the final day edition>Demo DaysNEXT: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-70Previous: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-69>AGDG Steam Eventhttps://forms.gle/udv759Zeqp5weGw16>AGDG Resourceshttps://hackmd.io/SNd2YQugRG-36CLYc8Og2w>Progress Posting Guidehttps://pastebin.com/0xEt5atn>Helpful LinksNew Threads: >>>/vg/agdgArchive: https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/subject/agdg//agdg/ Steam Games: https://made-by-agdg.vercel.app/>How to WebMhttps://obsproject.comhttps://github.com/argorar/WebMConverter>Previous Thread>>579707446 >Sister Thread>>>/bant/24917433
>>579796431I used to vape a lot but then cheap chinese vapes sent me into borderline psychosis because I kept hitting them when they were empty like a poverty tardNow I pop zyns
>>579795974ERM YOU LET THE STEAM EVENT IN BUT NOT THE BASED AND REDPILLED EPIC GAME JAM???? YOUR SUPERIOR (BETZ) WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS!!!!
>>579796674calm down lil buddy it ain't that serious
post sketchbooks (with your closely kept ideas in them so i can pilfer them)
>>579795974The v3jam is just one month away. Sign up here. https://itch.io/jam/v3expos-world-famous-game-jam-2After demo day we'll narrow down the list of games mechanics/modifiers down to the final 9 to vote on the last week in September. The final list we'll have to narrow down is>Jumpscares>Bare bones>All music/SFX must be from people who've already died>revive an out of copyright (dead) IP>Cliche messages (the real monster is capitalism, etc)>Candy as a collectible (currency, health, ammo, etc)>Creepypasta cliches (bleeding eyes, hyperrealism etc)>Cursed art style>Sexy costumes>every mundane action can be charged by holding the key/button for it>guns shoot backwards so you must face away from your enemies to shoot them>Riddles>Haunted inanimate objects>Setting not fit for horror>Sacrifice mechanics>Sequel baiting>Main antagonist constantly references pop-culture>Red herring cultists/monsters/characterswe'll see you there.
>>579796984I think I like caffeine but in reality it is responsible for why I take midday naps 5 days a week
>>579797246Thanks for shilling on my behalf.
>>579797246>>579795974reminder that betz NEEDS your games in order to get sponsorshttps://files.catbox.moe/9rdpuo.mp4
>>579797787Reminder that the anon that keeps posting these doesn't understand non-compete clauses and whines about situations he makes up.
>>579797924>chatgpt screenshot
>noooo you can't be upset that I derail threads you HAVE to hate my loverIMEAN ENEMY. MY ENEMY. You have to hate him otherwise otherwise
>>579797756Should I add it to the OP next time?
a game where you stop satan from unleashing mosquitos upon the world
>We're closer than ever (arrived?) at prompt-to-playable game. And I don't just mean only playable, these are actually fun games. I bet if someone with a great eye for games used Astra, they could create a viral game within 1-2 weeks. grim
its the same three samefags every thread. is this general really dead?
temp agencies might be the way to go for indies who need money
>>579798894woah woah don't steal my idea
>>579799243I'm still here and I'm just a normal hardworking yesdev
>>579795974I wander forward on my ultimate gamble. I have no choice. The dialogue system is coming together. I'm parched, success is drying up, and soon no oasis will remain. I must outpace the ravenous locusts, there is no other choice. Perfect, a sandstorm cometh, the locusts are ravenous but my path is obscured by the sands of time.
>>579796431tobacco is the greenpilled drug>muh addictionyeah I'm addicted to a plant so what
>>579798930https://signals.forwardfuture.com/astra-review/it's ogre
if your game isn't fun in like 5 prompts max its not gonna happen, just polishing a turd
I wish I had one more day to fix bugs.
>>579801993i have no idea what is happening in your game i just click the dice to try to get a full house or 3 of a kind or something and wager 200 health which causes my health to go from max to max-200 then when i win my wager it returns to max health again
>>579802554Yeah, the tech demo from 2 months ago had issues, I didn't do any balancing. I've been working on a tutorial that reaches the rules and explains those features. Hopefully ChatGPT doesn't go down tonight while I'm trying to bundle the release for tomorrows demo day.
>>579802742when you have a chance please delete all the writing that claude wrote, when i read text like "the road is clear. roll away" or whatever happened in the chat bubbles it gave me fucking aids. i would rather have a dark elf say [placeholder taunt] to me as opposed to talking to a claude skinwalker. even the lowest effort human writing is better than claude's unnatural staccato sentence structure. game is appealing though hope you're having a lot of fun making it
>>579801993I love Maple so much ;_;>>579802554Same
>>579803243Yep, that was all stripped out. Full dialog and story have been written and will be presented to the player during the prologue. That build was a "can I make a Yahtzee variant?" kinda thing.
>Spend hours messing around with Control layers for drag and drop>Learn Godot has built in functions for drag and drop UI
>>579803780give me the details, i was literally just about to get into this myself LOL
>>579804003Article with an implementation:https://dev.to/pdeveloper/godot-4x-drag-and-drop-5g13Control docs:https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_control.html#class-control-private-method-drop-data
>>579804293thank you anon, much appreciated. hope your struggle gets reduced in whatever way it can
Remember this if anyone tells you to make changes to your game so it will sell more copies
>>579804420>no one is going to buy his video game
>>579804420I agree everything is getting too commercialized
How the fuck is this bullshit gooner clicker game going viral?
>>579805316it's interesting?t. watched someone play it for a while.
>>579805316do the opposite of woke
>>579804420The dream of selling games and turning indie gamedev into a sustainable full-time career is attracting more skilled, talented, and ambitious developers into making higher quality games. This is really upsetting to all the talentless artcope NEETbux flopdev losers as they are constantly being overwhelmingly outshone. This is the foundations of capitalism, and thanks to our lord and savior GabeN and the almighty Steam algorithm, gamedev is one of the very few highly meritocratic industries remaining in this world.
>>579805316it's giving gamers what they want
>>579806286hard cringe
>>579806286>he doesn't know
>>579806520Being creative IS cringe. No one ever made anything worth remembering by being aloof and dispassionate. Jobbydevs are far more passionate about gamedev than you'll ever be.
>>579805316
My monitor is 144 FPS. Should I turn it down to 60 while devving, since that's what most players will be using?
>>579804420We're not going to see any changes until game developers call out valve and their dogshit search algorithm that makes it so only stuff that goes viral on other platforms (namely tiktok) sells. Telling developers>Just stop trying to make money broisn't going to work lol
>>579805316More proof that games aren't made for gamers but for tiktok retards
>>579807548Gamers ARE tiktok retards my nigga
>>579807427You should be supporting all FPS settings. It's pretty trivially easy to do in any of the major engines with a delta time and fixed rate loop (FixedUpdate or _physics_process).
>>579807551https://youtu.be/Ygz4855Noys?t=37
>>579807950ideaguys won
>>579807950Never forget Gaben gave open AI 20 million dollars and was the sole advisor on their informal board in 2018.(you) voted for this with your wallets
>>579807950'My needle in a haystack game was built over 4 years as a passion project' said nobody ever. who needs a community for their snipe-able money grab?
>>579805859>opposite of woke>brown (woke) woman (woke) with a penis (woke)huh?
>tfw no gamedev bf
>>579807893Well yes, the game works the same regardless of what framerate your monitor is set to, but sometimes when playing at 144 Hz, it's hard to tell if all the objects in the game move too fast.
>>579808131Open AI used to pursue purely scientific uses for AI. Of course it makes you wonder who nudged them in the direction of AI art and such. Maybe one of their advisors? An informal advisor perhaps? An informal advisor who would have an interest in using AI to make games perhaps perhaps?
why did nobody tell me that instead of wasting my time with blender's node system I could just code in python whatever the hell I need? this is a complete game changer! aggybros I feel full of hope...
>>579808705What are you talking about? That's not how FPS works. Things aren't supposed to move faster at higher FPS.
>>579807950lol let's see how aitards clone gta 6...
>>579808131>>579808734that's enough now put your name back on googum
>>579808831THEY DON'T. THEY MOVE THE SAME REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOUR MONITOR IS SET TO. BUT IF YOU'RE AT 144, THINGS SOMETIMES LOOK COMPLETELY SMOOTH AND PLAYABLE, BUT WHEN YOU SWITCH TO 60, THEY LOOK CHOPPY.
>>579804420>Made for Manifesto Jam 2026. Please consider buying my other games to support my work!
>>579808994I just got high off of this post.
>>579808994And reducing your own FPS to 60 fixes this... how?
>>579809085It allows you to experience the game as most other players will, because most other players will be on 60.
>>579808940>look at this GTA6 clone Fable 5.3 made!>it's a metahuman and the matrix city environment, and you can get in and out of cars(no animation)
>>579808639you say that yet bigger games are still at risk of being cloned. or do you forget the AA/III companies that cloned other peoples games? they've got the money to easily copy your supposedly high effort games just through sheer manpower. and sometimes games that look high effort can also be copied by small teams, who knows if there have been solodevs who've done the same?1. UnrecordIdea copied in Bodycam by 2 guys and iirc both under 20 years old. There's been several more who also copied the hyper-realism.2. PVKKIdea copied in Iron Nest by 2 guys and one of them supposedly doesn't even dev, he just handles marketing and stuff.
Have there been any sisters posting lately? I just got the feeling today to check in on /agdg/ again I haven't been here in a long time again since last time when I also haven't been here for weeks. I just can't force myself to browse /agdg/ anymore.My new game is going well, development has been steady and I'm making lots of progress and my friends who I've been playtesting with tell me it's fun altough they're my friends so..
>>579809074*wait fuck I got pwnedthe hyperlink text is https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/rockstargames?snr=1_5_9__400 hahah
>>579809454is this like your gimmick or something
>>579809327those copies diverge quite(unrecord is singleplayer) a bit and are high effort themselvesstill a shitty thing for unrecord devs, people remembered the viral gifs and thought bodycam was unrecord and bought it up. PVKK is also a narrative game where Iron nest isn't.
>>579809353Sister! I don't post as much anymore. I think it's only recently I started posting here again. Still struggling to get a lot of work done daily, especially with how grim our future in gamedev has gotten.
>>579809454<_< you're that guy from last thread that kept moving the goal posts aren't you? We're done here.>>579809595It draws enough from the idea that if I were in the devs shoes it would suck real bad. My game is technically high effort too but I know that doesn't make cloning impossible.
Have the anti-AI bros won yet?
>>579807950Just need to come up with a better title.
