Thread 717358949

Why aren't you a gamedev? its easy, the engine does like 90% of the work.
its not the 90s anymore you don't have to be particularly smart.

>>717358949 (OP)
why do you want more slop to be produced
whats your agenda

>>717358949 (OP)
I can't code

you have to be smart. the tools make things easier, but the expectations for a good game are higher as well. don't delude yourself into thinking you can make a 90s game and it'll be a hit.

Holy shit, indie devs keep setting the bar lower and lower with these garbage threads.

>>717359131
https://chatgpt.com/

>>717358949 (OP)
>had leg surgery today, taking a light break for a day but getting back into it when im feeling less pain.

>>717359245
"devs" is quite a stretch.
They're technically writing software, but they don't treat as such, so their games are all buggy and unoptimized shit.

>>717359282
correction
I refuse to code

>games will be real time AI proompted in a year
it's over
>>717347195

>>717358949 (OP)
recently learned about blockbench
the ease and userfiendliness blew my mind
now im not surprised were seeing more ps1 looking games these days

>>717358949 (OP)
i'm working on it

>>717358949 (OP)
I'm working on it. Coding is easy and fun, I dip into it whenever I feel like it. Assets are what's difficult. Music, models, icons, etc. Currently trying if I can make a pipeline that converts your usual 3D animation into 2D sprite work.
No, AI does make it all easy. You still need to figure out your style, put the output into the right format, clean it up, and make sure the entire work is consistent. I've seen games shat out that are indistinguable from a 12 year old's first RPG Maker project starring the first page of google image search.

>>717358949 (OP)
actually jumping into it this week
thinking about making an old school arcade game to get some routine in unity
then apply that experience to something bigger

>>717358949 (OP)
what's up with including in the OP women taking a piss while scrolling tumblr on their phones

in the middle of an art overhaul

>>717360754
dope

>>717359414
>watching paint dry simulator
hell yeah, exactly what I wanted

>>717362373
your gameplay is too basic to worry about art yet. get the gameplay right first.

>>717359050
15000 games on steam. That's quite some working hours. Why isn't there a tool that makes it so that all this work is put into mega games and everyone contributing gets fair compensation?

>>717359282
I worked with few ai llm on my gdd. The last few weeks the output is getting really bad, not only significantly worse, but not useful at all. What's the reason? Brain damage on my side or solar flares?
>>717359353
Meds?

>>717363023
picked up an artist
just putting his shit in the game
and now is the perfect time to be fucking with art assets when i know the gameplay will end up good because im a genius but im not sure how to actually code the tooling to make content pumping fast

>>717363023
Honestly, he should listen to you. Working with placeholders until the very end.

>>717361035
I think the consistency aspect is gonna be the most important metric by which games are measured going forward. People (even the non art-types) will become hypersensitive to the slop and vehemently reject anything that feels like a one-shot gen, regardless of whether or not it was AI generated. I've personally been kitbashing together ai gens and doing paintovers and other modifications, slowly working towards finding a novel style. The tech for generation is moving so fast I feel like the only thing that's futureproof is developing the concepts and "ground truth" resources that could then be later fed into a better model, or have enough examples to finetune a LoRA.

Picrel are some rough kitbashes, I really like the sort of weird psychedellic patterns that Dall-e 3 put out initially, and then downsampling through Retrodiffusion gives me a good resolution to start cleaning up manually.

>>717358949 (OP)
I've honestly been meaning to try it out. I still need to learn blender and I know jack shit about code though.
I always daydreamed about a game centered around dismemberment.

>>717358949 (OP)
Frustrated. I’ve been reading through GameMaker’s documentation and it’s very informative, but I still feel lost and aren’t sure what to prioritize in terms of what to learn coding. I can get a character to move, and I even played with an array to make a lookup table for movement speed. By jumping is still clobbering me. And I can’t figure out how to properly map controls to keyboard buttons other than the arrow keys.

>>717363241
>im a genius
>but im not sure how to actually code
ah yes, the duality of nodevs.

>>717363353
>dismemberment
could be easy depending on what you mean.

i am too lazy to figure out what to do with this. i mainly wanna get the sense of physics out so the movement is more polished.

>>717363241
See>>717363657
Gameplay is coding. You code gameplay. Ideas might be perfect, if you can't implement them, you suck.

>>717364115
you should have a vision for the game you want to make

>>717364516
I already have one. I not only finished the documents, be it art direction, story and emotional beats, everything except audio related stuff. I even wrote pseudo code for some of the skills and other things I could do. I haven't done anything for weeks, because there's nothing else I can do. It's too much work for me to ever finish it, nor do I have cash to pay people. Was fun to design the game.

>>717364516
true, i just dunno where to start blocking that out

>>717363786
Similar to how Dead Space makes good use of it and how Revengeance has it as a feature. Taking off limbs and appendages from enemies to change their behavior and to have some visual spectacle. Of course I'd need to put my mind to work to figure out how to incentivize the player to vary up how they approach engagements, instead of just cutting off a dude's leg and bolting. Maybe adaptive AI like in MGS3 and 5 or something.

>>717363657
Says the guy who has posted no game
Google pogo3D kid

>>717363353
when you say it like that it sound like youre aiming for the dead space or metal gear rising kind of dismemberment

>>717365074
lol i guess i wasnt off >>717365030
anyway
good luck

>>717364489
And all of my wildest gameplay ideas are so easy to code it’s child’s play
What’s not easy is making it so i don’t have to click 100 times in the editor every time i want to add a new item to the game

>>717365030
>to incentivize the player to vary up how they approach engagements
Huh?

>>717365315
It’s basic game design man
A player will ruin their own fun by playing the boring optimal way over and over again
The main challenge of game design is tricking your player into PLAYING and not soloing

>>717365315
You know how in MGS5 soldiers take preventative measures depending on how you engage? Helmets if you're a sniper that always headshots, NVGs if you only operate at night, body armor to defeat tranq guns, even placing mines in certain paths. That forces you to adapt and man, I love that.

>>717365307
Whta can I say, shit takes time.

>>717365442
More and more people play that way. It's literally fun multiplied by 0.

a goblin

>>717365876
I would hire this man.

>>717365719
it only takes time if you neglect your tooling and have a shit workflow

I'm trying to think of how to introduce some longer-term planning/setup to the gameplay, since right now the only thing to think about other than solving the numbers is going fast to build combos. Any suggestions?

any tips on immersive ass physics and clap dynamics?

Fellas I’m begging ya, if anyone knows of any solid resources in addition to the manual for GameMaker let me know. I just want to make a Super Mario Bros. ripoff I can enjoy for myself. That shouldn’t be too complex, right?

>>717366241
No, none at all. I doubt immersive stems from certain physics.

WIP
ball hitbox and physics

>>717366404
lookin good

>>717366404
dope as always

>>717366404
dig the neat visual sliding effect on each side of the screen

>>717358949 (OP)
Not true. I was a enginedev once and let me tell you that the content and assets are still 90% of the work, especially if you don't want some to have a super simplistic style or asset store slop.

>>717360754
making a summer car clone?

>>717366404
looks like a GBA hidden-gem

>>717366983
>90% of the work
true if you go for better looking assets, but that means sacrificing % on something else like design, plot, world, etc. your pic rel looks cool but spending that time in art means it more than likely has derivative design, not much of a plot and a shallow world. which is ok, its no different than deciding on lesser quality assets and spending that time on the other aspects instead.

>>717358949 (OP)
Why aren’t you a gamedev OP

>>717367586
I spent two days trying to make a popcorn machine background asset.

Between all the shit that gamedev implies, working on UI stuff is by far the most boring for me.

>>717367189
nah just some autism stuff

>>717366983
Post more

>>717367586
i was until mastercard decided i wasnt

>>717368826
Make a different sort of porn game.

I made two rpgmaker games that sold nothing, what now op.

>>717369152
make a third

>>717369152
the only one you can blame is yourself
should've made better games

>>717369152
"put balloon tits and a fat pussy in them" would be my advice, obviously you cant do that anymore.

>>717367440
Better, really.

>>717369152
that's what nemlei did before she hit it big. keep going faggot

>>717369152
There's some guy making 10k per rpg maker game and they are really not very good. Has a dedicated fan base, not growing though.

>>717362373
I thought it's a bow at first.

>>717369554
you are not alone

>>717367493
Focus on your strengths. If I was any good at writing I'd make a VN instead.

>>717369491
who is this guy

>>717369491
>10k per rpg game
How long does it take for him to make one game? I bet longer than one month.

How can I design new weapons, like bloodborne did? Dual blade or dual axes are fantasy weapons that dint have real world pendants. Any other ideas that are prevalent in fantasy, but don't exist in real life?

>>717369749
if you don't have good ideas for such things then maybe you shouldn't be trying to that?

