Thread 725096523

>be indie dev
>have complete freedom to make whatever you want
>end up making shit like this
Why?

Looks better and more soulful than just another metroidvania or slay the spire ripoff at least

i'd play this

>Spyro clone
That's cool, let me know when they add flattening death animations.

>>725096572
Spyro clones are their own indiefag trend at this point.

you seem to have just as much freedom
what did you make?

>>725096523 (OP)
Soul

>>725096656
name 5

You might not be the target audience for this chud

>>725096523 (OP)
We know this is your game, OP. Looks like an okay Spyro clone but the ground movement looks kind of sluggish. Also the main character is ugly.

>>725096705
Checked

Thanks doc

>>725096705
game in OP
Glyde the Dragon
Zera: Other Worlds
Griff the Winged Lion
Nytro

>>725096958
I wonder what her original design was

>>725096893
>Also the main character is ugly.
Many such cases.

>>725096523 (OP)
>everything except the main cahracter looks alright
why does this happen EVERY TIME? Seriously, every fucking time.

>>725096952
Thanks, saved. Although Glyde the Dragon looks kind of gay. The art style looks like it's trying to ape Breath of the Wild mixed with some WoW mixed in.

>>725096523 (OP)
This is honestly kino and you have bad taste

>>725096523 (OP)
Why do indie devs struggle at making scrimblos?

>>725096523 (OP)
>so obscure the devs don't even want anyone to play it because the name leads nowhere
Probably for the best since these 'games' always end up being furfaggot porn.

>>725096523 (OP)
nortubel in 3d looking ass

Svvl

>>725097072
>>725097106
Go design an appealing character. Turns out it's really fucking hard.

>>725096523 (OP)
Idk why but for some reason this is like catnip for indie devs, some semi-flying animal running around collecting shit in lines.
I guess it’s just easy to make.

>>725097309
How’s this

>>725096523 (OP)
>>have complete freedom to make whatever you want
You don't if you want to survive. You make what sells, and the only thing that sells is sloppedsoy.

>>725097394
Scrimblo

>>725096523 (OP)
>be an indie dev
>make whatever the fuck you want
>some faggot on a mongolian horse training forum complains about it

>>725096958
That design absolutely murdered the game. Dear God is that ugly.

this seems like the perfect thread for me to shill my spyro inspired scrimblo which is also about depression

>>725097309
I do draw character designs from time to time but I don't have access to my computer atm. Turns out character design has a ton of pretty well-defined guidelines you can follow to avoid looking like total shit. Indies also have a general taste issue, in that they draw from bad influences. Most of these animal characters look like they come from a direct-to-video animated movie. There's also that /agdg/ guy with the Butch Hartmann-looking Jimmy Neutron type character, just bad taste first and foremost.

>>725096523 (OP)
>be indie dev
>have complete freedom to make whatever you want
>end up making shit like this
>Get rewarded with over 1mil youtube views and making $20,000 for a few months of work
Why even waste time making mechanics when press button to gamble and sometimes feel good is what sells?

>>725096893
>>725097072
What's wrong with it? I think it looks adorable. Is it the colors?

>>725098307
Neon green and purple is the most garish color combination possible. The animations are cute though

>>725096523 (OP)
needs to be a little faster or give you more movement options otherwise it looks fine

>>725096523 (OP)
>Spyro clone
I'm getting so bored of these imaginationless carbon copies of ps1 games, they're just clones of more successful games coasting on nostalgia with bad artstyles

>>725096523 (OP)
The sad reality is that it's simply easier to market when you have a jumping off point.
People want to play games their familiar with but has a new twist. They do not want a wholly original experience.
>>725097309
Difficulty does not excuse incompetency. If you cannot do the job then don't complain.
What can be said is tradeoffs. If you simply do not have room in the budget to animate/draw high res with perfect detail, sure that's understandable.

>>725096523 (OP)
>Indie game
>It's an interior imitation of something made 20+ years ago
Bravo

He wants Nintendo audience clearly

>>725098852
its a clone of a ps1 game, however

>>725096523 (OP)
indie devs need to stop inserting their hyper-personal do-not-steal comfort-cozy OCs as the main protagonist to whatever game they're making.

Character design that is so inward, so niche, so obviously and irreplaceably personal to the creator but is simultaneously a cheap rip from something outside because of course they've autistically turned a random mascot into one of their own pillars of self-identity

i mean just look at this shit
>>725096952
this, and others like it, is chris chan tier

>>725096523 (OP)
Thanks doc.

>make a game you want
>some autist complains you didn't make a game HE wants

>>725096523 (OP)
>>725096952
One of the two true tricks to Spyro clones is nailing the music. Any of these succeed at that?

>>725096523 (OP)
as a mediocre indie dev, it's honestly much more difficult to come up with unique ideas than people would expect it to be
it seems like there would be an endless sea of ideas to pick from, but after analyzing the ideas you naturally come up with, you realize they either completely suck or are shamefully derivative of previous popular ideas
if you ever wonder why studio leads and game designers like jon blow, notch, phil fish, neil druckmann, the guy who made the stanley parable, etc, end up with deranged schizoid personalities, it's because the mental strain of coming up with unique and appealing ideas for your games is genuinely absurdly difficult
i understand why japanese studios shamelessly copy successful ideas and just grind the art to make it more visually appealing
game design is very difficult

>>725098819
There's an audience of people who really want more Spyro, so that's that.

>>725096523 (OP)
WOW IS THAT SPYRO BUT SLOWER, NONE OF THE CHARM AND WITH A FURFAGGOT OC? WHERE DO I PUT ALL OF MY MONEY OP WHO'S TOTALLY NOT SHILLING IT?

>>725096523 (OP)
your game looks very comfy but I agree with others about the protagonist. looks like half bat, half pig and the wrong color. I guess you want neon green because it still stand out in front of your moody sunset, beige buildings and such? makes sense but the purple-green combo is garish and the pig face doesn't help.

the overall setting is kino and the vampires jumpscaring out of genie lamps are very memorable. bonus for those. I think a good soundtrack will be key to gaining an audience also, hope you have that or a plan for getting it.

>>725096952
this is heavily transcoded.

>>725096958
But you don't understand, she's made of yoyo parts, a very widespread and popular hobby among children in the 21st century! This is very obvious and visually understandable!

>>725096523 (OP)
You need some one-off environmental details like a unique flag or banner for each building to serve as directional waymarks. The buildings all look the same and it's probably very easy to lose your bearings as you jump between them.

The only indie games you should play is the incest coffin game and my summer car

>>725096523 (OP)
The dev said this was based on muppet mansion, but it just looks like spyro to me.
>>725096952
Zera dev had a meltdown and cancelled the project, demo was okay.

>>725096523 (OP)
What if this is what I wanted to make?

>>725099313
No, everyone fundamentally misunderstands the appeal of Spyro's music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-l0QsmfDhI

>>725097309
I have. People wanted to fuck em so I think I did ok

>>725099223
Yeah, at the end of the day it's much better to stick to your guns and make something based off of what YOU like rather than dilute your ideas into a tasteless and boring hodgepodge of things OTHER people want (who likely can't even put their ideas into words to begin with) and have everything be influenced by what's deemed marketable, paletteable and traditionally expected

>>725097309
I once posted a character design in an agdg thread and someone immediately drew porn of him in the same thread so I take that as a success

>>725096523 (OP)
I like the ps1 artstyle, is it easy to recreate it?

>>725097309
My character. Will you play her game and pay $5 for lewd DLC?

>>725100071
Very nice. Give her some fluffy hair, can be even short, and post game play.

>>725099724
Then people on /v/ who would have never played your games anyways will whine like babies.

