Thread 725149614

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You have spent time on your game this week right?

>>725149614 (OP)
I listened to dwarf fortress music and programmed basic UI at the same time.
And I will do it again.

I started my latest prototype this weekend.
Its a Loop Hero inspired boardgame.
Not going to go into much more detail to avoid potential copycatting, but I think I've hit a good balance of scope and simplicity that makes this a viable project for me as one man dev team.

>>725149614 (OP)
got some nice vacation from work starting today and until the 17th. Hope to make a lot of progress during that time.

>>725149852
I'm doing a video game of the board game Delve. I too don't know if I can go ahead due to plagiarism or what.
Like, do I need to make it mole and beaver themed instead of dwarves or something?

>>725149938
the animation is looking good
not sure about the texture matching between the inner side of the wings and her torso - would potentially add some difference in colour (maybe darken the chest texture a lil bit)

>>725150000
If its just a free-to-play passion project then you might be left alone, but no guarantees if they think its taking sales from their boardgame.
You will need to develop a unique visual identity and iterate on Delve's mechanics if you want to sell it.
My game has maybe 20% overlap with Loop Hero's mechanics.

>>725150096
thanks anon. I'm currently focusing on her AI but once I get that sorted out I'll review the coloring. Shit's been driving me crazy but I think I've found a nice balance between functionality and simplicity, and no I'm not going to implement 3D A* pathfinding, I'm not that smart lol

I released the shrimp game demo today:
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/4122690/SHRIMP_GAME_Demo/
it's free and has a big ass coop campaign slice and pvp. maybe give it a try anons

those goblins that fall will try again tomorrow
be like a goblin, and never give up

>>725149614 (OP)
Early in development, spent most of the day designing the structure of the program to change between screens. Lots of hardcoded stuff I had to fix up. Hope I can move to asset production next week or so.

>>725149614 (OP)
I'm learning to draw...
Can i insert animations of the bosses on RPG maker xp? (For the sex scenes)

launched big update yesterday, there are cheevos now among other things

another day of trying to figure out how to handle stacks of ingredients with volumes and not succeeding

how do i build a fanbase? nobody will know my game exists

>>725149614 (OP)
I'm taking a shit right now I'll post an update later.

I have been trying to get assets in, probably going to be at that for the rest of the week

>>725153765
dunno, been at it for 3 months and have like 50 followers on twitta and that's it

>>725154123
those look nice but I'm not sure about them fitting your char sprites style

>>725151208
I'm really proud of you, dude. I know you have been working really hard on this for a long time. Fantastic job, getting to this point. I'm very happy for you.

>>725149614 (OP)
Please give me an idea for worst dungeon crawler. The shitter mechanics the better.

>>725152826
Hi anon, I thought the text on the books might look better with some highlighting so I made an example to share with you

Textured and rigged the skeleton enemy model. I will work on the gameplay this weekend if I don't die tomorrow.

>>725155829
sovl
might consider it but no guarantee

>>725156043
cool boner

>>725156112
I think the red for the done maybe is the low hanging fruit instead of keying everything else which might be more of a hassle

Been a few weeks since I really worked on my game since my pops was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer, no targetable mutations, negative pd-l1 score so immunotherapy will not do much either, so prognosis is looking grim. Just been spending all my time learning about cancer and any other possible supplements I can give him, which I now have had him on that regiment for the last week. pre-chemo scan in a few weeks, hoping that the primary tumor see's some shrinkage from what I've been giving him so he can avoid chemo.

Anyway got back to it the last 2 days and changed up how I handle warping from one sector to another. Did this since because I can easily re-use this method for warping to any area, where the before method was going to require making changes to the camera angles constantly for each warp path you took.

I made this new feature: the small demons panic then they hear the nun's "heavenly laugh". They also try to escape by running away from her.

boring progress, but progress still: flying enemies are able to aimlessly wander. Doesn't make a lot of sense for harpies but it might work for bats, giant wasps and that kind of stuff. I'll create another state where the flying enemy wanders in a "smoother" way
>>725157446
I'd try adding some 2D sweat anime particles coming out from the enemies heads, to better signify that they are scared as fuck

Slowly making more progress, I finished the dodge sprites. Also added a dust cloud for more visual flair.

