I make games edition

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

>Previous thread
>>534329160

my best doesn't earn me a living

i don't know how to make my game interactive, challenging and fun

>production costs
>because "market says so"
>because other indies price it at $10 so will I
>yada yada yada
stop undervaluing art, it takes effort, creativity, time, it means more

>>534427535 (OP)
PSA: don't tell women you make games for a living. It's a vagina desiccant, even for women who play games on their phone all day.

>>534427774
take one for the team, list your game at $50

>>534427774
It doesn't matter what you value it at
What matters is what people are willing to pay for it
Do you think Little Timmy's first RPG Maker game needs to be $90 bucks as well?

I don't know if I made a mistake going with unity for my rpg. Unreal bros have it easy. Maybe it's a grass is greener moment, but I regret my decisions. It's too late now.

>>534427891
>I'm a digital marketer (aka I shill my game on reddit and twitter)
that better?

>>534427891
The right woman would think it's cool as fuck and look up to me for it
I'll dry a million cunts up if I can find the one who I can make wet without selling my soul and becoming somebody fake

>>534427948
obviously not, if it's not artsy enough, beautiful, deep, complex, sophisticated

Guys, I used AI voice acting in my game. What this means is I can price my game lower. Instead of being 25 dollers, it will be 10, since become I didn't have to spend money on voice actors means I need less money to recoup the dev costs. I believe that's fair and if you disagree, you should die.

>>534427928
marmo tried overpricing his game. Look what that got him.

Why is it always the same artcopers who say that they're not in this for the money complaining about how indie games aren't priced high enough?

>>534428201
who said we're in it not for the money?
literally everyone here is in it for the money, or you just like to waste time

>>534428201
Someone should just make a game and price it absurdly high so that if just one person buys it they recoup all their costs.
They can be pretentious and snobby about it and call it some sort of postmodern digital art

>>534428045
Unless your exact RPG system can be purchased out of Fab, then you made the right decision.

>>534428289
>or you just like to waste time
it's this for me. just biding my time until i die

if your game is not rare, one of a kind experience, you deserve your $5 price tag.

>>534428491
Is an immersive sym a rare, one of a kind experience?

>>534428591
I don't know that's for you to judge, maybe show us some gameplay

Two mcdoubles cost $7. If your game is worth less than two mcdoubles you shouldn't even bother making it.

>>534428748
This.

I know people hate on visual coding but that shit just clicks for me
The bar has been lowered enough for people like me to develop games
Grim

>>534428748
Damn thats crazy

im thinking about making a platformer (mushroom is placeholder)
i cant decide on a good idea for a game. wasteland bites came naturally, but im struggling to have another idea like that
i dont wanna commit alot of time on an idea that im not even sure on
maybe im cursed
the well is dry

>anons believing they could sell their games for even $5 when they can't get players even for free on itch

>>534428748
No one will complain if I go and buy two McDoubles and then resell them. When you sell me your game for more than $7 (this will never happen since you will never have a game to sell), I expect no complaining when I resell it.

I hope lolidevs realise they are sick and are just making things worst for normal people.

>>534429056
Go do a game jam.

>>534429162
it's just demand and supply

>>534429056
You can't force a good idea, they're very fleeting things
Go play some vidya, watch some cool movies, if you get any ideas inspired by those things, then write that shit down immediately.
Sometimes I like to just open up a paint app and mindlessly doodle shapes until I can see something forming out of it, and then I complete it. Sometimes those doodles turn into characters, sometimes those characters need a world, then a plot, and then game mechanics spring forth almost naturally.

>>534428748
My game is if someone went to macdonalds, ordered a mcdouble, got angry that it had a bun then threw it on the ground and started jumping up and down in anger.

>>534429056
space shuttle friendslop no gravity platformer

>>534429410
>soulless factory production supply and demand

Is the Iheartdev playlist on state machine a good tutorial for a dumbass(me)? I have a problem that I can only think of solving like that, but didn't really use them before.

>>534429482
what?
people demand loligames you can do nothing with this

>>534429713
just because people demand something deosn't mean you should supply it

people want free sex and nobody is giving it to them

You know what? I am a luddite.
I hate cars. I hate mobile phones. I hate dish washers. I hate any technology save for trains, boats and the internet.
Speaking of which, the only reason I'd want a mobile phone - mobile internet - never even works and shit like bluetooth never works either. Technology just fucking SUCKS.