>>725096523 (OP)
Man what a shameless spyro knock off.

>>725096523 (OP)
Seems kind of like Banjo Kazooie but it's been done before with Yookah Laylee to scratch the same itch in recent times. It looks fine but a bit basic. It could be fun if there's some sort of gimmick like walking around on ceilings and then the world is turned upside down and you use the different perspective to find secret or important areas.

Anyone remember Balan Wonderworld?

>>725096523 (OP)
>they have complete freedom to make whatever they want
>but noooo they should be making what I want instead

did your mother throw you down the stairs before or after birth? either way you should finish what she started and kill yourself

The only Japanese media worth a fuck is manga, anime and indie music, and MAYBE some light novels/visual novels.

>>725096958
Everytime I see this I am blowncaway that this is what they decided to go with. I don't think there are many iglier characters out there, this is up there with that FF tactics guy.

>>725098190
Gambling is subhuman behavior

>>725096523 (OP)
If you don't like it, why focus on it instead of ignoring it? And go even beyond that by bringing attention to it with threads like this.

>>725096572
>Looks better
agreed.
>and more soulful
blatant rip offs are anti-soul

>>725100071
Methinks you should give her a full body suit but with see-through transparent parts on the belly and thighs for enhanced sexo

>>725100648
I dunno, I kinda dig the SA2 vibes.

>>725100829
Might be a stealth indie game dev/indie platformer thread but since no one responds to questions or positivity without provocative stimuli, this is the best they could get

>>725096616
imagine sliding your adult male penis into a flattened male shotadragon

>>725096952
>he delivers
gottem

>>725100998
That's a shame. I'm going to ignore it then. Deception for profit is not excusable in my opinion.

>>725100793
Shame schizos have made this game impossible to discuss.

>>725101158
Trying to be mischief makers?

>>725100648
>metal gear scrimblo of time

It's just pokemon mystery dungeon with a resident evil skin, but I've been having fun with it.

>>725100769
indeed, everything about it is hideous, like its designed to look bad and off-putting.
Its so ugly and poorly designed, it HAS to be intentional, it looks like some autists sonic OC or whatever.
Since there were a lot of little girl cunny games in the scene at the time, maybe they tried to deliberately make her look gross.

>>725096523 (OP)
Are any of the indie spyro clones ever any good or are they all like kiwi 64 where the developer makes 9001 banjo kazooie clones that are 3 hours long

>dude im going to make some shitty generic indie game that's just an inferior version of AAA products instead of doing the one thing AAA devs won't touch (porn games)
Why the fuck are indie devs so fucking stupid? They should all be adding sex and porn into their games. Thank fuck AI is nuking these idiots.

>>725101201
yup

>>725096958
Genuinely can not understand how they thought this would be a good idea for the main character. Single-handedly completely turned me off from even considering trying the game. Christ that's hideous in every regard.

>>725101295
>no lewd content
>despite FemC and all the dogs
into the trash it goes. do they NOT understand both the RE audience and the pokemon MD audience?

>>725099041
As a fellow autist-whisperer, you're probably right on the money with this post. It's so true that autists get hyperfixated on their own character designs like that, I'm willing to bet that that's exactly what happened with some of these designs.

>>725100171
The gameplay is going to be about fighting robots, platforming and solving puzzles.
It's gonna need a couple passes after I'm done setting up enemies' behaviors.
>>725100878
Maybe as a collecatble, sure

>>725096523 (OP)
Speedtranny spent too much time speedrunning and not enough time learning game dev. You hate to see it

>>725101395
I'll never understand what you faggots find sexy about children

>>725096958
yeah the design is ass, but I loved that game, the movements are absolutely amazing and the ost is top tier

>>725101438
The tail is like a baseball bat that got shoved up her ass

>>725100730
I have this wishlisted on Steam since forever. I really do not like the artstyle, but I am genuinely curious about the gameplay, looks fun.

>>725101493
Someone quite enjoyed that mario sunshine eclipse mod

Funny thing is these games are never made for actual kids like the franchises they were influenced by, they're aimed at discord furries and speedrunners

>>725101645
So was the reignited trilogy. Kids don't have endless pockets, furries do

>>725101467
thats because you are the faggot

>>725101495
I don't know how to make it fluffy yet

>>725096523 (OP)
That looks like some absolute kino/soul though what you talking about. I love bats. I been watching fruit bats eat bananas all week

https://youtu.be/VgMseckYGtE

>>725101650
Syb....

>>725101706
>n-no u!!11!
I accept your concession, degen. I hope you kill yourself before you reach the end of the lolicon troon pipeline

>>725101158
Reminded me of Pandemonium

>>725100730
If autism was a video game. The non-verbal, self harming kind.

These games should be soulful but somehow they feel soulless why is that?

>>725101729
I say this every time, but this artist really fucked up by not making it wonder bread.

>>725101830
She NEEDS to be fucked by big fat disgusting monsters like obese toadmen and slugs and shit. She's just built for it.

>>725100071
what game?

>>725101438
Isometric slash games are in short supply. Very nice. But that tail does look like a bat without applied physics.
>>725101495
I like this idea.

>>725100793
diaper dev
at least this doesn't have anything like that in the game

>>725101201
tomba and klonoa as well

>>725101467
young, cute and fertile

>>725101830
cute
game name?

>>725101946
This style was so fucking good, it's criminal how few people are keeping it alive

effort, money, and time
people seriously underestimate how much autism it takes just to indie dev let alone trying to solo dev, there's a reason the permabeg idea guys of the world are trying to wait for AI to be good enough to make the whole thing for them

>>725101830
best in thread

>>725102257
Conker's mildly unpleasant afternoon

>>725102232
>>725102420
You got fooled by the mort of always starting new projects to show off on twitter and never finishing anything

>>725101946
Does anyone have that webm of another early-2000s looking indie game where you're in a dungeon and you pull up a flip phone in order to see invisible ghosts or something

>>725101395
why do you need to jerk off while playing games. theres sex games yea but not every game should have sex

>>725102481
so, like rittz then..
god, i love and hate these devs so much

>>725102257
Of all the n64 clones, this one looks the most accurate

>>725101467
most straight men are pedos unfortunately. they like the smaller shorter weaker sex who look younger. once you realize it you cant look at straight guys the same.

movementslop

>>725101467
Everything.

>>725102592
rittz at least makes prototypes, the other guy just makes twitter gifs for clout

>>725102718
I like the art of this game, but precision platformers have never interested me.

im glad i cancelled slam dingo

>>725102890
Why? Because randos on the internet would complain?

>>725096523 (OP)
the character design needs to speak to me too.
that bat looks hideous

>>725096958
i don't despise the design but it's just so BUSY. A very crowded design, lacking restraint. As if the creator felt that EVERY visual quirk they came up with MUST be included.
A more honed, focused approach to this design that cuts the fat would turn out great i bet.
I think it'd be to the design's benefit if you were to change the face, scrapping the sonic-animal-anime features and instead lean into a vintage puppet wooden doll nutcracker type of look.

>>725103138
>if I can't masturbate to it, it's a bad game

>>725103214
yes, exactly

>>725103138
nigger fatigue

>>725102625
Jimmy Neutron LSMark lookin ass...

>>725096523 (OP)
>Flit n Flutter
this is a shameless ripoff of 'Slit n Slutter'

>>725102762
what anime?
is it good?

>>725102824
Then stay the fuck away, the platforming in this is stupidly difficult. Way more than Crash 1 ever was. To the point that it actually kills any enjoyment the game gives you, and there's style in spades. But playing the game more often feels like a chore than a challenge.

