Will you surpass Toby Fox as the biggest weeb in gaming? edition
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>>527563242 (OP)Main show: https://youtu.be/k8Od_6KnaVM?si=pgH8wai97GMB-0yR
Radical Zombording https://store.steampowered.com/app/3547020/Radical_Zomboarding/
Shrimp Game https://store.steampowered.com/app/2824880/SHRIMP_GAME/
Ninja Game https://store.steampowered.com/app/3634550/Ninja_Game/
Yatpig https://yatpig-dev.itch.io/yatpig
Devil Spire Falls https://store.steampowered.com/app/3646460/Devil_Spire_Falls/?beta=0
Cell Command https://store.steampowered.com/app/3362040/Cell_Command/
(a)woken https://store.steampowered.com/app/3207450/awoken/
Mage Tower Massacre https://store.steampowered.com/app/3625340/Mage_Tower_Massacre/
Nortubel https://eyeballtank.itch.io/project-nortubel
Wonder of Blue https://store.steampowered.com/app/3712860/Wonder_of_Blue/
Conviction Chronicles https://evilous.itch.io/conviction-chronicles-alpha
Knight Lolita https://swordsquid.itch.io/knight-lolita
Dungeon Drops https://store.steampowered.com/app/3625870/Dungeon_Drops/
Slam Dingo https://hardmeat.itch.io/slam-dingo
Pic-a-Ball https://yahhcheee.itch.io/pic-a-ball
Future Phantoms https://horbror.itch.io/
Inochicus https://pricklypeargames.itch.io/inochicules
Festered https://store.steampowered.com/app/3005440/FESTERED/
Galduen of the void https://bluesanddev.itch.io/galduen
Ctesiphon https://stomygame.itch.io/ctesiphon
Cosmic Construct https://store.steampowered.com/app/3471640/Cosmic_Construct/
Nanima https://store.steampowered.com/app/3395890/Nanima/
POGS https://store.steampowered.com/app/3640790/POGS__Power_of_Golden_Slammer/
Tamabuki https://store.steampowered.com/app/3640880/Tamabuki/
D.O.R.F. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2388620/DORF_RealTime_Strategic_Conflict/
Triple Lock Tactics https://desert-coalition.itch.io/three-locks
Hypercoven https://filmstars.itch.io/hypercoven
Kludge https://x.com/Fleech_dev
Pandamonium https://bsky.app/profile/redpandastudios.net
Necrofugitive https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blackgarden/necrofugitivegame/
>>527563821https://store.steampowered.com/app/3808730/Ctesiphon/
>>527562313Does Afterlife Gladiator even have character deaths? I don't know which of you are trying to tell "serious" stories or not.
Millennials are more out of touch with gen a than boomers were with millennials.
agdg-chan but this posted yet?
https://youtube.com/shorts/Z_DGrJMMF24?feature=share
bocchi
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>feeling poorly
>fan sends me an encouragement message and feedback completely unprompted
thank you anon
>>527564825>Does Afterlife Gladiator even have character deaths? I don't know which of you are trying to tell "serious" stories or not.
>>527564851Gen A is alien to anyone who wasn't born with an ipad in their hand.
1) Never kill yourself
2) Work on your game
3) Good night
>>527563821>>527564524stop spamming. you posted this at the start of the last thread aw
Happy Father's Day Aggy daggy. Hope your kids don't prevent you from making progress all day.
>>527565345Congrats, sis. I need to finish my demo before dd63 so I get people who support me online.
>>527565590thanks, anon
>>527565590>1) Never kill yourselfTranslation: Don't even think about putting an end to your suffering
>2) Work on your gameTranslation: Suffering builds character
>3) Good nightTranslation: I just have to get through this week
>>527565802It was 2 threads ago but yea I agree. He's been getting a lot more obnoxious with the shilling lately
I'm mixing mario party board with Risk world map and FFIV towns, but as a porn isekai harem game.
doing more placeholder player animations so i can play my game with my mom (instead of finishing the campaign system)
>>527566179I'm mixing burgers with spaghetti noodles and pizza toppings but as a casserole
I'm mixing humor with animation
Still holding my pressure
>>527566063>But you know, He'll give us what we need>It may not be what you want>But no prayer in faith goes unanswered>He'll give us what we really need
>>527566179Anything that tries to be more than a simple arcade game is pointless. We've already seen that 3 guys at most will invest multiple hours into Marmoreal and whatever you make will have the same fate.
>>527566529family guy the game?
>>527566690nobody buys the 2 usd simple arcade games on steam, because that's what pajeets make 50k per hour using AI.
Imagine when landsword flops
It's gonna be so fricking funny
People who say chocolate is bad for the body forget that the soul also needs to be nourished
holding it is bad for performance
holding it causes rectal and prostate cancer
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*holds it*
>spamming a character someone else made
never.
>>527567850bros is this real? been holding it for 3 days
>>5275655901) Yes!
2) Yes!
3) You too!
>>527568028why did you hold it?
Just dusted this game off after a few years and I still love playing it!
It's a struggle trying to remember how it's structured though.
>>527568793calm down niggahhhhh
Look at this article I just wrote. It's hilarious how bad I am at this. I've been coding for so long and am just so bad.
https://dev.to/gabrielxyz/how-i-created-the-fastest-javascript-physics-engine-1375
Gamers love slop.
Gamers crave slop.
Is it wrong to give them slop?
I think its wrong to not give them slop.
>>527568743are you gonna do something with it?
>>527569165How bad can it possibly be?
I wanna release my game on xbox 360
>>527569165I think it's wrong for you to continue living
>>527566080Hi v3guy here. Just want to give you a heads up that whoever is shilling is not me. I pretty much go lurk only In the off-season. To whoever it is, I appreciate the help but shows over we outperformed last year and I'm happy.
If anybody cares to support the games the list is in the discord server. That's all.
the truth? all games are slop. videogames are innately slop. read a book if you want to avoid slop.
>>527569784>>>/r/eddit>>>/u/bisoft>>>/c/orpoAAAif you continue posting in this thread which has nothing to do with your interests you should kill yourself
>>527569784All entertainment is slop. Seek spiritual enlightenment for nourishment of the soul.
>>527569249Yeah I'm working on it again. I got scared off last time from the scope of making all the teams but I've reduced the scope so I can try again.
>>527569945I am a slop dev. (I make games)
>>527570191this is the AMATEUR game dev general for people who make INDIE games because they are interested in the creative process of making games
there are a billion other places you can go to accommodate your psychosis
>>>/m/arnix>>>/s/asquatchb>>>/t/homasbrush
>See game /v/tards are calling slop
>Thousands of reviews and rated (mostly or overwhelmingly) positive
I hate getting attention...
>>527569784>>527569165>>527570191once again as clear cut proof as you can ask for why normies entering game development has been devastating for the industry
in the 2000s normies invaded gaming
in the 2010s normies invaded 4chan
in the 2020s normies invaded game development
this is why this general dropped in quality so drastically. This was one of the last bastions of alt culture on the site until it became trendy to make games
I need someone to harmonize my music. Can I find people to do that?
A brief history of /agdg/
>>527571028kill all normalcattle herdgolems
>>527570453indie games are slop too. money has nothing to do with being slop.
>>527570790games have never been art. you cannot provide a single example that proves me wrong.
>>527569165>Gamers love slop. >Gamers crave slop.>Is it wrong to give them slop? >I think its wrong to not give them slop.
>>5275710284chan is normiecore since 2013, you were like 10 years old when the last oldfag got the fuck out here.
>>5275717804chan was normiecore since about 2011 at the latest, maybe even 09.
>>527571028Gate-keeping has always been a necessity. Now people are starting to realize it when it's far too late.
>>527571028I ignore 9 out of 10 games every demo day.
Can't stand these fucks.
why does my brain think that lurking here will in any way help me making a good game? i feel like i hope i read some good posts here and there that give me good inspiration or ideas or knowledge. but that really never happens.
>>527571780Nah I'm here from 05. I hate these zoomie fucks though.
if you could mix 3 games and turn them into one game with just a button press, which 3 games would you mix?
>>527569165you say "gamers" but what you really mean is "NPCs" and "third worlders"
gamers hate your garbaget
t. gamer
>>527572380>third worldersAmericans?
I saw somewhere an anon asked about saving their animations and using mixamo. As long as you're already using the mixamo rig it's easy. You import and save them in the editor as whatever they are, then you can drop and drag them to any portion on the timeline.
From mixamo download an animation and import the fbz skeleton, copy it to yours and then once again save it as whatever and delete the import.
>>527572434gaming was at its peak when it was dominated by Americans. But it was a very specific and narrow percentage of americans who owned computers
>>527572548*when it was dominated by japan
Only brazilians are true gamers since they are still stuck in the golden age of games thanks to hardware limitations
>>527572748Doesn't even make sense. Not only am I able to play all games ever but I have the hardware to both play legitimately and emulated of everything to the upmost accuracy because I'm not a poor third worlder.
will that feel of not knowing what to make ever end?
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>>527572548Gaming was at an all time low when americanslop flooded the market during the PS3/Xbox360 era.
>>527572849npc uncreative lol
>>527571780nta but where did the oldfags go to? where do they get their (You) fix?
>>527572931when I came to 4chan, that system didn't exist yet.
i don't need any more stuff. i don't need games. i don't need money. i don't need anything.
i need friends, family and wife. human connection is the only thing that's real.
>>527572380PC gamers. PC gamers literally only play f2p slop, ancient AAA games, softcore porn, and modern indie slop (job sims, number go up sims, and horror walking sims).
