Thread 718142818

Welcome to the weekend.
Share your progress before we're shot down.

>>718142818 (OP)
>deleted some of my progress by mistake
God I'm an idiot.

Make AI do the boring shit you fucks
like unwrapping and weight painting

>>718143091
>How its going
I did not work on my project for a while, work got in the way. But today i had a productive evening and managed to get a lot done.

Not on PC right now but I managed to finally write save/load system that saves and loads my campaign state, armies and their upgrades. I've been stumped on it for more than a week. Now I'm again making progress and it feels good.

>>718142818 (OP)
Indian thread

>>718143213
It does feel nice when you're dreading to code something that you know will be a pain in the ass, but you strap up your sleeves and finish it. I won't say it wasn't as bad as I was fearing cause it usually is, but it's nice when you don't gotta deal with it anymore.

Still working on my VN about twelve identical sisters, each with about 20 sprites. Redrew all of Red and Vampire. Will soon redraw all of Teal and Blue.

>>718143950
don't wanna bother with character design huh

heres my work today

im extremely bored at work so im gonna seriously pick up unity

>no water shader in HL Alyx
>not even a refraction shader in HL Alyx
>no water at all in HL Alyx
dicks
Where is the Source 2 SDK, Gaybe?!
>inb4 s&box

Implementing allies during battle.
Also thinking of making it possible to make the player character get the look, stats, moves etc. of an enemy with a change of a single variable. Could be used for some combat puzzles

>>718144239
s&box is a trooncord circlejerk that wants to emulate roblox by grooming kids and selling shit cosmetics
sadly

>>718145007
roblox is getting sued by the state of louisana for not protecting children users enough. ive heard stories of kids producing csam for robux so yeah, im not surprised

>>718145129
they had a long run through, now its time for Roblox 2 (s&box) to groom. i mean shine!

Im om hiatus since I decided my artwork was garbage and I had to start using tiles and characters from.pokemon

>>718145230
to add to this it was supposed to be a nice gameboy color looking roguelike

>>718145007
what? sandbox? i dont really care about the community i just wanna learn how to use unity so i can maybe pivot and transfer to the game dev department and be more productive. im sitting around at the office doing nothing because im such a brilliant sound designer that i finish my work with no hitches

>>718143135
This neat, reminds me a bit of what some of the Space Station 13 remakes have been doing with their shuttles.

>>718145531
There was a guy doing a zelda-like NES game with black backgrounds, a sort of action roguelike with whole screen rooms rather than sprawling corridors

>>718145812
Anyone remember what it was called? he was on agdg a lot

I'm pushed a demo of the new 3D version but it has so many issues and work in progress rebalance that most feedback is pretty much worthless

>>718145989
Nice looks nice

>>718145989
what type of game is it

>>718146310
A cyberpunk industrial-core isometric shooter game starring Cirno from Touhou Project

>>718146412
show some video / gif so I can see how it looks in action

>>718142967
Nervous? Hasty? Sleepy? What was it? Do you have curse heal?

>>718146928
Sleepy. Threw out a bunch of code that didn't work but forgot that included some code I wanted to keep. Ah well.

>>718146914
Oh.. Sorry it looks like tohou bullet hell garbage. Why don't you try making things more "dark soulsy" for lack of a better descriptor? You know, deliberate heavy risk / reward combat which rewards good reactions and positioning?

>>718146914
Very Realm of the Mad God

>>718146990
Damn. I always back up everything 10000x a minute, just to be sure.

>>718147081
the gameplay outside boss battles is kind of like that, making the game harder and more souls-like (but not going all the way into it) is definitely in my plans because otherwise there's no reason to use any of the provided items or weapons

>>718142818 (OP)
I researched this series
>mercaneries (lament)
With the help of a friend in Japan, as I couldn't find many numbers written in letters. He helped looking for them in moonrunes.
How can they be profitable with 5000 sells per entry? It takes one year to make and it's not completely bare bones, at least not the last 3-4 entries. There are dozens of people in the credits. Even if they are all Jr level and underpaid, numbers don't add up. They don't sell merch either, so what's happening here? Money laundering?

>>718147315
Usually with games like that the credits get bloated because they name everyone they outsourced to, even if the extent of the transaction was paying them $60 for a handful of models. The core team is probably like 2-3 full time dudes.

>>718147151
It's certainly what makes these 2D action games fun to play for me. I woll never understand bullet hell autism. If you are interested in any collab I can do some pixelart and music, and even rudimentary 3D modelling (but not skinning / animations). What engine are you using (if any)?

>>718147530
That's what I had in mind, too. I didn't think that everyone and their mother get a full entry in the credits, even when their contribution is like waving at the coffee machine. That would be it. 3 people can go a very long way, see hollow knight and solos can create literal masterpieces.

>>718147608
I'm using godot, the gameplay mostly consists of navigating an industrial setting, finding the keycards and operating environmental puzzles like doors, forcefields and elevators, while dispatching enemies on the way through a number of weapons.
It's supposed to have a stealth element with cameras and alarms but it's not fully implemented yet, the reactions to getting spotted by cameras or other sensors would range from triggering traps that shoot at the player or calling over enemies from nearby teleporters and rooms

Realtalk; can't I finish a gdd and all the other documents regarding sound and art and give it someone to implement? Don't want a penny, just a good game. I did find such a company that realises ideas, but they want 3.35m usd. I'm kinda short... Well 3.35m usd. Is it hopeless to send the documents to anyone? I already mailed some publishers, but merely got autoresponses back.
The way I see it, most ideas/games suck on a conceptual level. Contradicting design choices and the like, so why isn't this a thing? There are so many willing and skilled people that waste their spare time producing slop. Kickstarter should have space where ideas and talent meet. It's idiotic to expect the lead dev to envision a good setting they mostly can't.

>>718147798
Traps can also be turned to the enemies to dispatch them, you can open a valve to pour bullets from a pipe onto enemies (or yourself if you open the wrong one), take control of enemy mechs to kill enemies while you are safely hidden in the control room, disable a lightbridge with enemies on top of it so they fall in a vat of acid, etc

>>718144008
>>718143950
It has designs, just not skill.

>>718148056
>>718147798
bro your texturework is all over the place

>>718144019
anyones thoughts? i worked hard on this

>>718148118
texture quality and details are not the current focus of development, I'm reiterating on maps basically weekly

I've reached 200 levels.

Am I supposed to learn boids or try to merge a bunch of characters as a big blob and pathfind using that to stop my retards from congalining?

>>718148803
now how many of those levels are actually fun

RNG is almost always fun

>>718142967
Use Git so you can rollback shit.

Last time I said I implemented a stop for when you get to a ledge you can fall off of while not holding a direction on your left stick. Well, now I made an animation for it. Between this an Coyote time, platforming in this has become a lot easier.

>>718146914
It's a shame I'm really shit at bullet hell games, because this looks quite fun. I love the isometric layout.

>>718149021
I do. I just didn't commit some shit before I discarded it.

>>718148754
>game maker 8
what a blast from the past

Quick, I need CC0 music. Where do I look for it?

>>718149750
Mod Archive. Opengameart. Newgrounds?

>>718142818 (OP)

I'm working on a build of the game for August 31st.

> Intro menu + character selection
> 3 levels:
- Cheating Girl
- Librarian Girl (AI level)
- Dragon Girl (AI level)

> Shop enabled
> Win state and fail state.

