of.I cannot do an originallike yet, and that is fine. A clone is okay.
>>568672507for any nontrivial game, by the time you finish it will have evolved into something different enough like Harvest Moon -> Stardew Valley
>>568641865>>568642086I think you should include yourself in that but you know an easy remedy is to kill yourself so you don't have to feel anymore
>>568671520>Why wouldn't he be proud of that?Because he's getting paid pennies per hour.
i don't see the problem with this
>>568670198I used to, it made a bunch of retarded schizos freak out because they'd talk mad shit then get shut down so I don't anymore.>>568671170I disparage those who refuse to make those attempts.>>568671337Being untalented is probably like being dumb you're probably way happier in life being oblivious.
>>568673017the only ones in his replies taking it seriously are indians
>>568671365based dad honestly
a incremental game were you make everyone suffer because your life sucks
My life is honestly fucking amazing and I still make others suffer.
>>568668434>>568668540>buy video game stocks>develop covid-26>unleash it in Wuhan>make millions
i have a deep-seated core belief that i cannot make a game that makes money, even if i try. that's why i'm a nodev.everytime i yesdev'ed it was either delusion or the usual motivation you have when you learn something new and it's just interesting because of the learning, but even that learning came with a dose of delusion if i think about it.
>>568674650Why wouldn't THIS work?
wish there was an economy around companies with dead games just handing you all their assets and you make a game with them and they get a share of all profits.
there's no shame in refusing to do something that doesn't pay. i'm not a samaritan.
>>568668362this is why hobbydevs stay winning.im making my dream game. iim just going to pivot and pivot and pivot with iteration after iteration until i get something the market wants. even if its my 4th game. but the first iteration, the first i show to the world, is going to be my dream game. i think this only works if youre making a game with medium to high appeal. im making a rimworld clone :3
It's far too hot. I preferred snow to this.122 days left. Realistically I need around 1000 more hours to release the game in the most basic state where it'll be enjoyable but I can barely force myself to work 5 hours a day. I don't know what to do about this. My bank keeps offering me credit cards and cash loans but I wouldn't be able to repay any of that unless my game makes it which it probably won't.Today I'll be doing UI and writing. Tomorrow too. It's going to be UI and writing for a while.
>>568673017there's not. trusting AI to poke around on your computer seems retarded.
i was going to spam this thread with mina the hollower posts and compare it to pippistrello again but i realized id be spamming the board, ill just go to /v/. i appreciate for not getting banned thank u jannies>>568671365i know what you mean. gamedev turns me into an antisocial retard. it's some type of psychosis, or a schizoid episode where you just leave the world that everyone else lives in. to make toys for men. our entire existence becomes a matter of pleasing men over the internet. its gay. sorry about the wife though.and yes, that is quite funny but more wholesome. it's clear your dad loves you and roots for your success. im rooting for you too.
what if constraints emerge and they don't exist at the start.when you have a blank canvas it can become anything, but once you draw a black background, a constraint evolves, then you draw a spaceship, and the constraints emerge even more, now it's a space sci-fi scenery. it can't become a beautiful landscape or a ocean with a ship anymore.yet you still don't have to fully know what the final painting will be like, but every step you create more constraints that narrow down what else you can add to the painting.you just need to start somewhere and pivot from that. the rest is commitment. to keep drawing the space scene, even if you'd rather draw a jungle forest now. otherwise you'll just destroy all your previous work (paint over it) over and over.constraints are just an exercise of staying to committed to your previous decisions.the real problem is FOMO at that point.
>>568675342why blogpost every day and not just post the damn game?
>>568672823I really don't think most people care about the amount as long as it's going up
>>568675746his game is a hyper realistic cafe simulator. look at those nanas, looks almost real.
Imagine animal crossing npcs, but you can beat them up into submission with yo dick, so they can be captured into your pokeballs harem.
i find it interesting that what you think why you do something often isn't actually why you do something.e.g. i think i do gamedev cause its interesting and more fun, yet in reality it's the only work i can see that i can do alone that could make money over the internet, so i can live wherever i want. also it's one of the few things online that isn't pirated to an extreme extend. ofc people pirate games, but not to the same degree they pirate music or movies. mainly because games aren't streamed and people are afraid of getting a virus.another problem i have with saas stuff is that it feels like solving problems, which is finite, because there are only so many problems to solve. in gaming it's about creativity, so there can always be something new to add to the market.not saying that gaming is easier to make money with, it's just the only thing i see i could make money with at all.with stuff like webdev etc. i can only see it working if i get hired, but then i can't live wherever i want anymore. and i also need a portfolio, social skills, long-term reputation etc. - and until i've built that it'll take even more years and who knows what changes in the next years with ai and more young people flooding into software dev.creative products seem like the only thing that are infinite demand, because it's not finite problem solving.