>>717369709
I really don't remember. It's not hard to find him, just look up rpg on ks.
>>717369716
Likely. He published 2-3 games per year. I bought one for 10 and don't intend to do so again. It's really cheap, there are better free rpg maker games.

>>717369749
>How can I design new weapons, like bloodborne did?
make one weapon out of two. Got a lance and an axe? What about a lance-axe? Wait, that's a halberd... Maybe a sword on a stick? Wait, that's a lance... You could also try putting things on sticks, like a gun on a stick, or chains, like a bunch of little axes tied to a chain, like a flail of axes. Peyote could help.

>>717369825
It's not for a game, I just like to be creative, can't make a new one. Was hoping for input. I'll post it here if I find something interesting.

>>717363226
>The last few weeks the output is getting really bad, not only significantly worse, but not useful at all. What's the reason? Brain damage on my side or solar flares?
Yeah, probably mistakes on your end. If you're letting the size of context grow (lots of completions in a single "chat pane") then the quality of the output degrades significantly. Learning how much and what context to include is the key to getting the most out of transformer based models.

>>717358949 (OP)
I have become pretty comfortable with Godot, but have realized that I have zero creativity. I just like the coding aspect. Thinking about learning Unreal or Unity, for employment opportunities. Not sure I want to quit network engineering, though.

>>717368201
then make your UI more interesting to look at
spice that shit up and make it something you would want to see in a game yourself
good and interesting UI is an art in itself

>>717369927
>make one weapon out of two
That's what I was doing, but it's not really looking good. I also looked at the mortal shell weapons. Their design process is likely identical to yours. I also tried to combine melee and ranged.
There's some media that has invented weaponry. Mortal shell, star wars and bloodborne come to mind. Gunblade is another established classic.

Creating unique types of armor that feature different gameplay quirks: in this example, the Bone Armor makes Fygoon more vulnerable to attacks but provides bonuses for firepower.

>>717369959
That's not it. Firstly, this worked well for months, secondly, I even used not only a new device, but also a new internet connection. Seems like it's getting worse. The length of output seems smaller, too. Sometimes I had huge astrophysics output, with math and text and everything. Not anymore.

>>717369749
Take any random household tool and think how to make it bigger and kill a person with it. Cork screwer, wrench, etc.
Or do some deeper research into historical weapons to find the weird outliers or learn how to make the subtle differences between between swords stand out.

>>717363226
Are you feeding it the entire document every time? Context size is limited and when it's full things get whacky.
Are you using an online service? Changes are they fiddled with the config to optimize revenue.

I set out to make some kind of painting show, I just finished my 100th episode today. Now I can go back to making games.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnM_qsJdFtEJl50zw_rD24TE4stgF-VWP

>>717370341
That's a good idea, tools of any sort, other devices, maybe look up old scifi stuff.

how do I get Trent Reznor to make the music for my game?

>>717359179
Among us was wildly popular
Flapyp beard solds hundreds of thousands
What are you talking about anon

>>717370341
No, have few old tabs and new ones. I do save everything and do compare the output. Yes, online only. No idea how to use it as appor rather no interest, yet.
>optimize revenue
Thats naturally a thought that seems plausible. I doubt they save power or storage for online usage but for all users. Not like the majority cares anyway.
Do you use ai?

>>717370459
Why? Just to make something new? How does this help you with game deving?

>>717370459
it begins

>>717369554
its a fuckhuge sword i dont have a lot of options for how to show it in the FPS camera without blocking half your fucking screen

>>717370794
it was more of an obstacle, I got fixated on it.

>>717370540
pay him a lot of money

>>717370929
might be easy for you to say since you are an anime girl but I truth be told, I don't have a lot of money

>>717370547
that was during a time where apple had like no interesting games. amogus was meme'd to hell and back which carried it.

>>717370727
>Do you use ai?
Only as a google replacement. I've tried setting up a local LLM to play out conversations of characters, but that what as an utter failure.
Wouldn't use it for any game design, that's the fun stuff that I want to do myself.

>>717371083
>conversations of characters
Why? Shouldn't that be easy af? What went wrong?
I designed a mini game with ai, it's really good. Tried that last week, it didn't gave me coherent rules, nor did it played its game correctly.

I work as a QA and it kills me how much time is dedicated to making sure the graphics look pretty while rest of the game is a dumpster fire.

>>717370313
Oh okay you have actual brain damage then, sounds good dude. I don't know if you think there's some cosmic force that would make them degrade but LLMs have been steadily improving with the biggest leaps in performance happening within the last 6 months.

>create tween
>set trans

Been having fun with my Rokoko suit/gloves/face mocap. Installed a voice mod today to test if I can use the audio together with the mocap. The voice mod is rough, too many artifacts. It works for heavily edit voices, such as robots and wizards. But yeah, not great.

Same goes for the mocap. Without a Rokoko coil pro, its meh. I might as well stick to animation packs and automated facial movement.

>>717371681
You trying to become a vtuber?

Got enough smaller features that i might do a little patch soon, including redoing the graphics on garages since I haven't touched those in almost seven years.

>>717366147
Have you considered using sexy little anime girls instead of numbers?

>>717371761

Haha, lol no. I am testing what works and what does not for the animation in the cutscenes of my game. My hope was that I could make Rokoko work with the characters I have that have non-ARKIT blendshapes. It works, but it's not great. Then I applied ARKIT to the models and did some testing. Still not great without heavy cleanup and custom scripts. With the automated route, I have a very consistent and controllable output.

If you wondering what kinda game, here is a sneakpeak.

>>717371357
>What went wrong?
Terrible, inane dialog and it couldn't keep characters straight. The ambitious low born mage suddenly became a honorable knight in service to the enemy king, who went from a young megalomaniac demagouge to a kindly old grandpa.

>>717371456
Unfortunately, graphics sell. Gameplay flaws only become noticable later, after the money is already spent. Sure, that means people won't come back for you next game, but by then my stock options have already vested so who gives a shit?

>>717363226
>Meds?
dilaudid, percocet, some muscle relaxer. Sore as fuck and they used a cadaver's perfect knee to fill the hole. Pretty metal.

I took four months off from my game after grinding it 7 days a week for two and a half years and now I'm scared I forgot things.

On the plus side, I get excited when thinking about it again instead of dejected and afraid.

>>717372108
Hey it is looking good! I like testing things and playing with stuff with animations too, it will look really good in the future.

>>717372019
Wow, Underspace dev is still going. Will this gave ever get released? This and Bokube.

>>717372705
I already released well over a year ago.

>>717372443
welcome back

>>717372443
Glad to hear it anon do you have a steam page I can wishlist?

>>717372748
Thank you! I'm ashamed to say I used to think burnout was a meme used by lazy people but I get it now. You work, work, work, eventually you get to a point where you've worked eight hours that day but you've made no progress. Then, if you push past that, you get to a point where you work for eight hours and make NEGATIVE progress because you're so tired and fucked-up that you just break things. 2024 was the worst year of my life.

>>717372443
You could always start a new project instead.

Has anyone ever made a Monster Catcher with 20th Century Fox's ALIENS? I want to know if I'm the first.

Still making good progress, finishing up my Amnesia mod. Hoping to have it done by the end of the year

Working on some new player animations right now.
I will make some assets after I'm done.

What does /v/ think of the character and the backdrop of the lake?

>>717372019

Cool cool.

>>717372416

Good to hear it went well.

>>717372443

Got a link?

Added tooltips when picking up an item drop. They stack so if you pick multiple items at once they'll start showing up one after the other. webm also includes the work of the past few days/weeks: inventory, combining items, assigning to a shortcut slot and drinking a potion.
>>717372943
yep, very important to take a break from time to time. You'll come back more motivated and with fresh takes on things.

>>717373886
Dragon Prince wants its elfgirl Rayla back :P their elves are weird with how they have horns on their heads and 4 digit fingers.

>>717374052

Haha, you caught me. This is just a test. I love that show. It inspired me to buy a Rokoko suit, even though a lot (if not everything) in that show is hand animated. The goal for now is to make just one scene on that level.

>>717372538

Thanks for the compliment. If you have something to show, I am interested.

>>717358949 (OP)
>want to make a stealth game with a white-haired girl MC
>discover Peripeteia
>panic
>dev on these very threads said it's cool if there's no plagiarism
>relax for a while
>discover Sky Drops
fugg by the time my shit gets off the ground it would already be a generic stealth game lmao

>>717372041
I do plan on adding alternate graphics for the numbers. Things like switches or cards that flip over.

How are you guys handling UI assets? you drawing them up with your mouse? stealing from another game? using ai?

I'm kinda stumped, I want to make sure my game is as visually pleasing as I can but im also not an artist, thank god I learned about motion tweening or I wouldnt be able to do anything I Think

>>717369940
is it you being creative if someone else gives you the idea

>>717358949 (OP)
Getting started on animation. Unusual use case + niche engine make for a lot of pain.