No AAA games. Only shitty indie games.
This is the yesdev lifestyle.

I want to make my single player RTS (inspired by another RTS), but I can't figure a plot

>>534429843
> just because people demand something deosn't mean you should supply it
there will be someone to supply anyway

> people want free sex and nobody is giving it to them
they give just not to you

>>534429843
Why not? Free sex would make the world a much better place. It would instantly fix most of the loser incels like you who have nothing better to do than terrorize this thread.

>>534429912
Guess you gotta hire an idea guy

make le good game and since the algorithm has a brain and body it can tell if your game is fun or something itll promote it or however many steaks the 100 dollars buys

>>534430108
But how do I find that one guy?

anon I saw your game and your ngmi

Where do I find good reference images for a masonic lodge?

>>534430694
sign up for a public tour of your local masonic lodge

>>534430457
my ngmi?

>>534427891
>even for women who play games on their phone all day.
Women use the toilet every day, doesn't mean they want to date a toilet maker.

any retard-proof courses or books to teach myself game design and brainstorming for core mechanics and design elements?

>>534430773
There isn't one.

>>534430694
videos on youtube

>>534431008
I learned simply by playing a metric fuck ton of games, just observe how they do it and you can reverse engineer it to an extent, and add ideas of your own.

>>534428748
My game is a 50 cents jawbreaker.

>In 2003, Taquandra Diggs, a nine-year-old girl in Starke, Florida, US suffered severe burns, allegedly from biting on an exploding Wonka Everlasting Gobstopper that had been refrigerated, left out in the sun, then refrigerated again. Diggs and several other alleged victims' families filed lawsuits against Nestlé for medical bills resulting from plastic surgery as well as pain and suffering; the matters were later settled outside of court for an undisclosed amount

>>534431185
i guess i should learn to do that first instead of mindlessly consooming then

>>534431208
So you're saying your game will explode and take out my hard drives or something?

>>534431307
I was saying people will play my game the wrong way and then blame me for it when things go wrong.

>>534431510
Can't you just put some limits on what they can do then? How does one play a game "wrong"?

>>534429884
Based.
I hate mobile phones. I hate being in a room next to someone who is scrolling through short-form video content, while rapid bursts of loud basketball American music, vapid influencer therapy-language or literal screaming blast out of their phone until being abruptly cut for the next irritating noise while the pacified observer sits with glazed eyes (there soul is imprisoned in a device).
I hate AAA graphics and realism. I hate playing a shooting game and being unable to see because I'm going East at dawn. I hate mistaking a one of those pointless debris particles flying through the air in multiplayer shooters as a distant player.
I hate social media and having to take more than one photo of something with my family because my wife wants a "Good one." I own a Polaroid camera and it has never taken a "Bad one" because it doesn't show you your fucking pores. It also doesn't gamify the memory capturing experience because you cannot directly upload it to the Internet to feed the most disappointing and lame addiction in history.
One of my parents was addicted to gambling, specifically the bing bing wahoo VLT machines, and it nearly bankrupt my family, among other problems. Now everyone I know is a vapid bing bing wahoo cellphone addict who go to restaurants, parties, even rivers or lakes so they can be photographed doing things and upload these images to be viewed by their 'peers' who are equally corrupted by this retardation.
Sometime around the turn of the century technology stopped improving life and started making it worse. The worst part is that all of the same people I know who are hopelessly addicted to gamifying their social lives and relationships with family/friends all agree that social media is garbage but they are powerless to stop. If you took away Facebook, X, Instagram, on the basis of being harmful to the human experience, they would agree and nod and then start Bluesky and Threads accounts.

>>534430980
Relax Confucius

>>534428045
When you get on the content treadmill, you'll realize how insignificant choice of engine is for an RPG. It's like 5000 hours vs 5200 hours.

>>534431262
This is correct >>534431185, however, you are only capable of looking at video games with the eyes of a gamedev AFTER you understand the technical details of what they are made from and how they are made. You need to first just like make game.

I'm gonna make it so hard, you can't even imagine.

Now I finally understand why all americans and weebs are nodevs

>>534432704
how much of this was you and how much of this was claude

>>534430694
Play Mario 64, its filled with masonic shit.

