Thread 719011621

gamedev thread. You still working on that game anon? Post some progress and give feedback to others, we are all in this together.

gamedevs doko

FUUUUUUUUUCK

Mystery of the Malign
I wrote over 1500 lines of dialogue in two weeks

I am in-game now in my decomp project. Still some graphical issues and missing features but getting real close.
https://github.com/Zizin13/Roller

>>719012645
how much cocaine?

https://cliax-games.com/polycity/

I spent a few hours on adding and tweaking stuff for this old thing. It's ultimately not as engaging as I'd hope it'd be but it's a fun distraction and will just be a small minigame anyway so I guess it's fine. Arrow keys to move and space to shoot.

>>719012645
There's a few more pieces of content to implement but mostly done

>>719012735
nice pretty standard, i think the grid lines should fade out to black as the contrast is somewhat distracting, but other than that, good job.

>>719012926
Yeah that's a good idea.

>>719012719
nice corkscrew

i'm slowly getting a NewGame+ update ready, need a few more weeks. recently added more summonable units. the different types of summons don't like each other, so they talk shit if left idling for too long.

trying out different material setups for vidya butt

I got ice physics working. My next level is going to be Showy/Icey woods themed with a Haunted Mansion in the middle, so, I needed to get this done.

>>719012719
Badass

>>719012735
Very cool. I played it for a bit. Very simple to understand and play. I like it.

Started prototyping the battle system, no AI yet. Still not sure if the selectable strategy thing is a good idea, because the whole point of Chao garden is that Chao compete on their own, but here it will probably feel like you have too much control. Time will tell, I guess.

>>719011621 (OP)
I've released a new version with slightly easier final bosses, a rare crash fixed and some text tweaks:
https://cirote3.itch.io/cirote3/devlog/1016756/041
>>719012719
Based.

been working on tools, items you can use to give you an adventage in combat or while exploring. So far I've made the model for 4 of them and I'm working on the logic to allow using them. Got it more or less working but I want to polish it more before calling it done. Also need to rework that explosion, don't really like it.
>>719012719
>decom project
very nice!
>>719012796
nice looking museum. I'd make the lamps a bit brighter.
>>719013583
>the different types of summons don't like each other, so they talk shit if left idling for too long.
love is in the little details, imo that's wat sets a game apart from the rest.
>>719014180
>ice physics
usually hate that in game but in yours I can see myself doing drifts at high speed and having a lot of fun
>>719014470
good thing about taking inspiration from other games is that it's a chance to improve on them. I'd say do what's the most fun and not just what Chao Garded did.

I think I need to invest some time into fixing my workflow because right now whenever I need to add a new item or prop I completely lose all motivation

>>719014860
Yeah, I made it so when you dash, you instantly change trajectory to whichever direction you want. So, if you're sliding toward a hazard, you can just dash in another direction. The down side is, now you're going very quickly on ice.

Your game looks really great by the way. You're making insane progress.

I'm gonna post my renders again. I haven't made much of any animation or gamedev progress because I've been doing a lot of reading and writing.

>>719014860
Anon, where's the ultimate potion? Bottle of bees?

Still making my VN about twelve identical sisters, just redrew Blue. Considering redrawing Orange, people told me she looks the worst.

>>719015106
sounds super fun man. Lots of trolling potential in multiplayer!
>>719015416
that green guy's hanging dong is a bit unsettling but aside from that, very cool and unique style man.
>>719015496
you get that as a reward for beating the ACME dungeon

Front line soldier for operation "get behind the furries"

>>719012735
fun game, but spamming the space button got tiring after a while. Whish holding it was just as fast.

>>719016232
holding space gets faster when you obtain powerups by the way

>>719016164
cute.
need to see them drunk goofing around to celebrate successful battles.

>>719014860
great stuff. do you get to find Paco?
>imo that's wat sets a game apart from the rest.
agreed, all the small touches really add up

>>719015982
probably worth a redraw, since i like that one the least as well - that and the bottom left one

>>719011621 (OP)
uhhh, I haven't done much besides tinker back and forth with the one character model, I keep learning I did something incorrectly early on and its easier just to revert to an earlier incremental save and redo the work - on the plus side I can do what used to be 3-4 hours of work following Youtube tutorials in around an hour now, with no assistance.

>>719016618
Thank you. Sounds like a fun idea!