>>725100648
>LADY
>it's a man
tranny game

>>725103240
Really? I can’t think of another character that looks like this in its genre
Maybe if she were an oily and bumpy AAA face scan woman I’d get it

>>725102582
youre making a lot of assumptions and presumptions there niggerfaggotnigger.

>>725096523 (OP)
Super Mario 64, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, and Banjo-Kazooie did some INSANE shit to some of the people who grew up with them. It's fine and all to be inspired, but after the actual 407th indie game that takes clear inspiration from those games it gets really dull to see another one pop out of thin air.

>>725096952
Glyde is the only one that I care about. The combat is actually fun and interesting. Sucks that the kickstarter got cancelled

>>725101004
>male penis
oh thx! didn't know there was a female penis.

All these scrimblo-likes always seem to fumble the character design and it seems like they just used their deviantart OC.

>>725096523 (OP)
I want to suck his dick, he's cute

>>725103957
you really liked pic rel as a kid didn't you anon

>>725104072
yes. Yes i did

>>725103775
Visually, I like it. The in-game movement seems like it was made with the hope of attracting speedrunners. I loathe that.

>>725104072
cynder my beloved.

>>725104024
You'd probably end up saying that about Spyro, Crash and the like if they released today desu

>>725103962
uh, yeah?

>>725101946
>Get called immature if I play this
>Get called immature if I play anything else in this thread

>>725104362
The real winning move is to not give two shits about things you enjoy getting shitposted over by smelly NEETs and possible third worlders :)

>>725104301
post cute girlcocks. NOW.
>off topic
no because these beautiful women are who plays these games, or are who will be playing these games.

>>725101004
>tinge of red where his cloaca would be
Woah!

>>725104484
My eyes hurt watching this

>>725101645
Bubsy 4D is especially egregious with this, it's an established IP unlike most indie 3D platformers and actual speedrunner tech expertise is required for 100% completion

>>725104484
FOV changes that aren't directly controlled by the player (like bringing up a sniper scope in a shooter) are bad and wrong. the game is doomed.

>>725103880
People that played spyro, crash and banjo turned out mostly alright, it's mario 64 in particular that seems to have turned half the people that played it into schizophrenics, wonder if it has anything to do with the game alledgedly being a masonic initiation ritual.

>>725103642
The rabbit design didn't clue you in?

Eternity Egg is by far the only 3D indie platformer I wanna instantly support which comes out in Early Access next month instead of the usual "Eh I'll get it later" and will eventually be forgotten about. The dev has been posting snippets on his Twitter and it really looks promising coupled with its adoring otherworldly early 90s cgi aesthetic too. One thing I've noticed from this game compared to others is that IT HAS ACTUAL FUCKING LEVEL DESIGN AND THE MOVEMENT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE FLOATY DOG ANUS WHICH WOULD ALLOW YOU TO SKIP LARGE SWATHES OF A LEVEL.
Other 3D indie platformers for some odd fucking reason:
>Movement is floaty as shit
>Movement makes the level design an afterthought
>Enemies are practically non-existent
This game:
>Main character actually has weight to them
>Movement having weight means you can't just carelessly skip some parts of the level design or else you'll just fall off the map
>Enemies here at least look like a step up from the usual 1 hit kill by having a lifebar and sometimes you can encounter hordes of them
>Movement overall just looks fun
This is why I felt insane when ppl here and on Twitter were praising Busby 4's basic bitch, watered down Sonic Lost World spindash, zero gravity movement skipping the lackluster level design. I know you guys are thinking "where's the tits" but since this is a clown object with no gender seemingly perceived I'm sure you can add 2 big ol' racks and make all the inflatable porn you want out of them!

>>725096523 (OP)
>green and purple
Thanks doc.

>>725100648
>wishlist now
don't tell me what to do nigger

>>725104870
it was a hint but I always look for proof.

>>725104967
This looks like a game for people addicted to interracial BMWF porn

>>725105025
>bathroom now

>>725105084
BORN TO SHIT
FORCED TO WIPE

>>725104362
I play tons of scrimblos, furshit, and anything else I like the look of. You will be dead in 100 years anyways, so who cares what people think.

>>725105070
what does this even mean you can’t just say shit on here

>>725096523 (OP)
OP you also had complete freedom to do anything with your life but somehow you ended up posting this thread
What's your excuse?

Didn't realize after posting this >>725104967 that your movement is tied to a meter located in the top left corner enforcing a limitation onto the player and that's insane for an indie game to apply that and not let you go hogwild with its mechanics
>>725105070
It's amazing how Indians really mind broken whites on here with their shit or maybe it's friendly fire towards other whites idk.

>>725096958
this thing looks like it sprouted off the walls of carnival night zone from sonic 3

>>725104967
the pink platforms' texture stretching is awkward. they should show a uniform grid of squares just like the other blocks, to indicate their scale correctly. this sort of thing is important for depth perception.
I also think at least the protag design needs an overhaul:
1. make it stand out from the background more. for starters don't use yellow, that's like camo in this yellow world.
2. what are those tentacle things, splatoon looking stuff on his head? what is any of his body made of? it's all too weird. make it recognizable at first glance what I'm looking at. don't be afraid of stereotypes. don't try to be too "unique".

>>725101589
honestly i kind of dig the art style. it's kind of like osamu sato meets ballz for the snes. at the very least it's not the same fucking lowpoly psx shit every untalented hack developer uses.

>>725096656
So? I like them.

>>725105070
>interracial BMWF
As opposed to non-interracial BMWF?

>>725105753
Big Bavarian Cock

>>725096958
>>725097072
>Sonic and Crash's mutant baby
>Make him bald for good measure

>>725104967
>3D platformer
>Early Access

>>725106541
Yeah I don’t think EA is viable for a platformer. You need replayability to be in EA and scrimblo games are inherently designed around very specific mechanics.

>>725107073
Yeah, better off just making a demo or, if you're THAT guy, going the chapter release route

maybe you are just not creative

>>725103717
I don't think you fully understand just how godfucking tired of niggers everyone is. we have several major mainstream politicians openly calling for TND and TMD in Europe, live, uncensored, and on air. A song about killing and removing migrants has reached the top 3 music popcharts in my country.

The USA will follow within 10 years at best. And even right now in America there are anti-Israel politicians and influencers on tv and every streaming platform openly debating racial reality without getting canceled. /pol/ redpills are getting posted openly on Twitter and when I say /pol/ i meant 2013-2015 /pol/ not the gay-opped nu/pol/.

When asmongoloid is naming and shitting on the Jews and even doubts the holohoax openly on his streams on twitch and Kick, you know the game is up.

>>725108510
I have the demo for this on my 'eck, bun on 'eck you could say.

>>725108510
FULLY
MODELLED

>>725096523 (OP)
I wanna ____ that bat...

>>725108510
what the FUCK

Out of the way, lowly peasants.

>>725096523 (OP)
arrested indie development

>>725096523 (OP)
i'm making this shit
would anyone play this?
https://litter.catbox.moe/jxdnne.mp4

*inhales*
I WANT SUPER KIWI 64
BUT 5 HOURS MINIMUM

>>725108868
more like, I would FUCK

>>725108868
The dev is a /v/ fag who draws a lot of hmofa.

>>725109060
Corn kidz 64. Siactro will never make a game over 2 hours.

>>725108510
dude wtf
I'm so gamedevbrained, the first time around I didn't even notice "it". I just thought about dithered transparency shaders and why the effect appears and disappears abruptly based on a raycast from camera to character center (presumably).

>>725096523 (OP)
This is my favourite style of graphics. Not the pretend faux minimalist "low poly" asset slop indie games of today. Properly textured low poly environments.

>>725109296
I mean its just riffing on the ps1 style. The only difference is the dev actually understands it vs just mindlessly copying an online shader off github.

