castle edition

>Demo Days
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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
>>529496720

this really is just a hobby

how the FUCK does shared_ptr work

I only had 30 minutes to work on my game today

>>529564716
Isn't that the deprecated stdlib smart pointer? Why would you want to use it

>>529564936
because the library i'm writing bindings to uses it

I need to make my game before I kill myself

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

I need to finish my game so I can kill myself

>>529564716
It's a thread-safe reference counter. It's not that complicated.

New workflow unlocked
AI model highpoly -> clean it up, retopo/just remake it in lowpoly using the model as reference, basically tracing -> can use high poly for baking details/etc. -> kino

nepobabies? evil
gambleslop timewasters? evil
avatatroon attention seekers and timewasters? evil
only ludokino devs will see heaven

>>529565031
My condolences.
I'm not going to look up what it actually is, but I think it's a smart pointer.
Smart pointers increment every time something is using them and decrement when something stops using them. If the number goes to zero they destroy what they point to.
It's like a mini garbage collector.
Put a breakpoint on the numeric counter for one and watch how it changes.

I honestly could make my porn game with 250 waifus to fuck to look like a logic analyzer bros.

Honestly Boko has the right idea
Just keep this a hobby, work on your dream game your whole life, and then there's no pressure it's all just an enjoyable pursuit in your spare time.

I admire the 10 years of work he's putting into the rolling around game

Grift status?

>>529565378
You have no game.

>my game will never have this much sovl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aejyZdorBc

>>529565187
Thanking you for your inspirational role in Bokube

>>529565378
I want you to know I agree with you and you are completely objectively divinely correct. We need to keep spreading the truth so that we bring about a better future

>>529565624
what the fuck bokube has deep lore?

>>529564534 (OP)
progreeeeeeeeeess

savegames! gotta make their ui be a lil bit more clearer but the main thing is done and works

C++ is such a horrendous massive piece of dogshit and anybody that loves it is mentally deranged and insane
C is also shit but it's less bad
That's all. I'm going back to the code trenches now.

>>529565624
pay someone to fix that UI already (it's a bit ugly sorry, maybe try a softer outline with some colour, on multiply mode. the harsh black doesn't look good all over it)

>>529565339
you're not cris

>>529565830
Can you please defeat marnix? Please make your game good. They can't do that even if they put 10 years into it. Don't make it slop. I would never root for you otherwise. Don't make me regret believing in you

This is my current crab collection: ballcrab, craboid, small crab, slime (with crab), magic crab, crab bastard, grab crab, crub and gobcrab.
Which other crabs do I need? There is a female crabmaid in the works.

>be me
>look at cute game in genre that is supposedly easy money
>game sold poorly
>one of the screenshots: "body type"
lol!
>other game differentish genre
>have watched it for a while
>also sold poorly
>i recall a sus description, capsule art depicts a cute elf girl, description focused on playing as a "cute" male wolf boy which i dont see on there anymore
>scroll down
>a developer has responded to this review
>it's a man cosplaying an anime girl sporting a light beard, looks like more than just a cosplay....he might seriously be a troon
....

what brings these types into anime and gamedev? why don't they go somewhere else?

>>529565876
Use what you like in the language>>529565876
, you don't pay for the rest

>>529566020
Which one is a reference to my game?

>>529565876
Hand drills are such a horrendous massive piece of dogshit and anybody that loves it is mentally deranged and insane
Screwdrivers are also shit but it's less bad

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3149370/ROGUE_LIGHT_DECK_BUILDER/

>>529565830
>save games
just for singleplayer both singleplayer and multiplayer?

thoughts on biteme making a similar game slated to release in November?

>>529566020
Mecha/robot crab

it happened again...

>>529566146
Tell me which game is yours and I will hook you up before dd. If you do not tell me, and this is "no one ever acknowledges my game ;_;", this bait is so used up by now it is more or less teleporting behind you.
>>529566321
Fuck yes, cannot believe I did not think of it.

>>529565830
n-now I can live out my fantasies of having a salaryman grab my butt under my skirt while I serve him a drink..

>>529566020
something like this

>>529566256
>in November
Seems like they are working on a massive game this time

>>529565830
>cozy
>simulation game
>cute
if you don't put your foot in it this could make you a gamedev for life

>>529566179
Your analogy doesn't make sense because C++ has nothing over C that doesn't come with a gorillion downsides, rules, and exceptions to those rules and on top of that it doesn't even make sense to use C++ as C with classes because classes are a fundamentally evil and flawed concept. Classes represent the metaphysical bad.

>>529566507
I will name it weird horse crab.

>>529565876
I don't like C++, I prefer C#. If only GameMaker and Unreal used it, it'd give me an easier time to jump to another engine.

>>529565981
>Cris is now Talked about like a whodev
what the fucc

>>529566348
Farted blood?

>>529565981
you're right my workflows have surpassed him already

you shouldn't use C++.

You should use C. It is simpler. It is elegant in its simplicity.

>>529539446
>do the opposite of what nortubel does
like pic related?

>>529566256
both, they're meant to be player hosted games, the itch demo is different to make it easier for people to play together
honestly it sucks, made me really upset and stressed me a lot but everyone here is super positive so it cheers me up to keep going hard. idk its whatever i just gotta make game

>>529566852

>>529566774
you're not tomo

>>529566852
wtf dawg
me on the right tho

>>529566852
What the actual fuck is going on here

>>529566672
Godot uses GDScript which isn't C-like and is better than GameMaker studio. Come to Godot sis and just don't hold me responsible for anything if you do.

>>714209184

Just look at this retard flooding /v/ out of his containment general. All this shilling and still no release in sight boku kys

>prototype has nearly 700 downloads
how do I fix this (I don't want to make the game the whole game)

You shouldn't use hand drills.

You should use screwdrivers. It is simpler. It is elegant in its simplicity.

>>529566852
>the "make the player character futa" object

If you make a cool game it could brighten the lives of people across the world. Spreading joy is a very noble pursuit

>>529564534 (OP)
the male is trying to dance to courtship the female during mating season
is an animation bug

>>529566020
that reminds me I need a crab enemy in my game

>>529566348
bocchi fren nooooo!!! you weren't supposed to fart while in a serious dev session where you chain yourself to the chair!!! you were strapped there for a reason, to dev for 1 hour sessions at a timer 4x a day! *looks at clock* you only started 1 minute ago, you're stuck sitting in it for 59 more minutes, sorry bocchi fren, ponder the aroma as you dev for the remaining time

>>529567243
Which game is yours?

>>529566617
Your analogy doesn't make sense because a hand drill has nothing over a screwdriver that doesn't come with a gorillion downsides, rules, and exceptions to those rules and on top of that it doesn't even make sense to use a hand drill as a screwdriver with electricity because electricity is a fundamentally evil and flawed concept. Electricity represent the metaphysical bad.

>>529567074
Wtf are you talking about? The post you're linking doesn't exist.

>>529566852
how official is this art? Is nortubel-sama really this much deranged?

>>529566020
cool ass design my chuddie

>>529566940
No worries we send daily hexes to bitememe to protect you

its easier to do 2d or 3d

>>529567164
my game has that too

>>529566852
kek wtf.

>>529567193
a fangirl who reacts like this would be nice

>>529567434
Thanks. Here is a bingo thing for whoever is interested. Identify which crab is which. Should not be that hard.
Full points gives you a prize... maybe.

>>529567553
3D

>>529567553
1d

>>529567193
my game is the apocalypse

>>529564534 (OP)
The "post upcoming indie webms" thread on /v/ prompted me to make a webm, so I'll post it here too. Haven't posted in a while.
I've finally gotten better at animating. The animations are almost all placeholder still but I'm getting there.

Also added contextual attacks: the axe kick and the lift kick are only possible when there's a grounded enemy in front of you or one that you just bounced with an axe kick, respectively.

>>529566970
sorry loser I am now

>>529567338

>>529567682
>a girlfriend who looks at me like that whenever I come home would be the best feeling in the world
>we'd eat dinner and I'd start devving
>after a hard day of game dev, I'm ready to relax and watch a movie with my beloved
>but I fall asleep in her arms, and she starts to kiss my head and brush my hair
>when I wake up, she tells me how I'm doing a great job with game dev, and people will be lucky to play my game
never ever ever

>>529567823
Holy kinography
keep up the good work

>>529566940
>honestly it sucks, made me really upset and stressed me a lot but everyone here is super positive so it cheers me up to keep going hard. idk its whatever i just gotta make game
:( do you think you'll be able to at least get maybe something early access worthy ready by the same time?

>both, they're meant to be player hosted games
nice. was it easy adding the multiplayer? or was there a lot of frustration?

>>529568003
Is there really a crab adjacent area in your game yet? Well, maybe there is a noble crabpet, or a crab who joined the bandits.

>>529568003
you should have a giant snail enemy

>>529568017
DELET

>>529568172
Thanks anon. I thought of giving up many times because animation was filtering me fucking hard, but I pushed through and now I'm more motivated than ever.
Never give up bros

>>529567397
according to the pixiv description it's not canon

man i realize that 'goon was right

>>529568586
Rockhead:
The truth is it's impossible. You will never attain happiness, a woman's touch, because you, just like me, are a betacucked slugborn.

Rockhead:
If you are not in the 3.14 top percentage of the genetic lottery you might as well die.
Your white poison will never moisten an untouched field.

Rockhead:
Not that you really should want to. Women are the worst. Prancing around, constantly belittling the fact that you exist.

Rockhead:
Complaining about your smell.

Rockhead:
I was explaining all of this to Susan at work while microwaving fish in our shared break room.

Rockhead:
Stupid bitch just doesn't get it.

Rockhead:
As so I was forced to slap her with the newly warmed up fish. Show her who is actually boss around here, that is; men.

Rockhead:
She seemed to get the point as she exited the room with her stupid clown makeup being ruined by her tears.

Rockhead:
I sat down on the sofa, fully intending to enjoy my now mellow and delicious fish.

Rockhead:
The trick to a delicious microwaved fish is a little squeeze of fresh lemon, believe it or not. The zest brings the fish to new heights of oceanic pleasure.