Where do you think i"d have the best chance of hiring someone who could do maplestory tier backgrounds

>>719016648
>spoiler
lol, that's a cool idea. Would be nice as an easter egg but I fear the anger of the bald community.
>>719016242
nice donuts. Are you able to make them with whatever ingredients you want?

>>719014470
If you want some chaos in it then add an obedience stat where they act defiantly at lower values. Monster rancher does this with the foolery system.

>>719011621 (OP)
yes
i take back what i said about making stylized hair
its fun
still learning and practicing
blender and 3d modelling keeps blowing my mind
i need a stronger machine/workstation though
already eyeing a few with sufficient power to what i have in mind

>>719017710
hmm.
Twitter artists who don't focus on character art can be sort of rare-r
But BG art isn't hard to do -competently- if the artist has had any amount of dedicated practice.
Shouldn't be too hard, but they might charge a decent sum for the work.

I'm too retarded to make anything and can't decide on anything. I used to be able to just jump in and make things but now I overthink everything. Fuck my stupid programmercel C++hud life.

>>719019814
don't think too much anon, just make what you think would be the most fun thing to work on

I have been making an anime music video using a bunch of automated methods. With sound:

>>>/wsg/5952997


I did some Rokoko mocap recently and it has upsides and downsides. But so has the automated method.Body animations are way less stiff in the included example. Forgot to blink in the face haha

>>719016164
What type of game is this?
Reminds me of the 3ds FE sprites

>>719018665
no you just put dough in that you make from flour/yeast/water

forgot to shill the latest devlog
>https://tintoconcasera.itch.io/project-goblin/devlog/1016568/goblins-went-social

>>719016164
Made for pissing herself after holding in a full bladder all combat

Still working on item sprites for old people gamblecore roguelite, I'm at 72 so far. Hoping for at least 100 sprites but it shouldn't be too bad

decided to swallow my pride and get the ball rolling on my next project, which has been circling in my head since around halfway through my last game's development
speaking of, please give feedback on this boss theme
https://vocaroo.com/1mL8t6qcK5xj

>>719021495
SRPG so I guess that's fitting! At the point of just grinding out assets.

>>719022240
wat

>>719016164
made for human men, fr fr

>>719022657
thats pretty solid anon
i would hire/collab with you for my time crisis tribute game

>>719022856
fuck yeah, I'd be down

added a running animation for the main character a bit ago. i was inspired by the older mario games and the little P meter mario had, the whole thing effectively works like that, except just in a top down game.

>>719022657
sounds pretty damn good. nice work.

>>719012645
Why?

>>719022915
keep staying active in these threads

>>719011621 (OP)
Honestly considering donating my semi professional game, aka make it cost zero on steam.

>>719022956
cool, are they a spider person?
my only gripe is that it lacks a complete border but if it looks good in-game then whatever

>>719022429
>item sprites for old people gamblecore roguelite
you dropped this one

>>719023263
Why's that?

>>719013935
Finally, progress I can get behind

>>719023509
>behind
heh

I have no coding experience. Really want to learn GDScript so I can progress with actually making something and learning the language. I'm considering learning Python and applying the logic to GDScript since they are similar and because there are more resources for it. Does that sound like a decent plan? Alternative approaches? Any recommendation for dummy friendly sources to learn Python?

>>719023267
yeah, they're a spider girl. glad you said that, i was unsure whether her design could get that across or not.

the missing spots are intentional. it's kind of just a stylistic decision of mine, and she blends in well with the environment in-game, so it's alright in my book.

>>719023748
i heard gdscript's pretty similar to python, though i've never really used python myself. gdscript is pretty straight forward though, and was easy for me to understand, so i don't think it'd hurt in giving it a try first. looking at Brackey's tutorial on YouTube would be a good learner, i think.

>>719022657
It's good enough, but I feel like it should be about 3x shorter.

>>719024006
it loops once in the vocaroo I posted

I've been making the Harpy start zone. Finished the starter quest dialogue and 2 maps where the first quest takes place. I have 3 more races to added (naga, sylph, and some kinda robot/insect dudes) but I'm thinking of leaving them till later so I can focus on getting the entire surface map finished and playable first.

>>719019312
Wouldn't that just create the same problem like with friendship in pokemon where it's really easy to raise just by playing the game to the point it stops mattering entirely? How does monster rancher do it?

>>719024084
Ahh, I see. Well the only other thing I can say when it comes to melody constructing is to think about where it leads and how you can apply tension (since it is a boss theme).