>>579807950If your game is generic enough to get cloned then that's a you problemI get by this by making games so schizo that nobody sane would try to copy it
name a single successful AI game
>>579812897Deadlock
>>579812897bokube
>>579811905I have word from the king!The AI devil machines will be dismantled in a fortnight!Rejoice sisters!
>>579796431what's the least bad way to take it? Gum, patches, something else?
>>579812897What is an AI game? and what counts as success?
What's the best way to launch a game today considering AI copycats?Get it to a release state? Make screenshots/videos along the way of the development progress but don't post them? Then make up some YouTube/Tiktok and slowly start posting progress after the fact or release first then do the dev progress?
>>579813330Just make garbage that no one cares to clone. Security by obscurity. Don't worry, you're already on the right track.
I deved before google was a thing. I didn't even ask jeeves. This is because I didn't have internet.
A game where cute little girls get brutally killed is okay but a little nudity is too far?https://store.steampowered.com/app/2586440/House_2/
>>579813556kanna...
>>579813556Dead girls can't commit the cardinal sin of unfairly competing with Roastie for male attention.
>>579813556I may not be able to have loli nudity in my game but at least I get to have a little loli guro
I do believe claud is down again
give gamers what they want
>>579816517kita...
>>579816517being a dev is a lot like being a whore, huh..
>>579816517Ok, I will do it.
Holy frijoles! Godspeed to the anon who said to draw then pixelize. I know it's far from professional but even results like these were inconceivable to me mere hours ago.
>>579817323
>>579816517What are the odds they'll mistake any tallflats I want to add for lolis?I also want to have a topless woman who's always covered in blood so you can't see her nipples
>>579817323np>>579817965Lolis have a high degree of neoteny so they won't get mistaken for actual children but maybe underage. Just don't make them under legal age ig
>>579816875>those who know
Where do you guys find artists and musicians to collaborate? I'm trying to build a bigger game, but I think I need help with the assets.
>>579818572I just do it all and take longer... and then shelve the game and make a smaller one... my skills did go up a decent amount though, so not all was lost
>>579818572ChatGPT is my best frend
>>579818872Try animating that.It'll look like shit.
>>579818872>looks good enough!
>>579817965Based patrician tastes Anon.
Getting somewhere.
>>579818980I'm regenerating the tilesheet with a minimum of 4 frames and then regenerating the demo, but this is first attempt
>>579818572>Where do you guys find artists and musicians to collaborate?who's gonna tell him
>>579819476I haven't had much luck, but I haven't spent much time with trying that approach either.I'm looking into Pixel Lab, but I'm trying to build my own version with img2img.
>>579819407Cool. Was hoping to see some mongol progress today. Here is how I do it, I begin with a stick figure and mark the ends of limbs with a color. and work out the full motion as a stick figure only. and then draw the forms after. I like 8 frames, 4 per side. which I think you are going for?
>>579819476damn.... is this the power of AI...???I feel like you'll spend more time fixing those up (or pleading AI to try and fix it for you) than an actual artist would if they did it from scratch
>>579819742Attempt 2 you're right most of these are awful but I think that's the wrong mindset. You should just treat it as yields on chips, most will be unusable but there may be some random ones that are usable. Even in the first attempt there were some I found not that bad.https://chatgpt.com/share/6a9a62a7-9d04-83eb-b394-134848a90132
>>579820473>there may be some random ones that are usable0/24 here. maybe try 512 more times
>The new Chat GPT model can gen games with good looking 3d assetsThanks to all the artists that funded and continue to fund AI coding models! Oh!
>>579819476Is this pixel lab? if not try that
Man do I really have to learn programming to make a game? Can't an LLM cover that part?How do people feel about slopcode?I hate this shit, I'd rather be drawing or making more models>Why not hire or work with a programmer?And what's gonna stop them from submitting slop-code if I don't know shit about programming?
>>579821113 this better be the final level or some shit boku tick tock
>>579818572Through friends that are pro artists/musicians.
>>579821059>if ... else if ... else if ... else if ... else ...Most games are slopcode with or without AI.
>>579821059Frontier LLM can cover it now(as of this week). It used to be the case that you had to know a bit, to keep AI on the rails, but now it's better than most senior programmers and will architect the project well enough itself.
>>579821059Just make you game free/open source so your contributors will bitch and moan if the code is bad. Problem solved.
My game is made entirely with AI and the code looks great, the art is beautiful and the game is fun.
>>579821675You mean AI's game, not yours.
>>579821059you're basically putting yourself at the mercy of AI companies if you can't program and don't learn how tothe cost/performance right now for AI is probably at its peak for consumers (a $100 sub gets you equiv of $1000 worth of credits) and these companies are bleeding billions to get your buy in. guarantee that they will slowly start increasing the costs (it's happening for corps already) and enshittifying it even further. what are you going to do then, pay even more to be a cuck and watch AI do your job for you? or actually use your brain"you will own nothing" wasn't just a meme
>>579821816I've tardwrangled it too much, it's my game now.
>>579821234>friendsoh...any suggestions on that?
>>579821907>tardwrangledOk, fair, it is your game.
>>579822010Join indie game joe's discord
>>579821113Opinions on the 700+ games released?Are you rushing to release now?
>>579822447when everyone is rushing maybe do the opposite
>>579821059You need to find a programmer who is excited about your project and doesn’t just do it for money.>>579821429I am afraid also this is somewhat true, at least for basic stuff. AI fails me only when I actually know exactly what I want in terms of implementation/functionality. But if you’re like "ok I need an inventory system lolz" it will obviously work easily.>ok make it so you can move items around>ok make it so resources stack up to 40xAll things that AI will do very easily.>ok implement the Horadrim cubeAI will manage this too since there is ample documentation about the Horadrim cube concept. But if you invented something AS ORIGINAL as the cube was back then, and tried to make AI implement it, without knowing how to code, it might be a battle.
FUCK
>>579823071time to slop up an alternative
>>579823071
we the last humans, making the last human games. t. been using AI for code since gpt3
>>579823071always happens around DDNOTICING
SHIT, it got worse. I don't wanna wake up early to upload my game :(((
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-14jmUtjE0&list=PLQS_Ufk9gFEEjD242-irlYjNSzyATUMpyMan, music is like 40% of the reason to buy a videogame, wtf.
>>579825360Which video games did you buy because of music?
>>579825828not buy, but I 100% would buy if they were on steam because of the music?tohou, cave story, undertale, FFI-XII
>Dude who cares about AI code, its not art its just math>MFW I remember all 3d art and animation is also just math>MFW I have no face
I told AI to add sound effects to the game and it did. I hope y’all who keep pestering about sound effects in the comments will be happy.>>579821880Local models are getting better and better thoughbeit. In some sense the more likely outcome is actually that AI good enough for you’re average use-case is going to end up running on retail devices. Like computing began with shared mainframes, but ended up on the PC anyways. There are supercomputers still but you don’t need them.
Nier, Hotline Miami, ULTRAKILL, Hades, to name a few where I had listened to the music way before playing the games
>>579826020The reason you haven't bought those games because of the music is because they aren't on Steam?
>>579826218kinda, I know is a meme, but is a pain in the ass to buy shit outside steam.
>>579826210>>579825828I'm a fucking retard that can't quote
Shit, I fucking forgot.I bought Tunic, like a big major reason was the music.Tunic actually made me a big ambient fag.
>>579826082It's over. It's truly fucking over, this time it's for real. Coming up to 200 new games a day on Steam and AI just keeps advancing, it just won't stop! No one will pay even a dollar for a game in 2027.
>>579827169Gamedevs who made it in 2026 and before bought real estate and made other investments and their money will just keep making money. For the rest of us the dream is over and time to wake up to a nightmare of being the permanent underclass.
>>579826196>Local models are getting better and better thoughbeit.while hardware is becoming more and more expensivesure there might be a turning point (maybe once China factories start going brrrr) and I'm not anti AI, it just seems pretty cucked to stop investing in yourself cause AI can do it "better"
I'm in awe of my ingenuity and creativity.
What is it about schizophrenics that prevents them being self cognisant of their faults and attempting to check themselves and improve, whereas I, a schizoid/autist can and do?
>>579828696Schizophrenia is far worse than autism.
>>579826082>>Dude who cares about AI code, its not art its just math>>MFW I remember all 3d art and animation is also just mathIts funny because artists really do say that
>>579826082I think the problem is that if you just tell it to recreate game it ends up being an inferior version of game. Not necessarily something people want to play. However if you could use it to create parts of game then put them together into an original idea, this could work.
My game will dab on the other games.
>>579807950thas why my shit secret ;)and it real goud lemme tell you
>>579827169>>579826082game in xeet came out in 2021. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1392060/Erzurum/the fuck are these niggers playing at?
I miss those pancakes from yesterday. Finally paid the rent after being 3 days late. We'll see what happens next month.56 days left until I run out of money. 8 weeks. Yesterday I was supposed to be making some art assets but I was debugging some shaders instead. Another day wasted on unplanned shit.
>>579814004I wonder what their cut is. This might be the sort of publisher that's actually worth going with if they make assmongoloid shill the games.
>>579819476none of these look like they're animatedthey're just random sort of similarish sprites displayed one after another
>>579831508classic AI marketingthey're trying to sell subscriptions
>>579833741Nobleman, Innkeeper and Monk, Traveler and Sailor got a walk thing going on.You could repurpose Maid and Occultist for a different animation maybe Idle AFK.
>>579833960they look like shite
>>579795974Trying to compete in a world of slop
>>579835165the way they look to him is the way he looks to them
>>579835165
>can't into graphics both 2D and 3D>can only program a littleits over for megames are basically graphics
I'm making a steamworks profile atm, and I provided some company registration docs for the KYC process some days ago. However the form still looks like that, despite me already uploading the stuff through the link. No mention whatsoever that I already uploaded something Is this just poor UX from Valve, or did I do something wrong?
Almost done with the fun menu stuffNice and responsive inventory, just have to add tabs, throwing mechanics, and we'll be golden
>>579835968youtube recommended me this the other dayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYttgJiDrjwlong time no see tim
>>579836091Yeah I remember something like this. bad UX
>>579836257I think I will simply start doing some shit painting some janky shit and will call it a day just like he recommends
>>579836091What the heck why do they even use Dropbox™ for this
>>579836436Thank you my man! I'll just keep waiting then
>>579836091I had the same problem, you just have to wait after uploading. the menu is shit
>>579836091Yes, it looks like that even after you submit. You will see a success message in the Dropbox page when you send the files, if you reopen the Dropbox link again that message will be gone though so don't get confused by that.
