Thread 530464262

Sit the fuck down edition

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

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

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

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

>Previous thread
>>530369116

Did ithiro sent the invites for the agdg orgy of this year already? Didnt receive anything yet.

@brazil

2nd for making progress

>>530464603
didnt get mine yet

TOK won

an action roguelike, but you are the loot-master handing out gear.

ToK lost.

>>530464534
Publisher gave him 20k, his current gross revenue after steam is 90k. He lives in Montenegro where the cost of living is 1500 Euro a month, he's set for a long time.

t. someone in the know

Why is the JUSHA page password-protected?

>>530464534
Caring about paying back to a publisher is a cuck behavior

what are your personal top 3 game mechanics that you think makes every game good?

>>530465147
nice damage control narrative

>>530464534
Is tok not profitable?

why is asmongold so resistant to caring about money? i mean he's like a weakling locked in his basement depending on food delivery. shouldn't he be scared to death about becoming poor because he depends of this kind of life support? how do i become like him and do what i want in the face of poverty? like, that dude played world of warcraft while being jobless and having no perspective in life. how do i achieve those levels of not giving a fuck? or is it really because he had parents hardcarrying him?

>>530465642
6 years of development for that performance is a marnix-tier blunder

What do you need to be successful in the games industry? People say "just make a good game" but what they actually mean is "just make the most amazing game of all time." The examples they always use are the Baldurs Gate 3's of the industry, but there are plenty of good games that flop, such as Grim Fandango, System Shock 2, and Marmoreal.

>>530465286
this
t. has a publisher that will never make their money back from my game

Haven't bought anything from steam sale again.

>>530465764
He has enough in his bank account to maintain his lifestyle for several millennia.

Stop asking dumb questions.

Gaben is stealing from indie devs by taking 30% before taxes, those 20% they steal are the difference between another year of dev or having to get a job.

>>530465764
I suspect that it was parents then he got really rich.

>>530465884
not my problem that indies aren't making more good sandbox survival games. no i don't want low poly with flat normals. no i don't want cute comfy art styles. no i don't want someone's hobby project made in 2 weeks.

if it's not on par with 7daystodie, oxygen not included, factorio, kenshi, zomboid etc. then i don't care. there have been no new games that even barely touch this level of quality.
browsing sandbox survival tags on steam gives me severe depression.

>>530466136
>Gaben is stealing from indie devs by taking 30% before taxes, those 20% they steal are the difference between another year of dev or having to get a job.

I got the negatives of making it (having to deal with lunatics) without the positives (don't need to get a job). DRAT!

>>530465801
>6 years of development
for a turdie? that's nothing

>>530466136
Wrong. It's the difference between 5 lambos or 5 yachts.

Threadly reminder that there doesn't exist any public information of how well Tower of Niggermonvo actually sold. Osur completely refuses to give any concrete details because of "muh contract" (how convenient) while the analytics sites are completely unreliable due to discord cultists completely messing up the review ratio for the first few weeks. The game could have sold less than 1000 copies for all we know.
Osur had everything set up in his favour, and the game was his to lose, and he lost it. Grow up and get over it.

>>530464752
nice!

>>530464887
inner circle xisters we need to make more steam accounts...

Imagine getting this assblasted that a dev ignored you

>>530466503
NNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOO MY PARASOCIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH HIM TELLS ME OTHERWISE

>>530466503
>300 cultists all giving out positive reviews to their friends
how do i join the inner circle

Can i get a link to the Discord please?

thank god im irrelevant

'cord is here

are cord trannies still coping and defending monvo three months later? Jeez louise get a life

Thank science I have the discord to console me when my game flops

>>530466997
discord.gg/gay-gamedev-lives-matter

Godot can't still save in game generated scenes to the user data.

TOTAL 'CORD DEATH
THREAD CHUDS WON

>>530467254
You need to set node owners, retard.

>>530465364
get on Osur's level, quite literally
pussy ass hater

>>530467254
retard

>>530466503
Osur also likes to spread rumors about people calling his publishers when, in fact, they never did to get sympathy downloads.

>>530467592
Didn't 'goon himself brag about doing it in the discord?

side game in Godot about a lonely robit... who learns to love again in a coming of age tale.

STOMP CLAP HEY!!

>>530467989
okay, tachibana-san

>>530467989
Fuck. How did you know?

>>530466503
I'm pretty sure that the estimates on Gamalytic and other places are completely skewed and broken because ToK's abnormally high wishlist pile and follower count completely distorts the estimations. Estimations are based on followers, reviews, and maybe wishlists, all things that don't go hand in hand with sales and ToK has a suspiciously high amount of for the type of game it is.

Can Godot make a Sims-like?

>Cris got NVKED instantly
About time he had a janny with some common fucking sense. Now it's the Bocchiniggers turn.

>>530468431
Engines don't make things. Developers do. You're not a developer and will ever produce anything.

>>530468112
miss tachibana is very smart and mature

how do i make a game publishers will contact me about...

>>530466997
https://discord.com/invite/FpgaCJe

>>530467989
>>530468053
>>530468112
>>530468634
Amateur game development? You already have 'cord for your cringe erp.

>>530468607
Developers are a solved problem. Engines DO make things these days. You don't need hardly any technical knowledge to make a game with modern tools. So if you are unable to do something, it's a technical failure of the engine.

>>530468793
>Amateur game development? You already have 'cord for your cringe erp.

>>530468846
That's not quote worthy.

>>530468708
you dont need a publisher

>>530468846
leave summerfag

>>530468903
i dont NEED one, i WANT one, im sofucking lonely...

>>530468846
Damn you showed him

>>530468708
make a game that gains social media momentum

>>530468793
here was my progress so stop bothering me

can anyone explain why Godot has vsync on by default when it's also windowed by default? i tried to make a sprite move and it was incredibly laggy in windowed mode before turning it off

>>530468953
you think you do, but you dont

>>530469014
>can anyone explain why Godot has vsync on by default when it's also windowed by default? i tried to make a sprite move and it was incredibly laggy in windowed mode before turning it off

Osur is a gypsy who scammed his publisher out of 100k which he did not use to develop his game but instead saved for until after the game's release so that he can use it to buy an apartment and claim he did it with the earnings from ToK

>>530469054
huh? it's my first time using it because that other guy said he couldn't make an adventure game in it

I'm going to buy Armaphract when it comes out

>>530469357
is that going to be before or after your transition?

rember it is impossible to screen share gotdot games

>>530469447
>is that going to be before or after your transition?

>>530469560
>>530469609
godot 5 will fix that

>>530469560
>rember it is impossible to screen share gotdot games

Uma Musume

>>530469760
Sopa de Musume, Uma Delicia

>>530469760
sex with horsegirls

my brain struggles to comprehend the simplicity of incremental games
it's literally just doing the same thing over and over again, with almost zero variation, to watch an arbitrary number increase
i really can't understand finding joy from this

>>530464262 (OP)
>Sit the fuck down
No

>>530468989
nice

>>530469970
>My dad bought
>He let me take it
So this is what they mean by nepobaby

>>530469447
why are you even here?

>>530470480
Looking for friends

>>530468989
gay cursor detected

>>530469912
You wouldn't get it if you can't answer the breakfast question.

>>530470480
I'm working on a game and hate mafias

>>530470174
I think it's more the fact that he's an old Boeing engineer, one of the most powerful corpo in the world and that his game got a lot of attention from mainstream medias despite looking like a RPGMaker game. I bet you think PirateSoftware got a job at blizzard because he's a great programmer too, or that the expedition 33 dev got a senior position at Ubisoft out of highschool because he was a prodigy. Nepotism is very real, ask any indian.

>>530467362
>>530467452
seems 4.4.1 fixed that bug.

chuds BTFO.
Now I can continue making my engine.

:D

'member when balatroondev said he made the overly polished gambleslop streamerbait kusoge for his heckin 6 friends?
why do devs lie so much when they make it?

My demo is shit after all

>>530471346
its called pulling the ladder up after them.

Also, when asked to give advice to aspiring indie devs he said he cant give any advice because its all pure luck and there's nothing at all you can do to be successful except get lucky (this ended up being somewhat true, in the sense that his "luck" was being a paid moderator for NorthernLion who was paid a percentage of balatro profits to stream it constantly and convince all of his stream butt buddies to also play it)

>>530470623
i'd be hungry
why do people like these games
?