Rockhead:
As usual, at the very final moment before indulging in my kingly meal, I naturally added a pinch of salt.

Rockhead:
The salt reminded me about Susans wet, pathetic face, as she ran crying out of the break room.

Rockhead:
I was filled with a profound new feeling, paternal pride. A lesson was learnt that day.

>>529568017
I wish I had this...

>>529568190
about time maybe we'll see
multiplayer was easy since i have a lot of experience on it already, the project was planned from the very beginning for it
worst thing was outside the project itself, setting up the server host and make it connect through webgl clients

>>529568017
God I hate women so much it's unbelievable, stupid leech demons

>>529568369
nta but great idea for kirk

>>529568693
Any tips on getting through the filter?
Don't give up tho this looks really promising

I honestly now want to be inspired by the MIDI tracks of FLStudio and a logic analyzer, but make the x timeline, a timeline of daily life events, like going to school, which changes the waifus psychological variables, but is plotted on the X axis like an oscilloscope, but on each MIDI track.

Now imagine having that, but also a sort of 2D rogulike map visualization to visualize like dwarve fortress each waifu.

but each waifu has something like a PCB inner layer of wires in the map, and only when they cross in the Vector2i position is when they interact with another waifu.

Basically the player has then a free walk mode avatar he can travel and interact with the waifus so he can do wacky shit, like animal crossing mixed with dwarve fortreess and gnomoria.

Eventually there will be ascii and pixel art porn.

ideas made up by the utterly deranged

>>529568931
>>529568756
Boy do I have a character for you.

Rockhead:
I was filled with a profound new feeling, paternal pride. A lesson was learnt that day.

Rockhead:
Or so I thought.

Rockhead:
Susan reemerged, her face still caked with runny shit, tears barely dried up.

Rockhead:
Cakehead! I humorously called her.

Rockhead:
She was not pleased. She started sobbing yet again, but this time she was not alone, she was being comforted by another man.

>miss tachibana when she sees my game

>>529568369
good idea, sounds easy and in spirit of the game
>>529568337
I'm making cliffside part of town next to a sea right now, there'll be a wharf and island area which can be accessed only by water, I think it'll be fine.

>>529569760
I don't hate women to that degree though...

It's hotter than a fireman's ass!

>>529569945

>>529569809
>arisu when im out of my game dev cagie

I have to wear a Willy Wonka type get up when I go to show myself for Devlogs. I gotta try it

>>529567436
Is this a better color smog clouds for the background here?

>>529570601
I like this new one better its more vibrant.

>>529569436
Do lots of research on the Pose-to-Pose workflow, it's really efficient: you think of the entire animation in your head, you make the poses of the key moments, then refine the interpolation between them. It's a lot deeper than that (holds, moving holds, graph editor shenanigans and so on), it's all out there on youtube if you look for it.

Also learn the different "handle types" of Blender. The basic one is auto-clamped which doesn't do much of anything, but for fast punches you might want the Vector handle, or for natural motions (like when my character is trying to keep balance when he kicks in that webm) use the Automatic handle.
Or use the custom handle and do the curves yourself in the graph editor if you want really precise stuff.

But yeah start with Pose-to-Pose and its concepts. Makes things way easier.
At the start of this I was thinking I'd be forced to buy a mocap suit, now I don't even WANT that shit, it's really not needed.
Animation on a single character is way faster done by yourself. Mocap is only better when multiple characters are involved in the same scene

>>529570805
What color should I go with here on this other smog factory level? A more contrasty green? I dont want to use the same color smog for each factory level.

>>529570601
I maintain neutrailty
I'd use both in two different levels to make them distinctive

Gamedev Hierarchy
>Releasedevs
>Progressdevs
>Conceptdevs (or ideas guys)
>Shitposters/nodevs (into the trash it goes)

>>529571018
What if I both shitpost and progresspost?

I think i figured some shit out about composing an image.
Gonna sketch up some shit on paper because pixelshit takes too long, i think it should convert nicely because of the "low information density" principle i have picked up

i am not "back" but i am on my way.

I tried making a grand strategy game and holy shit this is difficult. Unless you're doing some heavily simplistic Risk-tier mobile shit, don't bother. Grand strat is a AAA genre and I bend my knee and... project-hop

>>529567823
very cool, godhand vibes, I don't really like contextual attacks though, making awesome combos feels the best when you have to earn it, also contextual limits creativity

>>529571336
whats so hard about it

>>529571014
i like the green/grey at the end

>>529571323
One foot in the trash can

>>529571014
maybe the smog color is determined by what the factory is producing

I tried making an idle game, but the progression felt so fake, arbitrary, meaningless, that I doubted myself at every step of the way. You really mean to tell me people enjoy games this simple?
Click a button to see numbers going up. This is what people enjoy? How? What?
Pardon my autistic nature, but I can't comprehend how this is enjoyable. I heard they're easy money, but I literally can not create them. My mind goes blank when I try to think of what to do next, because I simply can not imagine enjoying anything about this.
I'm going to stick to my King's Field clones. They're the only games I want to make. Atmospheric exploration games with a macro-scale lore undertone. I quite literally can not make anything else.

>>529571425
The axe kick, the followup lift kick, and the fact that they're contextual are all taken directly from God Hand. I mean that game literally has those attacks that's how they work too.
Also making it non-contextual would be a bad idea. An axe-kick is a move that launches on normal hit and hits grounded. Letting the player spam that whenever would be really bad balance. Same for the lift-kick: a kick that upgrades a launcher? Nah, keep it tied as an axe-kick followup, like God Hand did.

I'm going my own way for many parts of the combat but this is one part where the original devs knew what they were doing and I must respect it.

Bros I just saw an ad for that unity asset store template game block blast sneaked into a random tiktok video... so this is the power of aggressive promotion
By the way, I swear to God I don't watch tiktok, someone else showed it to me.

>>529571908
This is why you must make what you want to play.

>>529572025
I posted about this a few weeks ago. It's literally a Unity store prebuilt asset game. Almost zero modifications were made. No exaggeration. The developers who made millions did not make their game.
Aggressive promotion through paid advertisements and social media presence was enough to make it the most popular game on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Isn't that insane?

>>529571470
Making it non-mobile tier is what's hard about it. All the systems for pops, economy, trade, war, moving armies around the map, interacting with the map itself, and then having every nation run a simualation of all of that shit with their own AI.
Come on dude have you played a single grand strat in your life? Shit's just not doable for one guy.
(unless, again, it's mobile tier slop in terms of simplicity)

>>529564534 (OP)
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/unity-senior-client-partner-rod-stafford-jailed-for-sexual-offences

Unitybros... not like this

Should I eat the peyote cactus that's growing in my backyard? Its getting pretty fat, but last time I ate some my mom called me out
>Anon! you aren't supposed to eat the fence!!!
(my house doesn't have a wooden fence like most homes, it's just a wall of peyote cactus)

Buuuut it gives me cool Ideas™ for my game, and my mom and dad will be out of town for 4th of July

i'm not running low on ideas, but I think it would be cool!

I want to make a 3D First Person Only game that looks like shit and plays like shit but the important part is it has complex systems that let you affect the world in drastic ways like Dwarf Fortress or Space Station 13 but 3d first person instead, and those two games have shitty gameplay so why cant a 3d first person game also have shitty gameplay as long as its about complex systems? also 100+ multiplayer.

>>529572313
pics or it's a larp

>>529572209
Same thing with the thronefall clone, on mobile I guess it's all about who buys the most ads. Which is really grim by the way.

>>529572260
Juan won.

>>529572371
the last part is the tough part
realtime synchronization of 100 different players in a 3D environment is really hard especially if you want clientside prediction and reconcilliation
you can make a lot of concessions to make it possible like
>no lag compensation
>exceedingly low tickrate

Take one look at yourself and realize
Life's been treating you nice
You better be wise
And enjoy your moment

the classic
>I don't want to commit the character to a specific race
skin color

>>529572493
nice try, FBI

>>529572516
>on mobile I guess it's all about who buys the most ads
It's the same for indie games as well, except instead of buying ads, you convince content creators to play the game for you. A big content creator making a funny viral clip of your game is equivalent to spending thousands on paid advertisements for a mobile game. Paid ads don't work as well for PC games, since the ad-to-download process isn't as smooth. With mobile games, you see an ad, tap your screen, and download the game immediately. PC games require you to go to your computer, find the game, buy it, and download it.
You're right, btw, I'm just providing my observations in the difference between mobile game promotion and PC game promotion. On PC, it's a bit more difficult. You need to really convince people to play your game.

>>529572856
it's a larp

>>529572815
That's indian brown

>>529573389
lol

feels satisfying to get a mix and step chain working smooth.

>>529573534
Is it, though? Maybe it's a white guy in unflattering lighting, maybe it's a "light skinned" black dude larping as a generic western european knight in a fantasy video game. The world may never know.

>>529573538
he did warn the guy

https://youtu.be/aK4JSwhdcdE

My game's development anniversary is coming up soon, an entire year
Want to know how it looks like so far? Open up Godot, create a new project, and that's my game.

>>529574186
go away

>>529574186
What stops you from devving?

yet... another... 5 Games Made in Godot To Inspire You, without my game...
what did i do so wrong....

>>529574265
I have been devving almost every single day, but what matters is that every single day the only thing that happens is I move a bunch of files, rename things, mess around, at best write 10 new lines. I'm speeding up though, I don't know what I've been doing for the past year but I'm getting there. I joked about the new project thing, it does look like that but it's not empty obviously. No assets yet.

>>529574186
*hug* >_< gamedev is hard

>>529571002
making poses and keyframes is about as much as I've done but the interpolation always looks bad and I haven't found what makes it look not weird
I'll look into the handle types

>>529574785
I struggle with that too. What helps me is writing down a list of objectives that I need to accomplish to make my game good. I have a notepad file on my computer that's full of ideas for my game, and specific tasks I can do to implement those ideas. Without this list of things to do, I'm completely lost. I don't accomplish anything. With this list, I'm extremely productive. Having a checklist of things to do might help you. Is your problem a lack of direction? Because if so, you won't be able to write a list.
What does your goal finished game look like?

