polishing edition

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>AGDG resources
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>Helpful links
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>How to WebM
https://obsproject.com
https://github.com/argorar/WebMConverter
https://github.com/michaelmob/WebMCam

>Previous thread
>>527994428

>>528081064 (OP)
Ignore niggers and polish forever.

>>528081064 (OP)
miss tachibana in the thread

>>528081064 (OP)
I will juice my menus before finishing the actual gameplay because the menus are the gameplay

>>528081401
japanese game-like?

>>528081303
AAAAAAAA IM NOT GONNA HAVE A DEMO FOR DEMO DAY!!!!!

https://hbr.org/2025/01/research-consumers-dont-want-ai-to-seem-human

AI bros????

>>528081791
The fire rises!

I have good news about my game :)
but I can't talk about it in detail (not yet)

let's just say, I'm pretty happy with how things are going! I hope things go well for you as they did for me!

a game where you date cute white solodevs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA4haoZg_oc
gamedev bros?

>>528081239
question for Cosmicdev in case you didn't see it

>>528082493
there's a board if you want post >>>/an/imals

>>528082049
the way things have been going for me: side project

>>528082679
I met my wife when I was dating my ex-fiance. Sometimes a little action on the side is for the best!

>>528081240
An 7/10 game that is released and loved is infinitely more valuable than a hypothetical 10/10 game that remains a collection of code on your hard drive.

>>528082620
my 3d puzzle platformer is special, you see, the name is a pun and you switch gravity and shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K91qwxCWmrs
Why cant I have such music in my game?

just made fettuccine alfredo
why did it taste weird?

>>528083442
your butter is moldy

>>528083836
but i keep it in the freezer

>>528083442
your butt is moldy

Post (you)'re game.

>>528083907
next to the onions? maybe it absorbed some extra gunk

Why all of the hate for ToK 2? Don't you guys like good games?

>>528084774
unrealdoubters..

>>528081064 (OP)
post em

>steam sales
>live gameplay of a game
>survival
>dev is spamming roll to move faster
protip: if you're a dev think of some fucking solution to avoid this

>>528087268
Why do we want to avoid it

I think this was the last thing I needed for my framework before it is technically finished.

>>528087268
Normalfags love that shit though

>>528087029
What is that?

>>528087268
>w applys force
>d applys force
>w+d = double speed

my three gmails just hacked and ethereum wallet emptied again. Being a truedev isn't easy.

Day 20 on a Thread for Project C-Con – "Triple Kill" Edition
Journal logs are being posted into /agdg/ daily.

Worked more on Ue5 C++, some animating, and more 3D modeling with Blender. Tomorrow we'll be creating a new set of three objectives, rinse and repeat.

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/1WHiSZh29v50RoYWx_VT5j_DObYrlrk645prDmFO9QgQ/edit?usp=sharing

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

holy #%@! i can't even look at my game
it's %#$&ing awful it's an embarrassment
im just a cr*s clone at this point
i was so sure it'd be a good game but it took me hundreds and hundreds of hours of my life to realize. i wasted my 20s on THIS? WHWAT THE FUCK CAUSED MY BRAIN TO DO THIS TO MYSELF? MY LIFE IS OVER.

picked up a game programming at the library, I'm going to be a game dev!

>>528089998
Goodbye.

>>528090049
kino overload

>>528089998
same. I haven't spent that much time on it but I might just cut it short and throw it on itch or something and start a new project and hope I get better..

>>528084774
he's already working on tok2?

I'm gonna be the very best
Gamedev there ever was!
To release on Steam is the real test
To make $1 million dollars is my cause!

do your best sisters

>>528081240
Are black people and poles harassing you? What's happening?

>>528091753
My best isn't good enough.

i use AI

>>528092090
Me too and it keeps telling me to use methods that are either deprecated or flat out don't exist.
AI is good for when you want to do something and don't know where to start but once you know more or less what to do it's better to read the documentation yourself.
Or that has been my experience at the very least.

AI uses me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njmhvbrjPi0

>>528089998
Keep on going Anon, you either make it or die trying. No other option is enough for your brave spirit.

>>528092367
>it's better to read the documentation yourself.
Why would i bother to read anything when i can ask AI to read it for me?

>>528092526
It does.
If you have ever posted on the Internet then chances are that LLMs have been trained on them.

me and AI have a 'Captain' and Vulcan Science Officer Relationship.

>>528092687
I know, I purposely post disinformation to fuck with them

>>528092590
>my gf
>looks like a faggot
gf(male)

i don't use AI

>>528081791
AI is a ticking clock, release early or watch Steam be flooded by AI.
(You) and your nonexistent releases are the first ones to die by AI's hands.

>>528092776
Godspeed.

>>528092872
you said that 3 years ago. nothing happened. where is the exponential progress I was promised?

>>528081303
what kind of jew is that?

I had a million dollar idea but I forgot it ugyuu~~

>>528092590
who don't more aggydaggers become stand up devtubers?

>>528093597
Because this website is transphobic.

>>528093597
I am a creature of darkness. The spotlight is my enemy.

>>528093597
I'm going to soon

>>528093597
Have you seen what we look like?

>>528093597
I'm banned from every streaming platform

Well anon, are you gonna put in this trend?

>>528093145
This is what AI video looked like two years ago

>>528094110
loliphiles are just pedos

>>528094167
One of these is in the children's video game series and (You) are on 4chan. Degeneracy should come from your game long before it comes from Ninty.

>>528094164
>AI video today

>>528094268

>>528089998
post it

>>528094110
No, I don't have the leverage to keep platforms like Steam from banning my game like AAA devs do.

>>528094167
>this retard is still here
We need to start making more loligames to filter the tourists out.

>>528094110
If there were more Alice games, she would have had white tights and black shoes... She would have been pure...

>>528094406
will you laugh at me

>>528094110
My next game will be cunny companionslop.

>>528094539
yes

>>528094268
You dropped your bluesky login credentials, sir.

>>528094606
unironically why The Last of Us did so well

>>528094164
>what AI video looked like two years ago
Slop
>>528094354
>>AI video today
Slop

>>528094354
this is actually INSANE

>>528087862
wordle

a 'stomp clap hey' hipster organic non-AI home grown Game Studio.

clips of the devs playing guitar and dev'ing and doing 'stomp clap hey'

>>528094354
game developing is now accessible
we mog you

>>528094354
this is just a filter over gameplay

>>528095112

I can tell this is going to be a Killswitch Engage 'This Fire Burns' summer.

>>528094167
anon, you're literally posting in a thread full of pedophiles, most of them are on the sex offender registry and gamedev is their last attempt at making it before they you-know-what because they will never be able to get a real job

>>528095431
good I wish

thinking about that again...

I think about 'her' all the time. She is the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in my life.

>>528094759
This is the place that says fag at every corner. The fact that Mel the Caramel Dog is 100% safe and investor friendly is an embarrassment and half of the games here are in that exact camp.

>>528089998
similar. i spent years on it and was so sure of it. it's only recently i realized the magnitude of it's ngmi status.

after almost 6 months of work, I've basically finished my jrpg template in godot.

chuds BTFO

>>528092590
>I'm developing a game (allegedly?)
>zero footage of any kind of game in sight

>>528095792
holy shit cris WON

>>528095606
yeah your thougheverbeit sure is pretty, idk about most beautiful but she sure is pretty. how goes the enginedev? any progress on it to share?

>>528095980
go away

>>528095980
I'm not sharing progress until I got significant earthquaking progress to show.

I am going to WOW this general.

i like ai because i can use it to finish assignments to get more time for game dev

>>528091753
It's hard sis. Not even 1 year into development and I already have 2 rivals.
>Duplicate file exists.

>>528081241
>>528091753
>>528091859
remember to report avatar posters that contribute nothing to the thread

>>528081064 (OP)
The hardest part of gamedev is problems. I become so fixated on solving problems that I lose track of what I wanted to actually DO

>>528096586
avatarfagging is illegal regardless of the post contents

>>528096586
ok, i got it, i will report them

>>528096764
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>528095792
now you've got 4 years of development time left to make a competent jrpg

sending good vibes to all lolidevs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4GDr9jbSz8
bocchiposters look talk and move like this

what the absolute fuck

>>528096586
I only report avatarfags that are needlessly antagonistic.
Benign ones are like benign tumors, maybe ugly to look at, but reporting them would create more harm than good.

>>528097746
>that are needlessly antagonistic.
they antagonize the schizo that posts dumb shit, like just now

>>528097835
That would make them needfully antagonistic, saar.

>>528097986
yes?

it took me 2 years just to learn windows systems programming and I'm supposed to also learn the hellscape of linux/mac systems programming for gamedev?

>>528098070
What is "windows systems programming"? I just open up Godot and write jeet-tier code.

>>528097103
proof?

hey aggydaggy xisters,
what if dark souls but star wars but cozy and anime?

>>528098642
anime is for stinky bipoc chudcels tho

>>528098642

The bocchiposters became a problem when they started posting porn and /pol/ shit. But at least now we see their true colors.

