Thread 722875868

Well, you updated your game after the Unity fiasco, right anon?

Stop spamming this shit and go back to vg. No one cares about your autistic drama.

>>722875868 (OP)
>Unity fiasco
You mean the one from last year? Or is there some recent drama I'm not aware of?

>>722876141
Don't you have a thinly-veiled /pol/ Twitter screencap thread to argue in?

>>722875868 (OP)
Hey now that is a picture I recognize
>>722876141
What's wrong? I haven't seen dev threads up in a bit.

>>722876365
They found a security flaw and everyone needs to patch their games.

>>722875868 (OP)
>mfw nobody ever uses gamemaker so nobody ever bothers to hack it
I won by doing nothing

Go away, you stupid grifter.

Can I make a game on the wii? Is that possible? What game engine could i use that is wii compatible?
>>722876591
What the fuck is this?? Is this blender cg?

Look he's already talking to himself, what a shocker

>>722875868 (OP)
Today I lay the first stone for my first game.
Some might already intuit what it is about.

>>722876380
Then you literally haven't been here. /vg/ pushed out fagoon for being an annoying autistic faggot and now he comes to /v/ every day to try and pretend he's okay to share his game here. He spams the thread every day now. This has been going on for awhile.

>>722875868 (OP)
how do i avoid my game being called "transcoded"?

>>722863594
Ghost ship, circus tent, and the mansion kitchen because Halloween.
Getting rid of 3 of the usual 8 Mario biomes is enough to ward off criticism.

>>722876996
As long as you're not investing effort into being a total fag, you'll be fine. Idiots might say "transcoded" anyway but those few are unavoidable

>>722876703
A license to make games for any console is ludicrously expensive, like tens to hundreds of thousands. If you mean homebrew, console manufacturers are getting increasingly more secure about that making it harder and harder, at best, you'd need to get a wii dev kit. Good luck with that.

>>722875868 (OP)
Hows my offline only game supposed to be vulnerable? I don't even get what the vulnerability is.
And if there are no records of it being used for an attack, nothing to worry about then.

>>722876895
Any specific devs you actually care about? Any good /v/ devs with games I should look forward to?

I'm gonna create a new project when I get home. First new one since the start of this year. And it should be easier as it's a port of a pen and paper game

>>722878164
All the good devs left and abandoned the threads because it just turns into fagoon jerking himself off and calling everyone names and generally throwing his feces everywhere.

>>722878164
Mine

>>722878312
Post your game

>>722878164
I'll make a quest and you can pick sides between a green and a orange dragon so it will be like you never left?

>>722876996
Make it gay with penises

>>722878343
Why so fagoon can obsess over me? No thanks

>>722876591
>fagoons face when his dad says its time for bed wrestlin'

>>722878548
Don't reply to posts that are replying to someone else, wtf anon

>>722878641
?

>>722878641
It's just the Grextard. Pay him no mind.

>>722878794
>everyone i dont like is grassf... no, wait, now its grextard

Here's my attempt at virality. It mostly failed. I guess it's time to create some shorts for youtube and tiktok
>>722875868 (OP)
I'm not using Unity
>>722878164
nta but from the top of my head there's Ninja Game, Ctesiphon, Jargon, Acrolyte, Project Landsword, [A]woken. There are games that were released not that long ago, like Mystery of The Malign, Deadwire, Healed To Death, Genokids, Marmoreal, Into The Necrovale. Illusive Domain is getting a lot of traction lately. Here's the latest list with demos in various states of completion
https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64/entries

>>722878913
>grassfag out of nowhere
Isn't that curious.

>>722878951
>everyone i dont like is grext... no, wait, now its grassfag
make up your mind fagoon

>>722878343
the game I'm making is called monster freaks!. It's got a demo up on steam.

>>722878794
Wait, what happened to grassfag? Why did you change what you call us?

>>722879106
Grassfag, apparently, changed his alias after his grass MMO was aborted.

>>722875868 (OP)
>unity fiasco
glad i switched to unreal when they tried that runtime fee shit.

>>722879161
Proof?

>>722879304
delusions of a mutt baby, it's best to ignore his tantrums

>>722878076
Oh damn ok well nevermind then.

>>722879304
Consider how he depicts speech bubbles. Furthermore, consider the fact everything he makes is in Blender.

How about this: if someone applies a name to anons like "grassfag" or something, we know it's someone just shitposting and trying to cause drama and just give him no replies.

>>722879389
I understand that part but I want to know his reasoning I'm sure it's hilarious and yeah it is
>>722879393
So you think it's the same dev because *checks notes* he uses the software Blender?

>>722879392
I don't mean to crush your dreams, just lower your expectations on what you'll make until you can reach those expectations.
In other words: start small, work up to bigger ideas.

>>722877025
I like those three ideas a lot, but I believe "Ghost ship" and "circus" are Mario staples, are they not? Especially in Mario 3D World. A giant kitchen would be neat, and a lot to work with.

Because I like challenging myself, I wonder if there is a way I could organically combine the Circus and Ghost Ship ideas into one stage. Maybe instead do a haunted circus? Hmm. You have really given me some food for thought.

>>722879641
Goddamn, I love Batman Beyond.

>>722879479
Anon i have been trying for months to get people to just stop the drama. What is so important about a reply that isnt a question or insight on game dev?
>oh it is cuz it it a troll thread
Says who??
>Doesn't matter im gonna shitfling anyways
Seriously it is fygoon impersonators, shitposters, drama fags, whiners about how often threads are made. It is so gay coming here. Everyone is a god damn man here and most act like emotionally starved women.

>>722879393
>everyone who uses blender is grassgrex
got it.

perfect parry redirects attacks now

>>722875868 (OP)
I am trying to refine my Godot UI skills by trying to make a mockup combat UI for a UT/Deltarune inspired horror bullethell RPG.
I'd like to figure out how to implement a way to tween the Panel at the bottom containing interactive UI elements into the bullet hell minigame box, because I think it would look neat, but instead I think I'll just cheat a lil' and create a blank copy and use that to create the bullet hell minigame "zone"
Biggest issue I have currently is being unable to shrink the Texture buttons in the bottom UI container, I'd like to shrink AND move them off screen before I disable the container and spawn the "fake" one in.

perfect parry on archer deflects arrows right back at enemy

enemy tengu boss basic attacks

Planning CPU logic for a 1v1 card game, and now I'm scared to proceed. At first I thought about computing a priority score for each card and possible move based on the gamestate, but the more I think about it, the harder it looks. I think I'm about to drop this shit, it's too much for a one man team.

>start learning blender
>learn unity
>start making game I'm proud to share in the thread
>now realize I'll get called grassfag or something because I use blender
Well shit

>>722880069
Your aesthetic is next level, I enjoy watching these a few times each

I'm going to make a video game.

>>722880313
No no, just ignore the autism. Some of us actually provide honest feedback you're fine.

>>722879865
They did a crap job of "food world" imo on odyssey i know you could do better. You should look at luscious lakes from Rayman Origins

>>722880474
So go do it. What's stopping you?