I just finished my demo day build

>make pinterest
>it immediately gets hacked
umm is this normal

silly idea
>Add no DRM to game
>But add "anti-piracy" check: if a crack is detected, wipe the player's hard drive
But here's the kicker
>The game was DRM-free in the first place
>If the retarded crackers were smart enough to check if there was no DRM, they wouldn't have had to crack it and get their HDDs wiped, they could have played the game for free with no issue

>Pinterest

>>529575118
lmao this retard ran "demo day" shit on his pc

>>529572762
I am

https://youtu.be/cFWusIFptW0

>>529574918
Thanks. I'm also just lazy.

>>529575004
I actually have a file like that too, I understand what you mean. Yes, a problem for a while was a lack of direction but it's only recently a few months ago that I built a serious direction. I even enginehopped a couple times. I had a list that I wrote stuff in but it kept shifting and changing with time. Thanks for the advice, but I think I'm good now I have had a decent pace lately, and good luck on your game also.

where do i find a programming mentor that'll help me with questions if i get stuck?

>>529575609
ChatGPT

>>529575609
University

>>529574186
Do you devv reps right now nigger, or the next year your game will still look the same

>>529575543
Thanks. Good luck with your game. I hope development goes smoothly.

it's so hot...
I think I'm just gonna go and take a shower

Can the eric schizo tells me why stardew valley doesn't have weather radars?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ7rNeQck2A

i look at the bochi nodev samefagging and spamming offtopic garbage every single day and think to myself; damn THAT GUY was right
dont even need to type his name you know who i'm talking about

Give gamers what they want.

>>529575940
thank you cris im stealing this

>>529575932
This is not your personal blog.

>>529575695
no
>>529575757
too expensive.

damn I forget that some of you don't actually have a gf or wife. That must be so incredibly lonely. Like, seriously, you should work on that. I bet anything you'd make more progress too with a little support and affection in your life.

>>529576437
have you tried to use ChatGPT? Because it is actually good if you don't tell it to write code for you.

>>529575932
This is your personal blog.

>>529576569
lol, the dregs that post here are unworthy of love
also they have no personality (avatafagging with tranime girls is not a personality btw), NGMI in gamedev and NGMI in life

>fygoon is usually only brought up around evening in the US
>and that's also when he fucks around in the general

>>529576569
she will knock on my door soon and my family will be startled. But me and her will smile.

Heaven, that's who she is.
She's Goddess.

>>529576569
I propose we try to get fygoon a gf so he stops shitting up the threads

>>529575364
i didn't tho

get timmys free crap
https://www.fab.com/limited-time-free

>>529576915
ok but how does that solve the bochi troon problem? thats much worth than the lizardman posting once in a while

>>529576915
+1, agreed.

>>529577091
>once in a while
Oh, brother. Please.

>>529577042
>DEI toon and shitty youtube tutorial tier blueprint inventory
epic, thank you timmy

>>529577091
It doesn't solve it. Everyone saying that it's not a problem is one of those posters.

vibe

>>529577167
no fygoon in this thread or the last but at least 30 worthless posts from the tranime avatarfag, the math aint mathing

The only problem that /agdg/ has is that no one is making a good game.

>>529577428
nigga you ARE fygoon who do you think you're fooling

>>529577490
I am

Let's say I want to make a 3D game and have it be moddable. Should I:
>Use Unreal
>Use Unity
>Make it from scratch with a custom modding API
Or something else?
Don't say Godot. I am not a fan of Godot (UI stinks, codebase feels sloppy, unprofessional, etc)

>>529576437
>>529576596
unironically this
you don't have to make it write code for you but you can ask it specific questions for where you're stuck and it will break that shit down
only other options are finding a discord or paying somebody

I don't want a gf tho
let alone a w*fe

>>529577562
Your game is not good. It's not even real, except in your mind.

>>529577520
no im not, nor did i post his lizardman, factually and objectively by post per capita fygoon is a mid annoyance

>>529577787
L O L

>>529577490
I'm making a great game actually

>>529577935
See >>529577705

>>529577868
just being purely objective if he was the most annoying poster id say so, its the bochi spammer tough

>>529577580
>"Unprofessional", he said in the Amateur Game Development General without a hint of irony.

>thinking about my game
>holy shit aggy is NOT ready for this level of kino

>building my game
>I want to fucking KILL myself

>>529575940
Learning about weather could be vital to making a game's world more immersive and for ideas, you never know.

>>529578019
This world is in my mind

>>529575940
There's a TV in your bedroom that you're supposed to watch the weather channel every day on like a good little farmer.

>>529576915
*bf
fygoon is a deeply closeted homosexual

https://godotengine.org/article/dev-snapshot-godot-4-5-beta-2/

>>529578523
Too bad others will never experience what's trapped in your mind, since you do not have the capabilities to manifest it into reality.

>>529577705
massive cope

>>529572762
'cause it's getting closer
>>529574186
skill issue
>>529577490
>t. a crab nodev

>>529575318
Dont you think the fact that there's no DRM would be noticed right away while they'd be trying to make the crack?

THIS IS NOT THE GREATEST GAME IN THE WORLD, NO THIS IS JUST A TRIBUTE

>>529575318
Retard

>>529578985
>>529579073
seethe

>>529579264
but sister, you're seething

You know, like a week ago I mentioned ai could make probably 20 assets in a day for a game pretty easily and I meant it but certain fags in the thread tried to say that was impossible. This morning I made webm related fully functioning in like an hour. I'm pretty sure I could do 19 more things pretty damn easily, especially more simplified things to fill out a game like discussed.

>playing around with AI if it can be used to make a game
>it only generates unusable trash

>>529579498
Really? That's AI generated? What prompt/model/etc?

>>529579498
Kek nice typo *I* not 'ai'. I've never used any of the AI things but I imagine they would pump out as quick as you type.

>>529579665
No sorry that was a swype typo. I just woke up lol.

Every time I say that no one at /agdg/ is making a good game, the response is always "but, my game is good" and is never "I will work to make my game better." This is why none of you will make it. You're too preoccupied with protecting your fragile ego to experience any growth and self-improvement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1f2GwWLB3k

Imagine making an anime girl theme air trafic controller simulator.

1000000% autismo.

>>529579498
It's actually quite interesting to see the derangement about AI manifest, and all the different mental gymnastics certain people go through to try and refuse that it's here and powerful and useful, and even still only getting better.

Wasn't too long ago you'd bring up AI video and those certain kinds of people would be like "2 WeEkS"

>>529580096
current AI is still absolutely useless to make game assests and that guy's thing isn't AI, he meant "I"

I have to decide if I want there to be autotargeting, namelocking, or homing projectiles in my Diablolike ARPGlike PoElike. Philosophically, I think it kind of sucks to make decisions for the player. In practice, though, actually aiming projectiles while playing those kinds of games feels pretty fucking bad. Much to think about. Any GDC talks or anything I should watch about this?

I've had an empty Unity project open for the whole day unsure what to put in it

>>529580286
Start with namelocking like PoE, and then change it if you get too many complaints. (You won't.)

>>529580446
probably some game

>work on my game for 5 minutes
>already feel tired

>>529580446
Start with Pong.

I'm serious btw

>>529579953
Because it's a terrible blanket statement there are good games here, just not that many

>>529580096
>>529579719
Not AI, just a typo, but AI is basically just like super Google for programming and I think you're silly to not use it as if before it you weren't typing the same shit into Google looking for stack exchange explanations. For art I think it's okay for really generic images (i did generate those jackpot signs and edit them in mspaint/gimp) or a placeholder instead of a blank gray/black, but no real art should be done with AI at all is completely unnecessary and not soulful.

>>529580446
put your dick in it, incel

>>529577580
ChatGPT answered for me.
Think I might just use Unity.

the biggest problem with AI is not being able to generate consistent art or always generating the same pictures

>>529580281
See >>529580750
>i did generate those jackpot signs and edit them in mspaint/gimp

Your statement:
>current AI is still absolutely useless to make game assests
Is completely and factually incorrect. :) Keep coping though.

>bb-b-b-b-but he had to edit them so it doesn't count
Lmao keep coping my retard. Hope you play my demo, make sure to compliment my art if you like it ;)

>people are starting a flamewar over AI again

>>529581183
you didn't generate game assets but a simple 2D picture thanks for proving my point

>>529581120
Yeah it's crazy how much it wants to ignore requests that are simple "take the image you literally just made and make it 100% exactly the same but change the 1 to a 5" *proceeds to make the background blue instead of green for literally no reason*

How would it make you feel to play a demo or game and really enjoy it, then later find out it was mostly AI art...?
Would you feel betrayed, angry? Or some other feeling?

>>529580545
The problem I think with namelocking is that if I want to support controllers/WASD (I do) it requires completely different logic than namelocking with a mouse, so that's 2 systems I need to build. Also spear skills in PoE2 feel like shit to aim. So namelocking is my fallback but I'm thinking about alternatives.

>>529580281
>current AI is still absolutely useless to make game assests
excuse me?

>>529581183
He's right though, I wouldn't put this asset in a game with those, especially as you'd start clashing with other art. It works for the one off realism scene.

>>529581354
I'm not the anon doing the gambleslop, just happy to point and laugh when AI phobes close their eyes and stick their fingers in their ears and shout that AI is useless.

>>529580734 (me)
>>529580446 (me)
fuck it, think I'm gonna make a simulation game in Unity
whether its a CMG, city builder, or life sim, IDK
Also

>>529580750
>there are good games here
It's all relative, and the "good" games here are only good relative to the shit games posted here, but not to successful games on Steam. Every game can be way better. There's a long list of improvements that plenty of anons can bring up for every "good" game posted here.

>>529581395
>then later find out it was mostly AI art...?
AI art is easy to spot but it would impress me if the dev managed to make a whole game with good AI art that can fool you

>>529579498
I could make that in an hour.

>>529581761
Let's see it!

>>529581657
>AI phobes
>STOP BEING LE HECKING AIPHOBIC! THAT'S RACIST AGAINST AI!

>>529579953
Projection?

>>529581405
Then, copy Hades. IIRC, It's free aim (no lock) for mouse and snapping aim-assist for controller, with an option to turn off aim-assist.