When you're going from ti (the 7th scale degree) to do (tonic) like how you do at 0:32, I think the resultant phrase would be more affective if it continued to go up instead of down.

It's kind of hard to explain in text, but it reminds me of this song. https://youtu.be/fzaFnCbkgR4?si=V05fr5ZIFHDJGfy4

Instead of immediately going down at 0:03, Sugiyama continues to go upward a little bit longer before going back down. He's using that 7th scale degree to building tension, but delaying its release.

Or something like that. Keep making music!

>>719023748
I'd rather just use C# so later you can take that knowledge somewhere else. Learning python to learn gds sounds like too much work for a beginner. But if you are really committed to make your game you will learn whatever

>>719023748
GPT is your friend

>>719023365
Got ill and living in a western world, I might get more than enough a month. If I start working/earning again, ill would loose the benefits gradually and eventually completely. Its not that I'm not allowed to earn anything, I'm not allowed to pay tax. Paying tax would eventually lead to me returning my benefits.
In short: it's extremely unlikely for me to outperform my benefits, hence I'll donate it. Bureaucracy is idiotic. It's so convoluted that in the end you get punished for delivering performance.

>>719023748
No need to learn python.
Just make a habit of coding something in godot every day. Read the docs (ctrl+click) and/or ask an AI for anything you don't understand.
If you put it in your mind that you need to learn X (coding, python, art, game design theory, etc.) before making a game, you'll never start. I got stuck in this trap for like 6 months where I just watched tutorials and did programming projects that in retrospect were way less valuable than just starting to make a game.

>>719024925
That and tutorials.

>>719025180
>sungson
i c wat u did thar

>>719023335
Thats one of the ones i still have to make along with necco wafers and a couple other old people candy like good n plenty

>>719011621 (OP)
I worked my ass off and created a 2d point and click game with absolute barebones gameplay, an inventory and one puzzle, it's barely 5 minutes long, and right now the tally for lines of executable code is 7,500. Is game dev really this hard?

>>719025782
Bro, just use ai

>>719011621 (OP)
What do you guys miss in cyberpunk stories? What makes them cyberpunk? Punk? Man machine integration? Giga corporations? Powerless politics? Nature destroyed? Ultra high crime? Police as overburdened as today? Civil militia?

>>719019770
>might charge a decent sum for the work
Like what

spent a couple hours reworking the camera from using spring arms to using shape casting. Much smoother withn 0 jitter or clipping, wish the springarm worked this fine by default.

>>719026483
In what way did you use shape casting?

>>719026597
my camera pivot is always at the same coordinate as the player's shoulders, and I used a springarm to zoom it out. Thing is that thing gave me a lot of jittering at specific places, and using a shapecast instead is much better. Could have used a raycast instead but that was resulting in camera clipping when turning it too fast.

>>719011621 (OP)
Still drawing portraits, did the birds this weekend. Just need to fill this page and then double it for the absolute bare minimum prototype of the game. And then do animated overworld sprites for everyone.
Sure don't feel like a complete idiot for not going 3D right now.

My entire coding this month has been trying to find out where my target marker donut has dissapeared to.

>>719024948
Make sure to look up how your country handles business-like activities. Where I live some laws apply to any activity that could make money whether or not it does.

>>719026327
For a Western white collar professional you can expect $50+ per hour at the minimum, it can go a lot higher if they're in demand. That's just what living in the West costs if you do your own healthcare and insurance. Eastern Europe can be around 30~ and third world goes lower.
Get someone new or panicking about AI and it'll be cheaper.

>>719025850
AI fucked things up for me yet you fags preach like youre paid to

>>719027384
Reported to Nestlé and J & J Snack Foods Corporation

>>719027384
time for dinner I guess

>>719023748
learning to code for the purposes of a videogame is about 100x easier than learning to create worthwhile art assets. you don't need to sweat it much.
https://programming-24.mooc.fi/
this is pretty much the standard recommendation to get an entry level understanding of python.

>>719027140
I tried to get a lawyer, but they are all booked and aren't offering consulting via email. You might be right, I am just reading something like that. If they learn that I made this mostly by myself, they might revoke that. That's not what I was told by that office. Tricky fucks.

>>719025868
Cyberpunk is the story of how technology enables the worst of human nature. It's a gateway to greed, hedonism and all around decadence.