>>717374542
Icons need to be svgs, get inkscape, it's good enough. Boxes and whatnot have to be written in your UI framework. If you just display images, you'll get horrible scaling issues.
For fancier effects you'll likely need to write your own shader code.

And if you're making your own assets, get a pen tablet. You don't need one with a screen, just make it large enough to work with. Test with pen and paper beforehand to see what size you need. Look whenever the new ones come out, then get the previous one on sale.

>>717358949 (OP)
I am testing the waters for network play

What do you think about a first person open world coop syndicate clone with red alert/warcraft 2 styled base building?

I'm not sure about a short term loop but long term is getting other corpos out of town (and committing terrible warcrimes doing so - this includes nerve stapling your own population)

>>717373957
I love the crunchy retro visuals of the game itself, but I feel that your UI and tooltip stuff looks very modern and sleek and juxtaposes with the retro art style.

What method are you using for level design, trench broom with func godot?

>>717375067
thanks anon. Sadly 2D art is the thing I'm the worst at, so I don't know if I'll be able to fix that.
>trench broom with func godot?
exactly! love TB, it's a godsend and I wouldn't be working on my game if not for it

>>717374542
>>717374991
>Icons need to be svgs, get inkscape
I should correct myself: The typical flat icon like hamburger menues, a telephone symbol, the https symbol see in the url field of your browser, those need to be SVGs. If you want fancy displays like the skill icons in WoW then you do need bitmap images, and you'll likely need to draw those.

>>717375186
Maybe render images of your icons and downsample them so they are crunchy and pixelated or something? Or try some Ocarina of Time prerendered style icons?

Just some ideas, it's a small thing.

Are you going to try for the full func godot workflow where you make custom entities and build your whole level in trenchbroom, or just make the levels in trenchbroom and add all interactables and enemies in Godot?

I'm excited to see more info on the blender / godot addon that is supposed become available with the new Blender Studio game that was made with Godot. It would be great to use Blender as the core level design tool and have ways to hook into Godot for greater functionality beyond just marking assets as "-col" or "-noimp".

>>717366404
Looks good but the main character doesn't pop out and differentiate itself enough, visually. I lost track of the MC very fast in that fray.

Art assets aren't that important. Even big companies will release games without them.

>>717358949 (OP)
how do you win the game dev race?

Adding some stop motion/animate on 2's effect. What does /v/ think?

>>717370929
but what money?!!!

>>717375749
well actually they released the game with them, but the art was traced so they removed it

>>717370540
>he wants a kike to make his game's music

>>717375492
>Maybe render images of your icons and downsample them so they are crunchy and pixelated or something? Or try some Ocarina of Time prerendered style icons?
But that's what I'm already doing lol. Maybe they are too high-res?
>Are you going to try for the full func godot workflow where you make custom entities and build your whole level in trenchbroom, or just make the levels in trenchbroom and add all interactables and enemies in Godot?
I'm just making the levels, adding all the other stuff in Godot. Only kinda fancy thing I have is exporting door slots from TB so they are easier to place in Godot.
>I'm excited to see more info on the blender / godot addon that is supposed become available with the new Blender Studio game that was made with Godot. It would be great to use Blender as the core level design tool and have ways to hook into Godot for greater functionality beyond just marking assets as "-col" or "-noimp".
Hey that shit sounds great, never heard of that.

>>717375875
it's either him or Andrew Hulshult, I won't be happy with less

>>717362373
hello pogodev I hope u remember me do u need another artist

>>717372443
Do you have any advice to go from that dejected feeling to bring excited again? I have been working on my game for about the same amount of time, and I have taken a break for the last month. I look at my game after getting this far and I don't see what good I have done, instead I see the enormously long road ahead of me. I need to change my main character among other things, and every single thing takes so long... Heavily just considering cleaning the character controller and documenting stuff better and just selling that, but I feel like that's giving up. I don't know.

>>717375769
Honestly it doesn't work, especially not while everything else is animated normally including her mouth. Making the game run on 30fps is much more natural looking than forced.

I remember a discussion on a certain h-game's d*scord channel where taking an existing 60fps animation and cutting it like that produces dissonant choppy results, while animating on twos "manually" results in a more organic feel, but is harder to pull off unless one is particularly skilled in motion animating.

>>717375769
cute elf but that animation is megashit man

>>717375769
Terrible, I'm sorry. It just looks weird and laggy if everything but the anime girl looks normal.

I think it could work if you rendered at a low framerate but handle input at 60fps. I think Ocarina of Time did something similar.

>>717370807
Looks very promising so far

Where to find character modellers? Please don't say /3/
Would happily commission if serious.

I'm a programmer but:
>can't draw for shit
>can't model
>can't do animations
>can't do sounds

I can probably handle the writing and level design (tho it won't be super high quality stuff). Wat do?

>just use AI bro
I think for some parts it's a viable strat but am I really gonna have AI do all the graphics and sounds for me, I don't think it will work.

>>717376281
>>717376362
>>717376372

Ehh it was worth a try. Thanks for the feedback.

How does Kojima make it work? I don't get it.

>>717376715
It also worked well in Miles Morales with the Spider-Verse suit though it looked weird that was the only thing on twos. But that was animated on twos so the suit itself looked dope.

>>717376648
>I'm a programmer
same here friend
>can't draw for shit
me neither
>can't model
me neither but you can learn, it's easier than drawing
>can't do animations
see above
>can't do sounds
just buy some, or record yourself hitting steaks with a hammer or some shit
>I really gonna have AI do all the graphics and sounds for me, I don't think it will work
it sure won't. It's better to something shitty and noob-like like picrel than having all your assets being AI generated. That way your game will feel consistent and like it has a style, instead of a mishmash of AI stuff.

WIP, still need to make the individual achievement icons and I haven't totally decided on what to do with the third tab yet or if I should just remove it. Considered using it for a boss rematch system or a sidequest tracker.
>>717368201
I don't mind doing the UI stuff, but it's easy to let the codebase for it get way out of hand if you don't plan it out right
>>717374542
I make a mockup over the game screen to get an idea of where things should go, and then just draw/animate any fixed-size elements in Aseprite and then go over it a couple of times with quality passes
Godot lets you do some nice UI skinning/theming options that has made some things easier

>>717376836
>It's better to something shitty and noob-like like picrel than having all your assets being AI generated
This is true though I think people exaggerate how much work it takes to make a decent looking game. Something like Fez for example really doesn't require a lot of artistic talent.

>>717376935
dang i dont think ive seen mirrored soul in this thread for a while

>>717376935
I really like your UI man, fits the setting perfectly which is something most games nowadays don't bother with.
>I think people exaggerate how much work it takes to make a decent looking game
I believe the opposite, it's a lot of work and effort.

>>717377161
2nd part meant for >>717376974

>>717375753
be a better salesman than your peers

>>717377232
>>717377161
>it's a lot of work of effort
Hm, well sure but let me rephrase that. It does take a lot of effort but not as much as I've seen people claim in these threads. You don't even need that much artistic skill, just an eye. Though things get much harder in 3D, I'll say that.

>>717370276
Additionally, here is the Regal Armor. This armor causes enemies to not engage Fygoon (aside from bosses) and doubles his damage output.

>>717377036
It's been out and mostly stable, so there haven't been any "major" developments. We're both about ready to move on to other projects in full.
There's going to be a decent sized patch soon with lots of small tweaks, quality improvements, and bug fixes. Stuff like Cecel now having a unique overworld sprite when he's KOed, or pic related

been cracking at a bullet hell typing game for some months now. it's a bit movement based, as you maybe can tell by the arrows on the HUD. i was inspired by movement shooters and the P meter in the older mario games. rewards you for staying on your toes while typing.

right now the combat feels... just okay. i think i need to add the obvious stuff, like some sort of death animation for the enemy. but also some animations when you type out the correct word, like perhaps some lasers that shoot out of the text input box and go right into your enemy, or something. anything to make it feel like your typing hits real hard.

i've also been composing the music. i really like electro and chiptune sounding stuff, things you'd hear in older flash games.

the area in the webm is a WIP. i'm kind of slacking real hard on environment/level design. i used to tell myself i just didn't like working with tilesets and such but then i look at my non-gamedev drawings and see that i barely put in the effort for any kind of background. everything will still have that green, computer look though. hope i chose a good set of colors.

>>717372443
Same boat. I took a 4 months break to move out to another country, had to stop both deving and exercising. I feel like fucking shit

>>717375013
You should skim the video series here it may be a better approach for you.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZlk2p1eaXOHuU5YUTAOXCvSbOsKRzkiB&si=7FG1zJMEdjF88SYz

>>717377792
cute bug

>>717377365
I'm a certified Fygoon fan.
A Fygooner, if you will.

