Thread 527478071

19 days till dd63.
Post what you're working on edition.

>Demo Days
Next: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-63
Previous: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-62
Older: https://hackmd.io/LhEB6VCZSx-oBalI2cWWoA

>AGDG resources
https://hackmd.io/dLaaFCjDSveKVeEzqomBJw

>Helpful links
New Threads: >>>/vg/agdg
Archive: https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/subject/agdg/
/agdg/ Steam Games: https://made-by-agdg.vercel.app/
Steam Games by AGDG: https://agdg-steam.netlify.app/

>How to WebM
https://obsproject.com
https://github.com/argorar/WebMConverter
https://github.com/michaelmob/WebMCam

>Previous thread
>>527390561

i'm out of ideas.
time to make a topdown shooter

Character walk test

>>527478265
you don't need this many frames

>>527478265
>waiting for the new thread to post progress
Here's your (You), attention seeker.

stimulation toys
fantasy visual novels
multiplayer job simulators

these are the indie games that sell best

>>527478426
I also posted progress last thread,
https://vocaroo.com/142Lbvek2Gky
>>527478363
I don't not need that many frames.

>>527478589
Oh, yeah?
So here's your (You) attention deserver.

failure doesnt exist
never give up
never go hollow

Went to an independent game expo and showed off my game.
Was fun.

>>527479328
How much did you spend in total and how many wishlists did you acquire?

>>527479179
Jeez I like Dark Souls but the cult surrounding it is just awful.

I hope you guys appreciate the work I'm putting in to keep him away from here.

>>527479462
First off my game is mobile so a whopping 0 wishlists
Second about $110.
Met a cute, tall girl but she was too liberal.

>>527479475
if your game isn't giving directionless males purpose then it's not a good one

What's the fundamental difference between a casual story game like Telltale's The Walking Dead, or Disco Elysium, and a conventional visual novel? The graphics are different, and there are differences in gameplay mechanics at rare instances, but for the most part, they're effectively point & click story games, no?
What are your thoughts on this? I'm trying to identify similarities. I don't play these games very frequently, so I lack the experience to discern the differences.
I am aware there are differences, but they feel so miniscule, that both types of games can effectively be classified in the same category.

>>527479719
A lot of games are just visual novels or movies with extra steps.

>>527478426
gonna post in dying threads to build up cred

>>527479719
one's a movie and the other is a book

https://huggingface.co/spaces/nvidia/PartPacker

latest in 3d ai modelmaking (looks like trash most of the times)

>>527479914
>extra finger generator, but 3D

>>527479843
Yeah, that's what I was sort of thinking. Maybe calling them all "visual novels" would upset people who enjoy the genre, but at the very foundation of these games, the appeal stems from the narrative.
I really need to get better at understanding narratives. I think that's my biggest weakness as a developer. I can make cool prototypes and mechanics all day long, but as soon as I need to come up with a story or plot to get people interested in my game, I fall short.

>>527479565
Appreciate you, grass fren.

>>527480409
>early 2000s roguelike

been awake for 72 hours and I just drank 8 whole things of coffee time to dev

>>527480754
Hell yeah

>>527480754
i might need to replace my smoking habit with coffee

>>527480869
White monster and cigars

a visual novel that isn't gay

honestly I only need two modes.
I need a roguelike mode and the VN mode
and make a npc store
and the boss fight
and the town jrpg 2.5D
and I should be done.

>>527479914
if you guys just learned to 3d model instead of relying on aislop you would know how to by now. You literally just have to invest 3-5 days nonstop.

>>527481540
>3-5 days
really? I have been downloading free models

>>527481540
>3-5 days
Lmao yeah right. There's people here who have modeled for 6 months and still can't do anything decent.

>>527481738
stop

>>527481851
no

>>527479914
thanks Cris

a visual novel that is even gayer

GrassFag, according to his own admission, does not actually make his models. Next time he tries to bash you, bring this fact up and he'll scurry off.

>>527481747
>>527481805
its literally just tracing + subdivision but you have 3 vectors. Stop complaining and start grinding. There are a fuckton of anime references out there in gelbooru.
not to mention this guy which provides in depth on how he makes his models
https://www.youtube.com/@user-sy9do4tr4h/videos

>>527482346
>you can tell from the skeleton that this is a man

>>527482365
if its so easy show your work

progress

>>527482346
Correct, why waste time on a generic male model when there's a million free ones and it's not gonna be super unique. Easy to use as a base for modeling NPCs and such as well.

>>527482346
what is a grassfag

>>527482365
retard

>>527482790
wtf is a compendium

>>527483179
a dota 2 battle pass

baby arisu in the thread!

>>527483372
kys creep

>>527483372
kys fygoon

I have decided that the theme of the next jam will be TND

>>527482917
It's the mmo dev fagoon hates him because he redid his models getting fucked by black dudes because fagoon was shitting up threads

>>527483372
genuinely what is the purpose of this post

imagine if someone with diagnosed schizophrenia had the capacity to finish a game, it would be the greatest horror game of all time

>>527484624
for the guy who made it to jerk off to his pedophile weeb humiliation fetish?

After further review I have severely overestimated how "good" I am at gamedev. What would take me 3 years to make could be done by a competent dev far faster than me, 6x as fast in fact. 6 months is within reason. Do I just suck at gamedev and my idea's are simple? It's the only way I can see someone competent making it that fast. This sucks, it's not like the early 2010's where cloning was unlikely. I can't even post my game without the risk of this happening.

>>527484980
git gud

>>527482790
Style looks familiar, Temple of Aeryn dev?

>>527483372
bbc queen

>>527484735
unmedicated they won't finish. medicated they wouldn't make it interesting...

Just seen the /v/
who is fygon and why he is like that?

>>527479903
VNs kind of improve on books by adding background images and character portraits that set the mood. And porn scenes.
Telltale games are just worse movies. They remove a lot of the interesting visual design and camera tricks that make movies what they are. They don't even live up to being a choose your own adventure that well cause things usually narrow down to one path regardless of choices made. Even the cheesy eroge VNs are better in this regard cause the main route usually branches out into routes for each girl that play out differently.

>>527486547
I've never played a Telltale game, but plenty of movieslop games have cinematic cutscenes that uses all the usual movie camera tricks.

>>527481540
shut the fuck up already

>>527481410
a visual novel that IS gay. I played this recently for... um... game dev research purposes and it was crazy how shit it was and yet sold decently. Was looking on VNDB and there's really no trap VNs (disregarding the abhorrent 3DCG and AI ones).
The same seems to be true of most fetishes.
Just make a bog standard jap style eroge and you'd for sure have a market. Keep it light, no weird politics or culture shit, and make good appealing art and multiple sex scenes and it will sell. Hell picrel only had 2 short unvoiced scenes per "girl" (with one of them being more foreplay-ish, so really one one scene per girl) and people still bought it. Looks like the bar is set low for WEGs and somehow no one's really serving this niche.
Going to grind art and draw some delicious traps to hopefully make one one day.

Just dropped an idea I've thinking about all day.
The next one will be better. I'm sure.

>>527483889
>mmo dev
He's a developer? I thought he was an unemployed doxxer.

>>527486676
well yeah if you're talking like Uncharted or TLoU tier moviegames, but that's out of the reach of us.
A Telltale-like would still be somewhat feasible if you're good at writing and animation. Bonus if you can find decent cheap voice talent. These type of games suck ass from what I've played and it seems like they could be done better.

>>527482790
Looks very cool. Made for an actual C64?

do you have a plan of what to do after making it, right?
for me, it's opening a yoga business
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQSYJ4_Fp0M

godot 6.4rc3 will fix it

>>527486450
The less you know the better, just a big autistic mutt

/agdg/ collapse is now

amazing game dev thread ahead

>>527488252
Nah we're on the healing side. Dude is already regulated to /v/ and he's already pushing everyone away there. We've had like 2 good days in a row here at least.