>>719028580
Is that all? Trying to refute that, honestly not as easy. It's a very good summary, short, too. Tech (power) turning people into phalli (phalluses). The result are power phalluses. No wonder people are calling cyberpunk gae.

>>719028750
>>Is that all? Trying to refute that, honestly not as easy. It's a very good summary, short, too
Quoth the Simpsons, brevity is wit. Everything around cyberpunk - the rampant crime, meaningless sex, transhumanism, artificial humans, megacorps ruining the planet - build upon the theme of technological progress.

>>719027263
Get better at prompting

>>719023509
I never liked how skin is made in games. Like no matter how high res it is, it always looks blurry as fuck from a bit of distance and flat, even at 8k. So now I'm thinking of using parallax to make goosebumps and pores more visible. Honestly have no idea how bad the performance impact is going to be

>>719011621 (OP)
Zombie's pretty smart now.
In terms of "number of features" it is complete, but i do need to improve the aim a bit more, and add some optional intelligence/not falling from the borders or redo the level design, as there's some zombies that just fall off cliffs now, as they're more or less the castlevania skeletons.

>>719022429
Also, i've been tossing my head against a wall working on the music for this game, i know i'm going to have different insturments layered for different parts of the game (you get more instruments if you make it further in a run)
This is an extremely rough early cut of what i'm working on, still need to do ALOT OF WORK but im not sure if it's gonna work out ultimately, let me know what you other anons think.

https://vocaroo.com/1eHrhynsertp

>>719029053
You're fighting anisotropic filtering/trilinear etc.. without these, the GPU gets confused on which color to pick from the texture and gets infighting and noise and all shit.
Not sure of parallax will help much in this specific case.
Also TAA might be eating your pores.

>>719025868
At its core cyberpunk is about how technology enables the removal and devaluation of humanity and how people deal with it. It's about our lives being controlled by inhuman systems with no care or even active antipathy for anything humane. The central conceit is this:

Technology enables the elites to exert more power over us. To take away our prosperity, our freedom to choose our own way of life, our rights, our relationships, our bodies, our very thoughts and memories. And they use all that power to amass ever more power, voraciously and without any thought of the consequences.
For any cool tech you add to your setting, think how about all the ways a monopolist with zero empathy can use that technology for more money.

Historically there's a bit of a socialist bend to cyberpunk. Corps vs. workers works because most people are workes. You can arrange things to get rid of that, to make the antagonist the government or random lone criminals, but personally I think you loose a bit of soul without that historical connection.

>>719028965
>build upon the theme of technological progress
Or regress in that regard. Got the idea, thanks.

>>719029454
I'm using Udims and I have anisotropic filtering on since the beginning.

I also switched to TSR. I literally get headaches from games with TAA

Might just be in my head that it's blurry

>>719029165
Whoa, cool. Unlike many things posted via vocaroo. What so you want to achieve with this track? Which emotion?

>>719029546
>Technology enables the elites to exert more power over us.
Literally a core problem of our time, we are on the verge of absolute control and people are getting zombified and infantilized as we speak.

>>719029546
Are there real subgenre? Learned recently of ghost punk, but that seems constructed through the reception of ghost in the lobster shell.

>>719030194
Post butt at distance, or several distances.

got some of the core framework done for my rock paper scissors game, not a fan of how the code works for it but it doesn't matter.
Is a look up table really the best solution to calculate the outcome?

>>719029165
i like it. it's relaxing.

>>719030370
Not that I know of, I'm not that deep into the genre. I guess what you could to is look for either minority writers tackling the same themes or other left-ish writing and try to apply them to tech. That should give something kind of in the right direction, but still distinct. Like those Japanese influences don't come from Cyberpunk writers in the 70s being weebs, but from Japan's massive economic growth that had people assume they would dominate the US.

>ghost punk
There's anything -punk because -punk has come to mean "the aesthetics of". Just see Bethesda's "NASA punk": all style,, no substance. The old spirit of punk is the working class getting sick of the elites shitting on them and rebelling in various ways. As long as you keep that in mind you should be doing fine.

>>719030513
Even mipmaps are off

>>719031369
I think it is auto generating mip mapping or something.
True mipmapless would look like a really noisy thing.