>>717358949 (OP)
>Why aren't you a gamedev
Because it's a worthless endeavour if you don't have EXTREME passion for videogames. I've already made one and finishing up another and I'm just done, I don't care about any of this anymore. Gamers don't exactly appreciate games as much as they claim to do, and making money off gamedev is impossible if you don't have a lot of capital to start out with.

Working on the finishing touches to the tackle functionality.
Afterwards will be shooting

made it so you can eat your materials. Less healing effect than a potion but useful as a last resort.
>>717377365
very cool, dude looks super happy while wearing his crown. Sounds a bit overpowered tho, is it permanent or some kind of power up?
>>717377556
love those kinds of puzzles in games. Always remind me of playing Lufia II, that game sure had some very cool puzzles.

>>717372443
If you're not bullshitting, use the opportunity to playtest your game. You're not as used to it, so you'll have an easier time catching things needing correction that you subconsciously glossed over.

>>717378589
holy fuck is this a Tecmo Cup-like?

>>717378748
Kinda, its more inspired by Blitzball.

>>717378070
why would you require MMO level server interactions for a game that isn't much more complex than schedule 1 persistence wise?

>>717378293
thanks. she's a favorite of mine.

>>717358949 (OP)
>you don't have to be particularly smart
Lol sure, if you want to make a piece of shit. If not, you better prepare! Ai is a joke and it will NOT make a gane for you.

>>717370996
You obviously learned nothing from the Epstein files.

bros?

>>717380349
>no goblins in sight
meh

>>717380349
where are the lolis?

>>717380349
>look away, look back
>everything melted and completely different

>>717370313
Very strange. The last few weeks I get really bad results. I'll try the offline version then. Might be that the online versions are nerfed.

>>717380349
good for generating sprites

>>717371608
>>717372147
>Terrible, inane dialog and it couldn't keep characters straight.
What now?
How lings the dialogue? Are you using specialised llm or generalised? I found a rather cheap online story generator (likely gpt) and I must say that the structure of dialogues was really good, but the content of course 0/10. Have you tried working emotional beats or the like?
>The ambitious low born mage suddenly became a honorable knight in service to the enemy king, who went from a young megalomaniac demagouge to a kindly old grandpa.
Right... The classic tale, the poor mage gets promoted to honorable Knight, but only if he serves the enemy king (he's a neato grandpa now!).
Try working with closer beats. Maybe outline the story for the llm.

>>717374658
Not necessarily the finished idea, input helps. If I get one cool gunblade x, I might think of something else entirely. Anon above gave a quality post.>>717370341

>>717380349
I'd play this looks cool

>>717371608
>steadily improving with the biggest leaps in performance happening within the last 6 months.
Source:
>we all know it
>I swear
>my ass
>my Nintendo is working for uncle
>I'm pretty sure it's true, I think

>>717372416
>cadaver's perfect knee
... A horse's knee? Radical meds btw

I figured out basic movement, changing sprites based on action/situation, and collision in GML

What do I learn next

>>717374380
Unfortunately it will be one of the last things I do specifically I intend on finishing the real head for my character, import the mesh into metahuman and make a custom head this way. Then create basic face gestures that merely show more life than a dead stare lol.
I like the wave your character does, is rokoko a full body type mocap?

>>717382048
Nah a human's. They died but left their leg in perfect condition so my surgeon could provide me the proper fit.
I dont really buy what doctors say when they tell you xyz oh if you didn't come in at all blah, but my case my leg would have been amputated for going necrotic eventually.

>>717382557
Necrotic damage is serious. I didn't know that these structures can be transplanted. Guess there's some washing process before installment.

>>717382228
Make them shoot stuff so you learn about spawning, pooling, aiming and more.

>>717358949 (OP)
Posted these the other day but im trying to get feedback. Survival Horror Point and click im working on

>>717384271
2

>>717384351
3

>>717384271
Im thinking of adding the ps1 vertex wobble but the assets might be too high poly for that, was going for a prerendered MSDOS look

>>717384271
The shooting mechanic is quite neat, but got a little weird when you clicked a spot out of your LoS. The visuals also look kind of muddy in the two images you posted. I think it's something with how the textures got downscaled, they look extremely grainy and maybe could use some smoothing out. It makes it difficult to look at. The textures in the webm looked good, though.

>>717384869
The pixelization is a post process o i think that grain your seeing is the normal maps conflicting with it, i was tring to use real deep normals so they really show up when the camera is in motion but it does kinda conflict with the style

>>717369258
yea, it wasn't amazing nor did I expect much. I just did a game to see if I could, and yeah as op says its ez (if its rpgmaker and it isnt amazing).
>>717369837
>ks
kickstarter? scamming that many ppl is beyond my capabilities.

>>717360754
For the love of God dude please. I always see you here you obviously know what ure doing, cut down on it, get realistic with the scope, make some money and get into a position where you can get creative
Youre not gonna be able to keep this up

>>717373503
As far as I can tell no one has

>>717384271
good art

Still cant reveal shit due to NDA but i'm fucking sick, so no progress.
>>717366404
Pretty cool, the effects remind me of those in midnight wanderers.

>>717376569
Xitter, just make sure they aren't troons or they'll make your life hell.

>>717378669
You start out with the Casual Armor since it is Fygoon's suit of choice and the other armor sets are kept in Fortress Fygoon. The issue is that the other suits of armor are locked in display cases made of an indestructible, transparent material. How do you unlock it? With a key, of course…but the keys are scattered around Frydar Island for some reason (haven’t thought of why) while the young Dragon was gone, so you have to explore different areas and hidden caves to find the keys you need.
Simply put: they're overpowered, but you need to find them first and it's your choice to equip them. Now if you really want overpowered, wait until I implement the Steam Armor.

>>717388324
Dont fucking talk to me.

>>717358949 (OP)
I stopped developing my game because there's a good chance I won't be able to put it up on Steam or Itch.io, and I doubt that issue is going to be fixed by the time it's done.

>>717388402
Shut the fuck up, peon. Grovel before your true master.

>>717388469
Dont talk to me you waste of semen.

>>717388751
Kneel before me, you mentally feeble consumer. Your opinion does not matter for you are a gameless peasant.
You are free to prove otherwise.

>>717388981
You are a bastard goblin mutt breed of russian and mexican, the only thing you rule in is your furry fantasy.

>accidentally trigger a bug
>haven't been able to replicate it since

>>717389171
>Imagine being such a self-loathing waste you cannot look in the mirror and be proud of what stares back
Sucks to be you, loser. How about you go scream for Carmen to make you some chicken tendies while you get your mod buddies to ban me for "off-topic".
By the way, you still have no game.

>>717389283
becky...

>>717389435
No, sucks to be
<------this thing.

>>717358949 (OP)
I dont understand how coding work
I dont know what is used for creating rpg maker character sprites
Im retarded
Can you help my with these problemes?

>>717389535
>He has to slightly crop the image just to make a point
I have yet to see your game, peon.

>>717389546
>I dont know what is used for creating rpg maker character sprites
You can edit that shit in Mspaint, or at least it was like that.

>>717389623
I wish i could crop your miserable goblino ass out of existence.

I wanna get into it.
Is it true that I should start small? How small? I wanna make a little game where you roll a die and move on a board and stuff happens
...that sounds boring though

If you hate Fygoon, you look like this.
Do you really want to look like this?

>>717389649
For the pixel stuff
How?
Never saw anything like that

>posting the janny
I made him cry

>Post the typical Fygoon hater
>The posting stops
The silence is deafening. Another W for the books.

>>717389823
both fygoon and this dude look like retarded mutts
is this really what the average /v/ poster looks like now?

>>717390028
Post hand, Jamal.

>>717390027
>Another W
Sorry maam, this is a weapons grade L.

>>717390084
I will take that as a yes

>>717389283
sometimes the bug is in the engine
>>717389839
export from the engine, open with ms paint, try editing the sprites slightly until youre used to how it works, import back into rpgm

>>717389283
kill yourself

>>717389839
In an age where you can look up tutorials on youtube you choose to be retarded, that's dedication.

>>717376083
Working on my game devolved to a point of negative productivity - I was so out of it that I was breaking things and moving backwards, not sleeping because I was so stressed out and angry at myself - so I just stopped working on it for a while until I felt like I wanted to return to it again. When I started daydreaming about it again I knew it was okay to go back. Now I'm looking at all the things I was so autistically furious over and I just think I was crazy. I spent half a year tweaking a few shaders because they had to be PERFECT in every scenario. What an absurd waste of time.

>>717390192
>He's not posting his black ass hand
kwab

>>717390196
Nevermind, it was my code. I managed to successfully replicate the bug after several tries.

