Thread 528842008

WAGMI Edition

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

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

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

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

>Previous thread
>>528773602

I'll do it. I'll make a game. You'll see.

a game where you come over and we watch some anime and have snacks, I could show you my lego room

This thread already needs more Marnix and it just started.

Coding is for faggot nigger losers. How do I become one

'risu

>>528842557
arisu doing the usual with a random homeless black man

>>528842662
Based

map zoom levels

I just want to be 2d
>>>/wsg/5908587

>>528842930
My mother's husband is a 3d artist. I asked him why we don't see 3d renderings like the right anymore. I will never forget his answer…

“We can’t, we don’t know how.”

>>528843212
>My mother's husband
KEK

>>528843212
>My mother's husband
incredibly cursed phrasing

>>528843212
godotsister btw

>>528843212
bocchibro btw

>>528843212
>>528843318
*kek

>>528842930
COD 2 is a retro game.

>>528843212
>>528843318
>>528843503
k
e
k

>>528842882
lore?

>>528843565
@grok is this true?

fuck do I do now

>>528838348
>>528838637
i told you its deep fried bokube but he just wouldnt listen
something is wrong with the art in general

Final update.
Made some texture and deformation improvements.
Also added an alternate texture that can be used to make a blinking animation.

(I'm gonna take down the page in a few days)
https://lber-dev.itch.io/charlie

>>528844207
now model her high poly black boyfriend

>>528844207
>an experienced 3d artist takes half a week to make a single low poly textured 3d model
GRIM, how are we supposed to make hundreds of assets for our games

>>528838512
5+ years in development here, no it wasn't worth it. I like my creations but the time spent was far too long wish I cancelled it within the first 2 years of development. What could I have made in that time?

>>528843948
Write down what you want to do.

>>528843212
Surely her husband is also your father? KEK! What game's did he work on?

>>528845278
You are going to need a disclaimer for self-harm

>>528843776
your son is the villain and at the end of the game you have to kill him or nuke the commonweatlh

>>528844582
he stated multiple times that hes going to college anon. not everyone is a neet bastard

>>528844582
I've been making and tweaking that model in my spare time since last Friday.
No need for alarm.

>>528844582
You need hundreds of character for your game? Even the highest budget AAA games can't afford that. Learn to scope.

Good morning /agdg/ Lets get some work done

>>528845892
can you give her booby so people wont call me a hebe for liking her

hey pedos do everyone a favor and set your username to pedophile so we can filter you

>>528846362
no

good morning

>>528840770
>Marmo is one giant lesson to say 2D over 3D. As a weeb, he should believe that be default.
2D over 3D...oh I think I get the reference. What's his 2D skill anyways? Any recent pics?

>>528845674
>doesn't realize just how grim this is for anyone that can't neet

best ai senpai to write code for me while I consume pornography?

I think that I did not failed in my goal of finding alternatives to combat and violence.

There's actually a broad spectrum of alternatives in game design, and specially things like board games and card games.

There's more than kill or be killed victory conditions in games.
Like carry a token to another place, reach a place faster, control more territory, collect some special token or token combination, get the most points.

And there's also more ways to lose a game than being killed, like getting the less points in the end, being eliminated, being pushed outside the ring, not pressing enough buttons, a timer, etc.

I'm so glad these threads have healed

have they? still seem quite lacking in games

>>528844207
>ass freckles
>belly button too low
>inconsistently higher detailing on the ass and midriff and nowhere else
it's decent work, but you're designing with your cock out, and it shows
if you don't care that it's noticeable, carry on

im trying my fucking hardest, okay?

>>528848391
Your hardest isn't enough. Your smartest isn't enough.

it took me 6 hours but i did it

>>528848361
>but you're designing with your cock out
that's not the problem, he could've done a better job on the concept art to get those things right before doing the 3d model, but that would be waste of time since it seems like a 3d practice model rather than a game asset.

I wish they made keyboards sized for adult aryan male hands

>>528848391
don't be extra babe, ur game is on fleek (=

>>528844170
>deep fried.
>Literally making changes in real time based on agdg feedback
>agdg crashes out that im not making any changes.

I dont understando. Why are you so dumb???

Have some music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlEpvs1ENrw

>>528847870
>bokudev comes back to the thread regularly lately.
>Thread is alive.

Huh

>>528848361
I didn't use a reference sheet so I ended up eye balling a bunch of details. Sorry...
I also will move up the belly button.

>>528849232
I want that bunny.

>>528849575
remove the freckles on her body. it looks gross

>>528849653
you could do that yourself with mspaint you stupid nigger

>>528848905
Come home, white man

>>528849350
shitting on bokudev's ffailures is a agdg past time tradition

/agdg/ claims gamedev isn't about the money but they relentlessly shit on the "source schizo" when he posted here because he was making a free mod. Curious.

>>528849754
I was talking about the 3d model. Don't but in, also, who asked?

>>528849836
im gonna laugh so hard when it finally releases and people outside of agdg actually like it.

>>528849949
holy RETARD

>>528848905
>aryan
>sausage fingers

>>528849943
Gamedev is exclusively about money. Stop being retarded.

>>528849975
People outside of /agdg/ loved it... eight years ago when the kickstarter finished.
That was in the golden age of indie games. Now we're in the cardboard age.

all he had to do was to hire an artist with the kickstarter money instead of feeding her hog gf.

so does my custom bitmap font have to include all 35,000 unicode glyphs? nobody told me I hate to learn chinese to make video games

>>528849949
LMAO how do you think textures are made?

i would never ever date NODEV

>>528850323
>anime source code
>it's not complete garbled nonsense

>>528850471
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>>528850179
>That was in the golden age of indie games. Now we're in the cardboard age.
We're still in the golden age

>>528849653
No.

We were brothers once Bokube, there were good things to say about your game. All of this animosity, is your own doing.

>>528850890
Where IS YOUR game after all this time?

>>528797962
This is the sort of shit that gets a lot of updoots in xitter and reddit but makes for a garbage game.

progress

>>528849191
whenever I look at screenshots of this game I feel weirdly drained, like I realize I've been smiling and relax my cheek muscles, and suddenly realize how quiet my room is
it's an ominous kind of feeling, like I just went to close my curtains now

>>528852176
stealing this

>>528849191
is this AI?

Pedos, remember to set your username to "pedophile". Thank you for your attention to this matter!

>>528851830
That burning need to see the games of the people who reply to you. It's merely a sign that you have been tainted, that you have the worst of the avatarfags within you. The only freedom from this is release day.

>>528852176
A witch!

>>528852176
AI slop

>>528852593
meds

I molest nodevs.

>>528847807
Some say that the era of war is over.

However I suspect it might only be beginning. Less than a hundred years ago we had our bloodiest war in all of human history. And that was before we had nukes.\
Less than a hundred years ago; We're due for another soon. If you graph war from the birth of christ to today the line is shooting straight to the moon.

Why do you think we're so attracted to violent conflict as opposed to other forms of conflict? Why it's so hard to even come up with a game that doesn't center around violence? Because it's engrained deeply into our essence since we were amoeba.

And it's only just beginning.
We need more violent video games.
To get us ready for what's to come.

>>528852647
you forgot to take yours

>>528844314
Dudeguy will do that for you.

>>528747863
I figured it was something like picrel or youd get some greater reward for doing it
with fixed controls its a good idea but as they were, at least in the demo I played, it was just torture in the bad frustrating way

>>528852448
>He has no game

>>528851830
its a crime to say that while wearing that name

>>528852950
A nodev, you say?

why does /agdg/ suddenly hate freckles?

>>528853128
we hate p*dofiles

>>528853128
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this could have been the /agdg/ collab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb71bat1utg

>>528853093
Yep. This guy right here (>>528852448) is who you want.

matrices make my brain hurt and i didn't decide to use glmath until a few minutes ago but look at this teapot go

>>528854428
h-he's fast!

>>528854428
grok is that real?

>>528854428
lore?

>>528854748
enginedevsissies...

>>528855132
this nigga never heard i'm a little teapot

>>528852950
Fuck off fagoon

shieeeeet
>>528855598 meant for >>528855065

>>528854428
/aggy/ told me enginedeving is pointless, so why are you doing this? Also what are you using besides openGL?

>>528855917
Yes, enginedev is pointless, but only for general purpose engines. If you think you can spend time upfront on a general purpose engine and use it for all your later games then you might as well use Unreal or Unity.

"General Purpose" sucks dick, because it's mediocre at everything.

I just write my game in C, the engine and game is tightly coupled, i.e, the engine is designed to support a specific game. This drastically reduce development time, meanwhile increasing the overall quality of game.