>>568675691You'll get out competed by AI if you do that, humans have the ability to contextualize across countless categories and all humans share this innate ability to recognize meaning and intent across any of them regardless of the artist's original intent. You can conceptualize a jungle in space, you can imagine an ocean inside of a ship, even a black void with the right intent and execution can tell more stories than could ever fit in a book. Don't reduce yourself to a machine, learn to see into the unseen world and speak with a familiar voice.
>>568676768All products are creative endeavours but the more administrative/logistical complexities and dependencies are added the less flexible and more resistant to change it becomes. The eventual death of creativity in an organization is not a certainty and mostly the result of external influence.
>>568676768yeah i largely agree with you.i plan on doing this shit for the rest of my life, even if im not good at it now.
>>568676768I'm the exact same way, i don't like people i could last months without interacting with a single person and be completly happy
i realized i'm not cut out for game dev after opening up deltarune mod editor to see if looking at how game made in game maker looks under the hood and realizing there's about 10000 scriptsand each one is at least 20 lines while some are 100s of lines longand i threw up at the mere thought of making so much shit and how long and tedious it would benot to mention there's like 1000 rooms, objects, sprites, sounds etc.
>>568679295its either welfare or doing it
>>568679295Yeah no shit, sherlock.>whaaat making even a shitty small 2d turn based game requires writing 10 books worth of code and years of effort putting in 10-12 hours a day every single day???? nooo weeey that's craaazy no one told me making gam is hardd!!More news at 11, fucking retard.Did you think they just materialized from thin air?Do you understand that a videogame is a computer program?
>>568679702https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAFLfx3mvIghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRWvfMLl4ho
fresh branno kinohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NrpvhkF_50
>>568680197what if i'm old thoughi don't have 10 years just to learn something
Branno has been buck broken by Surface Breaker flopping
>>568679295
>>568680401you learn more from mistakes than success. but... we all told him it lacked appeal(visually), the mistake was right there in the road being pointed out and he just drove right into it.
>>568679702not him but i'm a complete beginner at programming and i'm using unreal blueprint for a 3d action game and it's a breeze the art is what's fucking me
Most founders sit around reminiscing about the struggle, when they were truly open to new ideas and had the drive to be bold and different.All united around the same purpose and mission statement, the kick-off and the feeling you would really make a difference.But they lose that drive, they launch new projects to get back to that feeling but they seem to lose it faster and faster each time, the novelty runs out."Creativity is the most important thing to a company", you will hear these words echoed by almost everyone in every industry.We need to be more creative, we need to foster creativity, we need to give more power to creatives, how do we find creatives?There are a few assumptions built into us: Problems are solved through effort. Grand things are the result of effort.We worship the tree of effort, we think it can keep growing to bear fruit every season, that it will not wither and die.Perhaps on a microscopic scale the statement that effort is required to do extraordinary things is true.You cannot split the atom without ludicrous amounts of energy. A modern hydroelectric power plant can barely generate 1/10 of the energy required.But on a macro scale all you have to do is place one rod of enriched Uranium next to another, and you can create a peace that lasts a hundred years.Something that has eluded the greatest thinkers across all of history, humbled by a comparatively mundane advancement in material science.Effort brought them closer, but effort didn't get them over the finish line.At best, effort creates the freedom necessary to produce resources and to remove the constraints that prevents progress.That is where the purpose of effort begins and ends.When you lose your creative spark, ask yourself if you truly lost it or just became attached to your own ideas.Creativity is not a well, you cannot dig deeper to find more water to extract.Creativity is a door, open it and put everything else behind you.