Tengu Boss Crow Shuriken Special Attack

>>722880452
thanks very much

>>722880910
How many games have you made before this one?

>>722880813
Myself, honestly. I work two jobs and have very low energy in the little time I'm not working. Usually have to sacrifice sleep to do anything recreational. Even playing vidya for more than an hour is exhausting.
I've been trying to find ways to motivate myself to get started with game development. Making that post was just another attempt at it.

>>722879865
1 through World diversified the areas so the Ghost Ship only exists in 1 or 2 games. Same with the circus.
This pic is the one that got recycled 10+ times so avoid the specific pairing of World 1 Grass into World 2 Desert.

>>722880997
I started off doing mugen and lf2 mods. ntsd was the main one. Then did animation work for a alot of other games that got stuck in development hell. Got fed up with it, learned to code Godot and doing my own games now.

>>722875868 (OP)
Oh, is unity still fucking their product up?
I moved to godot when they tried the installation fee shit and haven't looked back

>>722881295
The fuck up has been around since like 2017 apparently

>>722879667
No it's fine I didn't think about how closed off it would really be. I guess i could make a pc game that looks like a wii game

>>722879934
>>722880004
>>722880069
>>722880910
Impressive progress. I don't remember if I asked this already but have you implemented controller support?

Is it even worth learning Blueprints in Unreal? I've seen that they just use C++ everywhere and it seems to be better performance wise

>>722882061
blueprints gets a bad name and its an essential component to learn
you are definitely not writing up the entire animation model swapping and IK/anim layering by hand c++, you are saving hundreds of hours by using the one thing blueprint was designed for

>>722881036
I got a job where I have to get up at 5:30am, and kids that don't go to bed until 9pm… I can usually work on my game for about 3 hours a day, 4 is I am willing to be EXHAUSTED the next day. But I do it. If the passion is in you, you will find a way. There is a game on your head, and it's only you who can get it out.

ah it's friday, GMT+8

>making low/mid poly character with flat shading
>curiously decide to turn on smooth shading and subdivision
>damn that's not bad
>add some more detail with some insets and loops
>have totally lost sight of my original idea
At this point I should probably fuck off to /3/ since idk if I'll be making an actual game.

>>722882539
what learning resources would you recommend for both recording/producing music and also for writing music?

reposting my roguelike deckbuilder I put in the pyw thread last night. So far I have 2 enemies and 4 towers with 1 upgrade each

>>722881906
ah shit not yet, I need to redo the whole UI and custom inputs still before I can do that.

>>722881850
Hey you were more ambitious than even I was. I wanted to make a gba game, but when I was looking into homebrew gba, it got really overwhelming really fast, so I also settled on making it for PC.

>>722883464
youre really good at animating

>>722875868 (OP)
What's the best for a 1-man dev team to use?

>>722884509
Depends if you want gta5 level graphics or call of duty black ops 2 level graphics. For GTA I'd recommend designing and programming your own engine, and for call of duty (or battlefield) I recommend fps creator

>>722882416
ive worked 2 full time jobs before and the fact that you can see your kids means you arent getting overworked enough
i understand that anons plight, he needs to get a higher paying job to quit one of them because working 2 jobs means you have no time for anything but sleep

>>722884509
Roblox

>>722884509
Renpy/RPGMaker

>>722879934
If you're still lurking, is there anywhere I can follow this game? Is it on steam?

>>722884129
thanks

>>722885030
Yea it's Reinbo. Demo is on itch right now


https://dead-imagination.itch.io/reinbo
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3464180/Reinbo/

>>722883124
What is this? It's reminiscent of Element TD

>>722885396
It's Emu Tower Defence

>>722882754
Ok, but what if her boobs were bigger?

>>722879934
you're not japanese

>>722885507
Fucken based
Fully sick cunt

My new character I started working on. Her body is mostly finished, but her armature and weights need a lot of work. I'm probably going to giver her some claw gauntlets and heels, but nothing else.

>>722882754
Orange woman enjoyer

>>722875868 (OP)
Worked on a crude background goes dark into static. May use it for a mechanic on a chaser enemy that only moves during the time it's on. Won't be as frequint as this

Is it possible to make a successful game today that doesn't appeal to gooners?

>>722886368
Balatro did it

>>722886368
Flash in the pan Megabonk did it alongside Balatro

I've been trying to use SFML instead.

>>722886716
I personally think SDL is better, in almost every way. Every system under the sun supports it.

>>722879934
I have some complaints with the artstyle. Listen or not idc.

First the vfx stuff. That smooth overlay lighting mixed with pixels. I would turn it off or replace it with sprites. Or see if you can "pixelize" it somehow. Get rid of the red flashing when you are hurt. Tone down the camera shake and remove the dynamic zooming.

Second, the webm's size makes it worse. Personally I like sprites at original size (1x zoom). I'd like to see this game at non-scaled resolution, and I would also increase the field of view.

Third, the color palette seems very flat and boring. Idk, try playing around with the hues in a filter or something. Consider adding shadows to the characters that cast against the wall if you can maybe.

does anyone know how to convert an animation to be in place if you use autorig pro?
i keep trying addons and none of them have any effect for ARP-made rigs

>>722886406
>>722886590
>Gooner game or streamer slop
Sighhhh

>>722886806
That might be. I have no idea what I'm doing. All the CS people were telling me to use SFML instead at my school.

>>722885996
fygoon-tier artstyle

>>722886983
>First the vfx stuff. That smooth overlay lighting mixed with pixels. I would turn it off or replace it with sprites. Or see if you can "pixelize" it somehow. Get rid of the red flashing when you are hurt. Tone down the camera shake and remove the dynamic zooming.
I'm not a pixel purist.

There isn't a healthbar. Red flashing is the only way to show how damaged you are.

Camera shake is less pronounced in the actual game, recording makes it show more for some reason. Zooming I kinda like to make stuff more dynamic.

>Second, the webm's size makes it worse. Personally I like sprites at original size (1x zoom). I'd like to see this game at non-scaled resolution, and I would also increase the field of view.
Don't know how to get other sized webms but I'll try to mess around with export settings

>Third, the color palette seems very flat and boring. Idk, try playing around with the hues in a filter or something. Consider adding shadows to the characters that cast against the wall if you can maybe.
it's the homebase, brown is the main color. Other stages have more color. Shadows I'll try to add later.

Thanks for the feedback

>>722888243
Breathtaking backgrounds, I have to admit.

>>722888243
That pic looks waaaay better without the gay lighting and no zoom. And yeah I can see other stages have better coloring. But still, that lighting made it worse.

>There isn't a healthbar. Red flashing is the only way to show how damaged you are.
Still dislike it. Idk what the alternative would be (I guess a healthbar would throw off the vibes) but I'd rather guess my health or keep mental track of how many hits I took than have the screen keep pulsing red. That shit is garbage.

Would a torture game be too edgy?