>>529581708
>AI art is easy to spot
This is such a retarded take. You spot the easy to spot AI and then conclude that all AI is easy to spot.

>>529581657
current AI is shit at making game art what your video proves

nigga using poonity in big 25? say it ain't so

>>529581675
A... Are you gay?
>>529581965
As opposed to what?

>>529581965
silence

>>529581918
if you make a whole game from AI it's going to be easy to spot unless it's something very simple and shitty

where can I get a cute chinese girl to motivate me to work on my video game

>>529581657
zamn lil mama>>529582057

>>529581675
No there's perfectly good games being made here, just only a few and but relative to steam, that bullet one, kalemonvo, dude guy, that tank game, are ones I can think of off the top of my head.

>>529579083

>>529582057
Timothy Sweeney Esquire's scrumptious homemade engine numero five

>>529582151
Bait or profound mental retardation?

Honestly why nobody has taken something like a fly traffic controller autismo but made it about an isekai harem world, and mix it up with dwarve fortress and animal crossing.

>>529582432
>Honestly why nobody has taken something like a fly traffic controller autismo but made it about an isekai harem world, and mix it up with dwarve fortress and animal crossing.
well? who has the answer to cristobal's question?

>>529582432
Cris what the fuck are you talking about
Take your meds bro

>>529582108
Almost all of my art is AI. And when I say it's AI, I don't have some stupid all-or-nothing qualification like "it has to immediately be delivered to me perfect", no I touch things up in gimp/krita. It still saves an astounding amount of time and yes you can maintain consistency, especially if you're doing local gen where you can get fussy with the model/lora/etc (or train your own).

Hope you all enjoy my demo, no I won't say which one it is :)

>>529580670
>think about opening godot
>suddenly lose all strength in my legs
>need to lie in my bed for 20 minutes power nap to recover
i wish i was memeing

>>529582642
the pixel art tree debate a few days ago proved that no one can tell if something is AI or not

>>529582808
>>529580670
Maybe gamedev just isn't the right Hobby for you

>>529582808
Damn, you sound like a pathetic faggot.

>>529582642
the poster who makes those loli progress images im guessing? kannadev?

>>529581845
ok. give me an hour.

>>529582906
No...

>>529582843
Oh I've proved it a number of times, especially in the early days with /ic/. I'd put the dall-e bar on human art and watch them trip over themselves talking about all the tells, and how soulless it is.

https://x.com/FairyCaveStudio/status/1938967451871375718

isn't this unprofessional and cringe? like if it was fanart or a coom game ok but bro you're trying to sell a metroidvania

>>529582591
Imagine something like SIMS, where the npcs has daily routes between nodes, but you can micro manage their actions like a traffic controller god and tell them to go to a diferent location to do something.

So you can take two npcs to meet at central park at 9 PM and then engage in a fight that makes both injured and unable to work.

So the grocery store and bank doesn't work the next day, so the wagie npc can't buy food and is sad because he's hungry.

Escape from Alligator Alcatraz

>>529583181
sex sells

>>529583137
Is that Abdel Adrian

>>529583375
it's Khalid

>>529583273
>you spend days navigating the swamp and evading the maneating wildlife
>you see the edge of the everglades in the distance
>you sprint the last hundred feet
>it's a sheer cliff dropping off into the ocean
>it was sharkatraz all along

>>529583273
KEKYPOW

It is literally impossible to find good free sfx

>>529583461
Oh fuck, blast from the past

>>529583273
Make it a vore game with alligator girls, python girls, and panther girls and you've got a top seller

Console homebrew development.
Yay or nay?

>>529583924
wtf is hecckin puperino ok

>>529583181
>capturing the elegance, mystery, and power of our vampire
>bare foot right in the camera
anyway all indie games are becoming coombait, piggies need their slop

>>529583667
Yeah but if I can't find something I like it's easy to just Foley it

>>529583320
I can assure you that no one liking that xeet will buy and play the game.

>>529583181
it's just a drawing of a girl
what's wrong?

Serious question but why hasnt anyone remade cloverpit yet and released it before they could?
Is that illegal? What prevents anyone from stealing someone's whole game while they are in the wishlist farming phase?

>>529585531
>Serious question but why hasnt anyone remade cloverpit yet and released it before they could?
>Is that illegal? What prevents anyone from stealing someone's whole game while they are in the wishlist farming phase?

i have ~600 dollar for a dev laptop, should i buy one with an rtx 2050 or should i just go for one with an uhd 620 but better cpu/ram?
seriously man why can't they just build laptops with a gtx 1050 or so and sell them for 400 dollars? why is it either rtx or igpu slop?

>>529583667
I wasted 4-5 hours on this yesterday, but I did finally find something I was satisfied with from a free itch.io pack.

collab?...

>>529583181
uh, retard bro are you even trying to make it?

>>529585610
What? did you forget an image

>>529586206
What skills do you bring to the table?

>>529586323
i have the ideas

>>529583181
I wish someone drew me a fanart...

>>529586596
You have no fucking idea what I'm about to do to you

>>529586220
>no tail, no snout
into the trash it goes

rape bocchiposters

>>529586258
No, I did not.

lil update on the model, today I couldn't do to much only front and back of the maid uniform arround 6-7k tris

>>529586978
Nice idea, guy.

>>529587059
uhhhhh

>>529585818
Do one interest free through BB or something and get an additional $300 in a year?

>>529587059
Holy shit.

ERP time?

>>529587407
No, bad bocchi.

anyone want any lines read? I'll do a fake voice too
https://vocaroo.com/1lkG5pAQph5U

>>529587032
So what?s the answer

>time to refactor

what's the point at getting better at 3D when AI is going to win ;w;

>>529587598

>>529587823
>Serious question but why hasnt anyone stolen a car from the dealership someone else could buy it?
>Is that illegal? What prevents anyone from stealing a car when it's just out there in the open and nobody's using it?
Please use your brain.

"I learned a lot" and "I enjoy the process" doesn't put food on the table.

remember to report all avatarfags

>>529588175
whatever makes you cope to yesdev will enhance your chances of making it. just saying.
that's why religion and cults are so powerful, it doesn't have to be real, it just has to be effective.

>>529587764
"The very first blast of Halsin's seed into Shadowheart while you are asleep or leave them at camp, permanently changes her "scent."
This is a druid thing, he essentially completely marks her as his. Even though he allows you to be with her, the scent transformation is always there to remind both of you about his ownership of her."

>>529588175
It doesn't put food on the table immediately, but it can help put food on the table in the future. If you need food immediately, you should not be doing gamedev.

>>529588627
truth

>>529588175
I don't know why you guys deliberately chose the most volatile and uncertain career/hobby in the world and then complain about how you're not making enough money

>>529588206
There's no one avatarfagging right now?

>>529588175
Diogenesmaxx on neetbux, spiritual midget

>>529587764
can you do a girl voice?
"Anon you're doing sooooo well, I just LOVE all the progress you make on your game. It's going to really be a success I just know it. I love you so much..."

It's for my game

>>529588801
>There's no one avatarfagging right now?

protip: if your brain doesn't believe in success it'll do everything possible to keep you from doing it.
your brain wants survival first.
that being said you brain can't possibly know everything, therefore your brain could totally prevent you from doing things that benefit you.
that's why having a doomer mindset is like playing with fire. you might discourage yourself from choosing a completely valid path to success.

>>529588086
Community would be mad?

>>529588206
behead the bochifag

>>529586206
i am putting together a team

the reason you don't believe in success is because making software is not the same as hunting an animal in nature. your brain has not developed to do this for survival. the thing is, gaming is a massive industry and it actually is something you have to do for survival nowadays.

Guys you just know I gotta say it...

I seriously LOVE this Hobby!

>>529588589
https://vocaroo.com/192fbhycAxJq
>>529588907
https://vocaroo.com/1hEOitUSLRcz

>>529589919
If you love it so much, why don't you make a game?

>>529565624
Been coming to agdg on and off for years now, good to see you're still at it boku bro.

>>529587407
it's time to get that dildo out yo bussy and make a game, playa

>>529590109
lmao excellent

Does your game have hundreds of hours of content?

>>529590663
frustratingly, yes. I can't properly test it.

lets face it, people want devs who get shit done. they dont care if you have passion, they dont care if you love what you do, they dont care if you enjoy it, they dont care if you like the project, they dont care about your interests, they dont care about any of that.
all they care about is that you get shit done and that they have fun playing.
do you care if your plumber enjoys his job? no. do you care that your toilet just werks? yes.

i need to rape a little girl to have some meaning inspiration on my gamedev career

>>529590250
I can keep it in there while I dev y'know

huh?

i wish i could just do UIs for games. and some code-reworks so there's a bunch of delegates that i can hook up with my UI code.
i just want to work on cool games with shitty ui's and my job is to fix the ui so it has good QoL

>>529590991
clearly you can not, or you would've posted gaem

>>529591065
uuuuuuuuuh, you literally can thoughmst, just get a fucking job... at a game company

alright. Just did a workout, now getting back to dev. 2nd half of the dev day.

Heated up some pasta and get water, now time to dev and eat pasta and drink water.

thanks for letting us know

narrative psychology literally says if you don't identify as a gamedev and don't build your whole narrative around it, it's not gonna happen.

>new princess maker game coming out
You failed agdg. You could have had it all.

>>529591126
you'll never see it no matter how much you beg my game is for cool people ONLY

>>529591703
Link?

>>529583048
No pressure, but it's been an hour.

>>529591832
the only thing I beg for in this life is asian women for sex

>walk into room
>see fat guy with lots of money
>he's eating burgers, fries, steaks, candy, cake, chicken, baked fish, all sorts of sauces
>is ultra fat already
>but has all the money
>you desperately try to figure out what other food he might want because you desperately need his money
>he eats and burps and farts and can't stop eating
>you beg him "please please try my new pineapple sauce"
>he tastes it but doesn't like it
>you go to your food dev thread and complain that you ngmi because the market is oversaturated
>someone tells you "just do it"

chadGPT hates copyright law

>>529591065
Post UIs? I suspect your UIs aren't particularly good.