Hey guys, I used AI voice acting in my game. Is that fine if it sounds okay?

dead internet theory

>>527488864
it's more than fine, the less soul the better.

>>527489063
G2b to twitter zoomer trannie

i'm a disappointment

>>527489592
Yeah we know fagoon

>>527488375
I've been here for 8 years. I don't know why we always have up to 3 active schizos at all time. We can't have a nice thread.
>rotate & his schizos
>gogem & his schizos
>boku & his schizos
>cris
>now whoever the retard fy* spammer is

>>527490937
I'd pretty much take all of them over fagoon.

>>527490937
There was a schizo that out ranked them all called reek before your time

>>527490937
i don't believe we have different sets of schizos, surely it's the same rotation of 1-3 crab schizos that hate seeing anyone acting like a human that creates things in the creating things threads

>>527484624
show cute and smol she is, a total smol cute creature

>>527485292
you're confusing her with your mom

>>527490937
Nice, aggy lore.
I've only been here for just under 3 years.

i may or may not do it to juniperdev

>>527486450
he's a troll

Why does game development attract so many mentally ill people?

Good morning everynyan. Today is another day to spend shamelessly copying my inspiration game.

>>527491736
Yo what's up Arisu, are you single?

>>527493759
you mean losers who wasted their time on video games

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! My complex save system works!

Why yes I built the entire save system without testing it once prior to the first test (less than 6 hours ago) where I had a few issues that were quickly resolved, one being I forgot to add a script. My second more expansive test was held back by a trickier to find issue only to find out the fix was something very simple I overlooked. It works woooooooooo!!!!!

I need to become faster at coding. I know all the syntax and stuff I just am super slow at deciding what needs coded next. I sit there not typing anything for 15 minutes thinking what needs coded next then when I figure it out it's 5 minutes of coding followed by another 15 minutes of decision difficulty.

>>527494158
I need to be able to just unload a constant unending stream of code for hours at a time like I used to, ironically back when I "sucked" at it.

>>527489063
I looked at a creator talk space the other day and someone was asking what personality they should give their influencer
it was a very weird question so I looked into it and they were using a site that automatically creates a fake influencer that uploads images of real women with an AI generated face placed over their face, plus AI generated pictures and comments to try and give the impression it's a real person so they can then get product placements and money from that

dead internet theory used to be cynical but now it's feeling awfully real. how do people dissociate so much that they feel okay pumping out useless, worthless slop? at least shitty amateur games often look like someone at least tried. Or used to.

>>527493759
this is 4chan nigga it's a digital mental hospital

Day 15 on a Thread for Project C-Con – "Need to be better" Edition
Journal logs are being posted into /agdg/ daily.

Tomorrow I'll start working a bit earlier to get the superficial problems out of the way like fixing this weird error I'm getting trying to open a blank Ue5 C++ project alongside visual studio. Sunday will be a totally free day so we must spend most of it right.

What is Project C-Con?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/10J54VHQz5HygejRwN7N6d3-tCY_-EhwJLqs-EBrUx8k/edit?usp=sharing

Today’s Log:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/17lrfl5oSJIy0Sxej8VKvDi2mLYRSN_9kvo9KGPspKP8/edit?usp=sharing

Current Trello:
https://trello.com/invite/b/68451978bbc485dd38cb0b5b/ATTI293a4fca1b86409df4ab24965a60d1429BB11CCE/c-cons-rd

built for hokage

Is this a good idea? I found it on discord.

its a good thing i only need $1200/month to be financially free and never leave my room again and pay all my bills. that's my dream. to never leave my room again. i don't need anything fancy. i'll cook all my food at home on the cheap. the outside world actually fucking sucks.

>>527494828
whoops

>>527494158
It’s normal.

>>527493898
how complex can a save system even get? lol.

>>527493759
People with autism, ADHD, PTSD, or depression often find games predictable, escapist, empowering.

one thing's for sure, doing this jobby won't get you dat ass

>>527494875
>. the outside world actually fucking sucks.
what kind of environment do you live in?

>>527478071 (OP)
I just killed a gameplay bug.
Not only but its wife, children, and pet dog. No survivors. All according to my design.

Reminder Einstein invented gravity while working as wagie. NEETdevs BTFO.

>>527495727
the need to escape wage slavery fuels innovation

>>527495550
Serbia

>>527494712
>WHAT SEPARATES PROJECT C-CON
>A true fighting game in third-person with traditional FGC mechanics and no deck-building, or RPG mechanics. ... without diving into other genres like battle royale or MOBA adjacent modes.

Doesn't this just mean, the game has nothing to separate it?
The reason that people add those mechanics like deck-building is the base idea has been done a hundred times already and they need to separate themselves from it. So by not doing that, it sounds like the complete opposite.

Not to crab, but this sounds like
>WHAT SEPARATES PROJECT C-CON
>nothing really
No mention of unique mechanics, no mention of unique artstyles. What's the pitch?

>>527496143
Koju igru praviš, fellow Serb

>>527495727
he got paid to deny patents to ideaguys.
doing that everyday would either be really fun or torturous.

>>527495727
I did this too at my last job but I quit in April.
I should start looking for another job for real soon.

>>527496809
This text has the exact same structure as all AI slop.

>>527479179
>how I projected my mental health problems onto a video game instead of going to a therapist

>>527496752
MY KNEES

THEY ARE BENDING ON THEIR OWN!!

>>527496752
wtf

>>527496752
>the disclaimer for kannadev’s game

>when the code you write for the problem you think is going to be difficult works immediately
this feels cursed, like it's gonna break tragically down the line

>>527496956
sounds like a good deal then getting scammed by something that doesn't work

>>527498021
>by something that doesn't work
can't tell if you meant this about video games or the-rapists

the collision bug was fixed, if you are new to coding or whatever and lurking the thread, just don't touch godough.

>>527498152
How do you fix it? Curious.

>>527498152
godot 5 will fix that

>>527498041
sproing! i like the burning debris spread

>>527498218
https://pastebin.com/aUBAnr4y

oh and what's funny is that I had a note that went like "hey optimize the memory footprint of this and that" that included that exact function, but i wanted to get things to work before optimizing...

>>527490937
>>527492583
what ever happened to ronny and trainschizo?
>>527486450
he always makes overdone and combative posts and interrupts actual discussion with shit, always trying to make things a him vs someone thing

>>527498830
I didn't mention all schizos because it'd take a long post. And honestly the ronny era was a pretty fucking bad one, the thread was nigh unusable. It's just better to completely forget about it.

>refactor one part of code
>all is well
>it broke something on the other side of the codebase
fuck

first actual boss in the game! not textured yet but still, I'm happy, gonna start rigging first

This will eventually have a body. fuck dude making humanoid models is hard. He's supposed to be in...like a clean room outfit. He'll have gloves and boots and shit.

>>527499346
kek looks like a rock, is that supposed to be a mummy? maybe a terrorist, very topical anon

>>527499261
bro that does not look like a boss you would fight in a soulslike bro
scale up the room and boss 5 times as big as they are right now, he made weapons for the gods or something...

>>527499439
lmao

>>527499431
lmao yeah it's literally a rock texture. I also tried paper. Can't seem to find a texture that really says "i'm in a cumpled ppe suit"

>>527499567
I think it needs some better texture work, you could detail the wrinkles with higher contrast, maybe model the head covering so it doesn't follow the contour of his head so much.
Though, with low poly it becomes more convincing when it's all together, just the head on its own it's hard to tell what it is, but with the fully body suit it won't be too bad.

how can I learn 2d art

>>527500012
pick an art style. Practice every day. Good luck.