Unreal/Unity sucks because they are trying to be a general purpose engine.

>>528856305
So for example what kind of novel feature do you need that gp engines dont do?

>>528856305
I still don't get how going engineless "improves" development time. Sounds like a lie and a cope to me tbqhwy. Iirc even Eric Barone mentioned using an engine would probably have been the better idea.

>>528856501
>>528857025
this is the kind of shit said by people who have absolutely no understanding of how programming/computers actually work

No....

>>528856501
I literally need less features.
Unity's a bloated monster. All elements have 2 transforms: A RectTransform and a regular Transform. Why? I do not know.

picrel

Imagine creating your dream FPS in Ogre Engine in the year 2004

>>528857025
A lot of games don't need the full bloat of an entire engine, it's that simple.

>>528857496
>2004
Ah shit it was released in 2005 my bad

>every new feature I add comes with a dozen new FIXMEs and TODOs
No rest for the wicked.

Did maid co-op anon post about what he's working on? Any new features or mechanics they are planning to add?

>>528857280
neither do you clearly

>>528857365
They got a early bokube beta build which was what was promised reminder.

>>528857667
AND WE ARE VERY WICKED

For fucks sake, why nobody is creating PS2 aesthetic games ?

>>528858529
the only ps2 game I wanna make a spiritual successor to is shadow tower abyss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd6pmSJkLsc&ab_channel=ElucidatedByFire

>>528855917
what do you mean "besides opengl", the other libraries i'm using?

>>528858686
yeah

I'm not an enginedev
I'm a frameworkdev

>>528858830
>I'm not an enginedev

Real question
How much time per day do you spend working directly on some part of your game?

>enginedev?
>haha, no, I'm an enginegod

>>528859014
Depends on a lot of factors. If I'm actively working usually hours or entire nights. I've worked on one thing before for 80hrs in a week.

>>528842008 (OP)
I own the car in the OP image!
it's a 1974/1975/1976 Toyota Corona RT104.

>>528859204
Ok, you spend lots of time
I ask because I ultimately realize my hour a day is nothing. But I have too many things I want to do so I do them all for an hour but I worry I'm not doing enough.

I have this vision man… making a game, and making a million dollars from it

>>528859559
Why only an hour?

>>528859687
I remember making one of these when I was 5 years old.

>>528842008 (OP)
I get this really bad knot in my throat when I think about programming, which is probably why I'm focusing on modeling for now

>>528859687
this but a cigar box guitar that sounds rad as hell

>>528859515
how do you do all this fancy shit

>>528859559
you need to plan out your weeks hourly blocks then and only work on one thing a go

>>528859797
Because I set aside an hour for each individual subject I pursue. Gamedev is just one of them.
All together it adds up to about 9 hours every day

>>528858797
physfs and sdl, i'm writing the entire thing in lua and c

>>528860261
Sounds gay and pointless

>>528859515
nice terraria clone

shitty tutorial art for DD, apologize first for UIs will all be dev arts haha

>>528860387
this is going to be a stupid question because I don't even exactly know how to ask it, but how do you "use them both". I get using an interpreter and I get compiling a c program into an executable, how do you use lua and c together

>>528860425
There are just too many things in life I want to pursue so in my greed, I try to do them all.
Tbf some of them relate to gamedev at least(drawing, music theory)

>>528860684
I like your graphics style

>>528859979
it's all shaders

Here is some pictures of my car - the same car in the OP image.
The last pic is my grandma with the car 45 years ago.

>>528859687
Actually, the best C64 composers (you know, back when westerners actually knew how to compose a good vidya song) would run their own custom assembly-based music engines.

>>528860818
thanks mate

>>528860708
https://piembsystech.com/integrating-lua-as-a-scripting-language-in-c-c-applications/

What a cute grandma.

>>528859687
>NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T HAVE FUN DOING SOMETHING THAT I DON'T NOOOOOOO THAT'S ILLEGAL AND IT MAKES ME LOOK DUMB REEEEEEE, FORGET ABOUT INNOVATION CHUDDIE, YOU VILL PLAY MY GAME AND YOU VILL BE HAPPY

https://youtu.be/IvUU8joBb1Q

>>528861730
take your meds schizo

>>528861730
I thought those were dead babies

My custom engine will deliver 1999 graphics with 2029 system requirements.

>>528860708
i'm using C for writing bindings or anything speed critical. i also forgot assimp and lua lanes but it's been pretty fun other than the headache of "how the fuck do matrices work"

>>528858529
I'm tryna make DS/3DS aesthetic games

>>528862078
That's the spirit!
My engine is on track to perform like that too!

>>528862078
>1999 graphics
SOVL

>made more money in 9 minutes than the game itself will make, period
heh.. nothin personnel..

Here. Music for cultured devs. You're welcome.

>>528864172
Look anon, I'm sure at least 50% of the people who watch that video and see all the endings plus secrets will buy the game just to support the creator. They're doing the creator a favor.

>>528864314
here's the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78lzONzewio

>>528864337
This. The invisible hand of the market will trickle down the profits to the developer.

if it infinitely scrolls, log out and uninstall it
it's draining your gamedev gains

>>528864434
Out of the way you fucking poser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGsy4i17xu8

>>528842008 (OP)
adding level elements to an otherwise non-rpg game seems like a good way to flatten the playtime curve at the top performers end, just a little bit

>>528865120
But how am I gonna farm my 1 click/month from X (formerly twitter)

>>528864172
You should only be allowed to stream games you made yourself.

>>528857710
WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO KNOW HUH

>>528853128
because nortubel likes them

it's weird how there's thousands of indie games on youtube made by literal dumdums and you-know-whats yet /agdg/ collectively has failed to so much as take a pong clone to completion

>>528859515
why did you abandon the 3d gta game? it had huge potential

>>528857710
not so fast MARNIX

Day 26 on a Thread for Project C-Con – "Be Just Or Be Dead" Edition
Journal logs are being posted into /agdg/ daily.

Mind the random Guilty Gear song plug in the thread tag, it's pretty good in my opinion. Anyways, horribly moody weather but great day, fought random guys I saw at a field and won by pin in a few seconds--training alongside game dev and waging has been going well. Might get a new job though. For Project C-Con today in specific we finished a little cube animation that taught us how keyframes work and how to easily use them, picrel is the small animation made in a few seconds tonight. That's it, goodnight Anon, see you daily.

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/1jjRAJwn_D0pINq3dgn9KfvxkiTQf3w2T0sCqpX6XG9Y/edit?usp=sharing

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

>>528865120
>[Auto] 4...3...2...1
>(variable reward scheduling)

>>528858529
recently I saw metal garden had ps2 or early ps3 aesthetics.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/Metal_Garden/

>>528864172
:(

>>528864337
unironically considered doing that a few weeks ago when i watched one specific video i really enjoyed

>>528842557
miss tachibana is not like that
>>528842662
no, she dont like foreigners or uncivilized and chaotic people

>>528866726
>unironically considered doing that
>then didn't
what kind of virtue signal is this

>>528864172
What's wrong here? A game is an "interactive" medium. If someone can experience your game by watching a video, then you failed as a "game" designer.

>>528866856
>If someone can experience your game by watching a video
they might incorrectly think they did

>>528846516
good morning, nother arisu chad in the thread

>>528866856
Say that to my face fucker not online see wot u get.

>>528866830
i wasnt virtue signalling, i was just saying i considered it. dont remember the name and cant even find the screenshots i took. i really enjoyed it tho.

remember: there's a pretty good chance you've unknowingly taken advice from cris

:( even Jishogi anon had his game played, 380k+ views
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsGrKBbrFXg
Yet the review count, 65

>>528867293
>>>/d/iscord

>>528867293
Every post of his is identifiable. he has repeated good advice he's heard before though.

is google not working for anybody else?

>>528867310
More views than what Spurdo :D got from what I recall.
>~100k from a guy who clearly didn't want to play
Less views and with the majority coming from a "just give me your money, i wish i was a girl so theyd pay up faster" streamer. Yet he got about the same amount of reviews albeit a higher price tag. At least he got a female vtuber all enthusiastic about his game. That'd be nice, she seemed like a zoomette and even brought up the basket weaving site so she probably lurks on the site. Though a guy that genuinely enjoys my game and gets 300k+ views would still be a nice feeling except for the seemingly poor conversion to sales

>>528867861
IRAN NUKED

>>528867903
so i can't even do market analyses (steam doesn't work either) because of fucking jews?

>>528867861
>search suggestions pop up
>Spurdo
yeah sure definitely not just a coincidence

>>528868076
The hyper war has reignited. Hug your loved ones

>>528867861
Who the fuck uses Google in the year of our Lord 2025?