>Post the spammer crying on livestream when his mom comes in
>Posting ends
LMAOOOOO

>>717390493
>mfw

>>717358949 (OP)
> its not the 90s anymore you don't have to be particularly smart.
If you want to make good games you kind of have to be. I thought I could get by with just being a code monkey but nah you have to be decent at math as well as knowing how to use blender and etc do your game doesn’t look like smelly dog shit

Imagine hating gamedev threads so much that you spam them just to have the mods delete them. Guess what?
Not using faggydaggy.

>>717390404
nice

>>717390678
Fagoon has to pollute everywhere it goes

Who is this Fagoon nigga you guys talk about constantly

>>717390780
>it
Brodie really thinks I'm Lord Voldemort McPalpatine or something. How sad that this fool's only human interaction is through a screen.

>>717390780
just ignore him, thread was going well when nobody was replying to him

>>717390895
You don't even have a game, retard. The thread was just fine without (You) being a nodev loser posting anime.

>>717390857
>

Nodevs must really fear their own faces if they think others are the same.

>>717391149
You're not just ugly you're also are a meat puppet with lifeless eyes, i don't know what mexican ritual your parents used to bring you into existence but you are just an animated thing without the spark of life and your bubsy 3d clone reflect that.

thinking about picking up gamemaker
where do I find good tutorials/resources

>>717392156
Up your ass, ask your gay boyfriend to get them for you.

>>717391959
You cannot even fathom the idea of creation by virtue of not having a game to call your own. Your pitiful existence is defined by the brands you wear like a billboard and not by your accomplishments or things you made.
Prove me wrong.

>>717392512
Shut up, empty husk.

>>717392297
he only found unreal stuff up there
what do I do now?

>>717392794
Put it back in

>>717392602
Whelp. I would ask you to imagine not having the capability of creating, but asking you to even attempt to imagine is enough to bring the cum in your brain cavity to a rolling boil.

>>717393086
You keep ripping off rare games and calling them your own, fag.

>>717393263
Again, you have no game.

>>717380349
not worried about it, these tech demos are just to build hype for investment money.
this is like getting worried about FMV making traditional video games obsolete because it solved 100% realistic graphics.

Actually you do

>>717393310
You have no soul, you have no life, this mutt is a total hack.

>>717393876
You have no game. No achievements. Your life is a waste, and you waste it on me.
Honestly, I'm flattered by your die hard hatred, ban evader.

>>717394064
This is neat, I like it. Saw the other vids too with the girl that was posted a few days ago.

>>717394064
Cute.

>>717393982
But enough about you.

>>717395039
>*sobs* n…no u!
Your retorts are beginning to suck.

>>717395271
Suck you say? Did I hear you wanna go… sucky sucky? You want my Loli…pop, kid? Do ya? Ok… alright…. Here we “go” now. Ok, you su— oh lord, you can suck good. How’s is it down the— aw jeepers. Why do you suck so good. LORDY. Keep gagging on my dick that it’s it, slut. Keep it buried. Jeez… oh god… keep it up, baby, keep it up ke— JESUS HELP ME….

Look it’s all over your face…

>>717376648
I'm the opposite. Can draw and animate kinda, but totally new to programming. I'm fortunate that I have a friend that codes and chat gpt to learn from. Just dive in to art. It's a hard uphill battle and you'll never feel good enough but just do it. Only study fundamentals and shit you actually like. Anyone can cook. Good luck.

>>717395271
You are proud of a turd you barely put any effort into, it's a mockery of rare games and to boot your parents made you out of spite, you are a blight upon this world and I'm happy you are an annoying retard, that way you won't reproduce even for pity, you look like you would scare all the monsters in the world.

>>717395869
>you look like you would scare all the monsters in the world
Oh so that's why you hate me; just as a vampire detests the sun out of fear, you're just afraid of me. Good to know I live rent free in your head.
Anyway, back to work.

>>717396135
You never worked a day in your life, you live off your daddy's krokodil racket.

Playing with the idea of using prerendered stories for my 2D MMO. There's currently no animation, and this seems to be the only practical way to do it (since your gear is shown on your character). That means rapidly learning enough about 3D modelling/animation.

And even then, it's not clear that it'll be practical:
16 frames × 32-bit bitmap × 10 animations × 108×108 pixels × 8 directions = 57MB of sprites in memory per on-screen character.

>>717384271
UE4 or UE5?

are there any good courses on doing this shit on udemy or something? ideally with a focus on learning coding

>>717399127
UE5

>>717384271
Worked on the Player Character tonight

>>717400459
Nameless Witch Hunter Girl

>>717366286
You're 10 years too late, silly goose.
Game Maker has been dead for a while.
The thing is that YoYo Games kept erasing previous versions and everything associated with them, so people would be forced to buy latest, more expensive versions.
When they moved to subscription model in 2021, everyone just fucked off.
In 2022 they rebranded from "Studio 2" to just "GameMaker" and wiped Studio 2 associated content eventually closing down Marketplace in 2024.
The Marketplace, where you could get various projects and extensions is still down a year later; userbase is decimated; tutorials made from previous versions are outdated and incompatible with current GM.
It's over.
The games that you still see coming out on it are from people who got sucked into it years ago and been stuck making them for years.
Do yourself a favor and move on to Godot or Unity instead.

>>717400459
>UE5
I knew it already, there was stuttering at the start which gave it away. Only needed a confirmation. Wish it wasn't such a horribly optimized engine, glad I dodged a bullet and went for UE4 instead.
Best of luck anon

>>717400739
desu its probably my pc, had to replace the power supply and its been iffy since then

All survival-open-world-craft-build slop seems to use the same building system for base construction. Is it just some unity asset or library? How does one steal this power for their own slop?

>>717401071
its the og vanilla rust system, theres probably hundreds of youtube videos on how to do it. I think i got a free for the month unreal asset that does it

Demo for my Fish Gun Game is finally out.

https://dmcaguy.itch.io/fish

huh?

>>717380349
>no numbers to autism over
I sleep

Changed by turn order from turn-based to time based. So rather than using all of your Equipment in order and then you attack, they all have their own individual time counters, so it's more of a dynamic battle.

gdscript vs c# pros and cons? can you make a full 3d godot game with gdscript and not have it suffer performancewise?

>>717358949 (OP)
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>>717403798
Pros: you can make a game in either
Cons: you'll never make a game if you keep posting the same retarded question

>>717394064
>Based on Monkey Ball the arcade game
>Stops you in place to have you watch the cutscene
GAMEPLAY DENSITY would never look at breaks and say that's good game design. You need to understand arcades more.

Eat shit fagoon a real legend has entered the thread
>>717403963
Yay :3 fruffi

name

>>717358949 (OP)
I keep procrastinating to stack more $$$ at my 9-5

>>717366983
>pic
Shit I thought you retired years ago

>>717358949 (OP)
I wanna build a good and short Classicvania game that won't take me more then 6 months on ClickTeam Fusion, any advices or good tutorials?

Do you think making a binding of Issac clone is a good idea?

>>717400540
You're right about some of that (the marketplace being fucked is ridiculous) but GM is still super easy to use, pretty stable, and probably best to use for 2d games.

>>717358949 (OP)
no

>>717358949 (OP)
>Why aren't you a gamedev? i
I'm a lazy fucker and I have 0 relevant skills. There is no cure for lazyness I'm afraid.

>>717410915
>There is no cure for lazyness I'm afraid.
Ritalin?

>>717358949 (OP)
Dont know how to code but I can draw

Do people still like pixel games?

>>717361035
>>717363346
Im just hoping at some point I'll be able to pay someone to work on my game. I have a pretty good idea for the design and the aesthetic, but I have no code skills to speak of, and in general, its hard to muster up enough cash for anything but very part time gig work. I think everyone would love my game if I could stick the landing, but I chose the worst game type to develop. theres nothing off the shelf about it.

>>717370929
>>717370540
I wanted to get itoki hana to do my music but I hear shes actually toby fox's girlfriend so I basically have no chance.

guys I have a basic writing animation. how could i make the hand follow the mouse in unity?
with an IK rig?

>>717358949 (OP)
Trying to model hair is pissing me off
It always looks like playdough

>>717403963
this schizophrenic is always a blackpill to me because the game looks so awful and it really seems like hes an eternal cris basket case but this picture actually has some asethetic charm even if the game never will.

>>717386736
i am getting money from it

>>717385150
Ye, ks. He seems to fare well.

>>717390196
>sometimes the bug is in the engine
Doesn't matter, it's your problem now. Work around it.

>>717359282
>a Lavatory of Indians mashing keyboards
yeah that'll make some quality content

Say I'm a neet bored out of my mind with too much free time and also no motivation for anything.
Where would I start if I wanted to get into gamedev? Learning C# or C++ somewhere online first?