>>527500012
https://discover.hubpages.com/art/how-to-draw-learn

>>527499937
You're right; I need to remodel the head and make it pointier. Also the mask. Also also go back to the drawing board on the texture work. I appreciate the advice anon thanks

>>527499479
I do like souls game A LOT, but... the game is not THAT soulslike kek

>>527500012
DrawABox.com

>>527500325
after i beat the boss i want to sit on his back chair

>>527500646
was this written by someone with mental issues? so much preamble. just draw

>>527500783
he has aphantasia

>>527500659
absolutely

Brainstorming progression mechanics for my doodle jump like without diluting the arcade character too much
>>527499261
His right arm was literally hewn out of a slab of stone and shaped into a hammer, not a hand. This golem was created to exist as nothing but a mere tool. He was never meant to have any agency or purpose of his own. He is just another slave of the evil that befell their lands. I can dig the environmental storytelling and sad tone of this bossfight.

>>527501226
also he has never studied anatomy. wtf

>>527501453
vibe anatomy

I should make a visual novel.

no

>>527501334
I appreciate your comment a lot

help. how do I model grass properly

>>527501759
here's my grass.obj file as text:
o Grass
v -0.255078 0.000000 0.000000
v 0.255078 0.000000 0.000000
v 0.000000 2.013708 0.000000
v -0.127539 1.006854 0.000000
v 0.127539 1.006854 0.000000
v -0.191308 0.503427 0.000000
v 0.063769 1.510281 0.000000
v -0.063769 1.510281 0.000000
v 0.191308 0.503427 0.000000
vt 0.621057 0.520384
vt 0.497980 0.979655
vt 0.376628 0.520384
vt 0.744133 0.238847
vt 0.133923 0.098911
vt 0.867209 0.098911
vt 0.012570 0.013663
vt 0.990286 0.013663
vt 0.255275 0.238847
vn 0.0000 0.0000 1.0000
s 1
f 7/1/1 3/2/1 8/3/1
f 5/4/1 6/5/1 9/6/1
f 9/6/1 1/7/1 2/8/1
f 7/1/1 4/9/1 5/4/1
f 5/4/1 4/9/1 6/5/1
f 9/6/1 6/5/1 1/7/1
f 7/1/1 8/3/1 4/9/1

>>527501453
>he has never studied anatomy
so you're saying he's gmi

>>527501759
Like a of planes

>>527501854
He's the marnix of artists.

>>527501856
A "-X-", 4chan doesn't let me post the 6 pointed asterisk

>>527501759
high poly plane with a vertex shader

>>527501941
he's way too successful to be the marmix of anything

>>527501759
Geo nodes

>>527502325
he had a headstart. I mean selling how to draw while being mediocre at it

After I woke up I read the replies and tried to implement some of the changes, I don't want to make it much brighter as I am trying to make it kinda spooky and dreary feeling.
After this post I will post an image, because I think the webm might make it look even darker.

>>527479179
What is wrong with these people. They're just latching onto whatever they can grab onto that is socially approved.
>mental health
Oh right...idk how they reach such a state tho

>>527504259
Is this gonna be like a noita/terraria type game?

>it's midnight in alaska
i knew aggys were all russian bots

>>527504394
more like spelunky/pitpot.

>>527504259
add some light sources, more contrast to surface edges and elements more interesting than cubes, then we will be able to tell, because currently it just looks bad no matter what.

>>527504447
>dox bait
nice try

>>527504627
I can't really make the levels be constructed out of anything else but cubes, as like I have said its a game like spelunky/pitpot - there are tetris-like mechanics in the game that need it to be constructed out of squares...

i don't feel like implementing this whole campaign charade, but I... UGH just HAVE TO OK!?
I HAVE TO IMPLEMENT SOMETHING THAT I DON'T REALLY CARE ABOUT SURROUNDING THE ACTUAL GAMEPLAY I AM INTERESTED IN BECAUSE EVERY OTHER GAME IN THE GENRE DOES IT TOO!!!!!
AND WHAT'S WORST IS THAT I WILL IMPLEMENT IT SO WELL AND ACCOMPANY IT WITH THE PERFECT VIBES BECAUSE I AM SUCH A GOOD LITTLE CHUNGUS POETIC WRITER AND REDDIT WILL PRAISE THE CAMPAIGN SO MUCH

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>527504815
Wouldn't it be more fun if these tiles you throw and shit were subject to physics? Like a semispherical block rolling on another block...

>>527504412
truly the hotline miami of terrarias

Animation for start and stop of the rocket engine

>>527505859
Wut

I just figured out why elves are so popular.
An elf's lifespan allows it to stay a child for a lolicon's entire lifetime.

>>527505859
flame doesn't fit

>>527496752
god this kind of fucking larp is one of the most annoying and faggoty

>>527504937
more on this, I need the map scene to be 3d, and i cant 3d model for shit

Is moving from tile to tile like in pokemon red outdated and free movement better?

>>527500012
>how can I learn 2d art

Keyboard, mouse, and controller input for movement

>>527507409
"Free movement" is really just really tiny tiles.

>>527507409
Yes, unless your gameplay specifically requires tile based movement like Megaman Battle Network, then it's best to go with free movement just for the nicer feel.
>>527507495
I hope this is bait.

>>527507409
It can be fun if it's connected to the gameplay. Otherwise it's just a stylistic choice, and slow movement on a grid isn't all that fun on its own.

>>527507782
he's right though. pixels are just smaller tiles

I just realized games doesn't need combat, they need a novelty event and a winning prize or some new token of information every 5-10 seconds.

What do I mean?

Walking into a newer level.
Finding a new chest.
Finding a bunch of secret coins.
Reading a new VN section.
Reading VN dialogs.
Finding a new secret area.
Getting a Key to unlock a chest.
Filling a bar.
Filling a grid point.
Doing a rythm section.

All that shit doesn't require combat, but can be as enjoyable as violence.

>>527481805
>There's people here who have modeled for 6 months and still can't do anything decent.
There's people here who have been making games for years and still can't make anything decent. Most people here are retarded and shouldn't be the baseline. Also that depends on how frequently one has been doing something for those 6 months.

>>527478071 (OP)
Godhand dev here, not dead just refactoring some things among which skeletons

>>527505030
Yes you can pick things up and throw them with physics like in spelunky, but the tiles themselves only have downwards physics if they are not supported - similar to gravel or sand in minecraft they will fall down if they are not supported once they are disturbed. I'm also trying to implement water that can flow around the grid, but it looks shit at the moment.

>>527507409
pokemon-like 2d isometric looks like shit, especially with more complex designs, if you care about that.

This is part of why i fucking resent undertale/deltarune, this nigger toby fox is drawing houses in 3-4 minutes, the final castle of chapter 1 in like two hours and boom, he is done, there is no perspective, no lightplay, no nothing, it's all fucking ugly, fuck him for having so much success.

>>527507409
Tile-based movement makes pathfinding trivial.
It's not difficult if you do it with free movement, but still.

i made the cave sound physics dynamic by adjusting the audiobus depending on the average of the walls arround you
very fun solution

everybody hates my game and everybody hates me

>>527508539
I don't think about you at all

I just wish they'd give my game a chance for once.

placeholder title/name/intro screen

Brotato is better than your game.

Just bought a belt for weights
Gonna blast some weighted dips and nothing you can do to stop me from nodevving

>>527508829
AURTRZA
or
ARRA
UTZA
???

>>527508517
thats cool if you put a webm into /wsg/ webms for other boards thread that would be cool to hear

>having a birthday celebration with family and a few close friends
>people congratulating me, shaking my hand
>one dude I barely know, dirty and greasy, comes up and makes a weird face and does this thing with his lips
>"I make bideogames, I make bideogames" he says jumping from one foot to the other in a gross caricature
>my friends clap and start doing it too
>"That really is what you look and sound like" my mom says, also copying him
>They're all laughing and doing this mockery until I finally leave
why does it have to be like this

At this point in time my success would be a cosmic coinflip.