The win state would record that you've passed the level and save the money earned during the level.

I don't know yet what to do if the player loses. I suppose it could be like in Smash Bros., where you lose a lot of money to continue the race.

Suggestions and advice would be greatly appreciated.

>>718150092
>Mod Archive
Oh wow, didn't know it listed music by loicense. Thanks a lot anon.

>>718150239
No problem! You're not the first one to discover that so late, a friend of mine suggested it when I needed some music for a small free thing

>>718142818 (OP)
(Re)writing the opening quests. Trying to keep them quick and snappy so you aren't bogged down with too much text. I added a little personality system that keeps track of how you answer and gives some reactivity from NPCs. Currently just tracks polite/brat, I'm not sure what else to add. Coward/brave, serious/goofy? Eh

>>718149260
it just works, doesnt break the game with updates or force you town make an account.

>>718151246
text is so goddamn small AAAA
AAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I am getting the hang of making cutscenes in Unity. Here is a very cheesy scene that I put together as a test.

Facial expression track, body animation track, camera switching track, dolly tracks, look animator, beautify settings (such as bokeh) on a track, teardrop controller, to name a few things. I wrote a few scripts so that I can preview a lot outside of runtime. I am really digging the workflow.

Now that the technical side of things is done, I can finally go make content. The thing I dreaded the most. Starting with making a storyboard/shot list.

>>718149140

Nice stop animation.

>>718150149

Nice character select screen. Where did you get the background animation?

>>718151246

Wow, been a while since I last saw your stuff. It is a haunted forest now?

>>718147948
Anon, you are asking people for hundreds to thousands of hours of their time with no real agency over the project while you take the fun creative parts and leave them the dull implementation. That is just not a very compelling proposal. There is a market for that, it's the video game industry. They just don't optimize for "good game" because the only one that can afford to hire people are the money people.

Your best bet is finding people that need to do some project, any project, anyway, so they might as well make yours. That's basically just college students. Web devs also tend to make a lot of bullshit portfolio project and new ones are all out of a job right now anyway. Obviously this comes with the caveat that you'll get inexperienced people, and you still need to be flexible with your design because such a team will only learn how to make a game while doing it.

>>718151839
You might want to take another look at your water or skybox. It's kinda weird that the water looks more like a starry sky then the sky, unless this is supposed to be some sort of magic water.
But you're making good progress man, I think since you started posting that girl I haven't even finished one 2D drawing of a character.

https://voca.ro/1jDn7zyjrczi
What kind of setting would work this kind of style? Was going for a farmland or woodsy day type of feel

>>718151246
>>718151839
An MMORPG with interesting classes and another game that seems to control backgrounds and lighting.

I'm honestly surprised by the games I'm seeing.
When did the level of these threads get so high?

>>718151839
It's just a tilted image rotating in the background.

I'm not very good at animations, so most of the game is made with components that perform simple rotations.

>>718151798
yeh it's on a 1440p monitor been smushed to 720p in the webm. The UI elements dont resize with resolution so I guess people with a 4k monitor are fucked

>>718151839
>Now that the technical side of things is done, I can finally go make content
Cutscene stuff + a decent cutscene editor seems like such a pain to put together. I wouldn't even know where to start. Kudos for getting that shit sorted

>Wow, been a while since I last saw your stuff. It is a haunted forest now?
Maps in top-right are spooky forests, yeh

>>718152328
canyon, or desert

I'm just learning Godot right now. I plan on making a Cat Olympics game as my first project. Just a series of simple mini games where you have to maximize your barf coverage on an expensive carpet, race other cats to a bowl in an crazy cat lady house, climb as high as possible in a tree to get stuck in without stopping or falling, a skeet shoot except you're launching cats at birds, etc.

The idea being the simple mini games will give me lots of experience while still being relatively simple and controlled in scope.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1971670/Panic_Floor/

https://panic-ok.itch.io/panic-floor

https://x.com/Panic_Floor

https://bsky.app/profile/panic-ok.bsky.social

Mainly trying to come up with boss designs which I can't show for obvious reasons. I have the basic ideas but the execution is what's tripping me up.
Of 12 bosses, 5 have concept art and 1 of which I'd consider to be good enough to be final. Another is pretty close to what I want but not finished.
I've mainly been struggling to make them look interesting because bosses are a big focus of my game, so there can't really be "weak designs" without the game taking a big hit. I've been tempted to ask friends for help on designs but feel bad because I have no money to compensate them with, so I just don't ask at all.
Otherwise, writing and coding are going well. Making GUIs in GMS2 sucks fucking donkey dick though.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3692670/Illusive_Domain/
Launched the playtest today

>>718144019
project nortubel coming along nicely i see

>>718152698
I really like your game's gameplay. Can you make a version of it that isn't a person in a bikini with sex all over it? You're severely limiting your audience. A child could understand your game and have a lot of fun with it, but you have a person in bunny ears with a huge ass in a microbikini as the main playable character.

You can now select your armor set from the main menu (don't worry, anonymous man, I've since changed "strength" in the description to "power"). The armor sets also now modify your attack power and resistance to enemy attacks, with the Regal Armor doubling attack power (as seen in the description) and the Bone Armor doubling the power of enemy attacks. The Health and Fire Pepper drops have also been modified to reflect which set of armor you are wearing, as Bone Armor doubles Fire Pepper drops and Steam Armor doubles Health drops. All that is left to be done for the armor sets is to include the passive heat loss into the Steam Armor (slowing the player down as if he is in extreme cold due to the immense weight of the powered suit), the ability to project steam projectiles similar to that of the Fire-Spit Technique, and the ability for common enemies to stand down when using the Regal Armor (at the moment I am thinking of simply making them ignore you, but in the back of my head I would love to do what Soul Reaver did and have the enemies get on their knees and worship you as you pass). I've also begun to add the ability for enemies to in-fight with each other. This will be useful since, if the computer-controlled friendly characters that fight with you attacks them, the enemies will get distracted and make a beeline at them and not you. I'll upload a video of this new ability soon enough; I stayed up until 4:00 AM troubleshooting that among other things.

My game sellerded 0 copies.... I give up. This not worth at.

>>718153785
What game? At the very least, what genre?

>>718153785
hello saar please post link to game kindly

>>718153668
Kill yourself

>>718153820
>>718153847
Why I link game if you will just shit

>>718154002
saar you already sellerded 0 copies, the market just shit on you regardless of our kindly redeeming of store page

>>718154002
If you assume people will shit on it, that's not healthy. You're assuming you will be shot down before you even do anything, therefore you don't do anything.

Seek help, because that is the type of thought pattern that will ruin your life.

>>718152698
based drive-by
>>718153783
faggot wall of text nobody cares about

>>718154072
Fuck you bloody bitch!

>>718154186
I am not mentally ill.

>>718154551
saar you havent got a game or a store page so you couldnt have sold more than 0 copies. Think like a brilliant sometimes benchod

>>718153350
Hey this is really fun. Bit of a difficulty jump going from old man to louise (I'm guessing he's just tutorial to give players a chance to learn controls) but I'm surprised at how good the systems and spells feel. This early into my playthrough my only real feedback is to pull the character's legs together when she runs. Running with legs apart makes it look like she shat her pants.