>>725109081
giga based, honestly

People who made video games twenty, thirty years ago had hobbies and experiences that were varied. This person's hobby was video games from the time they were a child and you can tell.

>>725108110
Where have I heard this blog post before

>>725103524
Yuri Seijin Naoko-san

>>725108110
It's still just a bit of an extreme reaction to something that isn't even "doing" politics but I suppose

>>725098190
I hate humanity

>>725109046
yeah

>>725109807
thank you

>>725101493
That dance they do each time they collect the object is too long. Make it snappy.

>>725096958
The proportions are so wack, and the amount of hair they gave her makes it look like she's balding.
The design is salvageable, but needs some tweaks.

>>725098190
>>725100808
>>725109860
The funny thing is that the purpose of the game clearly was to give people a interactive demonstration of how odds work and getting a constant streak of wins is as likely as a string of failures despite the odds
But I think the only thing people got from it is "I love gambling"

>>725096523 (OP)
thanks doc

>>725109754
They couldn't even vote to stop the guy who wants them all dead.

>>725110262
Yeah the Mario 64 and Odyssey collect animations would've been a better reference there, maybe make him smile with either his eyes or his mouth to cheaply add some more emotion too because it lacks pizzazz.

any souls-like indie lately bros?

>>725110801
here you go bro

>>725110997
Unironically looks good

>>725100793
This game nails the 6th gen look, and the gameplay is insanely tight. After playing Tacklebox, I can't wait for the full game.

>>725110997
>From the creators of FXAA...

it does look kinda cool though. like old school Tomb Raider but you're a knight. hell yeah! I just wish it wasn't blurry.

>>725104967
so this is that digital circus i been hearing about

>>725110262
You're right, but I didn't even notice because I was so glad it didn't kick him out of the level. Fuck Mario 64 star exits.

Also I've never seen brodute self-promote on /v/ like some indie devs I know so somebody else has to tell him

>>725111035
>unfiltered textures in a 6th gen game

>>725108510
Know this' just a shitpost but I played the SAGE demo of this and was pretty disappointed by it
Level design was just way too overly simplistic and there wasn't much movement tech for player expression.
I was hoping it was going to be an evolution of Bomberman 64/Hero and you could do some cool movement options with chucking bombs around but the game felt more like a simpler Bomberman 64/Hero with even more simplistic levels and some random Mario hazards like the ring lasers.
Hero/64 are pretty basic games (Hero even more so) but 64's level design has good variety in verticality and how you can interact with some small parts of the levels with bombs and there's at least some tech in both games

I'm hoping it was just a demo thing as 64/Hero could do with an evolution but Bombun is like Mario 3D World with bombs and I was not feeling it. I might still buy it if its cheap enough but the demo was a bit of a bummer as it looked fun with seeing the snippets of webms posted over the past year or so

>>725111231
It's an N64 inspired clip, it has to be blurry as fuck

>>725104967
Buy an ad, faggot

>>725096958
>"Gameplay is king!" mfs when Penny walks into the room

>>725111505
you mean it simulates the bad TV cables back then or what? I don't remember GoldenEye or Mario 64 looking this blurry. but admittedly I didn't play on actual N64 much, never owned one.

>>725111554
Why are you like this? There's nothing good true or beautiful about ads, you think you're calling for integrity or something but you're a dancing kike puppet. kill yourself.

>>725096998
Did it change?

>>725111623
Unfortunately the gameplay is ass too. It's as convoluted and "busy" as her design. Playing it feels like pushing a boulder up a hill forever.

>>725096952
Which ones are complete and not abandoned? Because Zera has been in development for at least a decade.

>>725111623
Art style, audio, and gameplay all matter for indies. Graphical fidelity and game length don't.

Gonna drop a new build soon with all new cheesy cutscenes (people really like them and say it's the best part of my game).

>>725103138
>check dev's twitter to see if there's something playable yet
>he fucking ruined the pink girl's design
WHY CHANGE IT, IT WAS GOOD BEFORE
WTF IS THAT

>>725111365
The poly count is way to high for 5th gen, and it's not like 6th gen games all had good texture filtering. Don't be the retard who gets mad at a general aesthetic because it doesn't match exactly what hardware used to do.

>>725111462
the next demo will have more moves.

>>725111702
They say that about any indie game, CLEARLY no one ACTUALLY likes them and it's all just PAID SHILLS. Not like those ludokino blockbuster AAA cinematic banquets or culturally phenomenal Nintendo masterpieces

>>725111640
The N64 had software level blur baked in to it. You could disable it with hacks on some games:
https://consolemods.org/wiki/N64:Removing_Blur

>>725096523 (OP)
at least it's not a diaper fetish furry game

>>725110801
not a souls-like, but if you like adventuring as a knight while doing some light platforming and combat that's not 1v1, then you might like my game

>>725102481
this is pacman world

>>725112309
Sure it will. Go back to jerking off to rabbits, you pathetic freak of nature.

>>725096523 (OP)
if it was a loli instead of a green gremlin bat you'd be soiying out

>>725112483
Finally, another good game has appeared.

>>725112309
Oh cool, I'll play that then, any ETA?

>>725096523 (OP)
I tried Corn Kids 64 and Cavern of Dreams and they’re nice but nothing special. Anything better for these 3D throwback platformers?

>>725112590
yes and?

>>725112602
lol, thanks man

>>725096523 (OP)
They’re talentless hacks just like 99% of indiedevs

>>725112732
and nothing, I'd be doing the same thing too

>>725101158
>Little Monkey Fella

>>725101158
>that hip shake
sexo

>>725102651
How are you enjoying that Minotaur farm book, anon?

the mexican lawn trimmer is here to post screenshots from his ugly furshit game lol

>>725112483
>the character is not a busty female knight with huge knockers and ass that the gobbos can fuck
I sleep

Reminder that over half of games published on Steam don't make even $100

>>725112602
what game?

>>725113061
this, you failed at step 1 gamedev anon

>>725113061
>>725113109
women are disgusting

>>725096523 (OP)
I wonder how many people emulate spyro when they are perusing classic games and throw in the trash in 10 minutes like I did. It's even my generation, I just had an n64 instead. I don't know even know if it has hard parts, but the game was intent on showing me it was a baby collecting game. There's no way even teenagers liked this unless they were high

>>725113172
not in fiction

>>725112739
Hey, I always gotta support the REAL /v/ games here and not shilled Twitter garbage that always litter these threads.

>>725101158
>Tomba but worse
>yurishit
Into the trash.

>>725113172
truth

>>725096523 (OP)
Im just sick of manchildren games. Trying to recreate a game they have nostalgia for when they were playing kids games meant for kids

>>725113229
how was mowing your dad's yard yesterday?

>>725096929
Nice

>>725112815
You mental case

>>725113061
you need to be in control of a chad knight in order to interact with all the ladies that will be in the game, be them human or non-human

>>725113293
So, what, you want something edgier, grimier, bloodier and with 30% more rape and swear words?

>>725096958
It's like they had a good design then ran it through Mario 64's title screen.

>>725113440
>hand feet harpy

>>725113089
The guy I was replying to is making a game called Project Goblin. Cool stuff, honestly, especially seeing how it evolved into what it is in such little time. His game is great if you like Dragon's Dogma/Zelda-like games.
MY game is The Frydarian Tale. My game is good if you like games similar to Dinosaur Planet/American McGee's Alice. Have a link to the website (still under construction but we got some new dope renders and content):
https://fygoon.com/game.html

>>725112618
march is the planned release, february steam next fest for the next demo

>>725100793
Isn't this the diaper game?

>>725110505
The overwhelming majority of people see niggers as noisy-belching poopgolems. A pre-release prototype of the human race gone wrong, A literal cartooned mockery of the deft subtle facial features that most mankind possesses fetishized into aexaggerated subprimal form.