>>527508918
Arrautza it means egg in french
When the game first starts I want the letters to appear in order like they get stamped onto the screen.

>>527509036
50/50 are great odds

>>527508975
this exact scenario happened to another anon last month. do you think they invited the same guy?

>>527508947
>>527508517
could just use catbox.moe

>>527509041
basque not french

>>527508517
cool actually

I don't have inspiration for my game lads.. I just have no ideas what to create. You can create ANYTHING, so what should you create?

>>527508975
I'm sorry but making video games is for manchildren. Real man have a real job, he does not create digital toys. Even if you made 1 million you'd still be mocked because of video games

>>527509273
pokemon + baldur's gate

>>527508975
>having a birthday celebration with ... friends
liar

>>527509387
What exactly do you think the Motivation of God is?

To go to his 9-5?
To eat to survive?

The Divine Motivation is Love, Art / Creation, and Play.

We are at the peak.

Imagine a videogame character saying "GET REAL. YOU MANCHILD. RAID ONYXIA LIKE AN ADULT!"

>another thread on /v/ where people are begging for a game like mine to be made
>I'm still a year away from release

>>527510042
>see thread on /v/ about games like mine
>dont shill my game because they'll attack me and make me feel bad
Sucks, my one chance gone.

>during a game jam
>start hating my game because honeymoon phase passed and i start questioning myuself if my idea is stupid or should i even continue
>man up and continue despite demons telling me to stop
>suddenly feel much better and motivated and work with super speed
Bros...i think im gonna make it...

>>527510428
Nah I don't want to become another Nortubel. It's annoying to have someone pop in a thread trying to shill you something. I'll just make an OfficialTM thread on /v/ when the game is done and drop keys in it.

What game has the coolest looking radar? so I can steal it

>making a Godot game
>Can't release any build of it all for playtesting and such because someone can just rip the entire thing and release it themselves and steal all my money
man this sucks

>>527510838
Retard

>>527510838
I've released two games this way :)
The best part is sending the original creators C&D lmao

>>527510838
>>527510858
>>527510871
godot 5 will fix that

>>527480409
sovlfvl maximvs

>>527510838
>Not my hecking multi million idea game

>>527510838
release it where? any reputable platform you can just tell on them and it'll get taken down and the creator banned. if they release it on some shitty pirate site then those people would already have pirated your game and wouldn't pay for it

>https://github.com/GDRETools/gdsdecomp
>it's real
do other engines have this problem too?

>>527511383
https://github.com/icsharpcode/ILSpy

>>527511383
Unity games are the most decompiled software in history

The realization that good game actually means strong art style is simply crushing

>>527507409
It makes collision detection and logic + drawing effortless and easy as fuck but it is outdated and there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to move around freely these days. Even old SNES games had that functionality, it's now up to style/gameplay if you really want tile-based movement

>>527510705
scanner sombre

>>527511665
Just get good at art it's easy

>>527507847
Cris, you're on to something!

Alrighty good evening everyone, it's time to get to work. May today be blessed with much happiness and progress!

You are kidnapped and forced at gunpoint to make a game in 1 month with your current skills, that will bring in at least $3000. You HAVE to finish it in a month or you get shot so nothing with big scope.
What do you do? What's your game idea?

>>527510838
>>527511383
There's this if you fear that so much
https://github.com/cherriesandmochi/gdmaim

My only worry is people decompiling and making fun of my spaghetti

Everybody who worries about their game being compiled are nodevs

>>527512635
3D sawatex-like. 3 weeks on graphics 1 on code.

>>527511665
This is literally the AAA and soulless MBA tard take, and you're gulping it down.

They deeply wish what you said is true, because they can just throw money at artists (or even better: AI). "More juice = Better game" is the reality they want, because it gives a clear dummy simple metric for what is "good" and how to maximize profit.
What they hate are the things that are ironically the indie dev's strongest advantage.
Creativity, story, soul, "risky" decisions, appealing to niche audiences, ...
The idea that some dudes have made games with "pixels" in their spare time and how by all their metrics Undertale and Stardew Valley should have been complete flops, infuriates them.

And here you are, playing right into their hands.

>>527512635
coom game full of a wide range of fetishes. Focus mostly on writing and having minimal artwork so I can cram as much fetishes in there as possible, every horrible degeneracy under the sun. Release on itch for free with an option to donate, as well as make a patreon where those who donate get early access to new content (I make a new build of the content I added every single day and the itch only gets weekly updates), and those who donate a very high sum of money can choose a scene or character for me to write into the game

>>527511665
It's worse than that actually.
Strong art style is necessary but not sufficient.

>>527513048
>More juice = Better game
this is true thoughbeit

>>527511791
I mean something like this

>>527513192
Not for me, and I want an audience who enjoys games the way I do.

>>527512635
a random quirky streamer game like hole digging simulator

>>527511665
Honestly tends to be the opposite, but marketers told people otherwise so that's what they believe now.

>>527513201
alien isolation

>>527513365
Be more specific nigga, that's like saying "I'll just make a random quirky game like Undertale".

>>527512635
I would make a heavily promoted ad farm mobile game that is just a dumbed-down/optimized for mobile clone of whatever streamer game is popular at the time of my kidnapping.

>>527512635
One of those find all the cats games. but I partner with lots of indies and hide their characters around interacting with the cats. even if I get shot at least I had a nice last month

>>527511376
Thief made at least $60k and their account was never banned.

>>527513863
>Look up "My Baby or Not"
>Game deleted off the App Store

>>527513627
X simulator with a twist is specific enough.

But fine, here's some examples:
>a cook, but for mad max cannibals.
>a receptionist, but for a haunted hotel.
>a nurse, but at a sperm bank for aliens.

Just add a 'but.'

>>527513863
uummm but isn't Diapers, Please! just a copy of Papers Please? I'm not saying they deserved it, but...

>>527514043
Yeah, it's just outside the updates in that screenshot. It took weeks and the thief got $60k before Apple bothered removing the game, so it's not exactly a win for the dev, is it?

>>527514176
It's okay if he steals from devs, not the other way around sir.

>>527512635
Digseum rip-off. Some guy on Reddit made one in under 300 hours and it has over 2k wishlists as of right now. At the expected 20% Week 1 conversion rate, that's about $3k. So $10/hr, without even considering the tail. Dev still has 10 days til release, so if he can maximise the wishlist procurement in that time, then he earns even more.

>>527512635
i'd make a super basic asset flip horror game in a week and spend 3 weeks spamming it on tiktok and youtube before release
a walking sim where your eyes blink automatically, every time they're closed you get glimpses of demonic images, and as the game progresses, every time you open your eyes after you blink, your reality shifts to become less and less coherent
the objective of the game would be to survive the day as a janitor who wakes up, drives to work, cleans up an empty facility, and drives back home, all while their mind slowly erodes with each blink
it would be pretty easy to make, and the premise would be interesting enough to market
games like these don't generally blow up, but $3,000 would be very possible if you sold it for $5 with a 30% launch discount

>>527514265
This but unironically.

>>527513863
This is so sad.
>check steam page and see AI art
nvm they deserve it

>>527513863
>Anon specifically said "reputable platform"
>You bring up the Apple App Store

>I want to have somewhat better spaceship travel
>Wep, I need to redo how order are proceed. Using a meta controller class
Lot of fun om

>>527514327
could you link his game or reddit post?

believing is everything. when you believe, you'll put in infinite energy. if you'd deeply believe that your game will make you rich and if you believe being rich makes you happy, then you will gamedev non-stop. if you don't believe it, you wont do it.
the thing is, you cannot control your beliefs. they get shaped automatically. that's why you cannot really control if you make it or not.
just like in the movie inception.

