Just like make game!>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>>568814779
>84% very positive (meaning it's starting to border on mostly positive)>one of the top negative reviews is about 'cheevosImagine working day and night, burning out several times, to get your game out, and then some rando drops a dislike because his 'cheevos get disabled when he turns on some random option.Ladies and gentlemen, this is your audience. These people are using the review system to cripple you because of a minor inconvenience. Never feel sorry about financially exploiting the gamercattle caste. They YEARN to be exploited. They YEARN to have their wallets drained.
>>568899473no achievements at all for turning down the difficulty seems retarded, I don't believe the devs are that retarded
>>568899897>DURRR THEY RETARDED!Come back when your balls drop, underaged kid. This is a place for adults.
>>568899473> 138 found helpfulHe is right.
>>568900095wait they actually did that? knowing how gamers react, you can predict this outcome, and avoid it by letting them get relevant achievements depending on how the difficulty was modified. locking them all because you turned on fast travel is gonna upset people.
>>568899897Do you know what achievement means? It means you accomplished something grand enough to be celebrated. It means you (probably) didn't cheat. It means you worked for your accomplishment.
>>568900324It's just a progress tracker for some.
Not gonna have any difficulty options in my game after that tantrum of a review.I'll just make the highest difficulty the norm.
>>568900431That's literally just what Fromsoft does. There's however always going to be some shrieking loser crying that they can't beat the game and need kid gloves to deal with it. You just have to get used to that.
every negative review is someone trying to bankrupt you.every negative review is someone trying to cripple you permanently. want to give constructive feedback? we have a place for that, it's called the steam forums.keeping someone's success hostage because of one feature that you don't agree with is being a selfish jerk.
I have difficulty options and achievements. And I don't give a fuck if people cheat. It's single player. Do what you want, get all the achievements with a hack if you like.
>>568900679>I fundamentally can not see a difference between the person who tried and tried and tried to beat my game till he finally succeeded by the merits of his own ability and the guy who turns on wall hacks and infinite life cheats and breezes through it in twenty minutes while watching tiktok on his phoneYou're a dogshit developer and should feel bad.
>>568900772you're right
I have like 5 good reasons to use UE5 instead of 4.27 but even the crunchiest psx slop made on 5 seems to barely run on older hardware and I don't want to exclude the potential laptop audience
>>568898092they're PISSED
>>568899473Not all gamers have the dexterity to play hard games.t. play SNK games so 99% of games are casual shit to me nowAlso, multiple dificulty options allow to create diferent experiences, so that's also good.t. enjoy both kof 95 and also enjoy having infinite coninues on metal slug.
>>568899473Yep. I don't even like the idea of achievements. At most the achievements, if any are added to my games, are maybe stuff like>Beat Boss 1>Beat Boss 2>Beat Boss 3>Collect X of Item 1 (naturally achieved by non speedrunning achievement hunters over the course of NATURAL gameplay, but a time consuming slog for people whose only purpose is to speedrun achievements rather than playing the game kek)>Do funny thing (inadvertent achievement speed hunter speedbump)Basically normal players will likely achieve all without issue, while those just trying to blitz the game in under 2 hours for achievements and then refund will be slowed down hard by natural progression achievements
>>568899473forget the gamercattle seethe, i'm more curious as to how this fucking shit nearly bankrupted the studio. how?! this is a fucking 2d pixelshit gameboy-tier game, this isn't some 3D baldurs gate tier RPG. how horrid is your team management that THIS can bankrupt you and NEEDS 100k sales to not be considered a failure? what the fuck???
>>568901231Though I will say that locking generic achievements via a difficulty setting is pretty shitty. Ie>beat the game on easy>beat the game on medium>beat the game on hardOr>all generic achievements (on highest difficulty only)Lol that just feels terrible, don't even include the achievement at that point. Then again Im not an achievement hunter, I see annoying ones like that and I am simply skipping it over....unless I really really want it.
It's in very early stages but I extended the runtime map generation to work on procedural cave generation
>>568901243it's bloodborne 2 demake.
>>568901243you don't understand because you're gamer brained and see the game through gamer eyes
>>568901557retardbro... /agdg/ shits out games exactly like that every couple of years...
>>568901243you need to make 300k per year if you live on LA or new york.
>>568901689>consoomeryou should stick to consoomingthis is a creator space, you're out of your depth here
>>568901689link one
>>568901243100k at 19.99 isn't too outrageous, thats almost 2m before even factoring in steam cut and other price reductions which brings it down to about 1.1m and then assuming taxes are regularly applied say just 30% for simplicity, then that leaves them about 830k profit assuming they already paid all the wagies. Assumong they did this math prior to reaching that figure than it's not really that high for a game thst long in development. Unlike Jon Blow whos's probably needing tens if not hundreds of millions just to break even...
>>568901768https://store.steampowered.com/app/2488940/Afterlife_Gladiator/
I realized this is probabely the best AI generating sprites gonna be for a couple years.
>>568901784>than it's not really that high for a game thst long in development.how do you spend a million dollars on a gameboy tier game in 2026? that's just insane levels of incompetence. /agdg/ shits out entire 3d games on shoestring budgets, like peripeteia, nuns and guns. i think even underspace had a smaller total budget.
>>568901812oh you're right
>>568901812You can't be serious. I'll just pretend you're a troll baiting people into hating that game.
>>568901919>3d is more expensive than 2dabsolutely clueless on all levels
>>568901919It's a lot of content in the game? My only guess is they lacked an ideas guy with the vision and were fumbling around trying to get it right the whole time? 6 years seems kinda long, 3 to 4 years is okay. So yeah maybe some level of incompetence. Its one thing for a solo dev or small team to take a lot of time, its another for a "small team" of 20+ developers.>inb4 they had 29 developers doing anything but art>inb4 they only had 1 developer doing art
>>568902180at least 17 full-time team members and quite a lot of "contributors"though mobygames doesn't specify who did what.