I want to add "parkour" elements to an RPG.
Please give me mechanic ideas.
All that comes to mind are Undertale and Mario Superstar Saga.

>>528868282
other search engines are not working either

>>528868303
>I want to add "parkour" elements to an RPG.
>All that comes to mind are Undertale

fully working*

>>528868349
Works on my machine

>>528868303
World Ends With You

>>528861058
do you still have it, anon. That's a cool car

>>528861058
wholesome

I hate this general

>>528868303
crosscode has jumping.

>>528868303
Why do you want to add a thing if you have no ideas for that thing? Do you put ideas for your game on a dartboard?

1-4 I add parkour to my game
5-9 I add deckbuilding elements
0 I add lolis

>>528868774
am i normal? i never kissed a girl so im prolly not normal right

>>528869602
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https://x.com/colorgravemhin/status/1926318974549057868

is this annoying attention whore right?

>>528869602
>2030s: Normies invade celibacy

>>528869715
Would you say, rationally speaking, posting a xitter link to an "annoying attention whore" does turn one into an annoying attention whore?

>>528869715
I'm not clicking that shit, nigga.

>>528869715
I don't care about screenshot Saturdays. If utilized right it can definitely work in your favor.

The pixel art on that account is total sovl.

>>528869804
it's just a way to ask for other people's opinion, relax

>>528853523
>4chandlers could have been /r/theplace game maker edition
gb2reddit

>Don't feel like working on my game
>Inner voice calls me a filthy no dev
>Start working on my game
I have no refuge. I have to finish this game or listen to my inner voice call me slurs.

>>528870001
Based

>>528869715
I don’t get it, what is he talking about? I thought #screenshotsaturday was about spamming screenshots of your project, on Saturday, with this hashtag? How does that interact with grifters?

>>528842328
Marnix is going to make a hole-like

>>528868303
rather than trying to make the game something it's not, try to simulate parkour by adding a time limit (player has to rush) and interactibles (interact to jump this gap type shit, which only feels parkourey because the player has to rush)

>>528869715
It's just another form of progressposting

This is a little bit depressing considering how they did all of their art. Maybe they should've went with a visual novel instead.

>>528870983
> is a RPG Rogue-like deck builder with anime art style
wtf is this slop description?
why are the fonts not stylized?

>>528870983
>roguelike
>deck builder

>>528864337
>I'm sure at least 50% of the people who watch that video and see all the endings plus secrets will buy the game just to support the creator.
i doubt that's the reality. must hurt seeing youtubers simply enjoy a game and get paid for it. all while they toiled to make it for who knows how long

>>528869602
me either sis

>>528870983
>trailer starts with the game's tutorial and is recorded in Unity or something (see top left)

>>528870983
sure is. i'm nowhere near as talented. this looks like someones first attempt at going commercial must be heartbreaking :(
>son how did your first game do?
how would one even respond?

>>528842557
built for hokage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb-X41WoV1Y
Concept VS Execution in the Game Industry by Choo Choo Charlie

I've kissed a girl

>>528871959
you are not a girl

>>528872049
I didn't say I was

>Before Godot
>After Godot

>>528866024
I haven't abandoned it, I am actually working on a huge cleanup on the engine for it right now.

>>528868536
Yeah I still have it!
It's on its 2nd motor now >:D

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>>528848565
not like this sakurai!!!!

>>528850323
idk. is it hard to add various languages symbols and add them to a game beyond learning the language? and how does the game know which text to use? do i have to type the dialogue multiple times just so it's available in said languages?

>>528869720
i believe this will happen, the stats seem to imply many zoomer males do not have gf's. seems i'm in the vanguard on this end along with my fellow 4chinian volcel's and incel's

>>528868379
Is it weird that I couldn't think of anything else?
What came to mind for RPGs is FF and Chrono Trigger.
The bullet hell stuff in Undertale falls under "parkour" rather than "menus", right?
I mentioned those because I don't just want to copy that, I want more ideas.
>>528869180
I want to just start making games.
I'm an artlet and plan to use preexisting CC0/CC-BY stuff, RPGs seem easy to do because enemies aren't necessarily animated.
The other game type that seemed easy to make is a platformer/action-adventure, but I'm not sure how to make enemies for that that feel "right".

>>528850323
Well, do you want custom glyphs for Chinese logographs? If not, then don’t. Just use an existing font for Chinese.
Most text rendering libraries have some logic for falling back to other fonts if the main one does not have a glyph; and if you write your own text rendering (which obv. you’re gonna do, what good would a custom font be otherwise?) then you have complete freedom ofc.

>>528872813
Well we all thought you meant parkour as popularized by the game BRINK (2011)
I am not sure, but Pyre (by Supergiant Games) may also have had real-time elements? Or was that speedball kinda game which makes for the combat in this title fully turn-based?
Also something like Cultist Simulator could be interesting, if card placement was made more tricky in some way, like, you golf/curl them to the desired destination and if you land a more precise shot the effect will be more powerful. (Obv. the "card" metaphor might have to be replaced with something else in such a design.)
Giving out FREE ideas here

>>528872813
oh
the thing I forgot because it was obvious to me
I wanted to make something that isn't just an RPGMaker game
thus the move from menus to parkour

>>528870983
looks like assetslop

>>528844582
Half a week isn't bad for modeling, texturing, and rigging. Sounds like the guy is busy with other things, too.


See you guys at Demo Days. I'm sweatin' with a bunch of stuff I still need to finish, but the demo should be a bit more polished than last time. Just finished making a bunch of animations for this boner guy.

>>528872813
Oh you're a menu and parkours fag.
Someone escort him back to the NGMI district, I think this man is lost.

>>528870983
i wouldnt play that too with that description

i woke up and apparently godot is ai slop now...

how do i get god to stop torturing me for one day at least

>>528874181
Consult the Book of Job.

>>528874260
that would be relevant if i ever had anything to begin with instead of being ass raped from the moment of my birth, and perhaps even conception

wrote a couple lines in my game design document...

>>528874565
I need to do some of that myself

How do I get the chinese audience?

>>528874970
Is it even possible to enter their market?

>>528874970
Cute girls and make a genuine attempt to connect with them culturally (but this is risky because they get set off like angry hornets if you get anything wrong).

>>528874970
don't. If your countrymen insults them in any way they will punish you by giving your game overwhelmingly negative review

>>528852176
catbox for the gen?

>>528852176
This is actually good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOcTqYGQKBw
this is kind of nihilistic but valuable for generating game ideas

>streamer boots up your game
>the blackest nigga in the chat smacks lips and goes "naaaaaah bro"

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1750928128112434.mp4
learn VIM

>>528874565
>game design document
Big red flag

>>528870983
I thought you guys told me anime sells. I thought you guys said it's a guaranteed ticket to success. I thought everybody loves anime and every anime game does gangbusters. What happened?

>>528876236
I refuse. I will keep using VIM without ever learning it.

>>528876328
all the weebs are playing gacha games

This is impossible for the average aggydaggy dev

>>528876328
China started churning out extremely high quality gacha games. A decade ago anime games on PC were a rarity.

just had a wank

>>528876674
Weeb here, while it's true I'm playing gacha games even if I wasn't I'd probably still not play that game

>>528876850
You too?

>>528876850
>>528876917
That makes the two of you GAY

>>528876720
Lying down flat and giving up? Damn right, we would NEVER

>>528876850
>>528876917
why don't we make a wanking based game?

i'm not a weeb but a japanophile. for me, it all depends on how waifuable a character is. just because she's anime doesn't mean she's waifuable. they spend alot of time and money into crafting waifuable characters, this is something a solo indie doesn't have. it's really obvious when a grifter is trying to use anime girls in order to increase sales because it lacks soul.

>email AAA company basically asking if a clone is too similar
>no response at all
Well that settles it, I guess I can just clone stuff very closely at this point. The game in question looks like a massive ripoff too.

>>528877398
Strong hebe apologist vibes from that first line

a dwarf game but the dwarfs are cute girls

>>528877398
Specifically, what part of creating a "waifuable" characters demands so much time? What part is expensive?

>>528867293
He should team up with some aggy devs instead of trying to do it solo. An experience godot dev could probably make what he wants in a week, after putting on their pink programmer socks.

>>528877715
why would anyone answer you, they will always want to retain the right to sue you

>>528867293
I have also done it knowingly.

>>528877715
>just get your company's lawyers to give me legal advice for free because I don't want to pay for my own one, bro

>>528877961
character design, wouldn't say it's exorbitantly expensive but a character would have to go through many iterations for the initial design. then you would need to give her a personality that matches her aesthetic. having a voice actor and additional poses and animations also bring life to the character. all of these things cost money and require talent from multiple disciplines.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVe2HZs_xu8

what the fuck is wrong with niggas making auraless MCs? no one wanna play as a heccin duck, tf

>>528878976
why does western pixel art always look so depressing?