>>527514532
had the same reaction.

>>527514660
Nah.

>>527514626
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1l5hv4c/i_challenged_myself_to_build_a_commercial_game_in/

>>527514559
why would i care about reputable platforms not allowing my game to be stolen when irreputable platforms are allowing my stolen game to be sold and make money off my work?

the reason you need motivation is because you don't believe. when you believe you don't need motivation anymore. motivation costs a lot of energy, that's why you never finish your projects.

that's why kids who do their parents job are so successful, because they have deep-rooted beliefs that it'll work. unless they hate their parents, then they'll avoid that specific job like the plague.

>>527514532
>>527514771
are you going to bitch about AI forever?

>>527514783
thanks
it looks good, it'll do well if he gets enough exposure for it
i remember nodebuster and digseum doing well despite launching with ~200 wishlists because they got youtubers to play them
it seems to me that for games like this, they'll flop like Lhama Clicker if you don't promote them, but since they're so addicting and accessible, they do relatively well, like Snakecremental, if you get enough eyes on them
this is exciting, i hope he finds success

>>527514881
I don't know why you care about this so much, you don't even need decompilation, just take the build you got off of the itch or steam download and put it elsewhere. There are a billion ways people could steal your game, just let it be man.

>>527515243
>i dont know why you care about someone stealing $60k from you
kys my man

>>527515146
yes. same as I bitch about the gays.

>>527515146
yea

>>527514783
>You don’t need 3 years. You can make a small, commercial game in 300 hours—and that’s actually the most sustainable way to do this long term.
300 hours... that's a whole year for me.. I need to quit my job

>>527515651
300 hours in a month is doable. imagine pumping out 12 sloppas a year

AI art is so creepy, I'm surprised no one has made a horror game with hand-made and intentionally "AI-esque" art yet

>>527514881
You don't have a game though

>>527515794
once I had the template to one sloppa, I could pump out more faster. but I don't see why I'd do that. my job is more fun than making sloppa. but not as fun as making kino

>>527516251
I have multiple thoughbeit

>>527516126
What's wrong with it? You really find this creepy?

>>527516334
>I have multiple thoughbeit

Anyone have any gimmick ideas for a third person shooter? I'm open to anything.

not scoping correctly and fucking up and wasting time is what makes gamedev fun in the first place.
that's why trying to make money with gamedev makes you lose all interest in gamedev, because it makes you optimize the fun out of gamedev.

>>527516493
>third person shooter
dont

>>527516493
If you manage to sneak behind female troops unnoticed you can shoot your goo inside them

I'm like sisyphus,but instead the rock has a little speaker on it that keeps saying "YOU ARENT ROLLING THE ROCK PROPERLY" and when I press the button to speak to the rock to ask what it wants all it says is "IT ISNT MY JOB TO TELL YOU HOW TO ROLL THE ROCK"

>>527516715
is the rock a woman?

>>527516715
just like paying taxes, you have to figure out how much own the gov if you don't want to go to jail

a sisyphus game but the rock is The Rock using his wwe catchphrases to bully you the whole time

70 to 90 games release on Steam alone EACH DAY.
About 560 games in the week around your release.
AAA release? Successful release AAA or indie, in your genre? BOOM you are done.
Also, not only are you competing with other new releases, but the entire backlog of games on every system a player owns. :)

Take all the "indie success stories" you can think of in the past 10 years and divide it by the number of devs in that time who have tried (again, 80 games a day, 2400 a month) and there's your historical likelihood of "making it."

Steam cut, higher self-employment taxes, no benefits, no retirement, AND to top it all off: Your sales diminish over time, so even if you hit this "mediocrity lottery" you'll have to do it all over again in a couple years.

>He thinks that indie gamedev can provide a sustainable primary income in 2025
Hahahahaha

H O B B Y
O
B
B
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>decide to scope perfectly
>decide to not make a game at all
>don't lose time and money

this is how you scope correctly

have an interesting story

>two small scope extremely unique ideas
>motivated to make them both
i wish most hours of my day didnt have other obligations

>>527496752
>complains about trannies and jews
>is pedo
what did "he " mean by this?

>woke up feeling tired
>Doing some code, best time to do so
>75% done with it I realized I accidentally put the conversion varriables up the wrong way, meaning I have to rewrite everything
this doesn't bode well for today.

>>527516871
a sisyphus game but the rock is Bocchi The Rock

i really really really don't know what to work on anymore.

>>527514621
Why wouldn't you do that from the start? The space ship is just a representation, you didn't actually make the planets and ship objects did you?

>>527517727
My code was broken and wrong. It was actually working far better than I could have known to code myself. Extremely frustrating. But welcome. I've gone from over 400 lines of code to under 80.

playing games makes me happy but doesnt make me money
deving games doesnt make me happy and doesnt make me money

>>527517698
meanwhile the average neetdev spends their day gooning and shitposting

I could go for some hot chocolate right about now

Thinking about enginedevving..

>>527518151
ui

https://youtu.be/DstO9slC_5U?si=5zebVLZn8nXRbctP

>after all these years he keeps putting out banger after banger after banger
How does he do it?

>>527518469
>gooning and shitposting

>>527518567
I'm not going to lie and say it's fun, but there is honor in the endeavor

do you believe inspiration is real and important?

>>527519804
Intuition > inspiration

Do you have to be insane in order to do gamedev or gamedevving makes you insane? Asking for my friend

>>527520078
You don't need to be insane to START gamedevving but you have to be insane to actually finish a game.

>>527520078
It's not either or

>>527519650
by plagiarizing? maybe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGBJAmTDKYI

>>527519738
good pic, thanks
>>527520078
you can be not insane at the start, but if you end up finishing a game then you would be insane by then.

>>527516493
>>527516613
Agreed. Just don't.

>>527520078
the balatro dev was a happy adjusted man and by the last few weeks of devving balatro he was rushed to hospital because he had been driven so insane that his body would mimic heart attacks daily

Post lore

>>527520582
cool story

>>527489063
uh meds. The internet is the greatest it's ever been.

>>527520652
my elves are called aelves
instead of magic I have majieko

>>527521285
me on the bottom (the african fellas) reading this list and trying not to vom

>>527516493
anime girls and fishing mini game and maid cafe simulator mini game and instead of taking cover you become flat like a piece of paper

>>527520652
You will have to play my game to experience it's lore.

>>527516493
You're a skeleton, and your ammo is your bones. You click this skeleton layout to load a bone into the bone gun. Losing ribs reduces armor. Leg bones slow you, arms lowers accuracy etc.

>>527520652
Nobody has ever seen plantlife. So when one grows it's quite an event.

>>527519650
that house looks cozy

>>527510838
Based.
This is the future of indie games.
BrahminGODS dominate the system brutally

>>527522727
It screams nᵉᵖᵒᵇᵃᵇʸ

>>527523105
that's just the meta, man
no support system? lock in and create the next flappy bird or unlucky GG
support system? have fun, relax, take your time, ask for a marketing budget :)

officially now 2/3rds done with the code base

>>527523483
https://youtu.be/lQz6xhlOt18

was flappy bird the first big social media ragebait game?

Someone said they would prefer AI generated portraits over wojacks, because the 'jacks make the game feel like a shitpost. So I whipped up some shit, and now I need to find out, do you agree with that anon? Or was he full of shit?

>>527523957
depends on the game tbdesu, wojaks could fit depending on the vibe you're going for
i guess these portraits are like. fine? but kinda meh (and using ai is likely to get your game shit on by a fuckton of twitterfags and kneecap its potential)

what do I need to know if I want to make a game that plays and looks like MGS3?

>>527524359
idk anything about the metal gear series but you can check out these games for some inspiration maybe

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2111370/Covert_Critter/?curator_clanid=40705146

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2202470/No_Sun_To_Worship/

Every day I wake up anticipating a game cloning me will be on the youtube frontpage with 800K views and 50K wishlists day 1.
One day it's going to happen.