>>718154614
Fucking bitch bastard I rape you whore sister
My game better than you

>have tinkered with several projects over the years
>haven’t committed to one because I get bored of it, and I don’t feel extremely passionate about it


How can I come up with a game idea that I can actually stick to and speaks to me. I know from past experience that I can stick with an artistic project for long period, but I have to truly be in love with the project and not just see it as a neat novelty.

Do I just need more inspiration?

https://youtu.be/c21OGTOoxso?t=660
godot, bros... is timmy boy right? are we amateur hour?

>>718154458
Go cry on BlueSky about it.

>>718154551
I am not saying you're mentally ill. I'm saying the way you're thinking will lead to a sad life. If you think people will shoot you down no matter what you do, then that will lead to you not doing anything.

>>718143135
night vision stuff is certified kino. Good job

>>718154627
thanks, and yeah that's definitely going into the next couple sprints since i think it's been enough time since i animated that first run cycle that i can probably do a better job now

>>718152380
>When did the level of these threads get so high?
Man, you really jinxed it.

>>718153785
mate dont shit up the thread with /agdg/ tier posts please.

>>718153764
Sex appeal broadens the audience. Humans are sexual creatures.

>>718152380

Nice approach to the background. Also, thanks for the compliment.

>>718152435

Thanks, yeah it was not easy. I see why a lot of games do not animate in game in Unity. Cinemachine is complicated, so I went with Game creator 2 for the camera work. I had to extend that to have previews outside of runtime. I have tried mocap too. The quality of mocap is blah. So much cleaning up and I still am in the process of getting myself a Coil Pro so that I can increase the quality of the mocap. With just a smartsuit pro 2 and smartgloves, it's not really worth it.

>>718152698

This makes me horny.

>>718153350

Based fellow Nekomimi enjoyer. Some feedback:
Louise is kicking my ass, cannot get past her. Her attacks deal too much damage for this stage of the game. Her spear throwing attack is too short and should go past the camera. Maybe I missed it, but I think there is no clear indicator on how to dodge her AoE attack (other than moving back), maybe make a gap in that wall of flames that you can go through.

>>718153785

Link?

>>718149750
dova

>>718155495
It might appeal to weirdo perverts starved of sex (like you), but everyone else will be turned off by it. You'll be gifted that sex game from a degenerate or a friend pulling a prank and you'll forever hide it from your family and friends lest you be called a degenerate.

>>718155495
What a retarded logic. Yes, "sex appeal" can broaden an audience, but, like, give the character a pixar-mom body while putting on clothes that aren't literally a micro-bikini with playboy bunny ears. There is a difference between "Sex appeal" and "This would be considered hentai if the person was laying down on a bed". You have to know that, right? Or has the internet groomed you to think this is normal?

>>718152236

Thanks. Good point. The sky should be more interesting and I think I know just the thing for that. You gave me an idea.

What project were you working on?

>>718154721
I'm not interested in the thoughts of a guy who shoves stuff up his ass.

>>718154701
No, you need discipline and a plan.

>>718154721
I'm just a beginner learning a new hobby. Yeah amateurs are amateurs.

>>718142818 (OP)
done with buttons, now adding levers. Making the animations match was a bitch but aside from that it's been fine since I just reused all the logic from the floor buttons.

book animation

>>718156429
I can make a plan just fine, but it’s more the thought of “I don’t like how this project is turning out” and the temptation to try something new to see if it works out. It also doesn’t help that I am learning new skills from each attempted project.

Still, I think it’s getting ridiculous that I’ve scrapped 10 projects in 5 years.

>>718155586
Thanks, her whole concept is being this dumbass with really high str/faith that can deal huge damage but is really easy to run circles around. For the huge AOE, it's more of a positioning check to see if you're remaining close enough to just circle around her, and if you get hit by the horizontal version then it's a commitment check to punish over-extending during what might otherwise be a free DPS phase if you just walk around her.
I think some of the damage issues here stem from her getting a damage buff in her armoured form, so I'll probably nerf that a little depending on feedback.

>>718156626
Dude, I love your camera work with it. I like how when you go through a door, it will go behind the character close up and then also the quick zoom in when hitting the wall lever. I'm dreading having to completely rewrite my camera since mine is shit. What do you use for your camera work?

>>718156626
>letterboxing repetitive actions
don't do that

And remove the delay between starting the action and the character moving.

I need some statistical advice. Is analyzing tree paths a "solved problem"? Is there a better solution than brute-forcing all permutations and eyeballing the results?
Basically I have made a stupidly complicated upgrade system, with boring number increases and skills and specific conditions. I want to make sure different ability increases are (more or less) evenly distributed across different levels of this tree. The most pressing concern is "this skill literally can never be selected because there is no path that fulfills its conditions", but I also wanna query arbitrary shit like "given a player selected this upgrade, what are the chances he will select another specific upgrade down the line.
Finding a node that can never be visited is simple enough, but is there any heuristic method of sampling tree paths? Because finding all permutations is a heavy task by itself, but finding correlations between two arbitrary options naively is just combinatorial nightmare.

>>718157340
You should probably research Greedy Algorithms as applied to trees.

WIP

>>718156264
>What project were you working on?
Unnamed 2.5D monster girl RPG built on Tauri, been a good while since I posted anything. I've been alternating between drawing characters and doing the boring internal stuff depending on how drained work and the temperature leave me.
Also moved my dev machine to linux, which was a bit of an adventure.

>>718157340
Do you want to do this in-game like some sort of build recommendation system, or is this to help you balance the game? This would drastically change your options, out of the blue I would say to fake the tree and have a bunch of different ways to obtain the same effect so you can segment the tree into smaller parts.

>>718155945
>>718156048
Being a non-sexual eunuch is not normal. Every human loves beauty and sex. Getting people to enjoy a game is all about gaming their biological inclinations

>>718156939
Hi! Glad you like it man. The camera work isn't anything fancy, just a few methods to change the camera state from "follow" (locked on a target, ie the player) to a "free" state in which I can do whatever with it from an external scene controller. Most camera transitions and movement was done with tweens but since they don't run on the physics frames, they clipped through walls in some instances like when crossing a door, so I had to make my own system to perform those camera operations on the _physics_process method (picrel).
>>718157013
>>718157248
I don't think the letterboxing is a problem there. Can't imagine an scenario in which the player is tempted to switch the lever so many times in a row, plus there's going to be a camera transition after pulling the lever in many instances.
>>718157248
nah I like how that looks. At first I didn't have that and everything just happened too fast.
>>718157956
think it's the first time I see the night stage. Looks very nice, you are great when it comes to using colors to delimit the different z layers.

My fucking game is ugly and janky and I can't fix none of it... No one will play this...

>>718151246
Your house walls are too thin.
>>718152698
Good lord, even the indie 2d platformers are desaturated now.
>>718156746
Make it choppy like you other animations.
>>718157956
Furry, but it looks good. The backgrounds are begging for some motion.

>>718153668
SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT NORTUBEL!

>>718157738
The thing is, since I'm trying to simulate player decisions (and whether any one path softlocks further decisions), there isn't really "an optimal" solution to find, whether locally or globally. So simulation theory isn't applicable, besides resorting to generation of random paths and pretending it's a sufficient sample. Guess there is "try to max out STR and HP" sort of strategy, but now you just reduce the problem to finding all permutations of stat distributions.