>>717412908
>no motivation for anything.
>Where would I start if I wanted to get into gamedev?
get some motivation otherwise you won't do shit

>>717413036
honestly you're probably right, but "getting some motivation" seems even more difficult than potentially forcing myself to work on something every now and then

>>717412203
explain

>>717415384
when people play my game i get paid for it

it's really dull to do this for a living with products you don't particularly like, but I guess it's good practice. you do make good friends that are actually game devs

>>717366404
Best proto-game in this thread. Well done so far.

>>717415464
do you have many games on there or just one?

>>717359282
only if you ask the AI to teach you and do the heavy lifting yourself
can't imagine letting them do all the work

>>717413279
i was like that until i got this job. now im kinda obligated to show up. i still miss some days out of exhaustion, but there are several trains of thought helping this out.
1. be kind to yourself
youre not gonna suddenly become some extremely motivated hyper-efficient developer. give yourself some time to build something up no matter how small. a consistent sleep schedule, a nice exercise routine? some fun food you could cook (this is amazing btw. cooking is fucking therapeutic.), and just allocate 10 mins a day to studying or reading.

>>717415579
a couple more games but it's the majority

>>717415725
what platform is that?

>>717415725
does it tell you how popular your game is compared to the others? I wonder if you're a top performing dev or is that sort of income more achievable

>>717415748
s&box

>>717415810
the devs with the highest income is like $4k a month at the moment so i'm pretty far down

>>717415998
I'd say you're in top 1-2% actually. 90% of people are probably earning less than a dollar.

>>717416121
it's possible, we don't know how the curve looks like, definitely not linear

>>717384271
what the hell? looks cool anon, i would dial down the particle effects and the light from the muzzle, it makes it look like an action game

>>717415998
oh shit maybe this is worth a look

>>717416121
>>717416164
that might be but even making some money through this would be cool

>>717416268
it's a really nice engine to work with but a lot of people are divided on it. as a game developer it feels like a good unity engine

>>717412908
I disagree with the other guy, in that you need motivation to do this. You can just do it because it sounds like fun. You don't need a good reason to do anything in life IMO, it can just be fun to do it.

Yeah, just do whatever sounds fun. Keep in mind that most language-specific courses are going to have you doing a bunch of shit that you'll never use in gamedev, you're better off looking for an engine-specific 101 course then download some demo/sample projects to look through and see how they handle basic mechanical implementation and you're basically good to rumble, make some stuff, join some jams, live a more fun life than 99% of neets automatically.

Or maybe you'll find that it's the language that's more interesting and you'll end up doing softwaredev tournies or hackathons or whatever.

>>717416310
I guess people don't like that you can't yet release standalone games with it?

>>717417073
nah that's the least of people's worries, moreso that they have fomo microtransation cosmetics and an ugly default player model to some

>>717416525
>You can just do it because it sounds like fun
That's called "motivation"

>>717417258
Tell that to the guy who replied to "I feel like doing this, might be fun" with "get some motivation".
But I agree. Just think people take this motivation and discipline stuff too seriously. Doesn't mean you need some hyper-dedicated no-pain-no-gain mindset, "sounds like fun" works for both.

>>717401995
>firing bullets including the casing

not bad
I think it would even be better if the fish didnt have legs and just hovered around

>>717401995
>>717418196
give him a straw cowboy hat

>>717358949 (OP)
>you don't have to be particularly smart
yes and no
It's incredibly motivating to see PirateSoftware's retard code is good enough for a working game
if that works I can do better!
On the other hand.. there's an initial learning curve for the basics that takes a long ass time, i.e. tutorial hell
so that means you can't be completely braindead and you have to have some know-how

I will get there eventually, fellow anon-devs, as will you
I'm currently on the code monkey kitchen chaos tutorial..

>>717370807
>player needs to hallucinate to see some shit in the noise and play

>>717418196
I think the casings are fittingly absurd and worth people itching to point it out

>>717386736
>>717412203
don't let the thread distract you from the fact that this anondev absolutely ANNIHILATED this retard

>>717401995
pull the camera back you NIGGER

>>717401995
looks fucking awesome, hope it has some difficult cupheadish bosses or something

>>717358949 (OP)
Shitty career where corpos take advantage of you "doing what you love" to force you into shitty hours with uncompetitive pay and zero job security. Be a regular software engineer and work in the defense industry. Bonus: there are no jeets or troons at my company because you need to be a citizen and it's heckin racist I guess.

>>717358949 (OP)
>the engine does like 90% of the work.

on what fucking planet are you living?

>>717423515
it's just a hobby fren

>>717358949 (OP)
I’d only become a game dev if I had the talent/knowledge to make my own engine.
The entire industry is so oversaturated with complete shitters these days that it isn’t worth getting into unless you have supreme talent.

>>717358949 (OP)
the filter now is knowing marketing & psychology
your game ideas probably suck and you certainly have no idea how to drive exposure towards your game
you'll dump your shitty unfinished tech demo onto steam and it'll flop horrendously
don't bother

>>717424016
>money money money
you are either poor, don't have any sort of creative desires, or both.

>>717423571
planet unity

>>717424016
YouTubers will never reply to emails even if you are actively trying to market and send emails.
The outcome of your game has already been decided and your actions cannot change that.

>Andrew Hulshult says he's not interested
>Trent Rezor is ghosting me
>Meguro replied but I can't read japanese
damn...

>>717425384
Sending one email is never enough. If you hound them enough (and grease their palms a bit with some dough) they'll be sure to take a look.
Make yourself known. The greats never let fate decide, they decide for themselves.

>>717425384
wrong
I got a bunch of youtubers to play my game by sending them keys, you do gotta select youtubers that plays similar games to yours tho

>>717425684
YouTubers care only about the view count. How convenient that this guy waited for Branno to get 100 reviews before he actually played his game. The whole race is like this.

>>717425476
>Meguro replied but I can't read japanese
how did you send a message in the first place then
and why the fuck are you not using one of the million of translation options available to read the message

>>717426090
>how did you send a message in the first place then
very carefully
>and why the fuck are you not using one of the million of translation options available to read the message
that would feel kind of impersonal and disrespectful don't you think

>>717426326
did you type your original message in japanese yes or no
if you didn't then that means he used a translation software to read it

>>717425947
>only care about the viewcount
>youtuber is up to part 15 of gungeon videos, of which 3 are in the screenshot, and aren't even breaking 250 views

>>717358949 (OP)
I'm still learning c++

>>717422065
it is kind of a wack project though to be fair, i don't really have a scope

No SICP = Not gonna make it

>>717379079
Because it is ultra retarded to make a multi-player game that way anon. Lag lag lag is all youll get. Having a dedicated server beats all forms of internal ue replication.

bump

>just finalized buying a cabin in the countryside
>tfw booked time off at the end of this month off work
>gonna get it all set it up how I want to and just make my stupid little game, and not see another soul for a full week

Life is good bros

>>717431925
I should rent a place for a week and just code there.
No games installed on my laptop. No internet connection. No AI. Just me and my project having an intimate time.

I'm not a coder, as far as I remember I was horrible at math during all of my secondary school (Middle School/High School) and I don't remember much of it. I barely consider myself an artist and my project was NSFW so it got taken down by itch admins..

>>717432217
i'm horrible at math but still manage to code

>>717432217
ditto.

>>717431925
>>717432120
hey, i know that trope

>>717434582
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qS9eJEc608I

>>717358949 (OP)
been working with 3d low poly modelling lately
its pretty addictive
will probably present what I made to /v/ in a week or two
have to get a bit more accustomed to the workflow

>>717431925
>>717432120
there's something about limiting yourself from the available distractions like games and internet

when the only option you have is work on your game it starts being very enticing when you can do it or you can do nothing

>>717358949 (OP)
Boys, I think I'm gonna try to make a vibeo game again

>>717436096
do, there is no try

the Buckshot Roulette dev also made a 5 games collection of like 5 to 10 minutes horror games
free on steam, check it out to get a sense of how simple a game project can be

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2433730/Unsorted_Horror/

>>717425572
Kiss my ass.

>>717412567
kickstarter is blocked on my country

>>717425384
If a youtuber doesn't play your game out of their own volition you're shit out of luck, which reminds me i should tell him about our last build.

I will make my game no matter the (social) cost

>>717438661
>AI Overview
>Kickstarter is not banned, but it's not available in every country. Project creation on Kickstarter is currently limited to creators in 25 countries: If you're not in one of these countries, you can't launch a project directly on Kickstarter.

weird, never knew

>>717380349
This is more doomer fuel for artists than game devs.

Working on boss fights for my game, living the process.

>>717439703
*Loving

>>717358949 (OP)
Concept :
A dating sim where you are a fat ugly bastard except it wouldn't be pornographic, it would be played straight as a guy with good sentiments wanting to get a cute girlfriend. There could be sex scenes at the end of each route but they would be plain vanilla, no NTR, mindbreak or any of that stuff.