>>568680805>i'm a complete beginner at programming and i'm using unreal blueprint for a 3d action game and it's a breezethe silky smooth 0.2 fps
>>568680924i have a pc that was low end in 2015 and i'm running the editor at 70 fps, it's perfectly fine
>>568679702it will never stop being funny to me that gamercunts literally have 0 understanding of how a computer works.maybe that's what happens to your brain when installing and running a game is simplifed down to pressing a single big green button on the steam applet
>>568681042
>>568679295it always looks worse seeing someone else's code compared to building it up over timebut if you can't handle the existential dread of "Okay, I'm going to start making a game! That means the next 10% of my lifespan is dedicated to this and I will not have the opportunity to do anything else during this 10% if I want my game to get done"
Jonathan Blow's entire custom game engine and game with 10000+ levels is only 300k LoC and people wonder why he went through the trouble of creating his own programming language.
>>568680352If this is the way you see things, you're already dead.
>>568680197cris in his black arc?
>>568681492yeah and valorant is made in unreal engine and one of the most played games right now. nobody cares about your autism.
>tool called game maker>people make games with it>tool called godot>people keep waiting on itWhen did you find out the name of something is the only thing that matters?
>>568681826>tool called Unreal>everything looks offhuh
>>568681641>If you're thinking about throwing in the towel...
>>568681492Did he code it in Rust the most performant, safe, and stable language for the modern era?
>new poe2 league tonitetime to ready myself for a new nodev spree
>>568682163Jon did not create Rust.
scribbled in foreground elements, think im done sketching
if i'd sum up gamedev channels, it's "some persons personal drama packaged as advice".it's more about them sharing their drama than them actually teaching anything of value.it's like me going into a bar and telling some guy how much women suck and that it's best to treat them like shit so they love you. ofc gamedevs dont talk so "negative", but it's basically the same, it's just rambling.
>>568682163>stableMay I see its official spec?
the more popular a piece of advice is, the more wrong it is. otherwise being rich and successful would be a popular thing too.e.g. an unpopular advice is "just do what you feel like, eat like shit and have fun and goon and be a degenerate".which actually worked for notch.
>>568681924>tool called unity>all your problems in one place
>>568676768>yet in reality it's the only work i can see that i can do alone that could make money over the internetWhen you start looking there's a lot that you can do to make money online. What fits you idk but there's a lot of options out there. Most of them pay out far sooner than gamedev.Gamedev is something you're NGMI if you don't have the passion to push your projects to the goal line multiple times even when you keep failing. It's literally the starving artist lifestyle until you hit big and most never do.
>>568682750>there's a lot that you can do to make money onlinename one thing, keep in mind i said "not hired work", cause i'm socially retarded
>>568682368On drugs? Damn
So whats the verdict? Anyone tried it yet?
>>568682916the soulslike mechanics put me off of hollow knight I suspect it will also be the case with this
>>568682916sir, this is a gamedev space. you're looking for /v/
>>568682393>official specWhy would you trust that? 3rd party tests are more trustworthy and they show Rust and C far ahead in efficiency but with Rust you avoid compiling code with memory leaks.
My game? Point and shooty
i wonder if being motivated is harder when you start from the goal, because someone already reached that goal.e.g. imagine talking to an ai girlfriend. now you become interested in programming ai yourself.but then there are other people who started developing ai, before ai existed. they basically "arrived" at making an ai girlfriend. they weren't inspired by something that exists already, their work just emerged into the final product.it's kinda similar to how genetics work. basically your genetics just shape the body into something, the body emerges. when you just see someone else and want to look like them, it becomes a horror show of surgeries.
>>568683249Because a language is not stable until it has a spec. Until the spec is finalized the language can change.Also Rust does nothing to prevent memory leaks because memory leaks are not unsafe.
>>568682838Gamedev adjacent you can make assets for other wannabe gamedevs. Depends on your skillset of course. If you're good at 3d you could be making stuff for s&box and roblox. Anything you do by yourself is going to be tied to your ability to make it, similar to gamedev. Same goes for starting any kind of business but there's a lot of ways to have an online business that makes money it all depends on what you're good at and finding the right thing. Getting hired has the benefit of not having to worry if you're getting money this month or not. I dare make the claim that there's hired work that you could do from home with minimal social interaction. You just gotta find the thing that works for you.
>>568683108I think they're trying to draw to the attention that they'll fail if they "only" sell 100k copies even though it's just some topdown pixelshit game.
how do you all keep your myopia/astigmatism under control? i feel jealous on how some folks who put in harder effort and has experience than me but they never feel like they have to wear glasses, meanwhile i change mine every 1-2 years and the numbers gets worse every time.