>>528876328
tranime is probably one of the hardest genres to find success in as an indie, all the weebs are mazed by skinnerbox gacha games and won't play anything else and you have high quality tranime games releasing monthly
tranime + horror does seem to work tough (signalis, that yandere sim clone with the purple hair girl, etc)

>>528879186
What game is that?

Anime is one of the hardest genres to find success is as an indie, because anime fans have taste and want things that are actually good. Plus, your assets need to be pretty, you can't just put together whatever you can get your hands on because it will look bad compared to the usual quality and beauty of anime girls.

>>528879261
Pocky and Rocky (1986)

>>528878976
>beautiful art
huh?

>>528878976
>I'm here to talk about how I turned this concept art, into a full-fledged boss fight. And why the journey. Nearly. Broke me.

Hey thanks for the key. It actually worked even though you posted it 7 months ago. Found out about your game due to searching for pogostuck on the archive. Looks fun and i wishlisted it but now i found this key instead. Thanks
https://arch.b4k.dev/vg/thread/506647340/#q506670809

nu-tranime characters look identical to me, the graphic fidelity is better but the designs took a nosedive at some point

>>528879186
It all started with Danse Macabre.

>>528878647
OK, I will be sure to invest all my resource on that.

Today I'm gonna a JPEG reader for my game.

>>528879801
Do not listen to that anon. Either find someone that can draw cute characters or learn it yourself. You don't need voice acting for what seems to be your first game. Only a fucking moron would spend money on that for their first game. Make something small and enjoy making shit

>>528880176
*gonna implement

>>528879497
The concept art looks way better than the game, how? Its all made by the same guy right?

>>528879801
So you're banking it all on one character?

>>528880292
Probably used a reference that surpassed his drawing abilities

>>528880329
No, I need to have multiple characters to have broad appeal.

i have 4 ideas 2 of them involve turn based games and the other 2 vehicles what do i go for

>>528870983
>>528871464
ZERO
concept of marketing or selling the appeal of your product
wtf is wrong with tards like this
you have to be on the spectrum to do this or simply just not care

>>528881308
How am I even supposed to learn how to do that

>>528880843
i would tell you to study classic capcom character designs but it might be outdated advice desu. focus on simplicity and what one or two emotions a character would evoke.

>>528880176
The great lengths people go to just to avoid gamedev

>>528870983
i just noticed
>publisher
the game has a separate developer and publisher and they were both ok with this?

>>528881375
1. The internet just fucking google how to market your game.
2. Chatgpt or gemini just ask it to make appealing product text to sell your game. You can even feed it screenshots to do this.
3. Fucking copy. Literally just copy the marketing of other successful games.

if you couldn't work that out yourself but you have high level art skills or programming skills this serves as an aspergers diagnosis

>>528876328
have you not been paying attention?
Anime games get good reviews but poor player counts. We've discussed this.

>>528881431
This is gamedev. I need JPEGs for textures.

>>528879497
>What is Afterlife Gladiator?
;_;

>>528881510
I already have a diagnosis.

>>528881510
i made that post to prove that anime will not save a game, not only does this game have a publisher but it also has multiple artists working on it. the dev was probably like
>what if slay the spire but RPG with ANIME GIRLS!!!
>what a novel idea! we'll get all the weebs!

>>528881794
What about it?

>>528852176
The one thing i kept seeing is people asking about low poly porn, but i do wonder how you would actually tackle the penetration aspect, since due to low poly count it would just be a clipping mess. Only way i can think off is have the motion far away that it obscures the genitals, and then do up close genitals shot but its a poly of that area only up close.

>>528879564
>Skärmklipp
spuruololo :-DDD
>>528881654
What deeply underground language does not have a JPEG library available
>>528881898
Beautiful art

>>528878976
If you want to focus on the cool art, why on earth would you try to make a gameplay focused game instead of an adventure/story game?

>>528878976
>beautiful art
alright when does he show it

>>528881807
Must be nice to attend sexual therapy financed by taxpayer money

don't confuse fidelity with beauty

>>528870983
perhaps they could have put more effort into describing their game than "its slay the spire but... uh its anime like 80 other games on steam"

I've training gamedev for 20 years.

Finally I've reach a point where I can say I don't need to grind more.

>>528878976
30+ millenial art design

>>528882173
being contrarian aint cute, tranny

>>528869715
It is a waste of time but I've also gotten VERIFIED 2 wishlists from it. Also imagine having twitter blue and not being able to get screenshotsaturday views boohoo nigga. Cheatie want more free stuff? FRAUD!

>>528882336
Cris is about to leave his cave and go kill his good twin.

>>528882472
that honestly hits home too close to be honest sempaitachi.

>>528870983
>ZOMG IT LOOKS LIKE MY FAVORITE JAPANESE CARTOONS SO IT HAD TO HAVE BEEN GOOD

>>528881998
It does have one. My JPEG reader uses libjpeg.

>>528882582
did he draw those characters at the bottom?

doing some things

>>528882759
yes, but he can't draw that well anymore.

chotto gibu appu desu ne

>>528882848
it's actually good and i could tell immediately that he's from south america

>>528882839
What's happening here?

>>528882839
Why'd ya go all the way to implement true 3D graphics to go back to 2D

>>528842008 (OP)
Tomboy lovers! Grant me your wisdom!
I want a hairstyle for a girl charcter.
What should I choose?! Shag cut, choppy bob, spiky pixie cut?!

>>528883264
NTA but when you make a 2D game you don't have to fuck around with vector math as much.

>>528882839
>>528883264
That said, keep going
Don't read that as if I'm telling you to stop

>>528883109
I am making a program that allows you to import a .m3d or .gltf animated model and have it outputted as an animated sprite with 8, 16 or 32 directions. Like the doom enemies.

>>528883264
I'm just bored.

>>528883409
the gameplay of this doesn't look very interesting
I doubt it will live pass the FOTM phase, Rocket League will still reign supreme

>>528883275
The default long hair.

>>528883672
How long? What's default? If it is long doesn't mean it is longer than default? Are you just shitposting?

I have finished the script for the remainder of chapter two of Bedabots. Does anyone want to proof-read it?

>>528883660
13k reviews and counting

>>528882839
What happened to the car sceme you were workong on?

>>528883738
Hair around shoulder tops length is “Average length”. middle back is “long”. waist or more is “very long”. It thought everybody knew this.

>>528882839
fucking strayans

>>528883989
I have no hair, so I don't.

>>528883912
yes of Mostly Positive reviews

>>528882839
Are you a neet? You seem to dev a lot

>>528882582
That looks good tho. Much better than the impression I got from the amount of trash you guys talked about his skills.
>>528878171
yes. But maybe he doesn't want to team up with others.

>>528884369
It's hard to collaborate with others, and I want to be like ZUN.

ZUN and pixel are my idols, so I want to be as good as them.

>>528870983
if xhe was here it wouldve gotten so much (You)s from 'cord
>grim diary
KEKAROO

>>528884832
AH YEAH BLUD 10-25% DISCOUNTS ON FIVE YEAR OLD GAMES WE EATIN GOOD TONIGHT

what happens if the enemies are playing a diferent game like worker placement instead of the player who is playing a diferent game like dodging rays.

Chat gpt tells me I am making a methaphor of capitalism and the goy race.

I'm not a solodev, I have all of you acting against me which means I'm basically a -421 dev.
Now that's power.

>>528884832
YOOOO IS THAT A 2014 INDIE GAME THAT EVERYONE OWNS ALREADY WHICH MAKES VALVE PROMOTE IT MORE FOR SOME REASON
HOLY SHIT 20% OFF EVEN THOUGH ITS BEEN IN A BUNDLE SO KEYS ARE 50 CENTS!?

>>528884832
my game will be 60% off. i hope someown buys it...

>>528884832
>>528885134

I do honestly think I am too far gone into what lies beyond the door of alice to return to the normal life of normies.

>>528884832
Nooooo stop calling them steampigs

>>528884832
>>528885134
>>528885753
These gifs crack me up, thank you anons.

i just couldn't do it. i couldn't make my dream game as a solodev
after four years of struggle and pain i have finally given up
i've since gotten into glassmaking and gardening and my life is infinitely better as a result
i've always loved a challenge but making my dream game as a solodev went beyond challenge into pure madness.
good luck to those who still continue on this path. it's just not for me

stop using a fucking proxy cris you cunt
take your ban like a man

>>528885803
>>528885348
I'm sure you can find another depressed Asian man

>>528886225
I like these pictures of moo deng.