>>722886209
Chaser enemy? Is this a horror game?

pisses me off
i can't post my concepts for the games i wanna make cause i don't have the skills, funds, or patience to get into gamedev at all, let alone make the games i want
i fucking hate sucking this much dick but i don't have the motivation to stop

Should I just stick to 2D gamedev? Sometimes I feel I should try to make 3D games because they seem more dynamic, but then when I do It just feels like 3D modeling is way less enjoyable than drawing.
Can 2D games be just as dynamic as 3D and should I not feel bad about just only being a 2D gamedev for the rest of my life?

>>722888708
maybe I'll make it a toggle but I like the lighting effects.

>>722888313
thanks

How do you guys organize your game design/planning?

Google sheets, excel, whiteboard?

>>722889790
Sure, why not? As long as your art is very good.
There are still plenty of good 2D games.

>>722889790
>Can 2D games be just as dynamic as 3D
They can, but due to missing that 3rd dimension they need to get a lot more creative.

>>722888863
This stage will have a horror/spooky theme and I may have some other spooky things in some stages and intermissions. The game will be as scary as Yume Nikki or B3313

Post your game and I will review it using a random AI voice.

Yesterday I finished very flexible cutscene manager. Now I can make cutscenes active/disabled based on pretty much anything. Having/not having some items in the inventory, quest status (not started, active, finished, failed), state of other cutscenes. And it's all pretty easy to use.
For example, in this webm the last cutscene only triggers when the second one is finished. It tried to activate it earlier, but it's disabled.
Feels so good when you do something cool.

>>722875868 (OP)
I need to add a couple of new features to it before publishing the patched version.

>>722892421
Why he naked though?

it's slime time

>>722893317
It's just a free spritesheet that I have stolen to test animations.
I already found an artist to make our own sprites for the game. He's currently working on a spritesheet of the main character.

>>722890148
I use Notion

>>722891713
Neat, can't wait to see the enemy designs.

>>722882976
if you're starting from absolutely nothing, I think this is based on what program/application you choose to use. These are usually called DAWs (Digital Audio Workstation), they are the Photoshop for sounds.

if you are actually going into recording/producing and you already have a DAW you can use, honestly I've not a lot to give you except look them up on youtube.

Writing music for me largely means being able to describe what you feel when you hear it, and why. Youtube, probably videos dissecting popular musical or video game pieces.

I never went to school for this, and just mostly listened to a lot of (vidya) music that I happened to like. Youtube was for looking up tutorials on how to use a piece of software to do what I want, and maybe how some other composers did their stuff.

tldr wow i couldn't give you anything except look it up on youtube. ok maybe 8-Bit Theory can help, Guy Michelmore, Venus Theory.

>>722875868 (OP)
I'm interested in unity ECS to make large Napoleonic battles with sprites. I guess I will take the unity pill and see where it goes

I just woked up today. Now I gotta have to wait the whole day for my retarded compocist to finish the muzaks for my game. Is so annoying. Why he gotta be so slow.

>>722894361
be a real solodev. make your own music.

Again I can't post a screenshot but I just started making the parous introitus.

>>722895774
>parous introitus

almost done

If you guys want to make money then you need to make porn. Either in high quantity or very high quality.

>>722896979
What about all the payment processors banning it? How will you get money? Crypto still isn't as viable as putting it on a storefront or a subscription service, both of which aren't really allowing NSFW

>>722896979
not allowed to do coomer games anymore

>>722897287
>>722897438
Don't believe their lies. Summertime Saga is still kicking.

>>722897467
How though? How many people are doing NSFW and getting away with it and how are they doing it? Unless there's places where they explain, most people aren't going to think doing NSFW is viable for attempting

>>722897767
You simply put somebody you trust to get the money for you.
You simply use a country, a payment processor and a bank that doesn't block you.
You also should ask OnlyFans whores how they do it.

>>722884509
love2d

>>722896979
i was legitimately thinking of making a visual novel about dating neurodiverse girls one day and sex of course

>>722897942
OnlyFan floozies aren't going to be forthcoming, especially when else learning how to manage it means competition and less money for them. Those are all things that are clear that should be done, but there's nobody who wants to point directly at the resources or the steps towards them, that's why NSFW isn't viable unless you're already established

I put my game's server up on aws to test and it started spawning infinite npc bully enemies. It doesn't do this when I run it locally.

>>722884509
Godot if 2D.

>>722896979
>Started making a porn game on the side
>Lore is already more convoluted that nuKingdom Hearts
I don't know why but describing biology of why the Sharkfoals have inverted nipples that store egg sacs for Oviposition is more titillating for me than just showing two characters fucking.

What is the secret sauce of making fan-art bait characters?

>>722900427
Tits

>>722900427
cute feet

>>722882754
Post full model!

>>722900427
cute waifu

>>722882754
cute

How bad can your 3D art be and still get away with it?

>>722882754
booba

math is absolute bullshit. "i can calculate the circumference of this circle using an infinitely long decimal number" bro the fuck you smoking? "yes hello i'd like a square root of -1, here you go one 'i'" that's some fucking nonsense.
i got problems with my fucking 3d rotation oh well you need a four dimensional vector it includes the square root of -1, and then the square root of the square root of -1, and then THE SQUARE ROOT OF THAT. they're just fucking trolling me at this point right?

>>722901978
Quaternions in gamedev are just convenient for calculation due to the matrix math with rotations.

>>722902350
Some might find it strange to add a number to a vector, as they are objects of very different natures, or to multiply two vectors together, as this operation is usually undefined. However, if one remembers that it is a mere notation for the real and imaginary parts of a quaternion, it becomes more legitimate. In other words, the correct reasoning is the addition of two quaternions, one with zero vector/imaginary part, and another one with zero scalar/real part:

>>722902350
More like GAYternions

>>722882754
not attacking you or anything but was you taking Caska as inspiration?

>>722901765
i would say ps2 graphics are good enough for anyone
ps1/saturn if your game is good
but then we have indies looking worse than 8bit era games selling so i dont know what to tell you

>>722897942
onlyfans has several payment processors they use depending on the user who is paying and their profile. you can google porn payment processors and find them easily.
>>722897767
can't you just use patreon for non-perv porn? i saw some instawhores who use patreon for sex pics. some of them are ai-faces

>>722896449
It's looking quite good anon

I cant keep up with these threads, I will just post updates later

>>722900427
Draw them non porn but edit the images to look that way, or put boobs in a half shirt so they hang but no nipples. Hnnngggggg.

>>722892421
Good stuff. Always rewarding to make something that's gonna make your future life much easier

Made this edit for a friend of mine who's currently raging over typing Math.sin instead of Math.sign due to a busted laptop keyboard that his boss is too Jewish to replace. Just reminding you that it can always get worse.

>>722904860
i had no idea there even was a math.sign, when would you ever use that

>>722905052
I use Math.sign a bunch in my current game to move objects at a speed of a float value without rounding problems as well as calculate their directions. This way I can have the player object move at a speed of 1.5 without having the game try to render in half pixels for example.