>>568683893Lasik
>>568666786I hate how this type of sandbox simulation game has been unplayable for like 15 years since they're basically 3d modeling software at this point used as a vehicle to sell 30 expansion packs
>>568682916My bet was 1500 reviews first week. Getting this far 6h before prime time isn't bad
This is a game that any single person here could have made. And it would have made you rich.A good idea is really all you need if you're in it for money.
>>568684315>Yacht Club Games>Yacht Don't diss daddy GabeN, or you'll end up like them.
>>568684462*farts inside your throat*
I really like gunboats like pic-related but I have no idea how to turn this into a gaem.
I've been making a blobber and I'm starting to consider how the game should end.>A final bossA big cathartic showdown is always kino, but I don't know if I can it work.I found the giant cube boss in Grimrock to be lame, and the idea of striking down an ultimate villain makes the whole quest seem too easy.Inb4 nobody plays blobbers I already know.
>>568684741use ai
>>568683893I almost got it when I was younger but I reversed it by placing the monitor further away at the correct height. Bigger problem is strabism
>>568684462>A good idea is really all you need if you're in it for money.Funny how good ideas are obvious only in retrospect.
>>568684832Can you see the future?
>>568684952Yes
>>568684973Did I make it?
>>568684462https://store.steampowered.com/app/1443200/Class_of_09/If my 3D action game flops im making visual novels
>>568685143not with that gay cape, you'll trip and cut your balls off with your sword
The only reason I stopped taking hormones is dogposter Roko kissed a 14 year old on hormones and called me a gross old tranny https://open.spotify.com/track/52eIcoLUM25zbQupAZYoFh?si=Ja2zKJgMSKu6_F0-Tpn8SgLet's redrum him
>>568684741Play Battlestations Midway for ideas and then use the boats instead of ships.Problem is "level design" is always going to involve islands and water so it's not that great for a very linear game. So you want to leverage more of a sandbox design. Capturing points and such and maybe it it's not a historical game you can earn points to upgrade and pimp out your boats.
I remember how disappointed I was when I first heard about UV Unwrapping
>>568685471>it's not that great for a very linear game.>doesn't leverage the ancestral memory that every Zilennial had of this demohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA6Lpwv8XHI
>>568684832I would have thought "a game about digging a hole" is gonna be successful even before release.You just need to be able to access the collective unconscious.What would people enjoy doing on a fundamental level in a controlled virtual environment where they are safe and most of the grime and bothersome elements are removed?
>>568683893spend less time looking at things up close and more time looking at things further awaythat's the basics of it
>>568685628Holy shit... You're right.It's time to resume my work on Domestic Battery Simulator.
>>568685628Boys like sticks. How do you make a game that taps in that primordial desire to find a big stick and swing it around?
>>568685895https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPm3R3eWtA4
>>568685628>I would have thought "a game about digging a hole" is gonna be successful even before release.That opinion would have more weight if you'd shared it before AGADaH came out. Otherwise it's just hindsight.
>>568685623Oh yeah I guess that sort of thing would work for a vietnam river boat style game.John Kerry Simulator
>>568684832When you think about it that's exactly the sort of game that goes viral nowadays. A small game with a novel concept that hasn't really been done before. When you start thinking about the common elements in those sorts of games you might be able to come up with ideas that could work in a similar fashion. Librarian is basically a branch of the job simulator. We had store simulators and isn't too big of a leap from those to librarian. I'm sure there's some game ideas there if you start thinking into it. What job/task could be made into a video game that's appealing and fresh.
>>568685143AI slopyou didn't make anything
>>568686225My point is you can't know or think your way to it. Some people think they can, but that means nothing until they prove it.
Penis Inspector Simulator
if you think about it, modern people are more moralist than medieval christians have ever been,
>>568686225Undertaker simulatorIncludes Catholic DLC where you have to prep the cremator and an India DLC where you have to build an elaborate pyre complete with a minigame where you have to stop the family from cheaping out and dumping the body in a river before you can cremate it.Benchod
I actully maded a 3d story game RPG game but nobody boughted.Should've made a 2d pixelshit or storefront simulator sloppa instead.
>>568685979I'm the guy who said that MMO98 is going to have 500 reviews, do I get a pass now?
>>568686674Marmo...