>>718158039
It's for balancing purposes, and yeah, subdividing the root tree is a solid option. Build suggestions is also a great idea, if only to generate presets for people who don't care about autistic minmaxing. But that only comes up when you're actually trying to balance in some direction, you still need that initial jumping point of finding outliers like "oh hey this skill that scales off STR is actually reachable by INT builds over 80% of the time". That sounds like data science problem that's too hard to describe online, so I hope that modern hardware is good enough to just brute force naive tree traversal.

>>718156746
thats smooth

>>718158141
I see. So it's the "the internet groomed you to thinking this is normal" route. Understood.

>>718158228
I will fix it
Show me your game Anon

>>718159184
You were groomed by American neo-puritan beliefs from day 1. Besides there are many many indie games who have become huge successes due to sex appeal, but none that have become big due to the opposite.

>>718154002
>hide game from everyone
>why no one buying game?

>>718159397
Has it worked for you so far?

Listening to 'feedback' is the worst thing I ever did. It's why I didn't just finish my game. You ask for feedback, and every single time, somebody is going to suggest changing something. You should just ignore that 99% of the time. Feedback hurts games.

>>718142818 (OP)
I made another enemy, but right now I am learning to use jobs in Unity because I need to optimize some calculations related to the custom gravity system I made. I also finished the steam page and now is currently under review.

>>718159556
I work as an engineer

>>718159556
Yes, I made wild life. 100k per month for 5 years with 0 gameplay

>>718156876
Imagine if you'd stuck to one of those ideas, you'd have released a game by now.
Its quite surprising you have come up with 10 ideas, but not been passionate about any of them. So either you've dropped games once the honeymoon period is over, or you've not thought enough about your ideas in the first place for the ideas to keep flowing. If its a good idea that you're into you'd naturally start expanding on it 'i can do this and then i can add that'

>>718157956
nice art but I see mixels

>>718160037
>If its a good idea that you're into you'd naturally start expanding on it 'i can do this and then i can add that'
Scope creep is a common project killer.

>>718156048
This. Dot Matrix looked hot af during the ABC era, but when Mainframe got full control and made her "sexy", it honestly cheapened her character. Same with Joanna Dark: her Nintendo 64-era render appearance was a perfect mix of modest and sexy, but her Xbox remaster appearance just made her look like a dolled up whore.

>>718159835
>asked for feedback
>got feedback more than 'its good'
>REEEEEEEEE

>>718159835
>Feedback hurts games.
No. YOU did. You choose which feedback to listen to!

>>718160237
Yes, I was wrong to ask for feedback in the first place. That's my point, apologies if I didn't express it clearly.

>>718159838
Don't care, didn't ask. I am asking about your game that you have 144 followers on Twitter after posting about the game and putting up a Steam page 3 years ago. How many wishlists you got, bud?

>>718159909
I looked it up, so hopefully I'm talking about the right game. You're making a game that is explicitly about sex. There is so much sex to the game that it is the central focus. That's different. You're making essentially a porn game. The other anon is making a very fast paced Donkey Kong '94 type of game. Sex isn't required for his game, so like... why is he pushing it in there for no reason? Your game, the central focus IS sex. I'm not saying there should be no sex ever, I'm saying that maximizing SEX SEX SEX in a game that doesn't require it is just retarded. For Panic Floor, literally every in-between screen between levels is the main character in lewd poses. Why? He is making a game a child could play, and then limiting his audience to people above 18.

>>718160301
>I have no self-control
What color are you knee socks?

>>718160185
Of course. It's a skill to reign in the scope and finish the game, but in the case of anon who hasn't stuck with an idea in 5 years, his ideas either suck, or he drops his games when he realises how much work there is to make it. It wasn't specified which.

>>718158993
>oh hey this skill that scales off STR is actually reachable by INT builds over 80% of the time
That's a design question of how easy do you want to make it for players to make sub-optimal choices. You can be blunt about like putting STR gates in the way, subtle by color-coordinating the nodes, or just be entirely hands of and put in some weapon that gives you extra phys damage based on your INT.
You'll have players like me that aren't just likely, but will move heaven and hell to make a STR/INT hybrid work. You first need to decide if/how much you want to cater to that.

When you are asking what players are likely to do, that's a psychology question. I'd suggest you look at cash shops, because that's where industry points all their psychologists at.

For skill tree design, I'd suggest you look at Path of Exile, specifically Cluster Jewels and the Atlas Tree Gates. The devs sometimes to presentations about their work, if you're lucky there might be one that touches that analytical work.

>>718160475
Haydee, Atlyss. And your eunuch game?

>>718159835
While this does sound like regular bitching and moaning, listening to creative input really is completely useless. When you are your own boss, with your own vision, your own liability, filtering signal from noise is just not worth it in any capacity. How can you know feedback you've received came from a person who wants the game to go in the same direction as you? It's easier to stubbornly march on, trying to reach out to the audience who does resonate with your shit.

NB! listening to CREATIVE INPUT. Skimping out on audio settings, key rebindings, interface scaling is not an option. The technical software side of video games is mostly objective, there is no YOU DID NOT GET IT excuses to throw around.

>>718159835
You have to see trends in mass critique so you don’t listen to fringe cases. Also don’t listen too much to critique that will asset or scope creep you

>>718159835
I was told to give the Energy Buckler the ability to reflect enemy projectiles and my game has improved tenfold as a result.

>>718160527
The OG anon here:
I think the ideas I come up with are fine on their own, but I think what happens is after I work on it for awhile, part of my brain goes “this is going to turn out mid” and then I jump to the next shiny new idea.

It’s weird because I’m a writer, and when I do writing projects, I don’t have this issue, but with games I think I just have so many visions that clash.

I feel like I’m either just need to find a project that I feel completely in love with rather than just “something I like”, or I’m just not cut out for game deving.

>>718160475
As an indie dev you laser focus on a niche. You’re not making Overwatch, you don’t have shareholders breathing down your neck about maximizing audience. Sex appeal is a cheap way to appeal to a dedicated base.

>>718161271
I should add that, while I take into consideration all feedback, I implement things that I know will improve the game. Reflecting shield? Done, but only with the Energy Bucker (Longswords provide a block that cannot reflect, say, a rolling Pot Gremling). The ability to fly? No problem, but it's a flapping glide so I don't have to completely remake my pre-existing areas (aside from secret cave networks where you can find the keys to unlock suits of armor). Skipping cutscenes that I put so much damn time and effort into? Actually that was a good quality of life thing. Shit, I only implemented Y-axis inverting because the Faglyss dev never did and I wanted to salt the Faglyss fans' open wounds.

fucking godot, 0,5h of trying to fix null instance, few restarts, nothing helps, random # and uncommenting this func fixed it

>>718161305
So it is the 'dropping the game after the honeymoon period' situation.
Something newer and shinier will always come along in your mind and it really does come down to discipline to sticking with the original idea. Of course that is the point of prototyping too. You quickly make a super rough version in a few weeks to see if that idea is fun in the first place, and if it isn't, move on.

If you think an idea you've already started working on is going to be mid, then you probably weren't critical enough with the prototype. There's nothing wrong with stopping if you feel it in your bones, you aren't committed to make something and you are allowed to make prototypes to get an idea out of your head whilst working on something bigger.

But if you've spent 5 years, on 10 ideas and not finished something, maybe you don't want to make games and you'd rather be a writer. That's fine too

Feeling so confused. My life is a mess. Everything I do feels wrong. And it's all downhill from here.

