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>Previous thread
>>535369335

Total tranny death

>>535474685
what made you suddenly think of that out of nowhere

Total jeet death

>>535474685
LFG

>>535474816
They're living rent free and eviction is not an option.

>>535474519 (OP)
does this picture means I can make a roguelike and add a VN manga and make money?

>>535474816
I want a lot of people to die. You ain't special.

In games with an RPG system where you have a variety of items to choose from to defeat enemies, players would naturally find the one OP skill/item/hero or whatever and just spam it. How do you get around this? I always roll my eyes whenever any game advertises a ton of customization because I know I will find the one combo that works and just use that until end game.

I solved the problem of life.

>>535475548
There's nothing wrong with that. Don't fix what ain't broke.

with amazon kiro i dominate

Dying doesnt affect people they become spirits then b bother you there

>>535475548
Singleplayer game balance is for redditors

>>535476363
Not true. You're going to tranny purgatory when you die

>>535476110
>>535476531
I know and I agree that nerfing items for single player games is dumb like what the Darkest Dungeon devs did for a certain Jester combo. I'm saying is how would you convince players to use all these other stuff you've made when people just want the most efficient one?

so is AI good or bad? im confused some people say its good other say never use it

Wasted the day lying in bed watching youtube shorts again...

>>535476751
Most players will play with whatever strategy works so long as it continues to work. You can design a game in "phases" where the optimal strategy changes depending on the phase, or you can just accept that not all content you spend time creating will see equal engagement.

>>535476643
I worship the devil you know theres a place in hell waiting for me the good one though

>>535477223
the people saying its good want you to get trapped in a shaghetti code nightmare, all thanks to AI. that way, they can release their game and you, the competition, will be too busy asking AI to fix the problems it created

as for the people who say to never use it, they realize that by using AI you'll make really fast progress and might release a game faster. they say not to use AI so that you, their competition, takes a long time to release each game

>>535476751
Ideally everything should have some use but people will always gravitate towards the best option. That's just human nature.

>>535475548
There's no such thing as the one OP skill/item/hero. Look at orblikes. You can play tons of builds and people love that. No one wants to spam arrows all the time. It can be fun to spam totems instead. It can be fun to become the human torch. It can even be fun to have such high regen and stored up health, that you're always at low HP and able to use special abilities that rely on that.

>>535475548
Some people are going to pick one item or playstyle and stick with it the entire game because it's how they are and it works just well enough that they never run into a brick wall. There are a few ways to discourage this kind of behavior(weapon degradation/characters becoming tired, item limits, damage penalty on combo spamming). The best way is to give them tools with an obvious purpose and set up scenarios that encourage using your entire arsenal, but there are only so many ways you can retard-proof your game without it hurting the overall experience.

>>535477223
AI (neural networks which arent AI) can be good
AI (LLMs which arent AI) are usually bad

>>535475548
>I always roll my eyes whenever any game advertises a ton of customization because I know I will find the one combo that works and just use that until end game.
Post ten examples.

>>535477532
blud thinks he's evil

>>535477892
LLMs aren't neural networks?

>>535475858
cool. will you elaborate ?

I have nowhere to vent my dev pressure now my brain is bugling out of my fucking skull.

>>535477892
billions will be spent trying to datacentermaxx them to be AI. Ywnbai

>>535478641
Have you tried making progress and posting it

>>535478328
You can dress up as my clown there then I'll make you do fun things for me

>>535478641
Draw a picture of that

>>535477428
i look like this

>>535478010
9 kings and The King is Watching. For 9 kings, I got to the max level of 99 with one King despite there being many others with their unique skills. And I only ever even bothered to get that far because that was the only goal. It was super fucking laggy too so I had to wait hours for it to calculate all the damage which was probably in the trillions. And for the King is Watching one, again, one King and the basically the same set of skills.

Don't get me wrong, I had fun and got hours of gameplay but it always bugs me that I'm basically locked into playstyle because either there's no point to switching or I don't want to bother "levelling" the others up.

>>535479667
I appreciate the two games you have chosen even if I have never played these two and know almost nothing about them. I would still however like if you brought up 8 more games so we could have a full set of data points to work from instead of two potentially flawed games to draw large general conclusions from.

Steam has approved the steam page for Guns and Nuns, so it is now live:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3818000/Guns_and_Nuns_Storming_Hell/

I will participate in October steam fest.

>>535479571
Me on the left

>>535479667
>I'm basically locked into playstyle because either there's no point to switching or I don't want to bother "levelling" the others up.

>>535480490
So this is safe. Interesting. Congratulations.

>>535480490
Congratulations

>>535480490
NTRcoded

>>535479667
Nigga just play with a different style.

>>535480814
Holy kino!

>>535480814
Hey, it's you.

>>535480814
>that wallbounce
kek, I like details like that. I also like the casual stance with the sword way back. It's very unique.

>>535480814
very nice anon

>>535480490
I wonder what it would've been like

I just dislocated mu shoulder i can't fix it alone, trying tho

>>535480490
Kill yourself

>>535480490
One of my top ten agdg inspirations. Never stop making games.

I for one am in alignment with the metaphysical good. You?

>>535480490
TLDR on this newdev? Any known lore?

>>535481679
I did it! I jumped and said high! like toga and it kinda hurt

>>535482224
It's a brown tranny

>>535480490
>Get highscores to unlock more stages and weapons
No YouTuber will ever recite this to chat. It is your job to provide them with a good script since they are too tired to write one themselves.

>>535482353
what if his audience isn't youtubers thoughhoweverbeit

>>535482086
I still don't know what that is

>>535480490
finally a good christian game

Some more block work

>>535482224
Not new, but I think he was on /v/ more before /agdg/. His first game, the platformer one, is his peak in my eyes.

spooky dungeon time. thanks a lot, boss :(

>>535480814
noice

>>535482427
The trailer had 10 whole seconds of walking in empty environments so there's no audience with /v/. All that's left are the subscribers that YouTubers have.

>>535482885
I hope you're literally joking with these shaders bro

>>535482885
I love this shit. Keep it up, my man. It really feels I'm being pulled back into the golden age like this is real fantasy again instead of that highly realistic lighting and highly textured stuff in the games today.

>>535482875
>Someone remember Fiend Heart
Cool, one day I will do more stuff/projects with those characters.