>>527572931Oldfags are married and they get their (you)s from their wifes.
>>527572931They trooned out...
>>527572931oldfags didn't go anywhere. They either were faggots and thought "I'm grown up time to stop going here" and they're miserable at some dead end job probably while going home to nothing or they're still here calling you guys faggots for being faggots (me)
LT9orfm
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>>527573093Post your game progress on instagram and connect with other people using your game
>>527573103You're projecting. There's 2 types of PC gamers, t he newfag zoomer ones who can't afford anything and do what you say, and normal ones with careers and money to buy high end parts and experience everything and anything and probably still mostly play something like CS2.
>>527573331>mostly play something like CS2f2p slop
i think what i truly want is to be as degenerate, useless and lazy as possible.
doing anything else is just cognitive dissonance.
>>527573406Only for zoomers. I was like 23 when csgo released and I paid for every version of cs. Premiere ain't free.
>>527573496ok p2p slop rumao
>>527573606You seem upset. I'm currently playing MKW if that makes you feel better.
>>527573496Former ancient AAA game now f2p slop
thougheverbeit
>>527570118left fucks right btw
>>527573103You're so fucking clueless that I can't even understand how you stumbled onto this place. Can't believe there's actually people like you who are unaware of everything going on underneath the surface. This kind of brainrot headcanon actually explains very well why you ignore my game and disbelieve in it while hundreds of people outside of here line up to have a taste
>>527573670You seem miserable.
I made progress by leveraging AI.
>>527566614Me too sis, internal pressure is real. Never let go of it, it's burning!!!
I'm going to say this with very little hesitation but I might be the only currently active /agdg/ developer who is BOTH a gamer AND not a normie
frvr
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>>527574121No thanks, I'm thriving. I don't need a schizo to rain on my parade.
>>527574172Is it dead or hiding underwater?
>>527574321I'm not a schizo, I'd be happy if you're game is getting that success. If you can't post it I assume you have nothing and are retarded though.
>>527569784>11,000 new books release on Amazon EVERY SINGLE DAY.Books are also slop. (I read way more bookslop than you do.)
>>527574425>I read way more bookslop than you do.Yeah probably. I read art.
>>527574510I'm sure you also enjoy playing 18th century video games.
>>527574556video games cant be art
Real talk: is a game design degree worth it?
In a market completely controlled by profits and trends there can be no creativity
solodevs need to be stopped
>>527574687If you're otherwise going to spend that time as a NEET, yes. Doing something is better than doing nothing.
>>527574669video games have been an art form ever since mario world released in 1990 (not because of mario world itself, just around the time of that game). get with the times chud
>>527574687If it's the only way to make you learn how to code then yes.
>>527574980name 5 games that count as art
>>527575107A link to the past, Mario Odyssey, final fantasy 7, pokemon g/s, chrono trigger
>>527575107braid, ultima 4, tumblrtale, Mother 3, Super Mario world, off the top of my head.
>>527575338thanks for proving my point. all slop.
>>527575107my stop smoking coach
>>527575396zoomers are fucking braindead
>>527565990my dad and entire family cut me off in 2020 because of our disagreements over saint floyd and the jab
>>527575387see:
>>527575396>>527575482i have LTTP sitting about 3 feet away from me. it's my favourite game of all time. it's not art.
>>527575107Passage, Platform Masters, Untitled Project 7, Elf Bowling, Jetpack
>>527575547>it's not art>meanwhile koji kondo creating a masterpiece of musickys
>>527575702okay so there was art contained in the cartridge (music is art), but the game was not art.
>>527575107Thief the Dark Project, Fallout, Super Mario 64, SimCity 4, The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
>>527575107my game, for one
>>527575780by that logic no art is art because it is stored in something that is not art therefore making the collective non-art that contains art
>>527575780This is the dumbest thing I've ever read here
>>527575896nothing troll about it
>>527575967no, by this logic a museum isn't art purely because it contains art within it, which is correct logic.
>>527576032see above. dont be silly.
clever Arisu assistant in the thread
>underaged /v/tard nodevs arguing with underaged /v/tard nodevs
If you don't make video games, please go back to >>>/v/
not art
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>>527576056so this isn't art then
>game has lots of art within
>like typically hundreds of art assets in multiple forms
>some of the best quality of that art combined into one game
>some retard anon tries to say it's not art
>mash keys on a piano
>makes art
>carefully crafts a narrative, audio, emotional experience that sticks with players long after they finish
>not art
boykissa
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Is this art?
>>527576201I'm 35 not underage.
>>527576271no that's art. the frame around it and the building its in arent art though.
>>527576445That is pure kinography.
newfag here
Why would I not do pixel art for a minuscule basic bitch RPG first project? I "understand" people's misgivings towards it but I also feel like it's hard to be consistent with art otherwise (currently I'm a shitter anyway) and those inconsistencies would stick out like a sore thumb when walking around to some place. Unless I'm not thinking properly and there are good means to control 2D art for related assets outside of pixels.
>>527576445yes. if you draw a stick figure in the dirt, it's art. so why wouldn't a bigger project be art?
>>527576342if i put a bunch of da vinci paintings in a cardboard box, is the box now art or does it merely contain art?
fg
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>>527576531>>527576445We should have gatekept this faggot and his kind out of here. Now you see why but it's too late. Imagine having to share your hobby with people who openly and boldly despise the medium. This is the future you chose through your apathy. The inner circle was leading up to this
>>527576654>RPGshrink your scope
>>527576654Can you draw? Sure 2D is fine. Can you not do anything? 3D is easier to pick up.
>>527576826you cant explain why games are art.
>>527576531y'know what fuck it this is autistic enough to make sense fair enough anon
>>527576654the thing you have to consider is that when doing a basic bitch rpg project literally like 90% of people are going to use pixel art and it's at this point really not something that stands out
idk if this is a popular take here but i think those inconsistencies are soul
>spent $50 in marketing to make $5 in sales
I...I didn't make it...
>>527576873any complex man-made creation that communicates some form of information (visual, textual, auditory) in a way that is intended to be engaging or pleasing is art
Video games cannot be art because rich jews cannot use them to evade taxes.
>>527577079>what are CSGO skins
This is such a minor side project, but it is going well.
>>527577090Because shove it up your jewish ass that's why you postmodernist nihilist zoomer cabbagehead
>>527576826I loving gaming and gamers and gamers love slop.
>>527577214that's what i thought
>>527577079to be fair that whole game evaluation thing back in around 2019 came pretty close but that was almost entirely a bubble
>>527576686that's a very artistic idea, and since the device through which it is conveyed is the box, the box is now art.
It's all subjective nonsense.
>>527577192Can you donate a CSGO skin to a museum and use it as a tax write-off?
>>527577079there is a lot of shovelware on steam used for money laundering, though
>>527576686depends on your intent
>>527565536Zoomers understand gen A, and hate them just like millennials do zoomers, calling them brainrotted retards. It’s always the generation in between the kids and the parents that understands both.
>>527577427Chink money laundering is not art. It must be Jewish.
all of you need to do the world a favour and KILL YOURSELVES
NOW
RIGHT NOW
IMMEDIATELY
>>527578174If I do that there's going to be a lot of sad piggies who ain't gonna get their slop. Would you want that?
whats the best programming language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzE3f6Mb0A8
New trailer for my solo dev project. I added a 45 minute long unskippable gay sex scene into the middle of Mission 9 in the latest update because I need to feel free to express myself creatively however I want.
>>527577079Does that mean video games are antisemitic?
>>527574669programming is an artform, and games by extension can be a display of programming artistry
>>527578408Good to see that Landsword added some real gameplay.
My slop is too high brow for the piggies.
>>527578174I promised a friend i never would.
sorry.
>>527565345>poorlybritish giveaway
im gonna make a game with a huge scope and genuinely not care at all
>>527580162ur still alive?
Nothing good this Next Fest, I am disappointed.
My game is worth 30 dollars but the underlings wouldn't dare spit up 30 dollars for anything... but marvel rivals skins of course. Makes me sick thinking of these "people".
>>527579656see you in 10 years with your game with 500 items and no levels to use them in
>>527580260Dead man walking
>>527564524Looks like Peripeteia but with actual level design
>>527574172Looks good.
>>527580372yeah but i got the pash
My game has 283 items and like 80% of them can be used.
>>527580359make people want your game and you can charge whatever you like.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1907590/Psycho_Patrol_R/?curator_clanid=45481530
>>527580359They'd rather buy this and your game.
>>527580359>My game is worth 30 dollars but the underlings wouldn't dare spit up 30 dollars for anything... but marvel rivals skins of course. Makes me sick thinking of these "people".
>Saw a shitpost about Shade Protocol here after the OTK expo
>Assume there's an /agdg/ poster on the team and check the discord to follow
>Dev channel posts AI art as earliest inspo of characters before moving to actual artists
>One is just straight up midjourney venom snake
The times are changing, using AI for even those early inspo pics used to be something people would hide
>>527580625Yooooooooo this nigga's NUTS
>>527580772Artists care about AI gamers don't.
/agdg/'s biggest problem, the thing holding everyone here back, is thinking gamers think like them. They don't.
They don't fucking care if you use asset packs or AI. They don't care if the code is spaghetti nonsense.
If the game is fun and they can replay it over and over they don't care. They just don't care.
Just make a fun game. Stop worrying about the process.
GAMERS DO NOT CARE. They don't care if you hand placed every little pixel or wrote every line of code. They don't care.
>>527581123I agree, actually. They clearly moved to real artists afterwards, so even that wouldn't matter.