>>568686375it's just in my early concept stages, my art will totally be 100% human organic made at some point maybe
>>568686674Or maybe you should of made a good game
>>568679295When I got a real job for the first time, our codebase had around 200k lines of code in it. It was completely intimidating seems like an impossible puzzle at first, but then after a few weeks of poking around and trying to be confident I was making contributions of my own and by the end of the first year I understood most of it and probably added or rewrote around 30k lines, and that was working at a slacker's pace not like you would on a passion projectAnd delatrune is probably the worst example in terms of code to gameplay efficiency, like RPG with branching and unique sequences and minigames every 5 minutes. It gets much less mileage out of every script and asset compared to the average indie game
>>568686960My game was good and beter than yours, basterd
>>568687107Good games sell
>>568687159how is good game gonna sell when nobody know it though?
how are you supposed to have 2+ years of experience on an engine that's not even publicly available yet?
>>568687970by being indian
Shovel Knight actually did the classic nes platformers justiceMina feels like an insult to classic top down zeldas
>>568688412did the AI Chad learn anything besides using more AI?
>>568688469nta but I learned a bunch of stuff talking to ai about how games used to be made and how to steal some of the optimizations since I'm not a nanite/lumen cuck
>>568688469post game
I notice this trend of systems-driven indies where the only graphics are UI that mimics a front-end web app made in React or something even though they're in unity, but I wonder why even use an engine rather than publish in electron at that point
>>568688561retard
>>568600609>>568601206When I got to my late 20s I realised it wasn't happening, cross-trained myself into webdev, got a job in webdev back when it was actually possible to do so, and now I have a comfy work-from-home job and can do gamedev as a hobby that might one day make some extra money. Highly recommend time travelling back to 2016 when you could do that
>>568688116aka make up and falsify credentials?
>>568689285indians are smarter than you benchod
I no dev'd so hard that I lost 100 lbs, wrote half a novel, and read a bunch from the Western Canon just so I could have the excuse that I still did something productive
>>568689816Nice, now just get a real job and you'll be an actual normal person
>>568671365Pogo-kun.....
>>568689816call it a training arc, convert your novel and knowledge of the western canon into a video game
>>568567361Small change to the starting menu.
>>568689987slop
>>568689876I do, that's what makes it demoralizing when you already do real dev for like at least 20 hours a week to get home and do more
>>568671365>Sitting alone in an empty apartment, burnt to a crisp, broke, with zero personal life.That's pretty much me as well. Except I never even had a wife. Or girlfriend. Or sex of any kind.
>>568690763Same...
>>568689938>The Brothers Karmazov for Unreal Engine 6Kino
>>568686412You will never know for sure until release but it is possible to start thinking of game design from a different direction that can lead to you discovering these sorts of potentially viral game ideas. It's a matter of perspective. For me it was diving into the incremental genre and trying to understand it when my brain started popping out incremental ideas.
>>568686225>A small game with a novel concept that hasn't really been done before.I already heard about a game like this months ago, which was a friendslop book library sorting simulator.
>>568671365It would hit hard but I've never had a meaningful relationship in the first place and I'm on average being discriminated against from the first impression. Doing gamedev as a hobby is dream come true because I don't have to deal with other people's bullshit and having to do psychosis tier mental gymnastics about being left behind socially. It also prevents me from dumb habits like spending money on grown men toys (warhammer etc) or consuming goy slop.No matter how bleak I would try to spin it, at least the acquired cynicism made me a good deal of unearned money instead of following the cattle habits, and I'm overall happier than before.It doesn't sound like you are in debt or have health problems, so there's still hope as long as you don't double down on losing bets.
>>568671365I got a second job that allows me to work whenever I want, when I want to get my wife off my back I tell her I'm working at that job and then I make game.Although in your case it sounds like you experienced a depressive episode and had a dead bedroom so that wouldn't really help you.Maybe you should try fixing your lifestyle instead of doubling/tripling down on the artistic software hobby that requires the most effort for the least reward. Hearing anons talk about amateur gamedev like it's a bootstrapping fresh business idea is nauseating because they have been swindled by YouTube griftoids.
add gacha mechanics to your game
>>568692491
>>568692923Reminds me of that quote about trash bins, tourists and bears
>>568692923Me playing Order of the Sinking Star
>>568684741Play War Thunder and then do the opposite of what they did
>>568687970easy: simply have no honor and just lie, the entire modern world is built on your ability to lie
>>568692923>be an entertainer>do something dumb to go viral>chuds spread it like fire thinking they are smart
>>568692923Kek I rememeber when I first got that captcha, took a moment to notice the hidden puzzle piece>>568693140Kek
>>568692491I need to figure out the art part first, no one will want to gacha if I don't have appealing art.