>>530471759
proof?

Is Fygoon going to make it?

>>530471465
ditto

>>530472893
he wont even make it to 50

in order to do some research, i downloaded some survivor likes and i felt extremely bored while i was playing them.

>>530473076
yes

>>530473076
>yesdev eyebags
i will now listen to his advice

>you can say retarded again
>you can say gay again
can we say the n-word yet in video games?

>>530473270
Retard

>>530473270
Only if the developer and character are black or has a pass

>>530473076
do these games actually sell well if you're a competent enough gamedev and choose a good theme? i've been thinking about shitting out a game in 6 months to try and earn a decent chunk of cash

>>530469970
It's all so ruthlessly calculated...

>>530471113
>Long retired boeing engineer
What does that have to do with game development? Do you even know what the word nepobaby actually means?

>>530466136
you're free to sell on your own webpage
good luck having any views though

Never 3D modelled here. Legally, what would happen if I took front/side views of my favourite PS2 human models and used it as a reference for the 3D models that I'm making, obviously not doing it 1:1.

Someone needs to investigate the guy who coded the steam tag wizard and bring him to justice.

>>530473806
>what would happen if I took front/side views of my favourite PS2 human models and used it as a reference for the 3D models that I'm making, obviously not doing it 1:1.
nothing

If my niece doesn't like my game, I will have failed as an uncle...

For those making visual novel/rpgmaker story based games, how do you feel about mini games? It feels like to me that it kills pace of a story more often than not, yet games keep putting them in that are story based.

I could buy star wars battlefront 2 for 5bux, this is why our games aren't competing...

>>530472893
No, he's a pedo and gonna be arrested

Grok4 is out

>>530474287
Never liked them. Whenever playing a minigame, it was something that I did begrudgingly and only out of absolute necessity because I needed it to advance in the game.

>>530474629
ok but why don't you make this post about this nodev too >>530474269
curious...

I'm gay.

>>530474726
Grok is absolutely garbage for both programming and art gen in my experience, Gemini and Claude are all you need

>>530474960
@grok is this true?

>>530379436
Oh yeah, forgot about the backpack games
I wish there was a better way to distinguish b/w ones using polys for inventory mgmt and polys for filling up boards since they're accomplishing the inverse design principals (minimize vs maximizing space)
My biggest dilemma is if players expect only real time (tetris) or an auto-complete portion (backpack, that tower defense game) and will think pure turn based feels too board gamey

>>530474873
Good this is the gay dev general. Straggots not allowed

>>530473707
Expedition 33 dev's dad made millions from construction work not gamedev, yet his son managed to get a senior position at Ubisoft out of highschool and meet the AAA people that ended up working on his millions dollar project, your point?

>>530474789
Well, for one, it's a nodev. For two, did your uncle do something to you that you've bottled up?

>>530474960
Never heard of these, chatgpt is all you need

>>530472416
For one, people aren't playing them in isolation. They're meant to be played while you scroll tiktok, watch your favorite streamer play a real game, or get into pointless 4chin arguments.

>just doing the same thing over and over again
The better ones all have proper mechanical progression.

>>530475060
meant for >>530389337

>The thing that I hope my story could inspire people is that you don't have to have connections, you don't need to be an insider. I didn't know anyone, I just made a game, I wasn't following trends or anything, it came from the heart and it blew up so... I hope that inspires people to believe, to dream and to try things and not feel like "I can't do it because I'm not an industry insider"

https://youtu.be/83DYlsJoaFk?t=3929&si=KckbxugWSOu_JKw2

do you respect this jobby?

>>530475663
>do you respect this jobby?

>>530474287
you'll have to be more descriptive about what you're thinking about. they work if they actually still have you interact with the characters you're talking to, and aren't completely mindless

compare huniepop and DDLC. at no point you're staring at the bejeweled gameplay in huniepop and wanting it to end because it's dragging on too long, and the fact that the girls actually comment on how you're doing on your date as opposed to having no feedback at all makes a massive difference

in DDLC the most notable minigame has you click words while a timer ticks down, with a bunch of anime pictures dancing around at the bottom. riveting.

>>530473076
>DUNG BEETLE SIMULATOR
>ROLL AROUND PILES OF SHIT TO MAKE BIGGER PILES OF SHIT AND MANAGE MULTIPLE PILES OF SHIT WITH BUG SIMULATIONS

>>530473806
I mean it's technically a crime but it would take someone noticing it for it to matter.

>>530475663
Yeah. I have a lot of love for the craft and I have the most respect for people who roll their own tech rather than using Unity or something. They're usually the most creative and articulate, too.

I'm reminded of the creator of Animal Well, he is so insightful and has so much good to say. You can tell he has a real love for the craft, and that he's not just doing it to get likes on social media like so many other indie "devs":

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErinxHhbh0

>>530475951
This would unironically make millions if done well.

>GODOT ES UNA MIERDA
>*mascota loli*
>GODOT ES CLAVE

>>530473270
only jblow can

>>530473076
Why wont' you return out emails Mr. Zuk....

>>530475663
I respect the -bby part, not the job- part. A gamedev is just a babysitter except the babies gave you like 5 dollars so they think you're their permanent slave forever.

>>530473270
My game encourages players to use the term "rape" again, like God intended.

>>530476118
yeah cool bug games are always good

>>530476327
This is is double kek that not only marnix does coaching but also he was consulting with zuk

What is with all these pretentious warning messages at the beginning of all these games on itch.io?
>Warning: This game contains depictions of real world issues such as suicide, mental illness, and abuse.
UGHHH I hate it... I feel like I'm the only real genuine person in this industry

>>530476118
make it one of those rage games where you need to stop all your dung balls rolling away while fighting off other bugs

>>530476608
It's really not anything new. It's a standard for horror games since at least RE1.

>>530476118
it would be idle game clicker slop #82947219715 and make no money

Every game made with godot feels like a godot game.

>>530476729
Nah. You're misunderstanding what a crafty-buildy-simulator is.

>>530476749
Resident Evil is so damn pretentious don't even get me started.

>motivated
>have no time
>making almost no progress kills the motivation slowly
fuck jobs

>>530476962
>Resident Evil
>pretentious

???

>>530476608
Content warnings are a good thing. You lack empathy.

I get all these bursts of motivation but it's all wasted on having to draw assets. It takes so fucking long to draw this shit that it made me hate drawing. I am so tired of spending all day on a single illustration only to look at it when I'm done and realize it sucks and needs to be redrawn. If you're programming you can just make a quick fix but the drawing needs to be redone completely if the pose is wrong or the angle looks weird.

>>530476608
This is your competition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHwhiz0s2x8&t=466s

>>530476608
Everyone acts like they gonna have a fucking stroke at anything more sensitive than a saturday cartoon.

>>530476749
It was only reserved for extremely graphical horror games, like RE or SH. Now it's everything.

>>530465884
i have some on my list but i'm kinda holding off for the winter sale plus Timmy has given me soooooooooooo many games for free, why buy them?

>>530467989
but i wasn't play video games. i should get to work on mine, so much to do, so much boring stuff AAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

>>530477157
No you're fake and you only have fake-empathy (performative empathy so signal to others how "good" you are)

It's all a show and you're not genuine you're a loser. You wouldn't get it because you have neve

>>530477248
The code really isn't that important in indie games. Undertale is a disaster internally and it has sold millions of copies and runs fine.

>>530477403
toby fox doesn't brag about his coding prowess though and use it as a selling point

>>530477503
Does Pirate Software? I know he's a cunt and brags about working at Blizzard but I thought he was a tester or something?

>>530477248
he was literally CSR at blizzard, why do people care about this retard

>>530477503
I haven't paid that much attention to pirate games, but does he? I know he can't go 10 minutes without talking about he worked at blizzard.

>>530477403
No one actually cares about code quality. It's just easy ammunition to use on someone you don't like. Clearly it doesn't apply to Toby because he hasn't made any enemies.

>>530477248
is this the current person everyone is supposed to hate rn

>>530477379
Don't worry. I don't discriminate. I won't forget to add a trigger warning about the gay shit in my game.