>>568901812this game has better graphics than mina, kek
>>568901812This is literally just Medabots Kabuto version.
>>568901868It sucks for anything <=snes graphics
Did art so evil that I had the strong urge to just delete it from my computer.I cant wait to learn animation.
>>568901967nta, and I don't know the full scope of the game in question here, but Landsword and Acrolyte mog that game and they haven't spent near a million, or any money, on their games (as far as I know)
I've been watching YouTube videos to find out what makes a game scary and half these lists are just Japanese porn games.Is porn really that disturbing to westerners?
>godot tilemap layers keep crashing the editor in 2026This engine will never stop being slop will it?
>>568902905well that's just it. you see a video and think you know how much time/effort it should take to make what you see. you're probably off there too, but there's so much more to most games than what you can see in a 30 second gameplay videoI'm pretty sure Acrolyte dev or Landsword dev wouldn't make the same mistake because they actually put in the work
What mechanics should I add to my loligame brawler
>>568903548A rape button.
>>568903174I've done enough development, 3D but I can see everything they'd need sprite and animation wise in that clip, and I watched the trailers and I'm still not sure what's costing them up to a million dollars unless it's the animated "cutscenes" they've got going on. Even then, a million? Were they outsourcing this game to a whole other dev team and paying them fairly high wages over the long span of development, idk. The game doesn't seem very long either. Marketing? Solodevs make stuff like this all the time on no budget, maybe they buy some asset packs at best
>>568901009> potential laptop audienceMake them play on Twitch.
>>568903832it's yacht club games, they had money to burn.
When I make it, I'll buy every shutin aggy a sailboat so normies will never look at you weird for staying away from them.
my game will feature loli characters as a subtle reference to /agdg/
>>568901009Isn’t it just a problem of le tuning? I seem to have heard>ue5 can absolutely be made to run on older hardware (and look like shit)just supposedly requires turning a few knobs correctly.
Top or bottom?Both are unfinished, but basically should I try to add more details in the background at the risk of it looking busier like on Top, or keep it simple but more empty like on Bottom?God I need an artist friend so bad.
I know retards are like, omg, gonna make a loli game, because I'm so le edgy.Well, fuck you, gonna make a real 3D low poly loli game.
>>568905140>Top or bottom?Am I the only one who is disturbed by how game developers are so quick to use homosexual intercourse lingo for mundane subjects?I'll just say I prefer the one above.
>>568905140Top feels a bit more coherent.
>>568898251kek
>>568905259(A)ss?or(B)um?
>>568901108Is this the maid cafe game? It's been fun to follow your progress anon
>>568902647I now want to play this game.
>>568905140Ohhh youre still working on this project. I was wondering if id see you again. I also prefer the top. As long as the background doesnt get more detail than the front it should be fine.>God I need an artist friend so bad.I wouldnt mind doing some sprites for you..
>>568906062Just play a Bleach game that has Matsumoto in it.
>>568905857ye
In the middle of building the game foundation.Tried to do some shader effect for the background because I have no idea what the background should even be.It's tough not being an artfag.
>>568905140Where's the rape button on this thing
>>568905140Top.this looks waay too detailed. you use Ai don't you?
>>568904536Gabencunt gets 30% of your revenue. Then you pay him the rest to get your boat.
>>568905140>>568906195If you two rub your sissy pps together I demand to be able to watch
>>568906315who cares about the background, that looks like a pong slot machine!!1
>>568905259>>568905329>>568906195>>568906620Thanks guys, this is the first time I get an unanimous vote, usually everyone's split 50/50 which makes deciding harder. (Too bad it's the option that requires more work...)>Am I the only one who is disturbed by how game developers are so quick to use homosexual intercourse lingo for mundane subjects?Wait until you find out about my Master and Sub classes, and how I use Gimp for editing. >>568906195>I wouldnt mind doing some sprites for you..The sprites are mostly done, I need UI and portraits at the moment. But rather I wanted an artist friend to talk with and ask his opinions rather than just having art being made. >>568906620>this looks waay too detailed. you use Ai don't you?Nope, I've just been iterating over it for like a full year now. The "Right Bar" is one of the first things I've done in some drunken frenzy over a weekend and then I've just been trying to design the rest of the UI around it. (Big mistake.)
>>568899473Yes, adjustable difficulty was always a mistake
>Computer Science friend mentioned a few years ago drunk that he wanted to make a Vidya together >Ask him about if he's still keen>"Aren't you a bit old for videogames anon?"
>>568905259You are now aware of the homoerotic undertones in all forms of competition, males using males as frame of reference will inherently be homosexual on some level.
>>568907740what would be even worse is if he said sure and you made a prototype and then he ghosted you
I just realized how much easier it is to design bosses than levels, and that devs often avoid making proper levels in lieu of bosses. In Cuphead for instance, there's only like 8 normal levels, everything else is bosses. As a player, I typically resent bosses, but they are really the only way to challenge a player that just plows through levels without care. I never realized how important they were.
>>568906315Looks cool, but it's just bike shedding. You should put your art effort where it counts, anywhere you want to player to look and get visual feedback. Get some references of the real objects your game is a simulacra of.
>>568908161Going through the same thing. My playtime doubled when I made a hard boss. If I just add 4 more, my game will be considered good and long.
>>568908161>As a player, I typically resent bossesWestoid detected
>>568907603It should only have adjusted harder.