>>529576915
Let me know when you fetch me that one hottie who dressed up as Kameo in, like, 2010 or something. I saw her picture on the Gelboorus or whatever and I tried looking up her site but it's only available on the Internet Archive and her Kameo pics were never archived.
In the meantime, I'll just keep working.

>>529592025
Make a better burger using the same ingredients you know he and everyone else already enjoys. Stop trying to make original food. Make good food.

>>529592229
what will i do without your validation?

>find a game by someone who is clearly a beginner, no protections, first time dev
>decompile their game and make it my own, copyrights and trademarks
>send them a cease and desist
>stop working on it
Works every time ;)

>>529592687
>>find a game by someone who is clearly a beginner, no protections, first time dev
>>decompile their game and make it my own, copyrights and trademarks
>>send them a cease and desist
>>stop working on it
>Works every time ;)

>>529591901
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3438810/Princess_Maker__Children_of_Revelation/

>>529592230
I guess you will die a virgin then

>>529592480
I don't offer validation. I only offer to make you a better developer, but you don't want that.

>>529591703
that's a man

tyler1 became big by caring about league of legends, not about league of legends forums, esports economics or politics

>>529592789
Nice, thanks.

>>529592956
who?

eic became big by caring about gamedev, not about gamedev forums, gamedev economy or politics

some lore;

Autumn Elves
Winter Elves
Spring Elves
Summer Elves

>>529593236
*yoink* ;)
Thanks pal

>>529593236
gooner elves
doomer elves
boomer elves
zoomer elves

>>529592789
I can finally fulfill my sick and twisted fantasy of protecting and raising a little girl.

i just pretend the meaning of life will get revealed to me when i die, and until then i'll just join the larp that is life.

>he fell for the "meaning of life" meme

>>529567063
If you're going to try to groom that guy over to Godot why not mention that it has C# as well

>>529593570
my game will show people the meaning of life

After a bunch of pondering and years of playing video games, I have discovered a general rule of thumb for game feel. It is this:
There should be nothing static on screen at any given time.
Whatever the player sees, should be moving, transforming, having an effect of sorts. And it moves even more in response to the player
Anyway not sure how obvious this is but I realized it from thinking about my favorite games. They employ this rule, obviously not as aggresively as I've said, and yes moderation is the key. It shouldn't move too much nor too little, it just shouldn't be that static.

>>529593872
That's not a good thing.

>>529594050
actually left and right should be "unity/c# is fine" and the middle should be anything else

>>529594046
Don't forget everything also needs a sound effect.

what is your biggest strength?

>>529594225
Literally anything is fine. JLMG. Godot is a much more pleasant development experience if you're not flipping a bunch of shit out of the Unity asset store and if you don't need Unity's mobile monetization.

>>529594225
That wouldn't make any sense though because Unity and C# are already the standard.

Castlevania.

the biggest advantage of solodev is that if you are hardworking, you gmi
the biggest disadvantage of solodev is that you are lazy, you ngmi

>>529594046
sorry sweaty buildings and background props gotta stay put
also game feel is /how/ those things move and sound in relation to the players input

gonna need at least 50 more VFX on this until im happy

>>529594754
I work much harder with teammates who place their expectations on me. Too bad I've been hurt so many times that I am no longer able to place any expectations onto others.

>>529593872
Who the fuck is using C# in godot? Lmao

why do modern devs blindly trust youtubers who never achieved anything with gamedev?
will this adjust over time? like, people realizing that youtubers are not real game developers? is it because it's a new generation of devs and they just don't know any better?

>>529593895
are you actually meditating? did you notice any benefits ?

>TFW a certain somebody's showing off his """game""" and the enemies don't even attempt to attack the player
I've seen default Godot projects with more complex systems.

a game where you are a twink desperately trying to defend a village overrun by orcs who rape all the women. the game is primarily about the humiliation and the feeling of having no power.

>>529594046
after years of pondering I have discovered that games were fun when i was young and now i don't give a fuck anymore

>>529595564
I should start a regular meditation thing.
I have been contemplating the meaning of life. Sounds like meditation would definitely have benefits.

if you gmi and have a big game studio, would you steal the breast milk in the fridge?

>>529595737
True, I feel like developing tends to be more fun than the average game I play these days, with the exception of Minecraft because I'm a zoomer obviously.

>>529595709
>a game where you are a twink desperately trying to defend a village overrun by trolls who rape all the elf women. the game is primarily about the humiliation and the feeling of having no power.

I'm not gonna make it
to demo day
sorry

>>529596163
Me neither
But maybe next next DD, I need 2 months and I'll come up with something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqQdbevaB-Q&list=RDPqQdbevaB-Q&start_radio=1
WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT!
NO! WE AIN'T GONNA MAKE IT!
WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE IT ANYMORE!

>>529595807
meditating is the exact opposite of contemplating retard

>>529596559
Lol wtf.
Lighten up buddy. We're going to make it.

I am imagining all of us going ice skating with our gfs after we make it.

Cris is here. I am imagining it. It has that 90s glint to it. We're even wearing 90s leather jackets.

We exchange gifts with banter throw back memes from the thread. Jabbing at each other. Because it is Christmas time. We're ice skating.

the biggest trap is listening to noobs. or not knowing what is noob advice and what isn't.

my gut feeling says i feel like shit, everything feels wrong and there is no hope. i'm so ready for therapy. this is gonna go nowhere otherwise.

>>529596647
this is silly desu, why not just close your eyes if you don't want visual distraction

>>529595564
Meditation is based, I recommend it

The saddest anons are those that have spent years on gamedev, but are still very obviously low-skill, and either refuse to improve or are incapable of improvement. They're always the loudest when it comes to crying about "crabs", not understanding it's that exact mindset holding them back. Is there any hope for them? If not, how do we convince them to give up for their own good?

>>529597143
shut hte fuck up
wagmi

online advice 2013: meditate, study freemasonry, open your third eye, illuminati rules the world, understand human nature, read books, study psychology. you need to be enlightened to make it.

online advice 2025: hello my name jamal this is gamedev tutorial, godot is good. here place pixel sprite and make good money i promise.

the battle for the mind is lost.

>>529596647
nta, buuuuuuuuuuuuut, the word "meditation" does not come from the east, in fact, you would not be wrong if you called the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - the Contemplations of Marcus Aurelius. On another note though, you seem to be unaware of what eastern meditation is, take for example Zen Buddhism, where meditation is: "Zazen, the most common form, involves sitting upright, focusing on breath, and observing thoughts without judgment." It is not emptying oneself of thought, but merely letting them happen, observing if you will, without judgement. Which, if one would ponder enough, is very akin to the stoicism of Marcus Aurelius, while being not quite the same.

>>529597298
>[Headcanon]

I'm sad that in 2016 86% of released steam games were 2D and in 2025 only 46% are.
That means 3D went from 14% to 54%.

>>529596559
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ92eyxnxmQ

i think the ideal games are digital dog walking, yet you are the dog. the mind is bored by daily life and needs to take walks.
that's why sandbox games are so huge. simple games, they don't need tutorials, they don't need any big goals. you just hop in, chop some wood, kill some monsters, build some walls, that's it. digital dog walking but for humans.

>>529597335
There's no right or wrong way to meditate.
But I think the technique that has the best mental health effect is to allow thoughts to cross your mind, but then to gently release them, with an end goal of a clear mind but not fighting to do so. Allowing it to happen or not happen but peacefully making that the goal.

philosophy in my aggy daggy?

>>529597297
Do you believe that if you say something enough times, you'll be able to turn fiction into fact? That some magical external force will manifest your hallucinations into reality?

Some of us will make it. Most of you will not.

how do i make a wizard game without combat?

>>529597610
>There's no right or wrong way to meditate.
Incorrect opinion

>>529597610
>There's no right or wrong way to meditate.
Literally no one said that. Merely pointing out that the way westerners understand it is not the same. It's like calling the Daimyo of Japan - the Emperor of Japan, when emperor is a western word, and is very different from what the Japanese mean by Daimyo, or to put it simply: it's not a direct translation.
>But I think the technique that has the best mental health effect is to allow thoughts to cross your mind, but then to gently release them, with an end goal of a clear mind but not fighting to do so. Allowing it to happen or not happen but peacefully making that the goal.
Maybe, that would, in fact, be very stoic of you.

Gamedev?

Don't call me, I'll call you!

>>529597898
you make potions and craft spells like trying to make a time travel spell or automate the brooms in your house or some omnipotence spell idk how you this STUPIT

i'm the intelligent thinker type, not the creative type. sorry i'm not gonna make a soulful game, i'm just gonna make a game that's a result of my thinking skills. i'll leave the soul to the artistic types.

a game where you have to catch npcs doing evil things that they wanna hide from you

what spells or abilities would a cum witch have?

>>529598071
Spiritual development is, in fact, part and parcel of developing video games. I, for one, practice black tantra, or as you westerners would call it "gooning" for my spiritual and game development.

Spent the entire day watching of autismo shit, and now I want to mix DAW MIDI tracks with logic analyzer tracks, with oscillators, with the AI system of the SIMS, animal crossing, skylines city traffic simulation, air traffic simulation.

All to simulate a world of 250 npcs waifus the player avatar can romance and fugg.

im sick of this digital vomit i call a "game" but ive already wasted my entire life on it and i have nowhere to escape to. why did i ever think i could make something of quality if i just put the hours into it? i don't have what it takes. i am a failure in every single other aspect of life and anything else i've ever done. why did i think gamedev would be different? im useless. im worthless. i serve no purpose and need to just drop dead.

>>529597971
>>529597981
I'll meditate upon these posts.

>>529598718
No harm.

>>529598545
jej

the most evil thing about current generation is how nobody tells you in order to succeed you have to become good at what you are doing.
you need to be a good programmer, a good artist, a good musician, a good writer, a good game designer. whatever it is you are trying to make. quality matters.

>>529599224
What? That's been told all the time, in fact it's even told here all the time but the retards refuse to listen.

>>529599224
Retard

>>529599224
I say it here almost every day. No one who needs to hear it is willing to listen.

>>529599224
I'm a programmer and I've been studying music theory with my midi keyboard in spare time.