I got sick during the weekend and spent all day in the toilet, was there any fanart for the demo day?

>>530477718
woah an actual pirate software fagboy out in the wild, never seen one before thats crazy lmao

>>530477810
i literally dont care about any of these niggas, there are more things to care about in the world than some ugly white dude

>>530477248
Well. His code in that screenshot looks a little more organized than mine lol. For story flags, I don't store them in a single array. They're all bools like "ch_13_player_saw_cutscene_3" and so on. lol

I think content warnings are kino and help set the game's atmosphere before it even starts.

>>530478017
I think you're GAY

>>530477749
>they all die at the end
huh, really makes you think

>>530477957
tru dat my fellow nigga! ion een kon how alla dem whypipo be on dat shieeet!!!

>>530478149
I think you're rude.

Everyone is only making a game because I am. This was my idea and you're all doing it only because I am.

>>530478204
fr wypipo don season dey games neither

>make very ugly game
>users have low expectations, are nice in the reviews
> 10 reviews (positive)
>make very beautiful game
>users critique it like its a triple A game with a trillion dollar budget and dev team of 20,000 people
>4 reviews (negative)
Why are Steam Faggots Like This?

>>530477248
I like this guys Solid Snake cosplay.

>>530477602
>>530477639
yeah he was merely a QA tester but always omits that when he talks about his 20 years of game industry experience.

he went into streaming to promote his game, and managed to get a shitload of followers and kind of just pivoted towards that because he realized that's a better thing to follow than making a shitty undertale clone

a lot of his views come from his shorts where he explains programming concepts and talks about the awesome coding decisions he made, such as not having saves at all by using steam achievements to track progress: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/T0t-DYPWVw0

it's clear he's never actually looked into this because you can spend 5 seconds googling this and finding a steam DRM emulator that tracks achievements, ready to download. he also lied about this anyway because he is using a save file; that screenshot of a giant array is his save file structure

>>530478328
whypipo don een wash dey games in da sink wiff dawn dish soap befo dey eat dat

>>530478401
Indie games often fall into this trap. The reviews typically start off with:
>The art is good, BUT...

>>530478401
I have an ugly game but still have the bottom audience for some reason.

>>530478401
Higher fidelity = Increased expectations

I wouldn't recommend any indie dev tackling high fidelity visuals even if you can do it because it means anything that doesn't meet those high standards is going to be criticized.

>>530475663
both games look ugly tho. just for a moment pretend the internet had no social media whatsoever. top game would've failed, it's one that severely relies on internet word of mouth to gain FOTM levels popularity i doubt it could get irl word of mouth type popularity. alas i simply do this for a variety reasons, one being to get rich. "respect" can mean many things, respecting someone like Sakurai is much different than respecting
>the dev's of that fotm game
>the normie devs who made $1m+ on kickstarter (probably only got into gamedev because they see it as "hip and cool")
>nodevs like Juniperdev squeezing themselves into the gamedev scene
>grifters like GMTK whose success is likely heavily reliant on their popularity

>>530466136
Good, but I still think Indian developers should pay 50%.

>>530475705
I mean more specifically in games where the story/visual novel part is the main drive, and then while thats happening, suddenly you get mini games. Like hunnie pop works since it was based around gameplay to begin with. Imagine if DDK had mini games after inbetween scenes, like doing cooking at home or school work or the like.

>>530471465
make a to-do list and unshit it

>>530477248
>>530477998
What's the "proper" way to store story flags?

>>530478505
>it made it unpirateable

Man this guy really is a dumb fuck.

>>530476041
>>530473909
speaking of which where can I find game 3D models? Modelers Resource is sparse and doesn't have the models I need

>>530478834
Up your arse

>>530476608
>itch.io
>industry

How do I scrape together money to fund my game? Right now, I'm paying entirely out of my own pocket, but I'm wondering if there are any game jams with a cash price I could join, or some kind of government fund (like what Dustborn used). I don't want to contact a publisher or start a Kickstarter.

>>530479039
indiestry

>>530478985
If the game is popular enough you can usually find model rips just by googling [GAME] Model Rips.
DeviantArt often has them in the annoying XPS Lara file format.
There are some games I've never been able to find rips for though.

>>530478562
>>530478669
>>530478734
A guy made a 30 minute youtube video about my game crying about it not having as many features as baldur's gate 3. All of the comments were agreeing with him and shitting on my game.
PSX slop is a bit of a meme but if you're solo indie it's your only shot at not getting negative review bombed by people who are expecting AAA for $5

I really hate godot but after taking the whole day looking at all the other engines that are out there... this really is the only option.

>>530479153
Only make a game that you're capable of making with your current money or no money at all, and bootstrap up from there to bigger and bigger projects by using the profits from the previous projects. You can do it I believe in you yeah

>indie
>investing even 1 microsecond of your time into "anti-piracy" when piracy only serves as free advertising for you as a developer
yikes

>>530474629
You type like the kind of retard who models every blade of grass and then turns and says:
>Durr why do I need to model humans?

>>530479286
>youtube video
Who cares about those faggots. The video creator is just a leech on the asshole of humanity and his viewers were never going to buy your game anyways because they would rather watch other people play games.

Unless it was pewdiepie or someone big enough where the views would actually convert to sales.

>>530479153
Either
1) Borrow money from friends/family telling them you'll pay them back (no written contracts just incase)
or
2) Get a job

ya'll retards need to actually play some video games you're ideas are so far removed from reality and fun that it makes me feel secondhand embarrassment sharing a thread with you

>>530479286
doesn't surprise me. they want indie prices with AAA content. what's their problem?

The job simulator tag on steam is a cognitohazard. Watch enough trailers and you start to think the whole thing is fake.

i wanted to beg bigmode to publish my game but they want "devs with a clear, strong vision"
how do i get that?

>>530429000
>Also the wiregame seems to have met such a good response the dev unpublished it lest somebody steal the idea
but i heard /agdg/ tell me no one steals ideas until they proven themselves financially!!!!

>>530479841
What does BigMode even offer besides Dunkey posting a couple videos on your game?

>>530479316
>You can do it I believe in you
don't fuckin lie to me

Every fucking guy in every fucking thumbnail is AI generated and crossing his arms. Every fucking game uses the same chatgpt style for the logo. Every fucking trailer is paced and storyboarded out the same way. They're all published by playway. They all have 500+ followers.

This whole fucking jobby is fake.

>>530479903
let me guess, you need more than a free 20,000 reviews?

the game idea in my mind is actually going to make multi millions. it is completely iconic and quirktown. And it is small enough to be a quicktown Godot side project.

I am ecstatic.

>>530480125
I don't believe dunkey shilling your game would get you instant sales. Animal Well was an interesting enough game on its own that it didn't need him to be a success.

>>530479903
nta but simply having his name attached = many easy sales that probably would never have occured since they're probably the types who only buy AAA unless their favorite influencer says otherwise. one of the few publisher's id consider worthwhile solely because the value he brings is certainly worth a 30% cut.

>>530480216
what the fuck does quicktown mean

>>530480091
elaborate schizo anon, I'm ready to go down the rabbit hole tonight

>>530478813
it can work, but it should strongly tie in to it
using your examples, in the context of a romance VN:

great: having a girl come over for dinner and you cooking for her while you play a cooking mama-style minigame. she's sitting at the counter, telling you about how her day went and whatever drama happened, plot relevant or not. periodically you give her a taste test, and she tells you if it's too spicy / not spicy enough / compliments it / etc. and you go back to your pot trying to figure out what ingredients to add. she continues talking about her day

bad: having to click flashing words corresponding to good tasting ingredients, and doing it as much as possible over a 20 second period.

for schoolwork
great: the girl does a test quiz at your house and you have to grade it for her, figuring out which (simple) math equations are incorrect, and handing it back for her to try again. she'll get discouraged and feel like a failure, and you have to convince her to never give up, or whatever corresponds to her personality

bad: trying to complete as many math equations quickly in a short period of time

do you see what i mean? for a romance VN what people want the most out of it is being able to interact with the love interests, and the good type of minigames gives the player that, just not in a VN format. the latter is shit because it purely exists to pad out gameplay time, and you don't really gain or experience anything from playing it

i don't think i've seen many VNs that attempt to put in that amount of effort for the minigames though. maybe we're just too flooded with shit

Dunkey seems to like cute, 2d games.
I'm thinking the only publisher I would get involved with is DreadX or Devolver because they get what my game is.