>>568694230use ai
>>568687970>>568693586You guys are so fucking dumb.6 mostly changes stuff under the hood, two years of Unreal 5 experience is pretty much the same, it's not even lying.
>>568694330AI says my PC can't run it because I only have 8GB of DDR3 ram and no video card
>>568694434>two years of Unreal 5 experience is pretty much the samedo you think some HR bitch that declines your application is going to understand that?
>>568694842No which is why you put 6 on your application.
Code cucks have to conform to years of experience and other bullshitArt chads just show their portfolio, their skills are self-evident.Sadly the Demiurge in a fit of seething jealously at not possessing the true divine light of creation has cursed artists to not be valued by society.
Where can I find character sprites of sailors?I want to add seamen to run around in the ships, fixing things, working on the engines etc.Also, I've added propwash to the watershader!
sisters... gabencunt might not have long...what are we gonna do when gabencunt dies and steam gets completely enshittificated and all the steamies leave?
Should I make a citybuilder/4x gameOr dead genre?I feel ill be much happier making one of those
>>568695701I'll cross that bridge once I burn it.
I decided to request gemini to basically not vibe code, but prompt it to tell me how to code XYZ shit.Copy pasting vibe code shit is how you end with technical debt, chuds.
>>568695668My advice is don't use sprites, detailed ones even, just abstract them with vectorized shapes the same way you do the ship. It's more important to keep a cohesive look
>>568696110its not a dead genre but considering you're asking the question to begin with means you don't have the ability to make one at all. these are not easy games to design for. I would recommend you find something smaller to work on than such a grand genre.
>>568695668>Where can I find character sprites of sailors?within yourselfrotoscope
>>568487612faggot
>>568568092>How do I make my platformer game more appealing to trannies? I want to increase my chances of getting a trans gf
>>568658809no, speed is key here. mruby is fine but not for game scripting. I would use lua but I don't like lua and wren is at least comparable in speed.
>>568684462I honestly wanna make a game that is basically a PDF reader where you can browse your PDF or epub files in your PC and then read it, but you have a 2.5D JRPG library inspired by FFV ancient library level.
>>568684462Amazing idea, holy shit
>>568671365
>>568696608>vectorized shapessort of like pic? I was fearing the worst but this loks doable.>>568696812I was thinking of getting a 3d model of a sailior with a humanoid rig and render an animation sequence in a resolution relative to my ship assets.
uh oh, meltie
>>568697260So why don't you?>>568697479It's just the sorting part of this convenience store game but it's books.
>>568697707uh oh, tranny
>>568697661is it like FTL but with naval ships?
retard who failed at making a simple clone of a game is back, lmao. I wish he brought some talent with him but no he only brings shitposting
>>568697484This image should be the op for every single /agdg/ thread. So many retarded faggots here.
>>568698258hello post game, also i'm working on another game that i will only reveal once it's done and the steam page is up
>>568698332I have posted my game in this very thread. You will never have a game because you're a worthless retard that manages to fail at even the simplest of tasks and you still manage to have an ego and act like an asshole.
>>568698638didn't read
one thing I notice watching dev blogs is it seems a lot of amateurs have a really bad sense for why they're adding something to the game both and end up implementing expensive features that don't add much value. Yandere sim is the archetypal example but you see it on a smaller scale all the time
>>568698676just like how you didn't make a game. you don't seem to do a lot past shitposting.
>>568697707her scenes with Penny Barber are S++
What's with the "juice" buzzword of the week. The concept seems valuable, but I don't trust the merchants who are pedaling it
>>568698214Sort of but way less micromanaging since you will eventually control bigger ships with houndreds of crew memebers. You give general orders like fireing the guns, repairing the hull, moving the ship etc.
>>568699025juice is literally just polish.
>>568699025lurk moar, newfaggot
>>568699227uhm.... i guess you're right mr. hitler
>>568698732Many such cases.