Next up is Art.
I can do this.

>>529598904
How about instead of trying to reduce your competition, you just make a better game. Wow. Amazing.

>>529599224
ok? you can become good, how did you get good at playing video games?

>>529599420
>I'm a programmer
Do you think you can get a job in industry? Can you see yourself getting a PR accepted by the Godot or Blender repo? If not, you're not yet a good programmer.

>>529565031
Find a new library. There's zero reason to use a shared_ptr, ever. No valid use cases

>>529599623
nta but I've already had a job in the industry, I was a help desk associate at a AAA studio
not the answer you're looking for, but I finally got a chance to share it

>>529599465
None of you are my competition. None of you are making good games. While you're preoccupied with competing for (You)s on NGMI progress posts and a few dozen DD views, I'm busy waging a war against the backlog of every AAA game made in the last few decades on sale at -90% on Steam right now. We're not even in the same race.

>>529599095
I'm not even kidding. I am trying to be funny with my presentation, but I am not kidding.

>>529567216
>headbutts her
gunna try this on my gf

>>529599623
I program Vulkan with C, I can get a job in the industry but I don't want to do that. I'd rather make my own game.

>>529599959
Nice, I hope that goes well, geniunely.

>>529564936
std::shared_ptr is not deprecated. You are so fucking retarded. Just because you got filtered by basic programming principles doesn't mean others are as dumb as you. Never post again.

>>529599224
>meanwhile: nubbys, cruelty squad, and undertale
you don't have to be good at everything, you don't have to make a professional AAA level product, you just need to have something going for it that makes it appealing somewhere

>>529600061
You wouldn't get a job in industry programming Vulkan with C. The very few jobs available for that would be reserved for experienced senior engineers. If you have no real evidence proving your capabilities, then you've only deluded yourself into thinking you have skills.

>>529571014

what is "?" in c# called? I've seen it a few times used like:
>gameObject?.SetActive(true);
>float thing = boolVal ? 8 : 4;

I understand what it does, for the top it checks if that thing is null, for the bottom if it's true it'll make thing = 8, if false thing = 4

but what is the question mark called in relation to C#? and are there more operator things like that? I also know of % which checks remainder, like if(floatValue % 2 == 0) will see if it's even, but idk what that's called in C# either

game where you are a mom trying to make your 30 yo son get a job

game where I kiss tall lanky red haired woman after she bites ice pop with her prominent front teeth in the summer sun while we are having a vegetarian cookout.

>>529601142
>boolVal ? 8 : 4;
is called a ternary operator.
>?.
is called a null conditional operator.

>>529601138

>>529597462
In 2025, it's probably more 3D than 2D, therefore 3D is the new slop.

>>529601385
are there any other handy ones to know about?? Ive been using the ternary one a lot since seeing it

based jannies cleaning it up on avatarfag at a time

>>529600698
what's crazy is that I was playing cruelty squad, and a GUI window opened and it was literally the default Godot styling except for the font, and people were still able to look past it. We might be trying too hard, we just have to be unique to cheat our way through the hard stuff I guess. I can't believe I'm saying this but nubby's might be the most geniunely developed game that didn't cheat its way to success in your list.

>>529601170
and have sex with him to teach him how for his future wife

>>529601942
Who even avatarfags outside of people like fagoon?

>>529601808
These things are called "syntactic sugar". You can Google for articles or videos. There are plenty of lists out there.

>>529601942
Curious that 4chan mods removed the ability to see which post was banned.

>>529600494
I got it confused with auto_ptr. I don't use any of these, they're all gay.
You need to relax buddy, I know more about c++ than you.

>>529601138
>>529601404
https://youtu.be/kOcW9gZv68A

test

>>529602253
You very obviously haven't. You're a self-taught retard hasn't wrote a single line of production code in your life and has never been paid a cent for your work.

>>529602485
i am, okay?
i still miss shit tho, im just human, im not perfect, so just give me a break

>>529602229
thanks

>>529602519
I'm a professional enginedev and I make ~170k total comp depending on bonuses.
Sorry about your projection. Sorry your life is so hard that you feel the need to lash out like this.

>>529601996
Brotato, which I believe is the best-selling Godot game, also uses the default Panel styles.

>>529602937
Sure, you are kid, and I'm Steve Jobs. Post paystub.

>>529602937
Which engine?

>>529602937
>I'm a professional enginedev and I make ~170k total comp depending on bonuses.
>Sorry about your projection. Sorry your life is so hard that you feel the need to lash out like this.

>>529601942
>>529602189
I'm glad others report garbage too, sometimes I wonder.
/agdg/ really did used to be better and some days now it's almost entirely pointless.

>>529603117
>dox yourself
Nah I'm good. Even if I blanked out my name you'd say I did Inspect Element or something.
Why is it so hard to believe anyways? You think no dev in the industry has ever been on 4chan?
>>529603286
Proprietary in-house. Doesn't even have a name, the codebase has just been used from game to game. I've come across files originally written in c in the 90s, which is based.

>>529604020
Every in house engine has a name

>>529604227
There is no engine really, the codebase was purchased from a publisher that owned it and then our current game was developed from there and is still actively developed.
There are in-house tools that have names.

>>529605347
Okay what are the tool names.

>Anime avatarnigger lying out of xer ass to avoid answering questions
Let's move on, shall we

>>529604020
It's not totally unbelievable, but I'm also not going to believe some random 0.1x dev off the internet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwG89HH0VcM Even dumb women can get fake make-work jobs. You're obviously not producing anything of value. There is zero revenue resulting from your inputs. You are worse than useless, and your managers moreso for not firing you yet. That's just how industry is nowadays. There are retards like JBlow with more money than sense, or at least until he burnt it all.

I'll explain it for the other less retarded readers here. Memory management is risky, especially on larger codebases managed by larger teams where it's impossible for any single individual to be able to understand the entire codebase. C/C++ is so notorious for defaulting to unsafe memory that the industry invented and strongly pushed for an entire new language (Rust) to replace it for that reason alone. Rust is a language that forces you to box/rc everything by default. i.e., It literally will not compile if you don't use smart pointers, or if you don't explicitly specify that you want unsafe memory. With the great power that comes with unsafe memory comes great responsibility, and none of you are ready for that responsibility. That is why any professional C++ codebase managed by anyone who is not a complete retard enforces smart pointer usage for all heap memory.

If your opinion was simply "smart pointers are cumbersome, inconvenient, and boilerplate for a solodev", I wouldn't have gotten upset at you, even though it would certainly come back to bite them down the line. Saying that smart pointers should never be used is completely asinine. Kill yourself, retard.

>>529599224
>nobody tells you in order to succeed you have to become good at what you are doing
NANI!?!?

AI IS WINNING
just.. don't look at the hands

>first person horror variant map
>all this for a fucking door that opens and closes automatically
are they having a laugh? would this be must more simplified with a simple door static mesh instead of literally spawning the geometry with bp's?

>>529609601
That doesn't look too bad. Does the door need to animate and make sounds? If so, that's about how much code you'd expect.

>>529605439
Jim, Rupert, Samuel, and Wrench. Wrench is a physical wrench that we use for the sink when it starts dripping.

>>529609063

>>529609063
samus culo

>>529591959
>>529583048
Did you died anon?

>>529609063
so you're saying I'm learning blender for nothing?

>tfw finally made a puzzle that I'm proud of
>can't show it off cus it would give away the solution

>>529609778
I feel like they are just flexing... all this geometry for a DOOR

>>529610543
I said it in the /v/ thread and I’ll say it here again. You should be embarrassed of how terrible that looks. Have you even seen a real woman before?

>>529610751
anon, what are you even doing???

>>529610751
There was probably a good reason for it.

>>529610543
use reference

a game about a cat that likes spaghetti haha

>>529610764
>Have you even seen a real woman before?

>>529610995
heh

>>529611141
funny

>>529611141
its that cat from those horror memes

>>529611503
>>529611141
i also laughed

1. Never kill yourself
2. Work on your game
3. See you next week

>>529610543
I feel like I'm almost learning it for nothing too but its still a while away it seems
my plan is keep learning for the artistic outlet and use the knowledge to edit or fix AI shit if need be
the butt and booba could be fixed to be a more natural looking shape, they look like implants, and the line for the ribcage should curve diagonally down farther, unless you're trying to make all her ribs show

>>529610543
no, because there will still be a niche for non-AI games or 3D animated stuff. competition will be tighter if you're going on a higher level, but within the indie sphere I can see non-AI games becoming a more dedicated subculture.

>>529610764
Always surprises me when I see such shit anatomy. You can find naked women online posing for free. Like cmon

>>529610903
procrastinating on starting my game because I'm having choice paralysis

>>529613017
Choose Pong.

she is soo underrated

>>529613535
So how did she do it

>>529613017
Analysis paralysis. The killer of motivation

thought? designing thumbnail is hard :(,

>>529613693
It'll do.

how do i know if my game is worth a damn
also how do i resist the urge to turn my game into a roguelike

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHAqhP8EeYQ
How does 100 games release every day still manage to love this hobby?

>>529614128
they're all shit and my game isn't

>>529613965
>how do i resist the urge to turn my game into a roguelike
roguelikes are the default conditions for games so that question is equivalent to "how do i keep my game as soulless as possible"

>>529613965
Every game is worth a damn if someone cares to put it on the steam store. If you can only manage itch, well.

>>529613965
What's wrong with making a roguelike? Shallow arcade games don't sell on Steam, and the simplest way to give a shallow arcade game some depth is by adding roguelike mechanics.

>>529613693
it's cool. the girl isn't clear in the thumb though. but making her bigger would be odd. since she has black clothes, i'd try having her posed with a readable silhouette against the red beast.

>>529613965
>how do i resist the urge to turn my game into a roguelike
what is a roguelike to you? what aspect makes you want to resist?

>>529613965
play your game, afterwards do you want to play it more?
do you want to see more of it?
if yes then worth a damn if no then not

>making a roguelike so i can enjoy my own game and not easily get bored of testing it
life is good

>>529614975
oh fuck im screwed

>>529614795
right now my game has no way for the player to die because i dont want the player to hate me and my game, but i keep thinking that a cheap way to make my game good would be to just kill the player and send them back to the start every 5 seconds by making the game bullshit hard so anyone that plays it will get dopamine from surviving long enough to say "wow i never made it this far before"

>>529615161
Filtered.