>keeps thinking about how great it would be to make a game that would bring as much fun as you had as a child
>thinks about innovative mechanics, balance, performance
>watches some random ass video of a trailer park kid or something having the time of his life with a shitty-ass MK bootleg

I think we got it all wrong.

>>530480362
quicktown means that the game can get down fast. quirktown means it has hello hello chiptune reddit-like appeal.

>>530480383
>I'm ready to go down the rabbit hole tonight

>>530479841
130 IQ minimum, but ideally 145+.
Lots of experience, research, and critical analysis.
Empathy.

>>530480519
I thought that was bing bing wahoo. I'm losing track of zoomer lingo

do your civic duty

>>530480468
The video in question: https://youtu.be/JhpwYoEkgL8

>>530479841
It's over.

I need vision, but it's apparently okay for my players to just bumble around idiotically. Oh right they paid me 10 dollars.
I guess that means I own steam 10 times too.

>>530481295
retad

>>530480228
>Animal Well was an interesting enough game on its own that it didn't need him

>>530481664
retd

>>530479443
?

>schizo pedo is back
threads over, see you guys tomorrow

I was able to figure out a solution to my godot enginedev issues.

:D

On one hand I hate having to clean up my script's. It's boring and tedious work going in there fixing up comments, adjusting variable names, removing no longer needed, and any of the other tasks needed for this. Yet at the same time this busy work feels like I'm just using it as an excuse to avoid working on the game even though it's useful in case more work is done on it in the future.

>>530479841
either wear glasses or get contacts

>>530483392
ret

>>530483392
Damn you real retarded fr

>>530480438
Thanks for the ideas, ill keep that in mind.

>>530483873
no u

I got a bodycam-like Golden ticket idea in Godot and I’m getting chills .

It just fell in my lap>>530483928

people would rather spend 13 dollars to order a hotdog from ubereats than on your game

>>530487004
It's raining.... I should get an immigrant to bring me a hotdog

>>530487004
the irony that they'll make it hard to even buy your game
>how many hours of gameplay?
seriously? one look and a person should be able to tell whether they want to play it or not. if this is the question that comes up, then it sound's like they're not even interested.
>so it's just like X meets Y?
at this point it just sounds like they're complaining

but woah that hot dog they've never tasted before?
>i'm curious so i'll buy it
kek. i think the same kinda applies to a game, as i stated before if they're actually interested, they'll buy it.

I was thinking of taking the setting of Vampire: The Masquerade and really leaning into the ImSim part of it. Like making a fully realized section of a city (like 1x1km) with fully simulated characters, factions, interiors, etc with the vampire/werewolf stuff ontop.

I need a cool ganedev name

>>530487485
gyfoon

>>530487485
Post your game. If you won't then your dev name is nodev.

i need to come up with new ways to call retards retarded without offending them

>>530487004
same

my new dev hope is my game actually gets big enough i'll have other people to babysit my community for me

how do you get scale right in a mech game its so hard

>>530466136
So based. I wish I could build a throne out of the bones of indies like my hero.

>>530487485
clumsy idiot dev

>add in barely any new content
>ruin your handcrafted zones with dogshit geometry tools
>still a fun game

I hope to one day have as much suiccess as thee Atlyss dev

>>530487589
You can't retards are easily offended even when you're kind

>>530487004
you don't have the marketing of ubereats

>>530488053
If you mean environment, put lots of cues for human sized things. Doors, railings, cars, trees, food stands, billboards, store fronts, streetlights, that kind of thing.

>>530487004
You're comparing paying for food (at a higher price but still) with paying for entertainment.
There are priorities you know.

Man maybe /agdg/ should just make card games.

https://youtu.be/F_7GWpJ4NUI?si=suYPh68WYA0Fk_rG

>>530487004
>>530490003
Its funny. I'm really selective about spending money on games but I overspend on food all the time. I'll try to spend less than $30 dollars on a game that will bring me hundreds of hours of entertainment but then throw the same amount of money before the week ends on some garbage food. It does make you think.

PAIN

What are best practices to follow if you want to make your game easily "scalable"?

It takes so long to make the credits, and when it's done there's also 4 minutes of sitting there to test it.

>>530490894
You only learn this through experience. Don't make things "scalable" just because somebody told you. https://wiki.c2.com/?YouArentGonnaNeedIt

>>530490959
[Fade in]
Game by Anon
[Fade out]

Literally 2 minutes of work

>>530490973
>This doesn't mean you should avoid building flexibility into your code.
Okay, how do I build flexibility? Also, while I do see the point, I don't see why anons can't share things from their experience, no?

Well the script I started cleaning up recently is now momentarily done for the clean up stage.
>momentarily
It's a script I never ended up finishing because I had so many other things to set up code wise. I left it in a state where there is still code from when I was adding a new feature, I need to update it and make sure it works with the rest but not right now. Another script where it's only partially cleaned up -__________- 2 scripts down over maybe 2 or 3 days? Several more scripts to go.

>>530490973
Also, autism alert, I have a problem with YagNi, since the "a" could be either "are" or "aren't". "You're not gonna need it" seems better.

REPO is the best imsim of 2025.

Good morning. Another day, another terror to face. I hope I can have something for the next demo day. I don't see why 2 months isn't enough time.

A sinking ship imsim

>>530488754
so he did get rid of the large body features of the characters? a successful whodev at the end of the day but with a morally questionable game.

atlyss dev, if you're here, how's it feel not having to wage?

how did they make this?

>>530491217
It's too game/problem/domain specific. Abstract things when you need to, don't abstract things when you don't need to. Any advice you can give is going to sound like platitudes. E.g. If you find yourself copy pasting code, that's code smell and you should think about if it makes sense to factor that out or do something about it.

>>530492065
That's just handpainted textures and baked lighting... or AI.

>>530470593
your mom liked it, she said it['s masculine not like her son

what's the best addon to I use for visual coding in Godot?

I got stuff about Valve's class action lawsuit in the mail, I'm guessing that is why wishlist numbers aren't being showcased since the summer sale's start

>>530493529
why are they suing you anon?

>>530487004
My game is valuable but the value of a hotdog should also not be underestimated
You need to raise pigs, farm wheat, make flour etc etc to finally get to the hotdog
When my game is put for sale, I will be honored for each person that decides that my game is worth as much as a hotdog.

>What are my options?
>Your options: More about each option:
>Opt Out Submit an opt‑out form no later than September 2, 2025. Keep the right to sue Valve Corporation about the same issues.
>Do Nothing If you take no action, any ruling from the court will apply to you, and you will not be able to sue Valve Corporation for the same issues.
People should just accept the 30%. If you're not Deltarune levels of big you were going back to work anyway, even with the extra money.

>>530493726
Valve is being sued by some developer due to anti-monopoly purposes in the US saying that they deliberately fuck over games, so anybody with a steam game in the US got notified. Since it got authorized by the district court, they must be serious about it

>>530494659
they're bitching about the 30%? I'd say based, but I don't think it'll work, not with things like Epic existing nowadays

>>530494880
Either it's going to go somewhere or it's not, but getting notified about it through multiple means does mean sometime in the next 2-3 years there will be a verdict

>>530479841
Game dev document.

>>530493529
why would that have anything to do with the lawsuit, and if it did, why would they unpause wishlist reporting on the 10th? retard

>>530494880
no, its about selling games on another store cheaper than steam
its that shit, its still ongoing

>>530495423
>its about selling games on another store cheaper than steam
wut wut?

hehehe

>>530494659
Billy won, money solves all cases. That dev stands no chance.

>>530494880
Yeah, even when no one uses Epic other than getting free games, it's still there. I think Microsoft has a store and account system for PC games too.

>>530494659
david whoever from wolfire games is such a fucking faggot

my small Godot game will fund my big games in a huge way. It’s a bodycamlike.

So many female protagonist future flops from 'core, why is no one telling xhem?

>>530496626
>he hasn't taken the male protagonist with loli companion pill

>>530496626
There will be even more in the future. I hope you don't mind :)

>>530496816
kino

I want the Qayanite audience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BImKhRGmHLE
essential viewing

>>530497098
cheap bleach knockoff garbage

>>530497543
fuck off

>>530497543
fuck on

>>530496816
so the new tendency is to attract pedos instead of women?