>>535482353
I make games about stuff I want or things I think will be fun. That's it.

>>535480843
>NTRcoded
???

>>535480684
>>535480703
>>535481971
Thanks!!!

>>535482860
>before/after importing to UE5

>>535482885
The power to do what nintendon't

also you should steal color palates from terada's work

>>535482936
the trailer starts guns blazing and that's all that matters

>>535484040
>before/after importing to Godot*

>>535482885
Needs some corny oldschool clunky UI

I wish you guys told me my idea was shit earlier.

>>535485072
Execution is more important.

>>535485072
I did tho?

>>535485072
what was your idea?

>>535480490
what's the point of releasing showelware like this on steam when there's 500000000 games like this released every day?

>>535485379
the sad reality is that this is the best the average gamedev can aspire to

>>535485379
Post your game.

>>535485484
not me though I'm different

>>535485379
show me 10 games like that released today

>>535485601
imagine actually sharing your hard work with a bunch of porn addicted trannies instead of just bullying them
I shygddt

>>535485820
I accept your concession.

>>535485905
it was real in your mind

>>535474519 (OP)
fine. I'll add crafting to my rpg. Not like it has massive scope creep already

>>535486121
I'm also thinking of adding that just for the tag, but I think I can make it worthwhile.

>>535482976
nah its more of a prank
>>535483182
thanks
>>535484237
nice, I'll look into him, looks kinda similar to Moebius's style.
I'm still not 100% on any of my palettes, but it's easy enough to change because everything uses the same texture format/layout
I'm also working on an editor that'll let me create and then drop-in gradient textures which will then overwrite the current texture palette. Once that's done it'll be a lot faster to make changes.
>>535484959
yeah Im thinking about doing one similar to Kings Field or the dungeons section in Ergheiz ps1

Normalfags are attracted to early access co-op survival crafting games like flies to shit man.

>>535480490
keep up the good work!
captcha: VJKKK
>oh no

>>535486437
I just want a single good one. Is it that hard?

>>535486530
Are there any?
I tried Don't Starve but I didn't like it.

>>535480490
I don't want to be a crab but don't you literally only have one level which is a bunch of floor slabs with nothing on them?

>>535486397
Terada did zelda artwork for the nintendo power mag, many old zelda fans have huge admiration for his work and would like a game that looked like that. terada is a big moebius fan too.

what makes zelda different from a soulslike

Altman sir said we will win and dominate very badly
we will surpass chinese games with AI power, Jai Hind

>>535478626
I solved the 'may you live in interesting times' irony.

I made interesting times not only fun to play, but fun to live in.

>>535487460
dark souls 2 is closer to classic zelda than botw or totk

I like the idea of game dev but not the actual act of game dev

Changing my roguelike world map to make each tile a parasang (ie a 3x3 array of zones like in Caves of Qud) rather than a single zone. Tedious, shouldn't be taking as long as it is.

>>535487460
souls likes are just zelda-likes with a bigger combat focus and less item/puzzles

Your country cannot compete with 1000 Brahmins + kiro+ Claude code+ Gemini+ cursor + gpt5, high verbal IQ means precise prompt that produce the desired result

>>535488120
TRVKE

>>535488284
taking any ideas at all from CoQ is a death sentence btw

>>535488109
im all ears

>>535488385
why?

>>535488284
I don't get it. What's a parasang in more detail? How is it used? Do you mean on the overworld, there's 3x3 of the same "map" before it transitions to another "map"?

https://x.com/rpnickson/status/1956502430423646334

something big is coming...

>>535488740
god i thought this was something real, fuck you

>>535488740
yeah, muh dick!

>>535488474
I can't spoil it , it's my heckin' game premiserino!
with all due respect, and I do not mean to be rude at all.

but basically, having a world with no death or sickness or rape, but still fun.

>>535488823
i thought the fat joke was obvious

>>535483826
I liked Dungeon Watchers the most. I assume you dont have plans to expand that game?

>>535450728
>>535450484
>business manager visa
I've seen a few of your posts and holy you really don't come across this level of schizo often AND trans too. Where are you based? Tokyo? By the way, they just upped that manager visa money requirement from 500-man to 2000-man ( due to Chinese and other foreigners abusing the system ) so you are doubly fucked on that accord.

Anyway, I doubt any sane company would hire you no offense though there is always the option of welfare and jobs even the mentally ill can do though you will face the shame. How are you surviving??

>>535489209
>no death
does the premise involve south asian inspired concepts ?

>>535489396
he's a russian jew hobo, pretty sure he's a prostitute too

>>535489487
Yes, definitely. Particularly Shiva.

A world with no death is a world where war and conflict reigns forever. Which is a good premise for a game.

>>535489962
war would just be about taking POWs then

>>535474519 (OP)
progress, more borgirs, cooking effect, new models and stuff

>>535490393
>Job simulator
but just add anime girls. IT'S THIS EASY GUYS. 10 gorillion steam reviews.

>progress
roads and diplomacy

>>535490393
Where are the condiments and spices? And plates?! Where are the plates?! You were about to hand over a burger to that cute girl with no plate! But hey if you wrap it up, that's okay too. It's looking good. The sizzling effects, selection is good and I'm glad you don't care about clipping.

>>535490485
the troons who want that already play vrchat, bing marmoreal then bing flyknight
gg

free idea;

Friendslop game where you own a Zoo with your friends and have to capture monsters for the zoo.

Each friend has a role integral to capturing the monster.

Thank me later.

>>535490660
sod off branno ya cunt
>>535490907
yep this is a multi millions dollar idea

>>535490393
That sausage burger is cracking me up.

>>535490907
This is a good take on REPO and Lethal company.

>>535490660
oh and this is for the anon who posted the awesome illustration of roman road construction. we now have dirt and stone roads

>>535488670
One tile in the overworld map represents a 3x3 grid of zones, ie screen-size local maps. So on the ground level, you might have to cross as many as 3 screens over before your position in the world map changes.
And in fast travel over the world map, you still walk over tiles one at a time, but when you descend to ground level, you're placed in the center zone of the parasang.

>>535488385
Disagree, Qud is a masterpiece. The quality of composition and world characterization makes it really immersive.

>>535491104
isn't that a real thing in deutschland

>>535491331
>Qud is a masterpiece. The quality of composition and world characterization makes it really immersive.
examples?