>>528099320
fatherless attention seeking behavior

>>528098070
>why yes, I increased my dev time by 10x to increase my potential market by 1%

no one ever talks about my game because they all hate it and they hate me even more for no reason

>>528099571
kek

>>528099320
when did I do that?

>>528099192
he mentions obscure anime multiple times in his videos

>>528099192
never thought I'd agree with a xigger

deving late again...

>>528092872
Easy, quickly release something that does not look like slop, say it’s work in progress and that you need following, spread word of mouth and then develop it with human creations. Steam gets flooded with AI slop and you and your wishlist and fanbase get a moat in the sea of slop. It’s not much different now, but then it becomes even more pronounced, word of mouth becomes the only way anyone gets anything. Insular closed garden communities like samall discord servers will spread the information between eachother while the wide web including this shithole become infested with bots. Make yourself online presence now before it’s too late to not be drown by bots. 2D artists that are still thriving today even if their style looks like AI are alive because they have a history of doing that art. The best way to AI proof yourself is to have history of doing that before AI.

leave the kids alone

yesdev eyebags

with me

looks like my niece

>>528098642
what a disgusting person.
wants people to admire his art but also demands we admire himself.
worthless.

cute and kissable

>>528098642
homie makes some decent points but anyone acting that self absorbed on camera like contrapoints is annoying

pedos should be sterilized

>>528100625
its a zoomer thing

...by sucking out so much semen that there is nothing left

>working on a game
>see something that inspires me
>what to work on different game
Fuck my retard brain

>>528100991
shiny object syndrome

>>528100625
>some decent points
that people expect women to be eye candy? yeah, no shit but that's how it should be

>>528101050
I just want to own an indie studio that makes smaller, multiplayer games with unique ideas. That’s all

>>528101139
which games have you released so far?

>>528101139
only nepobabies are allowed to do that. blame your parents.

Alright I'm making an agdg game just to piss off that retard. Do we have an available agdg loli?

>>528100991
then copy something that you had when you were a child.

>>528101050
many such cases

>loli pedo finishing a game, ever
impossible

>>528099204
while technically accurate, it simultaneously achieves none of the point of making concept art, basically just shoving it all together without any attempt to work with the idea
sasuga

>>528101248
yes, his game is boring and lame but lolibros never say that out loud

>>528101248
who

>>528101248
And just like that, we are transported back to 2022
Am I in the wrong thread or something? Time break?

>>528099192
elite white male = sheltered nepobaby who crumbles when confronted by adversity

>>528081064 (OP)
Progress. Implemented a hammer power-up to spice things up a bit. Not completely sold on the ghosting effect though but idk.

>>528101943
>everyone gets a cute girl for their game
those who never experienced pain can not understand nodev

>>528099192
But no one will ever be as privileged as a white woman.

>>528101943
I forgot that Mario game existed

>>528101443
Crabs have zero reading comprehension

>>528101943
Looks interesting! I suppose an alternative approach for the ghosting effect could perhaps be to try and more carefully recreate a similar appearance to that which appears on older CRTs, the likes of which were used in older cabinets? (Like how Defender on a CRT has elements like glow and ghosting that really add a layer of depth to the experience which is lost on an LED setup.)
Cool recreation otherwise though :)

just had a 90s cigar parlor moment while building my video game experience.

Artdevs, is there some sort of secret way to maintain motivation to draw art assets?

>>528102687
Ye you listen to music while working

No updates from galduen anon.

>>528100991
why didn't you just put the thing that inspired you in your first game...

>makes himself look normal in the thumbnail
>makes guest look like a basedfaced clown
is thomas brush showing his true colors now? he did this with zukowski too..

>>528099753
They are false flag bocchi posts, sis

>>528094354
>>528095159

literately the horizon zero dawn UI LMAO

>>528103737
>makes his own face small
>gives guest the spotlight
he's so kind

>>528099441
it's not my fault he ignored me until my late teens

>>528103737
so what you're saying is that when I get interviewed by Thomas Brush I'll have to make sure I don't make any retarded faces for an entire 3 hours?
FUCK

>>528104262
>I'll have to make sure I don't make any retarded faces for an entire 3 hours?
he'll just use ai if that happens

>>528101943
havent seen this one in a while

I don't know how to feel about Thomas Brush; he does put effort into his games and develops them for long periods of time, so you know they aren't sloppy cash grabs. But at the same time, he comes off as a sleazy business man, and he likely earns more off you-tube than his game sales.

repressed homosexuality hours

>>528102185
Okay, I'm making your low poly girl model tomorrow. I finally have some free time.

>>528104807
big if true

>>528104807
Can I use her too?

>>528101943
such simple art and yet it mogs me, will this likely be in DD63?

>>528104262
>>528104409
KEK! I know the exact face he'd use if Branno ever succeeds. Can't find it but I know there's a vid where Branno looks upwards and I instantly thought of it being a funny reaction pic. Some anon screenshot almost the exact point too and posted it recently.

My game will eventually be open sourced and will be a lifelong project. I will consider it a success if it continues after I die. Monetization will come from donations or an optional steam/itch release.

>>528105879
>will
>eventually
>will
>will
>consider
>if
>will

>>528106050
yeah

>>528105438
this further proves that art >>> programming

>>528106160
retard

>>528106213
>t. gaslighting artist
you're gig's up

>>528105180
Sure.

>>528105438
>will this likely be in DD63?
Possibly but probably not. I want the next DD release to be the final one and there's still a few things I want to add

>>528106274
>>528106160
Does (You)r game have this many reviews?

>>528101943
Please please improve the afterimage to work more like Symphony of the Night.

>>528106373
Legacy IP unfair comparison.

Progress: Tried to improve retention in mission 1 this week, and managed to bring it to an even more abysmal level. 0/5 people stayed longer than 2 minutes.

>>528106578
Yeah I learned that the hard way too.

>>528105879
That your game in the screenshot? Nice.

what language/framework/engine should i use to make a free cities clone
i dont think ill use twine since its kind of a hack job to use an interactive fiction framework for a simulation game

>>528106373
very disgusting how they riled up fanboys when others tried to monetize it but then i suspect they saw that one indie game make big bux and rushed to putting it up for money. this imho a very easy way to ruin an open source project, who wants to make mods for it when this guy or maybe it's a modding group, can just take your mod, add it in, and suddenly all these people pay this guy to play your mod. not a chance, if i make a mod and it were added to this id want a cut of the revenue

>make porn games that covers barely covers expenses
>pushing 40
it's time to give it up anon, you ain't about this life.

>>528107163
>if i make a mod and it were added to this id want a cut of the revenue
The modders don't share your opinion I guess.

was making content for several months but now I'm doing another pass at some detailing and systems
not pictured but, making sure physics objects can be flammable / doused, touched up player abilities and interactions, changing how hazards work at low % speed, so arrows or bullets will just bounce off you if you freeze time, etc etc
too many different systems changes to take a vid of each of them though

>>528106971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04oQ2jOUjkU
raylib or godot. anything else is overkill

>>528107350
>isometric coordinates
huh? whats this have to do with free cities

>>528107283
Neat.
>>528107163
I mean, all mods for paid games kinda help the base game financially, by making it more attractive to buy in terms of content available. The usual modder probably loves the base game enough to be rather OK with this.

>>528107163
CDDA is already a uncontrollable mess. Any decent guy could probably make a better tradition rogue like.

>Hey chatgpt, I'm making a 3d puzzle platformer about a magnet man with magnet platforms, what do you think, what are my prospects on steam?
>"A 3D puzzle platformer about a "magnet man" has extremely high potential for success on Steam,"
>"You are sitting on a concept that is in the top tier of indie game ideas. It has a clear hook, appeals to a known audience, and has viral marketing potential."
this is how games are made today. AI will encourage you to jump off a bridge

>>528107971
AI is not good to bounce ideas of off because it always tells you that your ideas are great unless you mention a no-no word in which case it will give you an unsolicited disclaimer.

>>528106971
>free cities enjoyer
based

>>528108118
i want to make something that isnt so heavy on the autism-simulation part (do people really enjoy messing with any of the security expansion features, or edits/policies/rent?)

More like GAY I

>>528107971
Do people really use AI to get the most obvious answers? Wtf did you even achieve with this interaction?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2O5RVkpe3c
Using AI is objectively worse for everything.

>making games for money first
congratulations you truly are all real shitty modern game developers
please do not forget to not optimize your game for maximum effort

>>528107249
the games been modded for years, this is only recent.

>>528107470
look at bethesda, you think having a few select modders getting paid helps pull in new modders? how many see that and decide to not mod because of it?

>>528107629
been a long time since i played, whats happened? i looked a bit and see complaints.

I wake up and my chest is tight. I think my arteries are calcified.

>>528108772
>Wtf did you even achieve with this interaction?
the point was just to see just how sycophantic the responses to the most dull game idea would be. I heard it was bad, but didn't expect it to be THAT bad.

>>528108930
whats your game?

>>528108772
good video

>>528109340
i mog you

>>528108772
>it's a chris-like

>>528109963
proof?