>>527524219
Here's a comparison. Personally I don't think it makes that much of a difference, but years of being online have certainly warped my viewpoint. Right now I have it as a toggle, so maybe I can just give people the option.

>>527524883
>ai

>>527524762
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/2202470/No_Sun_To_Worship/

that actually looks sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGWDoloUn9s
Time to boost our productivity, sisters!

>>527525080
New Marnix clone just dropped

>>527525080
strategy 1: dont click this

why not make a game people want to play

>gamedev grifter video pops up in my 'tube
>click it out of curiosity
>takes 40 fucking minutes to say "if you market your game more people will see it"
how do these retards all claim to be masters of productivity and efficiency, but cannot make their point in a concise way without wasting time

>>527525401
they got some idiot to watch their video for 40 minutes, seems like they know what they're doing

what about a game where like your weapons break after youve hit enemies a few times

>>527525265
I don't know what people want to play, and they don't want to tell me. Why? Because they don't know either.

>>527525401
they need long watch time to boost their exposure on the youtube promotion algorithm so they gain more views which leads to more sales for their courses

>>527525517
https://vginsights.com/
https://steamspy.com/
https://games-stats.com/
https://gamalytic.com/

>>527525517
3D Immersive RPGs.

>look on steam
>game with 36 thousand follower gain today
>look at the page
>zero posts on the discussions
nigga 36 thousand? thats what you decided to bot with?

love this lil guy
im getting the hang of blender and 3d

>>527525994
post game please

>>527526110
Nice Bird.

>>527526118
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3590650/OKU/
his other game (a banana clone) also got 16K today :^)

>>527526110
kino

>>527523957
middle first is actually decent, the rest is garbage

look at him go

>>527526195
i blame valve for this
what else are people supposed to do when their games receive *zero* meaningful exposure or promotion without support from external platforms?
if you game isn't youtube slop or streamerbait, your only hope is to either spend years building up a community on discord, or use bots to trigger social media algorithms
it's truly a race to the bottom

>>527526195
comfy KINO, you mad

https://youtu.be/olf3wAuCfeU?si=JgB43vCJi5obHe6R

I just love seeing him this relaxed and self assured riffing off the cuff.
No pretense, just passion.

>>527526491
looks great
what's the story?

>>527526612
Or you could, you know, make a good game?

>>527526894
https://youtu.be/YtylfQq2JII

>>527526772
im not sure yet
game starts with a cave in behind you, youre just a normal miner who gets lost basically
i dont know how big i wanna make this game, 4 5 hours max probably

>>527504581
>spelunky but not fun

>>527527056
not all good games sell

>>527526894
>>527527104
she's a tiny girl

i'm real tired of seeing these two words in the same sentence
>make
>game

>>527527253
True but all good games get exposure

>>527527404
just like make game is our slogan

>>527497705
This is what dynamic dispatch does to a mf. If every change you make to your codebase stresses you about possible failure, then that's a N^x problem.
Write procedural code, use switch statements, use global variables to sketch the code layout, and then move them to local when the structure is apparent. I never worry about code "magically" failing down the line.

>>527504259
SOVL. Good stuff anon.

>>527527427
not nearly as much as they deserve, which is my point
a job simulator cashgrab made in 3 months and shilled to twitch streamers will receive 10x more exposure than a genuinely good game simply because it made more revenue
i'm not saying the cashgrabs don't deserve success, but i personally believe there should be less emphasis on revenue and more emphasis on review quality in order to trigger the promotion algorithms
i get that valve cares about money, but it's a bit too difficult to find unique games on steam, which is the main problem, while blatant slop trash is shoved in front of our faces because markiplier made a video about the game and got 5 million views
it's a race to the bottom in terms of game quality on steam, and if it doesn't change, steam will end up looking like the google play store in 5 years
not good for people who actually enjoy good games

the appeal of flappy bird was competing with your friends

>>527527790
You're using Steam wrong. That's what curators are for.

>>527526491
>>527526110
>average 14 year old on itch: "YOOOOO THESE GRAPHICS ARE BACKROOMS NO CAP FIRE HOMIE"

>>527527790
actually those people (subhumans) are really happy with steam because when they find a good game it's always on 90% discount
the consumer and steam win, you lose.

>>527523957
You're surely not being serious? Of course normal fucking portraits are better than wojaks. Just give your NPCs some actual character. Have a cowboy with a big moustache and a big booby woman in a pearl necklace and a guy wearing a pair of sunglasses but also has a pair of sunglasses resting on top of his head. Make actual characters.

meow

>>527526491
>>527526110
YOOOOO THESE GRAPHICS LIT

>>527527173
Rip off the Descent, make it more miner-y and enjoy your money

>>527523957
>AI Wojacks
SOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUL

How could I realistically make my game have more wishlists

It's almost impossible to catch the attention of social media scroller, unless ur game is the most beautiful thing ever graphics-wise promoting your game in social media don't works.

1) What is your favorite game?
2) How does your favorite game relate to your own game?

*purrs*

>>527530304
1 ocarina of time
2 it's a zeldalike but it's 2d since I can't into 3d

transitioning!

>>527523105
You're conflating "nepobaby" for "upper middle/high class"
Not all rich/financially comfortable people have connections that can make you a nepobaby
Alot of people here make this conflation. And I know it's a joke by the way.

>>527530304
Castlevania Rondo of Blood
It's a completely different genre but has a spooky gothic aesthetic

How do I make a Superpower 2 clone?

>>527531776
congratulations, sis!

>>527531776
Very fast progress on this game, how are you doing it? :/

>>527532090
he's actually devving instead of shitposting

OK, I HAVE TO make money with gamedev, whats the least resistance path to money in this shit?

I'm guessing kickstarted, preorders and selling promises

>>527532206
incremental games.

>>527532206
>Have to
You already failed in game dev. You should never get to that point.

>>527530165
post screenshot

>>527530165
for games like this, building a community of supporters on discord is your best/only option
be aware that you must update your game as they see fit, or they'll abandon it and you'll lose supporters
you need to take the slower approach of building a community, nobody else will be willing to look at your game otherwise

>>527532206
You want to shit out as many games as possible in a short period of time. More games = more chance for virality.

I would:
-Make a first person PSX horror game template
-Pump out these PSX horror games on a 1-2 month basis

Very limited scope so I would either get rid of combat or make it so you only have a couple items total. Hind and seek gameplay with instant kills is probably the easiest to implement. etc etc

i.e. the Puppet Combo method

>>527532206
You could make a game that is similar to an already really popular game, that way you don't have to create an audience and start from zero and if it's good the already preexisting fanbase will shill your game via word-of-mouth for you.

If making a good game is too hard for you then you can make a shitty game in google play and spend all the money in google ads, and of course add as many ads as you can to your game

>>527520652
Public nudity is a sign of wealth and power

>>527532382
no, I'm just trying to take this seriously for fucks sake, I've been dabbling with gamedev for years now, never made a complete game but have plenty of experience.

Gamedev made properly brings in a lot of dosh so I want to be that dev

>>527532605
just bee urself

>>527532090
>>527532181
I'm very motivated right now for some reason. I think I have a mental condition were my motivation is either sky high or non-existent.
This affects my daily life as well, as when I am not motivated I don't care for myself very much either and my life spirals out of control. this happens to me almost once a month or as often as every two weeks.

I have set myself a deadline with this game, I have only worked on it for a total of 3 nights, and I am limiting myself to one month on it then I will release it on my steam. Once I have released it, I will continue to work on my LizardEngine gameengine game. I might make this game playable in-game on the in-game-game.

>>527531208
Literally me

>>527532557
Maybe even do a P.T. fan game as a free title to get people aware of your brand.