>>568907581>The sprites are mostly done, I need UI and portraits at the moment.Ah okay. I actually like doing portraits. But i understand that youd rather one your project to look cohesive, it looks nice so far. Looking forward to the new assets.>But rather I wanted an artist friend to talk with and ask his opinions rather than just having art being made. Understandable. I only have one friend. Sometimes i look for other people to talk with but its hard to find somebody. Hopefully youll find somebody. Good luck.
>>568907581dude the stone clay tablets. they have so much fkin detail, and the lighting. it's just too good.I will remain doubtful about you until I see a proof of work video.
If Ocarina of Time is the best game of all time according to millenials, then why is no one making OOT clones??>inb4 dark soulsDoesn't count, DS just copies the combat and nothing else.
>>568908405I just suck at games and I like to plow through everything without too much care. It's sad but when I was more of a player than a I was a dev, that's how I used to think.
>>568905140How long does it take for you to make a tileset like this?
One tray of useless progress-free blogposting coming right up:120 days left. 4 months or 600 hours. So far I've spent 1265 hours working on the game and no one's seen it or played it yet. You could say it's a bold strategy but that's gone both ways for me, so I'm hopeful. One good thing I can say about the game is that even if I had 4 more years, I'd still choose to work on it instead of some of my other ideas.Yesterday I said I was progressing on an important UI feature faster than expected and of course I jinxed myself, so I've since spent 5 hours fixing positioning bugs. That's where optimism gets me. I should just be a doomer, it comes naturally to me anyway.I was supposed to be having donuts today but I ran out of money so I didn't even go to the store.
>>568908726Waiter! More rape with these progress reports please!
>>568907740send him the lewis quote>When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.Then send him the toy truck achewood comic for good measurehttps://achewood.com/2005/08/03/title.htmlBut don't ask him again to make a game together, that's too much. Just call him out on being childish and jaded
>>568907740In spite, make a viral hit game, and become a millionaire - without his help.
I am going to make a Pokemon clone without types.Am I cooked?
>>568908591unironically its because it keeps getting parroted that its the best game of all time. because of that, any time someone thinks about making an OOT clone they give up because there's no way it'll compare to the original.
>>568908960if you ask for it, then it isn't rape
Do you think the guy who posted his Sims progress in agdg/gedg is suicidal now that Paralives dropped and he cannot compete and no one will want to play his game?
>>568909568I think he was strictly doing it as a hobby.
>>568909742I really hope so because this is the kind of a game where people don't really look for alternatives to play but cling onto the best one available. If he was trying to make it this would be so irrecoverable.
>>568907740all childrens toys are made by adults, all childrens books are written by adults, all animated cartoons are made entirely by adults.most of the time, people make things for the generations under them.
Now what?
>>568910945Add multiplayer. Add randomly spawning pickupables that, if passed by the ball after you've hit it, grant you a buff or an enemy debuff. Add achievements. Add an animation for little dudes sweeping the field after the ball goes out.
>>568910945now you can make an mmo, good luck.
>>568910945
I just spent 2 hours researching the anatomy of main characters from games that I like and compiled a list of numbers / tricks they used in their silhouette design. All so that I can use it when designing my own characters.Is this GMI behavior or am I an idiot for spending so much time on something like this?
>>568911008>Add achievementssorry, I'm not a fag
>>568911116I think posting this worthless post is more indicative of NGMI behavior than anything else.
>>568911069make the paddles arbitrarily change size without any sort of pattern or discernable reason
>>568911068Already did, now what?
>>568911193Well I gotta do something lighthearted in my breaks & I felt like asking for opinions about this.
>>568911116how many of the silhouettes have massive thick (but useless) cocks
It's hilarious that you faggots think I meant "what should I do now too my pong game". I did that in like 3 hours just to show how pathetic all you losers are about 1. The pong demo 2. Actually posting progress and working on your games.You all suck and should be embarrassed.
>>568911116GMI behaviour is anything that gets you closer to a finished game
>>568860767
>>568911449Did you know that guy was modeled and designed after Jason (Thor (Maldavius Figtree)) [Last name not remembered]'s father? He worked at blizzard y'know
>>568911534
>>568911439Yeah but just finishing a game isn't enough. It needs to be good + there are good and bad ways to go about it.
>>568911621:O
>>568911621That's ME when I! !
>>568910945>>568911069Chad
anyway i'm a lazy faggot so ill stop posting
>>568911883*rapes you with the rape button I just developed*
>>568902647game design
>>568911883Good
>>568912073
dead general
>>568912456Sorry we EU AI chads are currently still at work while our automated agents are making progress.
>>568912492... it's Sunday
AI Gods we got caught LARPing...
>>568912456blame the AI spammer
>>568910945What prompt did you use for this background?
>>568911116Stop wasting time and get something playable right now. Don't end up like me, you need at least one level done.
>>568912532you expect godless heathens to not work on sunday?
After using AI a lot I thought about Prometheus stealing fire from the gods.Fire was the secret of civilization, it cooked their food, it brought heat to their forges. The myth suggests that humanity didn't invent fire, it was stolen for them, and it was responsible for their success. As punishment Zeus chains him to a rock where an Eagle arrives every day to eat his liver. The name Prometheus means foresight in Greek, his fate is a cruel irony as he stole fire but lacked the foresight to see the consequences of his actions. The liver also has significance, in the ancient world the idea that the brain was responsible for all your thoughts was not common and it was often thought that organs were responsible for certain emotions or thoughts. The liver like the name suggests was responsible for the drive, the lifeforce, desires, and passion.I wonder if Prometheus punishment was physical at all, his act of stealing Fire, even to give it away freely without earning the secret of fire through knowledge and wisdom. Perhaps that is what killed his drive and passion for life, Prometheus was a Titan, an immortal that would regenerate his liver each day. But maybe it serves as a metaphor for waking each day a new man, and immediately being robbed of his meaning.