>>722905226
very interesting

>>722900012
Are you that motherfucker who kept asking how to go about simulating a dick in vagina complete with elasticity, vibration and the pussy canal having something like 400 giant epithelial cells that touch each other and their movement depending on inertia, speed, etc. is what fills up the climax bar? cause that guy was on another level of "I really fucking clicking next for animation, why can't we just have a real sex simulator game already?"

>>722907410
They should neuter all of you.
Well, i guess being a gooner is a modern form of neutering someone.

Coming in to give some thoughts real quick. Gave Scalefeather his glorious eyebrows back because he looked naked without them.
>>722879865
A haunted circus theme could work. Carn-Evil does it, but it's a light gun game and very gruesome so I would assume you would have to make any designs inspired by it less sinister.
>>722883464
>>722896449
I like how this game looks, and I generally hate pixel art games with a passion. Can't wait to try this build when it drops.
>>722885996
Good to see you again. Let me know when a game demo is made so I can try it.

>>722905226
What the fuck why not just use < > ?

>>722908810
Looks fucking terrible. I'd be embarrassed of my 3D modelling skills if I were you.

Update: Targeting is mostly complete. How it started when beginning target switching.

>>722909405
How it works now
>camera movement no longer jerks
>enemies in the target array are checked against player distance to always pick the closest enemy first
>camera blends between targets
>slight cool down between switching targets to prevent switching spam.
>widget destroyed and rebuilt properly

>>722909405
>>722909691
Final targeting. I will fix the target to be bigger since there are distance limiter now.

>>722908810
>spams the thread with ungodly amount of gore and ai nonsense for multiple hours
>pretends he just came back and is suspiciously friendly with everyone
real sly fygoon, real sly

>>722910401
I don't fall for it.

>>722910401
>THE CURRENT COURSES THROUGH YOU
>AAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA

>>722909405
I like those birbs

>>722910705
I do too :)

>>722908810
Oh look everyone it's his 8th personality the Mayor of 4chan Gamedev. Meanwhile his 6th and 7th personalities are lighting fires as usual. So tiresome.

>>722910401
This has been his routine all year. He's getting progressively worse. I don't want to know what the next level is but 2026 is just around the corner.

>>722879865
It's small, but I'm doing what I can when I can. I made it so that the bouncy blocks have a little bouncing animation when you bounce on them. I also changed their texture to not just use a default development texture.

>>722908810
I've been mulling it over since last night, and I really do like the Haunted Carnival idea. I can do skeleton clowns that throw bombs, monkeys that swing around chainsaws for a really large hit radius. Then I can still use ghosts and stuff, but also have a grander theme than just "House, but haunted". Yeah, I think I'll do that instead of the Haunted House.

>>722882754
Do you have any contact details?
Looking for a character modeller and the style you're at is close to what we have in mind.

>>722911027
I'm mostly done with progress updates here anyways I find myself 100x more productive when not. I would say the 6 months I've been here you guys (the normal ones) helped me move away from a fan game with borrowed assets into something really tangible. But that was maybe 5 threads out of all of them since then where it was really good.

give up on gaming

>>722911278
Small updates on polish are never wasted, keep it up bro!

>>722911278
carnivals make for better platforming challenges as well, i think. just look at sunshine or bananza for examples. swinging platforms and rollercoasters all over the place.

>>722911552
>the raised eyebrows when bullshitting
These kinds of people are very dangerous. Super delusional and think they have magical powers of persuasion. If they did something horrible you would never be able to convince them it was wrong.

Nobody will played my game........

>>722912439
Have you seen the sheer amount of shovelware uploaded to Steam on a daily basis?
All you have to do is be better than them and you WILL get an audience. If you hand out free copies to streamers, even better.

>>722912439
Believe anon....believe...

>>722912439
dont make games for an audience bro. make em for yourself

>>722913243
Just imagine how many secret master pieces there are that were made only to be played by the creator...

>>722912270
big talk
surely you have a game to back that up

Is it possible to purposely make an "autism magnet game" like Touhou or Sonic? I'm talking something where people get very attached to the characters and make their own fanon and shit
undertale feels like it came kinda close but not quite and i wonder why

>>722914356
>undertale feels like it came kinda close but not quite and i wonder why
"But not quite"? Their audience is ridiculously autistic and autists gravitate to the series like moth to a flame.
What you're think of is age of the series themselves. Sonic autism has been going since the 1990s, Touhou since the 2000s, so it's easy for Undertale to look smaller in comparison having started in the 2010s. That doesn't mean their fanbase is less rabid than the two mentioned, no way.

>>722913243
Don't listen to this anon. He doesnt want you to make money from your games.
Assuming you want to make money, that is. You gotta tell youtubers and enter steam festivals to get the game out there

>>722914356
Slap a "deep and serious" story in an otherwise infantile setting and pander to edgy teenagers around ages 12-17. That means diving deep into things like horror, evil mascots and all that trendy stuff that kids eat up these days. Those things are like kryptonite to me, you can have it.

>>722914356
You need a colorful cast of characters and lots of lore for people to dig in em

>>722913552
You wouldn't know about any of them because if a dev ever tries talking about one, you'd call him a tranny shill and bully him out of the board. And then go on to complain how games are dying.

>>722915394
Aye, so what if I would?

>>722915146
thats retarded. obviously people wanna make money from their games, just dont expect it to happen. its a crapshoot. marketing still takes a lot of luck and you shouldnt expect to make it just cause you believed in yourself really hard.

>>722915475
Feigning support for these "hidden gem masterpieces" whilst in reality being a dick is just disgusting behaviour, same as twitter faggotcunts saying "I STAND WITH BLM!"

Wow great thread

>>722916606
it's an agdg thread disguised as something else, pay no mind

>>722911552
>>722913925
>big talk
>surely you have a game to back that up
"Give up on gaming, it's the key to being a great game creator"
Care to show us your great games?

>>722916674
It wasn't always. The problem is these threads became daily. Back in the day when they were once or twice a week, people had time to build up progress and you had multiple game devs posting all at once, which made new devs want to join the fun. When it's every day, you end up getting more schizos and crabs than progress posters, and then those types feel welcome. Schizos and Crabs scare away new, active developers, until you're left with nothing but no-devs, posting bullshit about game theory when they've never developed a game.

This is exactly what happened to /agdg/ and now you're seeing it happen in real time to this thread.

>>722911552
Who's that chinaman? What games were directed by him?

>>722917330
It would be nice to back but we how that goes...

>>722916674
agdg doesn't make games though. They fellate each other over the idea of making games while maybe posting game progress every 8-9 months.

>>722915559
It's not really about believing in yourself, its about making something people would give money for.
There's overlap between 'game i want to make', 'game i can make in a reasonable time' and 'game that could make money'. If you make the right thing, you're likely to see some money.
If you make $5k, its much better if that game took you 5 months, than 5 years.

>>722917012
No reply.

>>722917574
Disingenous post

>>722917330
should've killed fygoonatard when i told you to but you just didn't fucking listen, bitch.

>>722917376
He never answers questions lol. Gets too rattled.