EVERYBODY IS MAKING GAMES MANGAMES GAMES GAMES
>>579837025Except you, you're making a gaymelmaooooooo
>>579837025We need more games. one day someone other than me will make a game I want to play. one day.
>>579837082you've got a problem with being a faggot?
>>579837025Isn't that great? I love video games!
AI games shouldn't be a problem.Videos have unlimited demand Porn has unlimited demandThere's more porn and videos than ever because of AI but people still make money making themVideo games SHOULD be no differentThey should have unlimited demand too But that's not the case because of one little ole indie company that controls the PC gaming market
>>579836220I'd give my left testicle to have your sense of colors.
I few years ago I made the same joke to a girl who was a nurse at the Mayo clinic and she was like>Huh? No, I don't think so. Why would you think that?AI just gets it and runs with it, even if it's a shitty joke. And (You) think it can't come up with a better game idea than you? It's over. It's already more human than most humans because what makes us human is mostly in the language which exists independent of us.
Cover draft wdyt
>>579838009>just gets it and runs with itThat’s called schizophrenia, yes.
>>579836220This nigga is flying through dev. GMI energy
>>579831745Mind if I join?5 months until my game flops and I fucking kill myself.
>>579838352is that mochi?
opinion about my art?
>>579838009Idk I was using AI to assist in coming up with a plot for a straight shota doujin and it kept having really dumb ideas like having a group of boys be into dolls or plushies I had to constantly steer it to the right path
>>579838527It's simple and symbolic but conveys meaning effectively assuming that's a person running with a gun.
>>579839281yeah gun will be separate thing that moves around
>>579836220>>579838084>>579838527
>>579837493it's because their games have no appeal, they aren't interesting at all, and they aren't making them out of anything other than greedthe coomer generators are at least enjoying their own content, or at least, that's the impression they are giving
>>579838520Nah, minidonuts. I'd definitely prefer mocchi though, donuts are too greasy and sweet, but I hurt myself because I deserve it.
>>579805316I hate that cartoony face so much.Like it's a bootleg Mario character.>>579805859>>579808484Just say "SJW" you revisionist fucks.>>579813556Adults are the white people of age.
>>579838998that's a good idea though, clearly you have no idea how to make an interesting douzinn
>>579805316I am entirely disconnected from players.I look at this character and it revolts meBut apparently it is appealing for players?
>>579840101When I pointed out AI admitted it was a bad idea
>>579813556make a game with every unfairly accepted "trope", and raise the intensity of them until they are almost unacceptable for the people who unfairly accept them
>>579840220Coomers have horrible taste. Its why so many embraced AI slop even back in the irredeemable early days.
>>579839530i liek making messy runs
i've noticed the reason i want to be a solodev is cause i don't wanna be stressed out. i want to be able to take months long breaks if i want to. i don't want to have that level of responsibility.but on the other hand, realizations like this always make me think about a second layer: maybe i overthink collaboration and put too much pressure on myself. maybe with the right people collaboration can be fun and even make me want to take responsibility. but that'd mean it's more about finding people you vibe with, rather than just finding random "skilled people".
>>579840880Have you tried collabing on jams? It can work as a low stakes sandbox to test out if you like working with other people
>a game about a group of ~14 year old asian school girls who form a serial killer group and kidnap rape and kill middle-aged white males in their free time and then eventually get killed from the police, which, of course, causes a media uproar against the police and ends with a public apology from the agency>nothing changes, everything continues to keep happening
>>579840989A good opportunity is the v3jam linked >>579797246
>>579831745Gamedev?
>>579839882>too greasy and sweetNo such thing. Your sense of taste is shot.
>>579840220I think it was mentioned as the first mainstream futa game for casuals.
>>579841718>open new vegetable oil>pour some out>add sugar
>>579840435
it works my vibecoded game is coming along
Does anyone know why the fucking refraction settings in fucking unreal engine 5 do absolutely fucking nothing even though viewport scaling settings are on epic and refractions are enabled in the shaderLosing my mind
prototyping without art, just with basic shapes. that has to be the secret. it's like sketching before drawing the actual painting. it's what nobody does and why they all fail probably. and it's what can separate you. maybe even on a psychological level. instead of perfectly knowing what to make, you iterate. instead of making all the art and having fear it will be unused, you now know it'll all be used cause the prototype already defines what is needed before even making a single art asset.maybe it's like with all creative work, the actual process in the background is different from what the consumers expect.
>>579842546I keep telling you this literally every single day here, it's not a secret
>>579836220that view of the sky is such a cool idea for a top-down rpg
>>579842486I think my computer would explode if I tried to run Unreal.>>579842546If you think you're one or two epiphanies away from figuring out how to be a successful gamedev, I have bad news for you. Everything is being tried all the time by devs smarter and harder working, more experienced and more creative than (You).But good advice. https://www.charliecleveland.com/ugliness-needed/
>>579842643maybe its also about the way we think. we are like "man this spell vfx looks cool, let me try to recreate that" (which is fine), but then we proceed trying to make a game like that. by just randomly trying to implement things we think is cool.we work on the spell vfx before even having an actual game. i guess this is fine if you dev as a job and you are only responsible for specific stuff. but it's probably bad if you are the lead dev who has to make an actual game.
new meta just droppedhttps://x.com/clemmygames/status/2095497636652417137
>>579842264looks fantastic anon, hopefully you price this at the same price as beamng ($20)it's definitely an equal amount of effort and passionhttps://beamng.com/game/news/
>>579842264are you sure it's not clowncoded?
Explain to me why your game deserves to exist. What does it bring into the world? What will it leave behind?
>>579843038I don't owe any explanations to you. Ask my game's players or even better read their reviews.
>>579843038Easy - Because it's mine, and I'm the best in the business. It delivers a sense of tension and reward unparalleled, while reigniting one's sense of wonder and curiosity. It's going to strengthen and edify people. It's going to temper them and make them more courageous. People are going to lose their minds over the eleven foot tall titty witch, and when they come back down to earth they will be left with the knowledge that they can do anything. Row, row, fight the power.
>>579842264i would absolutely play this on kongregate or armor games circa 2007
cook the uncookable, bake the unbakablerow, row, pass the floweranyone making this type of game?
>>579826082Why is it always third worlders?
>>579842850i fucking hate everyone
>>579843807Me.
I'm ahead of schedule, Im bored, and I could animate/draw the next character but I don't want to do that either right now..
>>579843038Because I have rendered it thus with the breath of Gaea. It shall leave behind a putrid carcass as a seedbed to the dreams of the unborn.
>>579825828slaughter horse 2. shit goes so hard. almost half the reason why that game is fun is because i know there is a 70% chance the next song coming is gonna be a banger even though the gameplay can be frustrating and RNG heavy. i would say hotline miami but actually I pirated that as a teenager.
how do y'all niggas market your gaemz? do you post shit on social media? or do you buy ads? you make devlogs?
>>579845108I occasionally vaguepost on 4chan about it
>>579839530>>579840848close enough, welcome back fighter from powder game
>had an idea for a pixel art game>haven't played any real pixeled games unless I count GBA Ace Attorney in years>nor have I done any pixel-style work in a year+uhg I can think of 1000 character designs/portraits but I can't figure out how I want the actual overworld you move around in looks...The simplest fix it to do it like a Point-n-click Layton with pre-made backdrops, but that means custom backdrops for each roomAn Ultima Dungeons/SMT2 thing means corridors are solved but that scope feels suddenly WAY bigger ykfuuuuuck>>579836220That UI is gorgeos dude seriously great work also love that shoreline animation
>>579845108Say nothing about it besides the Steam page. Force gamers to find it so they think it's niche and some sleeper hit.
>>579845108Join free events like v3Expo
TWO HOURS TIL DEMO DAY
>>579846164I'm not gonna make it...
GO FASTER YOU FUCKING CLANKER!
I love retro-styled RPGs man. Once you accept that your game isn't a 1:1 recreation of an idea, you can play to the strengths of abstraction. Graphical fidelity goes down, but then you can do so much more gameplay-wise with what at first glance seems like less.>>579836220That's exactly what I'm talking about.
The /AGDG/ Steam eventWe're hosting and curating a Steam event for games made by (you). It's taking place later this year, and sign-ups are open!The previous v3 event brought in around 200-300 wishlists and a huge spike in sales. While this event has nothing to do with Betz or v3, we're hoping to bring about similar numbers for all who participate.Signup using the link in the thread OPSo far we've had 17 people sign up and we want to get many more!Pic unrelated
>>579835968>https://itch.io/game-assets
>>579845108I haven't started marketing my game yet but I'm planning to post blog/progress updates on some Mastodon-like platform and videos for major updates on YouTube
I lost. I missed out on the few opportunities I had, which are now gone along with my youth, energy and optimism. And what's my last hope? A fucking video game that no one will want to play.
>>579845502may as well just do phoenix wright backgrounds, like illustrate or gen or model something and then digitize it to a nice low pixel resolution
>>579847169>While this event has nothing to do with Betz or v3
havent been here in a few years what the fuck is a Betz v3
>>579848180the resident schizo will explain it to you shortly.
>>579848180Clone of Bubsy 3D featuring a penguin, got released on steam and receives regular updates.
>need to draw 100px tall silhouettes of buildings>gimp? krita? aseprite?>no, blender.
>>579847395>I missed out on the few opportunities I hadThere will be more and now you are smart enough to seize them because you know the pain of regret.Be nice to your past self and forgive him. He was doing the best he could with the information he had.
>>579849102Based.
>>579845108The tried and true method for a nobody without a ton of money to burn is to either get a publisher or get a big streamer's attention.
>>579847395You didn't lose. There are joys around you, a whole forest which you are missing for the sake of a single wilting branch on a single dry tree.
>>579837025>Holy shit, infinite cakes!>Gets full after eating 1-2 and doesn't try any more
How do you put a price on your game(s)?
>>579850182imma sell mine for bout tree fiddy
>>579850182Ask people who played it how much they would pay for it, then round up to the nearest 5
>>579850182play enough games and be aware of the current market and player sensibilities so that you have a reasonable clue.But:>is this your first amateur release?$5-8>is your game reasonably polished with a lot of content (10+ hours)?$10-12Anything higher better be a niche genre where people spend more by default, or be high-quality.People will tell you to price higher, but this is the equivalent of a female telling her female friend to get short hair.
>>579850182I just use my favorite numbers
>>579850612I love TREE(3).