>>725159754
Is this supposed to be turn based or real time?

What type of game would work with this kind of music?
https://voca.ro/1lsKroBFdWId

>>725159830
Turn-based Mario & Luigi style. You dodge the enemies when it's their turn, but you're anchored to your battle position.

>>725159754
I also fucked around with shaders to make this daytime cycle. Figured I could spice up the forest area with this so it doesn't look so samey.
My idea is to have it be daytime during the goblin chapter, then sunset shortly after the alraune chapter starts, and of course transition into nighttime right on cue for the wolf girl.

>>725156043
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad87SqVYizA

>Change nothing relevant
>NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Howwwww

>>725160841
Try closing and reopening Unity. It does that sometimes.

>>725160985
Yeesh

>>725161354
Yeah Unity is dumb like that
I honestly got so used to Unity's little quirks that I can't use anything else anymore

>>725151208
wishlisted it :)

two new things in my game, this worm buddy who is humorously named "giantdildo" in the game files...

>>725161863
and made it so killing all the monsters in a level progresses you to the next level, eliminating the pacing halt when all monsters are dead in a big level and you're just wandering around aimlessly looking for the level exit.

>>725153765
30 second tiktok/instagram videos - heres the format:
2-3 seconds of post-fix footage (most eye catching snippet you can find)
>this bug took me 3 straight days to fix and I almost gave up
switch to pre-fix footage
>describe the bug and how you were a retard for missing it (the more simple the mistake you missed, the better)
couple seconds of you working in unity/unreal/godot
>and now finally its working
>what do you think i should add to my game?

drive people from your tiktok/insta to your twitter
post consistently for the last few months of your game dev, dont be afraid to load up a really old version of the game to get early footage

>>725156895
Very juicy

I added wolves to my game today. Because why not?

Game jam is starting tomorrow, not sure if I will join or not. Kind of in the middle of a bunch of things with work and my main project. But the code aspect for the main project is going to be minimal for the next 2 weeks, so it might be possible.

>>725156895
love the visuals
what games inspired the visuals?

>>725149614 (OP)
learned a lot about the Pose Library in Blender today, seems extremely useful, never knew it was a thing before.
So, a quick question for any other 3D anons, if you're going to have multiple characters interacting, whats the current standard for animating and syncing said animations?
Should I be appending/linking copies of the other characters/prop objects to my file and keep everything contained in the one characters animation, lining stuff up in engine programmatically and just play it?
Or is there some way to easily sync separate characters with separate interaction animations easily?

>>725164050
not a 3dguy but wouldn't it just be signals and animations with matching timings?
e.g. a handshake can be started by one character, signalling to the other to start and with appropriate animations they would sync up?

>>725162615
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FLRHejWAo8

>>725149938
Tiny thing, but if you make the chin narrower and her chest not have the big texture but just a pale colour, dudes will think she's hot and therefore you can use her in marketing as subtle Coomer bait.
Anyway, love everything you're doing, and am slowly building my own lowpoly dragon's dogma in UE but Co op

The Demiurge did this to me.

>>725163918
Mainly WarHammer. I went into it thinking "Dark and grungy" and then just played with post processing effects till I found the style I had in my head.

>>725157446
this looks like it plays well already

>>725168618
Thanks, I am working hard and acceleration the development process because I wanna start sharing my demo, get feedback, and keep polishing until next fest february of 2026.

At this point, basically all system are already done, I just need to make more maps and enemies.

greyboxing to see if i can actually make levels flow
one day i'll have more than one enemy type

My game is good, but nobody played it...
My game is good, but nobody played it...
My game is good, but nobody played it...
My game is good, but nobody played it...
My game is good, but nobody played it...
My game is good, but nobody played it...

>>725170391
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLn5QGgK6fo