>>722917574
The last progress post here was over 30 posts ago. We are literally no better.

>>722917768
fygoon posts progress, you stupid cunt. He is better than half the posters here.

>>722917330
It's nice as a daily ritual if someone needs the discipline I guess but I really don't think it's worth posting a shitty little nugget of progress everyday.

>>722917865
>Trying to speak logically to the thread shitter
Big mistake. He's going to spazz out on you now.

Fygoon what you refuse to accept is that you're not a politician on some podium talking to millions of people who you can hoodwink, you're interacting with the same few dozen people who have figured you out and been dealing with you for years. 4chan is not what you think it is. You're not a big deal and this isn't the worldwide stage you think it is. No amount of samefagging or trying to be a politician will ever turn things around for you. You're never going to recover. Ever.

Ever.

>>722889613
I feel you, can't post mine because NDA.

>>722918694
holy shit. shut the fuck up, you fucking chode. if you don't like him, stop thinking about him or replying to him. he lives rent free in your head. goddamn.

>>722918694
Nice fan fiction. Now post your game.

>>722919182
uh ohhh

>grabs his phone to resume doubleposting
Uh oh here we go it's coming.

>>722919217
Ever.

>>722919023
I hope your game is played by trannies who demand you change your game to tailor to them.

>>722919182
does anyone have the screencap about trannies? the one talking about how they barge in to spaces and conversations, calling their behavior aggressive?

because that's what fagoon is. I dont think about him, and I rarely make posts about him. However, it's impossible to fully ignore him because the dude is like a bull in a china shop. no matter what you do, he will try and make himself known.

ignore him? he ramps up the shit posts. reply to him? he ramps up the shit posts and accuses you of being whoever his flavor of the month hateboner is.

in a non-gamedev thread? he's likely gonna ramp up the shitposts and try to make everything about him. because that's what he does, he's a narcissist who thinks shitposting is part of the culture, so he has to bring it with him everywhere he goes.

>>722919398
For real. I have a feeling these threads are made by a certain spazlord who hates a certain green dragon.

>>722913925
>>722919217
>you dare challenge me?
>POST YOUR GAME
I love that these two are so similar. I mean it makes perfect sense really. If only fygoon had the courage to start nameposting too.

>>722919580
Uh ohhh replied to the wrong post did we. Calm down Nikolai it's all going to be okay. Put on your big boy suit and take the podium again with another epic community outreach >>722908810

>>722919453
Why you be theowing mean words like that? You should get good enough to have someone pay you for your game instead.

>>722919217
>GIVE ME A NEW TARGET TO OBSESS OVER AND IMPERSONATE!
Most sociopaths are successful. You, on the other hand are a low functioning autist so everyone sees straight through your shitty little schemes. That's why you're here, spending all your money on residential proxies.

>>722876591
>pretends to be against the threads now that everyone is sick of them after having them spammed everyday
Such a politician!
>>722908810
>Coming in to give some thoughts real quick.
ooooo that didn't last very long did it?

>>722919557
I got you

>>722919453
Rasko freaking out over someone else's success, a tale as old as time.

>>722919846
>everyone sees straight through
Well not everyone to be fair new people show up and have no idea who they're interacting with. This is all it takes for a psychopath to get erect and keep going though. Everytime a gamedev replies to his community outreach routine it nourishes his psychopathy. This is why he is extremely careful about his behavior in /v/ threads whereas in agdg where there is literally no chance for him to swindle people he goes nuclear.

>>722919720
>>722919609
>>722919846
>>722919884
Post your game.

>>722917330
indeed my friend. You just have to read the very few posts that came after yours to confim that this place is filled with retards and schizos obsessed over a developer that could also be considered a retarded schizo all on it's own. It's sad. Anyway hope to see you in the next actual dev thread. Last one was pretty comfy.

It's NextFest so I can finally play a vidya game instead of working on the game. I will not post my game.

>>722920281
The last one was comfy because they didn't use the standard thread image, and didn't say "dev" in the OP. The schizos that sniff out these threads had nothing to filter for.

>>722917376
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Nishikado

>>722920509
Go make another covert special ops gamedev thread then lmao idk why you guys are like this. So insistent on having two generals both of which are infested with the same diaper lizard.

>>722920272
Not a game. Also why do you have a video of children you do not know on your computer, you pedophile? Shit like this is why your beta male dad left for milk and cigarettes when you were seven.

>>722920640
>So insistent on having two generals
that's the point you retarded troon. We don't want a general nor two: what we want is to stay as far away as possible from the retards at agdg while having our weekly thread over here

>>722920640
holy shit, no one fucking mentioned fygoon in the reply chain you're quoting. please, for the love of god, stop making everything about him. stop talking about him. if you're right and he's a psychopath or whatever, then psychopaths THTRIVE on people talking about them, good or bad. if you just don't talk about him, then maybe he'll go away. not talking about him seems better suited for your goals than posting about him 20 times a goddamn second.

>>722920640
and if this >>722921034 is so hard to understard, please, let our friends Paul Anka and Lisa Simpson tell you how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9S_3fJeoj8

>>722920821
>We don't want a general nor two
Then stop making them...
>that's the point you retarded trooooon
lol the irony

>>722920821
>What we want
Last thread capped out at 500 and I couldn't post anything so I made a new one. Simple as.

>>722921034
chill
>nobody mentioned fygoon in the reply chain
>>722920281
>a developer that could also be considered a retarded schizo all on it's own
^fygoon
Right there in the reply chain. Keep freaking out.

I about to start my weekend dev grind, you all better be progress posting tonight

>>722919182
>>722921034
You need to calm down.

uh ohhhh

>>722921491
you need to stop thinking about lizards

>>722921590
>screaming about lizards and telling people to stop mentioning lizards
You need to stop thinking about lizards.

>>722921314
Yeah see guys this isn't a general the last one ended and so a new one was made. This is just a thread that is always in the catalog because it is constantly made when the previous one dies. That's not a general guys.

tantrum time

Save us General Grex!

>>722917865
>>722919182
>>722921034
chill

>>722920808
>children
Post your current face, mutant.

>>722919818
Because NDAfag literally just comes in here going OH YEAH SO MUCH GAMEDEV BUT NDA LOL XD CANT TALK ABOUT IT
Like you can attention-whore if you want this place is a low bar.

>>722920098
Yep looks like it. He goes into these conniption fits when "not enough" progress is being posted at any moment. This thread has plenty of progress, lil rascal just needs a nap. He's been at it for days now.

>>722922565
Sorry my success causes you so much pain, i hope you get better once i release my game and reveal it was me.

>>722922751
Truly, such a pitiful existence.

new boogeyman?

>>722922387
>>>/vg/542068820
Might be relevant.

>>722923153
He also has animal abuse videos, are all russians this sick in the head?

Let's gather the facts about rasko:
>has a discord full of kiwifarms kiddies
>humps kids under the pretense of martial arts
>has animal abuse videos
>has a game that's just copypasted assets from another game
>may be just getting all this from some of his kiwi boyfriends and puts no actual work in it
>has no job, recieves an allowance from his drug dealer father
>lives on this thread and the drawthreads

>>722922809
I will and am outpacing you by myself.