Is what I constantely feel most days, not happyness, nor sadness, just a feeling of mental exhaustion.

>>528885803
you are my favorite poster

>>528885134
kazakhstan

i need to poop but i dont want to get up from unity

My gf is getting me donuts for breakfast. Pure dev food.

>>528886191
I wish I could do the same, but I've been at it for 10 years. There's a crazy amount of sunk cost fallacy on my back, it would crush me if I tried to shake it off. I'm glad you managed to escape in time, the world doesn't need more broken people.

I'm struggling to figure out how to implement, code and design the thing that I want to make...

i'm so demoralized.

is this the only hobby where you could make a fuck ton of money with no overhead costs?

>>528887808
what is it let me help

>>528887858
Youtube as well.

>>528887991
constructing buildings... kind of like an RTS I suppose...

>>528888036
use the position from raycast to spawn the building in that position?

>>528886314
why do you feel exhausted?

>>528888104
oh well, I mean't more like construction cost, the time it takes, completing it, cancelling it, all of that stuff...

>m-muh money! muh riches to get me bitches!
you delusional fucks will find out the hard way unfortunately. but keep sipping the /agdg/ copium

the sequel to shart

>>528887201
where did you meet her. how do i meet one. how do you catch these fish? i havent had a girlfriend since college because i work remote. feels bad man.

>>528888373
shartbros we eating good

is deepseek any good?

>>528888452
Honestly pure luck, she's my old HS GF that we started talking again after we both got divorced and hadn't seen each other in over a decade after learning we lived in the same neighborhood. We went for a walk and have been together since. I had super high standards after my ex (career, intelligent, doesn't need taken care of, own interests, etc.) And she checks all the boxes and is perfect. Before her I was single for 10 years because it's almost literally impossible otherwise. My suggestion is anime/comic conventions to meet friends and go through them if possible otherwise but it's still an extremely low%of meeting someone who isn't a dumb whore. I also work remote and used to go to the bar every Wednesday just to mingle and people watch. Apps are useless don't even touch them. I also had no luck with hobbies, I play hockey twice a week and every girl in the entire league shows up taken so that advice always seemed stupid to me.

>>528888284
>construction cost
game design wise, use simple value like 10, 20, 30 then adjust later
>the time it takes
>completing it
i usually use delta time. in godot it's like:
var elapsed_time = 0
var countdown = 5
var constructing = false
func process(delta):
if constructing == true:
var elapsed_time += delta
if elapsed_time >= countdown:
building_completed()
>cancelling it
gives refund
constructing = false

>>528888214
I have chronic burnout from grinding so much.

>>528873473
cool design

>>528882453
that's going in my cat collection. post more cats

I'm in this for the money.

being cucked by my artistic inability is so fucking ONIONS

>>528888452
step one: be attractive.

>>528890106
damn, i failed...

>>528888452
SEAmaxx

>>528890106
I will partially agree with this. People online downplay the fuck out of it(places like /adv/, reddit, etc) acting like girls don't care about looks if you have the other stuff ([personality, money, etc.) they literally DO NOT GIVE A FUCK about any of that if you don't look decent. Women are pathetic in this regard. I've had a house since I was 25, a stable career, travel the world, handy, etc. But I'm only 5'8" and slightly overweight (not out of shape I've climbed angel's landing and like I mentioned play hockey twice a week) and man, women pretty much don't care about anything but height and skinny on first draw random encounters basically. It's pathetic. One of my best friends hasn't even figured out what he's doing with his life yet, like, lives in an apartment like looks like a dudes dorm room even though he's in his 30s but if he goes out he can pretty much get any girl he wants because he's like 6'3". Funny enough, the opposite seemed to be true when we were in Vegas. Of course, that's a different type of girl to be one who enjoys vegas but we seemed to be equals when we go out there once a year.

>>528890809
>slightly overweight
If you had any intelligence you'd get in shape boy

My game will never get fanart...

dont you dare go hollow

>>528891261
Eh, I only seem to drop weight when I fast or eat less than 1500 a day which is really hard when I'm at home 24/7 with nothing to do. I kind of plan on doing it within the next few years because I'd like to go into my 40s in shape but I have other things to worry about right now.

>>528889914
That's one of the best free base models out there

the shit you talk about in here to not open godot

>>528891593
>I have other things to worry about right now.
There's always an excuse mate, get a rope, the jumping kind. Do ~1-2 thousand a day and you're going to see effects pretty soon. It takes ~10 minutes off your day too

does these look good for a girly game?

>>528890809
Nah bro, I've already seen literal disabled niggas get a cute gf. The simple truth is that us incels are just cursed by god, and that's it, the attractiveness cope, height cope, money cope, personality cope, famous game cope, none of this shit will give results. The only thing you can wait for is robowaifus

Better to be overweight than underweight/skinny as a guy unless you're really tall. Skinny male is probably the most unattractive phenotype t.skeleton

>cris already gave up on his I MOG U WITH MY PYGAME KOF
lmao

>>528891856
I thought consensus was it’s skinnyfat. By the way how’d I stumble into /r9k/, sup guyse?

>>528892080
>made fun of him that he'll be giving up in 3 days
>actually lasted 2
cris is a malicious time black hole and he will only disappoint and waste your time

>>528890809
lol do you guys even go outside? the average man is married and under 6', you're just retarded for going after shallow instagram models

>>528892080
>>528892162
chat gpt got into some loops where it's solutions to a compiler error actually were about some pyinstaller file that he also tells me is correct.

So basically chat gpt told me the fix is fixing a file it tells me is correct.

>>528891789
they're disabled but the genetic are there if they have a good face and height. it's all about genetics.

>>528891716
Anon I lift weights regularly and play hockey twice a week and golf or walk in the woods when I get the chance. I need a deficit to be effective.

>>528891789
I'm not coping though dumbass. I have a girlfriend and I'm not an incel. Follow the reply chain before replying like a dumbass.

>>528892201
yea he's married as a betabuxx, she feels no sexual attraction toward him

my game needs more dictionaries...

>>528892201
If you're gonna come in and comment on an ongoing discussion you should fucking read it first. I've been married and I'm currently dating. The last thing I would ever want is a fucking instagram model lmfao. My girlfriend has a stable career making 6 figures without showing her tits online.

>>528852176
>>528844207
I wish it was actually possible to just fucking mass-gen models like those, with them actually game-engine-ready.
There is like 5 artists on Earth still doing shit like this, and most either don't take commissions or it was a once-and-done project.

>>528892595
websters wasnt enough? AH! AH! AH!

agdg has not figured out the dating market when it's simple as fuck
>attractive girls target attractive guys or rich guys
>being rich negates being poor so that's why you see hot girls with real life ntr ugly bastards
>attractive guys realize how shitty attractive girls are so they start treating them like what they deserve
>attractive girls take their frustration on all other guys
>average to below average girls do not want to date average guys. it sucks but that's how it is
>they wait for an attractive guy
>attractive guys will eventually pick the average girl over the hot girl because she knows how to keep her man
>the only ones left alone are average to below average guys

there are exceptions to the rules but know that chasing for them is like trying to win the lottery. it is pure luck.

Nearly finished with it.

>>528842930
Imagine showing overwatch porn to someone in 1998

>>528892918
I have good traits (tall, white, somewhat good face) I'm sure I could get a gf if I really wanted but I'm also pretty autistic and extremely schizoid/avoidant, the idea of letting someone in intimately terrifies me to no end. Despite this, I still crave. I wonder if I died already and went to hell.

>>528892437
That doesn't even make sense, how would height come into play when the girl has to look down at him all the time, like she'd do for a child
>good face genetics
You don't even know who I'm talking about to assume this, lol, it's pure cope

>>528892490
You're beyond retarded my dude, I'm talking about you whining on weight and height. Faggot can't keep up with the shit he wrote himself lol

>>528892958
output

>>528892551
that only happens in your mentally ill jewish hellhole, in my first world country men are the ones leaving women

Will your game have an esports community?

I hate mechs

>>528893191
girls can just tell instinctively what your maximimum genetic potential is. this is why frame > muscles.