Don't believe me, look up any dating app statistics for partner preference, noone wants to date them.
Even in the context of BBC, niggers only exist to humiliate the fairer races women by having her displayed being violated by an unworthy grotesque poopmonster.

>>725113674
oh nevermind, this game of yours looks really ugly

>>725113325
You silly billy, I'm back in school. I only do that during the summer.
How's living at home with yo mama jerking off to little girls doing for you? Sure is helping your male pattern baldness, huh?

>>725113785
>No saar do not redeem white woman bob and vagene! Brahmin like me redeem, yes? Dingadingadingadinga

>>725113593
yeah

>>725113687
Nice I'll keep an eye out next year

>>725113819
>see anonymous poster
>think of little girls

>>725096958
>BRO YOU JUST HAVE TO NAIL THE SILHOUETTE TEST

>>725113921
responding to a retard off-topic poster with more retardation doesn't help

>>725114213
True. Just wanted to point out how he has no legs to stand on because he too is a subhuman.

>>725096958
Why does this design trigger *that* autist so much?

>>725114087
This guy likes to sit in little girl threads and yap about how "it's just a picture" and I go in to shit on him for his degenerate life.

>>725114565
he's right tho

>>725096523 (OP)
Spyro clone without the charme or anything that made Spyro good? Yeah... pass.

>>725112026
>(people really like them and say it's the best part of my game).
that's because the gameplay and graphics are absolute dogshit

>>725112309
>bomberman hero except it has INDIE DOUBLE JUMP DIVE
Preordered, waiting for the onahole to come out.

>>725112026
yeah, all 3 of them

>>725113921
>if i call him a jeet it will distract people from noticing my besmirched tarred up hide.
>it will totally not reveal that i ran out of dialoque options since being born as a nigger i rolled -1 on the INT stat.

I'm white, you tar-dunked nigger. Post the top of your hand, god made you zmirove stand on all four when he painted your kind black. So the soles of your feet and the palm of your hands don't count.

>>725099327
Mostly everything people create if not all things people create have an origination based on the creators experiences. Someone who’s never seen a dragon or never heard of zombies before is never going to come up with an idea that branches from this original concepts. It’s not possible. Just like it’s not possible to create a drawing totally unique out of the ether, it will always be based on things you know. People’s creative experiences is a lot closer to the AI slop they claim to be soulless, unfortunately.

>>725114496
It's because it's head-to-head with Sonic, one of the most well-designed video game characters ever conceived (and even if you don't like him you have to admit his design is effective as fuck) so it makes Penny look even worse by comparison.
Also, her design is pretty difficult to parse immediately which makes it a bad design for a scrimblo. Most scirmblos are either highly thematic or appealing through other means. Even though the audience for 3D platformers is 30-year old guys, the characters should still be simple enough for a child to draw; and for anyone else to kind of "get" at first glance.

>>725099327
that's why I just mix things that I like from different games and then see what happens

>>725114914
Why are you posting from a ban-evading website made by Duke Atreides?

>>725099327
You're right. A lot of ideas sound cool until you sit down, analyze them and realize the gameplay might be too shallow, the jokes will get tired too quickly, the appeal might be too niche, or maybe you just don't have enough resources to do them justice, and they're just not worth putting multiple years of your life into.

>>725096523 (OP)
most devs are creatively bankrupt and only in it trying to make the next viral game to make bank and retire

>>725115227
I'm Russian, we invented ban evasion. It is just normal internet to us. We say hello to each other by injecting malware into the other guy's computer.

>>725112291
I agree that it's mostly hitting a 6th gen level of fidelity. but the unfiltered textures aren't some minor quirk. they are very apparent on walls in particular, and they suggest that the devs are not interested in 6th gen specifically. unfiltered textures are reminiscient of PS1 and Saturn.
>gets mad at a general aesthetic because it doesn't match exactly what hardware used to do
I don't have a problem with the aesthetic, I think it looks nice.

>>725100627
this shit was spammed in /v/ and I don't think I ever found out what genre it was supposed to be.
were there actual screenshots or it was all memes?

>>725096523 (OP)
>have complete freedom to make whatever you want
This part is false. Only a tiny minority of developers will be truly original. Most developers will just try to reproduce things they thought were cool before, and since these people have no life experience, the things they thought were cool are other games, because that's their world.
They're just iterating on a formula.

>>725115518
what a retard lmao

>>725109046
would rape!

>>725115302
Another thing I notice about indie devs is that they are often very proud of technical achievements that they have made personally and while they deserve to be proud, these things aren't the kind of ideas that sell games to potential players.
An indie dev might say something like:
>"Wow! I just made a little guy run around and collect coins! I'm one step closer to the indie dream!
When they couldn't be further away still. There's another layer of difficult problems to be solved that they will eventually pass through with effort but ultimately, few people do. It's kind of funnel-shaped. Some people try to speed to the commercial part of being an indie developer and get disappointed that they aren't ready for it yet.

>>725115518
Yeah dunkey played it, if I remember correctly it was a pretty normal platformer with dated graphics and each level was about solving someone's problem, and then at the end of the level everyone danced

>>725096523 (OP)
A competitive market with a low barrier to entry is going to be full of copycats obviously. Sticking to popular trends and nostalgic flavors is a safe bet.

>>725100627
SNEED

>>725100627
The hilarious trainwreck of a game that was basically "Mild Puzzle Sim but with Interpretive Dance too"?
I 'member.

>>725100648
This looks like Armored Core, Metal Gear and Spyro had the weirdest, most confused orgy imaginable and sprouted a kid nobody wanted.

>>725100648
I'm surprised it took so long for there to be an aeromorph themed game

>>725096523 (OP)
All of these games flop because mascot platformers were never actually popular

Normalfags played Fifa and nerds played Final Fantasy. You only ever played these games as a little kid, until you discovered Counter Strike on the school computer

>>725116470
Something doesn't need to be a hit for it to not to flop.

>>725113179
>I just had an n64 instead
Poor thing. Nothing more damaging for tastes in games than having grown up with an N64 in the late 90s.

>>725116470
This is probably true, but you can fix some of these issues by intentionally targeting an older demographic which basically nobody does.
The closest you'll get is furries making content for themselves, which is fine but not exactly what I'm talking about.
The kids that would've played these games are all playing Roblox now and they aren't really on Steam yet.

>>725116470
Platformers being popular in the 90s was three-fold

>Easy to make
>Easy to play
>Easy to make look good

This meant they were very appealing to children, in a time where children were allowed to have childish hobbies. They don't get that anymore, I feel like more and more kids are expected to get out of their kid phase by like 10 at this point. Point blank instant jump into "that shit is gay I only play mature games." Combine that with an insanely oversaturated market where Steam sees x4 times the entire PS1 library every single year, and it makes it impossible for titles like platformers to ever succeed.

>>725116549
But....but the playercount threads said that if your game isn't the next big Minecraft-tier cultural phenomenon then it's a gigaflop worth a whooping $0.10

>>725102178
Objectively not fertile actually

>>725096523 (OP)
>spyro clone radioactive bat

look nice, maybe I can play it with son.
dev if you are reading this, if it has godzilla radiobreath is insta-sold

>>725116768
Pseudoregalia made like a million and it was by 1 guy lol.

>>725117208
You and I both know Pseudoregalia sold because of all the porn.

>>725117108
Periods typically start between the ages of 10 and 15, with the average being around 12.