>>579850182Compare it to similar games genre-wise and adjust based on your game's level of polish and amount of content relative to those.
please relax
>>579845108https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tzD9OxAHtzU
>>579850987Give me a fuckin' reason to relax
>>579850602>but this is the equivalent of a female telling her female friend to get short hair.kek
>put effort into game>scared of receiving negative feedback>hesitate to post about it>nobody finds out it existsvs>make zero effort slop>don't care about negative feedback>spam it everywhere you can>it gains enough traction on social media to become profitableit is not that slop is simply easier to sell, it's that devs become unburdened by the fear of chastisement from the baring of their soulshow to make it?just stop caring
I'm so fucking mad at art and animation skillsguys right now. You niggers can just create stuff and then tell Claude/GPT >"Ok now write all the code for me :)"Meanwhile I as a codenigger can't tell these slop machines to actually make good looking art and animations.
My game is going to have four large authored kingdoms, one double the size and dungeons of the others, five authored smaller fiefs, procedural content (side dungeons, instanced missions, affixed equipment), an in-game legendarium, beast taming, discoveries, and 50 playable characters with three scales of vehicle and limited base building. Hoping for roughly 40-160 hours of gameplay depending on how hard you rush the plot and minmax your guy.$20
>>579849215>There will be moreNot for teenage love it won't.Nor for the 2 years study abroad program that was available at some point (which even paid good money), because requires me to be under 25.
>>579850182As cheap as possible.
>>579851832>>579735425
>>579851832NovelAI can make learning much easier.
>>579851816The slop dev isn’t necessarily more confident in their game. They’re simply less afraid of being judged for it.They ship something, post it everywhere, get mocked, ignored, criticized—or occasionally go viral—and keep moving. Meanwhile, someone who genuinely cares about their work can become paralyzed precisely because it matters to them. Every post feels like exposing a piece of themselves to strangers who might hate it.So the slop has an enormous distribution advantage: its creator is willing to do the embarrassing, repetitive, shameless work of telling everyone it exists.How do you make it?Stop treating criticism as a verdict on you.Make the thing. Post the thing. Let people hate the thing. Post it again.You don't need to stop caring about your work.You need to stop caring about being chastised for caring about your work.
>>579833741>only one reply stating the obvious of how it looks like shitI guess everyone with talent has left /agdg/.
>>579851846the scary thing is I believe you.
>>579851816How about the third pill, make something you're proud of showing to people despite its flaws? You don't have to crater your standards and put every garbage you make in people's faces. You don't have to take the easy path and fill the world with more slop, take the narrow, more difficult path.
>>579852158I appreciate when people provide me legitimate negative feedback, let's me know what I need to fix. "Guess I'll redo this hand because someone called it AI slop and looking at it again I kinda agree".
i have been vindicatedhttps://youtu.be/3WldQ3yFHbw
>>579852593based and Christ-pilled. make that which is good and does not hurt you
>>579851883These are all things you're elevating in your head for no reason. Maybe your hypothetical high school gf would treat you really poorly. Teenage girls can be awful. Maybe you'd study abroad and get very homesick and sad, or get robbed or even killed. Things could have been different for sure, but you can't say if it's better or worse.There are also plenty of opportunities for adults that kids don't have access to.Regardless, the past is the past. Living in the past means you're ignoring the present and the future, which you actually have some ability to change, unlike the past.
>>579851832Skill issue, AI is good enough at art now. But you aren't
>>579851883Teenage love is 5/10 cluster-B women trying to give you an STD. It was not fun and I managed to get out uninfected
>>579852958>AI is good enough at art now.No it isn't. It still requires manual cleanup and knowledge of how art works. Meanwhile AI can fix AI slopcode itself.
Is 15 euros/usd a good price for a roguelite with about 13 biomes, 70-80 different enemies, 7 playable characters and 50 items? its a 2d top down action roguelite, with rooms after each other a la slay the spire.
>>5798451081. Be already really good at something your game needs/has that gets engagement. Easiest is art or animation. Level design, programming, music, writing, etc. are significantly more difficult.2. Use your skills in that area to help market your game. For example if you're good at drawing porn, post suggestive memes and jokes regarding the characters from your game. If you're good at level design, post fake educational videos about how to design fun levels. If you're good at animation, post animation memes and fun facts.
>>579852804NTAAbrahamism and Karma are blatantly evil doctrines which treat consciousness like dirt.
>>579826082stop using twitter
all things are as they should be
>>579853115This cope tastes so good
whenever someone tells you to post your game, link them thishttps://store.steampowered.com/app/3129780/Angry_Chef_World_Tour/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3129780/Angry_Chef_World_Tour/https://store.steampowered.com/app/3129780/Angry_Chef_World_Tour/
>>579851816how about put effort into game and take criticism like a man and spam your great work everywhere?
>>579852652Let her show her nipples
>>579852958AI still can’t reliably do transparent backgrounds. I also keep running into content/safety restrictions with the smarter image-generation models like Nanobana 2, so I end up having to stitch together a bunch of separate outputs to get the result I want.Local generation can produce some great-looking stuff visually, but it’s pretty dumb when it comes to anatomy and other human-body details. That means I either have to constantly babysit it and correct weird/unrealistic results, or brute-force hundreds of generations until I get one that looks good—at which point I’m often stuck stitching together different body parts anyway.
>>579853123amount of content doesn't matter much as long as you make it past the 2 hour markalso, you are overscoping your game alreadyif you are a solo dev, keep it to something like 30 enemies, 5 biomes, 3 characters and 15 items
>>579851816I just don't get scared of negative feedback.
>>579853912We're a team of two. Your suggestion is for a game that isnt fun, the fuck are you gonna do with 15 items? one run and it becomes boringalso the items are actually the easy part
>>579853710Flams aren’t for fucking, anon.
>>579854024Don't listen to the tripfag crab he is posting bad advice deliberately because he's jealous
>>579854229>just click on this link with CP, bro>it's just going to chill in your cache while the FBI finds your house, bro
>>579854024im not giving you precise instructions, brainlet.im telling you to cut down on content since you're still in the planning phase
>>579850182$13.99, comparable to balatroreally I should follow the NL advice and charge $1000 for it, but nobody would buy it
>>579845108For me, I'm going to make 4 YouTube channels.-Main Devlog Personality Channel which uses my name as the Username.-In-Loreverse Channel #1 which is a show that takes place in the loreverse of my games.-In-Loreverse Channel #2. Another show which takes place in the loreverse of my games.-Side Revenue Channel which focuses on numerous different Games but then makes episodes about my own game once my game is ready. Like for example, an Indie Game Review Channel that gets big and then I say "Guys, I've been making my own game and let's Review it."
just be female theory
>>579851832I used to be jealous of programmers until AI was a thing. Yes, AI can make art but usually it's still not as good as a skilled artist yet. At least with code, you can't really tell at all.
>>579795974I feel retarded. I watched a tutorial on coding healthbars in godot and I already forgot how he did it. What is the point of signals? If my character takes damage why can’t I just set the variable directly instead of having to connect a bunch of random crap
if I don't make a web-playable demo people won't play it but the web version is shittier than the desktop version and does not accurately represent my game>>579854873signals allow any other system to externally subscribe to health change event rather than requiring you to spaghetti your enemy and force any new component into its code
>>579854814poor girl, if her game flops she'll have to marry one of the few dozen multi-millionaire athletes and actors blowing up her DMs. women really have hard lives
>>579854229uhhhh ummmm I think aggy is missing here...
>nobody wants AI slo-https://store.steampowered.com/app/4892010/Bomb_Farm/
>>579854843No point in having much content beyond that
>>579855191>/document/d/1JR8fsg6Tt_cvGHtcqb0rtdU84bbzNq7vYL_knvGCFJg
>>579855371My game is tiny and needs like 5 lines of code so it's fine.
>>579854725will you really do that much?
>>579855612I'm willing to, with the only channels I deem 100% minimum bar arethe Main Devlog channel and 1 Loreverse channel.
There are more people have bought my game and never played it than people who have refunded it. It's really not a problem worth thinking about.
>>579855868>They get dopamine from playing the refund system itselfdamn, TRVKE
>>579855964>I'm willing toYa'll willing to do everything until the burnout hits.It's like planning a diet after eating dinner.
>>579853167you don't know much about Christianity if that's your takeawaythat's okay though, i went through that phase too
I'm making a game that Tall Red Haired Woman with prominent front teeth and prominent clavicle will enjoy to make and play.It's going to be so beautiful to have her fragrance present during development. She is my co-creator. Her opinion on everything. Her art. She enchants everything. I love her so much.
Demo Day 70 has begun!
>>579856281niiga needed that reddit post to feel vindicated this friday am
>>579835165It's funny how the one with talent is white and the rest are dark.
>>579856261Let’s gooo
>>579856013Our economy relies on wasteful consumers. Don't write them off as having wasted their money and not really 'counting', they're a very important part of any financial ecosystem.
>>579856201The only moral way for a conscious viewpoint to exist, is as a sovereign and free God.in your religion, your god did not earn godhood. And neither did the unborn earn such a vile test.Abrahamism is putrid and if it were real, the only moral response would be to rebel against it. No matter what bribe of Heaven or threat of Hell.
the mare game looks aesthetic as fuck, good job
>>579856523>The only moral way for a conscious viewpoint to exist, is as a sovereign and free God.So you are a flavor of satanist then.You are not beating the edgy teenager allegations.
>>579857032If edgy teenagers believe what I believe, then they're right. Simple as. Address the words.
Didn't get my demo done in time. I'll try to play some of the demos on my lunch break though.
muh crafty buildy simulatory gameshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1795470/Flooded/>100 reviewscare to explain that zukjeets?
in this RPG you can sort items and flee from battles
https://www.twitch.tv/filmstarsStreaming a bit. Will be slow, boring and uninteractive as usual!
>>579857629Oh no 100 reviews for a 2D shitty looking strategy game what a failure
>>579857708Jelly of these aesthetics. Need to try and do something like this as a challenge for myself. Like if I had to make my own UFO 50 game or something.
>>579857629>>579857779So basically a paid version of stop the darkness? I could play that for free right now
Play the demo, it has the entire first area.https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-70/rate/4885544
>>579836220nice color choice great water.
It's demoralizing when devs abandon better games than I could ever makehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHzaIj1mdzA
I'll play some of your games later tonight, got a goon sesh lined up atm though, waiting for viagra to kick in.
>>579858896you use viagra just for gooning? goddamn
>>579859072Only once a week, I keep myself blue balled all week then pop one on Friday and do a proper sesh.
Well anon, are you gonna READ Aenigma?