>>568912492we don't work on sundays in germanyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM103vKdI5E
>>568908681You should play quake, and make something similar. It basically fills levels with adequately tanky enemies, and it's a bit hard at first, but then the game starts shoving 4x damage powerups everywhere which allows the player to run and gun down everything since you nearly oneshot everybody with the machine gun. It's fun because the game starts slow which sets up the enemies as a credible threat, then during the rampage as a player you feel pressured to be as fast as possible to kill as many enemies as possible before the powerup runs out. You could explore this idea further. I'm thinking about stuff like a "bloodlust" mechanic that doubles your damage several times as long as you keep killing enemies, or maybe have sections where you need to run around and avoid hits to reach a powerup in the corner of the room.
>>568909568>Paralivesall the races...living in harmony
>>568912492>>568912532>>568912617KEK
>>568914362Yes, it's a fantasy game.
have stamina value 0-100, how to make this affect hit chance and damage, multiplier?
>>568914287That's a fine idea. But the thing I'm stumped the most is level gimmicks. It's hard to pick one that isn't totally worthless and brings enough variety without being annoying.
>>568914545if you want something lineardamage = damage * ((1 + (stamina / 100)) / constant factor)
>>568912842Everything was made in blender
>>568909867Actually I want a Sims that isn't cartoony but rather is like the old Sims please thanks
>>568914621you are so fucking stupid
>>568915174dont be mean to him
>>568915174*perches on your shoulder*Be mean to him!
>>568914621https://www.desmos.com/calculator/jsbekokvotdoesn't really work except constant=2
>>568915278this, otherwise he won't learn
https://www.desmos.com/calculator/m1kuay7qh7this?
feels good to improve my skills.AI cucks BTFO!!!!
>>568915839kill yourself
sigmoidhttps://www.desmos.com/calculator/2tu6ewxjle
>>568915707>>568916058virustotal says the url is not a virus
My background artist wanted a moth girl, so I'm adding her into my monster girl dating sim (Dreadlines).
Held items.
Just had a dream (nightmare) where Eric allowed his wife Amber to do blacked porn. Not a good feeling seeing him become a cuck.
>>568916058>>568914545might just add a 'fatigued state' and drop damage and to-hit by some factor. continuous functions aren't legible for gameplay.
>>568916431Where's the rape button on this thing
Letting Claude make P2P co-op support for my game.
>>568916453She's got a minecraft tit
>>568917401what's that? that's not claude code is it?
>>568918336That's Claude Code generating a HTML document with the plan. I always ask it to generate HTML for plans wit hlinks and highlights because it's easier to review a clean site in the browser.
>>568918547AI stuff changes so fucking fast..
zeldalikers how are we holding up?
>>5689189321500 Reviews EOWcalled it
>>568918932closer to a soulslike than a zeldalikethank god because it means my true zeldalike has a chance
>>568916431Add a wodopom to your dating sim>>568917341it's called the clintornus you nupid stigger
>>568919105that's pretty good metrics, an agdg game or nah?
>>568919105>scamvel knight devsnah
>>568919346It's not, it's made by the Shovel Knight (massive kickstarter success) devs. A forever project that threatened to bankrupt them and was delayed a few times.
>>568898092https://eyeballtank.newgrounds.com/news/post/1630565Posting this here jsut in case
>>568919515>It's not
>>568919515>A forever project that threatened to bankrupt themMaybe if they are not retarded and locate themselves at an expensive at fuck location
>>568919740It's sort of relevant because known crabs assumed they would be subject to the same Algorithm burial they allege other games are subject to. But once again, quality products seem to prevail.
>>568919884nigger
>>568920209
>>568919567>open up eyeball tank's newgrounds page>favorited a bunch of futa cunny posts in his saved for later collection>pedoblud commented "nice" on a cunny rape post>bro is using an Nvidia graphics card to develop nortubel 2>it looks like shit
>>568920424>>568915975
>>568919754>have moderate success>first thing we do it bankrupt ourselves by moving to LA and buying boats and hiring full teams who are local to LA for our dream gaemWHY DO GMI DEVS DO THIS!!!!!Bro Eric Barone was born a nepobaby in Seattle YOU'RE NOT HIM!!!
>>568920841he enjoys the atmosphere or drug addicts outside his office and the smell of human shit everywhere
>>568921013I'm pretty sure beau is afraid is supposed to be a satire about californiaBut then again a crime ridden shithole full of and ran by insane people describes every city in america. I swear to god this whole fucking country has schizoaffective disorder.It comes from Germanic blood, that shit it genetic poison.t alberto barbosa
>>568918932Apparently it's getting review bombed because using the modifiers that make it easy disable cheevos.
>>568920424https://h.uguu.se/eTsdScHb.webm
>>568921876most negative reviews are not about that.
What are we working on today?
>>568921876 they dressed a souls-like in the skin of links awakening. awakening fans buy it and get raped and feel bad.
>>568922517engine devving?
>>568922517Trying to make tiktok/shorts vertical videos. I hate this
>>568922835Something in the middle, I'm using Love2D, so low level stuff is done, I also have physics/lights/animators etc done already in the past, so this is mostly like introducing generic game-specific building blocks.