>>528893209
Nice HD 2D workflow chuddie

>>528893278
i hope not because then ill have to balance for it and i dont want to do that

>>528893359
you just haven't met the right one yet

>>528890809
Not trying to crab but post face, usually posts like this have extremely soft oval shaped face posters.
I know guys who are fat as fuck that have more than one kid with different women.
Post face so we can see what you're working with here.
If not your face it may be your character. From this glimpse into your personality in your post you probably don't attract women because you have a sour mentality that lacks true introspection.
*Women* are pathetic because they choose attractive partners? Twice in your post you've said this. I don't know any men who don't use this criteria as the premiere basis for selecting a woman and if I met one who didn't I'd call them a faggot.
I didn't pursue a relationship with my wife because I saw her in public and thought she would be a great conversationalist, that's retarded. I saw her in public and said Damn, she's good looking and has big tits.
What's pathetic is your bitterness because you believe you possess so many accolades that make you worthy of external validation, but you're wrong & they don't.
Looks matter. If you don't have them, get them. If you know this and still don't pursue you, you're not smart.

>women are sexually atracted to things that women find sexually atractive like height, face, frame, hands, dick size, intelligence, money, charisma, social status, creativity
wow, is like I realized about this shit when I was like 20.

>>528858529
Too many poly to attract the "ebin 64tris lowpoly" modelers.
Not enough poly to attract the "just sculpt and pray Blender's optimization tools can get it below 6 millions tris" modelers.

my mother's husband found out about my hobby and he looked me in the eye and said:
>listen little homie, making you them computa games won't get you dat ass

>>528893191
I never whined about it though. You have no reading comprehension.

>>528893545
I'm not posting my face here lmao. Also, once again, I have a gf you're reading into this way to much when I'm offering advice for the young retards here.

>>528893680
they are sexually attracted to genetics

>>528893412
>women now sense high genetic potential from disabled dude that may even be infertile
lol, if all that cope was even 1% true we'd all be superman right now from the eugenics
also, I'd have a gf if the good face genetics thing was true

>>528893914
You were calling it pathetic or whatever. I think your brain simply can't associate the stuff you're typing to what's inside your head

>>528890106
I have a conventionally attractive face and have been told so my whole life, but im underweight now and i dress like shit, so that kind of negatively balances it out.

>>528893857
luckily you are a breast man

>>528893290
why is the pic so low res did the ai make the screenshot?

>>528894294
Trust me, women are pathetic. The older you get the more this will ring true especially with the young women now. Equality has ruined the man/woman dynamic power.

>>528894294
>lol, if all that cope was even 1% true we'd all be superman right now from the eugenics
it's happening right now because they don't need to settle for resources anymore. just give it a few more years.

>>528894242
yes, but let me ask this question.

How come chad thundercock genetics are superior if they're demographically the minority?

wouldn't make more sense that incel genetics not breed or at least be 98% of the population?

no human should have power over another, period. no gods, no masters. if someone tells you what to do, shoot them in the face.

>>528894501
>makeup
>birth control
>women settle once they realize chad won't breed them

>>528879186
Because they don't adhere to the 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 color limit.

>>528894637
>women that seek alpha chad thundercock genes don't reproduce because is hard to reproduce when you're 35+
>the same amount of multiple babies born to a single mom has been the same since a century ago
>chad thundercock chasers don't breed
>the conservative young gilrs that settle with incel beta bucks breed
????

>>528894861
it's impressive how you misinterpreted everything i listed

>>528895039
yeah, but that's how I reply.

my point is that religion is now what defines the birth rate of a mother, not intelligence, income of if she seeks chad thundecock genes.

>>528894501
Chad thundercock is a cope used by incels to blame shift their failures on the universe.

much like women, being handsome is not the same as being hot or cute

>>528894456
maybe someone saved the thumbnail

>>528869715
Does anyone even farm screenshot saturday for content? If someone is doesn't that mean it's a good thing because they're getting more eyes on your game?

>>528895312
this. see: >>528894295
this is exactly what ive been told by women; that im handsome, but im not hot, or even cute, because im a skeleton with no dress sense, and im also fuckin autistic as shit

>>528891697
I keep fucking it up some how

>>528889914
woah a strand game

i need shmoney and lots of it

>>528877715
They can't sue you if you don't copy their copyrighted material or their trademarks or patents. Except you probably opened the door for getting sued by asking because by doing that you acknowledged that you're cloning it which they could argue in court.

>>528893412
>girls can just tell instinctively what your maximimum genetic potential is
I swear you niggers are insane living in a costructed metareality

Is there anything more embarrassing than telling someone you're a game dev?
>blue collar guy over at my house fixing something
>"yessir we're all good to go. whatcha doing on that computer"
>"oh-uhh-oh I make video games. Actually I'm working on my first commercial one. It's a puzzle game abou-"
>"haha ok sir very nice. we'll get out of your hair"

>>528896173
Telling them that you're twitch streamer.
Although, I wouldn't tell people that I make games, I'd tell them that I work on software.

>>528896173
>>528896220
just say you're a scientist doing research on game theory

>>528894242
>they are sexually attracted to genetics
this retarded take is always hilarious
have you seen the """people""" who are breeding the most?
protip: it's not the good looking dudes nor the smart ones

>>528884832
>someone got reincarnated as a pig
>he's trying to entertain himself to not die of boredom
>some human notices
>he's like oh shit
>then he realizes he's a pig and can't communicate and can't get help and falls into depression
>human shares the clip online and it becomes a funny meme
>pig get slaughtered for dinner
It is not a funny webm it's tragic

I haven't forgiven women for their taste in men.
And I don't mean that they go for handsome guys and I'm ugly or something. That I can understand and forgive. The truth is darker and more fucked up than that.

>>528895827
What content? Screenshot saturday is just other devs hugboxxing each other. No normie gamer is searching through screenshot saturday posts looking for the next trans allegory 2d platformer about depression lmao

>>528896173
it's the equivalent of being a toy maker. his own parents just lie and say that their son is a plumber.
>>528896327
this only happens in places where women have limited opportunities

>>528889914
don't force low poly for the sake for low poly
nobody cares about the literal polycount it's more about the aesthetic
add a poly when you need to get the shape you want

i make toys for manchildren

Guys! Don't forget to advertise your solo dev indie game to other bitter angry lonely incel solo indie game devs like the ones in these threads!! Surely they will buy your game and spread it via word of mouth to their large network of well adjusted friends!

I procure digital feed for piggies.

>>528893146
If you ever get one just remember that anything you tell her she will weaponize against you when the time comes.

>>528896627
Trannies are completely obsessed with low poly, because they are autistic 30 year old men who are stuck trying to relive their childhood

Can someone hand hold me in making something like this? This is day 3 of making utter garbage but im a beginner.

its a reference photo, generated from chat gpt from some table top rpg

this is why you need to start making games early. i can't make dating sims or porn games because i've been so disillusioned with the female gender. i honestly don't know how the japs do it desu.

>>528896446
Exactly. I can't imagine anyone using them for content which makes it such a silly xeet. He's complaining about some made up shit just so he can complain.

I'm going to make a time travel game just to include these lines:

>"Where are we?"
>"I think you mean.... when are we..."

my studio apartment smells like piss, particularly ammonia, because i piss in my clogged bathtub instead of my toilet
there has to be a game idea for this feeling

>>528896891
Anime girls != real girls

>>528896980
Anime girls > real girls

>>528896173
>I'm between jobbies.. I mean jobs

>>528896864
-Make low poly model
-Paint on your basic colors
-Bake your AO and multiply it onto the texture
-Overlay some grunge textures to add texture to the various materials
-Lower the texture resolution until sufficiently blocky using nearest neighbor filtering

Deluding yourself into thinking you'll make it works wonders for motivation and resilience but when it comes to actually releasing your game... yeah that's when it all crashes down.

>>528894501
are you married?

>>528896864
my advice is to gather quality photo references, so you're not clueless about how something looks.

as for practical advice, learn the rules of proportion, how to measure proportions in a reference.

It's also a good idea to draw using krita line and square tools over your reference to have an idea of how the edge flow should look like.

It's much easier to not guess and just copy your reference with a drawn wireframe.

As for those textures, you should look up a texturing tool like armor paint (It's free if you can compile it) and just take photo textures and use a tool to downscale them to psx resolutions, like 128x128 and use gif compression exporting settings.

>>528896683
2018 was 25 years ago

>>528897119
you should always wait for player feedback on your demo before completing a game

>>528897171
No, but some things are pretty obvious once you stop being a teenager or young adult.

>>528896627
>nobody cares about the literal polycount
Having a metric fuckton of characters to display, I actually do.
Although I do agree it's a matter of magnitude and not an exact target.

>>528897204
proof that this jobby ages the fuck out of you

Did you know we're only 64 days away from the new Stardew Valley symphony?

>>528894501
The redpill argument is that prior to the 1970s, men used to provide resources (i.e. money, housing) so it didn't really matter if they looked like shit. Nowadays women work just as much as men and can provide for themselves so they don't need to find a long-term commitment to survive.