>>535486963
I am already working in the second map, but my efforts right now are in learning the job system for unity, because I need to optimize the code for gravity. Right now having 80 enemies on screen is fine but I want minimum around 200. Enemies are not gonna be complex and will be very basic, I don't want the player surviving the game, I want them to focus on hunting as many demons possible.

The first map is simple intencionally so the player can experiment and digest the gravity system, each map will be more strange and complex than the one before, for now this what I have on my mind:

- Palace of Pride: A simple stage where you can have fun with simple gravity
- Sea of Greed: A big endless double ocean of blood, where you have to hop around to reach other Island/platforms
- Cavers of Sloth: A giant planetoid with a smaller planetoid inside, if you fall inside the smaller planetoid, you will be falling into the giant somehow (I don't know how to explain it well in text)
- Corridors of Lust: Twisted cylindric corridors, the theme is a striptease club, something like the one in persona 4.
- Halls of Gluttony: The gimmick will be portals.
- Starts of Wrath: I will shameless go full mario galaxy with this one, infernal lava planetoids and you jump from one another in a big space.
- Heaven of Envy: Demons posing as angels and trying to imitate paradise. Hardest level combining every gimmick/tech.

And... if I have time I will make a bonus secret stage called Fiend's Castle, based on my first game just for fun.

>>535489323
I wanna keep working on Dungeon Watchers, but I am focusing on Guns and Nuns because I wanna make a nice demo. Originally, this new game was just a test for the Low Poly Day on Newgrounds, but, because I saw a good reaction from the people that played it, I decided to keep working on it.

>>535489753
He lives close enough to me. Legit want to do a meetup to find out what he's like. Shinjuku and Harajuku especially is filled with the mentally deranged so he fits right in.

>>535491371
Yes, but you are supposed to slice the sausage.

>>535490907
>streamer spots a monkey
>pulls out the big net
>scream manically as the monkey dodges all attempts
>finally the monkey is tired and gets caught
>streamer unleashes a primal scream
>developer buys a yacht

>What if DOOM but you're a cute anime girl and the cute anime girl's portrait is on the bottom of the screen?
Genius idea in hindsight.

Question to those who care: How do you choose colours and determine that those you've chosen will look good on a wide variety of monitors, settings and calibrations?
I'm going crazy over here with colours. My monitor is set to higher contrast and darker colours. On the colour palette here I can see the left-most colour as a dark pink, the rest looks black. If I look at the palette on a different monitor, I see four different hues of pink. Obviously, not everyone has the same calibration as the one who chooses colours, so how are you solving that problem? Calibrating your monitor with a Spyder or something to get a neutral setup?

>>535491721
Feel like particles shouldn't spawn out the gun right in the players face like that but IDK

>>535491958
You solve this problem by providing graphic settings like gamma contrast, brightness, etc. You don't solve it by having different color choices.

>>535491958
You can put one of those value calibration sliders in if you really care, but so long as there isn't critical gameplay information hidden in the shades, then it doesn't really matter.

https://color.adobe.com/create/color-wheel

>>535491904
nah you can have it just like this although its not the same bread

>>535491912
do streamers truly have this much power?

>>535491601
Bruh. Everything about it. Look at the game. Or look at the wiki. Everything is so thoughtfully designed. It makes you feel like the world is worth exploring, contains things worth seeing... which the game doesn't fully live up to IMO, but that's another issue. Something like CDDA I can't last 5 minutes because the developers clearly have zero taste or style.

>>535480814
soulful kino
>>535482885
soulless sloppa

>>535492357
Of course but then it's not a burger anymore.
It's closer to a hotdog.

>>535492468
Only over zoomers. I wouldn't even know who this bald faggot was if it wasn't for this thread's nodev zoomer eceleb worshipers.

I am stuck in a hypercube and can't make any progresss aA:ADfsjhlkasjdgfhlkjasdghf.lkajsdf

>>535492135
I get what you mean, but the thing is, I'm working on a game that is more on the classic 16-bit side of things, experience-wise, and I want the player to get into the game as fast as on consoles without fiddling with options (aside from resolution) so I aim for a set of colours that hopefully looks good on a wide variety of screens and configurations.

>>535492339
>but so long as there isn't critical gameplay information hidden in the shades, then it doesn't really matter.
I'm experimenting with colours that are slightly more saturated and contours that aren't black, but I don't want to give people eye cancer when they look at it. Stuff looks good on my monitor, but quite "popping" (for lack of words) on others.

>>535492743
that sounds like you are idea guying and are excited about an idea you just made.

I know the feel. I'm also idea guying right now, trying to fine tune my planned catalogue of games.

>>535492675
he's been grinding since the totalbiscuit days tough

>>535493337
What the fuck is a totalbiscuit? Some more gay zoomer bullshit?

Why is medieval fantasy so popular when the futuristic world is way cooler? You would think medieval fantasy as a setting is retired at this point with video games. We have all kinds of fancy lingo in modern day that would never transfer over to the olden ages, so why have an olden age setting where people talk in a completely different manner and act in a different manner?

>>535493204
If only, I'm 3 years deep into this game and I've been making slow progress for a month because of moving and the break in my dev cycle has made me realized how fucked my game is and I'm having trouble getting back to it proper.

I'm wage slaving in this heat all week, then comes the weekend I gotta do stuff with the wife and have no time or energy left to dev, this is so fucking awful the jews have reduced me to an economical unit raising the value of the shareholders....

>>535493863
>no time or energy left
>has enough time and energy to post here
>leaves out that the scope of his game is clearly in conflict with his living condition

>>535493696
Medieval fantasy is cozy. People play video games to relax. Realism is not fun.

>>535493696
future stuff lames everything into just being laser guns
swords, bows and magic are more fun

>>535493696
People are very pessimistic about the future right now.

>>535493696
I am making futuristic game where they use swords.

>>535493696
lower sample size of games due to the artistic barrier of entry to a futuristic title, results in less hits

>>535494170
but fallout has laser guns and more

>>535493696
Scifi is more popular and makes more money, it's also much harder to pull off, look at warhammer they struggle with the fantasy stuff

>>535494873
They also fuck up the 40K lore constantly

YouTube keeps showing me masturbation addiction self help ads.