>>534432874
An old basic youtube tutorial and then building most features on top of it by myself, no genAI involvement whatsoever.

how the fuck am I supposed to make melee game looks fun to play without 6 gorrilions of animation?

stargoo mountain

>>534433093
just make 6 gorrilions of animation

Don't be sad /agdg/ got worse.
Be happy you got to enjoy it while it was still good!

>>534433093
make it only one or two animations
like maybe make it so you only throw shit at people

>>534433219
/agdg/ was never good.

>>534432708
Aren't most Western yuropeons consolefags?

pedot sisters... they lied to us

>>534432708
let's keep the blue countries (as they were 25 years ago).

>>534434159
No? They were perfectly transparent about Godot only being used for the map editor tool.

>>534432708
>biggest computer gaming scene
>also an even bigger console gaming scene
europoors mad af

>>534434159

>>534433093
Stop motion, turn based and the actions are based on medieval combat manuals for various weapons

>>534427303
Problem is when you can get Hollow Knight for 15 why the fuck would you buy some random pixelshit platformer for 10.

I will expunge Poland.

>>534434159
nobody has claimed godot to be nothing more than the tool for the comunity mods.

>>534434695
>>534435071
>repeatedly samefags to backtrack from his earlier claims

>>534427730
That's a reality check for you. Either you move onto doing something where you can earn a living or you go towards ruin failing on your gamedev career.

>>534435154
>retards claiming stupid BS neither the godot devs nor the BF devs claimed is proof of anything

>>534435205
I could make a living from my best, I did briefly, but I can't sustain going all out for long

Stop responding to the insincere nodev troll. Also, reminder that trolling outside of /b/ is a bannable offense.

>>534435263
Then why were you trying to gaslight /agdg/ so hard? Are you a sociopath?

Okay guys, hear me out.
This is the ONLY way to clearly show that the human is facing north (away from the screen), especially when they're headless.

>>534435531
you seem confusing multiple anons answers into an unified answer from some magical person that doesnt exist.

>>534435049
>you can get Hollow Knight for 15
FUCK YOU FUCK HOLLOW KNIGHT FUCK 15 DOLLAR CEILING PULLING UP THE LADDER FUCK FUCK FUCKAROO

>>534428086
>The right woman
Keep on trying bud.

>>534435437
That doesn't count as making a living. You can't sustain it so it's not making a living.

>>534435745
I mean, I made 6 months rent in 2 days.

>>534429884
>the only reason I'd want a mobile phone - mobile internet - never even works
where the fuck do you live? I've never had a problem with the internet on my phone

I also hate mobile phones and mobile games and mobile gamers and gacha and social media and all the brain dead retards who rotted their brains engaging with all of that

SOUL

>>534431889
>I hate AAA graphics and realism.
Jesus christ this. AAA games look awful. Unreal straight up looks disgusting. What the fuck were they thinking.

>>534435878
How long did you work in preparation for those 2 days? I'm guessing you can't have 2 days like that every 6 months.

art/visuals are the most important aspect of the game

if your game is not unique, pretty, beautifull, vibrant, emotional then its not good

if you don't have art direction you dont have a game

>>534427535 (OP)
I am happy to be a member of the inner circle with the rest of you guys.

>>534436135
>2d platformer
soulless, copycat game, trash

>>534436383
probably like 2 months , and yeah, events like that are like once in a blue moon.

https://youtu.be/PQUcIbSEBCM
this is how I program my games

>>534436135
>this is what /agdg/ demands 20 dollars for

>27 days

>>534436646
welcome

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2212670/MakeRoom/

Kenney bros, we won.

:)

>>534437406
pretty cool concept, simple, I like it
bet it will sell a lot of copies

>>534437406
Holy shit did he finally make something that will get him a payday.

Did you know that a 6 review game @ 8 dollars makes over 1200$?

>>534437890
rookie numbers, it should be priced at least at $30

>>534437890
no way

>>534437890
>literal agdg showelware made in 2 weeks make my country middle income of six months

a game about a single pixel, talking about his emotions

>>534438116
>showelware

a game where you play as a marble

kids LOVE marbles

nigga I'm boutta LOSE MY MARBLES

>>534434159
I've never heard about BF6 having anything to do with any of this and quite frankly, I don't give a shit about your corposlop games
you should've stopped playing corposlop once you became an adult and developed a more refined taste for games

>>534438521
I remember I got basically a bowl marble wood toy as a kid.

lmao.