>>719024831
dude I fucking love that track. might've been a subconscious inspiration, who knows. coincidentally enough, there's another track I made for the game that's directly inspired by the final boss theme from that game; https://vocaroo.com/1jFzj5gykeOi

>>719031120
>try to apply them to tech
Forceful mixing, eh? Could try that.
>Japan
The trilateral commission was made for this. Japan then was more or less what china is today. Japan was unbelievable successful and had advanced tech. The bubble burst and the us could gain land in the tech field. Japan already bend the knee to migration and will soon start to produce more weapons, meaning more high tech.
>ghost punk
Is an emerging or supposed subgenre of cyberpunk, heavily describing ghost in the shell. There's obviously plenty done in that genre, as gits is omnioresent in the cyberpunk discussion.
>nasa ounk
Just shows how stupid Bethesda or suits in general are.
>keep that in mind you should be doing fine.
Cheers

blocking out platforming challenges so i can stitch them together to create a mini-undeadburg with the unlockable shortcuts and the hidden collectables and the stuff, but a platformer

>>719031108
thanks
>>719030208
I want to have a chill track that makes you feel liek your in a kaiji esque underground casino, that or sonic casino music, either way i wanted to make a chill swing track that i could build upon and have dynamic layers for, while keeping the same key and chord structure for technical gamedev reasons

>>719033071
that's very cool! remember to include an elevator that has a secret below it

>>719033317
oh that's a good one

Just implemented my save system.

How does this look?

Animus is 96% done.

>>719033975
damn this M&B like is looking amazing compared with the last time I saw it. Too much blurryness but that might be a personal preference.

>>719031780
>might've been a subconscious inspiration
Happens to me all the time!
I see what you mean, also your track sounds good.

>>719033975
I like the colors

>>719034250
Thanks, have you seen my game before?
The blur is to achieve a certain look, it's only there when you're close to the ground, to look cinematic, otherwise it's not present.

>>719033268
Does work. My advice, forget about that song entirely, and come back six weeks later. Listen to it after six weeks have passed. Don't confuse it with sex, six. Let six weeks pass, not six sex.

I think it works for what it is, which is a shooting gallery. I can set the speed of the targets, the sort of pattern they'll move in (if any) and what direction they go. Could probably add more but need to move on

>>719031369
Also much later, but anisotropic filtering is also a form of mip map that destroy details at distance.
You might look of there is some sort of offset you can apply to it.

>>719029098
Cute penguin. How many levels are you planning?

>>719037629
12-14, give or take. in the case of level structure, i'm staying pretty close to the source.

>>719038196
Is this based of an existing game? I might have missed you mentioning it before, either way that's a decent amount. Is it just the zombie enemy type or do you have others?

>>719039421
It is basically a "what if konami did megaman".
In this level specifically i got some possessed objects as well and floating platforms, but there will be a second section with different enemies.

>>719040370
Sounds bretty cool, looking forward to seeing you complete it

>>719015982
>Considering redrawing Orange, people told me she looks the worst.
She looks like a real pain in the ass to be around. If that was the goal then maybe just keep her as is

>>719041885
Thanks

>>719011621 (OP)
next character

>>719043592
nice character design

It's very basic but I finally have a Steam page. Close to getting my demo presentable too.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3323140/

>>719044252
Cute

Having trouble with the over the shoulder camera for aiming. It kinda works, but it's jank and I don't know how to improve it.

bumpa

>>719044881
I think you're overcomplicating it. Camera looks fine in first person when you're scrunched up against a wall, so just stick with first person when you've got a ranged weapon out. Worked for Ocarina of Time. The ""smart"" feature of jittering between views like that is unpleasant

>>719011621 (OP)
its not

>>719011621 (OP)
I really would love to make a game and i am trying to learn how to but when I think about how long it might take it hurts me on an existential level
How do you guys build the will power for this shit? I feel so fucking weak and pathetic and old and stupid

>>719031369
You spending too long sculpting ass for a game you will not finish

it's 9am and i don't get out of this office till 6pm.

TALK ABOUT ANYTHING

>>719048158
I prefer having the character there but yeah, you might be right. I'll make a note and if people complain about it after the demo is released then I might just make it first person, would be much easier for sure, so thanks for the idea anon. In any case, I think I've managed to improve it a bit.
>>719049045
in my case I don't need willpower because I just have a lot of fun working on my game. Haven't touched a videogame in weeks. So my advice for you would be to either work on something you feel very passionate about, or start small with a 3 month project.
>>719049484
It's 3am here my asian friend. Wanna chat about goblins? Tell me something about your favorite depiction of those little fucks.