>>718160793
You are talking about more about overall design decisions, but the reason I started the whole thing looking for "statistical advice" is because I want some way to double check that the existing design isn't total dogshit. Literally unreachable nodes and overabundance of certain abilities is the primary concern. Being "suboptimal" is not relevant since I can't predict what optimality is gonna look like in the hands of the internet anyway.
>STR/INT hybrid
Based philosopher-king. More of a combat-casting battlemage, or do you just want to throw flaming rocks at cowards out of your blade's reach?

>>718162114
looks fine, keep moving forward

>>718161986
sounds like a skill issue rather than a problem with the engine. Or in other words, a master would never puts the blame on the tools.

Here's a screenshot of the Bone Armor in use.

play mygame

>>718162441
im learning so its more than likely, but # and un# fixed it and i dont know why, same func used in other scenes works fine

>>718162942
having to rely on the variant type is the deadliest mistake you can make
always verify if the node exists
always check the node is the type youre expecting
should try to take advantage of @onready when you can
never assume a node will come in exactly the way you expect it to
fuck godot

>>718162598
you might want to fix those rock textures my dude. Also do you really need that brown background behind the life bar? Could look better just with the bars.

>>718162020
That’s probably part of it, but I also think it’s because even thought I’m a writer and a person who loves great stories, when it comes to games, most of my favourite games are gameplay focused. It creates this paradox where I want to make a game with great gameplay, but the more gameplay focused you get, the harder it becomes to tell an interesting story, and when there’s no interesting story, I feel what I’m producing is mediocre. I feel it’s a vision problem too because I’m trying to have my cake and eat it with the story: gameplay ratio. Writing is way easier because you don’t have to ask “would this be fun to play?” when you come up with a plot point.

Genuine question im pixel art savy and love strategy games, how hard would it be to make a conquest of elysium clone with gamemaker?

>>718163317
Turn-based strategy is perfectly doable. It's RTS that is a nightmare.

>indie game developer makes it with his first commercial game
>background: worked at an online casino
every time, what they teach people in those jobs??

>>718163103
>always verify if the node exists
>always check the node is the type youre expecting
>never assume a node will come in exactly the way you expect it to
to me this sounds like your code is poorly designed. Code is code, and will always do what you expect it to do as long as is properly written and not an spaghetti. Defensive programming is fine but you shouldn't need it in most scenarios.

>>718163551
Working at a casino requires you to get rid of your humility and soul. Without those two factors, it becomes way easier to shill your own game.
The more you shill - the more likely success is. And since those people don't give a shit anymore, they do it.

>>718161545
Sex appeal is a crutch for bad game designers ;)

>>718162942
>but # and un# fixed it and i dont know why

Well you better fucking figure it out, programming isn't something where you can leave the outcome to chance. You should know every possible result or branch that a piece of code can take when you implement it.

>>718163467
I take it you've likely tried or seen others fail on that pursuit in regards to rts elements.

You are all bunch of pedophiles

>>718163567
func was filiping sprite in direction of player character, it was in script/scene enemy base, it worked in 3 types of enemies that inherit from enemy base scene, for enemy type nr 4 func couldnt find player, object id was type null (for other enemies func is working and object id is player character in level scene). Tried calling it in different places, even added timer to call it on timer timeout, was suspecting problems with how thing load into scene. Dont bash me, im just learning and it was probably silly mistake with tabs or something like that, when i went back to orginal code it worked, apart from wrong tabs nothing comes into my mind

>>718163551
Online casino games are all about flashy effects and constant dopamine rewards and satisfying sounds. The purest version of a skinner box

>>718162156
>More of a combat-casting battlemage, or do you just want to throw flaming rocks at cowards out of your blade's reach?
Neither. I want to have fireball in one hand, and with the other hand grab my enemy by the throat while I repeatedly punch their stupid face with my burning fist. Other melee weapons I can set on fire, or conjure out of an element, are also acceptable in a pinch.
Unfortunately the best implementations of hybrids was stuck in a long dead Japan-only MMO.

>>718164232
no problem in making mistakes anon and, that's the best way of learning something new and nobody should bash you for that. It's just that I don't like when people put the blame on whatever engine they are using instead of trying to learn from their mistakes.

>>718163567
>code is code
only if the language is designed well and has predictable behavior and you read the specifications
have you ever used javascript and had to write promises/asyncs? yeah good luck assuming your code works

I can't decide on a plot. I feel like if it's not perfectly sensible, intriguing, airtight and grounded the entire rest of the game will seem ridiculous by association, despite experience and reason suggesting otherwise. And without a plot I can't begin designing the game layout more specifically, so currently I'm working on everything that will remain standard regardless. Anyone have any tips on pulling out of this mental mire?

>>718162114
same energy as those AI voiceover videos

I dont have a webm
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1izGh371eLU

>>718161305
>and then I jump to the next shiny new idea.
make a digital arcade or something, they used to have those alot in the 90s, like 10 minigames in one package.

coffee simulator 2026

>>718165058
>have you ever used javascript and had to write promises/asyncs? yeah good luck assuming your code works
I dev in JS and I literally had my targeting indicator just vanish when I added a new material to the floor. My code is not just async, it's actual WebWorkers, a boatload of .wasm and a Rust server in the background. You can't imagine how fun debugging in this environment is.
I do it because the suffering of CPUs provides me sustenance.

>>718165063
Take an old legend or some classic literature that's gone public domain and use that. Whenever you feel insecure, you can just look at the existing body of analysis where you'll probably find someone has already addressed your problem.

>>718163838
No such thing as a crutch, fun is fun.

>>718164232
What you just said makes no fucking sense. What do you mean wrong tabs?

Godont has a very retarded order of loading things in and I hope you aren't using a timer or something analog to delay your code before it asks for a reference to the player object. Your function should 100% be gated by a condition that doesn't allow it to pass if it can't get a reference to a thing.

>>718165163
is coffee good for you in-game?

>>718165058
I work with JS. I use lots of promises and async awaits and the webapp works perfectly fine. You guys are just bad at coding.

>>718165694
it doesn't do anything yet, but there will be a complete rework of the addictions system, and it will reduce your sleep meter

>>718159835
You should not ignore 99% of advice. You also shouldn't listen to 99% of advice.
If you want to make a popular game, recognize commonly repeated sentiments in criticism and adress that.
If you want to make a better game, listen to well constructed criticism that aligns with your vision of the game.

This is giga easy. You have to be a sub 90 IQ gorilla nigger to fail this.

>Listening to 'feedback' is the worst thing I ever did
Dumb gorilla nigger fucktard. Mouthbreathing insult to the monkey species.

>>718162114
kino

>>718165163
i like the look of game.

>>718162114
My Life in Poland looking fire!

>>718162940
whats that

>>718152435
>gaybar

almost done

>>718167013
is he taking ball damage when he attacks

>>718167013
thats a lot of pee

All yall will be replaced by AI in 3-5 years

>>718167345
you said this 3 years ago
get a new bit

>>718167013
I hate sugondese enemies.

I like the idea of cozy games but I don't like the community of women and trannies they cater to. What should I actually make?

>>718167540
>What should I actually make
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm oney

>>718167345
>it'll take AI 3-5 years to procrastinate and daydream about doing things

>>718167540
need to add in automation and really crank up the grind to appeal to autism

>>718167013
Sex appeal is a crutch for bad game designers ;)

>>718152698
Don't listen to the Bluesky trannies trying to sabotage you in the replies, you're on the right track and I will buy your game.

Gonna work on UI animations today.