>>725117346
And we are talking about children who are prepubescent

>>725117339
Yes if ppl made any other genre that surely would sell because it's not like the other genres are even more satured like the posted before me alrdy explained themselves hurdur

>>725117503
What the fuck are you blabbering about? Anon talks about how platformers don't sell and you mention one game in a sea of a thousand failures like a woman not understanding generalized averages. Platformers on average don't sell, in fact they bomb harder than modern racing games that aren't big brand releases.

>>725117793
They don't sell at large. Fine, here, I'll give you a food analogy so you get it. Everyone loves hamburgers so it would make sense to make more hamburgers right? But there's so many hamburgers already that your hamburger would just get beaten by other hamburgers. But then there's also a small group of people who don't like hamburgers, but there aren't many things not-hamburgers. So when you make a not-hamburger it while it doesn't have as high potential as a hamburger would, it would still have its own users.

>>725118234
You're making even less sense.

>>725117405
I thought we were going with the american definition

>>725116768
True enough.
My friends son is only 11 and he only plays fighting games and Ubisoft slop AC type shit.
Nothing wrong with that desu. I think i stopped giving a fuck about Nintendo games around the same age. The only thing keeping around Nintendo was smash back then.

>>725111623
Are you that guy who thinks "gameplay is king" means "nothing else matters?" Anyway, gameplay wasn't particularly interesting in Penny either.

>>725096523 (OP)
I'm torn. I would love a game akin to Spyro made, but this just feels too much like Spyro. Like it's just wearing his skin while the game itself provides nothing else and still looks a bit ugly.

Of course I say this will full knowledge I've made nothing, so props to the dev for actually getting out there and making what they want to see.

>>725119625
There must be a term for that feeling, right? When something is such a shameless copy that it puts a bad taste in your mouth despite technically being more-or-less what you were looking for?

>>725119935
Lack of creative insight? It's worshipping the superficial shit only.

>>725097309
Working on it. As you said, it's really fucking hard. I need to keep trying though, I'd love to get a solid enough design that I'm cool with.
>>725100648
This one looked interesting. Looks like they took Ratchet's thruster and helipacks and built the kit around those.
>>725101830
Oh this looks neat
>>725119935
I'm sure the Japanese or Germans have something considering how hyper-specific their languages get. I just don't get it though, like by all accounts it should appeal, and yet I'm just totally turned off by it for how uninspired it is in its own inspiration.

>>725097394
>coomer bullshit

>>725096523 (OP)
I feel so fucking bad for people who only grew up with Playstation.

>>725100730
Love how the characters look, but hate the environments.

>>725104362
Oh god forbid some shit-stinking underage favela monkey gets mad at you for not playing FIFA

>>725112026
this looks really autistic (in a good way)

the tits on the white dragon on the left might be a bit much though (not that they shouldn't have tits, just that those ones stand out maybe a bit too much)

>>725104484
>Sonic Team would rather make Frontiers than levels like this
why

>>725096572
>Looks better and more soulful
How much fun is it actually though.
Because most of these 64-esque platformer mascot indie games are pretty shit.
The only one that was god was Corn Kidz and that one was just two levels + a few bonus secrets.

>>725116768
>I feel like more and more kids are expected to get out of their kid phase by like 10 at this point. Point blank instant jump into "that shit is gay I only play mature games."
Been like that for decades. That's why everything in children media needs to be "cool" or "edgy". Kids start yearning for mature content the moment they're out of kindergarten, but they're not quite ready for it yet, so they enter the transition phase of consuming shit like mascot horror. Most of them will be out of it and playing GTA by the time they hit puberty.

What went wrong?

>>725120868
That's funny, I have pretty much the exact same opinion except with Metroidvanias. It's the most overplayed subgenre of platformer with millions of mediocre clones and a few gems.

I started work on my dream game last night.

Im trying to make something like Dwarf Fortress(Both fortress and adventure modes) + Elin.
I stole the player sprite, but I made my own placeholder tileset for grass, dirt, and water. This is actually kind of addicting and fun.

>>725120868
play Cavern of Dreams

>>725096958
How about these fellas? One’s a Greek and the other’s a Turk, or at least that’s the inspiration, they live in a fictional kingdom. On the right is Molta, the witch from the South Pole.

>soulful Spyro clone
Based, looks like they did a good job. Wishlisting now.

>>725121395
I like 'em

>>725097309
Here, for my upcoming game called The Adventures of Balls Boy and Glans Girl, a Banjo Kazooie-like rogue-like metroidvania souls-like about trauma.

>>725121048
Normalize bullying devs who put "pixel" in the title of their <=16 bit inspired games

>>725097309
Ddear Sega

>>725119625
Spyro was a collectathon where you controlled a quadrapedal creature that dashed, glided and had a short range attack.
The gameplay concept was thoroughly explored in the first game, barring maybe some polish, and there's just nothing you can do with something that is specifically a Spyro clone that wasn't flat out done better in the first game.
>>725119935
>>725120331
"Schnapsidee" is an idea that sounds appealing when you're drunk, but is actually stupid. You think you want a Spyro-like game because you're drunk on nostalgia, but what interesting, new gameplay could that actually offer?
>>725122191
Instructions unclear, sent death threats to Google.

I think trying to recapture that childhood joy you had with vidya and then passing it onto the next generation is based.
"I had fun and I want you too as well."

>>725096523 (OP)
>Indie game
>Being a shitty, cheapass clone of old, successful game from big company
Typical

>>725122412
The next generation can just play the original games instead of a pale imitation of them.

>>725122568
Trying to be a commercial indie has got to be tough, the market simultaneously does and does not want new ideas.
I guess the best technique is to root your ideas in something that is market-validated but isn't a fantasy that can be found in video games yet maybe?

>>725122909
So what you're saying is we should make niche autistic job simulators

i made a billboard shader that selects a directional sprite based on the object and camera position. soon the framework for avatar creation will be done and rigs equivalent to the front sprite will exist. i think this will end up looking pretty good.

>>725123098
yeah basically lol
that or just adapt a popular TV show into a game within the span of a month or two

>>725097309
>take OP's bat
>make it NOT a fat round blob
>make it NOT neon green
there OP, I fixed your game, enjoy the 45k sales

>>725122596
The problem is when they don’t think to try and build off those original games. Like Super Mario Bros, everyone knows that game. So a platformer inspired by it should basically be like hard mode from the start. And that doesn’t mean making the controls more miserable, but by having tradeoffs for enhanced movement. A character may drop the instant you let go of the jump button where Mario hangs in the air for a little bit. This means you can design courses that reward players with good reflexes. It’s made harder by players needing to adjust to having to hold the button. And then to make it harder, the character may fall faster than Mario does, too. But that heavy gravity makes for quick platforming. And then bouncing on enemies may not be given like with Mario, but instead the player may have to time a button press to bounce. The upside is that if the player doesn’t do that, they can stand in top of enemies to ride them like in Super Mario Bros. 2.

Things that add complexity for those familiar with the syntax of platformers, but the controls are different enough to demand a different approach to course design so people don’t feel like they’re playing SMB with another coat of paint. On more example - no blocks that items come from, but instead can be picked up and carried to be used whenever the player wants by throwing a pot containing the item to break open. Which also means it can be used as a weapon against enemies that can’t be jumped on, without the need for a power-up like a fire flower.

>>725122412
I like this perspective, even if I think the execution of something like OP's game is flawed.
>>725122349
I wouldn't ultimately disagree with your points. I think the first Spyro was the peak of the series and the rest had to shoehorn minigames and characters to spice it up.
Like when I boil down Spyro in my head, what made it work were three things: aesthetic, music, and tight yet simple gameplay. You're right, I think I want a Spyrolike, but what I really want is a 3D platformer that captures what I liked about Spyro, not the game itself. I've thought about that some before, too. One of the biggest things I liked about those games was the sense of exploration you had in it. Same with Ape Escape.
I don't want a sandbox, I want a world that encourages you to look around while you're bobbing your head to a killer OST, and having fun while you do it.