90's feeling.

I made a multiplayer arena advance wars game with full customizable units...

Do you guys like the idea or is it stupid?

>>534438165
>This game BROKE me, and you won't believe what happened next...

if you seek AS I SEEK
if you feel AS I FEEL

are 3D platformers even still viable

>>534438718
soulless slop, no redeeming values visible, is this even a game? what do you feel when you play this?

>>534438823
I think they are but the standards are high. If you don't have any particular ideas for a platformer do something else.

YES, I drink A LOT of Soda from Coca-Cola to Pepsi to Powerade. I have a lot of stored caffeene in my energy supply, and not only kept me on my toes, but has also messed up my fucking biological clock as well. I sleep from fucking six AM to twelve-fucking-thirty. BIG REASON I need a Sweetheart, so she can help me back on track towards getting back to the morning hours that I used to have during my High School years. Fucking Adult Swim(tm) and random projects keep me up all night as well.

>>534429447
>no gravity platformer
kek

>>534439034
Top kek, feels pretty good.

Guess if people hate your game it's just a beginning

>>534436040
Sururban area. Right next to some sort of phone mast and near a school and everything that would make you think it would work, but since they removed 3G it no longer works. Tried everything but it's all bullshit.
On multiple mobile providers and it also affects other people apparently. So the one time I actually need mobile internet it doesn't work. Works at home where I have wi-fi anyway.

Recently my mobile service operator is also incapable and now it no longer works anywhere and I've just about fucking had it, no way I'm paying for internet that, even if I got it to work, would only work in places where I can get wi-fi anyway.

>>534438823
Wasn't that Peak game I keep seeing people talking about mostly a kinda platforming game? You just gotta have more going on than just "mario but 3d and you pick up coins and touch the flag"
Easier said than done. You need to really think about a game YOU want to play, not just making whatever gameplay seems easiest to make (which is usually what platformers are)
A good 3D platformer usually has really solid base movement. Really, any good 3D game starts with revising the base movement until it feels fun to play with nothing but the movement.

>>534429056
did you make wasteland bites? that vibe is so kino, reminds me of being a gun dealer in gmod rp

did anyone save that post about how a large part of gamers only play games for the social part of it? Like talking to other people about it

>>534439232
it has no art, no substance

>>534438823
Why are you using the universal pedophilia symbol as a texture?

>>534439329
Yeah... the goal is litteraly to let people create their own sprite, and full armies.

>>534439418
now I'm interested

>>534439360
kek

How are you supposed to handle animated sprite sheets in Unity?

So far I've done two approaches
>single anim per sheet
>turn sheet into .anim sprite animation
and
>shader that ticks at a framerate and steps through an animation automatically
First is easy to make the .anims with some editor code but a hassle to juggle the animations in gameplay. Second feels a bit limited in that you'd want all animations to have the same amount of frames so you can control the row you're animating on the sprite sheet to change animation.

>>534439505

The unit creator section let's you do whatever you want, as long as the sprite is under 256*256 it'll incorporate it in the game and let you play whatever you want however you want

>>534439883
now we're cooking bros, does it have cool, emotional music?

>>534437406
Fuck this nigga for bullying that other dev with a similar idea

My game will reach 10 000 reviews

>>534439983
Yup all done already. And when I mean whatever you want, I mean... Whatever you want

>>534439246
>You need to really think about a game YOU want to play
games stopped being fun for me like 2 years go and i dont play anything anymore, so this doesent rlly work for me
i think im just gonna take a break till i think of something really good
i really - really miss just making cosmic call

>>534437406
.

>>534439983
I really mean... Whatever you want

I've added a new animation where the tackled player will fall to the ground. The menu will update depending on whether the CPU/Player decides to either block or tackle.
That's final part of the tackle workflow. Next I can work on shooting, which I'm looking forward to because I get to create part of the arena, (a goal).

>>534440282
>mfw that made me realize I can make money from a JRPG diorama with waifus that is just the town aspect of it and talk to npcs

Working on animations

>>534440540
Work on ending your life

>>534440587
Kill me yourself, coward.

characters in my game always refer to the zombie's race when it's not just a normal zombie
>watch out for that african-american zombie
>watch out for that chinese zombie

>>534440492
>he believes that gamers will be willing to pay for his AI low poly trash

>>534440492
make rune factory without the combat and dungeons

Spend like 16 hours yesterday implementing towns.