>>568899473The reviewer is cattle, but Devs are stupid if they didnt expect the achievement-tards to not get mad at this. I'd respect it if it was a deliberate trolling decision, but considering how much they spent on it, I doubt they would self sabotage like that for the lols.Though, to be fair I never "got" the point of achievements on the players side since I am more of a make your own fun kind of person, so I dont know what a good design philosophy is for them. I wonder has anyone ever complained that achievements are too easy? From the dev end its just another thing to deal with, but at least provides some metrics to harvest off the players
>>568922980>I wonder has anyone ever complained that achievements are too easy?i have never seen anything like that, ever. i have, however, seen the opposite. many gamercunts complaining that their "cheevos" are too hard.>but at least provides some metrics to harvest off the playerssure, until you realize that using cheevos for metrics is unreliable because they get skewed heavily by gamercunts who buy a game, launch it and play it for 30-50 minutes only unlocking the first cheevo, and then never touch the game again. it's a common problem on all platforms, that cheevos that boil down to "complete level 2" have a catastrophic drop in players who achieved them. so what good will information like that do?
>>568922647I know. I fucking love it when goycattle trash have bitchfits.
A rage game, but you have a fake vtuber on the bottom commenting on your pathetic gameplay and continuously humiliating you.That's the million dollar idea you wanted.
>>568899473skin this anime loving faggot alive
>>568899473achievements are goyslop caring about them all is for cattle, locking achievements up to "increase the aura" or something is extremely gay and deserves a negative review.
>>568900174>> 138 found helpful>He is right.dilate
>>568923928bro it's just a stupid gamercunt you're responding to. it's not sapient, leave it alone.
my game wont have achievements and the moment steam makes achievements mandatory is the moment my game wont be on steam
im going to give people achievements but then delete all of them at the end of the game so when you beat the game you have 0 achievements
achievements are worthless on steam. anybody can unlock any of them at any time with SAM without even playing the game. unless valve fixes this they're meaningless.
>>568924007your game is actually at a significant disadvantage if it doesn't have "cheevos" on steam. i'm not even talking about the rabid steamies who get mad about games not having them, i mean that your game will literally be indexed less and seen by valve's algos as "untrustworthy" if you don't have cheevos, i imagine a game without cheevos is also never going to be eligible for trading cards.
>>568923618Make it a femboy vtuber and he jerks off his fat sissy cock whenever I do well and laughs derisively at me when I fuck up and you've got a pirated copy sold.
Eric should be playing Mina as research for ConcernedApe's Haunted Chocolatier
Achievements are great because there are people who want to 100% every game even if they're easy. You can literally just add 100s of achievements to your game and extend the average play time of your game and let the algorithm favor your game. You would be stupid to not add a lot of easy achievements.
>>568923894I treat cattle nice. I get them a warm shed, a scratching post, fresh water, so when I milk them they are happy, I don't get kicked. Moo analogy
>>568924413topkek
>>568924383I find these sprites so hard on the eyes. Everything looks like an indistinguishable blur, especially in motion. I can't play this game for more than 20 minutes at a time.
going to have my game give you an achievement every 1.4 seconds so that if you want to get all 5000 achievements you have to play just over 2 hours
I don't know what happened, but after the last windows update (windows 10) my game now starts up instantly with zero lag. To begin with some years ago, it took most of a minute to finish loading. Then I optimized the loading process and it only took maybe 10 seconds on a good PC. Now it's just fucking instant. What the hell. Is it just preloading the entire game?
As a dev I also have gotten all my achievements except 1... It's hard, I'll get it one day. I know it's possible because my bot can get it. I just make mistakes too often.(Music game)
>>568924383yeah, so he knows what not to do
>>568924581Doesn't garfield kart have a 1000 hour achievement? Literally just do that.
>>568923340This is why devs put in the basic "beat the tutorial", "beat level 1" type achievements. You can recalibrate the real percentages of other achievements based off those results. Maybe throw in a couple very hard ones too so you can filter out anyone with all achievements as cheaters or statistically irrelevant outliers>>568924007Based, but understand you are leaving money on the table. Some people simply need to be told what to do and get their pat on the head for doing it, its just how they operate
>>568924714no there needs to be a constant stream of achievements to keep the player engaged
>>568924517Shitty monitor?
>Real-time with pause management simulator>Strongest enemy in the game is not part of the main story and pretends to be helpful>If you interact with it too many times, it will insta-kill 12 playable characters and turn them into his minions and break out>Disables the pause button>Disables bringing up the menu>Disables speed up buttonKinos like this is what turns good games into great games.
Mina the Cockswallower
>>568924383>ConcernedApe's>yacth clubWait a second..
>>568924832Just get rid of the memory leak and how it's really not a 'monster management' sim and how it's actually really fucking trash to play and Lobotomy Corp IS the best game ever.
>>568924956Eric is a nazi confirmed.
>>568924956>yachtwait a second..
>>568924841feel better?
>>568925048Gabe is a nazi confirmed.
>>568924996The combat feels gimmicky at first, but once you master it, it's actually okay.I think their biggest problem is that no one has done an "SCP Simulator" type game before so there was no one to copy from. They had to build it from scratch and were more interested in the abnormalities than the gameplay.
>>568925048Dear god.. they are all in on it
>>568925207I have three hundred hours in it and I've only beaten Asiyah's Sephirat suppression missions. It's a terrible fucking game.
progress?
>>568922517D E L E G A T I O NELEGATION
>>568925510>300 hours into game>its terribleMust not be as terrible as you say.
>>568925510The game will forever be remembered for its amazing concepts. That's what gamers want. Stuff to remember, not fun gameplay.
1h45m for Saturday. Plan accordingly. (3) World premieres and several first looks.
>>568925768I'm working on my top secret interactive PDF file format.
>>568925905It's fucking terrible to play, I said. The actual story and concepts at play are actually masterfully written and entirely worth the almost literal cock and ball torture required to deal with the agonizingly tedious gameplay. >>568925975This guy gets it.