>>579795974Dropped Archtower demo for DD 70:https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-70/rate/316978Most important demo changes since last Demo Day (DD 65):• Added crafting system (Build a Forge to unlock crafter perk, buy extra blueprints from the Blacksmith)• Added item salvaging for crafters• Added Wardrobe (extended transmog system), it is not working for the demo, but you can still unlock outfits for in silent mode, if you plan to use your saves later for the main game• Now you can loot and read the book from the book-stands of Floor 3 (uses first drafts of language system, also a trinket book can drop)• Mini-map moved in the upper right corner with the name of location above it• Now you can switch tavern music tracks in the Demo as well as in the full game• Fighter: Skill 1, enhanced strike can be used with a shield bash and a weapon bash when blocking with a weapon• Vandal: Battleaxes are always available; the “Militarist” trait also grants proficiency with heavy swords• If an enemy is 2 or 5 levels higher, a marker (exclamation mark/skull) appears on the left side of the HP bar• The formula for calculating direct damage reduction and additional resistance from the armor stat has been reworked• The armor penetration formula has been reworked• All sources of armor (physical and energy) have been doubled; this does not affect the base armor of older items• Removed glitchy character dupes in the tavern• Fixed some old bug preventing some prefixes to appear on gear (Max HP, Armor, Energy Armor, Blocking)• Fixed aggroing through walls when mobs asked for the help other mobs• Fixed most of old 3d-person camera mode jittering problems• Fixed a bug where some lightning strikes would propel flying enemies toward the player
>>579859228After I fix my bugs and submit Marotte to demo day 70.
>>579835968worst post in this thread
pro tip: when your game is at peak success that's when you want to look for a gamedev job, not after a flop
>>579861994why would you go for a gamedev job after a success instead of just making more games?
>>579861994>your game is not your gamedev jobngmi mentality
>>579862062once you have a successful game you can treat your future projects as a job since you already have financial security
>>579861994I have a friend who released a flavor of the month roguelike that flopped, and a few months later got a job at Epic Games with basically just that game and some non-game school projects on his portfolio.
>>579861994>>579862282samefag
>>579861994>gamedev jobput your name back on hopoop
>>579861994>NOOOO STOP BEING INDEPENDENT GOYa game about nooticing
a game about a cattle ranch where you're the grain
>>579859518It looks like a complex game that would be hard to make.But I have no idea what it does or how to play it.
Demo day is once again upon us, fellas, and so is the stream.As usual - 40 minutes per game (or less) with a gay little rating and highly professional feedback from industry professionals, gamedev insiders, pro streamers and the best kotaku video game journalists.Will stream (in no particular order):1: Arm of the Prince (WIP) - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-70/rate/36610022: Karnival - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-70/rate/49707863: Beltrunner - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-70/rate/47721014: Thank You Resume Speed - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-70/rate/43552075: Show the Martial Power (STM^) - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-70/rate/31323876: MARE NOSTRVM - https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-70/rate/4842152Going live in 15 minutes!
>>579863476action oriented roguelite dungeon crawler
>>579863569Im like gay Jack the RipperCause I hate women and I'm gayI'm like gay Jeffery DahmerIf he was normal and not straight
whew I'm glad this anon was proven right
>>579863569you want to link your stream too?
>>579864542neural network advancements were interesting 10 years ago, he was already wrong when he posted that
>>579863569Going live!https://www.twitch.tv/brimstonewalker
Is every new game on steam doing their UI with claude? they all look the fucking same
>>579865006Get used to it chud
That's me submitted:https://historyofeverything.itch.io/history-of-everything-september-2026If anyone wants a multiplayer opponent to be able to enjoy it properly I'll try to keep an eye on the thread.>>579863569>>579864859Nice - I'm about to head out for the evening but if you're still going when I get back I'll come watch.
>>579865006indie devs are as homogenized as trAAAsh now, arguably even more so, since they don't take 20 years to ship
>>579842131Do you?
>>579863569> industrial professionalsew please be a joke
>>579866292
>>579863569fugg my game is not ready yet.....
>>579866292>> industrial
out-earning 90% Steam devs
I never knew how much math knowledge was required to make rpg… i’ll just pass it to claude fable i guess
>>579866683Why is this so fucking funny kek
is weird how gbstudio doesn't have a quick solution for a HUD and you need to use GBVM to make it. >>579836220>>579857708this looks cool as fuck
>>579865006Indie devs have 2 optioneClaude UI, black bg with thin orange border buttons. Or faux windows 98 UI. It's so retro!
>>579836220it's simply Qud?why hasn't anyone said that yethttps://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/Caves_of_Qud/
I will try to get my demo ready for tonight.
>>579868372Looks more like boss baby to me
>>579850182>$29.99>only $5 higher than my gameHuh
Who would you say are the canonical Inner Council members? Asking for easter egg reasons...
what happens if I release my gaem just before demo day ends? do I get less aggy points?
>>579862282But do i need a CS degree? Or will Timmy hire me without one?
>>579869947you get blacklsited as a dev from aggy until the end of days
>>579831745>>579838352Now I want to post some food too. Alas I am still in bed.>>579861994>game succeeds>now is the time to get a jobWhat why? This sounds like rich boomer talking to poor sub 30 year old speak>now that you have $1m you can invest it towards your education for a better futureKek $1m and you won't see me in college or waging. I can just full time solo dev with low risk.
i think idle games could be a real type of challenge, cause it's more about patience and long-term commitment rather than fast action.in the real world there are also low action things where winning is only about being the one who doesn't quit and just patiently keeps engaging.
>>579869947It's only the most based way to submit to DD
>>579871823facebook ahh post
>>579871823auto-battlers died before they could get good desu
>>579872082did you ever finish cookie clicker?
>>579868274It’s so the game can be played at different resolutions without messing up the UI. Are you pretending that game UI hasnt been minimalist since at least the 2010s
Idle game players should just play sim city.
>>579873039cargo cult mentality
>>579873039It's a specific look. Once you know it, you see it everywhere. Not merely minimalist. Webdevist.
>>579871823>>579872158Problem will always be finding that sweet spot between idle and interactivity. If you can make the interactivity optional but satisfying and rewarding then that's great. I think auto-battlers have great potential to be more but they're mostly used for roguelites and incremental/idle games.
How come I never see some of these DD games posted in the thread?
>>579873409we already found it in mmorpgs, but mmorpg devs thought botting is cheating instead of designing around it.to me botting was never the problem, multi-accounts were. i dont mind one gold bot running around, but one person running around with 100 gold bots is stupid, especially when the server has limited capacity.
Listen to this idea;Morrowind.... meets... MINECWAF.
If Notch released the first version of MC today, it would have been called AI slop NGMI garbage.
>>579868372its similar but caves of qud has that weird blue filter. Also gui is sharp instead of round
>>579873706Because first of all, when you're a yesdev, it's hart to keep constant flow of progress posts - most of the time will be spend on invisible progress so there's no point in posting the same thing over and over again. And most of the time when you post progress here, unless it's visually busy for Twitter likes, you will get ignored and everyone will just spend their time talking about their schizo shit instead of actually giving you feedback.
>>579874448trvke, people want to act like nothing has changed though
>>579874448not slop, but it would have a lot of doubters. And maybe zach makes Infinifactory 2 and we go down a funny opposite timeline of automation autism eventually giving way to open-world exploration
>submit game to agdg demo gay>get an anxiety attack>withdraw submissioni'm ngmi
>>579874947just imagine Tom Paris saying "Relax! What's the worst that can happen!?" and patting you on the shoulder.
>>579875163i don't know who or what that is
>>579874947brother, you're having a melty because of an audience that doesn't even exist.
god that is the most delicious male ass I have ever modeled in my life
>>579875340i literally have vomited on a girl i tried to cold approach and ask out
>>579875398On your way to the illustrious female audience
>>579875441that's a lot more understandable
>>579874563that's the world view, so it's not a fair way to compare the gamesI'm not denying your pointsit's also important to note qud also has the day night cycle displayed on the upper UI, as well as the fact that the game has modern ranged weapons as well as swords and other melee weapons, which is displayed there (also stims)
>>579875539unfortunately the model has a lot of flaws and is too high poly, but I am getting better I think
do you guys think that the Toy Board has a Toy Development General?
>>579874947You have yet to learn the use of that pain. It's ignorance holding you back, moreso than weakness. Subject yourself to it, and it will open the door to a part of your mind you can't usually explore, a free trip with all expenses paid, and even if it locks your mind to spin itself down, in the background you will be learning, and you will overcome it, and become addicted to the feeling of overcoming, and use what you learn to enhance yourself in all ways and all things you're labour produces.
huh?
>>579868372I noticed but it's obviously not the same. Many games have done this before Caves of Qud even existed. Makes me kek knowing some gamers will accuse you of stealing an idea and ignoring that such ideas existed prior to their favorite game.
>>579877753I wonder if blud knows why we call it Rogue-like…
>>579877753post some examples
>>579836220the contrast is gonna tire the eyes out after like 5 minutes
No, no, not like this>week of Aug 31 is looking to beat last weeks Steam releases>as of Friday morning eastern US time 680 games have released on Steam with projections giving a mid point of 760 gamesHow is it climbing so fast!
>>579878890In six months we're going to be looking back at 120 games a day as the golden age. And their quality will be improving.
Pixel art is wayy too hard. I’m just gonna get AI to do it. Also so is coding so I getting AI to do that too.
>>579878890How does 1000 games released on Steam a day affect your game in any way?
>>579878890We’ll see >100k releases in 2028
I-is that a...AIEEE! Better call your lawyer and start stalking these guys too, Protocol!
man am i becoming an unc or is youtube an absolute idiot platform nowadays?
>>579879395>how does the increase in supply affect the market I'm competing in?why don't you go back to watching skibidi clips on tiktok?
>>579880971YouTube has always been terrible.
>>579881064this is an increase in shit tier game supply thoughit's like complaining that walmart tier clothes have more and more supply even though you're in the sports or premium brand clothing market
>>579881428we are walmart tier though.
>>579880446Well you see, when it's a bigger project it's inspiration. When it's a nobody, it didn't happen.
>>579881617not if you try and have been at it for 2+ years.look at the average new game releasing and be hopepilled.
>>579881428the "premium" on Steam (less than a burger flipper earns) is the top 10%. is your game even in top 10% of agdg demos, most of which won't ever get on Steam?besides, why would you think only shit tier supply is increasing? when did you get into gamedev? if it's recently, do you count yourself in the shit tier cohort? if it's a while ago, how many reviews do you have so far? you don't even have to prove it, I'll take your word for it.