>>535493519
The opposite. Totalbiscuit was one of the first gaming streamers who got somewhat famous. He died from colon cancer, as far as I know.

>>535494873
>Sci-fi
>15,843 games
>~$9.5 billion total revenue
>~$800 median revenue

>Fantasy
>23,306 games
>~$10 billion total revenue
>~$760 median revenue

>>535495246
>blah blah gay zoomer bullshit

>>535495620
on average sci-fi is actually higher? what the fuck
this is crazy to know
I'm making a sci-fi game now

>>535495620
>steam tags
do proper market research, normaltroons like scifi more than fantasy

>>535495620
>scifi-fantasy
>19.5 billion

>>535495816
I wouldn't read too much into it. There are probably just more shitty fantasy asset flips because the assets are easier to collect.

>>535495945
retard

>>535491904
What is that under the sausage? A crushed dumpling? Have a pic of some meat.

>>535496614
I was also curious, but was too afraid to ask.

>>535496614
is it an egg?

>>535496614
>>535496794
>>535497179
Looks either like egg or like a hashbrown

>>535496614
I think it's a fried egg cooked on both sides.

>>535497247
>>535497591
It looks nothing like egg or potato. It looks like pan-fried dough, possibly with some filling. Like a gyoza, but flat. Maybe a cheese ravioli?

imagen 4 came out

>>535496185
>retard
i dominate you

>>535497816
Pieroggi that got fried in a pan!

>>535497842
how is it so accurate on agdg? do my posts feed a monster?

>>535498332
dilatate
>generate a trim sheet
ok now maybe AI isn't so bad...

>>535498229
That's probably it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/food/comments/elmwsk/i_ate_a_clevelander_burger_with_kielbasa_pierogi/

>>535498468
YOOOOOOO this is crazy

>>535497842
Around 100 posts about AI happen on /agdg/ alone EACH DAY.
About 700 posts in the week around your posts.
Nodev crabs using AI? AI-related reposts? All of them around your progress? BOOM you're done.
Also, not only are you competing with schizos blogposting, but the entire backlog of AI attention whores that aggydaggy owns :)

Take all the "thread success stories" you can think of in the past 10 years and divide it by the number nodev crabs shitposting about AI (again, 100 posts a day, 3000 a month) and there's your historical likelihood of "having a good thread."

Schizos, crabs shitting progress, nodevs shitposting, no feedback, AND to top it all off: AI shitposts increases over time, so even if your post hit in this "mediocrity lottery" you'll have to do it all over again in a couple posts.

>He thinks that we can have a gamedev related thread in 2025
Hahahahaha

G A M E D E V
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>>535498468
prompt sir? you have high verbal IQ

>>535498229
I found the site for the picture and you are right, it's a pierogi.

>>535498849
"texture trim sheet for superior indian machinery and heavy vehicles"

Luddite xisters we are losing to the AI chads ...

>>535498534
>>535499019
Pierogi are great. You can fill them with sauerkraut, minced meat, mashed potatoes, layered curd cheese, mushrooms...
My grandmother always prepared hundreds in advance and put them in the freezer. You can cook them, fry them, eat them with gravvy or what have you.

>>535480814
>come to check out how agdg's doing
>someone's posting my game
lol. Glad you anons like it. Hope you are all doing fine, have a more recent webm. It shows me testing a round slash attack and some rainy night environment.

>>535499142
thank you dear I will use
you must have brahmin ancestry from uttar pradesh dear

>>535499619
me when I enter 'cord inshallah

>>535499619
what happens when you jump on their heads?

>>535500439
Nithing, they just slide away. Or maybe it's the player who slides away? Can't remember.

>>535493863
I haven't had a job since March. I live in the same room from my childhood even though I'm in my thirties now. I wake up each morning with a latent sense of dread pooling in the back of my throat when I realize the hole I'm in just got a little bit deeper.

On the other hand, I have plenty of time to dev.

>>535500635
have you tried making a fotm 6 months game just in case? if I was you I'd make a crafting survival game if you know 3d or farming game with romance if 2d

>>535499619
Is this a zelda-like?

>>535500635
I'm in your position too. but I don't get the dread because I live in a socialist wonderland

>>535500635
What dread? How can it get any worse? You should just focus on making a game instead of pointless thoughts.

>>535501010
yeah! Zelda x Dragon's Dogma, actually

>>535490393
did you make the models?

>>535501010
I thought it was a hype: the time quest like

>>535497842
two more weeks saar

>>535499619
Kino. Normal slash doesn't take any stamina, but round slash does on first swing and not back swing? Also is the third swing a stronger swing? It took a bit more time than the first two and I know some games have a 1-2 combo, but not a 1-2-3 combo.

>>535501265
I believe those are from VRoid Studio.

i can't stop playing the game i bought for research...

>>535501532
Yeah, round slash is always 2 attacks in a row, so it only consumes stamina at the start. The normal combo is 1-2-3 but since the 3rd attack covers a wider area amd can hit multiple enemies easily, I decided to put a small stop before executing it. I designed it as a short of risk-reward mechanic for the normal combo.

ChatGPT alerted me that a Spirit may be trying to trick me into making a 10 year long 'on the way' game so that I won't make the real game.

>4VYWH

>>535501786
What game is it thoughbeit

>>535501917
Sex Kitten Sim Date 7

>>535501917
>thoughbeit

>>535501532
>>535501796
shit, small correction anon. While the normal combo is a 1-2-3 where 3 is a wide horizontal attack, what you see in that webm is only 1-2 followed by a strong attack.

I have bugs to fix but I don't wanna

>>535499619
what has been the toughest part of making this so far? animations? coding?

>>535502253
coding the enemy AI, by far. Being new Godot I tackled that like 2 months into the project and it took me a lot of work, and there's still jank to polish and stuff to implement.

>>535502716
did you use behavior trees or state machines

>>535503162
State machines. I'm considering a refactor, should I look into behavior trees?

I might have to project hop again...

Just uploaded a new devlog to my devtoilet

>>535503259
you can but they’re complicated

I just got released from a Spiral maze.
I heard the Mario sound.

>>535503843
I see. Might then stick to what I already know lol.

>>535480490
>>535483826
Why did you give your protagonist the ntr smile

>add subtle camera sway (0.25 degrees over a second)
>it makes me motion sick immediately
how? the last time I had that was playing VR like 10 years ago

You guys have heard of John Chthonic... right?