Would you play it?

>>717439285
>This is more doomer fuel for artists
Artists are just the first in the chopping block and everyone else will soon follow. If you can just generate a game why pay you for it when i can just skip you and generate it myself?

workin on a crit cutout effect

>>717436894
i'm not the type of person that finds these games engaging

>>717439953
When the industry is dominated by ai slop, handcrafted art will become more sought after.

>>717358949 (OP)
>its easy, the engine does like 90% of the work.
obviously written by someone who hasn't developed on Stride

>>717358949 (OP)
I keep second guessing myself and thinking I'm being too ambitious. I just want to do an RPG. Should I just say fuck it and do an RPG Maker porn game?

>>717439953
NTA but AI isn’t there (YET). I don’t think it will take too long until it is though. Unfortunately our generation won’t be able to enjoy its benefits and will probably have to fight like hell for quite some time.

Maybe in the 2100’s, people will finally have rights again and actually enjoy all this shit. Right now we’re in the rockerfeller era equivalent.

>>717439953
Because games need to evolve to stay relevant. Maybe a really good AI in the future can generate a fun game, but any games after that will have people say "oh this is just like that other game from that other AI". AI can't keep things fresh.

>>717439989
Damn that's nice

i originally only supported one submenu but then i rewrote it to do it correctly, not that i expect to need this many submenus

>>717442258
I still don't know what's your game about

>>717437967
>The ban evader returned

>>717442494
Educational stuff.

>"Just write your own engine with OpenGL, bro!!!"
>4 years of work
>At LEAST monthly 12 hour dev streams
>Multiple rewrites
>Still not a lot to show for it, gameplay wise

People like this will NEVER ship a game, they only want to impress turboautists who get nothing done

>>717442774
And they're probably making bank off of donos and subs. So who's the real loser here?

>>717443467
Sure, but they're an exception. Most of the retards who fall for the OpenGL trap are not making ad revenue

I just want to code already but am getting fucking cock blocked by setting up a proper control rig for my character in UE.. fucking frustrating

autism

>>717442774
yeah maybe but he's a handsome sexhaver and you aren't

>>717443467
Where's the game?
>b-but
Where is it?

>>717444929
>muh artistic integrity

You ARE making a crafty buildy strategy simulation game right?

>>717445571
Yes. My game doesn't get into festivals because it apparently has no genre or theme. Apparently at least.

>>717445571
Reddit and press work?

>>717445571
I feel like this has some bias, like, they started on twitter and that helped it get noticed on other platforms.

>>717441621
ur nice :>

progress: finally got my summer vacation approved :)

>>717445230
I want to make a game, not con losers through youtube videos. I'm not going to write an engine.

>>717443970
I want to explore all those places

>>717428268
but then you should just make a dedicated server
an mmo requires login servers and a database, which is a whole different beast


>>717443970
>slimy pits
>murky crater
>misty grotto

Is this a sex game?

>>717445824
Thanks, but I don't even have a game yet...

Finally understand the FABRIK algorithm.

>>717445571
how many wishlists will posting here earn me?

>>717448754
none
but it will get you jealousy and crab bucket behavior if you ever finish anything

>>717448534
cool, i was looking into that, but then just decided to use someone else's plugin

Do I bother with a dictionary if I'm going to use it for a ~10 element list? I don't want duplicates on the list.

>>717449415
Yes. You might expand it in the future and this way you'll be ready. Always design your stuff to be scalable (without going overboard with overdesigning shit you'll never use)

>>717449686
Well I added one, and one problem is that Unity doesn't serialize them by default, so I can't see the values inside of it anymore.
But I can just have both a List and Dictionary for debugging purposes.

>>717358949 (OP)
something happened to my brain and i didn't do anything with my life for around 4 month. im trying desperately to hit the reset button in my mind so i can make stuff again

>>717449686
The parentheses are good. Always ask if you really think you need a flexible system, or if you only fathom ever needing the system to do one or two things. You're making a framework for yourself, not a commercial engine.
But yes, scalability in general is grand.

>>717439937
Kill yourself

>>717439989
That the tank commander game?

>>717448534
do all ropes in video games use this algorithm? all the decent ones any way, right? I instantly recognized Dark Messiah in your webm.

>>717450779
Why so angry, friend? Plus sized men also need love.

>learn to code
>realize there’s more to making games than coding
What the fuck bros, why wasn’t I told?

>>717451216
find a buddy who fufills another role

>>717366983
name of game?

>>717439937
depends, is the protag also a loser with no social connections so I can actually relate?

>>717451216
>enjoy making character/weapon models and art
>place them all in a plain test area
>finish coding essential systems
>realize I now have to start modelling and designing the actual world and environments
>absolutely hate it
I hate it so much that I push it out of my mind completely and when I'm forced to face it, I despair.

>>717451939
Just make a game without animations or anything too hard for you to work on. You're making an indie game not an AAA game

>>717452107
been there and shit sucks anon, wish you a fast recovery!

playing around with the idea of the player having a lantern that he can turn on or off whenver they like, so here's some combat in the dark. Please don't mind the light leaks, the current light map (and the map itself) are fucked.

>>717452557
dude your game looks so fucking good in that lighting great job

>>717452227
Thanks anon, for now im writing down what needs to get done later so I can remember after I sober up a bit lol.

>>717451748
Haven't thought about it but sure. why not? It's a fantasy after all.

>>717452557
You have a spot light and a point light in there? Looks weird with the spot light swinging around.

>>717452834
thanks anon, glad you like it. Did nothing special, just bake the lightmap for some nice full darkness to contrast with the dim light of the lamp.
>>717453202
yeah I'm messing around for now and I agree that it looks weird. Will try having it being more static, but most probably will end up removing the spot light and only leave the point.

>>717358949 (OP)
wanna go with a pseudo-chibi style, whats the best way to change proportions properly and quickly? should i add a skeleton for that?
https://files.catbox.moe/v5rk2v.png

>>717453508
If you wanna go full autism put a rigidbody lantern on his hip with a joint so it can wiggle around when you move.

>>717453515
I think the rig would need to be something that supports that sort of scaling to work properly.

Scaling a normally proportioned model will likely lead to odd looks. I'd say you're better off making a new model from scratch.

>>717366404
Ever played One-Finger-Death-Punch?
If you can get the ball to feel and behave like the spiked ball in it, I'm fucking buying your game just for it.

>>717370807
>someone is remaking "Lost In The Static", but with colors.
Neat.

>>717375769
This is fucking horrible. Please don't.

>>717411846
>but this picture actually has some asethetic charm even if the game never will.
That's from Genshin Impact tho, not something he did himself.

>>717375769
this doesn't look good but throttling animations on distant actors is a common optimization technique so you might still have a use for the feature.

>>717404042
like every monkey ball game has cutscenes

>>717442596
Kiss my ass, nigger.

Right now, I'm making the trailer for my game, all done within the Unity engine.

It's pretty annoying because I cannot use Unity's built-in animation or timeline due to the fact that I wrote my own URP which cannot be controlled via the animation window or timeline, and most of the trailer utilizes the post processing and FX I created.

Game is an exploring game, I've shared it here before. Not today, however. Too busy, sorry fellas.

>>717358949 (OP)
Which srpg has the best elemental (damage) system?

>>717456043
Devil Survivor because SMT rules

>>717452557
>>717453202
I see a magical shield lighting up the environment. I love it!

>>717452557
Holy fuck do you not have an atom of originality in you? Embarrassing.

>>717375769
What's the goal? Is this the finished scene? Experimented with stop motion myself, asked around here and the other boards, too. It's as the other anon said: you need to be skilled to make it work. Unsure what your goal is. From what I see, stop motion will never work with this anine look.

>>717452557
>that shield bash
Lookin fkn great anon.

>>717376569
Online? Discord? Fiverr? Look for job websites where people put their expertise up or go to local computer meetings.

>>717456121
>magical shield lighting up the environment
kino idea, would be super nice to use that on a boss maybe. I'll write it down, ty!
>>717456194
I'm not trying to re-invent the wheel anon. Just making the game I want to play.
If Capcom wouldn't have fumbled DD2 so fucking bad I probably wouldn't be here lol.
>>717456394
thanks! I want to change the animation of the shield bash, give it a bit more weight by making the player pull the shield back more and waiting a second, but I'm busy with items and inventory stuff and haven't been able to do it yet.

>>717375769
you aren't doing it right, anono. you look like you are freezing or reducing fps. You need to set up a stepped timer and then create fake keyframes in your constructor.
other wise it looks choppy like on your webm.

also, for a stop motion, you need to be careful with the animations because the way in which stop motion film is animated is much, much different than 2D or 3D animations.

>>717456656
>give it a bit more weight by making the player pull the shield back more and waiting a second
Be careful with that, anon. Too much windup or buildup can very easily cross over into annoying and unsatisfying 'input lag' territory, if the attack's power doesn't match it.