>>528110279
it was real in my mind

>>528061348
Update: new sprite, and now the only way to damage the boss is to deflect his fireball attack. I still need to add some sound effects.
webm with sound: >>>/wsg/5904034

>>528108772
>known for being the creative speech/slay the dragon guy
>final game before he dies is a choose your own adventure book with midjourney art

>create tiny pixel characters
>expand into 3d
i feel like this could be a legit creativity booster.

Eric Barone will become the world's first solo billionaire once he drops Haunted Chocolatier

>>528111647
notch already did that

>>528111750

>>528111647
>>528111831
Barone has hired contractors and was given contractors by his publisher.

>>528111831
freeloaders. minecraft was worth 2 billion to microsoft before jeb

Autists who obsess and make secret rules to stay solo purely for the sake of staying solo are NGMI.

You don't count as solo if your gf funds your life for 4+ years

>>528110543
there is nothing I despise more in any game than
>the boss must use a certain attack
>you must reflect this attack to hurt the boss
because
>narratively makes absolutely no sense
>doesn't let you play at your own pace, it's effectively an autoscroller

but everybody does it because it ticks all the boxes for what devs need
>can't beat boss the same way you beat every other enemy, force player to take time on boss
>narratively means even a weak character can beat a boss by using its own power against it
but also I still hate it grr

>>528111831
wish i had a cool studio to make games with...
god im so lonely...

>>528112309
The point isn't to stay solo, the point is to debunk the destructive myth that good games can be made solo. If you want to make a game as good as minecraft or stardew, you absolutely cannot stay solo.

My game was made in collaboration with neetbux

who wants to test my game? pic unrelated

>>528112719

>>528112530
My point is that there are NGMIdevs shitting up this thread who will actively avoid doing anything that they feel might compromise the sanctity of their solodev project.

>>528112913
>half ass everything
>call it done as soon as you get bored
>"I finished!"

>>528113008
That's how Notch made Minecraft

>>528112913
>"phew, good thing i at least finished"
>"heh, those guys taking forever are suckers, at least my game is finished"

>create a product that nobody wants and you set the bar so low that you didn't even learn anything
So... a waste of time?

>>528113324
no no anon, the only thing that matters is finishing

if barone didn't make it, would he have taken his own life?

>>528113227
Sergey Titov was ahead of the slop curve. He was like the Marnix of his time.
I posted that he had nice titties on the warz forum when he was doing an AMA and I was permabanned within a minute kek.

>>528112913
>How to finish
>Take twice as long

>>528113008
>>528113227
>>528113324
>just 4 more years of polish will be the difference between bokube and marmoreal succeeding or flopping

>>528113631
he would never give up. his wife would get a second job to help pay for air par 3d

Codemonkey here. Any 3D bros want to collab?

just spent 2 weeks learning how to make a character controller in unity
am i doing things right

>>528113973
post your leetcode ranking

>>528113631
I didn't make it and I took my own life so probably yes

so basically if you maxminize your chances of finishing a game you need to
-have no standards
-take twice as long
-waste time on Fun things
-neglect your life
-buy as many assets as you can (rid yourself of that rule!)

>>528113973
What engine?

solodevs collapse in imminent

>>528114240

>>528112913
secret rules are what "soul" is

>>528114339
"Soul" is what NGMI is.

banquet for fools isn't soul btw

>>528114217
I mostly use unity but lately been using unreal to try out networking
Idk why that would matter tho

my game is... ok

>>528114658

>>528113973

I miss the old /agdg/ before the trannies and nodevs and avatarfags found this place

>>528114703
>looks like a chad
>voice of a sesame street character

>>528114909
Chad voices sesame street.

In 2025, do I still have to take into account of people who use x32 machines or I can safely ignore them?

The blister is getting in the way of devving! I'm devving 1 handed and it is literally tiring. I got so little done too. Apparently the blister can take a week to fully flatten! What am I supposed to do dev at an even slower rate than before this blister showed up?

>>528111831
dibs on the girl on the far left. those are really nice thighs. was this from when he was working on minecraft? i remember reading his employees were butthurt about not getting big gains from him selling the game.

>>528114830
i feel like most of the posts here are written by bots especially after the shutdown.

>>528114830
>but, but... that book will have le SOVL

>>528114016
back when I was pretty new to coding I tried leetcode and it all seemed kinda easy, just tedious
it's extra tedious if you try to make visual representations of it

>>528115808
>leetcode was too easy so I stopped doing it
holy shit the cope

>>528111831
I wonder what Notch's studio would look like today what with him living in California.

>>528115918
I stopped doing it because I had a game to code instead of playing some /g/ kiddy game.

>>528113227
Is this your game? Will it be in the upcoming demo day?

>>528114830
>post describing nodevs in 2011
>wants to go back
umm

>>528114698
My game is not okay.

>>528115392
Not really. Except if you’re trying to make the next Tuxracer or so, i.e. something with super low reqs meant to be shipped via Linux distro package managers.

Is this true? Refunds don't count towards reviews?

>>528116101
Pretty sure that's big rigs over the road racing.

>>528117040
Well, reviewbombing would be much too easy otherwise.

>>528116683
hey I just posted that last thread

>>528117040
obv? free keys dont count either

>>528117862
>>528117953
I feel like I see a fair amount of reviewbombs regardless but that might be people autistic enough to buy and keep the game to do so

>>528118056
Many bombs also happen on free (MTX) games where this limitation obv is meaningless

i hate gamedev im gonna take a nap then work on my game

gamers are too hard to please, their fantasies will never be quenched

>>528118973
And that is a good thing, because if they are ever satisfied, then I will be forced to find a new jobby.

>>528089998
It's honestly unreal how much I fucked up every step along my journey. People who say "just jump into doing it without thinking too much" have clearly never met the complete fucking retards like myself and their trainwreck of bad life decisions that could have been prevented with just a bit of thinking ahead, probably because we end up in a ditch somewhere out of sight, like those airplanes with survivorship bias from the world war.

>>528119479
>People who say "just jump into doing it without thinking too much"
That's advice for a specific type of person.

>>528107184
he probably made an year's wage from something he made in a month or two tho

are you making an artsy fartsy game in attempt to push the medium forward or a gamey wamey game that's just mindless fun?

>>528119858
both

>>528119858
mindless fun
"pushing the medium forward" is for fags addicted to their own farts

>>528119858

>>528119479
detail the steps so I can avoid your pitfalls

Anyone here play Psycho Patrol R? It's made in godot.

>>528120060

>>528089998
Reminds me of how Cris sometimes becomes lucid and realizes everything he makes is trash
it's sad
but he's happy making slop the rest of the time, he also never freaks out this hard
should've been born less intelligent

also "hundreds and hundreds of hours" is a couple of months working on a game, that's fucking nothing at all and certainly not enough to learn to make a game, certainly not your 20s. A game that takes all of your 20s to finish would take about 10,000 hours to finish.

>>528120060
>>528120215
>38 euro shekels
>for that
>1.5k reviews
how did xir get away with it? amazing

>guys who write "sis" on an amateur gamedev forum

>>528120360
>he also never freaks out this hard

>>528120391
imsimtrannies are so starved they will suck on any slop they can get

>>528120537
I am in awe

>>528120360
Cris isn't making slop. He's making worthless garbage. He's making shit. Stop calling everything slop.

>>528120459
xhe looks strong ngl

>>528120459
>doesn't even try to walk like a woman

>>528120459
tfw when you would lose in a fight against xher

We need more strong troons playing our games.

It's really sad to see low-IQ anons talk their fellow retards into this jobby. None of them have the capacity to recognize how bad and NGMI their games are.

I am struggling with getting the water to look nice while it sits and also to look nice when it falls/flows.
I hope you guys had a nice day today.

I finished the skills for 1 boss!! I think I'm on track for DD (only 2 bosses tho, but still)

>>528121841
looks great mate! game name? I will definitely try it on DD broheim.

>>528121869
It's Jusha, thanks mate

>>528121947
Nice! I thought it might be but I wasn't sure if Jusha was the blacksmiths name in the video.

>>528114830
>pages made from trees
>not from animal skin
ngmi

>>528114830
With how much I see "trannies" mentioned on 4chan, I'm guessing most of the userbase is somehow trans

>>528121947
>>528121973
forgot to mention - I really really like the heat-haze effect on his forge oven it looks great.

>>528122054
I fucking hate them.
Truly. I know hate is a very strong word but its the only word that conveys how I feel about them.
Hate and disgust.

>>528122063
Thanks haha, it just a simple refraction effects, but since you enjoy it, I'm gonna add to the skills now >:)

>>528122209
least repressing hon

>>528122261
does it use a vertex shader or is it done at the end to the final rendered image just in the fs shaders?