>>568915839>you ludlost
>>568901919Underspace has like a 20k total budget
>>568926117Cris stop replying to yourself
derp
>>568901868post your website cris i want to see your games
>>568927437https://ca3studio.itch.io/
>>568911449>>568899473never forget, we're doing this for them>>>/wsg/6152388>>>/wsg/6147900
>>568927403Wow cris this is beautifulAI chads totally just wonneded
>>568928068thanks :)
I don't understand opus 4.8it writes like a schizo.
>>568927991You look at these people and see disgusting manchildren. I look at these people and see walking piles of money
>>568929039I look at those people and think "Goddamn their fat greasy cocks must absolutely STINK" and then I cum a little bit.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Dijkstra map debug view for pathfinding
>>568926639Source?
>>568930235now thats a good frame rate
>>568929039That guy was like 17 or something when he started balding
>>568930602zoomer bros...
>>568930602The true whitemans burden
>>568899473funny because the opposite can happen if you enable achievements as well (this brigade got the game knocked from overwhelmingly positive to mixed btw)
>>568931419I hate them. I fucking hate gamercattle so much. I want out of this jobby. How do these fuckwits not understand that they're toying with someone's career?Each one of these reviews is equivalent to a slashed tire. Hundreds of missed sales because of petty bullshit.
>>568931419what game
>>568931663>waaah waaah waaahKEK
>>568931663gamers are niggers, the foids were right after all....
>>568899473>>568931419Obviously the common denominator here isnt cheevos, it's putting overturned accessibility options in your game to try and get a few more sales from that group.Just don't do it and if people ask you about it just be silent.I'm not saying you shouldn't add stuff like colorblind mode or southpaw controls or whatever. You should do "accessiblity" mode that's literally just easy mode like what Celeste has.You can also take the opposite approach like Bungie and add auto-aim for everyone.
>>568931708https://store.steampowered.com/app/1660960/Windswept/pretty good platformer. Post game is the best precision platforming I've played since celeste. A few annoying gimmick levels in the main game and a few parts that could use some more polish but still an 8/10
>>568929490
>>568932131>You should do "accessiblity" mode*You should not
>>568932131You people genuinely learn fucking nothing. It's the act of allowing the bottom of the barrel trash gamers who have zero skill to earn the same achievements as actual gamers who actually play games. Handicaps should come with a concession that you are dogshit and should be coddled like a bitch. Because if you use them, you fucking are.
>>568931419do these people not know that you can unlock any achievements you want using steam achievement manager?
>>568931419>"L take, thanks for the money though"maybe don't do this. don't talk to gamers at all if you can help it
>>568931989game recognize game
>>568932441Sir, your reading comprehension?I'm saying don't add the handicaps.The thing about auto-aim was just a joke about Bungies great "gunplay".
>>568898092What is this game?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95Y75VWOyWo
>>568932763Handicaps are fine, they assist people when TRAINING to do the hard parts and actually allow the less capable to play your game without wanting to refund it. The problem lies in allowing 'people' like you and DSP to get the same achievements as Me.
>>568930401
>I'm the best gamer and this gives me self esteem >Wtf you are not the best gamer and you got the same little badge!?!?! This hurts my self esteem. Give me a way to show that I am the best above those plebs!
Is the player knockback too intense far as distance and speed? Visually its placeholder.Took me a bit to figure out a semi-not-crap method of adding directional knockback with pixel-perfection, more effort than I thought for essentially nothing noticeable outside of the major 8 directions anyways.Trying to decide too if the bugs should shout out projectiles upon spawning from the sand pits, in the 4 cardinal directions or perhaps diagonally. Maybe a bit too much this early.
>>568933035why are you fuming
>>568933035>DSP moment
>>568933040If possible you should accompany it with a brief slowdown maybe, otherwise I'd reduce it by 30% or make it so you recover movement faster
>>568930327https://steamcommunity.com/app/1111930/eventcomments/834999789639698883/According to the dev
>>568933156>>568933171That post hurt your self esteem too.. fragile!
>>568899473>Beating the game is a cheevo
Maybe pick up an instrument or something that way you don't have to look to video games for a sense of "achievement".
>>568931419Why doesn't steam do anything about the really obvious brigading like this it's been a problem for a couple of years now. Like valve fencesits to the point where half their forums are just a nazi rally
>Unlocked [Dare to be annoying: get 5000 (You)s on agdg] >4% of players have this achievement
>>568933540the entire internet is a nazi rally my guy where have you been
(you)
you know how new devs are afraid someone will steal their idea so they don't want to tell anyone until they're well into development?well I don't want to tell anyone about my game because it's such a stupid idea I'd be made fun of.
>>568933245Why not just have AI do it
>>568933482>pick the eletric piano>plug it into the midi port>use it to play videogames for the sense of achievementNothing personnel, kid.
>>568933540>how dare the community utilize the only tools they have available to tear the arrogant and retarded down a few pegsI love that negative reviews make you seethe. Especially when they're justified.
>>568933040Looks fine to me. Cute characters by the way, wish we could see them in higher res.
>>568933769basedhope to see you on DD some time
>>568908481Thanks anon, best of luck to you too. (If you post your game I will quietly follow and support you.)>>568908493Thank you for the compliment, but if you want to praise someone it should be Akio-san, the art director for Metal Slug 2. I pretty much just studied his environmental art, especially bottom of pic related, you'll likely find some similarities. Pixel art peaked 25 years ago as far as I'm concerned. (I'll probably release my aseprite files when the game is finished anyway.)>>568908710A very long time. I could probably be faster if I knew what I wanted to draw, but I usually just iterate and experiment until I get something I think looks good. I think I'm a 5 on the apple scale so that's the only way for me to do it.