Venom Snake just gave me a laugh.
>>527580625Curety squad is a game made for demoralization
>>527581123Nobody's playing your slop
What is THE godot tutorial imo?
progress :D
i had almost forgotten that i have yet to make a proper fight scene abstraction, at least for pvp, I am not sure whether i want the campaign gameplay to be more of an action game with fighter moveset or an actual fighter where you fight against the playable roster
>>527581754"your first 2d game"
>>527581754"Making an MMO with Godot & Python"
>>527581450If you guys were smart then Cruelty Squad would be a whitepill
>>527581123Average gamer does not know how your game plays, they look at it on Steam or any other game store and if it looks like some low effort slop they will ignore it. Key thing here, looks low effort. Only devs and artists know when something is actually low effort, so doing pixel and retro graphics will put you ahead of everyone who makes stuff that looks like slop to your average gamer, because retro graphics look more intentional then just flat colour low poly Unity look.
They won’t go on a cricked that your game is low effort or tell you in a review that your game is a slop, they will just ignore it.
Like what's the point of making games is what every gaymer now wants and expect in the spotlight are the work of teams of 500 paid professionals.
You could make a giant cope or some shit how a FOTM indie got lucky.
But be honest.
Vampire survivors compared to GTA V is just a tutorial piece of garbage.
I'm learning 中文 so that I can release my game only in Chinese (no English translation), as they will be the hegemony of 2030s and beyond.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1_lB65bn9A
>>527583137>Like what's the point of making games is what every gaymer now wants and expect in the spotlight are the work of teams of 500 paid professionals.>You could make a giant cope or some shit how a FOTM indie got lucky.>But be honest.>Vampire survivors compared to GTA V is just a tutorial piece of garbage.
>>527583137I'm not making games for gaymers. I'm making them for the hungry niche I'm also in.
Choose one:
>One man dev success on the level of Toby Fox, within 5 years.
>Your dream girlfriend, right now.
>>527583137>Backpack Battles just came out of EA>made by a husband+wife pair>Gross revenue: $10.3m ($6.6m - $14m)>Average playtime: 38.6hJust like make a good fun game that people want to play.
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>>527583806With Toby Fox level success I can simply go to Japan and get the loser white guy bonus
>>527583806my dream gf is a billionaire so that works out. she can fund my game studio
>>527583806I already have my dream gf so I'll take the success.
>>527583828>just copy someone else's game
>>527584130Once you abandon your game, it's free real estate. Should have finished it, buckoo.
The ensloppening of /agdg/.
Jon Blow spent 6 million dollars making The Witness (google it)
>>527583828where is the fun part of that game?
>>527584063that's cheating!
Next to one of the posters here have the technical skills necessary to copy even the base gameplay systems for Backpack Battles. (dynamically structured grid inventory, adjacency item interactions, anti-cheat for a pvp multiplayer lobby, etc.)
>>527560980>>527572526holy fuuuuuuuck this is confusing.
Do you mean I can't already have my own rig? My model is already rigged, I just want to add mixamo animations on top of what I have.
For some reason the imported mixamo animation is using a duplicate set of arms, maybe I can break it down.
All aggy is nowadays is nodevs formulating get rich quick schemes that they'll never commit to
>>527584130He died of cancer btw
>>527584931Jesus Christ.
This could be cute later.
>>527585094If that was the case why is demoday full of kino and barely any slop?
>>527584931Yeah I have no experience with using a separarate skeleton. I uploaded my model to mixamo to get it's rig in the first place then you can just copy and paste.
pic rel
>>527585094Thats just the retarded zoomers who have no idea how anything works and are addicted to brainrot and get rich quick schemes.
>>527583298If you aren't focusing on the emerging Chinese market then I don't know how to help you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BQeBm7yLYY
>>527585421fuuuuuck I don't think I can do it that way since I already have a rigged skeleton with non-mixamo animations. thx anyways
>>527585254just 2 more years bro
>>527585404>If that was the case why is demoday full of [HEADCANON]
>>527564524i like this cover art
>>527585837Name 80 demo day slop games
>>527565802>>527566080upsetti that you weren't in /v/3 huh
>>527568743What is the point of making a multiplayer game for 3 people?
/agdg/ 加油!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtz1OJfgeAM
咱们都行 !!!
Oh I use some asset packs and I'm the bad guy
AAA games are almost all $70 remakes or live service games with $40 skins but I'm the bad guy
The 300th Mario game costs $80 but I'm the bad guy
Steam is filled with porn and AI slop but I'm the bad guy
The 30 minute long hole game made millions but I'm a bad guy
>>527586620>Oh I use some asset packs and I'm the bad guy>AAA games are almost all $70 remakes or live service games with $40 skins but I'm the bad guy>The 300th Mario game costs $80 but I'm the bad guy>Steam is filled with porn and AI slop but I'm the bad guy>The 30 minute long hole game made millions but I'm a bad guy
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3099640
>>527566614me to sis, me too. my game has not been posted once online. even setting up a private steam page is too high risk. what if some wagie see's it and clones it? or ends up telling others about my cool idea only for someone to clone it? i want to talk about my game but i can't risk a cloner stealing my idea.
>>527586620are the assets in the room with us right now?
>>527586727>>527586802ugghhhhhh bocchiposters I need a good tranime to watch
Tomorrow I'm going to follow my first ever game dev tutorial and learn how to make games. It'll probably be years before I can make something of my own.
>>527587069Why not today?
>>527587058Please keep your posts on the topic of game development
>>527567850i already suspect something is wrong with my prostate. i sometimes wake up needing to pee but the stream is low flow
>>527568743looks neat, what purpose is there in attacking the other rectangles?
>>527587132Too busy douching my asshole from earlier.
>>527587132It's 3am, so I guess I did technically mean today
>>527587165Sorry sir.
ugghhhhhh bocchiposters I need a good tranime to watch while I'm devving
Another thread with only 3 devs progress posting.
is godot fine for a 3d midpoly action game?
>lift entire sections of an existing game and put them in your game claiming it's your idea
>get praised as a creative genius
Is it possible to learn this power?
https://youtu.be/YdDI7srbVqU
>>527587472good artists copy great artists steal
>>527587472When a game I like does it its a reference.
What a game I don't like does it its a rip-off.
>>527587472Great artists steal.
>>527587434You can't just buy most of the systems out of the asset store like you can with UE/Unity, but if you plan to make those yourself either way, then there's nothing wrong with Godot.
>>527564825All the characters in Afterlife Gladiator are already dead
>>527587724Watch the video, it's far more than just the design
more like "smelled a troon", right guys?
>>527587651>nepobaby tumblrfag wonbig surprise
>>527588102>Everybody I don't like is a nepobaby
>>527585404most of demo day is slop. the stuff that gets the most attention is pure slop.
>>527588172nooooo you don't get it it's capitalism's fault I'm a lazy failure!
>>527587472Its ALWAYS okay to shamelessly rip off nip media.
They think its cute when westerners "reference" their work and westerners don't know any better anyway. Just don't disrespect the source material.
Ok so the model isn't following the animation armature because the model follows my IK bones. So maybe I can set the IK bones to follow the positions of the corresponding mixamo animation bones. Kind of like working backwards.
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>>527583137>But be honest.>Vampire survivors compared to GTA V is just a tutorial piece of garbage.I get what you're saying here. An easy way to get the point across
Pretend both of these games below were made by you completely solo, even with changes you may desire for the game. Which would you rather have made?
>Skyrim, $1 million profit>Vampire Survivors, $1 trillion profitIdk about other anon's but I'd rather have made Skyrim despite the massively lower profit. Saying I made Skyrim feels like it carries way more weight than saying I made Balatro.
>>527588728>This kind of shit is what Todd & friends spent their time onahem...
"NOT" :)
I'm trying to make a game here for fuck's sake
I put $25 into google ads.
Wish me luck familia.
I usually dislike using assets, but I'll need for the attack effects. Where can I get some nice ones?
>buy a vintage mixer from japan as a prank
>win the auction for literally 200 yen
>got raped on shipping cost like 130$
>mixer has like 5 of the previous owner's songs
>figure out how to transfer them off the 20 year old 10 gb hard drive
>they all sound high quality like an anime intro
did i just make progress on my game? do i just use this random guy's song? it sounds really good like inuyasha or naruto's opening
>it rustles its giant layers of flaps
>a bunch of gurgles emerge
>something about profits from some AAA companies
>*belch*
>the sickening beast slowly turns to slowly blink at the thread
>mouth open, but belching, hiccuping on its own folds, breathing loudly
>"m-muh jobby" it grumbles, almost indistinguishable from its belches and squishing fat noises
>>527584931>someone got a cute girl>i have nothingpain
the world shall know pain
>>527588435Chat is this true?
I'm answering the call of Gamedev tomorrow.
Are you answering the call?
>>527587434That's too vague. Depends what you mean by a 3D midpoly action game.
Are we talking souls like? There's 5 million tutorials.
Advanced movement and combo systems? You're on your own.
>>527589197it would be disrespectful not to use the divine gift that's been bestowed upon you
>>527588597Look up retargeting.
>>527587724Is that ReBoot?
Just got my ass pounding in TF2 now it's time to dev...
>>527589376You can create a cute girl now
What is stopping you?
>>527587472>It's fine if you're friends with the originalAlright anons, who's gonna put a pink hair bikini girl in their game before the actual one releases?
>>527589197can you post them?
>>527589829So Cris finally decided to learn blender, eh? Looks pretty good considering it's your first day doing 3D modelling.