>>722924531
>"facts"
>All just a bunch of fanfiction

>>722919217
>>722924932
>calls things fan fiction because subconsciously he wants to believe he has fans
The mind of a narcissist is a terrible abyss.

>>722925106
Honestly I think this place is too mentally ill

>>722925106
Fine, I will call it as it is: libel made by a mentally ill freak.

>>722924920
Proof?

>>722924932
>fanfiction
You spend all day here, you have posted animal abuse, there's a video of you humping a kid right here ITT, you doxed a janny (as if that would stop me), with help from your kiwi friends when i was owning your ass too hard because in your retarded mind you though the moderation was after you .

All of that has happened.

>>722925752
Absolutely nothing you have said was true.

>>722925752
Yep, i remember it.
>>722925869
All of it is real

Remember to report all off-topic posts.

How hard is it to make a an engine? I'm not gonna bother trying but I'd like to know.

>>722926529
Rasko would be banned even harder.

>>722926607
"an engine"? pretty easy. something that resembles games made after 2005? very hard.

>>722926607
Game engines can hold peoples hands a great deal, and not having any of that means you need to know how to program. I think that pretty much encapsulates it. If you want freedom but do not care about some aspects then use an existing framework.

>>722926868
How about something on the same level as id Tech 3 but with stencil shadows?

>>722926607
That really depends on what you mean by engine. You can cobble together some libraries for 3D, data management and UI in weekend and run it in your browser.
But most gamers seem to understand "game engine" as an all-in-one UI tool for making games, including a plugin ecosystem and giant asset libraries. Those are a massive projects if you want to be even remotely competitive with the existing players.

concept art for new project

>>722929057
>Rabbits
Ew. Get new material.

>>722928741
I mean my own engine only I'd use for what I need. Not an all in one thing like Unreal.

>>722929057
blocky limbs are a design copout. there's nothing unique about the body shape of one, or between the characters. it's also used for safe and comfy design language usually, which doesn't fit a bat.
it's well painted at least.

>>722929057
SEXOOOOO

Blocking out a stage and working on the static background effect. Is it too intense? It's current frequency is for testing
>>722929057
If you're who I think you are, would love to see a game with your style of art.

>>>/wsg/5994625
Here anons have a guitar solo while you dev. Let it motivate you.

>>722929057
>thighs on the one above bat

>>722929057
cute bunnies

>>722927291
just say id tech 4 lol
and you wouldn't write that yourself because id tech 4 is open source last I heard.

>>722930135
What kind of effect are you trying to accomplish it is a bit erratic.

>>722881159
Nta but animtion has been my current block on my 2d game, your stuff looks amazing especially that shuriken move keep it up!

I fucking hate AI so much

>>722932608
Then don't use it.

>>722932641
No, no one can.

>>722932050
No I mean id Tech 3 with stencil shadows. id Tech 4 looks like plastic.

>>722932719
take the stencil shadows from id tech 4 and plug them into id tech 3 then.

Let's say I have a bunch of Godot nodes in a scene. Maybe a character made up of different Sprite nodes, or a bunch of Controls making up a menu. What's my best option for applying a shader to all of them as if they were the same texture? Are you really expected to put then all into a viewport to get them as a single texture for that? You can't even put shaders on Controls at all without converting to a texture.

>>722932846
Goblinbro if he here might be able to help he is a godot pro

>>722875868 (OP)
What's the new scandal with unity?

>>722933135
Security flaw that was present for years

>>722932119
Going for a bit of a jump scare. A sudden fade to dark with static for a few seconds as an unkillable enemy chases you. Feel that it might be good the first time, but will start to get annoying when it happens over and over again. So I got to figure out the timing and also not make it too visually bothersome.

>>722932846
I think what you are talking about is a "full screen shader"

What you do is add a square that covers the entire view of your screen. If it's 2D, I recommend a ColorRect. If it's 3D, then put a quad mesh in front of the camera. Then attach a shader to it and you can write any fragment effect you want, like greyscale or dithering or whatever.

>>722908810
>I generally hate pixel art games with a passion
>talentless retard without a drop of artistry in his bones hates extremely demanding art form
Checks out.

I made a game over a month ago and I'm deciding to release it on steam as an experiment, since I know it's not the best and I want the analytics.

>>722932846
I think you're trying to do the same thing I'm working on right now. Is pic rel what you had in mind? If yes, yeah it's the viewport:

>put sprite parts into a subviewport
>create a new sprite or texturePlane
>create new shaderMaterial and assign to sprite
>pass subviewport as a sampler2D to the shader
>do your shader stuff

I do all of the work with the sprite outside of the viewport because it's so annoying, but I'm just making a cli tool so it might not work for you.

Should bosses summon mob enemies in combat or should it only focus on the boss?

>>722936573
Depends on the boss and the ideas behind it

could this happen to you?

>>722937016
this cunt still gets work?

>>722937016
>>722937089
I'm surprised Polygon is still around

(webm for context, not progress)

I need opinions from anons on a fundamental game design choice.

The basic idea with the game is you get money for beating levels and the objectives in levels, and you use that money to buy upgrades and moves. Very genre-standard stuff. I also wanted to reward the player for playing well by giving them money at the end of each run-through of a level based on their final score; higher scores get more money.

But I realized there's a problem. Most games in the genre only put SOME upgrades behind the shop. Other upgrades are found out in levels (new weapons, extended health bars, etc). Which is relevant, not only because it incentivizes exploration, but because it allows the player character's total strength to be story-locked. There's only so strong you CAN conceivably be at the first boss, or at the fourth boss, etc., no matter how much grinding you care to do.

As my game stands, there isn't anything actually stopping you from just going back and grinding the first mission, over and over, tediously and uninterestingly, until you can buy max upgrades and steamroll everything. So I am faced with a choice

1) ignore it. Let the balance be broken in this way. It's a way to "buy easy mode" for struggling players. The problem with this is it rewards the player for playing in an un-fun way, choosing a low-risk strategy with guaranteed payouts even though it doesn't help them engage with the game more or actually get better

2) lock shop items behind level completions. This is the most "obvious" solution but I think it feels the lamest, it's arbitrary and it doesn't really let me dangle cool shop items in front of you at level 1 with exorbitant costs

3) instead of paying you for your score at the end of each run, you get paid for your HIGHEST score. If you beat your old high score, you get paid the monetary difference between what you've already earned and you WOULD have earned.

Which do you think is best?

>>722937883
Honestly always liked option 1 but I never had problems "locking" content for myself if I thought it was cheesy and I wanted to do it legit
>>722937016
>Polygon
Didn't read further

>>722937016
>early access for 10 years
I have no sympathy for these devs

>>722938029
Like they tried to pull a star citizen. Can't say i blame them.