>>527532887
ADHD. What actually is the gameplay of that new game though?

>>527532427
It's a puzzle game... have as a reference the game Baba Is You, it looks as ugly as that.

>>527532437
So basically wait till I release the game, and then grow a community over time?

>>527533141
Kinda like spelunky but with one big eternal dig down instead of stages.

>>527532605
>>527532206
make a game that would get as many views as possible on these channels
design your game to go as viral as possible when uploaded by these people
contact them aggressively when your game is ready

https://www.youtube.com/@wanderbots
https://www.youtube.com/@RealCivilEngineerGaming
https://www.youtube.com/@markiplier
https://www.youtube.com/@Splattercatgaming
https://www.youtube.com/@idlecub
https://www.youtube.com/@OlexaYT
https://www.youtube.com/@Northernlion
https://www.youtube.com/@InternDotGif
https://www.youtube.com/orbitalpotato
https://www.youtube.com/@Blitz
https://www.youtube.com/@DangerouslyFunny
https://www.youtube.com/@ManlyBadassHero
https://www.youtube.com/@GrayStillPlays
https://www.youtube.com/@AstralSpiff/featured
https://www.youtube.com/@AngoryTom
https://www.youtube.com/@Haelian
https://www.youtube.com/@Sifd
https://www.youtube.com/@vinesaucefullsauce

good luck, have fun, wish you well

>>527533181
no, as soon as you have a build ready for people to interact with, upload content online, release devlogs/progress posts, and ask them for input
trailers, progress posts, and demo builds will help you a lot with this
you want supporters before your game officially releases, so they can support your game on steam on release day and help give you a promotional boost
don't worry, people aren't very toxic, if you interact with the community you build, they'll become strong supporters

as soon as you have something worth showing, put it out there on twitter, reddit, discord gaming/gamedev servers, tiktok, youtube, instagram, etc, and ask people to join your discord community
build it up gradually, and interact with them in an organic manner

>>527532887
Kinda inspirational... let's all keep going, I'm trying to be more productive aswell but I'm lazy.

Grift status?

>>527533730
Marnix is evil incarnate.

>>527533730
Maid Simulator is a bad idea
Medieval nazi zombies is actually a decent idea
They should stop splitting their limited time across two games and just go all in on the nazi zombies game

You guys should stop thinking in terms of a hobby. This is very real job. You are building digital toys. People enjoy games and they pay for them.

Plenty of medicore games make good money

Not sure if my doodle jump clone is actually fun or if I'm wearing dev glasses. Mechanics are rather basic at this point, it's all about that highscore.

This week I was working on caring for my dad who has advanced cancer. Worst engine ever.

>>527534178
I'm sorry about your dad anon. You don't need to make jokes about it.

>cosmic call is on a fanatical bundle
how much did you get out of it?

>>527533964
>9 of the most underrated
>shows 9 of the most empty flaccid and industry shilled games that already made more money than they deserve
more like 9 of the most OVERRATED indie games

>>527533303
>37.6M
>1.27M
Some of these are just wasted emails that get you sent to the spam box after you email enough guys. Also I'm 90% certain that Haelian asks people to fork over sponsor money instead of just supporting the dev.

>>527534318
He posted yesterday about it. "Almost as much as Steam"

>>527533730
blind leading the blind

>>527533964
>scroll through video
>dont see mine
thumbs down on 8 different accs, might do a false copyright report later too :)
I DO NOT MESS AROUND
MAKE A VIDEO ABOUT MY GAME OR SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES.

My median keeps climbing but the average keeps sinking. I'm fucked

>>527534640
If you really do this I kneel

>>527508829
can't wait to play ARRA UTZA

>>527521363
big if true
>>527523957
the wojaks maybe were a bit much, but your pic also look stupid. surely there must be some suitable assets on the internet

>>527513863
Can't they just sue? Seems like a solid case for suing.

>>527535129
Sue who? Some random chinese guy? That's not gonna work for you.

>>527512635
>or you get shot
get shot where?

>>527535403
up the ass

Fact of the matter is 3D game wishlists are worth 1/8th as much as a 2D game wishlist. UH OH FACT BOMB.

>>527535798
My game is niche so this doesn't apply to my case

>>527533921
It's all slop. They have no desire to make anything fun. This is purely back against the wall trying to survive by any means necessary. Which is fine. But it's all fucking slop. Nazi zombies GTFO

>>527535798
what is the game is such production kino that it features both 3d and 2d scenes?
see celeste

>>527518162
I did for all that is physical calculation, it is the sequence of independent order that move the ship. Problem if I want to link the movement between them I need to link them.
Also
>Separating the physic logic from its sprite
that not really a good way of doing it.

>>527535798
incremental wishlists are worth 2x as much as any other wishlist

what do I do next fellas?
Ledge grabbing or bombs?

Added better ship animation
https://files.catbox.moe/w4a16p.mp4

>>527536923
how about post progress, champ?

Just make a cozy game about decorating something. Car, office, battlestation, anything. Literally no gameplay, just assets, it's free money.

>>527536928
something is wrong...

>>527537171
Are you doing this with pure raylib? Or like what is your stack for this game I'm curious.

>>527537219
Gotta look up sales stats on this

>>527533730
He will outlive us.

>>527536928
make it orbit fully instead of suddenly changing direction

>>527537219
too much work to be honest, all these 3D assets take A LOT of time, we need to go simpler like Hole Digging Game

>>527537941
just buy assets

>>527538168
I'm not investing in this casino

>>527537558
Yeah for this game because it's small the only library I am using is raylib.

What are the best looking games here that have the highest chance of making it?

i give up, i cant make my game

>>527538513
Took a lot of integrity to not name my game just now even if it is true.

I'm at a point where my game is mostly complete, but now I'm just wondering how do I get the artistic stuff done?
All my music, characters, anything graphics related are just placeholders. Hell because I've been procrastinating so much on it I still dunno whether this is going to be a monster or robots game. Like hella completely new to this, every graphics is literally rpg maker/stick figures and really generic textboxes I don't even know how the whole commission thing works or how much I'd be paying.

>>527537941
The Hole Digging game took years to make by the devs own admission

Sometimes I feel like nobody will play my game. Then I see people buying Decorate Camper The Game and I have a little hope.

>>527538952
It fucking doesn't, it's just voxel plugin and some modding to make FPS character "dig"

It's fucking simple to make

>>527539019
May I see your hole digging game then

How much AI are you guys actually using?

>>527539113
Here it is

https://youtube.com/shorts/LqQNt29Vlks

>>527523957
To most players they don't care if something is soulless slop or not, but it will still negatively effect their view of the game even if they don't know why.
probably still better than copy-paste wojaks.

Ideal scenario you'd make them all yourself or get an artist but if you cba then this is better than nothing, I guess. I dunno, might be better just to use an asset pack because then at least the characters would be consistent.

having a cast of characters that're as absurd as the frogs/monk could be good if customers each have distinct personalities and behaviors.

>>527537219
Yes, that is my plan.

>>527526491
That you Chicken dev? I thougt the game was 3D third person

Going to print money with this chuds.

>>527538976
Don't worry, people will still not buy your game

>>527539557
KINO

>>527538271
Which language tho? I know raylib has been ported to every language ever.

>>527537331
>>527537749
There are some quirk left to hammer.

is this the agdg meetup?

one day Indie Games will die.
Literally no one will be making games

>>527539019
Shut the fuck up retard.

>>527540098
you're the retard for thinking something like a voxel terrain takes years to make

>>527496752
Z
V

>>527540053
…and soon the world will cease to be

>>527539786
I am writing it in C

>>527540530
Good to see a fellow (C)had here :)

>>527523957
>People hated wojaks as portraits
>People said that even garbage like AI art is better then these wojaks
>Which is why I decided to do AI wojaks

working in 2d godot, and I'm generating line segments which extrude forward and branch out. How do I make the angles fully relative to the last segment? Right now I've tried to do that by using a vec2 direction and adding a vec2.from_angle offset but it's still being influenced by the world coordinate system and biased going toward -Y.