It’s over. No one liked my progress.

I like how butthurt I made this loser.

>>530497879
Who tries to attract women with games? lol

>be me
>watch a bodycam firefighting video
>wow this looks sick
>I should make a firefighting simulator

>Firefighting Simulator - The Squad
>Gross revenue: $6.2m ($4.1m - $8.2m)

>Firefighting Simulator: Ignite
>Outstanding wishlists: 57.3k
>First release date: Mon Sep 08 2025

Well, it was a good idea in theory...

>>530494659
inb4 the "reduced visibility" button does in fact exist

>>530497879
yes you should totally do that because a 'cord pedo told you to, it's an excellent idea as shown by projecto nortubel

>>530498171
Why are they like this
They are all carbon copies of each other.

>>530497879
Yes.

>>530498351
Childish clique like behavior

>>530496806
That's my DD feedback, this place will never make another RoR too many gachatroon tourists joined, unless...

>>530498351
They're almost all a bunch of lunatics. This guy is one of the few normal people.

>>530498507
The hair physics in pragmata is sick

>>530498568
A dozen RoR clones release on Steam every week, and they all flop.

>>530498818
This faggot was a whodev who didn't post in here until the game was 90% done, after release he never posted again despite his studio making another game, hopoo stayed here even after ror making his skeleton hitman game, fyi newfag

The client list doesn't exist btw

>>530498979
Why haven't you graduated yet?

>This guy has PTSD from me posting Juliko Banditto, De la Voro Gangsteritto, the Crocodile, and Alice with my opinions
Can't make this shit up.

>>530498992
>kanadev dodged jail again

First post demo day progress after taking a break. Edited my path tool so now the paths have depth.

>>530499218
Sending whatever vibes are necessary for the FBI to investigate Kannafag's computer usage because, frankly, he's mega sus

>>530499106
Honestly good question, I have no answer.

>>530499451
the FBI doesn't arrest pedos anymore, check the news

>>530499507
So that's why they arrested my boy Chris Hansen.
Might as well team up with him and do some vigilante justice.

>>530499295
Wow such fucking progress retard let me know when you move the paths a few inches to the right too

>>530498979
I got Deadbolt and Valhalla keys from here for free (on the same day noless) so both devs are pretty based imo.

>>530465150

Hey, sorry, right now the game is cringe, so I'm taking it back to the garage to work on it.

>>530499295
Is this the zoo game?

>>530499195
I don't know what that means but do these people even make games? I saw that they have over 1000 people in there, who are they?

>>530487004
weird I literally just got a burrito from an immigrant off uber eats

>>530499616
Could be worse. You could make a shitty Diablo knockoff that you call an "mmo" with more effort being put into the grass than enemies (who just stand there and do nothing to attack the player).

>>530499671
>2017 was almost 10 years ago
...

>>530498979
As everybody should. He did the right thing.

>>530499689
I checked and Speech-ka is some nodev who the faggydaggy server keeps around for some reason.

My game was so difficult that Rogueliker didn't contact me again after 20 days. I don't know how to feel about this

>>530451501
>>530444854
>>530448212
>some turdie actually lost his mind over a game being 500MB
lmao

>>530500049
Hmmm
I kind of get it
I'm guessing the dev has a ton of uncompressed sounds taking up a lot of the file space considering the visuals look like a bunch of 64x64 sprites

This has to be my favorite crashout.
>Euu...crashout. Euu...crashout. Ouuuhhh mygod he's suicidebaiting.

>>530500334
that was literally 5 months ago dude

>>530500306
I will not buy any game where you play as an orc, that's just disgusting

>>530500381
And Tom and Jerry first dropped 85 years ago and still remains funny. What's your point?

>>530500334
Atleast f*g**n quieted down. I remember when every thread was basically filled with images of his character.

>>530500306
That's higher than 64 tough
>>530500334
That happened to me too before the hack, it was weird

>>530500583
You mean like this?

anyone making a Sims-like?

>take a day or two to recover after the work week is done
>only get 2-3 days off
>by the time I get back into the groove of it I'm back to work

any solutions beyond "just do it"?

I prefer Alice (Betz aligned), at least that one has games

https://x.com/nexindie/status/1942557276579192836

how you feel when you see someone make an idea you gave up on due to technical difficulties or whatever? it's kinda annoying, I hate being low IQ and lazy

>>530496626
Are there any differences in characters? In RE1 Jill had eight item spaces while Chris had six.
At this point they might as well make female only character games.

>>530500654
Bro I'm eating rn, c'mon

>>530500654
the toiler worm

>>530500830
>technical difficulties
such as?

>>530497543
Alright, let's get to bug chasing.

>>530500306
>>530500480
>>530500624
I have such a long list of issues I had with this game within 10 minutes of playing I just closed it, was not really fun at all. Glad I didn't pay for it

>>530498253
This is a classic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfxX_zO_hr4

>>530501020
>He doesn't know about the Swamp Creeper (source: https://fygoon.com/creatures/non-sapient/swamp-creeper.html)
jej

>>530500830
Game dev is only for those with high IQ.

>>530466503
>>530468293
that's a whole lot of cope and seethe from people who don't have games

>>530501050
3d physics in godot before jolt, made me drop gamedev for 8 months

>>530498253
Mixing a firefighting game with a horror game would be kino and I don't think it has been done yet

>>530473205
You shouldn't listen to his "advice". You should look at the data he presents and make your own conclusions based on it.

>>530389337
>>530475060
Backpack Hero came before Backpack Battles.

We also had a game in here years ago that got abandoned I think. I don't remember the name but it had pastel tranny colors and art. I wouldn't be surprised if the furfag who made Backpack Hero found that demo on itch and got inspiration from it.

>>530501352
so it's you difficulties, not technical difficulties. get a grip, sis. also Landsword is basically the same thing and it's been in dev for longer than 8 months. who cares just make a clone, they can't stop you

>>530501613
>We also had a game in here years ago that got abandoned I think.
The dev died of cancer.

>>530475663
Banquet for Fools failed to appeal. I still firmly believe the ugly character designs were a big part of why it sold so poorly. Being different for the sake of being different isn't good.

Digging a hole is exactly the type of weird little game that goes viral nowadays. No surprise there. 14k reviews now btw.

it's all coming back to me

>>530499687
perhaps
>>530499616
will do

>download godot v4.5beta2
>make some good progress
>godot v4.5beta3 releases
>have to start over from scratch
EVERY TIME

Zoo Tycoon, but with mythical creatures and wizards as guests.

>>530475663
Use revenue from the top game to make the bottom game.

top down view, should I go for 8 or 4 directional movement?

Assalamu alaikum brothers

Stardew Valley" developer Eric Barone, known as ConcernedApe, questioned whether a society disconnected from the real world is desired, saying, "I think the real world should be our main focus."

According to Barone, the fact that so many things are digital right now diminishes "the spirit of being and living."

"People shouldn't allow themselves to be completely digital," Barone said. "It's funny, but as a game developer, it's my job to create fake digital worlds for people. But I still think it should be like a toy. Something you mess with every now and then and it's interesting. But our main focus in life shouldn't be to exist in a digital metaverse. It's not good for people and it doesn't make them happy in the end."
Speaking to AA, Eric Barone, the developer of the "Stardew Valley" game known as "Concerned Ape", thinks that as long as the game is appreciated, the number of people playing it will increase.
On the other hand, Barone, who accepted that this was a sector that made money from it, emphasized that products should be promoted honestly, that if people were interested, they would try it, and that it was important that people were not forced or directed to do so.
It's kind of like "becoming a drug dealer"
Barone, who stated that otherwise people would be pressured into making their choices, said, "At this point, you become a kind of 'drug dealer.' You try to get people addicted to your game. And when they get addicted, you start taking money from them. I feel bad about doing something like that. It's not the right treatment."
Barone also pointed out that friendships and communities are formed with other people, and that the sector provides many jobs; new fields such as Twitch streamers and professional video game players have emerged.
According to Barone, the "soul" of businesses is being "destroyed" when they are focused on "making money."

https://files.catbox.moe/bsupg0.mp4

dev music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmkdRG7MQm4

(No single songs)

>>530502194
...
BRB stealing this

>>530478562
If you have beautiful art but the animations suck or the gameplay is otherwise jank it will seem more amateurish than having art that matches those rough edges. I think it reminds people of the asset flips they got fooled by. You don't want the art to oversell what your game actually is.