>>722937883
>2) lock shop items behind level completions. This is the most "obvious" solution but I think it feels the lamest, it's arbitrary and it doesn't really let me dangle cool shop items in front of you at level 1 with exorbitant costs
I think this is fine. It makes you interested in other levels to see what rewards you can get in them.

>>722937883
we are designing something similar with our game, but we have other things to offset buying things with different resources, such as buying cosmetic stuff like different outfits, things to decorate your hub world, buying sounds to play in a soundtrack, etc
regarding gaining the resources, one of the things we are doing is giving resources/awards based on the score you get when completing the level.
so for example there would be a score C through S, and at each rank, you get some sort of prize. if you get the same score or lower on a second playthrough, you earn nothing.
this gives an extra incentive for the player to try out getting the highest score rank.
there are also treasures/resources in the level that you only collect once, so it incentivizes an extra bit of exploration that you only collect once

>>722937016
>mostly positive
as in Mostly Positive TM, the rating on Steam? that's a red flag.

>>722938665
yeah, option 3 was inspired by that sort of idea, where you get rewards for "S rank", though the game doesn't really use a tiered ranking system (you could always, theoretically, beat your old score, the scoring system is unbounded, or at the very least the theoretical upper bound is exponentially higher than I would reasonably expect anyone actually playing the game to achieve).

I was initially really excited about the idea but I'm worried that it can lead to personal grinding (not resource grinding, but drilling the same missions over and over to practice and improve) being less rewarding, since once you get a very high score, even if you COULD beat it, the payout would be a pittance since you'd only likely beat it by a few points anyway and get paid a tiny fraction. It's a low-hanging fruit problem. If I reward you for your total per-run score, 5 really good runs pays a lot of money; if I reward you for your best score, 5 really good runs earns you the money of one really good run. So once you have a really good run under your belt, why waste the time and effort of doing 4 more? I guess "personal betterment" but the whole point of score payouts was to incentivize the player trying to improve in repeat run-throughs.

>>722896979
That sounds like a bad endeavor with the way governments are hellbent on forcing online ID so companies can ruin your life by doxxing if you actually became competition

>>722935350
That's what I was afraid would be the only option. I'm most used to working in v3 and haven't moved to v4 yet, so it could be version specific, but that specifically isn't great because having too many viewports active has shown to create minor frame delays. My reflection method (for mirrors, glass, etc.) uses one viewport per reflection, and when there were more than around eight or so active viewports in the tree, some of them would render one frame later, so I had to inject a deferred call in _process to a function that:
-Disables my main viewports' update modes
-Set every reflection viewport's update mode to UPDATE_ONCE
-Calls VisualServer.force_draw
-Re-enables my main viewports' update modes
The one frame delay might be acceptable in some contexts, but for certain things like reflections of your movement, it's very obvious and very jarring.
I ended up combining all of my individual animated sprite pieces into one giant disgusting spritesheet in my sprite editor. That didn't work very well and turned really messy when different parts of the animation had different periodicity, but it got the job done. Mostly was wondering for future projects, since it's something I worked around a lot on my last one for any sprites using more complex animations.
>>722933435
That might work in some cases, but not for something where you only want to apply the shader to a subset of your nodes, i.e. wobbly text in a Label.
>>722937883
3 is a fun way to encourage players to actually engage with the systems, but you'd need to make sure you have some money overage to realistically reach the end, because playing for pure perfection gets frustrating and you'd end up doing the thing over and over again. That gets into the territory of speedrun autism. Nothing is wrong with 2 either, and helps you balance around player progression. You could even combine them, like doing something specific in a level to unlock a possible upgrade (see Gravity Circuit).

>>722937883
Have you tried soft-locking progress instead of hard-locking it? So players can grind level 1 if they want, but they get way more resources in level 3, 4, etc. so the most time efficient method is pushing forward and challenging yourself. Then you could add money sinks to even the playing field between good and bad players. Like cosmetics or horizontal progression on different weapons.

>>722939125
>If I reward you for your total per-run score, 5 really good runs pays a lot of money; if I reward you for your best score, 5 really good runs earns you the money of one really good run.
i think this would be a fault of the games reward system, or the game itself being too easy. almost every player will play a level a few times before getting the highest rank, and the difficulty curve should be rising as the game progresses.
though you may be over thinking this. plenty of combo-based games give no incentive past a higher score and players who like these type of games will play just for the high score alone.
but as i mentioned, we have different resources for different things, and giving a resource for something simple or arbitrary like cosmetic changes is a good side reward that the player can farm almost ad infinitum that does not affect gameplay

I´m trying to rework my camera system so it stays focused on the room the player is in instead of showing more of adjacent rooms in case the player is close to a wall but...I kind of have no idea how to do that. Tried giving collision to the camera object but it just gets stuck in everything...any ideas to make this work out?

>>722939935
>That might work in some cases, but not for something where you only want to apply the shader to a subset of your nodes, i.e. wobbly text in a Label.
You can adjust the size of the ColorRect so it only covers the part you want affected. Also try playing around with layers or the node order.

You can also add a shader directly to a label for wobbly text btw, but that was probably just an example.

>>722937883
oh cool you and your game are still alive. my gut feeling says 2. you can even have it that you find blueprints hidden in levels for stuff in shop or the delivery-robot or some shit being stuck somewhere in a level. i think dangling expensive items early on is fun once at the beginning, but annoying if that's the norm. 3 makes your money not money anymore, but is also a fine decission. 1 is a no from me though; people will optimize fun out of games if you let them

>>722940053
>i think this would be a fault of the games reward system, or the game itself being too easy. almost every player will play a level a few times before getting the highest rank
Yeah but again, there's no "highest rank". You can ALWAYS score higher. That's very much by design.

Obviously the idea here is each mission scales up the payouts for clearing objectives, so the optimal (from a time-use perspective) is to advance through the game. Grinding the first few levels over and over for repeated high scores would be a bit like staying in the starting area of the game killing the same trash mobs until you're level 99. It seems asinine and ridiculous. But I know people who do it. Granted RPG players are a different breed than action game players, but do I really want to enable that kind of degenerate playstyle? Or do I want to send a clear message "you are wasting time doing this"?

It's tricky, because I don't want you to NEVER go back to the starting circuit to stomp it when you're more capable of scoring millions of points than you were at the start of the game. I just also don't want you to live there until you can buy everything and then steamroll the stuff that's meant to be ramping up the challenge.

Can you guys please byuy my game on steame so I can afford more betterly musicd for my game...?

>>722940263
it depends on your engine and if you're working with 2D or 3D
assuming your engine doesn't have built-in camera bound properties, for 2D, every frame, just grab the bounds of the room, and when the camera moves, check its corners to see if it's outside those bounds and by how much, then move the camera position by the opposite of how far past the bounds it is

>>722939935
What I can tell you is that there are some syntax differences between v3 and v4, as AI search was consistently producing garbage answers to my queries.

My game is not in godot, I just use it to produce the big sprite sheets because my engine can't do 2d bone animation. So I can make the parts for character A, B, and C, run a godot script that spits out traditional sprite sheets. Each character also has a json file that defines which frames are the animation for walking, jumping, etc.