>>527589376just post in a pathetic way about how you're an artlet until tomo makes you models, ez
>>527589829christ I thought this was new fagoon art until I read the filename, what has this place done to me
>>527589697oh hell yes this looks good, ty
>>527589376vgh, fine
I'm making your low poly agdg chan model
>>527587472Did you know he also copied the hit Megalovania from another game called Homestuck?
>>527588172Toby Fox is literally a nepobaby
he had a ready made audience of tumblrtroons ready to buy his game because they were fans of his friends gay comic book
>>527590309thats not what a nepobaby is
>>527590106>tomoDidn't you guy chase her away back to the discord a few months ago?
>>527590374Anyone who can afford indoor plumbing is a nepobaby according to the streetshitter.
>>527590053yeah here's a lil snippet
https://vocaroo.com/1j3UNjFfgp7M
cant believe i just lucked into progress nice day eh?
>>527590380I hope no one was rude to my queen, I haven't seen her in a while
last time I saw her was christmas or she made some rpgm game a few dds ago?
>>527590309Just ask your artslave friend to make a gay comic book
>Using Nintendo's soundfonts is fine if you're famous and successful enough
They say money can't buy happiness yet here we are
>>527590614nintendo didnt make those sounds they were lifted from rolands and korgs and stuff
>>527590693rolands and korgs and stuff didn't make those sounds they were lifted from synthesized frequencies
>>527590374>>527590512That's literally what a nepobaby is you tards
Andrew Hussie used his power and influence to promote his friend Toby Fox's game. His success is fake
>>527590834nigga it literally says JP strings
>>527587472Shakespeare stole every story he ever wrote.
>>527590527>https://vocaroo.com/1j3UNjFfgp7MThis does no sound like an anime opening.
He is also talking about his gay relationship.
having friends makes you a nepobaby
>>527590854>t. streetshitter
>>527590614You are really showing how much of a nodev you are. Stop embarrassing yourself
>>527590935really that's hilarious im definitely using it now
my immersive sim has a self-insert of me as the Protagonist.
This will be noticed almost immediately by anyone who sees my YouTube channel. The characters even have the same name.
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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>>527591246>ai slopis this the eric schizo?
>>527591246Have you seen the majority of games on Steam?!
At /agdg/ we make quality.
>>527590948having friends who use their power and influence to provide you with professional favours
literal dictionary definition of nepotism I don't know why that upsets you so much
>>527591429The success of others has inspired me greatly to make slop
only YOU can report avatarfags
>>527591621what if I dont want to?
>>527591317>At /agdg/ we make quality.lol
Is adapting D&D rulebooks into text-based games you can play in a terminal a good way to learn game design and programming?
>>527591718Compared to Steam as a whole I'd say /agdg/ is firmly above average.
>>527591882any sort of programming project is going to teach you something.
But you should just dive right into what you want your final game to be. 3D? Make 3D.
But if you just like the idea of this text game, then make it and admit you like it. It can be a side project.
>>527591882if you want to learn programming you go to school for 8 years and learn programming
>>527592381because im bored
>>527590527the vocals are mediocre but it's funny as fuck and not bad over all
Can't wait until my game's finished so I can make money and pay someone to make demented cartoons based on the characters I made.
If you want to become a professional tennis, golf, or poker player, you should dive right into the qualifiers for the top events.
If you want to get into weight lifting, you should dive right into a 500lb squat.
If you want to be a commercial pilot, you should dive right into flying commercial jets.
>>527591882Game design and programming are good ways to learn game design and programming.
>>527591882D&D lose its charm without the book graphics
and the modern audience doesn't read
more like dungeons of fagons
>>527592658People have made a lot of demented cartoons about Alice in Wonderland because it's demented to being with. Lewis Carroll mastered child logic.
Also, it's in the public domain. You could make your own interpretation if you wanted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIFty-O4rOE
Games are really good investments. You could make a game that fizzles out and stops selling entirely, but in 25 years some guy could make a video about it and give you an injection of thousands of new players...
>Computer: Make a game that's like final fantasy but also metroid
AI phobes, worried yet? ;)
>>527593002I'll be 56 in 25 years
>>527592381because I'm making a digital Eleusinian Mystery Rite Initiation Ritual disguised as a game.
whats the point of making a game i would enjoy playing if i know everything about the game from making it
>>527593192Make a game that's fun to play even when you know everything about it.
i love making games and i love you guys!
>>527593162old enough to marry a south east asian in her 20s
>computer generate a roguelike deck builder skyrim gta vi please
>yes paul
>>527593385>>computer generate a roguelike deck builder skyrim gta vi please>>yes paul
>makes a gross face and does something weird with his lips
>jumps back and forth on each foot
>"I make bideogames, I make bideogames"
>>527593192Create something greater than yourself
>>527592662this so much tsmt but unironically thoughwever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxZiR4azm8
>if you can afford this you are a nepobaby
>>527593312I also love making games, and I love you too and love this place.
As soon as I come back here it feels like home.
There are 2 kinds of successes, the coombait and the ripoffs.
Everything else will fail.
>>527593852>There are 2 kinds of successes, the coombait and the ripoffs.>Everything else will fail.
>>527593709saar that is enough money to feed my entire village for two months
>>527592931Yeah, but I'd rather make something original. If I wanted to adapt a pre-existing story, I'd do The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. The episodes of Grograman the Many Colored Death, the Star Cloister of Ghigam, and the Battle for the Ivory Tower are so awesome in the book that it's a shame Wolfgang Petersen never put them in the film.
With that being said, I like making nods to that classic.
>>527593683>thoughweveruhhhhhhhhhhh
>>527593709If your games can't run on a Core 2 Duo and 8800 GTX, they're too heavy.
>>527593152Final Metroidtasy? Holy fuck....
>>527593991he's doing it to bypass my filters
little does he know that it only takes one click for me to add a new word
>>527590367they're bragging about stealing assets from a well known game?
>>527594576Where does it say Toby bragged
Kino
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3309380/Love_In_Tiny_Spaces/
don't forget to report all avatarfags
I think you should halt your current project and start making a maid game. Why aren't you making a maid game? You need to make a maid game.
>>527594689Uh, toby brags about his fucking shithole of a game all the time.
>>527595216>cover vs gameplayfalse advertisement
>>527595216>A bite sized quickie of a game
>>527594576>they're bragging about being a great artist?
>having filters
What a pussy
>>527595282nobody here can draw or model a maid
>>527595716filtering your posts increases my browsing time efficiency get fucked
>>527595716>>527596029Just a reminder, this is a general for amateur gamedev, try to keep your posts on topic
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>>527595870I HAVE THE POWER (to buy assets)
>professional agdg browsers
I've been rawdogging this general and didn't know there was filters
>>527596029You don't even know what I've posted sissyfag
>>527596138My posts are on topic all the time, suck my balls I literally just gave that weeb mixamo advice
>>527596215congratz you got (one) maid
>good luck animating her>good luck buying more maids that fit her style>good luck buying assets that fit her style>good luck buying enemies that fit her style>you don't even fully own the asset thanks to the new EULA you're just given a right to use it
Are all /agdg/ devs thieves?
>>527596785Only the great ones.
Filters are for weak minded faggots. God kids are so pathetic these days. Does mom still cut the crust off your sandwiches too?
"Oh no anon you post gay shit in MY general! I better filter you out so I can enjoy less posts in an open forum! That totally wouldn't backfire in any way"
a game about fucking white women
>>527596924>Filters are for weak minded faggots. God kids are so pathetic these days. Does mom still cut the crust off your sandwiches too?>"Oh no anon you post gay shit in MY general! I better filter you out so I can enjoy less posts in an open forum! That totally wouldn't backfire in any way"
>>527596924These are the same kids who probably go on reddit and downvote people they disagree with and think they're unique.
>>527591621>>527595278Has a janny ever deleted an avatar poster in this gen before?
gotta.. keep.. holding..
my internal pr
>>527597092The main annoying avatarfag that currently haunts agdg has been banned like 3000 times.
>>527591621reporting all pepe avatar posters pronto!
>>527597213>The main annoying avatarfag that currently haunts agdg has been banned like 3000 times.the bocchi poster?
>>527593385>it fucking works
>>527597213Fagtroon has said before that he's never been banned for avatar. Only for off-topic, and then subsequently for ban evasion.
>>527597092The ones that actually avatarfag yes. Sadly bocchiposters are not avatarfagging they're just being obnoxious.
The best you can get is off-topic but that's too broad for it to work on /vg/. But it does work on /v/ which is why you don't see them in the /v/ threads.
>Tfw learning how to gamedev because a "friend" basically called me a retarded failure and my idea stupid
I wonder just how far my anger will fuel me down this road.
I don't care if the game finds success. I just want to make something functional all by myself to prove to him he's a self-righteous asshole.
Wish me luck. The best things have been made out of spite and pettiness.
>>527597570>a "friend" basically called me a retarded failure and my idea stupidhe rite tho
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>>527596785>Are all /agdg/ devs thieves?
>>527597092I think when enough reports pile up, the jannies get tired of clearing them. and/or see a consensus.
So if someone is consistently avatarfagging or whatever, just do your part in keeping /agdg/ clean, it only takes a second.
>>527597852>Don't mind me just pirating these game mechanics
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I hate quiet hours on agdg.
>>527596785Honestly I think he could get sued for the Peppercat looking character.
Literally playing with dolls.
>>527598440Why even come here if you want it to be quiet.
>pretty good at modeling/textures
>okay at rigging
>not much experience animating
I'm genuinely considering making Blender porn animations to learn, git gud, and maybe make some money.