I'm making Majora's Mask meets Daggerfall and I'm barreling right for it.

>>535504510
Yeah of course, I even have a poster.

>>535504140
I turn off bobbing in every game for this reason.

>>535504663
scope too big

>>535505236
It's small compared to what I was planning before for this game.

>>535504663
You are not making anything. Just like how you are not making Dwarf Fortress 3D.

I think I'm gonna have to rewrite my entire game because i can see the AI patterns now

Why the fuck does AI like the word "Protocol" so much

>>535505414
I am still going to make Dwarf Fortress 3D.

>>535504663
What’s the difference between Majora’s Mask and Ocarina of Time?

Do you guys know what the godot mascots pronouns are? This is a very important game development question.

>>535505872
I guess tone and the mask mechanic.

You guys better not be sleeping on me

>>535505974
I guess "it" since it's not a person

>>535506564
d-do you want me to s-sleep with you!?
uwaah!

>>535504140
>>535505197
I love camera bob, it adds such weight to the animations. The only game I thought overdid it was Kane and Lynch 2.

>>535507440
I agree it adds weight, but it also makes you realize you're staring at a monitor with a screen where motion is happening without your real head moving which results in a desync and gives me massive motion sickness.

>>535505236
>scope too big
No successful person has ever said this. You can cúck out and make another template 2D platformer because it's easy, or you can go balls-out amd actually make your dream game.

>>535490393
blow your fucking brains out you stupid tranny faggot

>>535508252
relax

>>535502716
>tfw I just started on enemy AI after two months in Godot as well
how the fuck do I use nav agents bro for real

>>535507641
retard

>>535504510
>>535504684
Do you have a Safety Force poster as well?

>>535508779
haha i love my posts so much

>>535504110
Bah, ntr smile it's a myth and doesn't exist.

>>535508706
transcoded

Is this too confusing of a attack control scheme for my multiplayer open world oblivion-like?

>>535509089
Honestly I like his designs except for the black 6 year old.
That's just weird.

Another playtest session that fizzled out into a depressive whimper.
But I am not worried.
They were just playing in a world without content after all, now that I have essentially all systems that make up the game finished it's time to actually make the game, so that's why I'm not worried!
They managed to encounter most of the systems in my first draft of the level but not even having placed any of the content, it just felt like a disjointed mess, but that was totally on purpose, could I have placed at least one good loop into the scene? Easily! But I didn't, not because I forgot, but because I actually wanted it to be a comically bad experience, it was all going according to plan.

>>535509486
>That's just weird
one might even call it... transcoded

>>535509226
Prototype it and playtest it.

>>535509621
It's not that bad I've already playtested it. It's not so bad I just feel that it will be impossible to port to mouse/keyboard which is honestly a plus if it's going to be online. Less sweaty PC players

I hate programming

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>535504510
>>535508706
prompt?

clay primitive console test
no cursor yet, that might be a little annoying.

>>535480490
>>535480814
>>535490393
BASED

>>535486064
I think obsession with transsexuals is the real mental illness. But people on the internet are always trying to pick fights out of pride.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF27OtzAslY&ab_channel=SzymonSok%C3%B3%C5%82

>>535507414
No never mind, forget it

>>535508584
NTA but I just spent 1.5 days learning/fighting the nav system. If you have specific questions I can try to help

>>535507414
>>535510547
I'll take a female simp if you don't want her.

>>535505507
I believe in you

Claymore + Sword animations done, just a couple more weapons to go

>>535480490
add sex and I'll buy it

I am developing an onara museum dedicated to a funny lolcow. You can listen to his fart fanfiction audio there.

Want to improve my Godot 4 skills and WebXR experience stuff.

What would be correct and nice catchy japanesse words for "shizo-gay" that i could use as part as project's title?

progress
spinny star platform ride drawing thing

>>535501214
Pawn system?

>>535511234
>I believe in you
thank you. Good luck to you.

The only sentient person alive is me

>>535511507
>xhe added yet another mechanic

>>535503843
I don't how behavior trees are different than just general imperative programming.

>>535511507
are you a retarded person?

>>535489579
Thanks, anon!

>>535511507
Raw unfiltered child like whimsy

>>535511507
looks transcoded

>>535512292
Behavior trees are much more structured and therefore easy to test, debug, and visualize.

I just worked 8 hours straight on my game and now everything hurts. What should I do to repair the damage to my body and health?

>>535512325
i guess im kinda slow

>>535512628
why

>>535512814
Drink an excessive amount of alcohol

https://open.spotify.com/track/2g1KggY9PKvsoEAOaiz4xx?si=dQt72uATSF6bslGOCmox0Q
Discord link or i will invite my activist friends here

>>535511507
the reminds me of ulililia's game

NEW JANNY PLS COME BACK AND CLEAN THE THREAD. I'm sorry I was mean when you banned people by mistake. Clean the thread pls.

>>535512814
Go for a jog. Lift some weights. Play a sport.

>>535512885
rotate when was the last time you worked on a fucking game?

>>535512814
There is no repair

>>535511507
Looking forward to play it on DD64

>>535513878
im not finna make more demos until i can figure out how to make the game fun tbqh

>write code
>it works

Well anon, Is your game like the recently ported Black Souls?

>>535514168
I tried your game in DD63. Have you ever any of those impossible levels from mario made in mario maker? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSGbZHfAO1Q
That's more or less how your game feels like from someone that haven't played your game before.
You first need to introduce the mechanics, and then doing stuff with them. The "tutorial" that you added is really a spoiler, there's no fun in that.

how do i get good at character design

>>535515386
i look like this

I am using chat gpt to tell me how to train a pix2pix model so I can upscale pixel art into HD.

>>535512642
Well wikipedia says the elements of a behavior tree are repeated impulses from a root node which run task nodes either directly or indirectly through selection or sequencing nodes.
Sequencing, selection, repetition. I.e the fundamental constructs of imperative programming ie statements, conditionals and loops.

I'm not saying its not a good way to organize behavior but people talk about it like its specialized gamedev knowledge. It's just a restatement of what imperative programming is.