Everybody is gonna complain that the shopkeepers aren't implemented yet.

Living the dream, waiting for the bug reports...

FUCK STEAM LOCKED ME OUT OF SETTING THE BUILD LIVE FOR 72 HOURS FUCK

>>534440540
slerp the rotations just a bit

>>534441357
you got 72 hours to add shopkeepers

>>534441357
BASED

>>534438718
>advance wars
Cursed.

>Do you guys like the idea or is it stupid?
If you want it to be a commercial game, I don't think people are going to be buying it unless it has a fixed campaign with at least 10+ hours of gameplay. You can't depend on players to create content for you when you have no players yet.

>>534440492

>>534437205
>its real
AAAAAAAA I made ZERO progress

>>534438823
Platformers are only viable with reasonable good graphics, a publisher, and console ports. They do not sell on Steam, and they do not sell without traditional advertisement.

>>534441893
stop ban evading

>>534441749
Oh No it's a F2P multiplayer game, for now.

I prefer sharing the game for free and people have fun creating armies and sprites etc.

But once I have a campaign, 4vs multiplayer, template armies fully animated, Better UI etc.
It'll be 5 USD for the game.

>>534441946
>stop ban evading

>>534442024
Again, you need to have content first before you can expect players to come in and make content. As is, you couldn't even pay people to play your non-game.

>>534440813
If the game is set in America, the Chinese zombie should also be considered a Chinese-American same as the African-American zombie.

>>534442269
Welp, guess retards needs a tutorial and a campaign otherwise it's not a game.

Smh.

>>534441820
Now search the flipped version

Does anyone know if there's an RPG maker that you can play in your browser? I want to create episodic content that has onoline games but God I don't want to create a personal engine for that.

>PeripetuallyInEarlyAccessfag is shilling his craptastic game again

>>534442450
A deck of cards is not a game. It's a toy. Poker is a game that you can play using a deck of cards. All you have right now is a toy.

>>534442541
Isn’t RPGMaker based on some JS engine these days?

>>534442541
There's a web version of godot.

he is seething

>>534442793
I'll look into that

>>534442938
I was thinking of doing it in godot, but most of the content I'd be making would only need generic jrpg systems and be character driven drama. I wouldn't need anything complex outside of being able to create custom abilities.

>>534442793
>these days
for like 15 years now

>>534443184
if you only need the web player and not the editor to be a web app, look up easy rpg which is an open source player for rpg maker 2003.

>>534442725
>A deck of cards is not a game. It's a toy.

Calm down Piratesoftware.

A stick is not a game, it's a toy... None the less it's pretty fucking obvious when 2 people each have one, they are going to hit one another with it

>>534442593
people in glasshouses...

>>534443459
Uh, no? You can have a hole digging race. You can play fetch. You can see who can javelin throw the furthest.

Hit each other with them? That's fucking barbaric, god damn.

>>534443849
And instantly they took the toy and found 10 ways to have fun with it...

>>534443995
Go try to sell sticks for $5 each in a forest littered with sticks.

>>534444250
>find nice stick
>sell it

ez

Came up with an option to disable the spray rng, for the autists and the tryhards

>>534444350
A nice stick is a once in a lifetime find.

Dumb fucking piece of shit, why didn't you buy and review my game?

>>534443560
Oh yeah? Well I have a FUCKING MACHINE GUN ON MY HOUSE!

>>534441357
Don't do half implemented updates, you should've held off until you had shops done.

>>534444474
You loved digging a hole, you'll love our new viral game, finding the perfect stick! the male fantasy that every man shares.
million dollar idea up for grabs. I'm already a millionaire so i don't need it.

>>534441357
this >>534441450
or I drop a negative review

this took way too long
now to add physics

>Had plans to do one thing
>Remembered a reference I could do that is also based
I'm doing the based reference, much better than the original idea.

>>534441450
But the gambler's fallacy of Steam Support fixing their shit fast!

>>534446125
The NPC update was split from the village one to not kill myself trying to do it all in one week

>>534446683
Well, if they let this shit run through the weekend I'll at least do that