Obviously this is ignoring the fact that housing and groceries are now so expensive that you basically need two person income to actually thrive but w/e.

honestly AI tech keeps improving.

yeah cris looks amazing

imagine if cris discovered irl sculpting. I wonder what kind of eldritch abominations he'd make

Definition of insanity is making the same game over and over again, expecting different results.

>>528897017
>AO
if i bake it do I have to always account for that in the game? Very nooby I know


>>528897193
>It's much easier to not guess and just copy your reference with a drawn wireframe.
I was trying to make it from cubes?

>>528897303
I doubt the actual polycount matters in your character count the issue is going to be more with them being skinned meshes which are more taxing to run than regular meshes

>>528896114
cope pedo

>>528897736
my advice is to never relly on your imagination.
always double check with photo references.

>>528897736
>if i bake it do I have to always account for that in the game? Very nooby I know

I'm not sure exactly what you mean.
But PSX/PS2 tier models will almost always have the shading (AO + specular) baked into the models because they didn't have access to advanced lighting models or screen space effects like SSAO.

>>528896864
youre stealing from trench crusade

where can i learn the lore of nortubel?

>>528897957
I'm going to too when I make my Fear & Hunger-like.

>>528898030
newgrounds

>>528897446
>not playing rune factory or fantasy life
race traitor

A multiplayer game where you need to repeatedly punch yourself in the balls to win.
I call it:
Game development Simulator

>idle game sold 90k units in a week

https://gamalytic.com/game/3372980

>>528898431
Are ya winnin', son?

>>528898531
gamedev is a lottery
if this garbage had been posted on aggy daggy prior to release everyone would've said it was going to make $10

>>528897759
I have next to no skinned meshes, since they use vertex animations.

>>528898531
guy already made a succesfull game, thus had that to piggy back and promote off of

>>528898760
False. Idle games are a top tier GMI genre.

>>528898760
is there a way to lose in this game?

>>528898856
this was 1:1 clone of digseum, and it looks like it's selling well too. Released yesterday.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3267900/Click_and_Conquer/

>>528897915
pic rel is what I am currently doing

>>528897921
ahhh okay I see I thought that if I added shade into the model it would make it look funky in weird lighting

>>528891697
what is it?

>>528898856
i feel like if I tried to make one it would be shit because i don't really understand the appeal of these games. it seems like a great genre for someone solo though.

>>528898760
I get what you're saying, based on art, it's not appealing. However, looking at the menu's it's showing there is some depth to the game. I have no idea what that depth is, but there are steam players who eat up that kind of shit. So this could be a case of a Demo being needed to show what's there, when the graphics aren't so good.

>>528899272
Say what you will about Thomas, he definitely understands aesthetics.

>>528899059
look up wireframe reference on google.

you're struggling because your brain lacks the mental vocabulary to make it.

that's why you should focus on trying to copy reference when you're a begginer over imagination work.

>>528898253
are they made by nepobabies? no? then that bugwoman probably never heard of it from cnn and msnbc

Success breeds jealousy.

Thank you so much for making Butt Knight!

fygoom was right about the bosci troon

>>528897303
my game probably has more polygons than yours. it also probably runs better.

im losing...

https://youtu.be/qC5puCLApts?t=90

is he right? 26 is too old to learn gamedev?

>>528900301
fuck off fagoon

>>528900761
i think i started at 26 too

>>528900761
No lmfao, god you kids are so dumb about life. At 26 you still have an average of 46 years left on this earth. 26 is basically fucking nothing of your adult life. You've had free will for only 8 years and your brain has only been developed for 1.

>>528900761
If you managed to make it all the to 26, and you're still basically at zero knowledge in all relevant topics, then yes. Like, how did you manage to live 26 years without some curiosity about how things work? You don't have it in you to make it.

where the FUCK are the CRPGs

>>528900761
>it turns out there is a previously unknown complexity that I was unaware of until I started doing it myself

fucking shocker
I dunno why people can accept that electrical work or plumbing or surgery or whatever is harder than they might realize but that thought doesn't extend to any of the arts

>>528900761
part of this hobby is taking risks, you can still make it but your projects will be less ambitious.

>>528901046
This is wrong and dumb. You can learn any new skill you want any time you want it just takes time and effort. It's never too late to do anything.

>>528901325
cris...

>>528901046
>Like, how did you manage to live 26 years without some curiosity about how things work?
yeah what kind of a loser would just exist in his room for 20+ years? doesnt he want to do things like learn how to drive a car, get his first job, get a girlfriend, go to parties?
what a loser lol...

>>528900410
Possible, but not everyone can be as talented as (you) Anon, so reducing the polycount will have to do in the meantime.

where are the archeology games?

/aggy/ told me deving in 2000s would be stupid

but there were plenty of cool games made by one person so, no, it would be awesome

I would dev with:
>that SDL
>that OpenGL
>that fucking other libs available

>>528901156
>but that thought doesn't extend to any of the arts
especially since solo gamedev is so many different types of art combined

>>528901578
He knows everything about world of warcraft though

>>528901325
Factually incorrect. There are many skills that have hard IQ requirements to learn at a higher, commercially competitive level. Plus, this, but unironically >>528901578. If you haven't done all those things by the time you're 20, you simply don't have the motivation and discipline. No one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to gamedev. All that has to come from within, and you don't have it.

>>528901528
I'm not cris fag. If you honestly think you can't learn new things as you get older you're dumb as fuck.

>>528901660
I did dev in the 2000s and Game Maker 5/Blitz3d/Dark Basic/Irrlicht were all kino
It wasn't as bare bones as people seem to think it was

>>528901858
tell me more, what did you dev?

>>528901578
Time to give up

>Progress as planned
>Neighbors are screaming at throwing stuff at each other, making my internet disconnect randomly
I think it's a good time to stop for today

>>528899272
gotta give credit to tommy here, while most of these videos waste more than 10 minutes of my life, his only wastes 9, still loses the one that wastes 8 minutes tho

>>528902062
do you live next door to hulk or something

>>528901646
... the only ones I can think of would be the old Indiana Jones by Lucasfilm (who, like the films, don't have that much in common with actual archeology), and the profession in WoW that was just a shitty minigame.
What gameplay would it even be?
Dungeon Keeper 1 but the objective is less about killing the other archeology team and more about racing to dig more artifacts than them?

>>528901858
>darkbasic
https://youtu.be/sOOty0yspmk?si=9HZwRlqG3xSd-Wv2

this looks fun as hell, basically unity of that time

>>528901834
Cris is the embodiment of the perma/beg/. The schizo of stagnation. Think about how dumb the average person is, and realize that half the people in the world are dumber than that. Many people are capable of learning at any age, but also many people are incapable of learning at any age. Anyone who spouts the bullshit that "anyone can learn" typically falls into the later category and lack the ability to perceive how low-skill they are.

>>528901156
>I dunno why people can accept that electrical work or plumbing or surgery or whatever is harder than they might realize but that thought doesn't extend to any of the arts
Ask anyone anywhere and everyone will tell you the same thing "bro it's easy just pick up programming/drawing today chase your dreams, go get em champ, you can do anything".
So of course people will jump into it

But if you ask anyone if you should become a NASA engineer or brain surgeon and they'll say "I dunno you need to study a lot dude, you might not have a family life, think carefully before doing it".

>>528900761
I agree that the amount of knowledge to absorb is huge but to say it's too late at 26 is just loser talk

>>528902235
no, the family there has the parents scream at each other often once it happens. the worst was when it went on for 6-7 hours straight with no breaks

>>528902284
Gamedev is one of the absolute hardest things you can be doing with your life, and I'm saying this as a former NASA contractor who has written code for robotics that ran in the ISS.

>>528898938
no
it's just number go up

>>528901812
> There are many skills that have hard IQ requirements to learn at a higher, commercially competitive level
I don't understand the point of this comment, I'm not saying everyone can go out and be a nobel winning chemist or some shit. But in 2025 especially with the internet/youtube and shit it's literally like impossible to not learn new things, you have to actively be ignorant. For reference, I didn't even ice skate once in my entire life until I was 25 and did it on a date with a girl. After realizing I could stand on the ice and I was an adult with free will by the following week I had spent $500 on gear and signed up for the learn to play class. I still to this day improve and keep playing twice a week minimum. Even though I didn't start until my late 20s and I'm in my mid 30s I can outskate and stick handle ex high schoolers in my league. I'll never be as good as someone who started 20 years earlier than I ever could but there was nothing stopping me from learning at all.