>>528122386
it's just vertex shader, UE5 has an on/off button for it

>>528120006
Too many to count and a lot of them are very specific to my life and opportunities.
But I'll name a couple of my biggest timewasters.
- It's 2015 and I look up 3D modeling tutorials on youtube and CGCookie or something. I search for the absolute best looking models so I can learn from the best. I learn and do everything I was taught there, sculpting, retopo, normals baking map texturing rigging realistic animation scene lighting shaders camera work etc. End result? I have 2 completed models after 6 months. And it takes me another 14 months to realize I'm doing a full time modeler's job rather than being a solo game dev.
- My first game ideas being either content heavy (RPGs), or mechanically complex (like Dwarf Fortress), when I should have focused on something small but with dense gameplay, like an arcade game.
- Also wasted around 2 years working on 2 collabs, one from here and another from /v/ that didn't go anywhere, everyone just ghosted everyone and stopped responding.

Perhaps my biggest sin was thinking "I'm young, I have time to build myself and learn the skills I need". But years passed and my youth slipped away through my fingers like sand. If I were a bit more aware of how little time I have I might have realized "no you idiot you don't have time to make a 60 hour RPG or learn professional 3D modeling from scratch, just block out the gameplay with some asset packs for now and try your hand at box modeling later or maybe even get an artist to replace your ugly art you're going to get old soon. If you can't make a fun 1 hour game why are you so confident you can make a fun +30 hour game?"

im gonna play rimworld instead of working on my game (a 3d platformer, not a colony sim)

>>528122780
How did you manage to waste two years on two collabs? Usually, the ghosting starts within a month or two.

>>528082638
we cant have two CosmicDevs

>>528122780
youth is wasted on the young

>>528120360
Why are you guys being mean to him? Let him do whatever he wants without trashing him like that. He's passionate about what he's doing, let him do it without trying to fuck up his mental state.

>>528123472
fuck off cris

>chatgpt didn't want my dick pic
I can't dev like this

>>528123439
Who's the other one?

Around 100 games release on Steam alone EACH DAY.
About 700 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, 100 games a day, 3000 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
Y

>>528123718
are u ok? you've been reposting this for like... a week?

>>528123526
>he watched the whole talk too

>>528122780
> I might have realized "no you idiot you don't have time to make a 60 hour RPG
>or learn professional 3D modeling from scratch
>just block out the gameplay with some asset packs for now and try your hand at box modeling later
I'm making an RPG and plan to learn environment and character modelling along the way.
fuck fuck fuck why did you have to describe what I'm doing.
t.26yo

>>528123472
He's immune to criticism. To his own self critic too though, which is why he stagnates.

>>528123790
Intelligence agents use pasta like they used to use number stations, just ignore it

>>528120215
>>528120391
His other game Cruelty Squad got popular. Which was also made in godot.

>>528123790
>a week?
Welcome to the general, newfren. I hope you enjoy your stay.

https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/search/text/%22games%20release%20on%20Steam%20alone%20EACH%20DAY%22

>>528123718
B O B B Y
O
B
B
Y

>>528123827
you in 12 years time https://store.steampowered.com/app/1344990/Zefyr_A_Thiefs_Melody/
actually think it's cool but I can see why it's a bad idea too

>>528123718
Hobbydevs on suicide watch

>>528124054
>19k reviews
>absolute unfiltered schizophrenia
shit like this makes me think mongol might actually make it

>>528124173
>52 reviews
BRUTAL

>>528124295
>makes a nintendo game
>forgets to release on the nintendo store
Every time.

>>528124365
nintendo won't give you a kit unless you already have a game out.

>>528124272
no. consumer softproducts' games have actual gameplay.

>>528124272
Cruelty Squad is an imsim RPG with
>Average playtime: 16.9h
Mongol is a walking sim with 0 actual gameplay.

>>528124446
>>528124535
well, maybe he'll add some too in by like 2030, you never know. My point was more about the schizo visuals.

>>528120459
relax sis I'm just some twink having fun

>>528124435
Find a publisher. There's no way that game wouldn't have dozens of publishers lining up if only they'd ask. Too bad they'd rather keep 70% of 100 reviews than keep 49% of 10000 reviews.

>>528124295
Goofy ahh game bruh. NGL looks mid af.

>>528124217
I'm considering releasing my game free in itch. I've put 7000 hours into it and it's extraordinary. but my car's exhaust manifold broke... do I have a lotto ticket in my hands? maybe...

>>528124705
publishers are useless unless its the most prominent ones

>>528124295
the first thing i want to do when i come home from my shit job is to play your self insert protagonist

>>528124714
>Goofy ahh game
>ahh
is this some new retarded baby talk? I've seen it a few times

>>528124801
That game is definitely at a quality that any of the biggest indie publishers would be willing to sign a 20-30% deal.

>>528124830
being ignorant is cool

>>528124295

>Team
>Mathias Fontmarty : Indie game dev working on code, graphics, music. Pretty much alone at the moment. Mathias learnt a lot about video game creation by himself, but he also graduated in a Computer Science school where he got an engineer degree & a PhD. Available for interviews in English & French.

TRVE solo

>>528124905
Ignorant of what? Retarded baby talk?
It's no wonder that no woman wants anything to do with a man under 30, you're completely defective.

>iterate on ideas for some time while dabbling in programming and such
>finally come upon a set of ideas that put together everything that i want in a coherent way
>the story/world requires that i use real life guns and gun names if possible
right
anyone knows how much do all those games and such use real gun names? i can't imagine kitsune tennouji pays thousands of dollars to HK to use real gun names, so what's the deal?

>>528124173
Why doesn’t it have more reviews? A lot of these hobby projects that have been in development for 5+ years usually have rough pixel or voxel art that’s hard to market unless it’s done really well. But this one actually has a solid, marketable art style. The dev even has the classic reddit/twitter pity marketing solo dev story: 12 years of work, all on his own.
You guys said marmo didn't breakout because he didn't market his game. Is that the case here? Not gonna lie, I’m a bit worried now.

>>528124821
it's just goku

>>528125024
proper diction grammar is seen as tryhard and not cool. it's always been like that for generations.

>>528125113
Sure that's fine, but is it really going as far literally "goo goo ga ga"? Or am I missing something?

>>528124830
Tiktok faggots can't say ass so they say ahh

>>528125196
Tell me that's not really it holy shit

>>528125045
what value does this game bring to my life if I spent my time and money on it? the world is tough right now and no one has any pity points to spare. everyone's looking out for themselves and penny pinching rn.
>>528125193
it's amusing ig, being a retard is cool these days because it's anticulture.

>>528124272
>>528124446
>>528124535
The game is hard, has fishing and stock markets, schizo visuals and controls. It's whatever

>>528125045
The number one problem is that this is a kids game on a platform without many kids. It's a game that requires you to show some traditional paid advertisement so that a 7 year old will beg grandma to buy it for him. This needs to be released on Switch with a publisher. It's not a PC game for Steam.

That said, it's not over for it on Steam either. 68 100% positive reviews with decently high playtime tells me that it could be one decently big youtuber playthrough away from 1k reviews.

You guys have some really cool ahh games

hahahahahahha

>>528125460
pretty flat ahh for real

>>528125542
kek

>>528125542
might give him a jucier ass then

>>528125460
the vibe has changed a lot. not sure why you have 16*16 texture for cloth and a 256*256 res mask. have you heard of texel density? or are you specifically going against norms?

>>528124173
Damn his other games have low review counts too. That's rough. Why didn't he get a publisher?

>>528125714
I just don't really know what I'm doing.

HOLY SHIT

I just noticed that steam has been deleting stats from players who played the demo more than 3-4 hours for some reason
So THAT's why the average was dropping

>>528124054
still baffled, almost pissed off, that cruelty squad got that much success
I get it critique of capitalism but it looks like actual diarrhea on the screen. how can one stand to look at that for hours

>>528124295
you guys are angels compared to ledditors, need to step up your crab game

>>528125805
>>528125714
you think I should do the regular blue masks and not the n95? That will probably work better for the lower-res suit

>>528125914
Average Inner Circle cultist.

>>528125914
bro he didn't deserve that. his game looks breddy gud

>>528125969
average tired of manchildren complainer, or average jealous and spiteful faildev who sees your presence as further distraction his own failure has to overcome???

>>528125805
>>528125952
nta but, ditch the eyes and make it wear goggles, that way you dont' have to bother with uncanny valley eyes, then give it a mask the same color as the gloves. now you can keep everything low res and consistent, and have a nice color scheme

>>528126048
>>528125805
ta, but just give him 1 pixel eyes, like seriously, you should only need like 25 pixels total for an entire face god damn count them out

>>528125805
that's ok, he looks fun anyway

>>528126048
yeah but I want the uncanny valley eyes

>>528125914
the only ones making money off of indie devs are gaben and marketing firms

>>528126045
The doctrine of the inner circle is "if your game was good it wouldn't be ignored", but that has been proven to be wrong. But for them it's a religion. If a game did badly the only possible explanation is that the game had shortcomings, they can't consider that it can be a failing of presentation or marketing or priorities or bad timing or unfulfilled potential or just too early

>>528125805
thats NOT okay! TRY HARDER! scrap his face texture and try again. this one was just but a mere draft.