>>568933769i'll steal your idea and make an actually good game with it despite it being a bad idea just to mog you
>>568933218>brief slowdown maybeLike a decay in the speed of the knockback? Already has one but perhaps I should decrease the decay by a frame and the knockback speed by just a tad.Agreed on recovery either way, its pretty harsh right now. I'll keep fiddling. I want back to look and see just how the Oracles games did it; I didn't remember it being so slow! It felt TOO slow to go with the values it had.
>>568933540>Like valve fencesits to the point where half their forums are just a nazi rallybased. another valve W
>>568933482implying I didn't pick up an instrument to get better at music for the sake of my indie game, true game devs must master everything
>>568933769anon, Balatro almost won game of the year. It's a fucking solitaire with extras. You can't do any stupider.
>>568933482This. Or make a game.
I have spent more time writing posts on 4chan today than writing code.
>>568933876>I didn't remember it being so slow! It felt TOO slow to go with the values it had.Trust that feeling, I meant a full on game slowdown
>>568933868Thanks anon, best of luck to you too. (If you post your game I will quietly follow and support you.)Thank you. I wont post my game though. Ill just keep looking forward to your progress. Do you have any social media?
>>568933840I've been debating doing dialog portraits, at least for some more significant characters. The code is already there kind of, even, since it was a scene input system I designed for an old Harvest Moon clone.
>>568901179guys we have an SNK gamer in this thread, he's practically royalty compared to us
>>568933824>everyone is arrogant and retarded'no.'
>>568934269Yeah, I was thinking about portraits. Having them look this small makes it hard to appreciate them.
When is that bocchi poster gonna post his fat sissy cock in the gif thread
>>568934507when it leaves my mouth (never)
animating with AI is like having sex and then they hand you the baby.- Jorge R. Gutierrez
>>>/g/108946927>>>/g/108946930>>>/g/108946931>>>/g/108946972/g/ is doing incredible things with AI
>>568933040aggy went woke wtf
>>568934778Sorry, I don't know what that is like.
>>568934819This is what AI SHOULD be used for. Pokemon doesn't give us ecchi, so it up to AIgods to do it for them.
>>568934326t. hasn't tried to edefeat rugal 95 BS.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZXtq8vF1YI
what is this one dude cooking? I can tell it's the same dude doing this since it's all from the same country all in the same time frame
>>568935046>Pokemon doesn't give us ecchiThey do.
>>568934778more like watching someone have sex
Why aren't you engine-devving to gain experience? You won't ever make a game just using SDL, but the experiences you'll gather will be invaluable after you go back to your engine.
>>568935239probably a russoid trying to buy boughting boughted your game but the payment not going thru
>>568935340nta but what? isn't that shit a kids show?
>>568934262I have a twitter with literally just 2 followers but I figured since it's my first game I want to see how much organic exposure I get with no shilling on my part (it's very little so far) so I'll avoid posting it until the game is near release since I don't want to poison the data.
>>568935239I would ask support
>>568935389i just use AI. I only need life experience so that my games are full of life.
>>568935417There's an official manga that has ecchi.
>>568935515Aww thats a shame. I wish you good luck nonetheless.
I will make rogue-souls-like mmorpg with great combat and where choices matter.
>>568936210It better have a rape button.
>>568935389>You won't ever make a game just using SDLI did though.
>>568936276No :)
>>568935053NTA, I haven't played 95 yet, is he tougher than 2002's Omega Rugal?
>add post processing effects>implement with meshes+shaders>remove post processing effectsAnother productive day
>>568935053Cris please tell me why KOF is so popular in latam over street fighter. Did SNK psyop you guys? Is the rest of the world simply too stupid to see the superiority?
>>568935389>You won't ever make a game just using SDLlol
>>568935389with AI you probably have better luck building a game out from SDL and shit than dealing with Timmy's Unreal bs slop
>>568936740tekken is superior to both, albeit
>>568936740>KOF is so popular in latam over street fighterthat's just not true
>>568936920Why?
>>568937168Much better movement. I like SF character design visually more, though.
>>568937164as far as I can tell KOF '02 and '95 may as well be the Christ of fighting games over there
>>568937347I see.
>>568937574you have to open your mind to the third dimension
>>568935389Uh I am making a game with my own engine, it's not that hard. Learning vulkan's api is much more enjoyable than learning the shitty UI and schizophrenic organization in normal engines. Things like just having state just be structs you mutate which are then output to the gpu is just very simple and clear to think through, all the whole OOP or event driven stuff is way harder to think through. Especially w/ ai you can have it do boilerplate stuff for you now and with a full custom engine everything is visible, or you can just ask it to explain stuff as you figure it out.If you are a competent programmer I genuinely don't know why you'd use a pre-made engine now, if anything it is more difficult.
>>568935417I like to think they design each character/monster in the show with the intent for artists to make porn out of them.
>adding a casino to my game>want some original games for it>come up with one, create a terminal version, pretty happy with it>wait a minute, this could almost be a standalone game>consider that problems it would face in a standalone format (would need stakes, more variety, less luck factor...)>after deciding all the most reasonable solutions to those issues, realize if I implemented them the result would be balatro sloppa #53 despite me taking 0 influence from balatrowhat the fuck? Is there like some philosophically perfect way to adapt casino games to singleplayer and balatro guy was just first to discover it
>>568936628smooth lighting on pixelated textures triggers the shit out of me
>>568935417Technically
>>5689365452002 is mid tier, I can now easily defeat him or know to how to cheap him.98 is considered the hardest boss of the saga, and 95 is just old snk BS boss syndrome.rugal 95 can 3/4 hit you with a single genocide cutter, and he input reads your jumps, so he basically kill you if you ever try to hop him.Rugal 95 easily kill you with two genocide cutters, which are almost instant hitboxes without attack delay.>>568936740Because SNK neogeo were cheaper than capcom arcades, so it was cheaper for bussiness to import a neogeo compared to an MVS.Also piracy.Kof became popular because of magic plus, which was a pirated rom that run on chipped xbox with emulators.Also older milenials grew up with imported neogeo games like Samurai Showdown IV or kof 95-98-99.