>>719049045
Have a little patience, take it step by step. Gotta make yourself start. Once you start making progress, the motivation will build with the satisfaction of seeing it starting to come together. Of course it still takes will as you go, but it will get easier. Just take a little time you would have spent on video games and instead put it towards what you want to make a little every day. You can do it senpai. I'm retarded and it's working for me anyway. You'll probably do better.

>>719049559
good question. I'm not exactly sure which kind of goblins I would like.
LOTR goblins?
HOMM goblins?
Goblin Slayer goblins?
Ragnarok Online goblins?
WC3 goblins?
hey even Battle Brothers goblins
it's really difficult to choose.

>>719049662
those are very nice choices! but what about Dragon's Dogma goblins? There's also Dragon's Crown which has some nicely drawn goblins (picrel). Or maybe Sacred goblins, they speak german while making funny sounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLV-y3Dk2RY

>>719022657
this is okay but I have some complaints, I'm just nitpicking
>there seems to be a lot of disconnect every 4 bars, like it's some sort of mashup where you can only barely relate the previous 4 bars to the next 4 bars, the transition may be lacking or doesn't make enough sense for me. I guess that can be by design if the boss action phase itself is quite chaotic.
>I could go with moving a few notes here and there in the melody. it feels like some notes are like jamming a square in a rectangle hole. it works, but some notes will just work better.

overall I think in making this, I can see that you are a bit meticulous and have been attentive to almost every second with detail and complexity. It might just be a bit too chaotic to make a memorable mark on someone as a listener, but that should be okay if that doesn't matter to you.
just pointing out, and maybe asking, how do the more iconic boss themes work and why are they so memorable, and then do a comparison to yours

>>719049849
I haven't played Dragon's Dogma and Dragon's Crown and Sacred. I'll make sure to explore them.

I want to write my own goblins someday but I'm actually really not sure how they should be like. are they just "wild animals", or "barbaric tribes", or "demonic minions"?

Do you ever have the urge to take a genre of games you dont often like or apprecaite and want to "do one right"?

>>719014180
When will you learn? That mechanical depth is meaningless to people and all they value are things that exist outside of the gameplay.

>>719014180
Hell yeah dude. That looks fun as fuck.

>>719050078
>I haven't played Dragon's Dogma and Dragon's Crown and Sacred. I'll make sure to explore them.
You should! Sacred is kinda average, but the other 2 are awesome games.
>I want to write my own goblins someday but I'm actually really not sure how they should be like. are they just "wild animals", or "barbaric tribes", or "demonic minions"?
I like to think of them as little mischievous creatures always willing to fight as long as there's someone above directing them
>>719050158
Yes lol, my previous project was just that. I thought I could improve on roguelikes by making the combat Action Point based but it didn't come out very nicely. Might still re-explore the idea in the future, maybe I was just burn out on it.

>>719014470
How far do the heads tilt back in a leap?

>>719049045
Simply enjoy the process. Divide your game into small milestones and bask in the dopamine of finishing one.
Sprite done? That's a milestone. Mechanic implemented? That's a milestone. Game runs and can loop through the main gameplay sequence? That's a milestone.

>>719023748
Coding is not as hard as a real skill like art or music. Idk how people struggle so much.

var x = 3
if x is 3:
print ("x is 3")
else:
print("x is not 3")

Do you understand this? Congrats, you are a programmer. It's literally instructions spelt out in fucking english. There are like 8 keywords to know. You can learn it in a day. It's not rocket science. It doesn't take creativity or muscle memory or years of studying.

It's as difficult as reading a cookbook and figuring out what the measurements are. Then again people somehow fuck up cooking too so what do I know...

>>719052138
writing code isn't too hard, what's hard is maintaining a large code base without it becoming an absolute mess

>>719049045
For me, the fun is having ideas and then seeing them brought to life, though they usually have better graphics in my head.
>>719011621 (OP)
This weekend I got around to fleshing out miniboss fights and adding some simple enemy AI so they can cast spells instead of just doing auto attacks all the time. I still need to figure out adjusting VFX stuff for xboxhueg enemies.
Miniboss vid too big for upload: https://litter.catbox.moe/hr8dvcuvxcoxyohs.mkv

>>719014860
The flame particles look good but it could use some smoke
>>719014180
Nice ice. All you're missing now is a tried-and-true iceblock pushing puzzle

>>719052243
If this was C and you had to learn to install it and how to include headers and write a make file and link libraries and avoid memory leaks, I'd agree.