>>528126191
then you do you anon

>>528125036
There must be plenty of guns that are no longer under brand protection

>>528126207
so while they would therefore have to retroactively redefine a game as bad when it launches to a lukewarm reception, would they then also re-remember that a game was actually good even if it is shit but sold many copies? no? then the inner circle might become the inner torus...

>>528125914
Imagine if tumblrinas told Toby Fox to buy an ad. What a dogshit mindset. Downvote the post and move on if you don't want to see it faggot.

>>528125914
>does bring in a few additional sales
lmao my reddit posts don’t even bring any clicks

>>528126376
That's what happened to FlyKnight

So for the last hour or more I've been trying to think which one of my game ideas I should use and dismissing them one by one. either due to taking too long, unfitting current skillset or some roadblock.

>>528126518
make pong

>>528123718
https://voca.ro/1hqaYzIGkDPs

>>528126268
such as the beretta bobcat or perhaps any nazi ww2 gun, because if any company would say "hey! that's our gun!" then they would self-own due to jews and woke and implode, making the use of the stg-44 and luger and so on free territory. plus all the american made in a garage guns whose inventors are either in nursing homes or dead by now, like the pancor jackhammer or the auto mag

>>528126045
>or average jealous and spiteful faildev who sees your presence as further distraction his own failure has to overcome???
nailed it
https://www.reddit.com/r/BoardgameDesign/comments/1g3rok0/tell_me_how_bad_this_looks/

>>528126268
probably, but how do people use the names anyway? like dude has a whole manga about real life guns, even using various company names, now way he pays all of them, does he?

>>528126556
I'm past that stage, anon. I can make almost any game now, quality wildly varies on scope.

>>528126207
funny cuz so many inner circle games look like shit

>>528126558
Demonic brainrot disregarded

>>528124107
NTA, but thanks for reminding me that he shitposts this nonsense almost as long as I work on my last game. LOL!

>>528126392
>Imagine if tumblrinas told Toby Fox to buy an ad.
They should have

>>528126709
Yes, that's the point. They enjoy each others' games on an emotional basis - their logic is that since they know and like the developer of a particular game, that makes the game good. They have extremely low standards for the games of their members but constantly criticize the games of others as a way to rationalize what exactly makes the games of their buddies good and what separates them from the 'peasants'

>>528126649
wait til you hear about Bavaria owning the copyright on Mein Kampf all those years though
>>528126674
not an expert on copyright, but in literature it seems to be less of a problem to use real brand names and so on

>>528126674
they should pay HIM for product placement!!! or he could just rebrand them as macdonalds11, burgerking92 and pepsipsh-41

First time gamedevving
Using RPG Maker 2k3
Please explain to me how to delay the game until a move event is done. I have a character set to walk around and then say something, but after taking one step the character immediately starts talking and only continues moving after I close the dialog box.

>>528123472
/agdg/ is not a creche or a tard wrangling thread.
That's /v/.

Seriously though. What do if I can't find a game idea I want to work on right now?

>>528127227
just don't. let your subconscious simmer

>>528127227
developing game ideas should be pretty easy, if you can't then you are sleep deprived. spend 2 or 3 days going to bed early waking up being healthy and your creativity juice will remaximize and you will instantly want to start brainstorming when you go revisit some old gameplay concept or think about some genre of game. like, it will just come to you without effort.

>>528126392
There's 20-30 indie games released on Steam per day.
Imagine if every day, 20-30 devs came here to post their finished game to shill it, without actually lurking or participating in thread culture. You'd get tired of it fast too.
One or two is fine of course but thread loses its identity if everyone just treats it like a bulletin board when you actually want to discuss gamedev stuff with game devs.

at 528127368
yeah but you are forgetting the fundamental meaning of fuck reddit

>>528127015
>they should pay HIM for product placement
i saw that line of reasoning before and it kinda makes sense, to be honest
>>528126920
yeah, same here, thanks anon

>>528127227
go play, watch, or read something new
might give you inspo

>>528127508
>>528127326
See, those also depend on not being depressed/pressured
I guess it's going to be impossible so I shouldn't force it for now.

>>528127368
>when you actually want to discuss gamedev stuff with game devs
we haven't had any of that in years retard. If you actually wanted to preserve thread culture you would have done something about the attention seekers, the lolcows, and the spammers years ago

Private equity firm wants to acquire my game

>>528127368
Its bad here cause there's limited board and thread space so someone making a thread just to shill is detrimental to everyone else even if no one replies. Plebbit doesn't work like that at all. The vote system is designed to deal with that shit but they bitch anyway.

Still haven't received any offers from publishers....

>>528123718
>he thinks that indie gamedev can provide a sustainable income
if you arent in jewish countries that sell land to foreigners/chinese businessmen rent is 100-200$ and expenses are 100-200$ per month as long as you are frugal

>>528127778
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAI5W7Y5H28
you dont need one if your game is actually good

>>528127912
>Posted 8 years ago during the baby mode era of game development

>>528127986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aoe1pnxmtQ

>>528128086
bait

We are inner circling down the drain...

what even is the inner circle you schizos

>>528128086
Thor's opinion is irrelevant

i havent been able to dev for a week because of course work so i've been shitposting in the meantime. it's addicting and i can see why many do it here but i'll never stoop as low as a bocchiposter.

>>528128449
The funny secret that people don't know is that it's friendship

cheesed to meet you ?

>>528128468
i haven't deved for approximately a week too, but then i just dev in my spare time for fun and don't even come here often

>>528128468
>i'll never stoop as low as a bocchiposter.
addiction is a slippery slope

>>528128643
tuv sagt nein

>>528128643
he got swag

>>528128086
Just be born with a dad that can get you a job at Blizzard bro

>>528128468
touché

reminder that people were fine with spending $60 to buy a ps2 game that was fun for 5 hours. steam sales are responsible for the change in pricing of games imo.

i hate level design i hate level design i hate level design i hate level design i hate level design i hate level design i hate level design

>>528128516
its actually the ancient undead leviathan golem summoned by the ancient steam chat before they were wiped out by the tourists

>>528128719
those skeletons kept owning me but i kept trying because fuck them

>>528094164
This was not state of the art model at the time. Two years ago it looked better.

>>528129141
Why weren't you? Are you stupid?

>>528129186
thank you based gaben

>>528129572
>Are you stupid?
yes...

>>528125045
Idk why it's been slow, but I'd be surprised if this game stalls out. The preview video looked fucking good. Not well edited necessarily, but just fucking good game play shown. Idk how much content this has, but this looks really, really good. Bad name, maybe a few things I can nitpick about the video, but this game will probably do well. Like another anon says, maybe he just needs a streamer to play.

>>528129572
>do you know where you are

>>528129884
he has the wind waker curse

Despite all the setbacks the world keeps on whipping my way, I won't give up. I can't give up.

>>528130074
I mean he did do the exact thing you shouldn't do. Make a game that is a worse version of a AAA game (Zelda). But this is like the best version of that sin I've seen. So let this be a lesson, even if you execute really fucking well for a solo dev and make a genuinely fun looking game, it might not actually sell that well starting off. If someone can just go buy Zelda. But I do hope some streamer picks it up and sells a lot.

fuck the inners

I just realized Witch of Eclipse on Steam has more positive reviews as the game posted above the guy spent 12 years making. That is fucking funny

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2952690/Witch_of_Eclipse/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1344990/Zefyr_A_Thiefs_Melody/

>>528128456
*gets smitten by lightning*

>>528122063
>>528122261
Sorry, tried it, it doesn't look too good haha Imma skip this

>>528127625
>you would have done something about the attention seekers, the lolcows, and the spammers years ago
>you would have done something
What do you want me to do? Go up to their house? I report shitposters and spammers when I see them, I ignore the lolcows to not give them attention, I dunno what more you want from me.

JUST PRESS THE FUCKING WISHLIST BUTTON

>>528089998
We're all cris
Always has been
I started with unity and godot 3.1 in 2018
Has made a grand total of 0 dollar

>>528111645
based

>>528133302
Have you published anything?

>>528133302
unity3 for me. I wish gamedev was more gatekept so I'd have stayed in my lane drawing silly things

>>528133302
>0 dollar
Lol lmao even

>>528094110
>a literal scan of a real kid
>and a cartoon
did nobody learn a thing or two about shadman?

>>528133302
>We're all cris

It's far too hot to do anything substantial, but I fixed a bug that has been bothering me for a while. That's enough for today.

Zelensky dev here, experimenting with textures, can someone point me to some good resources or tools to make textures? And any tips to make good ones?

what is it with the ahh poster?

im sure oneyplays will accidentally discover my game some day... maybe a fan will mention it in the discord or subreddit and it will spread... word of mouth....

>thought it'd be fun to make a pokemon/pet raising sim where you can send your pet to race with other pets based on how you train it, and have people bet on who is going to win the race
>NOOO YOU CAN'T HAVE GAMBLING THE KIDS WILL START DOING DRUGS AND RAPE, WE'LL GIVE YOU AN ADULT RATING JUST LIKE FOR PORN GAMES
Fuck this pussy ass modern society, like kids aren't already getting fucked by iphones in their hands since they're 5 years old.