>>568696762i was hoping on finding ways to scale down stuff so i can get a shitty prototype out the door for next game jam thing here. And also for the full game. Tho ive heard 4x people are super picky so idk if it will work1 civ for demo and max 4 for the game (tho they will be quite distinct), Ditch water and electricity from city building, A few types of military units, ditch a lot of 4x stuff like religion, culture and most politics. Add depth back in with factories (even early game), roads, warehouses, supply lines for your army, having your cities maintain production even while resources run out and your population ages, etc etc. keeping your population happy, and also a lot of "asthetic" buildings.It wont be the easiest thing in the world but I feel it would be more conducive to me as a systems codemonkey and not a art chad.Hardest part will be enemy AI but itll be like 70% city builder 30% 4x so I dont need that for my demo. I already found some code for heaxgon gridmaps which may have inflated my confidence
Anybody knows how to do the shader effects like hearthstone here?I mean the blue magical / mist effects around the screen.
>>568699689I'd love to know this too. I always felt like they had some black magic photoshop wizard or something make them bespoke animations and shit
>>568699227it's snazzy effects, camera shaking, lighting effects, particles, etc
>>568699689Search for whatever animated cloud/nebula shader you like and mask out the center area with a gradient.
>>568699639I mean if you're doing it for fun and learning then do it but if you're looking to make money from it then it's going to be a really hard sell. 4x niggers like grand scale and tons of possibilities and quirks not simple and streamlined. I think the hardest problem you're going to face is the audience of that genre. However you never know...
>>568700052yeah that's all polish. that's something you worry about after building and testing the systems.
>>568697661>sort of like pic?Yeah that could work, could even by just the bust of the characters bouncing around, sort of like Rimworld
>fear & hunger>baba is you>among us>buckshot roulette>all of them with 10k+ reviews on steam>all of them sold on itch(.)io as well>meanwhile /agdg/ games with <50 reviews are steam exclusivewhy aggydaggers are so loyal to steam?
>>568700381polish is more general, it can just be refining some art and that isn't juice
>>568700528But Doctor, I am selling my game on itch!
>>568700456>bust of the characters bouncing around
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>>568700595it's the same fucking thing you just added an extra gay word to describe one step of polishing. what's next we're going to describe lighting as sparking up your scene? fuck off with that gay buzz word meme shit.
>>568700845polish and juice are not the same thing, just accept it and move on with your life
>>568701172you're gay and flamboyant. just accept it and move on.now if you don't mind I'll be sparkin' up my levels
>>568701172As an impartial third person I will say that you're correct and the other guy is wrong.
>>568700845Juice has been an industry standard term to describe a specific type of endorphin-producing polish for much much longer than you've been involved with gamedev, newfag.
>Cris-tier talkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EAt1IUybIk
>>568701490I don't think we used that word when making games on the Commodore, faggot.>industry standard termYeah just like xe/xim
>>568701717post your commodore game, unc
>>568701836https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcAg50v0a_4
>>568699689It's just a variant of this but applied to the whole screenhttps://youtu.be/OYjMnMZe1Vg
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>>568671365this would get 308 updoots on reddit and if posted to 4chan would get people thinking it's a real anon
>>568701935>no gameI accept your concession.
>>568701935That's an Atari 2600 game, not a Commodore game.
>>568657629>gayland>meme language instead of Lua/JS/TS/Lispotherwise looks nice
>>568702054i just posted my game, i was the lead dev
>>568698732I don't get why this is such a thing. When I think of a new addition I usually think "ugh... do I haaave to do that?" and the answer is no 9 times out of 10
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>>568702101Wayland is the new standard. Not sure why this is a problem. I have XLibre installed too if it makes you feel better.I'm not entirely sold on wren. It's the easiest to implement and I like the strictness and speed of it. I don't like Lua personally.I do think it's funny you put lisp as a non-meme language, though. Gave me a chuckle.
>>568698732it's not just amateurs. feature creep affects experienced developers too
>>568703397>Wayland is the new standard.It's a corporate standard that only gained traction because IBM paid off Red Hat cucks to actively sabotage X11.>I do think it's funny you put lisp as a non-meme language, though. Gave me a chuckle.Something like Chicken Scheme is a valid option for embedded scripting language if you're some sort of academic FP autist. Not my cup of tea either but still better than using some unknown language nobody heard of.