But little bro is asking how to use Godot, and thinks the best way is to learn something else. Bro is definitely inbred. JUST FUCKING USE GODOT IF YOU WANT TO LEARN GODOT. If anything, learning the environment and specific functions of your engine is a way bigger learning curve than the syntax of a baby script language.

>>719052369
>The flame particles look good but it could use some smoke
damn that's true, ty.
Btw your game reminds me of Suda-51, cool stuff.

>>719052138
imho it's literally just based on a temperament, a technically minded (autistic) person will easily grasp any concrete system, while artistically minded (bipolar) person will be able to put out a cool design way faster
have you ever tried to get across navigation details to any woman? you can just intuitively "feel it out" and orient as needed, it's hard to explain why it's not that hard at all
while programming and illustration both are more formalized skills that you shouldn't wing for too long, the fundamentals behind "just getting it" stay the same
the real talent is not asian jeans, but learning multiplier

>>719052138
Then you have to deal with mountains of code and suddenly art and design and even music are preferable.

>>719052369
I'm retarded I could have been explorting mp4 from OBS. another vid: https://litter.catbox.moe/4xpm077v4ajacyhc.mp4

>>719052806
>Btw your game reminds me of Suda-51, cool stuff.
Thank you! The on-rails movement and camera placement for dungeons was 100% killer7 influenced.

>>719052138
This is the equivalent of being able to make a single-instrument 5-second jingle and saying you're a musician. Yeah good job, you got the most fundamental and basic part of it down. Now make the full song/script.

>>719053560
That second rat made me laugh for real, nice job

>>719052138
nobody has trouble writing fizzbuzzers, they have trouble architecting large, complicated software like video games

I used to be a daily poster here and I hack-frauded my way into a successful career
you can make it
I dont recommend it though I hatevideogames god I wish I was dead

how would you describe your game using this template?

>>719015416
>>719015472
this character reminds me of chicks from jak and daxter. i like it.

Made 3 new enemy ships these past few days. They're all fairly similar in the "bulbous" design as they're from a single faction, though I may take the left purple one and refit it a bit to be part of a water-based faction.

Also I submitted my steam page for review on Friday, worried it wasn't going to get approved in time to register for next fest (and it still isn't approved), but I checked anyway and it turns out I was able to register for Next Fest without needing to have the store page approved and public. So, very happy about that, as I really wanted to enter the fest.

>>719054684
Also did another Merchant. Can hear the voice here:

https://litter.catbox.moe/jemobudvei9iqxu7.webm

It's loosely based off of an undead character from Divinity:Original Sin named Charla, who had this type of chipper feminine voice despite looking evil.

>>719054684
>>719054905
looks very cool anon. Good luck with the steam stuff.

>>719053993
I'm glad someone thinks I'm funny

>>719054684
>>719054905
I like the models and the shading on the textures and the merchant sprite/window animation looks slick. How long have you been working on your project?

>>719058712
lmao too much balls for reddit

ripping off Sekiro, what should this counter be called instead?

>>719052138
you know it's not that simple

okay. let's make a music track.
how long do you want it to be? maybe 1 minute.
for 1 minute, you have to make it so that it has a coherent structure. so for the most basic of that, you have to count in terms of 4 bars/measures.
how many bars/measures can you fit into one minute? you'll math that into tempo.
let's use a very simple time signature, 4:4. so 4 beats per 1 bar/measure. if I want 36 bars/measures in total for my track in one minute, that would mean? 36 bars * 4 beats/bar * 1 beat/minute. so your beats per minute (tempo) is? 144. cool.

map out your 36 bars now. the first 12 bars go into introducing your track. just some elements picking up the pace. the next 12 bars build up to the climax. the last 12 bars are the climax, that should loop back into the beginning 12 bars.

that's your music track. now what do you want it to have?

>>719054684
maybe the windows could glow too?

>>719059491
Replied to the wrong guy? I said coding was easy, not music

>>719058712
Make it a tanuki with big breasts instead

>>719059058
>and it's getting to the point that even I have a problem with it

>>719060742
coding is easy if you're writing hello world and music is easy if you're playing a single chord. when you simplify things in the most reductive ways possible and put them in a vacuum, of course they're easy, but that's just not reality

>>719060903
someone said to replace the censor bar with a pride flag and the mods would let it through

>army of shills making 20+ threads with barely no more than 10 replies and just 2 ips
>jannies: you can stay and also get a general in /vg/
>fellow 4channer making in board culture videogame for other anons
>jannies: this thread is pruned and the user was banned
jannies let kike games and their indian army to infest our board and ban and delete our peoples's in topic threads.