>>528132765
it's the flag of england

>>528136071
Who cares about rating, it's just some recommendation.
The real problem is when rating organizations purposefully withhold giving a game a rating to bar it from being published in places that require your game to have a rating.

>>528135782
If this is your game then you don’t need better textures

https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/2d/characters/pixel-art-rpg-mega-pack-295472
What if I just bought a bunch of assets and made a game around them?

>>528133302
Sometimes I wonder if Cris is even a real person and not just an idea. The manifestation of a failed dev.

>>528136071
>>528137282
Just host the patch at a separate website.

>>528138239
He's not real

>>528138201
your game would look like that, and that is ugly as fuck. maybe if you're a programmer only it looks better than you could do, but it's like a teenager doodlers first stab at pixel art

>>528138201
I'd just buy a kenny asset pack for that IMO. And it's not a horrible idea.

>>528138201
Then you would be making assetslop. People can sniff it out.

I've been working on a new project for the past couple of weeks. It is a handball game with rpg elements.

So far I've done movements, camera transitions and set-up a menu system. The pass animation is added, but it looks as though it needs to be more dramatic. But next I actually have to change possession from one player to another.

>>528139891
Yeah but gameplay comes first for players, right? There's thousands of asset packs, I could buy some more recently released ones that haven't been used much, and combine them to get something fresh looking, if in 2-3 years the asset pack gets popular and mine looks generic now, it doesn't matter since I already got my money.

>>528140207
Sex

>>528140207
Is the goal of this to have players play the game turn based, then play it back real time? If so, very based. Looks interesting so far.

>>528140332
most actions will be,
the player on offense will pass / shoot.
the player on defence will either block or tackle.

then they'll be some calculations like if block > pass then intercept, in a nutshell.
The defender will have to be in the line of sight of the pass though.

>>528140229
>it doesn't matter since I already got my money.
just get a job at a bank

>>528139043
This pic reminds me of the bad guy at the end of Robocop 2.
The cartel finally catches Cris and he's warping like crazy in this polygonal form

>he lurks agdg

>>528140972

Two more minutes of procrastination and I will start devving

i give up

>>528141796
you don't

>make horror game with vague open story
>never explain anything
>never have a plan for anything
>just let people make their own "interpretations"

>>528142004
Should I do this?

>>528142196
yes it's free money
horror fans will eat up anything

>>528138201
>60 bucks for this

>>528141894
yes, i do

>>528142559
You think 60 bucks is too much for +1200 sprites?

level design isnt as simple as i thought it would be
i kinda avoided it in cosmic call due to proc-gen

>>528142998
You dont get it timmy the turtle give away some free stuff so everyone owes me assets for pennies now!

>>528142998
>1000 dirt tiles

>>528143057

>>528081064 (OP)
WTF was this guy's problem?
https://desuarchive.org/an/thread/5000577/#q5002315

>>528143057
ARE THOSE BOCCHI COLORS??????

>>528143057
Anyone who wants to get into level design, should give a shot to Doom and Quake's level editors.

>>528142998
an infinite amount of turd is still turd

Are you also spending 9 years on your sidescroller, anon?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1266210/Through_the_Nightmares/

>>528144296
I would probably kill myself by year four

>>528144296
>This item is currently unavailable in your region

>>528144296
Yes.

>>528143057
The secret is to shit out something quickly and then iterate on it.

>>528144296
longest I spent on a sidescroller was... 2-3 days. I did make a lot of them though

>>528142196
Ya you should if you think you can. You don't gotta explain shit in horror.

>>528144972
yea thats what im doing rn
>>528143450
this works but only if you have a clear understanding of the end product, im making shit on the fly so i cant plan that well

>>528145687
scribble on paper then.

Just recorded 2 hours of gameplay. No biggie.

bros I fucking need help
I'm trying to enginedev because I'm autistic and obsessive, but I'm also not smart enough nor have the willpower to make everything from scratch
What should I even do. I don't even know what would satisfy me the most. There's nothing that does, there's always a little thing that bothers me.
I can try to shut down my brain and tell myself "just like make game" but it doesn't work. I'm too obsessive. aaaaaa, my game is already in the works by the way! I already started (in Godot) but still.. I don't know. Godot itself isn't even that good.....

>>528146214
I wrote about engine-devving before, it's a long read
https://desuarchive.org/an/thread/5000577/#q5002315

Are there any great examples of collecting resources without relying on villagers? Like, just using buildings to generate income or something? I want to make an rts without villagers. Trying to wrap my mind around resources and economics. I'd like resources to constrain growth, and also encourage war to be declared. I'm just a little scared to create a totally new system and expect it to be fun.

i am being progressblocked by my lack of skills...

>>528146214
Just make a game. Engine devving is for people high in industriousness. You self admittedly, are not. You're likely a sensor and it makes you comfortable to start at ground 0, and to build from there. Just admit that's your nature, and when it comes to making an actual game, given your other attributes, your nature is wrong and you must over come it and just use an existing engine.

>>528146214
Unironically converse with chatgpt. Very helpful for enginedevving. Weeks of research condensed into hours.

>>528146364
literally the 2nd RTS ever does that

>>528146214
>I don't even know what would satisfy me the most. There's nothing that does, there's always a little thing that bothers me.
I hate posts like this

>>528081241
>528081401
>>528082679
>528083406
>>528090386
>528096460
>>528099753
>528103741
>>528116683
>528135618
>>528141658
>528143252

>>528137591
Well right now these are the only textures I have so my question still remains.

>>528146724
Idk what you're saying.

But also, it's not just a building that I want really, it's more like, capturing areas of the map with important resources. Outside your typical base. Which you'd need to fight for, that's what I more envision.

>>528147012
herzog zwei. you capture buildings. that gets you more income for building more units. learn the history of the genre you are making games in...

>>528140207
its turn based? probably the best idea for a handball game really. do you control the players that dont have the ball too?

>>528146214
Being enginedev is wonderful because you can do literally whatever you want. But your first priority should be to keep things simple and straightforward. Never over-complicate stuff unless you have a good reason to do so.

>>528146356
wtf is wrong with you

>>528147225
Actually as I read about this game, ya, this sounds very much like what I want to base my game on. More actual playing the game, less busy work and APM. Very interesting

>>528146818
Sorry
>>528146546
Yeah I should say my end goal is absolutely to just make a game, thanks for the advice, I'll see what to do.

Besides not having a game I'll have to move back to my mom.

>>528147785
Moving back in with mom means more time to make game especially if you "can't find a job"

>>528146214
Man up and make the game.

>20 reactions
>4 reviews
Explain your hypocrisy. At least the crabs could be honest with how they feel about a game.

You are working on your game right?

>>528148119
>pedocord

I've finished my framework.

Levels of progress not foretold by the ancient scrolls of the lost civilizations to the biblical flood, may come to agdg.

>>528123718
I'd like to ask you to remove the sentence about steam cut and retirement.
That is a very nice problem to have if you finally "make it"
What, do you think ConcernedApe was like
>OH FUCK OH SHIT I GOTTA PAY UNCLE SAM $100 MILLION OF THE 3 BILLION I MADE OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>528146214
>What should I even do. I don't even know what would satisfy me the most. There's nothing that does, there's always a little thing that bothers me.
i would consider therapy

>free iOS game
>very high conversion rate
>low revenue per user

>paid iOS game
>very low conversion rate
>high revenue per user

Is it easier to convince 200 people to watch 15 ads each, or to convince one guy to pay $5?

my favorite indiegamedev-tuber: https://youtu.be/rTxKsBclbxk

>>528148119
What are reactions? Like reaction images? Can I see em all? Might reveal why. Game is far too expensive for what it is desu.

>>528146214
>but I'm also not smart enough nor have the willpower to make everything from scratch
Well, go into an ecosystem that has many libraries easily available. Probably JS/TS is a good bet, though quality of libraries will often be questionable. At least you will run natively in the browser. Python is another option, huge ecosystem, just a bit chaotic. Rust, if you like that language, has many ambitious/experimental crates for gamedev. Even Java is an interesting choice though it has fallen somewhat out of favor.
>>528146364
They Are Billions is a recent example (the villagers are just for decoration / zombiefication); the Relic series (CoH, DoW) have capture points that may be upgraded to generate more resources; Dune: Spice Wars is another recent attempt at such a system, going a bit into 4X direction by adding more spreadsheets.

>>528147785
Why what happened? Maybe it's time to pick up gamedev.

t. Still live ay home, unemployed at 30+...

>>528149429
You can see the reaction on the bottom of the image next to the number 20.

>>528149429
The 20 in the left corner. What good is pretending to like a game if your actions do not reflect that?

>>528142998
Nta but I wouldnt buy these. The graphical quality to price ratio just isnt there

>>528144296
I spent a lot of time on a flop :(

>>528149934
>>528148119
Isn’t the reaction more like a simple "whoa, it released"? Can think of many more hype expressions than that dude.

>>528132765
>>528133234
Kek!

>>528141320
Explain

>>528128643
Oh spooky! This that game by the paco quest dev right?