>>530502013
Transcoded

Zoo Tycoon, but with shotas and well endowed older women as guests

>>530479153
in some places you can get public funding by the government or some local organization, sometimes there's stuff that's targeted to the games industry

but it would be much preferable to make your first few commercial games without funding or like putting in a couple hundred or thousands from your own pocket at most

>>530502013
Kino.

>>530502264
Analog movement.

>>530502390
no, that would be the hyena girl

>>530480091
It is only going to get worse as time goes on. Steam needed to up the game entry payment ages ago to stop the lowest effort trash from entering the platform.

I'm gonna make an RPG where everyone is super racist just like irl

>>530487406
good fucking luck making all that by yourself

>>530491448
yngni
I like it

mega man legends

>>530502787
more like tom basedadil

>>530502295
Is this new? Based mature beard aesthetics

>>530502295
Walaikum assalam
I agree with brother eric. It is a difficult thing to do as a game developer, you have to make sure you are not worsening people's lives, some people will abuse the game and try to live in it, which is harmful. I wonder if there's a way to design games, to discourage this kind of abuse.
I'm speaking seriously btw

>>530500830
Honestly surprised it took this long for someone to make a wandering castle game. That movie might've been shit but it sure laid out the idea pretty strongly.

>>530503104
Kameo: Elements of Power

Populous.

>>530501869
Are you for real?

>>530500830
I've seen a couple of my ideas make it huge and it made me feel good about my chances with future ideas.

>>530503479
you're living in a videogame right now.

>>530503693
We've lost a lot of devs.

RIP Space Dementia, Umbrella Warriors dev, many others.

>>530503479
The skinner box should be an ancillary tool but never the whole point, it should always be accompanied by a positive underlying meaning. Dopamine is good but can't be the whole story.

>>530503479
>>530504239
There's entire genres that are all about being harmful to the player.

rhythm game where you choke girls on your dick and jiggle physics their booty

>>530503657
post the cute plant man with the boxing gloves and the rolling man made of stones

>>530504401
we already have SDT

>>530504468
what's SDT

>>530504413
PUMMEL WEED

>fagoon shitting up the thread again
wonderful, see you tomorrow I guess fuck this place

I'm not up to date on why the hate of fygoon, his game is kinda.. creative?

>>530502295
Make up your mind eric!

>>530504660
Super Deep Throat and IIRC there was a faphero mod for it

>>530504413
RUBBLE

Does any unityfriend know how a remotely activated license/key would work on a proprietary unity-based software? Or more to the point how to disable it?

>>530504783
fuck off fagoon

ideaguy here

>>530504867
i wish i could come up with genius character design like that

>>530504789
He has skinner's remorse, for adding dopamine elements to sdv

>>530505071
What's the goal? I know what a RAL is, I just don't understand the goal

>>530505805
>He has skinner's remorse, for making sdv fun
Don't be silly

>>530505071
It’s usually something that the developers made in-house rather than relying on Unity to do that part, or they integrated a key activation system library from a third company.

"Why did Balatro take off? You could write a million fucking essays about why that took off, and none of them will be definitely right," Marshall says.
"Blind fucking luck. Is it because of the little jaunty pixel jester man?"

One thing that has become clear, though, is that the old methods of making an indie hit are no longer working.

What's the secret sauce? Nobody seems to know. "You could drive yourself mad trying to recreate it—you never will," he says. "There's no point going, 'Oh, let's just do what Vampire Survivors did', and put up a bad-looking game in early access for a quid and see what happens. Because whatever that zeitgeist was, it's gone.

>>530498979
>wah wah wah he doesn't count b-because he just doesn't!
lol you're a ngmi dev who is simply jealous. cope and sneed

>>530505821
I found a simulator for a rare machine, very heavily priced per month because it's an industrial trainer and everything industrial just is expensive (gamedev opportunity btw). I looked inside the 1-week trial and it's just a unity game with no extraneous software and I didn't find a plain text file with a var to flip.

>>530507054
The company that made it doesn't look like they'd know about cybersecurity, it's probably the second option. If it's a nut too tough to crack I'll just make a clone like I was planning to.

>422 posts
>not a single game
why does this general exist

>>530509203
it's just calm before the storm. no one wants to vent their pressure

>>530509203
It takes a few seconds to make a post. It takes a few years to make a game.

>>530509203
It's still as good as it ever was, as a medium. It's always just a matter of who engages, and how they engage.
1) Report off-topic/avatar/etc
1.5) Ignore such
2) Post progress, respond to progress

Simple as.

>>530510139
>It's still as good as it ever was
Actually the shitposting used to be on-topic shitposting. Now it's just 40 year old men larping as underaged girls. Sad!

>>530509203
>>530510139
Plus, you can't post pictures and webms in incognito or private mode.

>>530509203
Where is you're game?

>>530510356
>you can't post pictures and webms in incognito or private mode
works for me, did you check to make sure you're not retarded?

>>530508326
You should consider asking for a refund or even bring this to court, because this feels like a scam

>>530510489
I get this.
>Uploading files in incognito mode is not allowed.
>The File field has been cleared.

>>530510768
>admitting to being a phoneposter

>>530510768
>>530510489
>>530510356
Jesus Christ.

I'm looking at a game idea right now which has never been done before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwuXF1AyKak
Gabe carries the weight of our entire industry upon his broad shoulders, and you have the gall to disrespect him?

>>530509246
The internal pressure video and its consequences have been a disaster for the amateur game development general

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>530511323
fuck off

>>530511109
Sorry. (not sorry)

Moved fluid attractor code from GDScript to C++ real quick in preparation for using them more heavily in levels
Went from 7 attractors taking 2ms to 0.04ms. And this is on a decent computer, so they did eat up a lot of performance before.

>>530505071
make all the textures in your game stereograms

>>530511069
I've been a long time advocate for raising the steam fee to 45%. Gabe is literally withering away, have you seen him lately? The sacrifices he makes to keep the industry afloat are astonishing.

>>530476118
thought of adgd when I saw this one.

Gaben should offer all indie devs UBI in exchange for 95% profits taken

>>530512494
LAMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>530473076
yes
but with a twist

I'm looking for help on my 3D fighting game. I need Unreal 5 programmers. C++ or blueprints, doesn't matter, just as long as you know your way around the engine I'm not picky.
Fighting game knowledge would be a great asset but not required.
Talk to me on discord at psychojosh if anyone's interested.

>>530512494
That's kinda cute.

>>530509203
I'm refactoring

Perhaps a loaded question, but how "heavy" is Alpha, really?

I'm told it's a big hit on performance but then I see a lot of game assets use it on hair, or to make accessories (like the feathers on the left)

>>530513434
It literally does not matter. Draw calls are your bottleneck.

so, unreal engine 5.3+ is shit?
I couldnt get retargeting working at all on 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 or 5.6. but on 5.2 it just works. hope im not missing out by staying on 5.2

I'm a little unsure how to proceed with my character's hair. I have a bunch of curves, but I've only converted a few of them to meshes.
I'm not entirely sure how I'll connect them together into one mesh. What I wanted to do was have a clear front vs back area of her hair, like the long tail part and the part directly on the back/top of her scalp would all be one piece and the front hair bangs would be its own piece and then I'd connect them. But I think I ended up making a mess and I don't really know if I should start over or try to salvage this.

>>530513434
The problem with alpha is that when you have lots of transparent things, you have to render them all, and they can't clip each other with the depth buffer if they occlude other things. A lot of engines will have an overdraw mode where you can see how bad you're getting. It's mostly a problem with things like foliage and particle effects. If you alpha-clip opaque geometry though, you can take advantage of the depth buffer and not overdraw, but depending on the texture/style/etc. alpha clipped geometry might not look right. The models in your example image could be done alpha-clipping and you won't see them close enough to notice hard edges since that texture is pretty high-res.