>>535511507
soul

do i make my rpg game third person like darksouls or first person like skyrim

>>535517317
why not both

What the fuck is going on I'm going to waste all weekend on this.
>Make my main scene the first thing to open in my build
>Works perfectly fine
>Decide to add a previously used menu to appear within my main scene that just sets time to 0
Entire fucking OS halts and nearly crashes, how, it was working just fine

>>535508684
No ambition.

>write code
>game crashes when it's called

>>535517317
I'm making it both for my RPG.

>>535517317
Skyrim is first and third person though

Havent posted in here in quite a while, but I just thought I'd let you all know that my game is finally out of EA:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2825130/Shadowed_The_Demon_Castle_of_Ooe/
I may post some updates here for a while after release, but for now, I must shill.

>>535518732
>haven't disclosed the use of AI-generated art
sorry sis, i won't be supporting your game.

how do you guys feel about the gray-boxing technique? do you use it? do you feel like it helps?

>>535519535
waste of time

>>535519535
I use it if I think it'll help me. If I already know exactly what I'm gonna do, I either skip or do it very lazily

Typing out all of my thoughts to brute force concentration and understanding of this old code.

>>535504110
It's actually the smug look that the kid in Spy Family has

>>535517317
Mine's third person and the camera is a bitch.

>>535519291
All of it was hand-drawn and paid for, good crabpost though.

I've been in development for a 3D game for a month, and I've been wondering is Godot even worth for serious 3D game use? Should I consider jumping ships to a different engine.

>>535524137
If you used Unity, you would wonder the same. How does an incomplete piece of shit engine become the most used engine for years? If you used Unreal, you would wonder how the fuck anyone navigates this piece of shit when it crashes on just opening up a menu to access important features.

>>535524137
A month isn't very long. Spend a month on another engine and decide for yourself. Even beyond them all being shit, there is a matter of taste

there is only 12 months in a year

>>535524137
I've been using Godot for 3D for the last 8 months or so.
So far I haven't hit any major roadblocks.

Blog:

I love Blender but it's the best argument against open source software. Bunch of European autists removing shit at a whim, then if anyone complains about it breaking their projects they just get "durrr it's free." Being free is not an excuse to be shit.

/endblog

>>535524954
post donut

>>535524954
list these so-called shit being removed at a whim that break projects and list the euros too

>>535525005
It's on an old computer from five years ago :( Great tutorial, tho. Donut man should be running the entire Blender Foundation.

>>535525079
>list these so-called shit being removed at a whim
Are you joking? They removed two fucking engines in the past few years because one guy wanted to. As well as the NPR shader node because "it didnt fit his vision." This pissed people off so much that he was forced to bring it back, but sadly there wasn't the same outcry for the engines so they're gone.

>list the euros too
Are you stupid?

Alice future, it's not too late to join it

I want to die now

>>535525216
Yeah, then Blender would actually be a serious program. Right now it's a mess with backwards and forwards compatibility issues, and the development is just the European autists neglecting core problems to work on a pet feature for two years they'll abandon halfway through to work on another pet feature they'll also abandon halfway through.

The BASIC ANIMATION LAYERING SYSTEM was broken for 10 years because no one bothered to fix it. And these people supposedly make their revenue from movies. It's not a serious program.

>>535525585
If you die then you are gay

>>535525849
This is true. Freddy Mercury died and he was gay.

>>535525946
Yes I did, it's a fantastic beginner tutorial to help new users get into 3D :)

>>535526163
Borger...

>>535526253
they'll have some other stuff to eat soon...

>>535526356
>MinecraftStardewValley-like
You're gonna be rich

>>535526490
thanks, can you lend me some money? I'll give it back when I become rich with my game

>>535526648
sent

>>535526163
You should add floating disembodied hand that Peter Molyneux likes. Would be fun to pick up the little guys and throw them around or slap them
>>535526490
That's more like Staxel and they're not rich.

>>535526648
I'd love to lend you some money. To that end, I have an exciting proposition for upwards organic growth that you can be a part of from the ground-up. Simply pay me a modest starting retainer of $1,000 then get five friends or family to do the same, and for every three of their friends they get to join, YOU get to keep $50! Act fast, because this offer expires at midnight Delhi time.

i shit in a box and you buy it then I send it to you. good game idea?

>>535527181
that sounds cute, sadly you'll only be able to command and manage them, colony sim style

Will you put sponsors in your game?

I haven't started learning Blender yet, but when I do I will be doing the donut tutorial.

>>535528802
don't, notice how the donut apologist hasn't posted any of his work.

>>535528020
No, but I will put references to other dev's games in mine :^)

>>535529030
How bad could a tutorial be

>>535529030
>associate your life's work with the 4chan pedophile general
lol
I'm staying as far away from you freaks as possible.

>>535529237
Just post your work. Certainly some schizos won't follow you for the rest of your life, spamming your pictures in here

We love donuts here thoughbeit

>>535529171
It's a great tutorial not just to Blender but to every single aspect of 3D. It teaches you the what, the how, the why, what happens when you do this, why you don't do that, really a fantastic tutorial from someone who's great at learning and teaching. Most tutorials are dogshit "press this shortcut and download this asset pack and wa-la." His are legit.

Do the donut, the chair, and the anvil and you'll be set to do pretty much anything.

>>535529102
You will doxx the inner circle if you do that

an interesting setting for a video game could be an inherently magical world where the government has made magic illegal, punished by death. the government doesnt want regular people having magic to keep them "safe" but in reality the elites want only themselves to have magic powers. the government is moving the world towards TECHNOLOGY, it has robot soldiers and whatnot already, computers too, nanomachines, cybernetic implants, etc, but all of a different aesthetic than real life, not typical cyberpunk shit. above the human elite's they are actually taking orders from Reptilian demon/aliens and those Reptilian demon/aliens are actually taking orders from a massive cosmic AI whose goal is to remove magic from the entire universe and has done it to thousands of worlds already.

>>535529171
you can easily identify those who did, by how ugly their work is.
A Photoshop tutorial isn't going to teach you how to draw, just like the donut tutorial isn’t going to teach you any of the real sculpting fundamentals, it's nothing more than a waste of time.

>>535530108
i forgot a key aspect: the government/elites are forcefully taking magic away from the citizens by creating dna altering "vaccines" taking away genes that allow access to magic

>>535530108
>>535530229
Thanks for the idea.

>>535530027
I will dev for your sins.