>>528149604
>They Are Billions is a recent example (the villagers are just for decoration / zombiefication);

They are Billions are one I looked to for scale of combat. But Herzog Zwei sounds like exactly what I want. A framework for taking resources far outside your actual city. Like if you're Rome, and you take a mine in France, it's not really within your direct perimeter. It's susceptible to raids etc. I think I'm good now, thanks everyone for answering.

Haven't posted in a while. Passed my PhD confirmation and got a full stipend scholarship worth 36k a year tax free for three years. With my tutoring and freelance contract work, that pushes me up to about 90-100k a year, so feeling pretty comfortable now. Last thing on my agenda is getting this game out this year.

I've been doing a lot of backend work to get shops, battles and events generated. It's all hooked up to debug statements, I just need to hook up the UI and create some more assets.

Last thing to do is combat, which is essentially completing the item behaviour and programming the tag interactions.

University is wrapped up now, so I've got pretty much everyday free until the start of next semester in August.

>>528148119
>SquareAnon's game has less reviews than my game
That is actually very funny.

>>528150502
Looks beautiful from what you've shown. Congrats on the PHD.

>>528150502
Nice AI portraits

>>528150714
that's not his anon, reading-comprehension-kun

>>528150714
fuck off fagoon

>>528124173
why is it that few reviews

>>528150714
slow down a little bit

Starting the colony gameplay implementation.

yes, it is true that you cannot control if your game will succeed.
yes, it is true that you cannot make it if you don't try to.
yes, it is true that you burn out if you try hard.
yes, it is true that you get depressed if you don't try at all.

you are just a human, do what you enjoy, live with the fact that you cannot control outcomes. you got a brain in your skull, but you don't have a godlike supercomputer brain in your skull. you are just a bunch of iq points away from being a caveman.

>>528150993
his PC audience are busy emulating switch games. maybe he'll do ok if he can get a console release.

>>528144296
i'm spending 4 weeks on my incremental friendslop

>>528147359
Just the person who controls the ball directly. On defence it will be the closest defender to the ball.

>>528148119
>look at reviews
>all are inner circle goons hugboxing
when are you going to stop with this shit? What makes this lazy insult of a game deserve 4 entire wishlists where some much better games never even got that many? I can bet you there even /agdg/ games which got less support from the trooncord but because this one is completely pathetic and unthreatening you decide to support this one. There are much much much better /agdg/ games which will never live to see the day where another dev steps in and makes a post like this about them. God, you fags are so obnoxious.

>>528141320
You'd be surprised at who lurks here :-)

>>528123718

marketing is like dating. if you need to market yourself to women you probably not attractive. same with your game. if it's good just posting a screenshot will make people go nuts and you need to keep yourself hidden to not get too much attention or it'll stress you out.

>>528151719
Not funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWBXyP8ULbo

6 months of work into this.
pls rate.

but I finished what I wanted to make.

i give the bloody hell benchod up

>>528151801
you are wrong and you will learn the hard way with deep shame after many wasted years

>>528125914
i just looked through his profile and it's non-stop 24/7 seething about EVERYTHING even in the jokey reddit pages. Every third reply he makes gets removed for breaking reddit's rules lol

>>528152038
He's not wrong, if your game is ugly shit marketing won't work. What he left out is that you can make a demo (show your personality).

>>528151808
Wasn't trying to be. What does hugboxing achieve in the grand scheme of things? You always hugbox the stupidest games like this or Landsword or (a)woken which I guess doesn't matter because suffocating those games isn't that much of a loss but what the fuck is this white woman behaviour? You feel pity and condescension towards the dev and want to help him like he's a poor inept black person you want to adopt and help out because you have nothing to do. You see these devs as animals.

>>528151635
but offence in handball is so much about strategy and positioning of players. should use the advantage of being turn based for more strategy imo, instead of being fifa but turn based.

>>528151860
What's the game about?

marketing is necessary, but not sufficient

>>528152101
>if your game is ugly shit marketing won't work
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1794680/Vampire_Survivors/

learn psychology

>>528152043
Based. I was even thinking, ya he's an ass, but if he's posting on reddit and not banned yet, he's probably a bitch. But he's on his way. Nice to see.

Are there any tricks to navigating through the sea of shit on fiverr? I want to find a music guy

>>528151860
0/10

>>528152198
It's basically a jrpg where the dungeon is inspired by mario party and the combat is a beatem up.

>>528144296
bokubecoded
except what's with all that synty slop?

>>528152274
Vampire Survivors started as a free demo. Fucking faggot.

>>528152274
> guy who designs addictive slot machines designs a shallow game that is also addictive as hell
Who would have guess that.

>>528152274
not ugly, its basic

>>528152287
he's on all the "looksmaxx" reddit pages too. he's just a massive faggot who absolutely HATES anyone doing better than him.

how do you make retro painted textures

what do you think makes for a better dev progress?
just opening an engine and messing around until something cool happens?
or waiting for a good idea and keeping your engine closed until that idea hits?

>>528152575
You paint them?

>>528151801
A good screenshot takes skill. You can make the best game in the world look boring and make an empty game look polished.

>>528150714
thats not his game you retarded russian mutt

>>528125914
Tbh this guy sounds butthurt, feels like a hobbydev who sucks at gamedev and sees someone better and wants to kick him down even when he already is

>>528152396
Personally, beat em up gameplay would be the first thing I would have implemented. But you still managed to covered a lot of ground with regards to the overall structure of the game, so I would say it passes as a prototype.

>>528152797
So what if he is. He's for 1, right. And 2, you shouldn't be wrestling in the mud with random redditors who all have mental illness.

>>528150714
what game is this from?

>>528147785
I moved back in with my parents to work on my game. 1 year in and I already want to kill myself, I've remembered over the months why I left to begin with, they're a bunch of screeching BPD demons who can't stand each other but can't find anyone else better. Anyway I'm looking at part time job applications right now, the stress of living here ain't worth it.

>>528149770
Oh you mean all 20 used the same reaction then? Okay thanks

>>528152575
8, 16, 32, or 256 color palette. COLOR LIMITATION IS THE KEY.

>>528152934
there's a beatemup mode with more than one enemy type.

I only set up the easiest dificulty to have something quick to record the entire duration of the mode.

>>528151746
your mom?

>>528153000
how the fuck is LinkedIn supposed to work in the first place? It has like 10 different places for the same set of information. Why can't I fill everything in a single place and let the app handle the rest of it?

>>528153065
so i download a 32 color palette and paint?

>>528153319
Yes, if you want some inspiration look at these:
https://amiga.lychesis.net/games.html

>>528153319
if your canvas is small enough, pretty much
https://lospec.com/

>>528153478
>>528153480
but im making a 3D game

>>528153594
ok

>>528153594
Same shit. Take a look at Doom/Quake textures.

is justdev a term? like, not a real nodev, not a real yesdev. just a justdev.
nodevs don't do anything. yesdevs try hard and want to win.
justdevs just open their engine and just do stuff and don't think about yesdeving or nodeving.
just like in games there are tryhards and ragequitters, there are people who just keep playing because they simply enjoy the game.

>>528153654
doom used mostly digitized textures though. not sure about quake.

>>528152043
>>528152568
Sounds like an average /v/ poster...

>>528153731
Yesdev was dumb to begin with. The scale goes from nodev to dev and that's it.

>>528153478
Dayum, games in 1985 looked like this?

>>528153731
There are many npc's who don't really have a clue and just like to play, yes. Idk about the term justdev. I'd call them hobbyists. I don't understand them, but I've met smart poor people who truly enjoy doing complex things for no money and with no intention of ever really trying to get it.

>>528153860
I was in the /v/ gamedev thread yesterday or the day before and everyone was being nice and constructive about the games being posted.

>>528153923
everyone thought the amiga was the future at the time

>>528153936
I meant gaymers

friendslop is basically cheating your peak player count to x4

vindicated again. I hate the inner circle so much it's unreal

>>528153923

>>528154104
I wish I had this...

i feel like "graphics don't matter" is the biggest lie i've told to myself in the past 10 years. i think it's just a cope because making good graphics can drive you insane. especially realtime lighting.

>>528154148
JLMG

>>528154274
Graphics matter so much that a game can be successful on graphics alone. It's just not the only way to win. But it's a cheat code for sure.

>>528154274
Appearance (aersthetic, theming) matters a lot; fidelity does not.

>>528154274
you need to separate technologically good graphics with aesthetics and juice

>>528150714
His game, as of writing his post has 68 reviews. Yours has none. 68 is more than None.

what would be the perfect game to target /v/ users?

>>528155090
"anti-woke"

>>528155090
they don't play games

>>528155090
yandere simulator

He's onto me

>>528155090
Copy (and I mean copy) characters from a failed game and make a VN. Bonus points if furry and anti-woke.

Only one last thing to add... Holy shit... I mostly made sound effects today and thankfully I have to do chores which made it easier for getting metal sounds.

this thread would be really cool if everybody would just post game ideas non-stop and people would rip it apart. and that way we get incremental progress on figuring out what's fun and what isn't.