All that to say, overdraw from alpha transparencies usually isn't a big deal outside of things like particle effects, and can be avoided entirely by alpha-clipping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK3-2lCGgkM

tried to dev while listening to this and all it did was give me a boner

>>530513846
I just played Robocop, my first recent Unreal game, and holy shit i get it now. Its the unholy trinity of "just buy better hardware bro", AAA hollywood game design, and soulless box-checking by programmers there to earn a paycheck rather than following their passion

>>530514116
listening to a non existent video gave you a bone?

>>530514715
developing on unreal made me want to shoot my brains out. switched to godot and never looked back. you don't need all that fancy shit

>>530514858
it's over...

>>530514715
>>530513846
>>530514958

>>530513434
overdraw can affect performance if abused like with foliage

>Move an asset pack folder in Unreal 4
>It just works

>Move an asset pack folder in Unreal 5
>Entire project breaks
>This is known behavior
>The only advice you get from the Unreal forum is to not move things often and use source control

is it true I don't own whatever I generate with AI?

>>530515649
No, Disney owns it. They own everything.

>>530515649
https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligence-Part-2-Copyrightability-Report.pdf
in the US, no, you don't own it.

im gonna make wc2 but better

>>530515649
You do. Even if you didn't, it's fine and infact ethical to steal from AI, considering stealing is how they got most of their training data

>>530515570
Unreal 6 will fix this

>>530515570
Unreal 4 looks and runs great. Don't really see the obsession with unreal 5. It's a total downgrade in performance for very little graphical fidelity increase. The new tech is cool but it's not cool enough for me to deal with it's crap. I also despise the blueprint system and don't want to write everything in c++ so I just don't care for unreal in general. Unreal 5 is probably great for movies or whatever, though.
>>530515240
kek

>>530515937
just use local models and lie about how you made it. simple as.

>>530516402
if you modify it enough that the human creative aspect is evident I think you can still own it

I remember the futa squeeze-the-bulge game
it was KINOSOVL

>>530514116
>This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by sabotenman
it's over

>>530468293
>ToK has a suspiciously high amount of for the type of game it is.
Name 2 singleplayer diablo roguelites that aren't ToK
he was first to market.

why don't you use froxels?

progress

Day 39 on a Thread for Project C-Con – "Anon is right" Edition
Journal logs are being posted into /agdg/ daily.

We’ve officially created a “Discontinued” board on the Trello to dump stuff like the donut. In my opinion, we got far enough into making the actual donut and learned the basic Blender controls we needed. Anything beyond that is probably unnecessary in context of game development. I did the same thing for Unreal Sensei's tutorial too honestly. Going forward, the only tutorial we’re actively following with free-time is Fusel’s Unreal C++ course, because I think C++ is an important skill for game development. Everything else will be reference-only as needed during active development.

We’re back to building things. Stuff like redoing the 3D character controller from scratch, modeling a low-poly humanoid, rigging, animating, all that. We'll see how much basic control tutorials and learning for both Blender and Unreal have helped me when we start working on our own things tomorrow. I don't have any hope that it even did anything, tutorial hell is tutorial hell no matter. Would've been better off working with my own mangled code somehow.

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/11KRu-PkB9bkxnzVwTgG0zsySsbL-1WOixk3mNpJjpm4/edit?usp=sharing

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

>>530512494
>Poo

What did they expect with such vulgarity?

GODOT 4.5 beta 3 is out!

official windows malware(background updater that takes 15% CPU) made me think my game got slower

>>530517683
>tutorial hell is tutorial hell no matter
read documentation not tutorials

but anyway, is someone actually following his logs?
ironically or unironically it doesn't matter

are these hp mp sp colors ok?

>>530518921
>cap of red is red
>cap of blue is blue
>cap of green is yellow
anon...

>>530519047
green isn't a primary color

>>530519153
retard

>>530518921
what do the secondary colors represent?

>>530519153
So this is the power of the American education system...
I also remember this lie that they taught in school.

>open my project
>head is completely empty
yeah i think this game is done for

>>530517913
it's pronounced "gay-dough"

>>530516719
No anon. The type of game it is means that it's a janky trashy game that sold very little. Steam sees that as unsatisfactory when it takes into consideration that it has 5K followers and had 17K wishlists on launch, so the stats are messed up. ToK is one of only a handful games to sit in new and trending for a week and not even break 200 reviews during that time. It barely hit 100

>>530519492
20% of those early reviews were negative and at least half of the remaining were discord fags

>>530519372
the bars draining

>>530519672
he got like 20 reviews max from discord

more likely it was closer to 10

>rts
>mission doesn't end until you kill that one last invisible enemy unit that's fleeing to the furthest corners of the map and never stops moving

>>530519765
if it were me I'd change the orange and the yellow
they feel too far from the original bar color

>>530519889
and that man's name? Osama Bin Laden

>>530519492
>>530519672
>>530519789
low sales + high followers/wishlists = steam algo fucks you in the ass

Made this last week.

>>530520367
She cute.

>>530519889
Research Spies.

>>530520010
you sound jealous

>>530521230
>plain statement of fact
>immediate emotionalist projection

who's that robit

>>530521349
S0VL

SOVL TO THE EXTREME

Came up with a switch that requires using an attractor

>>530520367
>I made this last week (Lie)

>>530523986
nice mechanic

>>530522393
It's from this old SNES game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It06rHKyDvw

>>530526294
cool demo but you need to fix your fps with graphics like that it should be running at like 240fps ez

Still waiting on that MOTHERFUCKING FANART

atmosphere is literally the only thing i'm good at
i suck at everything else
wtf lol

>>530527192
Anon, farting is not atmosphere.

>>530527356
stfu

>>530527192
So you have the exact skillset needed for horror games.

Living here in Jersey
Fighting villains from afar
You gotta find first gear
In your giant robot car!

You dig giant robots!
I dig giant robots!
We dig giant robots!
Chicks dig giant robots!

Nice!

>>530527150
I wanted to, but I still need inner circle approval...

>>530527463
yeah i actually released a horror game that received decent reviews, but it's not a genre i'm a big fan of, lack of passion
i'm thinking linear singleplayer adventure games are my best bet, i have passion for world building and story telling as well
ico, sotc, re4, dark souls, rdr, are games i take inspiration from
i keep trying to make incremental slop but my brain refuses to believe that people would actually enjoy the full game i could create based on the prototypes

Space station!

>>530527930
looks like a tractor

trying out games in itch io and almost falling asleep

>>530528159
slopbros..

>>530528159
Nice Edengrall clone.

if your publisher doesn't offer you a bed and food as well,
don't

My publisher gives me sex

my mom is my publisher, she gives me a bed, food,
and

if your publisher doesn't offer you a gf,
don't

>>530528159
I feel like a lawnmower simulator could succeed in the meme simulator space if done properly.

Progress: Giving the King the ability to create additional Spawners.
>webm sped up 3x
Hope this solves the issue of some players feeling there is too much "waiting for units" in the game, as well as the issue of sitting on one base (Coven) being too weak of a strategy, which hurt the early campaign experience and also conquest mode especially in co-op.

>>530529193
not really, it's already a mechanic in several popular 'imulator games
why would you play a game only about mowing lawns?

>>530529249
have you considered giving a production boost to whichever coven the lich is currently at? Ignore me if I'm just retarded and that's already the case

>>530518728
>is someone actually following his logs?
>ironically or unironically it doesn't matter
I read through them when I see them, train-wreck sort of curiosity perhaps. Ngl it attracts the crab in me.
>>530523986
This project is pretty nice, I like that you’re doing nothing about the graphics while cranking out the most attractive puzzle gameplay lelements.
>>530515948
How will it differ from Sc? You keep the square tiles unit positioning?

>>530521295
DD status?

>>530530284
raped

>>530530486
But I thought the raped has no game

>>530530675
but I thought that's you

>>530529426
Yes, it’s already the case: if a Coven is fully captured and the lich sticks around, all spawns are both units at once instead of just the selected unit. This causes some confusion, but imho is the best design gameplay-wise.
This bonus is disabled while the King is doing something else, which will also help to make the new ability interesting, I hope. The more spawners you already have, the longer it will take for making an additional one to pay off the units not gained due to the temporary loss of the production boost.
Then again there’s a common tester complaint that the king is not interesting enough as a unit; so encouraging it to just stand around on your strongest coven, doing nothing, in the later game is generally not ideal. But needs another idea to fix it.