This approach made sense for me because I'm making a monster collector and need a ton of characters that can share animations. Your next project might have different constraints.

>>722940464
I think I can do a diegetic shop thing where you can't buy certain upgrades without sponsorships/licenses, I had an idea where doing the "extra objectives" in a map was a way of getting sponsors. The idea was you'd need to get a certain amount of sponsorships to leave a set of levels (think of it like getting a certain number of power stars to open a door in SM64, it doesn't matter which ones you get) and access the boss of that set. So you could reasonably show the player these shop items and have their cost be "$XYZ, only available with 6 sponsors" or something.

>3 makes your money not money anymore
I guess it sort of depends on how you view "re-running". If you view it as a retcon of player actions, it makes more sense (i.e. in re-running the map, you aren't doing it a second time, you're doing it for the first time AGAIN, and performing better). But yeah, I do worry about the legibility on it, does it really make sense?

I also thought that if you're paying by the high score, you could extend the idea to multiple high scores. So your total level score, your best single combo, your fastest clear time, all of those could have payouts. That gets pretty generous if you do full financial rewards for each one but when you only get paid out for your best performance to date it stays reasonably balanced I'd think.

>>722876591
the FRYRIDIAN FRYGOON FYGOON tale

>>722939024
most recent reviews are negative

>>722940809
>Run a godot script that spits out traditional sprite sheets
That sounds extremely useful, is it this thing?
https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/1486
What's done is done now, but I wish I had thought of that.

Guys how can I monetize a program that lets you build and train your own ai aimbot that works with any game? I have it all simd optimized and multithreaded so it can literally run on a dumpster laptop. Surely I could charge $100/month for something like this right? There has to be a good market for this

>>722940994
>>722940464
I didn't mention it but another thing I wanted to do, which would be fundamentally at odds with hard-gating what's available in the shop by progress, was to add hidden functionality where you can refund your starting HP upgrades, the way you can refund purchased moves, for progressively increasing sums of money. The idea being that in principle, you could refund all your HP and get paid so much money for it that you could unlock all of the other upgrades, and get to start the game with your full offensive and mobility kit, but only if you play the game in permanent OHKO mode. For the people who bitch about having to do the "tutorial before the real game" because they're action game veterans

>>722941217
No, I wrote it myself from scratch.

>What's done is done now, but I wish I had thought of that.
Don't sweat it man, I had to make like ten different systems until I arrived at this one.

>>722937883
I think 2 is fine. Many well-loved games do it, like Bayonetta or MGR. I think going to the shop and finding new items is fun and exciting, gives you something to look forward to.

>>722940727
I´m on gamemaker. I managed to make the camera stick to the actual room, but I don´t know how to make it stay mostly inside the area the player is. For exemple, if I´m going through a corridor, I´d like the camera to stay closer to the center height while retaining it´s ability to move sideways

>>722941296
that idea is pure ludo. option 1 it is i guess. fuck the people that optimize fun away

I've added a sampler that lets you drag a sound onto the keyboard and it pitches it to every note and you can play it.

How do you make shorts on youtube? Do your videos need to be a specific size?

>>722943964
I'm not sure how specific it is but i use 4:5 and it auto detects it and makes it a short
i think you can also manually make it a youtube short if you use the mobile app

>Can program but not make assets
Worst position to be in

>>722944347
Currently in programming hell solving an insufferable problem when I would rather be doing assets. This really sucks.

L2D has gone too far

>>722944347
You want some arts made? I can draw and animate.
https://files.catbox.moe/ytbida.gif

>>722944962
I do, you are skilled, but I'm not at the point of hiring or comissioning someone yet

>>722944347
Just use free ones or use ai

>>722944962
Can you do 3D?

>>722883124
I HAAATEEEE that for some reason the mazing aspect never became a part of standerd tower games. i remember a wc3 game where the map was randomized with random ground tiles and free towers and you would win by figuring out the best maze

I dont know I guess im the only one who liked that aspect

>>722883464
do you have socials where you give game updates

>>722948409
Because it's either easy as shit if you can make a basic zig zag or you HAVE to use a very specific maze to barely manage.

>>722944781
Game?

>>722949021
but figuring out that pattern is fun? How is that less fun then figuring out the towers you need to build in specific areas to "barely manage". its both.

GEM td was probably the best td I ever played. there were so many ways to build your maze to win and there was an aspect to see who made the best maze at the end with an infinite hp boss. My unique maze came to me in a dream it was great

>>722883464
That is why my game is gamepad only and developed around that. Widget focus with gamepad buttons is tricky and it really shouldn't be.

>>722883464
To be honest, I tried your game and the controls felt very overwhelming on the keyboard. The rebind is a god send but I couldn't figure out how to comfortably control the avatar. Probably needs a better tutorial.

>>722882754
How do you make 3D models like this? Holy shit this is gucci

kicking

>>722948507
twitter and discord. Discord link can be found on steam or itch
https://x.com/Reinbo_game

>>722951060
Yea the tutorial is abit outdated, I'll need to upgrade it more. What did you find confusing about the character if I can ask?

>>722878220
What pen and paper game anon?

>>722950723
> Pressing shoulder buttons alone and d-pad's 8 directions allows for 24 different hotkeys to be set.
Ever thought of that anon?

>>722951339
>What did you find confusing about the character if I can ask?
I felt that there were too many buttons, and it was not clear which ones were important or what the purpose of each type of attack and the dodges were. Just needs a proper tutorial, I guess.

>>722951478
Anon, you missed my point. It is ok though I know where I am.

>>722951714
its not tricky, you just might be sub 90IQ.

>>722951796
>hey guys widget focus with a gamepad has its challenges
>what if you press buttons what then?
How do you argue that you aren't autistic? You can't even focus on the subject i mentioned. You exposed how little you know anything on inputs.

>>722944347
I was in this position but instead I didn't give up and started trying to make the assets myself. The problem is that I now work at a massively glacial pace because I'm not settling for placeholders or subpar art even though it takes me a shit ton of time to make something I consider good. At least I have all the time in the world...

>>722951558
Attack And Defend are just the main ones really. Focus attacks are pretty much heavy attacks. Do more damage and can break defend. Kicks is to create space and you can do the mikiri counter if you kick stab attacks. The fire attacks are instant kill ones. Throwing sword is more for flare but acts as a ranged attack too. Dodge is useless at the moment, will need to fix that later.

>>722952268
Ok, that's much clearer.

>>722952127
Your problems with such controls have been already solved by better game devs.

>>722952464
Right like me, who solved it.

>>722951558
>>722951339
I came back to say the same thing this control scheme is not so good. You should consider attack and defend on the mouse and focus just holding down attack. The other keys should be q e r f shift and space. [;] [?] and [enter] is very strange how doe you even place your hand?

What would you add to your game if you had as much time as possible?

>>722953621
The same stuff. What is the rush?

>>722953621
A bunch of side skills and mechanics, like that one Morrowind painting mod but translated into my game.