Anybody know some good composers for Horror games? It would also be useful if they do SFX too. Willing to pay for a custom soundtrack/sounds etc but it's hard for me to search for musicians for some reason specifically.

Any websites you guys recommend for finding composers for indie games etc or any people you've worked with in the past that are good I'd appreciate if you dropped a name/link

>>718168852
just make a game, you'll get a shit ton of people coming to you asking to do your music for you

>>718142818 (OP)
making a little prototype about fluffy girls and tanks

>>718169480
Without the textures, I honestly thought they were at some urinals and the objective is to sneak a peek without getting caught.

>>718169480
what do their bodies look like

>>718169664
if this can at the very minimum be able to compete with at least gunner heat pc ill fund your studio

>>718169572
kek ive got someone else saying that as well
>>718169595
like this, but it's temporary
right now the body's just a mesh i borrowed from another model i made and tampered with it a bit to give it tetas.
everything's a placeholder right now, can't wait to nail down more functional stuff before i come up with the visuals

>>718167345
And what do you bring to the table that AI can't do? Remember, ai can already shitpost

>>718169974
you should make fictional/original tank designs
you could probably do a lot of cool stuff by unshackling yourself from real tank/milsim autism
I'd love to see a tank sim that does things like quadruped or bipedal tanks

>>718169850
right now i'm coming up with the scheme for a war thunderesque damage model, it won't be super realistic but it's better than just reducing health bars

>>718152698
Why are the screenshots so much more saturated than the video? I like the saturated look.

>>718170486
that's pretty much what GHPC is

Reworking how some of the placeable gadgets like ammo crates and health packs work where instead of manually placing them down you can just throw them down, similar to battlefield. (replaying bf1 is influencing my design choices yet again).
I'm also in the middle of remaking the loadout/class system + ui to be more intuitive and modular, where right now the loadout screen you just have the different hunter classes you choose from, but I am going to make a loadout screen where you can actually choose the individual loadouts for each class and the monster too

Being an artlet is hell

>>718170261
i'm gonna be coming up with my own designs, but they'll be partly inspired by real life vehicles. mostly modern and cold war ones.

>>718156626
red gobo poster supremacy
>>718156939
Osh poster supremacy
>>718152698
pf poster supremacy

Wrapped up the campaign demo for next fest. You can choose to either save your campaign SHRIMP for later MP battles for sell them for points (shit that unlocks new species and skins) / gems (shit that you can use on your saved shrimp to increase their stats)

>>718169974
it looks pretty good, i'd suggest the following alteration

>>718171307
i think you might be "inspired" by the original concept sketch for the fluffy tankwahmen...

>>718167345
Will just make lewd games in that case as Ai censorship will likely be through the roof by then.

Added new gun (revolver) to my game and working on a new boss

>>718172437
New boss concept

>>718172590
>Christianity bad!
overdone, make it Muslim

>>718172590
And comparison between concept / model for a different boss.

>>718142818 (OP)
I am learning about more advanced rigging stuff.
Why does this have to be so overly complicated?
Even after I finish this, I've got to create corrective shapekeys, then create rig controls and custom bone shapes so everything is as easy as possible for me when I animate later.

>>718172671
Hes the boss of a Christian cathedral level though. Wouldn't make sense.

>>718172437
is this like Zombies ate my neighbors?

I've discovered stereo technology
I was composing my shit in mono kek

>>718172590
why big dinosaur feet.
what about " undead/demonic Pedophile priest monster" evokes the image of dinosaur legs.
genuinely curious on the thought process here.

>>718172775
>Christian cathedral level though
make it a mosque or synagogue then

Are there any Blender people here? I have a character I've rigged with a metarig and while it works, all the non-attached accessories don't move with the rig, and I can't figure out how to add bones for stuff like rabbit ears and hair. I can't find any tutorials for Blender 4 that display it either because they changed where some settings are and they don't work anymore.

>>718172671
>make it (yaldabaoth worship cult but from another culture)
yawn

>>718172671
>Nooo you can't dislike this objectively evil thing!

>>718173192
down you have a palestinian building to clear moshe ? those ruins won't go away by themselves

>>718142818 (OP)
I haven't started on anything concrete I'm just Idea Guysing the mechanics and gameplay on a .txt file.
Swear I'll learn Godot though.

>>718173098
Select the armature, press tab to go into edit mode, then press Shift + A to create a new bone, E to extrude a new bone from another, Y to separate a bone from another.
For the hair and ears, since they deform with movement, you'll have to learn weight painting.
Select the character's mesh, go into Weight Paint mode, select the hair and ear bones, one at a a time, then paint.
Cold blue areas don't move with the bone, red hot areas do.
For the accessories, parenting them to a bone will do the trick.
Select the accessory, hold shift, select the armature, press tab to go into edit mode, select the bone that best fits the accessory proximity-wise and movement-wise, then press Control + P and select "parent to bone".

Rendering working in-game now in my decomp project.

>>718173136
>>718173192
Christianity being the bad cult is overdone as fuck. Name one other game where other religions are the bad guys. I'll wait

>>718142818 (OP)
doing some practice in blender 3d
working on improving my uv and sculpting skills

>>718163467
Hello Branno, any news on the new game?

>>718152236
I wouldn't mind alternations or the like. Who am I to forbid that? If half of it gets implemented, I'm atheur first happy customer.
>designing is the fun part
While that is true, people or devs do suck bad at it.
>"good game"
Exactly, they appeal to the masses, the result is what we have here.

>>718167345
Why can't it be today?

Updated the sprite sheet, with a new bird enemy, going to start programming and composing music this weekend, taking Godot and FL studio tutorials.

>>718171928
the nipples are a nice touch

Did some UI stuff since it looks like I'm sticking with this project. The left side is mostly done except the very top part, and the merchant UI is pretty much done other than needing to add a slight bevelling out of the screen. Also put in the little scene for going back up to the previous area after going down.

>>718172787
Yes, but more mature, and graphically updated.
>>718172868
It's just a common trait all my monsters share

>>718173904
Well it's just one boss, not like a whole religion the bad guys. In this games case: some of the monsters were really bad people, so there's a reason why the priest turned into this creature

>>718163181
It's a low graphical fidelity setting I forgot to change. In high fidelity, it looks like this.

>>718159397
>N-no u

Redid the graphics for space hell to be more appropriate for the area, and realized that even after all the fucking work I did decorating stations I'm only halfway done with them and I hate myself.

>>718178504
looks cool tho

how far along is underspace

>>718178607
At this point the singleplayer portion is only missing this station detailing stuff. Multiplayer is coming next as the last milestone update, but that's mostly adjusting content so it works in multiplayer properly plus its main quest (which was already made before the game launched, just never implemented or tested).

Oh, and voice acting too. So a few things.

>>718178814
>and voice acting too
That shit's fucking insane to do for a small game though. You planning for everything to get VA or just some bits? Cause I know Bethesda just has everything voiced but that's probably why the conversations in those games aren't nearly as in depth as Morrowind

after being done with the levers I spent the afternoon adding some polish to a few of the player's animations. That shit took way longer than I was expecting, but it's done so next up I'll focus on some funnier stuff: special attacks and the bow. For now, have a look at the new shield bash animation, tried adding more weight to it while keeping it's duration to be almost the same as before.