>>535530139
It's not trying to teach you how to be a good artist, it's teaching you the UI, the tools, and core 3D concepts so you can go off on your own and make your own things. God, you're retarded.

>>535530684
>he needs a 6 hour long tutorial for how to use a software

>>535530801
*farts in your eyes*

>fully hand drawn animated
>4 reviews
It's fucking over. AI will beat us.

>>535531292
>that cast of characters
Shocking

>>535531292
>2D platformer in 2025 AD
>blue-haired black woman on box art
destined to flop

>"create a rule that caps age at 100"
>"now create a person that will trigger that rule"
two prompts, running locally with gpt-oss, vibe dev
pretty neat

Are people here seriously making 2D games still? It's not 2014 anymore. The bar for indie solo games has been raised to Schedule 1. So if you're not making a 3D open world multiplayer game to maximize streamer engagement, why are you choosing to fail?

>>535531292
River City Girl clones are destined to fail.

>>535510745
nvm I figured it out because I'm a fucking genius

>>535531292
What is that character design?

>>535531818
>Are people here seriously making 2D games still? It's not 2014 anymore.
they literally never learn. just let them waste their time, less competition

>>535530801
For blender? 100+ hours and I still google every time how to do/fix things...

>>535532115
>What is that character design?
>posts tranime slop

>>535532230
Yes.

>>535531292
>cheerleaders
>what if we made our characters and themes the opposite of what beat em up players like? we'll be swimming in players!

>>535532115
retards are still getting memed into believing that female mc = coomer money

>>535530684
hmm, I'll consider doing the donut tutorial then
>>535530801
you should watch how much it takes to learn solidworks, you even get certified for it
>>535532159
it's over

Streamers should buy the package of our game according to their income revenue.
>Basic | Up to 500 viewers | Regular price
>Pro | 500 to 10K viewers | Price tenfold
>Corporate | 10K+ viewers | Contact us for inquiry
Copyright strike all streamers that didn't buy the correct SLA for our game software.

>>535532042
Good work, anon

>>535532159
Any examples? the UI seems fine to me.

>>535531292
>>535532115
I think there's some kind of a moral and mental barrier on some college educated 20-35 year olds that makes them unable to love anything. They are barred from thinking about what makes them feel joyful. So they simply go through the motions of creation without any real pursuit behind the act. Media and art is a pursuit of naughtiness. Need to keep your mind open whether you deem something morally acceptable or not

>>535532572
a solidworks certification it's useless if you don't have an engineering degree in the first place thoughbeit.
if you don't know how to draw, don't bother with blender.

Star Leap is honestly my favorite game so far from the demo days. I can't believe it but yeah, a pixel shartformer. Although it's fun I think it's not gonna do well just because of its genre, I heard steam intentionally devalues platformers and other genres. Anyway I'm hoping to see more from it next demo day.

>>535532845
I don't have 100 hours in the current version, I dabble, for 10 years, so 10 hours a year.

>>535529237
this lmao

>>535532990
Today's artists are raised to believe that everything they like is wrong and should be subverted.
>I want a cool badass protagonist for my beat em up game!
Ummmm heteronormative fragile white toxic masculinity much?
>okay, a hot chick that kicks ass!
Male gaze misogynist scum.

So they eventually land on "blue-haired black lady" which doesn't appeal to them and it shows, and consequently appeals to no one, not even real blue-haired black ladies. It's a dark age of creation.

>>535533091
Also, "star leap" brings up https://store.steampowered.com/app/3668850/Suikoden_STAR_LEAP/

>>535533295
>10 hours a year
You won't get anywhere with that.

>>535533381
it's incredible how one can get around this issue by simply not being a faggot

>>535533513
Most people are, sadly.

>>535531292
Oh hey I recognize that game. The CEO did an interview talking about how you should price your game. They were gonna ask 25 dollars initially but pegged it down to 19.99 since it makes more money.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/how-much-should-you-charge-for-your-game

Trying to add CJK/IME support. Second most wishlists are from Hong Kong for some reason.
After some failures it turns out that getting the IME overlay to render in game is really complicated, to impossible. Anyone got an idea if that is even usually done in games? Are players just competent enough to type the right glyphs regardless?

>>535526163
I thot u ded glad to see you

>>535533741
>At the same time, the hit Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – which its own developer Sandfall Interactive noted was an indie title – raised eyebrows with its relatively budget price, leading to further discussions about relative value of a game versus pricing.

thanks nigga

>>535533741
>let's take financial advice from a guy whose game sold 20 copies.
Why is that the least competent feel the most qualified to give advice?

>>535524237
>>535524623
>>535524780
I appreciate the answers. I do hope Godot has decent game porting, and version 4.4 at least has some future proofing features. I'll attempt for a few more months to get proficient and try other engines to get a feel for what I like.

>>535533475
my modelling demands in my games have been low until recently.

>>535533850
why are you writing gibberish? at least type up a real sentence

>>535535090
nice

>>535531292
Concord tier design and marketing

>>535535401
they announced the game and marketed for 3 months and released it. maybe after getting no traction the release was to cut loses.

>>535531292
of course none of the 10 team members are black. like clockwork.

>>535535846
>Bergman

>>535535846
>YOU DON'T HAVE ANY BLACK DEVELOPERS ON YOUR TEAM!!
Horseshoe theory in action.

A team of 10 to make a fucking beat 'em up? Yeesh

>>535536235
it's just hollow and fake. they should make games about what they know. why can't they love who they are and create with honesty?

>>535535846
none of these people beat river city ransom

>>535536547
>why can't they love who they are and create with honesty?
this, the lead has rollerskated since 1994? and we are in a 90s revival?

we need to be better devs

>>535537220
reminder, those 10 'failed' devs were each paid 100k per year to make that beat-em up

Gettin' some hit stop hit slop you you know what I mean?

I was autisming a game for like a week and didn't dev, I'm ngmi

>>535537835
>kill the jannies
very subtle

>>535538175
They finally figured it out.......................

Don't tell, okay? Keep this between you and me.

>>535538146
you mean you were ideaguying?

Another day wasted on generating gay furry porn...

modeled two trashcans

>>535543380
How long did it take

>>535480573
>>535479667
He's 100% correct, if switching playstyle requires grinding meta-currency it is not accessible and might as well not exist. I know that's the case for the king is watching.
>>535484237
Nice fucking inspiration, saved.
where do you get your images btw?