>>579878890Okay I was lying I have no idea how many have released this week, sorry guys!
>>579882276i find it interesting how they think an increase to supply only affects one side.
>>579882187>look at the average new game releasingyou don't have to beat the average, you have to beat 9 out of 10
>>579882536https://www.photopea.com/
>>579882536Just rip off the bandaid already and learn Krita, you whiny little bitch.
>>579882561and they forget they're not competing only against the releases of that week or month, but all Steam games ever released. gamers can buy his game or buy a game that came out last year but is now on sale or play one of the hundred untouched games in their library
>>579882603i know all alternatives, that's not the problem. also browser/online only sucks.
To avoid people recreating your game using AI is to make a game so bad nobody want to copy it.
why do trannies think some multi billion dollar project cares about a tranny not wanting to spend $10 on their franchise lmao
>>579882584I know and it doesn't take a lot like I said. average is the wrong word. only about 5 games a day are real games.
>>579877753How does that change the point though? It only strengthens it
>>579883498it may not take a lot, but do you have any real world evidence that your game is good enough to be among those 5? I don't mean evidence for us, I mean for yourself. do you have any reason to believe you can make that game? have you ever published a finished game or even a demo?
>>579883368silly little trannoid think he's important
>>579883368That guy isn't transgender, just Br**ish.
>>579883368Makes me kek when indies bend the knee to troons demanding they add the troon flag and pronouns. Really glad Eric refused.
>>579883368what is he seething about? a vibe-coded mod?
>>579883885I am only >>579882187 >>579883498not other people.Sort of, I made a decently fun game, judged by several other people in DD. I gave up on putting it on steam though.
>>579882795>>579883117>>579883178I an not these posters. Just wanted you to know.
>>579884082>speedrunner
Hundreds of games flop every day on steam. Why do you think yours will be different? Are you more talented than other people? Do you work harder than most others? Do you have a proven tactic that will help you get an advantage? Not trying to demoralize, I genuinely want to know what kind of thoughts people who keep pushing the boulder have.
I won't play 'cord games
>>579884801i'll just make another game, not difficult
>>579884965By the time you release another game, there will be another 10000 released on Steam.
>>579885057and? I'll make another one if that one flops too
General Question:What games/engines have official or independent dev kits for making levels that are simply very big?I want to make a game set in my hometown and its surroundings, and I cant decide where to start. My ideal would be to import satellite mapping and topographic data and start from there, adding gameplay features and a story. Sort of like a STALKER indie demake.GZDoom et al would let me make a large but bland shooter, maybe like Strife.Quake et al would be better but take much much longer, and I doubt it would support the size I want. No Unity slop please, i want something outdated enough that an oversize level with hundreds of entities wont crash it.
>>579884801I have a full confident because I'm making a straight of hormussy idle game
>>579885191unreal
>>579884801I made my first game without knowing the odds and it was successful (just) enough to let me do this full time. I probably got lucky.
If you can't work on your game for 60+ hours a week, don't even bother.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8Ki5uRKqEY
The problem with vibe coding games is that it collapsed the cost of the surface layer. Mechanics, vibes, and genres are cheap to copy now.Once everyone can produce the same first 80%, that 80% stops becoming a product and instead becomes a commodity.AI compressed implementation time and expanded the comparison set. The bar went up. Speed is now shared, but taste and direction are not. Think about this when you are looking for an advantage.
Does anyone know of an actual anime style modeling course in Blender that doesn't look like shit, please? I don't care if I have to pay. The ones in Udemy look amateurish as fuck.
>>579886171I'm not joking when I say you'll have to look at Maya, Max and Zbrush tuts and apply them to blender. Ask ai to help you convert the process if needed. Most blender users aren't as good as they think they are, simple as.
>>579886171anime models are more about rigging and shaders than actually modelingjust look up genshit clone tutorials on youtube to see how they do the nose and mouth, etc. The rest is just drawing nice eyes and hair.
>>579886171There's a very long tutorial on Japanese style topology available on youtube
>>579886171learn to sculpt first
>>579874947I submitted my game knowing my last, smaller-scoped submission (of the same game) was more feature-complete, more playtested, more polished and better in every way. I submitted it after discovering that my webgl build was broken because of an incompatible save compression type so I uploaded a pc executable only, which means no one will play it because who the fuck downloads shit off itch. If I did this shit, what's stopping you?
>>579886171Take the slow road, learn fundamentals, and then learn how you want to manipulate them into a style that appeals to you.
>>579888787
>>579886171The best way I've found is to make an anthro character and replace the head with a human one.
>>579886081Easily countered by having mechanics that the AI would refuse to add.
>>579891432Anthro characters always look outlandish and unnatural. Is that why you are suggesting that?
Gotta make a fast ugly prototype
>>579831745>>579838352it's never been more over on my end too, i'm so scared bros.
>>579892451Same. I totally run out of money in 7 months. I just barely have the basics of the engine of my indie MMO working. I will make it.
>6 year anniversary of when I started my game dev journey>Decide to celebrate by going out to McDonalds for some chicken nuggers and celery tonic>QT cashier sighs at me and asks which Uber Eats order am I there to pickup
>>579892890>celebrate by going out to McDonaldsunironically I do this too. McDonald's is my comfort food. and in my country they're actually nice and clean
>>579892776Same, no job, no job prospects, savings until end of February roughly if no extra expenses come up. Game likely to flop. Another one not feasible to finish in time. I'm thinking about blowing part of the savings on a driver's license course (which costs a lot in my cunt) and a cheap beater car with autogas installation for cheap fuel to become food delivery wagie and then later uber wagie when I'm eligible. Much better to work hours you want to work without any boss so to speak than to resort to shitty gas station/store clerk wagie when I will ultimately have to get a shit ass job again.
>>579892890I just want to fix my bugs and get my demo day submission done tonight so I can go to bed early and fuck my wife.
Making a porn game because that’s the only way my arpg sloppa will ever sell
damn y'all niggaz broke no wonder you hate ai
It's crazy to me how there are anons here without basic life skills like driving and yet believe they can somehow ship a successful commercial video game.
Shouldn't gamedev be fun? Why are there so many broke depressed thirdworlders here?
A successful game is a ticket out of poverty so of course it attracts minimum wage thirdies
>>579893648I was living paycheck to paycheck on my own since 17 and a driver's license costs 3 months worth of full paycheck savings to get and another 3 for a basic old ass car. It's not a matter of having the skill to drive a car but the reality of being a third worlder born into poverty.
>Finish programming job>Go home>Continue game programming until 2 in the morning>Wake up>Open work laptop>Meetings cancelled at work>Close laptop>Open IDE>Feel like I'm trudging through mud when I try to think>>579831745>>579838352>>579892451Why on Earth do people keep going all-in on this shit? It's okay to do this part-time.>>579892890Bocchiposter is Mexican?
>>579893684I have just the picture for that!
>>579892073>outlandish and unnaturalIsn't anime style the whole point?
>>579893648Something about being completely non-functional in society and being good art, or at least motivated to do, artistic pursuits.
>>579893954I wish I was autistic enough to make something like this
>>579894032>>579894003But not this autistic
>>579892073Just wait until I need to address the cat girl race in Marotte because they exist as part of the larger Software House Parsley universe.
I got 5 downloads, agdg is DEAD
>>579893684Gamedev is not fun when you get stuck or have no talent.
>>57989384790% of anime posters are latam
>>579893804Damn, that's unfortunate. You could've joined a gang and made drugs, right? Does it have to be a car? Do bikes or tuktuks require the license?
>>579893405I plan to get a warehouse job. I am 31 and have never worked a job in my life. No resume. And my sleep schedule is fucked, such that my sleep cycle takes 25 hours. Not sure now I'm going to work when I'm awake in the day, then awake during the night 2 weeks later. At least I have a car.
>>579894260Or just generally 80% of the time unless you only make prototypes and switch to something else when you get bored.
>>579893684Gamedev is only fun when you're a beginner and still figuring things out. After you develop standards for quality, most of it becomes hard work.
>>579894334>Do bikes or tuktuks require the license?No but I live in a climate where it rains or snows heavily most of the year, there's maybe 2 good months where you could use bikes/electric scooters for delivering. I'll just probably make the call to use the remaining of my savings on a license and a car.>>579894404They take anyone in IME but it's the most brutal job I've had because it's a rotation of 3 shifts (morning, afternoon and night) and they will often swap you around week by week. You will be tired as shit and your cicadian rhythm will be completely fucked but it's a good last resort if there's no other options.
>>579894967I don't know what IME is. From what I hear, the warehouse jobs here are like summer jobs.
>>579894535If you didn't learn art skills early and then keep up with best practices and tools you're doomed. By the time you learn them they will have raised the bar again.
It's the pre-built engines forcing you to do things in a dumb way. With a custom engine the work becomes much easier.
>>579895176I was going to write "in my experience" then shortened it to IME but didn't delete the "in". My bad.
>>579894535Gamedev is never fun
>>579871550>Kek $1m and you won't see me in college or wagingFor you to get $1M after Steam's cut and income taxes, your game needs to make over $2.5M
>>579895697He could just make is this an LLC and then withdraw slowly over the years to keep his personal taxes at a low bracket.
>>579896024Now you're paying corporation tax on top of income tax.
>>579895697Depends on the country, for me it's closer to $2m.
>>579896465LLCs are pass-through and aren't double taxed, retard.
>100 wishlists in the two weeks since the demo went out
>>579896024Won't he have to pay corporate tax on whatever he can't claim as expenses like the salary he'd be paying to himself? Would he be able to invest the money if it's sitting in his LLCs account?
>>579859518Is there a difference between the DD70 demo and Steam demo? Is one preferred over the other?
>>579897164It's still tax evasion whether you believe it or not. Get an accountant?
Streaming some Aggy demostwitch.tv/havic_syoutube.com/@havic_s
Why do people think that LLC somehow makes you not pay taxes? If you're a single person in an LLC, it's considered a disregarded entity and you pay the same tax as in sole proprietorship, the only difference is civil responsibilities in terms of bankruptcy.
>>579898729There's several types of LLCs for taxation purposes, but if you want a million dollars, your game has to gross over $2M no matter what
>>579898327Paying yourself salary out of an LLC to lower your tax bracket is extremely common practice. You're also retarded if you think putting a video game on Steam means you instantly get $1m or $2.5m or whatever as a lump sum and it's not already spread out over the course of decades and dozens of sales. Anyone who needs to get an accountant has already more than made it. I don't even know what you're trying to argue.