I also bought a house at 25 and I've owned it for 10 years. I built an entire addition in my basement for it without ever framing or anything before but it wasn't difficult to learn and do myself. I've saved so much money in my life by just going and learning whatever I need to do and I'm not some "high IQ" genius lmao. I fix and repair my own car and motorcycle, I do all repairs in my home, and I didn't learn blender until I was probably almost 30 as well. I can't think of a single thing I can't do if I put my time into it.

>>528899171
>because i don't really understand the appeal of these games
I've got so many genres like this. Usually don't play too much small games so it's really hard to come up with good ideas for small games.

I'm not a gamedev, I'm an Entertainment Engineer.

for me it's indecisiveness between which art skill i want to develop. i've already invested a year into 3D but prefer the look of 2D. even if I decided to go with 2d, i still have to choose between pixel or digital art and which one is more valuable in the long run for game development. like if i became really good at pixel art, it'll never look as good as digital 2D.

Being autistict, people will probably not get my game cause they can't see it like I see it

You should have started serious deving when you turned 12

If you didn't then it's over

>>528902924
This is quite literally the only reason why solodevs fail. They need a neurie to reign in the savants that make games too smart for little oinkers on steam.

>>528901006
basically everyone who made it 1ma started in their teens

>>528901325
your brain literally learns better when you're younger

honestly a lot of people here need to watch this video and fuck off to other things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkO8rYcXZXY
for most of you you're in love with the idea of making a game or the idea of being a game developer, not the actual process of making games

>>528903095
thanks i'll s tart working on a time machine to get that fixed

>>528902761
However, you'll never become an Olympic ice skater, and you obviously understand that. Gamedev is incredibly competitive, just like ice skating at the highest level. Even if you cope about how you're not in this for the money, whether you like it or not, you are competing for player attention, a competition that you will lose without a high degree of competency.

>>528903118
Were do I find neurie? Probably not here I guess

>>528903095
i went back on the yoyogames archive to see the games i made when i was a kid and god theyre dogshit i should have given up

>>528902820
I'm a fungineer

we'll get more young developers with how many gamers are satisfied with the current state of gaming. instead of spending time grinding for esports they'll make games instead.

WISH WE COULD TURN BACK TIME

TO THE GOOD OLD DAYS

hytale taught us that unpolished but fun jank beats overpolished never-released abandonware

>>528903309
I like looking back at old games.
Makes me think of the projects I shouldn't have dropped.

>>528902761
Being able to put yourself to work towards your goals is far more valuable than high IQ. If you're not lying sounds like you got what it takes.

High IQ is only useful when you have the autism to hyperfixate on one thing and become the best at it. Gamedev is a combination of multiple things and one person simply cannot master them all so that sort of high iq behavior isn't really useful.

>>528903210
Gamedev is a combination of talents. You can't compare it to ice skating like that. Being good at gamedev is more comparable to someone being extremely good at ice skating, singing, painting all while having a doctorate in mathematics.

>>528903127
You people are so pessimistic and pathetic it's embarrassing. If you truly believe stuff like this I hope you enjoy your sad existence lmfao.

>>528903210
>However, you'll never become an Olympic ice skater, and you obviously understand that.
True, but I also understand that because I will never dedicate all of my time to it. If I did drills 5 days a week with a strict diet and exercise on top of it I am sure I could get to an elite level of some sort but obviously I don't have the time or resources for that.
>Gamedev is incredibly competitive...Even if you cope about how you're not in this for the money, whether you like it or not, you are competing for player attention, a competition that you will lose without a high degree of competency.
This is dumb because attention has nothing to do with anything but luck after a certain point. Also doing gamedev for money is dumb anyways. You're better off learning how to be a programmer or artist and getting a nice stable career job than trying to "make it" with your unique game and that's just a fact. I know quite a few indie game devs who have had success with their own games in the past (late 90s/early 00s) and they all work for big companies now raking it easy cash with their knowledge because it's much better. They still make their own games but mostly because they want to in their free time. Personally I am making the game that doesn't exist I want to play. My job makes me more than enough money and lifestyle to live happily.

>>528900761
That's on the brink of maybe (MAYBE) being able to participate in a gamejam with the help of an engine and AI. 30s though? Forget it. Spend that time with your family.

>>528902516
when i was younger i trained with professional MMA fighters and american football players and found the process of generating revenge from indie game development to be arguably more difficult (in a mental focus/willpower/discipline manner, not physical), than being a mid-level UFC fighter
i think successful devs don't understand how difficult it really is to do what they do

>>528901646
Can you make archeology interesting in a game format?

>>528904109
how many years have you been gamedeving and how many games have you released?

>>528904342
most successful devs don't know why they're successful

>have billion dollar idea for a friendslop streamer bait game
>dont know jackshit about how to multiplayer
what to do

>>528898957
>2k wishlists
>95% positive 45 reviews in a day
this one's going to do very well, wait until a few youtubers play it
i predict at least 900 reviews, 87% positive

>>528900761
>starts out making a game by creating and animating a bunch of sprites before even having movement down

What the fuck is he doing

>>528904109
>because attention has nothing to do with anything but luck after a certain point
lmao he's a luck copeist
explains a lot

>>528897017
you forgot the UV placements too anon. He has to tweak it to look like that.

I made a 256fes model and it didnt go right at some parts cause i half assed the UV.

>>528904650
make small multiplayer things to learn multiplayer dev

>>528904650
start learning, wtf
i'm making a friendslop game too, zero multiplayer/netcode/network experience
today i'm finishing up the first level, adding some basic menu functionality, and then immediately getting into learning netcode
just go fuckin do it man

>steals all sounds and models from this webstie

that was soulful experience

>https://youtu.be/iGaEgyHvKmI
>Is Our Pixel Platformer Actually Marketable?
The answer is "no"

>>528904097
>Being able to put yourself to work towards your goals is far more valuable than high IQ. If you're not lying sounds like you got what it takes.
This is my main point from earlier, and I feel like it didn't come across at all. I was saying that if you're 26 this year, you were 16 in 2015, and in 2015, there was already ample resources available for anyone to learn gamedev skills. If you are the kind of person that managed to spend all of 2015-2025 without utilizing any of those resource and learn any skills out of pure curiosity, then you don't have that willpower or spark in you to make yourself learn what it takes to make a game.

>>528904109
>If I did drills 5 days a week with a strict diet and exercise on top of it I am sure I could get to an elite level of some sort but obviously I don't have the time or resources for that.
No. This is absolute insane delusion. You literally can't. It's physically impossible. My hobby sport is tennis, and it's a running joke among tennis elites that more than half of adult male amateur tennis players think they can take a game off of a pro, and that is absolutely insane hubris. There is zero chance. The level is just too far apart. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VAG1E17Cajg

>>528903262
post your game on tiktok and do what the top comments say

>>528904097
>Gamedev is a combination of multiple things and one person simply cannot master them all so that sort of high iq behavior isn't really useful.
You don't need to be the master of everything to be a decent game dev though. History has literally proven that. Regardless, most things necessary to learn for gamedev take about a year of focus to become better than like 70% of everyone else doing it lol. You can become a decent 2D artist in 6 months if you focus on it and take courses. I remember when I took a drawing course in college the very first day I remember all we did was learn and practice drawing straight lines. That always stuck with me because for all my prior years of art education that was never once a lesson until then. Before then it was about being creative (where a lot of the people here get stuck and don't move beyond like nortubel, galduen, etc.) once you start learning the methods like light, shadows, expression, etc. it all clicks and boom now you have something. I've had a kid from HS on my FB who one year went from never drawing to drawing comic book style characters because he hyper focused on it and took courses and learned how to draw for a year.


Same thing when I first started learning music theory in high school. One of the first lessons was ACEGBDF and saying ABCDEFGFEDCBA front and back memorized. Ever since then I can sit down at a piano and play chords and melodies. I had been playing guitar and bass for years at that point and then suddenly I could basically play or do anything and my fretboard unlocked for me.

Programming is basically the same way, but a harder point to reach at the beginning. You need to understand the syntax of the language and learn methods and eventually things just click and you understand the tools and why you would use one over another. TBC...

>>528905265
Cont.

It's not some impossible task to do this and be good and efficient at each necessary skill. The problem most people have on agdg and in the world in general is they get too impatient and want everything immediately and just half ass learning. No one wants to be told they need to spend 3 years learning skills before they can begin doing what they want to do. They just want to go do it.

I don't understand the appeal of idle games, survivor likes, 4 player coop, cozy gaming, mobas and hero shooters. I'm just too old.

>>528905134
visually it's nice
it'll probably do fine

>>528905520
>visually it's nice
no it isn't.

>>528905134
>only 1.2% of them have grossed over a million dollars

The fuck? His measure of success is making a million dollars off a pixel platformer? This nigga gonna be lucky to make $50k.