>>719061010
Well, it's reddit after all, it might work, for extra points say the tanuki is gay

>>719029053
i hope that picrel isn't indicative of the final product because humans don't have orange peels for skin

Couple of quickly made tunes for this diabloesque unreal assetslop a friend of mine is making for fun.

https://vocaroo.com/1jklTkgGn5Gx
https://vocaroo.com/1caUt4VaaSmw

>>719061273
mine's lemons

>>719061810
skirt should flow when she moves, otherwise what's the point of a skirt?

>>719061810
Looks nice. When does the spooky thing jump out?

>>719061810
Gonna spank drills girl

>>719062193
Never because I won't finish it

>>719062298
That's true horror

I played a bunch of PoE1 and now have motivation to make gaem again

i've entered the thread that showcases human creativity and now it makes me mad

>>719061810
I got fired from my job and have no money to commission artists anymore. If any art fuckers need a dev fucker I'm free now since I can't fund my own game.

>>719063018
maybe its all AI generated

>>719052138
you don't know how to code

>>719060742
and i'm saying music is easy

I spent the whole day changing my scriptable objects into serialized references
pro is that I reduced amount of scriptable objects from 10+ per equipment piece to just one
con is that this data structure has been added to unity in 2021 and STILL isn't officially supported

done on the ronin side

what should I call this counter since I can't call it mikiri

>>719066580
I don't think there's any problem with calling it mikiri since it's a real word, but maybe you could call it sword step/stomp.

I just recieved this bad boy. What I am in for ?

>>719067197
Only what you can do.

>>719067197
being humbled but also having infinite potential if you put in the work and git gud

Posting this again from agdg.
To the one guy who thought i was reloading by clicking. No you idiot, im pressing R. I'm hovering over the bullets to show how they are being consumed.
And to the other guy, the player does not instant aim, notice the mouse is a little boid.

>>719066580
What are the practical benefits of stomping on your opponent's sword?

>>719067197
>What I am in for ?
Nothing. If you can't draw, you still won't be able to

>>719067878
aura farming

I'd say this design is 5/10. Maybe 4/10 at best. Really don't know how I could improve it from here, but oh well

>>719019770
Honestly I'll bite the bullet and do it if I seriously commit. If I have to do everything alongside the animations and coding then its going to take forever. I only started fooling around because ai will just pop out enemy designs like its nothing

>>719059080
Sword is at the back, so either a stab or a right-to-left swipe at the neck/head feel like natural movements. Or go for a deeper step in after the first mikiri, pushing the blade down even further and go for an overhead swing, though that'll make the animation longer.

How does episodic release work? Isn't it basically ea, but in chapters? Does it work for non vn, too?

>>719065234
Hello, I just saw your post and found it inflammatory. May you post your music, so that I can see what sort of music people who believe such a thing produce?

>>719070561
Oh it was the name.
Sorry, uh, the grasshopper bends the reed if you wanna get kungfuish.
Or slap some kanji together 土/ロ食/刀鉄刃 for example, pick any combination for some full retard earth-eats-sword and just romaji that out.

>>719066580
Would this actually work irl?

>>719066580
kimiri

>>719071136
no

>>719071136
If you can dodge and get your foot on the opponents blade, why bother risking it instead of just dodging and using your own blade to go in for a (pretty much guaranteed to be lethal) cut?

Also the other guy can just pull the blade back from under your foot.

>>719031369
youre putting way too much detail into the pores and such:

top left looks horrible like she has some disease, ass skin has goosebumps which dont indent, they bump out.
bottom right looks way too blurry like your diffuse AND normal has been down-res'd.
top right would look OK if the normal map effect was inverted
bottom left looks almost nice, thats probably the best from the 4

>>719063018
I've posted my human creativity and I'm also mad at how much better everyone else is.
You geht used to it, just work more to distract yourself from the existential dread.

>>719050158
I'm not a huge point and click fan but I'm making a point and click mixed with Undertale lmao

>>719050158
I hate RPGs and I'm making a porn rpg, so yes. Though it's actually just an RPG cuz I'm still practicing my drawing.

Are there games where you only have one weapon or few and ca customize them to your liking, like a stick that can be turned into a sword, flail aso?