>>529615161
oh. see roguelikes to me involve procedurally generated dungeons full of randomized placement of monsters and items etc, so you have to plan and make do with what you find. the best ones have lots of fun item interactions

>>529614672
true, I'll try to brighten the silhouette, thanks

>>529615487
could do it with fog/mist

I can't find a tutorial on making an RPG like Final Fantasy 6. Everywhere I search the tutorial thinks that JRPG is Zelda for some reason.
I already made a game in RPG Maker but I want to use a real engine now to have more control.

>fix netcode bug
>refactor systems
>run into bug again
>old solution doesn't work
i give up

>>529616914
If you need a tutorial to handhold you all the way through, you're not ready.

I can't find a tutorial to make a AAA game like GTA 6

>>529599224
How does it feel knowing that this will have more cultural relevance than whatever you make
https://x.com/snakesandrews/status/1915437563914944537

>>529616914
there should be a tutorial on how to make a turn based combat system, there has to be a ton I know I've seen at least one
and then you make a world with a character you control and how the battle scenes are triggered and then uh just the whole rest of the game

>>529617341
Just vibe it bro

>>529609601
my door code with networking, prediction, sweeping, is like 3x as much code

>>529617341
EZ just follow a third person shooter tutorial then add some civilians walking around when you shoot a civvie trigger cop spawn within a certain radius from the player good luck with path finding uhhhh make some cars drivable umm

OH hookers AI gen some sexy ladies throw em into mixamo give em a sexy dance YA DONE

>>529617395

Blueprints make my head hurt I think I'll just learn C++

>>529618438
I give up

>>529618438
yeah if you use UE, I would highly recommend learning c++, it's much more powerful and flexible

>>529616914
There's no tutorial on how to make Skyrim wtf is this bullshit

>libre pixel art editors
>libresprite, aseprite but libre
>use it
>quite buggy
>last commit 3 months ago
>latest version 1.1 from 2024
>fallen behind aseprite greatly
eh it's fine, there are other editors besides aseprite. libre software will win one day, I believe...

Look who I met

>>529620020
Just buy aseprite, poorfag.

>>529620096
nice Z-meister, I want to meet her too.

>>529620020
aseprite is free if you compile it from the git
https://github.com/aseprite/aseprite/
ask ai for help if you don't know how

>trying to draw a sprite
>remember seeing something similar in a game I played once 20 years ago
>google the game so I can use it as reference
>every single screenshot is from the RemasterTM which doesn't have the same sprite
>have to download the game myself for something I would have easily had 10 years ago

Luckily before downloading, I managed to find a youtube gameplay video from 16 years ago, even though the quality was kinda shit, but I wonder how long until not even that will be available.
I always used to think I could find everything on the internet so I don't need to worry about saving stuff on my PC myself. It was a good thing, all the world's knowledge available for free to the public. But I'm starting to think we'll soon roll over back into a dark age of knowledge where publicly available stuff is worthless and you can only get useful stuff by being part of elite, closed garden groups where people bring their own curated materials.

thanks for reading my blog you can unsubscribe by pressing X in top right

>>529620164
>>529620348
You don't get it, it's about the freedom. Aseprite isn't free as in freedom.

>>529620564
Freedom is a spectrum and has many axis.

>>529620096
O_O wow Chris really does browse here. Idk who the asian girl is but it's more interesting to see you posting a pic of yourself here. Hey Chris I'm curious have you ever made a game? What got you so interested in the gaming dev scene?

>>529611829
o-okay then. see you next week

>>529620096
who the fug are either of these people

Day 32 on a Thread for Project C-Con – "Okay Tuesday" Edition
Journal logs are being posted into /agdg/ daily.

Started the first fifteen minutes of the second episode in Fusel's remastered C++ tutorial. It seems just as informative and even more fun than his initial, and he seems to have brought more setup and teaching experience into the new one. Next time we'll be proper following much closer as today was a small stint to just test waters and start it really.

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/13C5nnMf47YpjLNIASY5faFfqBzfWmgJhLAx7AFCY85s/edit?usp=sharing

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

>>529621349
Chris "Prophet" Zukowski and Emily "Nepobaby" Pitcher (not to be confused with Zukowski, he's the one that actually pitches things)
I browse here too much 2 b desu.

>>529613965
You can't buy faith for yourself anon.

look at me, I'm a real game dev

my dev team wants me to do all the work again and I'm too afraid to say no

saars any redeemers in the chat?

>>529620096

chris we need your energy to purge /agdg/ of bocchi posters. send help

>>529568369
Iirc those weren't old-timey meme, with the snail being the derogative symbol of some group that had a reputation for being piece of shit in general and traitors in particular (Burgundy, I think, or some Italian group, memory's hazy on that).

bochiposters shall be thrown from buildings inshallah

>>529622813
you're basically the team's healslut, get to work

>>529622880
>I'm armpit

>>529567823
I'm glad to see you're still kicking. Literally even. See you on demoday!

>>529622901
Chris posts bocchis tho?

>>529623154
>Chris posts bocchis tho?

>>529576181
I want to comment both:
"I really like this style"
and
"This style scream grim loli abuse doujin with a sad ending"
I think I'm a bad person.

>>529623154
I can totally see him doing that

>>529623032
He know how to attract pajeets.

I'm never gonna get good at art. It takes years, and I still need to make this game. It's either practice art for years or make a game. It's ovah

>>529623787
>I'm never gonna get good at art. It takes years, and I still need to make this game. It's either practice art for years or make a game. It's ovah

>>529623787
Make a game that doesn't require great art. Jonas has a video where he talks about how he traces/kitbashes to make his "programmer art" and the results are pretty good.

what if i just wanted to goon instead of devving?

>>529624097
then you shall be publicly hanged inshallah

>>529623787
>>529623923
This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URJ6KxTlhhA

>>529623787
>I'm never gonna get good at art
why are so many of you such defeatist faggots?
just put in the effort and with time you will improve

>>529624156
Alhamdulillah, we will purge infidel gooners from agdg, inshallah.

>>529623787
just make it and redo the art every now and then

>>529624312
>Why are a bunch of people who wasted the best years of their short life watching anime, jacking off, spending 24/7 on the computer and not learning anything new such defeatist faggots
Gee, I wonder.

>>529624426
yeah at least i wasted my time learning C

>>529623787
You're 15, Arpit, You've got time.

>>529611141
and then he steals jon's pipe

>>529624617
I wasted my time learning japanese 草

Bone Janitor can now break walls with his FREAKING EYE

>>529624873
you definitely wasted your time then

How do I stay motivated to work on my game?
My previous projects got abandoned because I can't get any attentions with them, and eventually I lost interests to continue working on them.
I'm about to start a new one, and this time I want to complete it.

>>529624276
I love that guy.

>>529568931
what are you, gay?

>>529622880
So you browse discord for indian game developer classifieds to take screenshots of and post here?
...Why?

>>529623143
Heh, nice one anon, and thanks

>>529624156
>>529624326
BASED

>>529624932
so get this I'm a skeleton, in a CREEPY abandoned arcade, who shoots LAZERS from my FREAKIN eye? okay, that's just something I do now!

Wow Juan, breaking your engine like that?

on the face of it i cant really say "iterate" is bad advice, i dont have a logical argument as to why that wouldn't work...
>>529624276
>>529624348
...but then everyone who jerks off iteration ends up making terrible trash like these guys

>>529625952
crazy how updating to an experimental version can do that

>>529625952
>beta
Retard

>>529626039
>>529626064
Well, I can always revert back to a precedent commit

>>529625952
godot 4.5.beta3 will fix that

>>529625879

>>529626098
why are you updating anyway?

>>529626220
Because I like to update. Do Xlibre is stable yet?

>>529626161
whats with the pink aids spots

>>529626161
cord is here

>>529626289

>>529626161
we returning to the skelly era?

>>529623154
I stopped Bocchi posting because Marmo said he hates the new Bocchi posters.
(not cris)

>>529597143
>>529597691

>>529597143
Your high skill successful game anon?

>>529625980
>makes terrible trash
objectively false

>>529626828
what if Marmo wasn't the first bocchiposter? but rather an imitator of another anon

stay with me... aggydaggy door wo tataki...

what does /agdg/ think of the stop killing games initiative?

>>529628847
I support and already signed it

>>529628847
PirateSoftware says it's bad, we should listen to him.

>>529629085
isn't he a pedo

>>529568917
>worst thing was outside the project itself, setting up the server host and make it connect through webgl clients
That's beyond my understanding lol. Well if you miss demo day, I don't blame you, may be best to focus on developing quicker than adjusting stuff just for demo day

>>529620096
emily........

>>529571336
How long was it in development? I'd like to make a 4x but it feels like it might be way too high scope if I want to make a succesful one.

>>529628847
I live in America so I can't do anything to support it even if I cared

>>529629650
tweet #StopKillingGames right now
we are trying to get it viral so normalfags notice it more

Enough progress for today.
Good night, Aggy.

>>529629919
looks great gj

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAEBFfsv7CQ

>>529630247
Rittzler won. Get over it.

>>529628847
Whats it about?

>>529630343
https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq

>>529605862
No one in the vidya industry cares about rust.
Smart pointers are not standard in c/c++ code. Do you think it was impossible to make large projects before smart pointers?

You're the one larping.

>>529626323
It's being puppeteered by a "digital" lifeform.

>>529626450
Cord???

>>529626492
hell ye nigga

With C++ or C# you at least have a viable way out of gamedev even if, in the end, you had nothing to show for your efforts financially. If you're doing C and a framework there's virtually no way you'll be able to transfer your skills into embedded systems and microcontrollers where the average dev has 50+ years of experience. You should keep that in mind.

>>529629421
Point stand stronger?

>>529631010
Better to have a jobby working as programmer and game dev as hobby

>>529591703
Actually I dodged a bullet by not starting one when you told me to and having my game eclipsed completely by the original.

is facebook marketing even worth it?