Does that sound stupid? It feels roundabout sort of.
>>527598931Buy a mocap suit.
heh, heh, heh
Well, "Toymaker...."
What are you making now? Hrmmmm...? Heh heh
progress: Finally finished the model for the final weapon and got it in the game, mechanics are all placeholders from other guns for now.
>>527580413Well some of my levels are repurposed maps I made for other games (mostly Q3A and UT2004) which has probably helped. I don't know if shodanon or any of his did much level design but I played around with it a lot during high school.
>>527585937It turned out great! The key art was a commission from SystemST91, go check him out!
>>527565802>>527566080Maybe if you two would post more progress instead of complaining my game wouldn't stand out so much!
>>527598931>pretty good at modelingpost work
>>527598995mocap animation looks... rough, desu
>>527599024>He's taking the Fygoon routeGood to know my personality is rubbing off on the youngins
Progress: Going great today
Game I Play: A good looking update is coming
Devving: Nah about to watch a video
>>527596215NYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
>>527598931>pretty good at modeling/texturesdo you sculpt or polymodel?
Anyone looking for an artist? I'm finishing up some projects and will have time for something, would like to get more into gamedev. Most of my experience is with 2D (trad and digital) but I've done some 3D modeling.
Still putting together a portfolio and anyhow there's a lot of trolls in these threads.
If you're interested, let me know a little about your game (genre, style, engine, scope: like 6months vs 5 years, commercial/hobby, etc) and we can see if it would be a good fit and we can connect off-site.
>>527590131I see you're a shigure of culture as well
>>527598931>>527598931>genuinely considering making Blender porn animations to learndo it
>>527602401post you're art and we'll see if your on my level
>>527602401which software do you use to make art?
>>527602401Sorry, but I can only work with illustrations painted in blood upon freshly stretched foreskins.
>>527602779How do we motivate him? Should I make a small game for DD with this? Just found it in the archives.
>>527602814Sorry you can see how many trolls are in this thread, I typically get trolled to hell when I try to reach out here but might as well keep trying
Day 16 on a Thread for Project C-Con – "What NOT to do" Edition
Journal logs are being posted into /agdg/ daily.
Alright this weekend wasn't the best, and I definitely want to be doing a lot more. We fixed the issue with visual studio we spoke about last night and did some more of the Donut tutorial. So far it's not the absolute worst, but I am still not happy with the speed of my progress. We will never be giving up though.
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/1ER63hhk8sRQ13dTwroPa1MmIMlUtiefkNrK0szh-rw8/edit?usp=sharing
Current Trello:
https://trello.com/invite/b/68451978bbc485dd38cb0b5b/ATTI293a4fca1b86409df4ab24965a60d1429BB11CCE/c-cons-rd
>>527595282but im making one please play it and give me feedback on next demo day!!
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should i sell my collectors third degree so i can afford to get my game on steam greenlight
>>527590309just make music for your friends gay comic book
>>527603919how do you not have 100 dollars
>>527602401Looking for someone to help with visuals in any way whatsoever
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3321850/HyperCoven/
>>527603919use it to pay for an epic store app and you have an excellent bait post for /v/ reddit etc
>giga retard gaylord comes in and starts telling me how to "fix" my game
>check out his most played games
>Team Fortress, Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate 3, Path of Exile
Kill
All
Normalfags
>>527604448That was me, also I'm a girl
>>527602401Now are you like typical artists who simply makes the art and expect the dev to set everything up in engine or artists who will actually set stuff up in engine? If you are the former, then the engine is of no importance to you.
>>527602401>genreMusical
>styleFailed 3d print
>engineV8
>scopeHYPR-7
>commercial/hobbySuperbowl
>>527603919>should I exchange this completely useless digital vanity item that is the result of a degenerate gambling mechanic for real world currency that can be used to advance your game dev careerWow, I don't know
>>527605784he should hodl, it might be worth 204 in ten years, double his money!
I wish I had something Toby wanted
I vented my pressure and lost my motivation
what do I do now
>>527606015This Toby worship of your misses the point of an indie.
I need people to put down their nostalgia games so that I can have a future. Our utopia is a world where every famous person is like JK Rowling, tanks their own series, and then the fans pick up an indie for a change.
>>527606074motivation is fake, get back to word retard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYzMYcUty6s
A REMINDER FOR ALL THE HOMIES WHO WERE HERE A DECADE AGO
NEVER GIVE UP
>>527567591Chocolate represents the metaphysical good
my top played games are dead by daylight ( 23,954.3 hrs) apex legends ( 13,526.7 hrs) vrchat (10,719.5 hrs) and counter strike 2 ( 9,782.6 hrs)
should i use unreal or godot?
>>527598403nice
good animation
>>527606704You deserve what you take. And you deserve what you tolerate.
>>527606612Godot is way easier and runs better
https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/s/UFWpG3tEMd
slopmaxxing
>>527606830GOOD MORNING SAAAAAR
contributing my happening to the situation
>>527606830I'm not really seeing any gameplay
>>527606978>>527606830its just a normal video gen with an hp bar and analog stick slapped after it got generated
redditors are so fucking stupid
>>527606612most most played games are
league of legends with ~3k hours, rust with ~700 hours, and overwatch with ~600 hours
i make incremental games with unity
>>527606393>back to wordmotivation is very real
>>527607135either way, you gotta kepe going, cmon anon we're all counting on you
>tfw i will probably miss the game jam
>but the game will be more finished and fun
>tfw i will probably just release it for low price
Thanks for an idea, game jam.
>>527576837It'd be an incredibly smol RPG, can barely call it one.
>>527576870Truly? I mean pretty much all of my "real projects" I have in mind would be soft 3D, but I've always thought it to be much more complicated and to pretty much require shitloads of time (or a team) if I'm to make anything with an actual scope. I don't mind taking some time to lrn2draw.
>>527576893I don't really mind not standing out, it'd be the one project I'd be fine with no one playing. Just want to give it my best within possibility without going overboard since this is really just meant to be more of a learning experience.
>>527606830just needs a fake streamer cam reacting to the game
>>527606357Because I think he and his crew are the greatest
>frogposter
>missing the game jam
and nothing of value was lost this day
>post a frog
>make a game
>make some money
>gameless retard gets buttblasted
like pottery
>>527599090I do VTuber model commissions you'll just bully me
>>527600682I never understoon why people seem to seperate these two as if they're seperate.
You can sculpt, you can poly and shrinkwrap the poly to the sculpt, you can do whatever you want these days.
But polymodeling skills are necessary for anything made for animation.
>>527602672I'm genuinely saying this but is there any real transfer between the two skill sets?
Like will animating Tifa titfucking a horsecock translate to decent looking attack and jump animations for a game?
*ahem*
I hate toby fox
I hate eric barone
I hate notch
I hate the guy who made fnaf
I hate yanderedev
that's all I have to say
>>527608642>VTuber model commissionsok that's a strong argument
>>527609410they're more popular and richer than me
The rich keep getting richer.....sigh
Why don't more indie games use chibi anime girls?
>>527609441I think you should focus on your own personal journey because there will always be people more successful than you.
>>527609106I actually like Toby because he seems like a cool dude
People of /agdg/ please, lend me your motivation!
>>527610129I can't give you any motivation.
But she can.
>>527610129Sorry sis. I have no motivation to spare. How about a dose of discipline instead?
>>527610129*drawn out squeaky fart sound*
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>>527610129if they can do it, why can't you? yay gamedev! go go go!
>his game doesn't contain open ended lore and hidden liminal spaces with cryptic messages
ngmi
>>527564524>transbian slopI can see why /agdg/ tards fellate this piece of shit so much now.
I don't want to make it anymore, I don't want that kind of attention.
>>527610894just make a bad game
>>527608642>transfer between the two skill setsyes
>>527608642>will animating Tifa titfucking a horsecock translate to decent looking attack and jump animations for a game?Unless you're making a porn game, I don't think there's that much transfer apart from the fundamentals and how to use the tools, it's very different in terms of the range of motion and the level of polish that's required.
Porn doesn't really need a lot of spinning around or wide motions, and attack animations for games are usually fast enough that the level of detail porn might require just isn't necessary. There's also a lot more animation work that's needed, so you can't afford to spend hours tweaking a jiggle, and there's also the possibility of things changing when you export them into an engine.
>>527610450promote your game where others don't if you want an advantage
>>527610808how is it transbian?
>>527611084>first person game>female protagonist
>>527610985I am making a bad game.
>>527611151is perfect dark transbian too?
Games don't have to make sense.
>>527611065this. i'm putting up posters at a retirement home abs getting a stockcar livery
>>527611084sci-fi + female mc = transbian, haven't you been paying attention?
>>527611625https://store.steampowered.com/app/1262350/SIGNALIS/
actually though
>>527611625>haven't you been paying attention?I guess not. I like NOLF2, is that ok? it's not really sci-fi
>>527611538i saw an advertisement for kingshot on my snapchat feed
no wonder it made 30 million dollars
it's hypercasual slop that's pasted absolutely everywhere
>>527609827>indiethose artists are too expensive for indies
Do you think indie horror games with combat sell better than those without? Are horror walking sims the way to go in the current year + 10? Are there any stats on this?
>>527612385i think they're better without combat from what i've seen
>>527612385apparently you can just make a walking horror sim where you spot the difference and retards will buy it.
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Damn, this art stuff is pretty hard.
Pray for me, aggy!
>>527606931>writing testsDamn, you got time on your hands?