>>527532887
I'm disappointed in myself. I can't even put an equivalent level of progress in despite the amount of time I have put in. I'm sure this latest game of mine has more hours put in than yours and yet on a developmental standpoint of our games you are so far ahead of me. You still outpace and outcompete me in raw game completetion, skill, and talent. I don't think you understand just how skilled you are, you are savant tier. If I had this skill/talent levels then I'd have no doubt I could have finished my last game in <2 years and this new one in <1 year. Knowing people like you exist makes me terrified of showing my game and having it copied/cloned.

>>527537219
Anon you say this like its easy while it looks like that kek that's not easy.

>>527538976
That gives you hope? Lol a game like that doesnt for me. It just shows me how high the bar has gotten. I cant do 3D that good right now, what chance do i have of selling my 2d game with lower quality art than this?

>>527540229
The voxel terrain system in AGADAH was based on the same terrain system used in the dev's other game, Solarpunk. Guess how long Solarpunk has been in development, not a few days I'll tell you that.

>>527542115
sure, here's your years of development

https://youtu.be/Z__-wuxeUsI

>>527542195
>Shows a mechanic that years upon years to get to the state it is now
Thank you for proving my point.

>>527542414
Jesus Christ, you can shit this thing out in a day

>>527495550
>what kind of environment do you live in?
the poverty stricken part of rural Appalachia. you know, the part the internet is always making fun of, with all the inbred redneck hillbillies living in collapsing trailers and desolation for hundreds of miles.

>>527540871
I don't work in 2d, but couldn't you just use vector2.rotated on the previous vector and then have the drawing start point be the end of the previous vector?

Metroid

>>527542480
go ahead. i'll give $100 if you make your own digging mechanic within the next 24 hours.

>>527542480
>You can shit this thing out in a day that's why I never did it myself and waited for somebody else to make the technology for me

>>527542721
you won't give me shit and I will just waste my time

>>527542757
i accept your concession nodev.

>>527542879
you know what? for the fucking lulz I WILL MAKE IT and post it here

>>527542973
>sneed
white supremacists aren't allowed to post on or read /agdg/

~10 minutes to bake the lighting for the level, not bad

>>527543063
no you wont, but at least for a brief moment of typing this post you felt like you were doing something with your life

>>527537171
So I recall you mentioning Outlast, what are you doing to make it like that or did you change your mind? Also is this in your engine or not? I saw you mention raylib so I assume your engine isn't currently capable of 2D?

>>527543105
>bake the lighting
ngmi

>>527543125
No I'm actually interested how it was done I will do it for the fun of it

>>527526491
Is this that Zelda like devs game with the red goblins? Style looks familiar but I'm not sure which dev.

It's crazy how bad most of you are.

>>527543464
This.

wtf is a fibonazi and why do all the coding books want me to write one

bombs

look what you made me do Aggy

Now I'm fucking with fifth-dimension scalar fields and shit

>holy shit this game is awesome I'm going to be a billionaire
>*take a dev break for a couple years*
>*come back*
>holy shit this game is poopoo

>be you
>first /agdg/ meetup
>pic related is there
>she's responded positively to a few games already
>you show her your game
>this is the face she makes.
How do you respond?

>>527543216
I have to bake the lighting for far away objects because realtime lighting has a limited range.

What does bake lighting mean?

>>527544427
its like pre-calculated raytracing

>>527539908
>yfw someone shows up despite no address

>>527544254
force feed her fried chicken until she goes hog wild for me. And by that I mean, until she goes wild on my hog, if you know what I mean.

>>527544254
Run away in tears

>>527544427
All the lighting in the scene is presaved to the disk aka "baked" so it doesn't have to be processed later on.

>>527544254
>>pic related is there
nortubel is there? man he's prettier than I thought he would be.

>>527544339
Upgrade your GPU.

Okay the weekend is over and I can't be trusted not to get in dumb arguments with people here, so mods please ban me for 5 days so I can work on my game.
Lads report my post so jannies can see it.

>>527545067
Noy lewd enough, post moar

>>527543953
How you get this shader in raylib, sir?

>>527542613
YES
IT WORKS
FINALLY

>>527545067
fuck you, I'm not doing shit.

Okay Google: >>527544427

I really want to incorporate shitting dick nipples into my game but in a non-vulgar way.

>>527545349
How about this?

>>527545641
Pretty sure it's "hey google" now

I now have the data to confirm I will sell at least 1000 copies in the first 2 months

missile command but its israel and you play as the missiles

>>527546091
thats pussy shit. her nipples aren't even exposed. you gotta try harder than that if you want a ban.

/agdg/ meetup happened last month

Dumping the old combat system, been working on making something that feels less generic

I fully intend to mock games like the one Hoyoverse makes

>>527546769
You reported the frog poster in under a minute and I have to dump porn for hours?
Is this some kinda humiliation ritual?

Remember when someone made a stylish action game

>today is the day I make a videogame
>lets make a quick little asset just to get the ball rolling
>oh i cant make assets at all
>give up the game dev dream
feels bad man

>>527510042
I've had this but elsewhere with my last game and screwed up. I had this on 4chan with an idea I haven't made. And I have had this but elsewhere with my latest game.

I'm terrible at gamedev so it feels like someone else might pop up and release before me.

>>527548421
frogs are off topic. tits are always a topic of discussion. simple as.

>>527512635
Im probably gonna die in that scenario. Can I make multiple games? All I can make with such a small timeframe is small stuff that probably wont sell.

>>527541360
Imagine being Bokube and a savant like him shows up
>neat idea, I want to make my own Bokube like!
>*2 weeks later*
>reveals his game
>it's got just as much content and gameplay but done in 2 weeks instead of ~10 years
I'd be devastated if I was him.

>>527540645
Advantages of C over other languages for gamedev?

>>527543953
hotel bomb survival from little big planet

>>527549913
>somebody on /v/ called my characters ugly

>>527550156
You get to write a lot of meaningless lines of boilerplate so that you feel like you're getting a lot done even though you're actually getting nothing done.

Bedabots is entering a second phase of rapid development starting tomorrow!

>>527550156
it's slow so you don't have to worry about your game running too fast and contributing to global warming

Anyone else feel like a lot of their progress is pointless? I do lots of stuff to accomplish such simple tasks but requires nonetheless. If you looked at my game 2 months and then what it looks like right now, it visually isn't too different. Visually speaking a few things are handles somewhat differently but if it was set up for player only view, then I can se emy game getting comments of "have you done anything since I last played it? It feels the same!"

>>527550930
>Anyone else feel like a lot of their progress is pointless?
no

>>527551027
That pic and comment combo made me kek

I made the fucking diggable terrain, it looks like ass for now but it was made in like fucking one hour

Fuck your Digging a Hole game lying piece of shit, it didn't take him a fucking years LMAO who the fuck lies on the internet

>>527551410
kino

>>527551410
>flashslop

>>527551410
Very nice

>>527551410
how many wishlists you at now lad?

>>527551410
Palette inspired by the original Metal Gear?

>>527545438
which shader I will happily post it for you

>>527551410
Estimate on when this will release?

>>527551410
dude, I'm being completely serious. It's obvious you don't give any shit about making this into a good game. You're a graphic designed who's addicted to polishing the graphics. I have no hope for this game because I've watched how you handled the development for the entire time since you arrived. You clearly want to be making comic books or graphics design. The people with more than 120 IQ can see exactly what you're doing. You've lost all my respect

>>527550403
What are you on about. C is one of the fastest languages to use for game development.