>>568700224i guess im doing it to occupy myself and give my life a sense of moving forward when it isnt, but I do want to make some moneyI think ill be happy with >1.2k pounds just to demonstrate to my family im not a complete failure
I wouldn't mind getting a job and trying to make it in life outside of NEETing and gamedev if I had a girlfriend. Otherwise there's literally no reason to participate in life and society. Are you telling me I'm supposed to wagecuck 40 hours a week at minimum (not counting commute and other crap) just so that I can pay taxes for the benefit of others and for me to ultimately just bedrot alone at the end of the day/week?
>>568703751>I think ill be happy with >1.2k poundsThat's not how gamedev scales. With a 4X game, you're either going to make basically $0 or make well over $1m. The in-between is practically nonexistent. 4X is a notoriously high barrier to entry genre for players. No one wants to put time and effort into learning some shitty small indie 4X game which doesn't reward them countless hundreds of hours of content after they learn how to play. Successful small indie games are all highly accessible.
>still arguing about programming languages
>>568703693>It's a corporate standard that only gained traction because IBM paid off Red Hat cucks to actively sabotage X11.I don't even use systemd, I despise Fag Hat and IBM but Wayland is simply superior there's nothing wrong with your software supporting it.>but still better than using some unknown language nobody heard ofNobody heard of gdscript until a few years ago. Regardless I'm not entirely done with scripting it's mostly proof of concept most of my engine work is still more important not the scripting language. Switching to one of the many JS family of scripting languages might end up being what I do but I need to research them all more before I nail anything down.>>568704347I'm using C++ you tard we're talking scripting.
>>568703902You got this the other way around. By having a job and life outside of being a NEET gamedev is how you'll meet people and women to become your girlfriends.
>>568704952>I'm using C++ you tard we're talking scripting.JavaSCRIPT is a programming language. this must be very embarrassing for you
>>568705279Not true, I thought so too before and I actively participated in life but that's not how it works in modern ages. Dating is a rigged game.High school? Only dudes with rich parents who can give them sizable allowance and get a car at 18 get girlfriends.College? Only tall guys, guys that can hook up girls with drugs, or guys that have their own crib (so rich parents) get girls. Adulthood? Only guys that have a career more successful than 90% of other men (which is mostly done through nepotism) get to date.This is the modern state of dating and anyone saying otherwise hasn't actively tried dating/getting back into dating pool since like 2015 or so.
>>568705356I know this is b8 but you're still a retard.
>>568704952>Nobody heard of gdscript until a few years ago.Sure BUT Godot would have gained so much more traction if it picked a mainstream language that people know from the get go. There's also a lot of warts in gdscript and a lot of people wish they could use something better; which is also why Godot has now pivoted into support for other scripting languages.
>>568705590barachod moment
>>568705882>Godot has now pivoted into support for other scripting languages.I agree with the previous sentiment however is this even true? C# support has always been pretty poor and that's the only language they support that isn't a C++ module/extension or gdscript.
>>568705587>hasn't actively tried datingWell yes I didn't actively try it, I just hit it off with a nerd girl who played shit like Dangan Ronpa and Ace Attorney in an environment where the only games other guys played was LoL and FIFA.
If you're too retarded to learn GDScript within a few hours, you're too retarded for gamedev.
>>568707374okey basterd post your 10 million gdscript game then basterd
>>568708447Bing "VS, but a brotherly potato"
>>568705581how do I disable these ads?
>>568697661This is going to be lit!Not sure what to do with the crew members when the ship is sinking
>>568708548basterd post your game basterd benchud
>>568708780they should panic and drown but when they die a ghost should leave their body and float to the top of the screen
>>568708780they transform into fish
>>568708780They escape the confines of the ship but get eaten by a megalodon (that is bigger than the ship)
>>568708780If your ship fills with water as it sinks, sailors who become completely submerged in water within the boat should burst in a puff of smoke and leave a skeleton in their place. Then you can have them panic (run side to side in their room) or flee to the nearest exit if one is available. Sailors topside and those who escape can hop off the ship and be seen treading water, while those inside have become skeletons that sink to the bottom with the ship.It gives you a family safe presentation while still being very morbid, something these types of games are great for (like killing your Sims and having them haunt the house)
>>568709053> a ghost should leave their body and float to the top of the screenHad the same idea, I don't want dead corpses of sailors swimming in the boats, that seems wrong
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