>>725097309
>Go design an appealing character
I make a little girl

>>725122568
The normal creative cycle is to make responses, modifications and homages to works.
The only reason this currently isn't the case is because of just how cancerous copyright has gotten and the marketing that major companies and lobbyists have pushed to normalize it, as well as the frivolous legal cases they can potentially throw at anyone if they have a shitfit.
You can't even reliably make derivative works of public domain works, because you'll just get sued from outside of your country or someone will claim that you're "hurting their trademark".

The current alternative is a mostly stagnant pool of century-old ideas that occasionally experiences a burst dam.

>>725123267
That should look interesting. If its supposed to be a platformer, be aware that it can be hard to read the depth of an environment with bilboard sprites. You would need to add a very consistently visible shadow under the character or add some other solution to make them easy to track in mid air

>>725100648
3D platforming is one of the most boring genres but the demo for this was kinda OK

>>725112291
>Don't be the retard who gets mad at a general aesthetic because it doesn't match exactly what hardware used to do.
calling anons mad when they point out flaws in your commentary shows the weakness of your flesh computers confidence sub routines

>>725124039
Why do you think that is?
I'm trying to figure it out, maybe its the lack of progression systems and in-depth combat.

>>725101201
yeah but rather than tight, short levels with a couple of puzzles, imagine klonoa levels with even less going on
that's at least my impression from the demo a year or two ago

So why are there so many furry indie devs with disguised fetishes?

I feel like every indie dev has an animal MC.

>>725096523 (OP)
FUCK SPYRO CLONES

try some BOKUBE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlK67jy2GV0&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fbokudev.itch.io%2Fbokube&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE


https://bokudev.itch.io/bokube

>>725096523 (OP)
They need to look past their nostalgia and try to find what made a game cool. Spyro is a young dragon yeah, but making the bat in his game young too is not the same thing. That thing looks like a little meatball.

>>725123603
It is a competitive block-pushing game meant to play like Catherine :)
I finally got the physics down. It is surprisingly difficult to get right.
You'd only move/face in 4 directions so i assume there will be very little ambiguity.

>>725123551
does this guy make porn still?

>>725124538
Furries are often the only ones with enough autism and chutzpah to actually make things and be creative.

>>725124538
many professional games had their fetishes in it too, you just didn't notice

>>725102762
pedo women are so hot

>>725124630
>have freedom to do anything you want
>I know let's copy that puzzle that nobody liked in Catherine
Copy Tall Twins Tower if you want to copy a block puzzle game

>>725117405
so in other words you understand the appeal of the ones outlined previously and don't need further clarification ?

>>725124684
Glad I'm not inflicted with the furry autism type, just the anime type.

>>725124740
Sure, but they're at least kept in check a lot of times by other team members.

How can a grown man enjoy these types of Ps1 era games? What the fuck is wrong with you people? Indiefags should die

>>725102647
it looks like the N64 games with small textures stretched on huge geometry like sarge's heroes, only they've used small geometry so it just looks bad

>>725096523 (OP)
I farted and it smells really bad :'(

what now?

>>725096952
Almost all of these are either canceled or early alpha with no release date
hardly a "indiefag trend"

>>725122568
I hate MegaMan copies

>>725102625
needs work on acceleration vectors to make the character handle less like a tron bike

>>725125194
Finally some real ludo

>>725124630
Nice, thats a solid foundation there

>>725106158
Norwood Reaper comes even for robots nowadays?

Anyone have the webm of the rabbit girl with the x-ray womb?

>>725096523 (OP)
>>725099313
>>725099775
do any of these games add anything to the original spyro game formula besides the art style and the same gameplay ?
i mean its nice but at least add some new
kind of gameplay

>>725125429
scroll up doofus
>>725108510

>>725105295
>enforcing a limitation onto the player and that's insane for an indie game
limitation sparks creativity.

>>725125541
It's fucking over

>>725125479
God Hand clone about gay cowboys, just what I needed.

>>725110997
looks like a mix between souls, Castlevania 64 and Z:OoT

>>725096523 (OP)
Indie doesn't mean creative.
In many cases all there is is supply and demand. Indie devs supplying what they like. This dev loved spyro, so he makes more of it. There's zero creativity. No one gives two fucks about the characters created in this game. Not even the devs care. Everything is banjo kazooie but instead of a bear and a bird it's a seal and an elephant, I don't fucking know. Nobody cares. People want more of that stupid shit. There's no creativity at all. 1% of that game is stuff you haven't seen before, if you're lucky. When there's no success on a proper replica, release the final weapon: goonershit. Sex appeal. Let these fuckers flood the board with yet another character people only care about getting fucked in fanart.
A bunch of twinkies go "soul, soul! soulful af!" because retrozoomers are obsessed with this stuff and have no taste and they suck copious amounts of cock and demand every game has a speedrun mode.

>>725125479
>the header
kek

>>725102146
>>725100730
this art style literally makes my stomach churn

>>725125620
>skillful art
>dogshit non-gameplay
every time

>>725124856
never heard of that game! it looks pretty cool though, so thanks, I'll check it out. though i do think it is funny that you suggest an even less popular game as an alternative.

my main reason for modelling after catherine is that i am a weirdo who finds it extremely fun and challenging. i got gold on every difficulty and cleared every babel stage numerous times. I ran out of shit to do and i crave more puzzles. the PC port is also terrible. The framerate alters the controls and causes undue deaths, among other things. I had a friend excited to try it and it just never launched because it kept crashing. There is also no online play and the one in full body is barely functions with a matchmaking population of zero.

So, i am designing this game with stability and rollback capability in mind. the physics already mog Catherine Classic's implementation in terms of performance.

>>725125360
<3

>>725125551
very cool

>>725125620
sex with jenny

>>725125551
>fishing game
>webm doesnt show the fishing

what now

>>725125736
Is this a bot stuck in a loop or a sperg?

>>725126269
you should be forced to submit a form after every shot explaining what you saw and why you thought it was worth wasting a town-sized bullet shooting at it

>>725125551
Is there actual fishing or is this a shit ass dredge clone
dredge is dogwater as well btw

>>725126602
I saw an ugly bird

>>725125620
Sex with him

>>725096958
Idk why this is so despised, it's a lot better than other indie 3d scrimblo designs

>>725100071
Needs to have visible fluff around the crotch. This is non-negotiable

>>725125620
wow that ghibli AI prompt evolved to look really impressive

>>725127530
It's only real accomplishment is that it isn't boring, and its uniqueness.
Not really a substitute for appeal though. They obviously tried to channel Treasure and old airbrush renders for this character but considering Treasure never churned out successful mascot and it isn't the 90's anymore, I can't really see that as being a good idea.

>>725127530
she's brown

>>725127742
Shantae is well-liked though

>>725096523 (OP)
Pandering to furries is just free money.

>>725127832
by who?
her games did not sell

>>725120416
But the N64 was complete shit. PS1 had more fun games in the mid-90s than PC did.

>>725096616
>that signature

>>725100648
Looks like someone really liked the sky flyer from Ape Escape

>>725096952
"Myths Awaken" was such a colossal groomcord soap opera lmao I wish I archived everything, but I'm glad I never went through with offering to help on it

I don't give two shits about Spyro, but I'm okay with these low poly "retro" games. I loved Super Kiwi 64, I just wish it actually had enemies and didn't take an hour and a half to beat.

>>725128508
What am i even looking at here? Those are some pretty lights, but what do they do?