>>579898286The only difference is steam api usage, in any other ways, they are basically the same. Even using the same save files.You can use those save files later for the main game.
ChatGPT has spoken.
>>579899197so basically >>579898729
>>579899197At least now we have confirmation that accountants have been replaced long before gamedevs have.
Claude/Fable 5.1 usage limits reset for Max Chads, we eatin good this weekannnd, fuck astra 6 nigga
>>579900648I haven't worked on my game all last week. Fuck my chud life. 6 is going to be interesting to experiment with. God... I still need to collapse my worktrees from last week. I had JUST gotten my indie MMO to the point where I could walk.
>>579863569thank you so much for playingheartbroken i missed the livestream because of work, watching the VOD now and crying tears of joy and laughter. you are the man. the other guy too. thank you both my friendsi want to release this mess fairly soon after 5 years as a nodev. watching you play it is giving me tons of useful help on all the areas of polish it most needs.
Universal Studios will ask me if they could do a Halloween Horror Nights House based on my Games.
>>579885910I guess being hyper produtive helps, but it's hard if you are doing it solo
>>579885910What if Claude works on my game 60 hours a week while I browse the internet
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1w7dh1u/my_first_holy_shit_moment_with_gpt6_astra_i_asked
>>579902649I've found that my AI use is bottlenecked by my ability to describe what I want to it. Even with 3 worktrees going at the same time, I still don't have enough time to converse with it enough for it to get what I want.
>>579903051Same, I have like short quickly thrown together todo lists that I need to turn into prompts and Claude just completes them faster than I can properly break these tasks down into proper documents that describe the feature.
Astra is agi
>>579887436Ok, but... where the fuck do I even start?
>>579903150I've been working with the chatgpt webchat to describe everything that I want, and then having it gen a prompt for me to give the agent. The prompts it makes are fucking massive. So massive that it recommended that I save them as a file, so that the agent could refer back to them after it compacts its context. Now I have a webchat that seems to remember what my game is all about, and what decisions I've made for it, and a list of prompt files that may or may not be useful one day.I often have the webchat gen the prompts on Pro mode, which just adds another 10 minutes of latency.The webchat will also recommend agent stages for me, i.e. it breaks up the feature for me. Reviewing the code after each stage is a fucking pain. An hour just trying to decypher the random faggot-ass names the agent gave to everything. For important systems, I suppose it's worth it. But for everything not-so-important, I've taken to just vibecoding it all away. If the benchmarks say it ain't too slow - fine.
>he's still reviewing code that ai writes instead of immediately moving on to the ten million other things he has to do
>>579903924yeah, broif it runs when you copy pasted that shit, who cares
>>579904110>when you copy pasted that shit
>>579903924>demo day arrives>you have 900 bugs, half-working features, and a demo you can't submit
>>579904387what the fuck chinkoid model are you using
>>579904561>no bro trust me, you're just not using the Good Model™wwwww
>>579900912>5 years cookingGod damn, that makes me feel better about my own proggy. You're game is seriously impressive, I love all the little touched like the changing painting during level generation. Absolute kino
>>579895697Let's work in reverse, some of the numbers are approximate.$1m->US federal tax$1.5m->Steam cut$2.15mMy game would need to sell $2.15m worth of copies to walk away with $1m in the US and living in a state that doesn't have state income tax.
I'd be happy if my game made $2000 desu
>>579905110gross or net?
>>579905208The first one, then the second one
Lil Red 2 is NOT a Metroidvania and I feel lied to…
>>579903618just create a cube and add a shit ton of subdivision layers, enter sculpt mode and try to form a human head or whatever you want while you learn the tools
>>579904110I do.It worked but I lost all semblance of control, I wasn't able to add anything without telling slop what to do, that was humiliating.I'll use it for new classes and to get ideas for code I've never done before but I'll always review and rewrite. otherwise there is no growth on my side, only skill decay.
>>579905208nobody ever means gross profit
>>579905648are you aiming to get better at gamedev or better at programming
>>579905735Most people say gross when talking about their own earnings in the same way every wagie states their pretax salary.
>>579905807both. it also made retarded architecture decisions and forgot earlier conversation/context instructions, well before 70% context window fill.It always goes cheap and prefers the retarded solution that complies with existing architecture instead of being confrontational.opus 5 and fable before they paywalled it
>>579903051Same here. And content is the slow part, anyway.
>>579892890>going out to mcdonalds to celebrategrim, xister>>579893648Indie gamedev is the one field where autistic NEETS could actually find success... given they have some skill like art(this is the big one), music, or programming of course..
>>579906238What reasoning level do you use? I almost always use max.
>>579904778Hold up. You're forgetting Steam's sales tax or VAT or whatever they have in each country you sell.
>>579831745>>579838352>>579892451>>579892776Just how many of us are hoping gamedev turns our sinking ships around?
The future AI war:1. Most big game companies rely on selling skins and cosmetic shit in in-game stores, this is how they stay in business and make insane amounts of money.2. As AI gets better, people will start simply using AI to generate whatever skins they want for the game instead of buying it, directly hitting these companies where it hurts.3. This results in a war of AI companies vs giant game companies.
>>579908757>people will start simply using AI to generate whatever skins they want for the game instead of buying it,How would that even work?>mod itThen other people wont see the skins, which is 90% of the point for most people. Skins are the gamer equivalent of buying over priced shoes to show off how "rich" you are.
>>579892890And what happened after sis? Did you say you're a normal customer and she swooned?>6 yearsHey we've been at it for about the same time sis. Any massive successes yet? Minor successes?>>579893262Kek I've been looking for a good moment to do this too. I want to try that new Dr. Pepper drink they have.
>>579908720bros i've already been unemployed a whole year living with my parents. i already know my game won't make me whole
>>579908120Ahh yes. I have my own special curated value and that comes out to about 2.5mMan ~60% gets taken by everyone else before you even get to keep any of it and can call yourself a millionaire.
>be me>friendless girlfriendless jobless>excess male wizard, zero value>Friday night>rotting in my childhood bedroom making a game no one cares abouthow did I end up like this? when I was 23 I had a nice programming job and my own place and I thought here we go, my life is finally getting good. then things stopped improving then started deteriorating slowly and nothing dramatic happened but I ended up this way
>>579893262McDonald's is the only "luxury" food I can afford
>>579909251this AGAINwhy do you love (you) so much?
>>579908720
>>579908720Me. Though I would be gamedeving even if everything was all good, so its not so bad I guess. If only I could stick to a project though
What is up with you fucking people playing my demo? Do you want me to play yours in exchange? Stop playing me demo you fags
>>579908993AI, uh, finds a way.
>>579847169are you building a vibecoded steam competitor anon?
>>579908720None of us are going to make it
I'll play some demos... tomorrow
god i am so bad at modeling and texturing and rigging and weight painting and animating i want to kill myself
>>579910182make a game without models or textures or rigging or weight painting or animating?
>>579910339absolutely not, I would rather fail than downgrade
>>579897640>rookie numbers
>>579908720I'm not hoping. There is no other way. It is guaranteed that my game will be my financial salvation.
in the process of desloppifying my game
>>579884801my unc taste in gaming is commercially viable
>>579910182>>579910461why you niggas like this? you don't have to be a beserk character
>>579910662The 4 crumbs of feedback i've gotten are all positive though, i'm going to make it!
>>579911154>you don't have to be a beserk characterYa, but you know, that is how you get the ladies
>>579908720This is my final game, the gamble that decides my fate. One to freedom, the other to a cage. Unsettling desu.
You can check out the end of Brimstonewalker's stream to see a man get mindbroken three times in about half an hour by my game. God bless."I am the girl." -brimstonewalker"Brother you're basica- you're literally being uh-fucking approached by 'do not be afraid' angel of tutorial popups" -some guyI'm going to go off the deep end at this rate. Maybe in addition to picking magic on gamestart that inevitably gets the BFG9000 treatment of never being used, players should also get a permanent buff that significantly alters play. I don't have time to draw any more animations than the ones I already don't have time for, but it should be doable to add a buff option that makes Nemo twice as fast on the ground and autocounters periodically when an enemy gets close by kicking them so hard they explode.It's also pretty standard in hack and slash games to have lasers shoot out of the end of the player's sword that make it 2-3 times longer. Maybe the same buff could make her sword explode on a cooldown when it touches the end of her range so people stop falling into the trap of spinning their weapon in circles instead of just taking a straight line to the neck like a sane man.
>>579884801I'm simple a better idea guy than others. I hope..That said I enjoy the process for its own sake and I figure it will look decent in any future resumes
figuring out how to structure a node-based state machine in Godot always gives me a headache.
Should I join DD with my extremely early prototype that amounts to basically a walking simulator?
>Its DDFug it snuck on me before I am even remotely ready
If you make a game where the coding and backend is all done by AI but the art assets like sprites, models, music, etc is made by hand is there an ethical issue charging money?
>>579911817Why would you draw the line on replacing the programmers with AI but not the artists?
>>579911449lol I'll have to give your game a try it looks like schizo kinomaybe brim was just playing it wrong
>>579911817>ethicalwho gives a fuck?
>>579911905AI is not good with sprite based animation.
What if I copy paste code from Stack Exchange instead, is that more moral than copy pasting AI code? Should I ask the AI to link me to the Stack Exchange page before I copy the code to paste it to make it moral?
>>579911603Yes.
There's nothing unethical about getting money from people that want you to give money. If you can get people to pay for full AI slop game, then let them. I am fully intending on experimenting with AI later this year and make a game that will be called something like "AI Slop Idle Rogue lite" and go wild with like $1k worth of whatever bullshit Claude/ChatGPT subscription I can get out of it and see what materializes as an experiment and shamelessly upload it to Steam.
>>579911817AI code training violated copyleft licenses
>>579911603i always hate it when people submit things that are so early and rough you really can't give feedback
>>579911449nemo...
>>579912038Making videogames is immoral anyway.
third demo day missed, next one i gotta have some good shit.
>>579911817>If you make a game where the coding and backend is all done by AI but the art assets like sprites, models, music, etc is made by hand is there an ethical issue charging money?
>>5797959742>days13>hours41>minutes52>seconds
>>579912760thats some pretty shouldery breathing
>>579913287that's how real men breathe you cuckola
>>579913287he just got done beating a giant boss, give him a break.
>>579913523you have a lung/heart condition
>>579913614ok vaxxoid
You niggas gotta work on your character controllers because every game I played so far felt clunky as hell just to pilot
>things take as long as the time you have to do themthis is why as I approach my demo deadline, I keep getting sidetracked with new ideas for other games
>>579908720I have savings, but I lost my job months ago. Even in the worst case my game will cover the cost of the money I put into it, but it won't make up for the time not actually working. Unless it somehow takes off.