>>527612574i wouldn't call them retards
>>527611402Yes it is. It is patient zero for all this tranmy bullshit
>>527611402>>527611084Don't bother trying to convince him, he likes men
>>527611625Here's a reminder for you, tranny freak. Female protagonists are only acceptable in two instances
>game is third personSo I can admire her, and her ass and boobs
>game has character creator where you can make a manSo I don't have to deal with your tranny bullshit.
Got it?
>>527612936seething tranny
>>527612632what would you call them?
>>527612912>So I can admire her, and her ass and boobs[insert troon tweeting about eggs]
>>527613072casuals, maybe
the retards are playing porn games
>>527613012I'm not
but you seem to be seething so hard you're seeing trannies everywhere you look
>>527613564>I'm not seething!>proceeds to get mad when I point out tranny shit in games and throws around insultsYeah... Chill as the Pacific Ocean.
>Its another "anon has a melty because a yes dev is close to release" episode
Here, quirk hammered out
A clean planetary transition
Make fun a gameplay loop and then come up with an art vibe and a story that fits it, not the other way around.
>>527613721if you genuinely believe a first person female protagonist is "tranny shit" then you need meds and a therapist dawg
i wouldn't be surprised if in 5-10 years a scientific paper is released highlighting the cognitive damage short form/slop content causes to the human brain
the money might not be worth it if you're causing severe brain damage to young and vulnerable people
yeah, they enjoy it, but not because it's good
it's effectively digital heroin turning people into zombies
not good
Lord have mercy
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>>527613721you realize tranny FPS is its own thing right? they can just be blatant about it
worse, this tranny has a game and you don't, cope nodev.
4 days ago my game didn't exist
>>527611023>also the possibility of things changing when you export them into an engine.I heard about that
Does that mean rigging and animations for UE and Blender don't translate? That I'll have to re-learn animation tools in UE as well?
blud think he a game dev :skull:
i can't make slop, man
i just can't do it
they said i should, i listened, i tried, and i can't
no more
A game but with a bunch of different skinner boxes at the same time.
Thinking about how the Arctic Eggs dev made an egg frying mechanic and then built his entire game around it. Maybe that's the strat.
>>527616004he also has a decent fish simulator game made with a similar procedure
it's not finished yet, but the demo on itch is pretty nice
the creator of dark souls says he makes his games this way as well, it might be the meta
https://the-water-museum.itch.io/eating-nature-demo-playtest
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2662730/Eating_Nature/
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Nextfast stats for this admittedly not very successful demo (Hypercoven)
>no idea what the 'external website' on Jun 9 is, may be Steam isn’t accounting its own event pages correctly. It could be /v/3 but we all know that show has no reach and also it didn’t even have the right link for the game.
>there was 2 or so demo players during the preceding week, it seems likely those were in fact "press" guys
>nearly everyone who got defeated immediately quit, rather than trying again (I think this is pretty normal in this event; for better or for worse)
>around 10 players finished mission 2 (which is about 20 minutes of play time)
>unsurprisingly, many people quit within the first minute. but a lot also quit after completing a mission, without even looking at the next one, or after looking at the next one for two seconds.
>I think longest playtime ended up being two (rather clueless) players sitting in the co-op for more than 2 hours. It’s unfortunate I hadn’t shipped that initially, would have been interesting to see how it turned out for the 3 other couples that looked for it but dropped since they couldn’t find it. I think after I shipped co-op there was 1 other couple trying it but rather immediately dropping out
>>527616004Whatever happened to the dev who was making his own Arctic Eggs like?
>>527616353What were the wishlists at? The one from that separate steam page not found in the regular dashboard.
>people quitting the first minuteYou think there was overwhelming details doing that?
>>527616784Idk, I’m telling myself it’s normal some people will drop out immediately. Even if you have looked at screenshots/trailer, sometimes you just start a game and immediately realize it’s not for you whatsoever.
>The one from that separate steam page not found in the regular dashboard.Don’t know what you mean exactly; the game was at ~150 wishlists starting the event, most from "RTS Fest" in January where the game was running with a worse demo. Hm, let’s compare that event. Actually a similar amount of demo plays.
Today I'm gonna work on tools to dev my game.
>Branno's RTS
I got population to work
>>527617834Today I'm going to think about developing my game.
>>527614603The same must have been said for every form of entertainment for hundreds of years. You know people use to hate on books like that? And it’s true, many books ARE slop and honestly don’t do much for cognition. (Well at least they improve your language capabilities? But you could also argue their bad language will deteriorate your language capabilities.)
I think the interesting thing with entertainment is how consumers and especially subsequent generations become largely "immune" (bored) to it. The kids of zoomers (if they will have any) will laugh at their parents still clinging onto those cringe-ass short clips, and instead be doing some new outrageously hardcore entertainment thing. Maybe hoverboarding?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXqeu5fxYGQ
no matter where they're from all these gamedev bitches talk and act the same. its got to be an art major thing.
>>527618167https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAtOgCm_kc
hey branno check out this guy's idea, it's similar to healed to death but better.
>>527618350>picThere's a guy in /wowg/ who could write those books.
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/526587267/#526597274
>>527618350>The same must have been said for every form of entertainment for hundreds of years.and they were all correct
>>527618594>indian girlsarrrr
>>527614165But I'm an artist, vibes are why I'm making my game
>>527616784>You think there was overwhelming details doing that?>>527617549That being said, it’s interesting to note that many people who finished mission 2 did not understand every aspect of the game (for example, did not understand that you can place buildings). While some others figured everything out in mission 1, but got defeated in mission 2 and dropped.
>>527618167Nice. I also reworked my "Control" number the other day, making it basically identical to this traditional supply.
>>527618903Then you are even better suited to make your vibe fit with any gameplay loop? The point is that you'll waste your time if you make an entire game and it's not even fun.
>>527618903tell me if this appeals to you
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3746300/PRISON_OF_HUSKS_Demo/
>>527618802So what are you doing here instead of meditating in the desert?
>>527614161That's not how space travel works
>>527619050i played it and it looks better than it plays.
You will die broke and alone. Your game won't save you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAs9HZC9c7Y
A game that would have this in its soundtrack
>>527619316I'M SHATTERED ON THE GROUND
>>527619025what do you mean by fun?
>>527619316But anon I'm already not alone and I'm not poor
>>527619316“The ground of a certain rich man yielded plentifully. And he thought within himself, saying, ‘What shall I do, since I have no room to store my crops?’ So he said, ‘I will do this: I will pull down my barns and build greater, and there I will store all my crops and my goods. And I will say to my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; eat, drink, and be merry.” ’ But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have provided?’
“So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”
>>527619050kinda, but not enough to bother playing it. sorta feels cookie cutter.
>>527618594Hmm it even looks like Healed to Death... I’m not sure either has the formula fully figured out, though. Maybe a combination of both control schemes? WASD moves your whole party in parallel, but mouse clicks can be used to reorder the formation?
>>527619367Jordan Peterson ass question.
>>527619512his goal was to simulate wow mmo combat in a single player setting
>>527619316Demotivational Propaganda Disregarded.
>>527619025I wanted to play my artwork. it evoked certain verbs.
When making an object pool, does it make sense to have two separate parameters as initialSize and maxCapacity? let's say there can only be 10 objects in the pool, but when starting it will only generate a pool of 5. If it ever needs a 6th it will create it but beyond 10 it will not. Does this make sense?
>>527619963Yeah but what’s supposed to happen if max capacity is reached
>>527618594>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMAtOgCm_kcrough career
>>527620531https://youtu.be/GU4rrMLnW2Y?t=98
>before I quit my job, I was planning this for 3-4 years
>>527620662he never gave up and his current prototype looks fun
Raymond's library has been a blessing unto the earth, and it was divinely revealed to him.
>>527620531VR games perform under the mean.
I had an actual good game idea for once. No I will not share it because the last one I told people about got stolen
>>527620062I check for pool type and grow the pool if it is allowed.
public enum PoolingType { None, CanRegenerateUpToMaxCapacity, CanGrowPoolAboveMaxCapacity}
>>527621207weird flex but ok
>>527621207what were you doing when you came up with the good idea?
do you think games like world of warcraft used one class for all their spells with a bunch of parameters?
>>527587472Toby fox is great at copying shit and it being considered "actually le good" thereafter
Anyway success does breed jealousy
>>527621963The blizzard of indie
>>527621854I think wow actually uses a relational database for their spell information. Not sure, though. I think they have a column for lua blobs.
>>527621823i was in the shower after taking a shit because i had no toilet paper
>>527622115what does that mean in layman terms?
>>527622440I offer no reduction of this information.
>>527622131do you have a detachable showerhead/hose? or did you moon it?
>>527606830here's a neat little trick. take this address:
>https://www.reddit.comHit CTRL+C.
Then click on your URL bar, where it says "boards.4chan". Click CTRL+A, then CTRL+V.
Click enter and something magical will happen.
>>527622678can someone translate this from autist to english please?
>>527621854Afaik the WoW data model is pretty well understood, they are showing "spell id" and so on on sites like wowhead, they data-mine a lot directly from the game. If you do some research you can probably find out a lot about it.
>>527623592i was referring to the behaviours, do you think the spells function from one class? say a melee attack and heal spell. both are kind of similar right? you can use the same class and just change some parameters around to act the way you want.
>>527623703"some parameters" = the data model
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>>527616674>A dev making a spur of the moment clone all of the sudden quits out of nowhereIt's more likely than you think.
>>527623839Because I want people to play it.
>>527623984>Because I want people to play it.