>>529629421
he's a furry and gay so probably

>>529632431
If you're making a skinnerbox mobile game targeting women maybe.

>>529628847
I support it for single player games but I don't like it for MMORPGs and similar online-only games.
For single player games it is like:
>You should be prevented from going extra steps to prevent customers from enjoying your product in the standard way
For multi player it's like:
>You should be forced to go extra steps in the development to make your game available in a way it was never intended to be.

>>529632768
Could be good for forcing MMO devs to release their server packs lel

>>529632768
it doesn't cover mmos
read the faq

How do you think the UI lighting in Highfleet is done? You could just bake the light in for buttons and stuff, but there is also ambient lighting during various events making it darker or lighter, so wouldn't that make the baked in lighting look shit?
Is it rasterized 3D + normal maps + actual lighting?

>>529632982
As well as saying it applies to online multiplayer games, the FAQ even applies it to MMORPGs specifically.

>>529628847
Mixed feelings. Trying to force a dev to permanently host servers? Lol. Trying to force a dev to change the code so you can play it offline? Lol the game was built to have multiplayer and now they are expected to change all that to make it singleplayer? The game is an MMO with login? I don't see how this is going to work out. I can easily see some companies just pull out of Europe if the effort doesn't seem worthwhile and this would in return cause this bill or whatever it is to fail.

>>529633305
retard

>>529571908
modern idle games are complete trash. nobody "enjoys" them, they're just there for one parts dopamine and other parts nostalgia for the good old days.
they didn't used to be "easy money" either because it was an unwritten contract that you're farming dopamine, therefore the most you get to scam from your players is ad rev.
but everyone wants their bag now. the people who do will never get idle/incremental. and they know this, but you've got such a lack of self awareness you think you're building masterpieces.

>>529633305
retard

>>529632768
I do not support it because the same fanboys crying that you own all the games bought on steam are the same ones defending steam even when its obvious that if steam ever shuts down then access to all those games is likely going to happen, probably due to legal reasons

>>529633305
Triple retard

>>529628847
fucks over AAAs so i support it

>>529633094
i asked a few months ago and got no reply, i remember doing some research and the guy uses some deprecated ogre3d tier engine
his assets look very ugly outside of the game like literal photos so there is a lot of shader/post processing use

>>529633305
>Trying to force a dev not to use their game to harvest private identifiable user information and sell it for marketing purposes? Lol
>Trying to force a dev not to include predatory lootbox mechanics that target children? Lol.
>Trying to force a dev not to make a game that contains literal child pornography? Lol.
>Trying to force a dev not to install a bitcoin miner and botnet alongside their game? Lol.
>Trying to force a dev not to scrape the player's computer for personal photos and documents and upload them to a server. Lol
>Trying to force a dev not to clone the customer's credit =card information when they make an ingame purchase and doing whatever they want with it? Lol
>Companies will pull out of Europe... a market of 744 million people
Actual retard.

>>529631010
>the average dev has 50+ years of experience
Soooo about to retire?

>>529628847
It's being pushed for a guy who has no dev experience. It's only really there for AAA players and I play indie games, so I really don't care about the trash pigs whining that the trash they swill and probably won't play anymore anyway is getting scrubbed.
Everyone wants to preserve everything forever but nobody actually cares about the things they're preserving. It's like keeping an item in your drawer that you'll totally use some year but unless you're suddenly forced to use it you never actually will, it'll just collect dust.
A lot of art gets scrapped all the time. It's just life. We don't need to cling to old shit forever or else we'll never make anything new.


The guy running it seemed like he was cherrypicking PirateSoftware's arguments because when I actually watched PirateSoftware's videos they had some valid points that could've been explained better. I still don't like Thor. Basically, I think both sides of the argument are lame.
Nobody's as lame as the dozens of drama react channels watching the video doing zero research and contributing nothing

>>529633635
Where did you find pics of the original assets? I would have just read a devlog if they were easy to find.

>>529628847
I support it in principle but in practice it is never going to pass since it would require completely changing the ownership model of digital goods that is well established across all industries.
It is well established that when you "purchase" a digital product you are only acquiring a temporary license to access that product that can be revoked at any time for any reason. This is a shitty model of course but its probably not going to change.

Also the idea that Blizzard can just release the wow server code once it reaches EOL is laughable. The wow server code is probably inextricably linked with battlenet for things like authentication, anti cheat, drm etc that would all need to be removed otherwise it would have huge implications on their other games. There is no simple way to just remove this, it would likely require a full rewrite and would cost millions.

>>529633827
you just gave examples of things that were basically illegal anyway but needed further clarification

a better way to word this situation is
>Trying to force devs to be clear on whether they are giving you an ownable product or whether you are subscribing to a temporary service
which is basically illegal anyway but needs further clarification

cant dev because my cat is sitting on my lap licking my fingers as i try to dev

>>529634152
>It is well established that when you "purchase" a digital product you are only acquiring a temporary license to access that product that can be revoked at any time for any reason.
not in the EU

>>529626492
>>529630736
>returning to the skelly era?
Damn right.

>>529634082
cant remember it was in some russian gamedev forum or whatever, the textures looked like literal photos

>>529634231
You have more protections under the EU but when you buy a game you are ultimately still only purchasing a license.

>>529633305
>pulling out of europe
>single biggest market with people buying games and for european (highest) price

>>529634152
you can host your wow servers right now
it's literally double clicking a batch file
stop talking out of your ass of things you have no idea about

>>529634475
Can you dig it out of your history? Maybe I can suss out what we're looking at and give you some answers too

>>529633094
just seems like a layer/faked light with screen/overlay/vignette type of thing

>>529633431
>I do not support the right to ownership because small percentage of other people supporting it are annoying
Are you 12?

>>529634152
then they'll just have to rewrite the code to remove that or face penalties
simple as
alternatively a less strict bill could allow them to strip that out and let fans work out themselves how to rig it up. Clearly people have already worked it out since private servers exist

>ummmm but what if I put a line of code in that says "if pizza == false: you lose" and this is super necessary and important and relates to my pizzalauncher and will destroy the whole game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRA7Z6yUdiQ

this nigga saved me weeks of scratching my head at fps drop, fucking godot

i think i'd play an mmorpg in the style of rimworld. i just want to chill and get in the zone and see numbers going up. i don't care about graphics. the thing is, that there has to be something to grind for. idle games feel to meaningless. as long as there is some progression and meaning to the game, i'm fine with simple 2D graphics. actually i might even prefer it because it's easier for the brain to process.

>>529634781
How would you make a layer for ambient lighting like this? An AI suggested this but I disregarded it because it was unsourced, maybe from a text book somewhere

>>529633981
>I don't care because its not MY games being killed
Thor is a fag and shouldn't even be part of the discussion as he's involved with another game that is online only, do he's biased. Ross on the other hand is reporting about dead games for years now, and seeks solutions inside and outside of industry, Thor was the one cherrypicking Ross's arguments and ran away when Ross went forward and proposed a debate.
And no, you're not safe, when AAA see they can do it, indies are next in line. We already have dozens of discussions what actually is indie at this point, and as soon as you have a publisher, outside funding and a team of people you're not indie. Guess what publisher can do? Force your "indie" studio to make online only game. You're not above the equation.

I will be taking advantage of the #StopKillingGames tag by posting it with a feature I was already planning on adding. Thank you.

Post lore

>>529635343
MMORPGs are shit, just stick to Dwarf Fortress.

>>529634152
WoW emulators were present 15 years ago, you could join a private server and play for free, with increased XP scaling.
The again WoW is a subscription based and isn't covered by it.
Also
>temporary license that can be revoked for any reason
>he's okay with it
You good goy, you obedient slave, you double NPC nigger cattle, how dumb can you get

When will stop killing games come after the inner circle? They've killed many agdg games

>>529635347
just a transparent sprite with a yellowish center and 'additive' blend mode.

>>529635874
Lorecrafting is a step below ideaguying.

>>529635874
cow tools

>>529636105
This touches on one of my secrets; I don't know what any blend modes do and just click around randomly and move the sliders until it looks right

>>529636160
>'lovecraft'ing is a step below ideaguying
agreed

>>529635949
>I support it in principle
>This is a shitty model

learn to read retard

My game has a bug.
edit: had
edit2: has

make a game where you are a prince who hates dogs, but once he sees that one dog he becomes a dogfucker.

>>529634493
Yes, because otherwise that would mean you could redistribute copies and own the code and basically be a owner of that particular game. Stop skating that license is nothing, you own your copy of that game but you're not the sole proprietary owner of that game. You don't have copyrights, you don't own trademark, patents in this game aren't you're despite of you buying it. That's the license, you can use the software despite not having rights for all other things in the game, including code or distribution rights.

>>529628847
Good games already get private servers, or cracks to remove the online components.
If your game doesn't, then it wasn't that good of a game anyway.
The tech nerd's judgement is harsh, but always fair.

>>529636491
EVERYONE dis nigga right here doesn't know how blend modes work!!

>>529636872
Everything about this is browncoded

>>529637030

>>529633827
>eu
>744 million people
retard

>>529630669
TLDR: Euros are trying to force their local equivalent of congress to pass a law that would force corpos to provide the files necessary to make private servers if they close a game.
Argument being that you paid for the fucking product, and that they can't claim profit losses since they are killing the game anyway.

>>529637220
>EU = Europe
double retard

>>529637030
Darken is my least favorite because it makes everything dark

>>529637012
but that means you follow the opinion of majority and, by definition, a normies opinion, that makes you an NPC

>>529637286
Sounds good to me, what's controversial about it?

>>529637479
Lobbyists and margin cuts

why didn't i think of making schedule 1? why didn't i think of making the game that will be the next big hit? why is life so random?

>>529637463
>people who can crack shit, or reverse-engineer private servers
>normies
Those are more autistic than you can ever hope to become.

>>529637609
Breaking Bad was no. 1 10 years ago, I'm baffled it took that much time

>>529637302
>>Companies will pull out of Europe... a market of 744 million people
>Counting people outside the EU
Are you a special retard? Why would companies pull out of Russia and Turkey because of EU legislation?