Hmm not sure I want to share this valuable insight, too many lurkers on this place nowadays that might just end up as rivals. Guess I'll keep it to myself. Oh to have a variety of gamedev frens to share insights with knowing it may well be kept safe with them :(
>>579913725ableist takeconsider the spastics and how shitty their gameplay footage would look if the character movement was responsive
>>579914817I no longer need to eat food.
>>579913725My games not even in there but your post got me to fix the clunky boss targeting I've been ignoring for months
>>579913725clunky in what way? feels good to me. You're the only one saying this, so it's probably just you.
>>579914817I can tell from your posting style what the insight is. If the boss is moving around, and you have projectile attacks, you get more hits if you stay close, and that risk taking is what makes it fun.
>>579913725i can't even finish a single fucking model tho
I have ideas for 10 games but they are all 20+ hour epics. All of my ideas for smaller games are shit, and when I do come up with a good idea it quickly turns into a 20+ hour epic.
I have ideas for 20 games but they are all 10+ hour epics. All of my ideas for smaller games are great, and when I do come up with a bad idea it quickly turns into a 10+ hour epic.
>>579916447practice writing short stories
>>579916447>>579916856Just use AI.
I have no game, epic
>>579917159
https://x.com/anshuc/status/2096008083826725132
>>579917341three.js will overtake godot on steam in 2027
generic 3js and react UI will become the new stock Unity lighting
I really need to stop jerking off, I can actually feel how it impacts my productively
check out my new idle/incremental indie game
>>579918190I look like this anf say this once a month
>>579918443nice idea *yoink*
a dating sim where you play as a werewolf and all the hot village girls want you to breed them, but you're a monogamous werewolf and only want one.would this game make me popular with women, do they prefer minotaurs or werewolves?
Well?
>>579918975dicey dungeons but worse?
https://x.com/PeasantSmith/status/2095864945023844645i dont feel so good bros.........
>>579919283>[existing game, but worse]Many such cases.
>>579919403actually, I see it's dice building, like that board game diceforge.
>>579919381the roof of the train is 90 degrees rotated. WORTHLESS. AI BROS LOSE THIS ROUND
>>579919543We only like one dice builder around here
>>579918847Why would it make you popular with women? It would need to be a dating sim where you're a woman dating monsters, not the other way around.
>>5799201276 ways to 7 user reviewsI'm waiting for the gooner update
Watching Scarlet Skip do gangbusters is so fucking soul crushing, it's barely a game let alone a good one but it's taking off because of a cute girl design, insanely fucking soulless
>>579921486Gamers are retarded animals man. Nothing you can do about it but try and fleece them.
>>579917605
>the underlying purpose of Al is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.We're not gonna make it No, we ain't gonna make it We're not gonna make it anymore
>>579921486Maybe I should just downscope my game and focus on the cute girls...
>>579920127Niggas really be makin facebook flash games for boomers
>>579921954kanna...
>>579921954It will only work if it's adults
>>579921946dumbest post of the thread, nice!
>>579922759proof?
not much visible progress, just some cleaning up/refactoring to make tweaking things easier in the futurei did fix a couple small steering bugs, and added bump/rebound to my suspension damper, so the car handles even better nowi did replace my raycasts with spherecasts though, looks like a spaceship now haha cool
>>579922576kanna is so endearing maybe he was the cute girl all along
>>579923053fine a popular streamer who streams lolige?
>>579921486Let me tell you about a game called "cookie clicker", one of the most profitable games ever.
>>579921954Keep the game as-is and let the cute girls be what gets people interested initially.Look at all the gachakiddies who stop caring about the cute girls and start rolling for 10 copies of everyone to optimize their teams.
Anyone else hate the kind of gamer who asks how the underlying game code works or how the an artistic thing was done or some other underlying thing rather than asking about lore or content? It just ruins the "magic" of the game. No I'm not going to answer your question. It's like those people who ruin the "magic" in Skyrim. Do not hover, it might just ruin it for you the moment you read it.real spoiler is the next one "ahhhh i can't keep it a secret anymore, all the trees in skyrim are the same one just rotated and/or scaled!" real spoiler was the previous one
>>579923929Those "kind of gamers" are called gamedevs and yes I do hate them.
>>579923902funny enough even cookie clicker has more gameplay than scarlet skip
>>579924250>how the underlying game code works or how the an artistic thing was done or some other underlying thingI do this
>>579921486>gangbusters>100k
>>579924250Did you know that Skyrim doesn't have any end tables? Any end table you see is just a bookshelf clipped into the ground.
nobody cares about menobody cares about my gamewhy even bother
>>579924707Have you tried being a person worth caring about?Have you tried making a game worth caring about?
>>579924707You have clinical depression
>>579924770yesyes>>579924802true
>>579924840Try again, because you obviously failed.
>>579924707I don't even care about warren spector(creator of deus ex)
>>579924250did you know that video game developers are LYING to you? the water in games ISN'T WATER!!! IT'S A TRICK! THEY PLAYED YOU FOR FOOLS!
>>579924707you gotta care about your own game.
>>579925354He's a nobody.
>>579884801Mine game appeals to a niche but in demand fetish that barely has any media.
>find a game with no reviews>>AI Generated Content Disclosure>mfw
>>579925521My*
>>579921486Is it worth it?
>>579925983>t. mad jelly flopdev
a game about booby lady on a trampoline
>>579924609Mogs 99% of recent aggy games thougheverbeit
>>579925983>>579921486Send the name to sharty and they'll assassinate the dev. It's not hard to enact your evil.
>>579924608Nooooooo Bocchi-sis why would you do this to me!!!>>579924626Nooooooo Kita-fren why would you do this to me!!!>>579925187Kek makes me think of that one meme image.
>>579921486>I press da button and da titty jiggle>Den I press da button again and da titty jiggle again
>>579925983Something tells me he never had serious intent of keeping that game even before he purchased it. Seems a lot like the type that will buy it for the sole purpose of leaving a negative review.>inb4 it's some salty dev
>>579923451Vinny Vinesauce
>>579921486Appealing to human biology always worksScarlet Skips = Sexual reproductionVampire Survivors = Dopamine hitIf you want your game to do numbers, appeal to human biology.
new>>579926589>>579926589>>579926589
>>579926569Which is exactly why you need to make your game more diverse because people like playing as characters that look like themselves and this will let more people find a character that appeals to them.
>>579924250I guess it's weird for someone who only plays games and has no interest in making them but I do thatLike when you find out how certain things are drawn or animated or coded, it's cool and helpful for learning how to do the same. But it doesn't change the overall picture of it for me. It just tells you how to build itIt's like phenomenology, the experience of the whole picture isn't reducible to what its made of
>>579926634>new thread at 699 posts>>AGDG Steam Event>>v3jameven the AI spammer waited to the bump limit
+1 wishlist-1 wishlist+1 wishlist-1 wishlistSTOP PLAYING WITH MY HEART
>>579926081There's many other reviews saying the same thing, that it's an empty gameGamers need to know what's in their food (slop)
>>579926776then sage retard
>>579926884You just gave me the ick-1 wishlist
>>579926953uh oh, betz meltie
>>579927070My game has a big publisher
>>579927209hmm how big is it?
>>579892890why not a whole burgerino?
>>579927861you could say it has a 'big mode'
>>579927930+1 wishlist
>>579927930I detest any publisher describing itself or the games it is funding as "indie"
>>579928670Friendly reminder that "indie" just means independent. It isn't limited to uneducated, broke, ugly, basement dwelling, social reject, NEET losers who see gamedev as their only shot at survival before mom kicks them out, such as yourself.
Does anyone else not know what to do?I'm staring at my unfinished product, and i dont know what to work on. it's not even a fun game. i dont know what to work on, i know it indicates that its a flop but i dont know, i just cant let go of the product. i just look at it all day, wondering what it needs....
>>579929289It's time to let go.
>>579929289Just add things that are cool, that's all you have to do.Look at the game, think of different ideas, and as soon as your mind goes "that would be so COOL", you know what to do.You're overthinking game design.
You have to work smart because you can't hope to outwork real studios and their armies of wagies. You are underthinking game design.
>>579929221Behold an indie game
>>579929878Star Citizen is indie.
>>579820356>casually approach child
>>579929471i think ur right, i have been overthinking it. youre right... thank you, anon....>>579929391generally good advice, but i am gonna keep fiddling with this one before i call it quits and go next game
>>579929878Fortnite is my favorite indie game
>>579929221> to uneducated, broke, ugly, basement dwelling, social reject, NEET losers who see gamedev as their only shot at survival before mom kicks them outthis is me :3
>>579929668Okay but what if I just get a horde of artificial wagies instead?
>>579921486I will never understand why people buy softcore porn games when there's an endless ocean of free porn.
>>579930689not me my mom would never kick me out.
>>579873724Autoplay is the most retarded feature they came up with and it's in almost every mobile "mmo".A game has to be designed as an auto-battle game for it to work and I don't think it will ever work in an mmo because the whole point is playing with other people another thing modern mmos seem to have forgotten about.
>>579933149We're well past the days where the Varrock and Origimmar banks where the most optimal place to host a public chat room. Discord and Twitch chat are the most popular MMOs in 2026. Autoplay allows you get your supplemental dopamine with minimal effort so that you can dedicate more time towards doing the things that you actually want to do, like chatting. Why do you think Autobattlers and Idlers are so popular? Get with the times.
I didnt realize the new thread was made so early my blogpost is wasted
>>579933485>Autoplay allows you get your supplemental dopamine with minimal effort so that you can dedicate more time towards doing the things that you actually want to doThen play the idler or the autobattler. Why does the mmo have to suffer because of these idiots?
>>579875398>modeledyou didn't model anything as that is an AI generated imagewhat makes nodevs do things like this? are you so desperate to appear as a dev but still refuse to do the deed?
>>579913725making a good feeling character controller is like step 1 of game development but anons fail at it
>>579933840it was betz again sniping the thread so he can put his shit in the op
>>579936448topkek
>>579908720If my game doesn't make it I will unironically die alone, poor and miserable and no one in this thread will ever know because I was only ever another anonymous voice in the void here.
>>579926884all me btw
>>579929221>independent>look inside>publisher dependent
>>579921486Which means you just have to make a good game then replace the art with anime/furry/brony shit for instant giga success. Idk why you think this is bad, it's literally a free winning lottery ticket.
>>579945972Indie means India!