>>568936628Heyyyy at least your game works
>>568937967Unironically, yes. Why do you think Tetris and Pong were award winning? They were the first to do it, is why.
>>568937938>If you are a competent programmer I genuinely don't know why you'd use a pre-made engine now,It takes way too long to get anything started. Animal Well took 7 years (5 years part-time and 2 years full-time) and it's just a pixel sidescroller.
>>568909024>>When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.Nta but damn thats pretty good.
>>568898251I am stealing this idea
>>568938510I might be getting psyopped but I feel like capybaras are in just about every game now
This is the only place i can open without feeling absolute dread. I feel like the progress posted in here is on my level or at most 100% better than. But as soon as i go on twitter i get shown all of these projects and artists that mog my existence beyond any imagination. Thank you all for staying around. I hope we all will improve.
>>568938510they took the luddite path serves 'em right
>>568938510Solo dev as a rule takes a while anyway due to how much one person has to do. How much of that was making art assets? The music? How much of that was just tuning gameplay systems which would have been hard or even harder to tune in pre-existing engines anyway? Also part of my post was specifically in reference to AI, there is now a huge benefit to having the entire game's systems be clearly readable and organized in text which is not something you can get from acutal game engines. It also helps with dealing with boilerplate and other things that could be time consuming.
>>568939382we put the a in agdg
>>568939629this. he should have used AI from the beginning. silly billy.
>>568939382twitter is not real
>>568898251why is it always lilith and freya what's up with these clowns
>>568939382
>>568940405>middle SOUL>professional cakes on the sidesSOULLESS
>>568940508that's as good a cope as any
>>568940508>professional cakes>checks ingredients>2 highschoolers with their moms credit card
>>568940405my cake is at the kids table, the children will devour it.
>>568940082>just be a girl
Progress: added inventory/store UI, going to get started on work orders then mission deployment UI, just gonna have it be a roguelike with randomized combat mission as a placeholder before I figure out campaign/career mode.Also progress video I posted a few threads back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZH6zR0urM
>>568938510that accomplished more than 12,700 reviews, but keep coping
>>568941371Look at likes vs reviews.
>>568941371>guy in real life
>>568941530That's because he went BIGMODE with my guy Dunkaroo
>>568939771>there is now a huge benefit to having the entire game's systems be clearly readable and organized in text which is not something you can get from acutal game engines.There's nothing stopping you from data driven development in standard game engine, it's even recommended in unity as ScriptableObject which is just YAML. Bad/obtuse data structure that only lives in engine as prefabs or scene assets are just skill/organization issue.
>>568942159nah Unreal has waaaayyyy waaaaaayyyyy too much OOP brainrot for my liking. FUCK. DAT. SHITE
>>568941414nice work. is that the youtube channel where you'll eventually reveal the game and post updates there?
Today is columbia election day.hopefully we get the chud candidate winning today.
>>568942291nah, that's just my personal youtube account, I'll prob make an official account for the game once it gets further along and I have a name for it.I don't want to get distracted by social media stuff while I'm deving, already wastes too much time lurking this thread and reading the brainrot everyday.
>>568942461>chud wins>removes benefit system
>>568920672wow he sounds based
>>568942461chuddies VILL be BTFO
>>568920672Futa cunny is just shota.
Any recommended blender tutorials?
>>568943243the one that makes a cube
>>568942723this would destroy cris
>>568943243donut gets hated on but it's fine. you mainly need to learn the interface and generic workflow, and then you can make anything... (badly, but you just need to make a lot of stuff to get good anyway). look up specs for polycount etc for the art style you are going for, analyze other games models geometry, textures etc.
>>568901108I like your game but something has always looked off about its lighting. I'm a 3dlet so I can't articulate exactly what it is. lack of ambient occlusion? minimal textures?
It's fucking crazy and hilarious that my joke progress for shitposting is like the only progress in this thread. All you guys have done is discuss nonsense for hours while I slept for a bit. God you retards are pathetic. No wonder you're all ngmi.
>>568943243Tbh just hop in and try to make something simple, then when you're like "how do I do this? " go to Google/ YouTube and search for it + blender version.
>>568944186claude is making progress while I shitpostsuch is life as a AIGOD
>>568944186I rarely post progress here because you all fucking suck.
>>568943759his shadows are almost invisible. all objects lack texture. no interior/ceiling lights? only window? Ambient occlusion wouldn't change a whole lot unless it was some pathtraced stuff.
>>568944392No it's not
>>568944186you set the tone. this is ENTIRELY ON YOU
>>568944728snailcat can't even fathom kek
>>568944767What's on me exactly?
>>568945148a spider
>>568910945your invitation to pgdg is in the mail
>>568945189Impossible
>>568943243the main problem that I have with blender is that it has gorillions of different things and you end up forgetting how to do somethingfor me it'shttps://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn3ukorJv4vvMwZPLzlajVII2zJd-_BM-because he lets you do certain things by yourself
>>568940082Cruelty Squad and its consequences
>>568943243>tutorialslearn with your favorite AI
>>568942461Keep me posted Cris.
Locked and loaded.
>>568935239prolly testing stolen credit cards
>Bokube in 6 days
>>568938005Me too, which is why I spent my weekend doing this.
>>568946684proof?
Found old design pic
>>568947138risk of rain 2?
>>568898092which aggydev has a baraag again?