>>718178889
There's over four million words in the game for text, I couldn't afford that level of voice acting even if I wanted to. What I have that's voice acted is anything that the player doesn't have control over: any dialogue in the comm window, NPC chatter, cutscenes, or conversations between NPCs are voiced, but dialogue like when you're talking to an NPC on a station is not voiced.

>>718178889
>That shit's fucking insane to do for a small game though
Not with AI it's not.

>>718179115
nta but, even with ai it would be a pain in the ass. a voice acting system with easy scripting tool is already a ton of work, then you have to account for rewrites, which is a huge problem on its own. voice acting is only worth it in very specific spots, id start with ai to get a feel (saves money and time) then pay for real work once im 90% satisfied

>>718179115
AI still has to be curated, and it can't reach the levels of ham I need for a fantasy space opera like this.

>>718179480
thats pretty

overworld progress
>map generator is finally genning continents, coastlines and civ placements correctly
>battle autoresolution now factors in morale, terrain, and adjacent units and cities

>>718179480
looking good anon
always inspiring to see a solodev dream game come true over time
>>718178914
i can't wait to play this, do you have plans to release a demo at some point?
controller support yet?

>>718179903
different culture but that map unlocked the memory of me playing The Battle of Olympus as a kid. I don't know if I like some of your color choices like that black for the ground (there seems to be enough black already in the UI) but aside from that, I dig the style.
>i can't wait to play this, do you have plans to release a demo at some point?
hopefully soon! I'm on vacation until the 27th and plan to make tons of progress during that time. Have a few core mechanics still pending to implement but if everything goes fine I'd like to release a demo before the end of the year.
>controller support yet?
yeah, from the very beggining I've been trying to make sure that the game plays nice with both controller and keyboard + mouse.

>>718164232
Does godot not have a debug mode?

>>718180490
nta but yes it has. Sounds like that anon is just starting out and blaming the engine when he shouldn't

>>718180223
>the battle of olympus
whoa that looks awesome, never heard of that game, i'll definitely check it out.
webm related was my old overworld map, but anons complained about the colors so i'm testing out this black terrain instead. this project i'm limiting myself to commodore 64 16-color palette and 320x200 resolution on this project so my options to make it look pretty are limited lol.

enjoy your vacation and please do post that demo here when it's ready, i'll play the hell out of it and i know others anons will too

>>718144019
Saddam Hussein?

>>718179039
>There's over four million words in the game for text
All written yourself?

>>718180772
It's more of a fact that the pixels seem sort of half assed with their placement, it's better to place them in clumps.

>>718180962
The only content stuff I haven't had to suffer through myself has been some station detailing stuff (still had to curate that and fix issues with it though).

As it turns out, I made my game too big.

>>718180772
>enjoy your vacation and please do post that demo here when it's ready
thanks anon! and yeah don't worry, I'll shill the demo as much as I can.

Might have made this one too hard, might give players more leeway at the start to reach target pressure with less wheels before making it more precise + more wheels over time

>>718182029
What program is this being made with?

>>718182089
Renpy lel

>>718182184
Consider me impressed.

>>718182687
Thanks, I appreciate it. I'm hoping I can push it to make something fun

>>718146914
I like the isometric pixel depth sorting

>>718175749
this looks gorgious

>>718176006
any female monsters?

>>718146914
please make the walk speed faster, doesn't look fun if you have to evade shit at a snails pace. also add a bit of hitstop when the player get hits, and a muzzleflash or some kind of effect coming from whoever is shooting. A little bit of visual flare can do wonders to fun factor.

finding sculpting to be more fun than manual low poly

>>718184445
>when the player get hits
when the player gets hit*

>>718184348
Not any attractive ones...

>>718181257
>I made my game too big
common indie mistake

>>718162114
kek, I like how the grandma sticks to slapping you even when you're busy punching her

>>718185078
nothing wrong with making a big game

first special attack is in! the player sprints and thrust with the sword the moment an enemy (or other obstacle) is near enough. It still needs more work for polish, like some dust when sprinting and improving the animation, but for now at least it's working.

>>718185078
Usually it's the opposite though. Two hour roguelikes

>>718184484
It's how every model starts.

>>718185078
I won't apologize for it, I will kick myself over not hiring a second person to handle the tedium of placing 1400 NPCs though.

>>718173902
Car

>>718188649
Looks nice

>>718157340
You should probably give some more information.
Is your skill tree really a tree structure (the PoE skill "tree" for example is not)?
How can some nodes be unreachable?
Are there dependencies between the nodes?
Does selection order matter?
Can you just show the tree and what the problem is?
Also this is combinatorial only until you decide on some distribution of player choice which you might not want to do.

>>718157340
>I have made a stupidly complicated upgrade system, with boring number increases
Take out the boring number increases.

i have so much more respect for artists now after starting game dev
i never realize how much of art is just being patient as fuck while doing something insanely tedious
programming is all about shortcuts but shortcuts dont exist in art

have i reached peak autism?

>>718191252
Programming is very unfun when it's about catching bugs and refactoring mountains of code. Art is more enjoyable since there's no fail state, you can just grind and eventually you'll get something good.

>>718191331
250ml is only 1 gram if it is pure water, other liquids are different weights

>>718191546
i know, but i have to choose either grams or ml, i can't do densities

>>718172437
>revolver
>never needs to reload
Why tho

>>718191252
>shortcuts but shortcuts dont exist in art
sure they do. there are refs, kit bash, brushes (massive brush packs), or a 3d model. a good artist is a fast one

>>718191461
after refactoring a bunch of code or catching a bug I feel very happy. art feels like a constant fail state because I am never satisfied with how it turns out, even if it looks fine.

an amateur programmer can write a perfect line of code
an amateur artist cannot even fathom what perfect art would be

i guess its quality is more subjective, and that makes me feel like its never good enough

>>718191619
then just do ml?
why do you need both

>>718191903
because it can contain solids only or both at the same time

>>718191331
How does your MC know the exact milliliter quantity of coffee in a cup?

>>718191703
Also, brushes and tools matter in art. People like to say that a good artist can work with any tools, but a good tool makes a good difference. Some brushes look great almost effortlessly while others look like low-effort crap no matter what you do.

>>718191962
i don't like it either, i'll probably have it print some rough estimate based on the container

>>718192012
"1 cup"

>>718192029
if it's full yes

>>718152698
>fat ass small tits
BASED beyond belief, wishlisted.

>>718192087
Now you went peak autistic

>>718191978
brushes were ye old 'ai' before ai became usable.

>>718192132
a cup almost full can't say it's 1 cup because you can still pour more things into it

>>718192195
It's one cup of coffee.
The actual "cup" measurement is much less.

>>718192292
i'm not american, i kinda assumed you meant that one but now i don't know.
if i fill the mug 3/4 it has to say something other than 1 cup

Best way to represent counters on a card? Counters like MtG I mean, where one card can have several different counters with different purposes. I have a card information screen (like in Master Duel) where I could give some details, but I don't know if it would be too complicated to consult that screen whenever you want to see the counters.

>>718187704
It already looks pretty good as is. It should be able to kill the small goblins in a single hit, but that's just my opinion.

>>718192482
1 cl - 100 ml
1 US cup - 23 cl
1 US legal cup - 24. cl
1 Imperial cup - 28 cl
$1 Ikea mug - 25 cl

>>718192941
>centiliter
Europoors, I swear to God.

>>718193016
Watch it or I'm getting the mil

>>718192941
yeah the cup is 250ml, i still have to show some kind of measurement to the player that roughly gets it

>>718193185
Your player can eyeball it.