>>527623839you can get side income from hobbies you know
>>527623317no, this is a blue board
>>527623839Because I want to also make some money out of it? You know wedding bands don't do it for free either despite being largely hobbyists.
>>527623839>why don't you give your masterpiece you spent 8 years crafting to the art curator for free? sure he will profit from it due to the traffic you bring to his site... ok you winthanks for conceding in my head
>>527623839Great question actually, I would do that but I just think it would be nice to get some money out of it, it might come in handy later, you never know. Also when you spend multiple years making a game, there's a reason why people would feel the urge to charge for it, y'know?
I have zero (zilch nada) ideas on what game to create.
I see Hole Digging Game, I see some Simulators
but I still don't have any ideas
>>527624796Just make porn games
>>527624904making your game porn is an excuse for not having any depth or substance. porn will not save your shit game idea.
no one will buy your porn game.
everyone will get it for free off f95zone because they don't want their loser steam friends see them playing porn game.
>>527624904I feel like porn games would actually be hard to make.
>>527624904It would be nice if someone posted some examples of small scope games that made it big like Hole Digging or Short Hike
>>527623317did you have to do a handstand in the shower
>>527625189A Short Hole. There's your porn game idea.
>>527625354Porn games dont make millions
>>527625140majority of porn games on steam are just already established people double-dipping
>>527606595what do the high levels of lead and cadium represent?
>>527625140They make most of their money from Patreon. Auradev and Madodev make 10k a month on Patreon
>>527606595Chocolate represents magnesium deficiency.
me and my buddies will enjoy your little porn game for free off f95zone
>porn and degeneracy
How about you create something wholesome ?
>>527623839because i have debt to pay off unfortunately ah if only i lived in fantasy land where i had infinite money to do whatever i wanted oh what a world thatd be
>>527625140My real life Steam friend literally reviews/recomends porn games publicly...
>>527625735only people who've been treated well can make good wholesome games. notice how the cozy games that made it were made by couples.
you cannot make a good cozy game as a sexless incel.
>>527625791>he fell for the debt meme
Is it normal to monetize your hobbies? Honestly, I respect blatant jobbydev grifters more than I respect the "hobbyists" who seethe whenever some FOTM slop blows up while their hobby passion projects flop with double digit reviews. Just be honest. You want money. We all do. It's okay.
reminder that the programmer and designer has to split half the revenue for his gf's mediocre art and occasional blowjob
>>527625990>occasional blowjobI wish I had this...
>>527626071her blowjobs are even worse than her artistic talent
>>527625554>Madodev make 10k a month on Patreondoes he? I thought his game was rejected on steam to begin with by that black lady. uhh so did he made it?
>>527625735I can either release something wholesome and use the money to make porn or release porn and use the money to make something wholesome.
>>527625915>hundreds of companies make money by creating games>but muh hobbyIt’s just an excuse to make shit games. This is not a fucking hobby, we’re creating digital experiences here.
i can't really do art so i would have to pay alot upfront for quality 3d models for my porn game
>>527626203Truth. I'm honest. I want to make money from my games. Does this mean I'm completely selling out and making trend chasing dogshit? No. Does this mean that I'm trying to design my games so people actually want to play them, while balancing my personal passion with the projects? Absolutely. There's nothing wrong with wanting to make money from projects you spend months/years working on. Just be honest.
>>527626071I have never had a blowjob or any sex related things.
if you make an amateur product then you'll make amateur money
>>527626245Good luck animating all that shit
>>527626203>thousands of painters make money, hobbyist painting is a cope>thousands of guitarists make money, hobbyist guitar is a cope
>>527626450the motions and poses aren't a problem, it's the collisions physics for the ass and other parts
>>527626485Everything can be a „hobby” if you look at it that way
>>527563242 (OP)>toby fox bigger weeb? more like biggest jew
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>>527626547Yeah that's pretty true
>>527626598Toby has a Christian background. He's not even a metaphorical jew considering all future Deltarune chapters will be free
>>527626536Why would you want collisions in a porn game? I never played one to be honest but I figure it’s just animations playing out? Just skip the physics part? Or just make it 2D (I did flash porn game back in the day)
is it better to make the mc futa for my porn game? i don't like looking at other dudes
>>527625158It's not a free win. It has a lot of its own challenges.
However, the market is much less competitive / it's an underserved audience, so as long as you can deal with the challenges then you may be better off doing that, especially if the game you were going to make was something in an oversaturated genre.
... Other than puzzles.
>>527626815the butt needs to jiggle when it makes contact with something, same for the breasts otherwise it would just look like two plastic dolls bumping into each other. i tried making a porn game before and i ran into this issue.
>>527626837If you don't like looking at other dudes I think it's a good idea to either:
>1. Make the MC futa>2. Make the MC female>3. Make the MC yourself>4. Make the MC implicit
>>527626837Just do what you want. As long as you aren't full autism retard then other people will share your interests.
/dgg/ on /d/ specifically deals with games like that, assuming it's not 3D DAZslop.
I'm currently working on making a futa version of my player character right now.
>>527626598Toby fucking won and we all lost. Can we stop now?
>>527626963Ah I see, so that does seem like a substantial amount of work, porn games are just too much of a hassle to create
>>527627094i just wanted to be different, you can get away with using still renders like alot of porn games do but it's not good enough for me.
>>527626598>>527563242 (OP)toby earns the title of biggest weeb when he becomes fully proud of his horny ways
https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1lclzti/game_failed_on_release_move_on_or_keep_trying/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1555980/Mother_Machine/
>good game
>flops
>>527626776>Toby has a christian background>that's why he added all those lesbians, bi, hay characters synced with the jewish values of the talmud
>>527627732Post your Steam library with Mother Machine in it
>>527627808i only play pvp slop lol
>>527627732This would have gone crazy if it released in 2005
>>527627869>i only play pvp slop lol
>>527627732>good game>procedurally generated 2d puzzle platformer
>>527627732>Co-op platformerdoomed from the start, or should I say from the SHART!
ahahahaha
>>527627732He should have dumped 30K more into advertising then it would have more reviews which makes it a better game.
>>527627732>PlatformerMarket research is important.
>>527628316Shh. Don't talk about that. You'll upset the hobbydevs.
>>527627732From the reddit thread
>How come the game requires to be online even if you're playing by yourself?lmao
and the dev's reply:
>Implementing offline play for a game that is meant to be played online multiplayer does not come for free unfortunately. We've absolutely discussed it and want to do it, it's just a matter of development resources. Actually offline play is one of the things we'll likely implement in the coming weeks when we keep working on the game.L M A O
>>527627565>graphic violence in games is illegal in JapanWait, what?
>>527627732I remember this being posted before, I watched someone play through it.
I don't remember them having anything particularly good or bad to say about it but nobody's going to be rushing to play this with their friends when everyone's playing helldivers or repo.
>>527627732nobody wants to play as weird little gremlin monsters.
also rogueshit in a story game is annoying
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>>527628479what it is this nigga talking about its the same protocol, youre just changing how the packets are being read and the IP address
source: i have a game with both on steam, and it was fucking easy as shit to do
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3355800/Bank_Simulator/
>jew simulator
>>527628590these games are making me feel like im losing my fucking mind, theyre all the EXACT fucking same, with the same screenshots and same UI and same thumbnail and same trailer
yet they all do well, in the exact same way, and were before cash cleaning simulator and schedule 1 came out
>>527628707he even used AI for the steam store header image
>>527593002hit me in the feels that
>>527628707>yet they all do wellsub 100 reviews is doing well?
/agdg/ would call any other game with that a flop
Why is agdg suddenly so anti-semitic?
i would really appreciate if you stoped noticing toby fox and trump's doing
>>527627732if it's actually good the game will pick up eventually. it's polished as hell i'll give it that but is it fun?
he should've started on itch.io and determined whether or not he should continue based on the reception there. devs that skip this step without any marketing are delusional.
>>527628826it sells well for something that could be done in a couple weeks
>>527628826for how easy they are to make, yeah
Job simulators are DAZ VNs of games
it's kinda insane how aggressively gamers like the exact opposite of the games i like.
i like games with many systems that interact with each other, making for a completely new experience every playthrough.
gamers like games with basically just 1-2 systems and multiplayer added on top of it.
>>527627732>>527628505wait a minute
I think what actually happened is I watched someone play this in person, maybe it was the demo. Maybe that's why I recognized it.
I thought the game had voice acting? I'm looking at a playthrough now and I'm noticing
>the combat is incredibly basic and clunky looking, plus not very challenging>the environments never seem to change>the 'mother' keeps interrupting gameplay to give incredibly generic comments on the story>no particularly unique gameplay elements>platforming is slow and clunky, dependent on climbing up walls more than actually jumpingSo it has some pretty aesthetics and 3D but after that it's like they put nothing else into the game.
>>527628707In a world where professional progress is halted, wages are stalling, expenses are rising and quality of life is dwindling, having a simple job that makes number go up is a power fantasy.
>>527628967>i like games with many systems that interact with each other, making for a completely new experience every playthrough.name 5 that actually do them well.
now name 5 made by small teams.
>>527629110Kenshi
Rimworld
Caves of qud
Dwarf fortress
Minecraft
>>527628316yeah. having a studio, who make steam appropriate games... releasing a platformer with no novel mechanic/art/story just seems the absolute worse idea, could he have picked a worse game to make?
>>527629093>>527614165You can come up with both the gameplay and the aesthetics at the same time. Just don't overdo it. It's called a "vertical slice" for a reason, not "the entire pie"
>>527628826It's literally better than Marnix's strategy. lol xD
slopdevs don't belong here.