>>717442774
Kek. This guy should be brought up by default whenever someone talks about "muh make your own engine duh". To see this shit and still say that is as retarded as it gets.

>>717456842
>also, for a stop motion, you need to be careful with the animations because the way in which stop motion film is animated is much, much different than 2D or 3D animations.
**as in, the movement is handle different.

If you want a real stop motion look you need to also create the animation. You cannot get it look good with mixamo anims or whatever because the way that they are move is not how stop motion or clay mation will look.

further you need to also step everything else at the same rate, otherwise the player will notice inconsistent. See your particles? Your waterfall? too fast.
but, do you know even how to create a stepped time function for those? Ask yourself that first before you proceed on the rig anims.

>>717456861
agree, that worries me. Would need to keep the animation the same length of the current one, maybe 1 or 2 frames more at most, it wouldn't feel very good. Another option would be to have 2 shield bashes, a normal one by pressing the button, and a more powerful one that's done when holding down the button. Might be cool since I have normal and heavy enemies, and the charged shield bash could throw away even heavy enemies. But yeah I still have to try and decide on that.

>>717400540
GameMaker was used to make UFO50. If it's good enough for them, it's good enough for me.

>>717450936
Some but not all, FABRIK, Forward and Backwards Reaching Inverse Kinematics, is but one many IK algorithms, but was the easiest for me to conceptually understand.

Besides FABRIK for Inverse Kinematics Cyclic Coordinate Descent (CCD), Jacobian Inverse Kinematics, and Analytical Inverse Kinematics. Of these only FABRIK and CCD are fast enough for games.

Also Verlet Integration is good for ropes, but that a different can of worms, I think.

This video made the algorithm it click for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOR0kO-UXsI

>>717456035
Post it cunt.
Mfka takes 1 screen shot or gif..

>>717456450
>Online?
Yeah obviously, I'm asking for places not a vague statement.
>Discord?
Sounds great if you have some server names, but asking d*scord is slightly concerning if I end up with a schizo despite having a good art style.
>Fiverr?
I tried searching here before but didn't find any results, not sure what I initially searched for but now I'm getting results. I'll look here again.
Sadly there are mostly jeets or AI sloppers which is a shame.
>Look for job websites where people put their expertise up or go to local computer meetings.
Same as Fiverr, with the caveat that job websites seem more like full-on employment which I'm not able to accommodate for now. Local is not a option because our market is small and are filled with opportunist AI sloppers.

Not bashing your answer, I just expected specific sites or groups, though I might be of the impression that freelance 3D modellers are as prominently advertised online like drawfags and commission artists.

>>717435835
you are a retarded nigger for linking to a shitty narrated reupload of the interview instead of the interview itself. they didnt even have the origional video link in the description
kys, immediately

>>717456194
What the hell is your problem anon, at least goblinbro is making something coherent.

>>717376569
hire me :)

>>717457646
if your desperate you could probably check f95 i guess

>>717457068
>UFO50.
that game started development in 2016

>>717457715
Something coherent does not fill a thread with 200 replies. The game needs to make anons tick to have a chance in today’s landscape. That goes for everyone.

>go to look up how to rig a model for animation before importing it into unity
>There's no definitive way to do it, it boils down to personal preference
This is going to drive me crazy

>>717457964
Use autorigpro in blender. It will save you all the pain of rigging.

>>717457249
https://youtu.be/4FL4GORUTSM?si=GUx73TzUlGob1M8y

>>717457774
And it still felt great to play when it came out last year, didn't it? Nothing I want to make is more complex than what was in that collection.

>>717457249
alright, heres a 10 second webm

>>717457059
The guy who animated Destiny for Bungie had a pretty good rule for his melee animation that I follow to this day since that game is hailed to this day for having satisfying and impactful first person gameplay. Your game is third person, so YMMV
>doesn't start from idle, idle would be something like -2 rather than 1 in the keyframes
>frame 3 is the 'anticipation pose', the part where your character has primed his muscles for the melee swing
>frame 5 is the 'hit pose', this is the exact frame where your melee connects with the enemy
>rest of the animation is winding down/recovering and may be a longer animation up to 30 frames even, how long you want it becomes a question of game design
And his previous standard in Halo games was that frame 3 was always the 'hit pose'.
Of course it's strange to bring up exact keyframes because none of this stuff is universal, but I think Destiny/Halo melee was always an impactful and satisfying "I'm gonna need you to piss off right now" move.
Your second option reminds me of Smash Bros, you could charge side special/smash attacks in that game for extra impact and they always had great effects to go along with them.

>>717442723
Are you targeting education software publishers or is this going on Steam?

>>717458261
Ah no, I didn't explain that very well. It's a game, it's more of a dark satire, not actual educational software. I'll probably put it on team and Itch for free.

>>717405564
It's an old screenshot from January I think. I made progress recently though.
>>717451551
lolivania

>>717450881
yes

>>717456043
Depends but I really liked what Wakfu did with theirs.
>four elements, fire/water/earth/wind
>each class has access to spells from 3 of them
>each fills a different niche - fire does damage over time and buffs, earth does damage reductions and steals movement points, etc
>you can build around 1 element to do 100% possible DPT, 2 for roughly 90% of that, or 3 for 80%, sacrificing raw damage for versatility and easier time against resistant enemies
>companion NPCs were either one or two element, with only a few skills compared to player characters, but their skills changed effects depending on what their highest element powers were (pic rel as example)
>companions could change their dominant element with skills during combat, dual element ones would swap their two main elements, solo element could change what their secondary is

>>717457903
Who cares what draws (yous) on 4chan what a low bar.

>>717458773
Also example of dual element character, who switched between being damage-oriented and a tank based on whether he was fire or earth focused at the moment.

you're not particularly wrong. all you have to do now is release a game with 90% of the features gone (No Man's Sky, Cyberpunk), then update the game a little bit while changing nothing, and/or make a random spinoff show with shitty music. then you will have a billion dollars

>>717458704
Based. Steam/Itch link?

>>717459254
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2835890/SHIMAPANZER_STRIKE/

>>717459287
hey I remember this one. Good job on those girls man they sure look cute.

>>717459287
>shimapanzer
that's genius

>>717459287
I missed an A there and expected monkeys

>>717459463
thanks, im very happy with how they came out too. all those years of iterating were worth it :>

>>717459581
:>

>>717373957
looks like BotW but if it released in the 90s

>>717459698
yeah also that webm of "look commander I break my record" in the pool gave me an erection so, if that's intended, then good job

>>717456043
Not sure if "s"RPG, but Genshin's.
Elements don't much on their own, but do react with each other.
This mean swapping one character is a team can completely change which elemental chain reactions you create, and how you need to play the team & how much damage it will do.

>>717459894
i follow a simple philosophy, it's not an anime game without significant amounts of fanservice.

>>717459620
>Chimpanzer
>you're a chimp driving a tank
there's your next game idea

>>717443467
>And they're probably making bank off of donos and subs.

Big doubt, the only people who sub/donate are gooners and if you aren't stringing them along with monthly coom content/ degen discord access then you aren't making anything.

>>717451939
You don't hate it, what you hate is open world bullshit because it's really hard to think of things to fill the space with.

rigging animations coding are all clicking environment i'm just gonna use free assets, what i'm stuck on is sculpting the monsters, i just can't do it, any hacks or shortcuts?

>>717454264
It's just tiles, but I did make pong with colorful static once.
>>717419229
was gonna mention what the other guy said
>>717376541
thanks, I almost got the navmesh working now.

>>717461456
>almost got the navmesh working
May be an overstatement, but it moves on the mesh somewhat.

>>717412908
Finishing a game takes superhuman levels of discipline. You won't do shit.

Time to enter the lair.

>>717461775
That's not a navmesh tho, that's a grid.
Navmesh would require collapsing the area that allow full inner movements and only processing which border of the current area you need to exit to get to the next.
Good job anyway. Pathfinding is pain.

>>717462058
The ultra-butchered anime lighting style doesn't mix well with "just a photography of a real rock" environments.

>>717462152
This is a simplified view of the central points inside of each subgrid, basically a super tiny zoomed out look at the world. Each numbered black circle is the center of one of 64 10x10 areas which will each be connected up to the middle. It does look like a grid, it's just a really badly represented mesh. Thanks, I had a mesh working in an older game, but I spun it like a spider and now I'm trying to make it procedural based on obstacles.

>>717459287
Thanks.

>>717358949 (OP)
https://eyeballtank.newgrounds.com/news/post/1556041
Felt like addressing how I barely started the Hirdrih game.

>>717462058
looks cool, but I agree with the other anon. Dunno about the rest of the game but there sure is two styles clashing in that pic.

i'm an ideas guy