>>718193220
i suppose

>>718193275
And give them a measuring cup with markings if they absolutely need it.

>>718193062
Watch your tone, Europussy, before I break out the 50 BMG.

>>718193341
i've been looking for good measuring/lab glassware models but come up short so far, i'm shit at texturing so can't make them myself

>>718193452
You jumping on the methlab trend?

>>718193524
you'll be able to make hard drugs yes

>>718193598
add some cards and roguelike elements to complete the trifecta

>>718193647
never really understood that card genre, seems really confusing

>>718193397
No CCs of morphine for you

>>718192737
thanks man! glad you dig it!

>>718144443
s&box, retard

>>718192507
icon with number next to it seems to be the industry standard

No progress today. I cleaned up my workspace and my PC at least.
Been kinda stuck for the past week, in rhe sense that I have a hard time doing more than one thing per day, which is about 30 minutes tops.

the best artists are always mentally ill

>>718195552
The worst artists cant affoard make anything outaide generic art

>>718195552
aren't we all, if just a little bit?

>>718195662
that's pretty terrible honestly. I'd rather look at beautiful art made by crazy peeps.

>>718195552
Oh yeah? Then why I'm medicare at art?

>>718196126
you probably have a boring, non-cool, auraless "mental illness" like autism or aspergers.

>have game
>don't know how to make it fun, interesting and/or engaging
It's just a bunch of systems, it looks like an almost finished game but there is nothing interesting. Being boring is worse than being bad.

My game goes hard. We're up to 2 triangles total, soon enough they will be textured. I guess you could say that I am the graphics master :^)

>>718196126
>medicare
mediocre.
Lol is this what's called a freudian slip?

>>718196176
Idk i can interact with people just fine, but undiagnosed because i don't trust doctors to not just inject me with shit, i also tend to believe that everyone is secretly conspiring against me or will betray me somehow despite not knowing anyone outside of my immediate family since hs

>>718184484
If you are new to blender, I suggest you few free addons for retopology.

I do this for 5 years, and I fucking wish I had this shit when I started

retopoflow (version 3 is free) - this is amazing, but slow to learn
Qremeshify - automatically create quads in a shape of your fucked up mesh
PolyQuilt - this is mid, but fast to learn

Also, you can do this without normal topology, just to get why everyone is doing this shit and waiting for ai that can do this instead

>>718192737
Nice vacation, cocksucking goblin.

>>718195552
You say it like it's a bad thing.

I've been working on the shoot mechanic. To begin with I created a goal 3d object and luckily most of the functionality to get shoot working could be copied from the pass functionality.
Next up is to create a goalkeeper who has a chance to save the shoot. Afterwards a scoreboard will be needed. After that the next major feature will be adding cpu movement / tactics which should start to turn it into a game.

>>718198064
Keep seething with rage as you never step foot outside.

>>718198242
Did your father send you those? Not only you said you were "working remotely" before you posted an image for ants of universal studios but also I notice an absence of your fuck ugly face in them.

>>718198234
cool

>>718196318
post game

>>718198234
>blitzball out of the water
hmm

>>718173893
I use Industry Standard mode. Do you know what the keyboard shortcut for changing between bones during weight painting is? I can't figure it out. If I knew what it was in regular mode I could cross reference it but I can't figure out how to do it in regular mode either.

>>718170643
very well, i like the HUD overlay

Spent an hour implementing copy paste functionality in my editor. Shoulda been like the second thing I implemented 3 months ago, so much tedious stuff removed from just being able to copy things... probably hours of time wasted manually typing in shit. Not pictured is the ability to hit Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V to copy/paste nodes in the graph and effects in the list boxes on the right.

>>718152698
You need to be more pretentious to be a Twitter darling with 1000s of likes.

>>718199878
Keep coping with the fact you never left your mom's basement.

>>718196326
>vulkan/directx12
>not opengl2.0/directx9
ngmi

>>718204520
How's your fake job going? Mowing fake lawn? Everything is code for your daddy's allowance, you ugly lying fuck.

>can (not really) draw, can program
>turns out the hardest part is having ideas
I'm done for

>>718174895
I like the expressions on your characters, generally it's all very clean too, good job. Are you planning on making a sidescroller/platformer?

>>718203945
what was that made in/with?

>>718205446
Shall I call Carmen and tell you what you are up to? Perhaps her learning you're back here is enough for you to begin another record-worthy tirade.

>>718187704
>Slowly get back up after a knockdown
There is nothing worse than having the enemies dictate the pace of the game with IFrames. You have 10 minutes to convince the streamer to keep playing and we can't waste that on the getup animation.

>Threaten to call the hater's mom
>He shuts the fuck up
Nodevs, I swear to God.

finished

>>718206318
you can hit them while they are on the ground

>>718206741
Tom Nook finally had it with you.

>>718206196
It's AvaloniaUI, opengl renderer.

>>718206259
Call anyone you want you retarded lying faggot. Why do you think that's going to do anything to me?

>>718191639
Arcade-y, simple, fun.

Just automated bulk remapping of arbitrary mixamo animations to an arbitrary rifigy rig in Blender. Easy to expand to any rig, too. I don't know why I wasted time automating this whole process, but weirdly excited its all done and working. Blender is surprisingly really easy to extend and script, I'm really impressed actually

Made a little enemy for my Wario Land Fangame

>>718209826
Cute

>>718207502
Is that animated with ai and then exported as a sprite sheet?

remember anons, don't worry about the art assets. just focus on your game's core gameplay mechanics first
the body can't stand without a skeleton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1WeKlNffxg

>>718213214
You need greyboxing even if you are heavy art focused. Any other way to sketch a level is insane.

>>718213214
>>718213925
I can't help it, I get bored of looking at dev textures so I decide to slap some down and then whoops I've spent a day artpassing unfinalized level design

>>718214082
Confucius Say: "No such thing as placeholder texture lmao, that shit stays final".

I think it's fine to try and style text textures and lighting by throwing test materials on your tofu boxes, maybe even skyboxes but actually modelling is a dangerous game and kinda locks you into what's usually pretty lame designs.

>>718214298
Don't model then. Keep it simple boxes. GreyBOXING.

Made like 2 weeks of progress in 2 days, but now im burnt out.
Thanks autisim, adhd or whatever buzzword i have.

>>718215501
Eat meth stupid fuck.

>>718215501
I always keep some easy, fun, mindless gamedev task on standby to ramp up momentum again. It's easiest to work when gamedev is your thing to procrastinate on other stuff with, and not the thing you procrastinate on.

>spent 12 years greyboxing my AAA but worse
>now i gotta spend 7 years modelling over it for real

>>718197764
>retopoflow (version 3 is free) - this is amazing, but slow to learn
>Qremeshify - automatically create quads in a shape of your fucked up mesh
>PolyQuilt - this is mid, but fast to learn
thanks for the advice
yeah been practicing for about a week
can see this be my go to way for character 3d creation
its more intuitive if you have been drawing
i still have a lot to learn ofc

actually found something called instant meshes on github
its external program that practically remeshes and retopologizes the entire model for you
the only catch is that you have to reselect the model after import and clear it for sharp edges

>>718187424
"making" is the key word
Most of them are never finished.
>>718187971
You think there is a lot of them, but only because the dev was realistic in his goals and finished before the burnout started.
Resulting in more of them on market.