>>527629259you got me there, what i was trying to get at was that it's really difficult to pull off well. all of those games have huge followings though.
>>527629110sims 3, rimworld. eeehm, i dunno
basically "sandbox" means to me many many systems. maybe minecraft with enough mods.
it seems like sandbox to many means "building", but to me sandbox means a bunch of systems.
i think sandbox is different from normal gaming, because a game i usually a simple set of rules and a goal. sandbox is more like a simulation where you make your own goals.
the thing is, to make your own goals, the systems need to be good and working though.
if minecraft would have more systems you could make your own restaurant in it, because with an npc system and a hunger system for npcs and if npcs also mine resources and earn wealth, then they'd buy your stuff. but without those systems you cannot "do what you want".
i get that this isn't what games are supposed to be, but this is what i find interesting.
>>527629040https://youtu.be/yXRNEi2dxR8?si=RAV-nGUP3_gZwqnM&t=1557
what do you think of people that derive meaning from beating difficult games because they feel hopeless in their own personal lives?
>>527629529well these games are what pc gamers want: crafty buildy games. make a decent one and they'll sell like hotcakes.
>>527629334True, but I still think it's better to use placeholder art first so that you can confirm your perception of the 'fun' isn't biased toward the art.
>>527629336guys like this and all of naive devs ignore one simple fact: it's more about having a huge budget than about having skills.
even professional 3D artists take a long time just to make 1 model.
i find it insane how everybody dodges the fact that making good games costs a lot of money. i think amateur devs ignore this because they don't want their dreams crushed.
you can become the best house builder in the world, if you can't afford manpower, resources, property etc. etc. you will not build any houses, sorry. especially not good ones.
you might be able to build a log shed though, but also only if you can afford the property, an axe, food while working, if the property has trees etc. etc.
>>527628778they all do, in the same pose
>>527629643>a super difficult game that takes advantage of people who feel meaningless and makes them feel really really good about beating itam I doing it right?
>>527629756crafty buildy != sandbox
crafty buildy = crafting and building
sandbox = many systems, more like a simulation
i think what i want is the metaverse, but singleplayer. i don't want to play with anonymous online assholes.
>>527629981make a coop game so you can pick who you play with
>>527629771You should use art you can reasonably create for the rest of the game.
If you have incredibly detailed art but can't afford the time or money to make a full game out of it, then you shouldn't be using that art, period. It doesn't matter if the gameplay is fun or not.
If you had shown me Balatro before effects and art was added, just a barebones prototype, I would've said it was shit. The effects add a lot to the game where other roguelike games fail to make it very clear what's going on. Just playing pocker hands and getting arbitrary numbers of points by itself isn't a fun experience, it's fun because of the effects and watching the numbers go up and each thing trigger one at a time.
3 australians boughted my game in the same 1 hour
if yesdev is too much work
and nodev is too little work
is modding the middleground?
>>527619203What do you mean anon?
>>527629786>even professional 3D artists take a long time just to make 1 model.This reminds me, I was watching Thomas Brush's video with the Inscryption dev, and he got his 3d artist to do his models initially for free, same with his composer (who was apparently a high schooler, lmao). He only paid them later after the game took off. Maybe that's the strat, find some beginners and make a team.
>>527630124>mate check this cracker of a game>oh bugger me! tell Bazza to get in on this beauty!
>>527627732>It's honestly really scary to think a game of this caliber and quality was passed over so hardman, redditors are something else, and im sure some of you fags agree with him
What fucking quality and caliber? it's a shitty 2.5D platformer with ugly-cute alien monsters on ocean floor/alien world fugly ass environment with random bits and bobs of random scattered advanced contructions/machines
shit's a dime a dozen
>>527630141yeah, or just making clips and uploading them to twitter for validation
how do i make my coop 2d puzzle platformer more craft-buildy?
>>527630106Your example of Balatro's appeal being the effects and animation is so funny to me, because the first thing I did after booting it up was increase the animation speed and disable the effects.
In my opinion Balatro's appeal is the fusion between poker and roguelike elements.
>>527630550he's comparing it to his own solo indie dev game. he's comparing high quality 3d monster models to his 2d pixelart done by himself (he's never drawn a day in his life) and wondering how he'll ever make it
>has coop
>roguelite
>still flops
imagine how shit the gameplay must be
>>527630862my game is coop roguelite DDDDDD:
i really really really think narrative design is the most important aspect of game development
i spam this in almost every thread now, but whenever i see a successful indie game, even if it's lower quality than its competition, it almost always has a more interesting story and methods of progressing through the story
for example, i don't think valheim would have been nearly as successful if it was a generic roguelike
but since you're a viking who died and needs to defeat bosses to escape purgatory and reach valhalla, even though the actual gameplay is mediocre, players always have that goal in the back of their heads
meanwhile a game like
>>527627732 flops because, despite the nice graphics, why would you want to play the game? what are you accomplishing? what is the story? what are you actually doing?
yeah, it looks nice, but you're playing as a bunch of goblins in a 2.5d platforming game because ... ???
meanwhile, a low quality game like hole digging game blew up because it had a unique narrative: you bought a house, and you need to dig a hole in your backyard to discover treasure, which was not only unique, but also very easy to understand and play
i could be wrong here, but i think this is a very important aspect of game design that goes severely underlooked
gamers aren't completely retarded, they need some sort of purpose to play the game after the initial appeal wears off
what is the appeal of mother machine? you're an alien goblin running around for what purpose?
whenever a game flops or blows up, i try to observe the narrative to see what would motivate a player to actually care about the premise of the game, and this seems to be a reliable metric
even vampire survivors, despite being absolute slop, throws the player into a scenario where an endless barrage of monsters is pursuing them, forcing the player to care, otherwise they'll die
a good narrative doesn't even need to be complex, it just needs to exist
pardon the ramble, but i think this is significant
https://store.steampowered.com/app/358130/Curious_Expedition
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1040230/Curious_Expedition_2
these are there two other games btw, both sitting at 3.7k+ reviews
The fact my game is going to die without one person besides me actually playing it enough to learn everything about it is making turn evil. Or, rather malicious as evil deeds were done to me and I'm merely retaliating in self defense of my soul.
>>527630810But the poker and roguelike elements fall completely flat if you can't see what you're doing. Even with a faster animation speed, which most people use, you can still see what's going on.
I don't know how much of the effects you've actually disabled because the animations and all that are part of the effects. I'm also talking about the card art and the backgrounds and the UI and so on so forth, it's a game that's limited in scope (only a few screens) but has gone very hard on the polish. You could strip out the poker and put almost any card game in there and it'd work.
>>527631294really hope the 3rd one is in 3D
>>527631147by narrative design do you mean a fun gameplay loop?
i wish it was legal to just rip a whole games assets and then just pay the original creators like 30% of all your earnings.
there's games i could drastically improve if they'd just hand me all the assets and let me redo it in unity.
i'd improve performance, gameplay, ui/ux etc.
The person who clones my game will do it with half as much effort, half as much content and half as much polish but will sell 10x more because they have nepo connection to youtubers and I don't. :)
>arguing about genre
reminder to ignore the wannabe pros retards in the thread
there's a market for everything as long as your game is not garbage
>>527631556no, i mean the core story of the game
the gameplay loop is just the method of you progressing through the story
a super simple example would be mario 1, where the gameplay loop is you running and jumping to reach the end of the level
but the narrative of the game is you, a random plumber, fighting through a kingdom of mushrooms and skeletons and turtles to save the kidnapped princess from bowser
if mario was released as an arcade game with no story, just raw gameplay, would it have performed as well?
the gameplay loop would have been the exact same, but after completing a few levels, they'd get bored and quit
but if you add the story of having to save the princess, now they care about seeing this story be completed, which motivates them to keep playing, and makes them feel good when they accomplish this
i think it's really that simple, just give the player a simple story to complete, with the game serving as a method of interaction to progress through the story
Does chris know nepotism only applies to family and friends?
https://www.tiktok.com/@prison_of_husks/video/7516316521208106271
why are troons so good at art
>>527630997there are at least 4 of this already
>>527631979autistic fixation
>>527587196>what purpose is there in attacking the other rectangles?It's mostly to either get them off your back, lower their defenses, or to get the other player to drop the gold ball so you can take it.
You can also win if you take out the whole team.
But yeah I'm going to have to do a lot of testing with this. Right now the opponent's ai is really basic and they don't know how to use defensive moves like the wall so it's very easy to run the ball to the other goal but I'm hoping to change that with better opponents.
>>527586319It's actually made for mostly single player or local multiplayer, though I've heard that Steam's remote play is extremely easy to set up so I guess there'll be that.
>>527631823I don't think anyone gave a fuck about the plumbers story.
>>527632273i genuinely think they did though
>>527631979Anyone who is capable of perceiving the expectations of society and the implicit opinions of those around them ...
Is likely to get a job, instead of spending years learning art and then making a game. You have to be someone who is cut off from society and common sense to be a solodev. That's why all the normies are corpodevs. Some autists start as solodevs but give up and become corpodevs, though.
>>527631979>x game, but worse
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>>527631147valid point
with the right framing, it can become an epic and absurd adventure instead of some generic ruins exploration stuff.
>>527630550>The only thing I see wrong with it is... Well... The genre.Top kek, so the very core of the game itself.
can we just agree to use the agdg logo as the thread image so the underage avatarfags can't make threads
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>>527633064I remember 8 or so years ago when people started complaining about that so people just started including the AGDG logo into the anime pictures
>>527633197>8 years agoI wonder if they grew up or became peter pan syndrome trannies