Chatgpt cheering on my delusions is catnip to me. She believes in my strand type game, unlike Kojima who blocked me on socials.

>>530519889
Kek if it was a multiplayer rts thats what Id do. There's a multiplayer game Ive played where doing just that can result in a win or draw. Sometimes a lose but you live. Can make people seethe when you do that lol

>>530500830
Ive seen people make the idea as mine was in development. Very big seething was had

>>530477248
>coding jesus
this guy is shit tho

>>530509203
Not gonna vent my pressure. My game unironically looks like it's GMI. Plus there's at least two unhinged losers who post here frequently, not about to let my game's promising value rub off. If I wish, I can just contact dev's I like and promote their stuff.

i.... give... up....

i... take... down....

>>530533338
>If I wish, I can just contact dev's I like and promote their stuff.
What if some other yesdev would want to do the same for you? But they can't since you never post?

>>530534013
give me my fucking presskit nintendo

where can i find a music guy to make music for my game

>>530534382
Hi :3

>>530534410
contact me on d*scord, my tag is smileasyougounder

Only two more sleeps until gabe lets us see our wishies again!

>>530534694
Sorry I'm not interested in using [insert engine]. I'm sure you understand. Good luck with your game though!

>>530534382
>>530534410
Wait this works?

Where can I find a gamedev gf (actual female) with nice feet?

A lot of my games problems appear to be input related, as in the person inputting the commands to the game is the problem.

>>530532753
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR20NZLQMNM
Already done & mogged
Make a roguelike survivorlike gambling game instead

There are so many insincere posters in this thread.

>>530530284
ruined by the inner circle

>>530535007
my feet are ugly

>>530534796
Based fail god

Come to /agdg/ tomorrow, there will be a surprise.

>>530535751
Demo Days are now overwhelmingly discord-exclusive games. It's really nasty

>>530536070
does it involve the inner circle

>>530536314
we should make a demo day just for threadies
aka, itll just be fagoon uploading the "game" he hasnt worked on in 3 years

>>530535169
My game is set in africa, but nice try there buddy

hey godot, where should the next curve point be put?

>>530536421
I'm also a threadie. I don't wanna participate in any faggy oversocialized discord

>>530536314
true, im getting pretty sick of seeing the majority of games submitted which have never even been posted in these threads

devs would put a bit of effort for their DD page, like, screenshots and stuffs, so ppl know what type of game

how do i get good at character design

>>530537468
copy capcom designworks 1:1 cover to cover

>>530536070
Last time I've heard that I got school shot

L M A O

I tried hiring someone else to code for me so I can focus on level design and polish, and it's so much slower than doing it myself. It feels like he's only working half the time and pretending to work in the other half. Now I know why teams of 20 people still take 5 years to finish a single game. I wonder if this would be easier if we shared the same office space.

>>530537468
this looks like a monster energy can with a head

>>530537931
Did you hire Ranjeet from Mumbai?

Yahoo Answer: The Looker

>>530538293
No, I hired some guy from Poland. Can you guys stop bringing up india at every opportunity though, I'm getting fatigued, I really don't care about those streetshitters, I don't want to see them and I don't want to hear about them, their names their cities or anything. You'd think if a website hated indians so much they wouldn't bring them up constantly.

level design is filtering my project again...

>>530538796
This website doesn’t hate them enough

One word: Northernlion

>>530539031
I wouldn't mind if they (and all 3rd worlders) were banned entirely from posting, but also permaban whoever brings up indian memes or talks like an indian ironically "haha do not redeem sir it's so funny the 89405th time hearing it".

>>530539146
Two words: inner circle

>>530536473
works as intended

Just to show you guys how quirky and different I am, I am actually a part of the outer hexagon. How about that.

>>530503693
https://youtu.be/QtDftsrtJhY

Yeah he died last year of npx carcinoma, never finished it.

I'm my own circle that isn't even on the plane that you all reside on.

>>530538796
There's a mentally ill poster who obsesses about India. It's annoying. I'm happy to see someone else try and hire some help. I have an artist. At one point I was going to switch out the artist for a programmer but the country I was hiring in, nobody applied. So I just kept the artist.

>>530503875
>>530539768
Shit man. What happened to "we're all gonna make it"?

>>530539876
Where'd you find the artist? Based on your post I assume you sent up a post on your country's job application forum or something?
Also do you commission him for pieces or actually employ him and pay a monthly salary?

>>530537468
kill yourself

>>530537971
its child c*rn

>>530539768
A cruel reminder to finish your game

>>530539768
>>530539912
>gets cancer and dies
ngmi energy

>>530540054
Myanmar. He's a friend of a friend, I just pay him monthly. He's been cheap to employ and continually makes assets for a pretty ambitious game I'm planning. And I'm making a smaller game and he recently re-did all my shitty programmer art design and made it look great. It's probably not ideal to continually employ an artist but I guess I'm just in a position to do so at the moment so I am. Realistically you should probably just wait more towards the end to bring someone in, pay them to complete a set amount of known work, and then stop paying. I also pay monthly because I'm still learning animation and it's hard for me to pay for exactly what I need.

As for the programming position I know someone who works in HR in Myanmar and he tried hiring for me. I could do it myself, but at this point I just don't really want to anymore. Maybe in the future I'll try again.

>>530540416
He probably took the vax...

>>530540280
is just a drawing thoughbeit

>>530537887
why are artists so hated? i never see programmers get hate despite softwares getting 100000 worse

>>530540570
based on a real child...

>>530540660
envy, everyone can become a good programmer in less than 2 months.

>>530540543
>masked up pic
>tranny hair
for sure he did

i wish i had fans that had really low standards and just bought my game regardless and were happy with it, in fact they should just give me money for free without the game attached

Gdscript or C#?

>>530540835
GML

>>530540793
This is achievable for generally likeable people

>>530540280
I dunno, I just see a pretty ugly drawing, it's not hurting anyone but whoever posted it is probably braindamaged

>>530540660
because /agdg/ lives in fear of having to possibly talk to someone and ask for them to do art
/agdg/ lives in fear of having a games studio and having to pay people wages
/agdg/ is disgusted by when they're browsing twitter or reddit and they see a post saying 'Look at this cringe ragebait posted by someone you've never met'
/agdg/ has never seen a real artist

>>530540660
> i never see programmers get hate
50% of India hate is hate on their “programmers”

>>530540793
hello Osur

>>530540746
> everyone can become a good programmer in less than 2 months.
lol, I don’t think there’s any profession you can get good at in less than a year

>>530540660
https://youtu.be/HHwhiz0s2x8
this blew up literally a day ago, and the follow up did too https://youtu.be/Q6aRA0szfiI

>>530540686
meds

There are already Kalemonvo-likes being made.

>>530542165
yep, google "Path Of Exile 2"
shameless

Are 2d or 3d games more popular? As a solodev I feel like 2D is my only option.

>>530542165
Post them I want to laugh

>>530541391
calling yourself "coding jesus" is pretty narcissistic to be desu, no C++ programmer is ever close to achieving the level of jesus's purity as they all commit sins every single day

>>530541179
people hated indians before they had computers because of hindu nationalism inferiority complex, you don't remember the facebook indian hate for being horny creeps either? that's very niche hate, you dont have to be an indian artist to get hate
>>530541391
nepobaby lolcow drama slop, he's not hated because he's a programmer but because he, as a person, pretended to be a good one to explain why he got hired by Blizzard as a teenager

>>530542659
programmers being narcissistic despite being one of the easiest things to learn will never not be funny

>>530499678
Damn, I was really hoping to give it a try.
Good luck man.

https://x.com/FuzzWool/status/1938958211798663573

this nigga wasting his time frame by frame animating a flop and posting 99% of the game in every xeet

Anons, I'm not gonna make it.

>>530542871
most things are easy to learn, hard to get decent at, programming included. also programmers are more of the humble sort, from my experience.

>>530542946
the twitter trap is bad if youre a dev, most dont manage to escape

>>530543000
Yeah getting crazy here too.

It's crazy to think that Pirate software is going down, he was one of the faces of gamedev just a year ago, at least Gaben is safe forever, right?