>>725097309
>dude that movie was really bad, nothing made sense and...
>GO MAKE A GOOD MOVIE THEN!
We know it's fucking hard but that doesn't make it invulnerable to criticism. If anything, learn from the mistake and move on.

>>725096523 (OP)
Thanks Doc.

>>725097309
are these appealing? made them yesterday in like 40 minutes

>>725130121
They could be fun enemy designs

>>725130121
fuck marry kill

>>725130121
Not sure about the dark purple combined with the colorful and bright crown (I suppose that's intentional) but other than that they're fine. None of them give MC vibes, though.

>>725096523 (OP)
Neat he's one of those 'look at he go' goober protags... maaaaaan look at he go!

>>725130121
They are pretty good designs for monster collectors - especially for a 40 minute design.
Crowndeer antlers activate my autism, though... They look to root out of the crown (especially his left antler - the one looking at Bekkag), not his/her head.
Overall, really liked them all, though.

I despise nostalgiabait indies ripping off classic games
it's never a "love letter", it's just a lazy copy
games like stardew valley are inspired by other games but they're great because they actually make their own game and work on improving on what they like from classics
but in games like this you can tell it's just a cheap clone with no identity, they don't want to sell you a good game, they want you to sell you the idea that you're playing a game you're nostalgic for

>>725096523 (OP)
So where's your game faggot? You have complete freedom to make anything you like but instead choose to sit here and bitch.

>>725101004
orb sex

>>725130521
i went with purple because it's a traditionally royal colour, but a darker shade because it's supposed to look slightly burdened
>>725131185
>They look to root out of the crown
that's the idea because the crown is like a super elaborate set of antlers rather than an actual crown that you could take off
also yeah they are more like monster collector creature type designs not platformer protags

>>725130121
Nice /v/ermin

>dig up old NPC designs from high school
Holy shit kill me

>>725101295
played the demo
this was ass

>>725110997
my problem with these games is we already played this shit before
just make an original new game

>>725096523 (OP)
>complete freedom
A microscopic budget is one of the biggest restrictions a developer can have faggot OP.

>>725130121
I would have sex with Lopface and Crowndeer. That is all.

Making a derivative game is pretty tricky.
All of the best games are derivative, but they tend to take only bits and pieces from their inspiration as opposed to just copying them wholesale.
Like, there's a difference between Pizza Tower and something like Toon Souls or Enchanted Portals.

>>725131442
I see.
I was the guy who complained about the antlers. Forgot to mention that I really enjoyed the use of colors in all of them and the attention you had by coloring the lines accordingly to position/part (much more visible in Lopface and Bekkag horns) - it gives a sense of depth and balance I was never aware it was possible.
Keep up the good work. Hope to buy your game some day, if you are making one.

>>725096572
It's the same kind of shit. Just some uninspired rip-off of what was once a popular game. OP is just donut steel Spyro.

getting back into it

>>725131761
>when the microscopic budget forces you to make a spyro clone

>>725132190
Oh that is some good lighting and animation, very nice work

>>725131596
guy on the right is cool

Can someone just make a modern Aqua Rush?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltGqcBKYg-Q

>>725096523 (OP)
THIS IS A MARKETING THREAD: DO NOT RESPOND WITHOUT SAGE

>>725096523 (OP)
This could by carried by a good soundtrack.

>>725096523 (OP)
Not a single original thought in their heads. Have you ever noticed how every indie that blows up are original as fuck? And how rare is that to happen?

>>725132190
Looking at that instantly reminded me of Vectorman.

>>725132367
Non indie games aren't original either.
This entire industry must be purged.

>>725130121
thats car!

>>725112483
UI could use some pizzazz, either a bit more plausibly diagetic or at least filigreed up a little. Otherwise it's lookin pretty tight.

>>725132367
I actually don't know if that's the case, but I will say that if you are going to be unoriginal it should only be in one or two ways.
The indies that blow up have strong brands, unique art direction and iconic looking characters regardless if they can be compared to another game.
The unoriginal shit should just be a layer of design and market validation. You should twist anything you take instead of playing it straight. People buy games based on genre and aesthetics but they don't tend to like straight up clones.

would you guys play a game that takes place in the Devonian period?
feels like an untapped market

>>725099387
no, there is not some big dedicated spyro fanbase. there are only sloppers who will eat anything that reminds them of their childhood 1:1.

people who enjoyed spyro in the 90s moved on and are looking for something bigger and better, sloppers think the magic was only in the aesthetics.

>>725132854
Give me a huge orthocone boss monster and I'm sold

>>725122120
looks like some shit you'd see in a plastiboo game

>>725116571
Spyro is shit. DK64 is commonly criticized for all the collecting but at least it's not the kirby of collecting games like spyro. You might as well stick a pacifier in your mouth. All the other PS1 classics I've tried were good. Spyro was so bad I had to ask my PS1 friend what the fuck is shit supposed to be.

>>725132801
You're stating the obvious, but I don't understand why normies don't understand this and think their vampire survivor clone will beat the other 2000 flooding the steam store.

>>725133272
Indeed it is, and yeah I don't get that either.
To further state it, you can make any game you want as long as it:
>Appeals to a somewhat widespread fantasy
>Is easily understood at a glance
>Appeals to baseline human nature (loss aversion, nostalgia, progress...etc.)
>Competitive at its price point
The reason why certain genres do poorly is because they aren't "human nature-y" enough in my opinion.
The downside of understanding this is that more and more developers are going to creep mobile game design into steam and console releases, but that's a fight for later.

>>725096523 (OP)
>can shamelessly rip off any platformer you want
>rip off the game that has jump and glide and nothing else

mario 64 is right there and still has the best 3d platformer move set of all time
please someone use it

>>725103495
Wasn't this game canceled?

>>725133145
It remind me Navicula Meatus
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3203590/Navicula_Meatus/

>>725096523 (OP)
>New from PlayTonic... LAYLEE

>>725132290
What's funny is I remember him being the one design of the bunch I threw together without much care.

>>725099775
>spyro stole from the manda manda manda manda show

>>725096616
why do I know this is porn for someone?

>>725096523 (OP)
You have to walk before you can run
Every single distinguished creator you can name in history didn't instantly make a masterpiece from nothing
That said, where's YOUR game? Or can you only try to drag other people down for doing something you can't?

>>725100627
THE MAN WHO STOOD UP AGAINST THE STORM

>>725100627
>BALAN WONDERLAND

>>725100793
This is one of the few indie scrimblos I'm actually interested in

>>725098190
>creative concept with interesting art demonstrating the perils of gambling while also being a fun gambling game is a bad game
If it's so easy why aren't you doing it? Really above making $20k for a month of work?

>

>>725112291
It clearly looks like a high end version of a 5th gen game. It does not look 6th gen at all.

What about Stray Children?

>>725101946
This shit feels too ironic

>>725105206
SAAR

I like these threads. It helps me glean what people like and don't like, plus I get to see all sort of scrimblo platformers that I may have overlooked.
>tfw will never find the motivation to make my own game
Haaaaa

>>725110997
Would play this. Is this an oot mod?

>>725135071
Tell me your game idea anon if you aren't going to use it.

>>725135170
How about you zuck mah dick

>>725135170
Nah holding onto it just in case

>>725132952
Yo dawg I heard you like video games so I put video games in your video games so you can video game while you video game

>>725102467
hehe nice

>>725101438
what is this sonic 3d blast shit

>>725100648
Looks like absolute shit

>>725101493
dance when you collect is too long

>>725101650
You know when the original indie game scene was only 2d I remember posting that I wish they would move on to ps1/n64 3d one day. And it's finally here. I don't care if it's saturated. More for me.

>>725101830
>fast movement turns into skipping
I can't believe I haven't seen this before

>>725101920
BASED BASED BASED