>>528155565
>if everybody would just post game ideas non-stop and people would rip it

>>528154274
Good graphics can make a bad game sell alone. Bad graphics can make an excellent game fail to sell alone.

>>528155565
Problem is, I already know, and it's in my best interest to confuse and disorient you all.

hitbox on player that registers enemy bodies
or hurtbox on enemies that registers player body

do you think there is a delay in game releases? like, lots of people got into it around 2020, lots of cool projects are in the making, yet gamedev takes a lot of time, so they'll suddenly all drop starting from 2028 or so? like, do you think there's some delay?

>>528155565
Okay bro so it's this game, top down, you have a sprite and you just move around in circles while the character attacks every 1 second by itself, and waves of enemies come towards you, there's 0 animations just asset pack sprites and SFXs for attacks that you level up over time.

>>528156051
This all happened this year. Why do you think you're hearing about so many flops now?

>coop roguelike-ish tactics game
would this work?

>>528153923
>that sheer dress

>>528156117
>0 animations
0 reviews, gotta wobble those sprites

>>528156117
i dunno about sales, but that is not my dream game. there's always two sides to ideas. side 1) will that make money? side 2) is that the game i dream of playing?

>>528156189
>tactics game

progress is the act of not knowing anything and still doing something

>>528156189
if it's turn based then it wouldn't make sense

>>528156539
no its moving forward instead of treading water

>>528156189
I made a co-op roguelike once and it was absolute satan asshole to play, having to wait for the other guy to do 1 action so you can do 1 action and so on.

>>528156437
i know, into the graveyard in a month

>>528156579
why wouldnt turn based make sense?

if god would grant you 1 wish to create a video game out of thin air. but it'll be free to play for everyone. what would you wish for? graphics, gameplay, content, theme, music, platform etc.?
it will be limited to current gen average hardware though, so it wont magically simulate the universe.

>>528156818
what would be the advantage of having two players in a turn based game? does the second player have information to something the first player doesnt?

>>528150714
didn't he get a cut of flyknight, retard?

>>528155565
a backpack builder game, except you're a space freighter and you have to plan your cargo runs

What's your opinion on selling cross-over/branded merchandise with your game? Do you think it's a fun idea or does it devalue your game's integrity?

>>528155565
Fun isn't what's holding agdg games back. Loads of demo day games are fun. What's holding agdg back is aesthetics.

>>528156963
if i say, youll steal my idea

>>528157327
Ok wait this is a good idea

>>528157534
credit my post when you're done with it

>>528156963
loli futa horror mecha noncon massively multiplayer online role playing game third/first person tactical stealth shooter idle management gacha dating sim survival roguelite

can someone point me to some good resources or tools to make textures? And any tips to make good ones? Im looking for software, tools or whatever to make textures. pref low res, or ones that would basically fit Morrowind.

>>528157534
>>528157624
You'd have better marketing success crediting:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2448930/Starstruck_Vagabond/

>>528156985
i may have been misleading. it wouldnt be strictly coop, but support it well. i mainly want to create a magic system where the user creates crazy powerful spells. as an example:
>player 1 creates a spell that does massive damage to all characters adjacent to the player
>player 2 creates a spell that can teleport a target to a space
>player 2 teleports player 1 into a spot and they does their explosion.

it would be completely playable solo, but enhanced with coop. im currently contemplating if they should be spells, or more like skills and have movement and other things tied to them as well. i mainly just dont want to create a story, but its probably for the best if the player is going to have a long running character that goes from inflicting poison on a single target to dropping bubonic meteors from the sky. mostly just planning right now before i kill it for being a tactics game.

can you make something like zomboid in 3D or does it only work because isometric 2D is still just rendering sprites?
e.g. placing 100 cans of beans on my kitchen counter. i guess with instanced rendering you could get quiet far, right? thing is when i have a room full of 1000 items and it's like 300 different items, it's still 300 draw calls right?
although that should still kinda work, when rts games can render and even animate so many units.

>>528157513
If it's in-game things getting real life versions, fair enough
If it's real life products being given in-game versions, that's selling out

>>528157850
I was thinking more something like ftl but backpack battles

>>528157951
look at inkbound

Guys you just KNOW I gotta say it...

I seriously love this hobby!

>>528158205
No you don't. It's physically impossible to enjoy game development as a hobby. Too much effort for too little reward. Game modding, maybe, but game development, no.

>>528158205
its great, isn't it

>>528158068
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qkf0wIECtFQ

>>528158485
do you say things like this as a way to pat yourself on the back?

>>528158828
Yes. I am a game modder who regularly comes to agdg threads to make fun of you for wasting your time at choosing a stupid hobby when a closely related but far superior hobby is right there next to it.

>>528158965
>game modding
like helping other developers make more money for free?

>>528158687
>pic
Imagine being that kind of man's man. No embarassment on your record. No fuckboy shit. No freak shit. No niggerspeak.

make a game about a fart lmao

Made a new google ads campaign
wish me luck

>>528159084
helping yourself to make your dream game by modding games you already like

https://youtu.be/FtKRnz4t4P0?si=MgaTqLf_6FfPqFaX
It's called musical taste anons.

>>528159727
>What is Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus?

>>528159930
i don't like the idea of making someone else rich without being compensated

>>528160310
then mod for yourself and don't publish the mod

>>528160310
the meta is making a patreon for your mods now

>>528160527
i would rather get better at the engine that my dream game would be made in

this shit going nutty

I'm feeling kind of batty today. Manic. Wide eyed.

this shit going nutty

>>528153000
over time i have come to realize that family is a huge mistake.
imagine how many tortured souls out there having to rely on their parents while being tortured by them.
back in the day people would be able to be self suficient at 15 or 20 years old, but now they have to chose between putting up with disfunctional families, selling their soul to the devil(life-long servitude to a bank) or become homeless.
actually, homelessness is illegal in some places, so slave it is

>>528161362
the thing is if you'd have a functional family you wouldn't go into gamedev and you'd have a good paying job.

>>528161620
Normies with families don't go to heaven

>>528157779
>mfw no one gives advice

Newest eceleb video. Watch it and reap the rewards.

>>528162350
fuck off m*rnix

I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS I HATE MENUS

>>528162406
retard

>>528152137
>>528151719
>anon learns what friends are

>>528162395
I typoed his name once as "marmix" and I like this change.

>>528161297
You forgot your Bocchi avatar.

if you don't have an idea for a cool mod you especially don't have an idea for a cool game

>>528162583
Waterslide mod for Skyrim?

>>528162583
I have a billion ideas for cool mods but it feels slightly cucked to work on someone else's game like that.

>>528152137
Awoken is not the stupidest...

>>528162680
if you are controlled by money you are cucked anyways

>>528150714
didn't he make the art for flyknight ?

Would you rather ...

Be turned into a pumpkin
or sell a million copies of your game

>>528152137
Landsword isn't hug boxed. It has genuine potential. Honestly I'm surprised it gets any positive discussion at all here due to the supposed agdg tendency to ignore or attack games with potential due to seeing them as threatening.

>>528162848
It's 2025 you can sell mods. That's not why it's cucked.

>>528163045
prostitutes also always think about money first, that's basically you.
other women literally fuck for free just because they enjoy it.

My right cheek hurts when I sit on my office chair.

>>528163039
it has no gameplay...

>>528163136
You're the one that brought up money retard

>>528163551
It has shooting and environmental destruction. That's gameplay.

>>528163452
*kisses it*
there fixed

>>528163613
i'm not gonna post on 4chan and make the admins rich, i'll post on my own website

>>528163679
That's functionally gameplay, but from a deeper more human point of view that's not gameplay. It's not fun or engaging. It serves no purpose. There's no challenge or sense of accomplishment. There's no immersion or curiosity or learning. There's nothing

>>528163452
>>528163747
I genuinely wonder what posters like you look like

>>528146214
use an engine
use mostly native language and keep usage of engine functions/libraries to a minimum
it's honestly not that different, no true reason to enginedev unless you have a niche need

I'm playing aoe2 and these faggots keep killing me in feudal age!!!!!!! I can't wait for branno's rts to FIX THIS BULLSHIT!!!!!!!

>>528162406
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAFkdrP1CHQ
watch and learn

>>528163771
Ok, don't let the door hit you on the way out

>>528164116
Goths fucking your shit up?

>>528164054
Just look in the mirror

>>528164054

>>528164116
> playing the definitive slop
You didn't play the game. What you are playing is a game, that is regularly modified to keep players hooked, countless balance patches, at this point everyone is playing a different game everyday.
Download the HD version.

>>528164160
The goth match was a stream of like 10 maa. This last one was persians with a few scouts, ok easy, but then he added archers and killed all my 8 spears. Skill issue yadda yadda fuck you.

My game will have frogs.

>>528164116
My entire RTS game will be built around basically avoiding this. And avoiding being rushed. That shit is so gay. Although in the end, my game will be so much better than a typical RTS game, that people will probably call it something different. Like I’ll prove that RTS is still viable and people will be so mad they’ll give my game its own genre.

>>528164349
Is there still the civ that just builds a new TC next to yours?