>>535518732
Congrats on finishing a game!

>>535543783
10 minutes

>>535544070
That's good :)

>>535544183
are you patronizing me?

aaaaaawkward

>>535543804
>where do you get your images btw?
I think one that probably came from here, pretty good selection https://geekynerfherder.blogspot.com/2020/07/artist-spotlight-art-of-katsuya-terada.html

>>535543380
appreciate the detail on the right

As the technicalities of modelling are no longer a large hurdle I am struggling more and more on the art direction/concept art. how the hell do you learn to do that?

>>535545016
conceptart.org

>>535500635
>>535501142
>>535501165
Same, but I'm going back to college in a week, for a CS degree.
At least my classes and books will be covered and I might actually meet and hang out with other people.

Remember to make social media so you'll have followers waiting for you to release your game and to help you see it through completion so you don't let others down.

>>535545270
I need no followers. I need no players. I exist and dev alone in this rotten realm.

>>535545270
eehhh

>>535544958
thanks, i updated them a little bit now, i think they look better now

>>535545016
buy artbooks of games you like. study them like it's your job

>>535544070
Actually very impressive
t. modellinglet

>>535545569
nice. I'd add a dent, like someone kicked it

>>535475270
Roguelike VN

>>535533393
It's been changed to leap galaxy, https://store.steampowered.com/app/3327880/Star_Leap/
don't know why, but it's still an alright name.

>>535545809
i just did, but you'll have to see it when you play the demo on DD64!

Finished the health system. Going to implement bonking next.

when the system I'm implementing is so big, I don't know where to start. no biggie, just slowing me down.

Added some more resources and made an upgrade system.

>>535547401
nice! domekeeperlike?

Do think its impossible for someone with adhd to make a game? I can never go 5 minutes trying to dev without getting distracted. How do I actually ever get anything done?

I just realized that I've been using the wrong textures for the past months.

If you're so smart how would you make an animated escalator???

>>535537835
Looks fun; would play

>>535548197
20 year old game BTW

>>535542591
1. that's redundant, all furry porn is gay.
2. when you get the chance you should kill yourself. or at least take anti-parasite medicine and see if that cures your mental illness.

>>535548581
That's impressive. How would you do it tho

>>535548645
It's hot tho...

>>535548836
The technology is lost.
Just kidding. Procedurally change the step height and position with a math function and use a scrolling texture shader for the handrail.

>>535548836
looks like a shader to me

>>535548197
I would just animate the steps Blender then after importing it in engine give it a simple ramp collider and make it move the player when it's on it.

>>535549263
Sounds really hard. I'd try to do it with a rig but loop rigs tend to cause dependency issues...

>>535549396
>I would just draw the rest of the circle

>>535547848
Stop having adhd

>>535549531
There's some tutorials for animating escalators in Blender. Just follow one of them.

I would just have a static escalator

>>535548581
all you would need is a path3D node and for the steps to follow

did this faggot really post gay furry porn in my thread

>>535549749
and broken mirrors everywhere
and no access signs in front of elevators and stairwells

>>535550050
soulless

what do anons use to record gameplay and turn it into a webm? i have obs studio, but i feel like it's way too big for just recording a screen quickly

>>535550652
OBS. you can also record a window by name.

>>535550652
On loonix, Simplescreenrecorder is perfect. On windows I used ShareX and it's ok, but there might be better ones.

>>535548836
i kind of got it working... it just needs some tweaking

>>535550652
Yeah it’s pretty big, but does the job. And its options are quite useful in the end.
>>535550856
I used to employ Simplescreenrecorder, but the Arch package (btw I use arch) was discontinued :(

working on an aardman style character

>>535550930
Damn you seem smart

>>535550823
>>535550856
>>535550959
allright, thanks for the input anons

>>535502716
>>535503259
utility scoring is the play
simply come up with a way to score each possible action and use the highest scoring one

>>535551123
very awesome, he has dead looking eyes though, kinda creepy

>>535534079
Are you really asking why you're hearing from Mr Bergman on mainstream medias?

a game where you have to micromanage things like not leaving your door or car unlocked because of people stealing things and assaulting you etc. and at the end you go to an oppressive fascist dystopia on a mission and suddenly the player doesn't have to do any of these things

>>535526490
That's not even close to harvest moon or any of its clones, have you never heard of RimWorld? It's one of the best games ever, I always install it on a new computer, replayability is infinite and the mods are great, highly recommend it's easily in my top 5.

>>535554472
>there are people in this thread right now who haven't read the book
ngmi

>make insane progress on day 1
>progress *= 0.5 every subsequent day
it's over

>>535490660
>movement going down while scrolling menu
ogh

>>535547848
I have ADHD, I have started 50+ games, finished none. my latest does have an end in sight, but it's a pretty weird game, 20 half baked systems.. one pretty deep one. my distractions are the other systems. a lot of days I only work for 5 minutes, but I make sure to boot the project everyday. I'm in a low output state atm, perhaps I need to add a new system to bring back the excitement.

>>535547557
>domekeeperlike?
Yep. Due to being top down I think I will have to deviate a bit from being a clone but hopefully i can find the fun within a couple of months.

>>535547848
>>535554983
I have started 8 games, finished 6, 2 I've given up on because I doubted they'd make enough money to be worth it.
I literally can't sit and work for an hour without some mental tricks. Find whatever works for you and adjust when it stops working. Incentives, punishments, accountability buddies, whatever. For a time I was livestreaming my screens and webcam and gave the link to my parents and few people I know so they could check on me at any time. Then I accidentally livestreamed an open file with some important passwords so I stopped that.
Currently I'm motivated by the money I'm expecting from sales because life is rough.

>>535556124
I'm motivated by my age now, I gotta finish this game before I turn 40... I'm too young to turn 40 with no finished games

You think this is appealing as an ad? And/or too annoying? Going to air on /vst/ or something.

>>535556330
>mfw my motivation used to be "gotta finish this game before I turn 30"
>now I'm 31

>>535534079
All ceos are like that.

>>535556442
Quality is going to be better btw, I made some nice WebP files but they aren’t supported in regular posts.

>>535556476
finish it before you're 32, 32 is a nice number.

>>535556442
>>535556771
I like the action but what's with the
>custom engine
do players care about that?

>>535556771
>custom engine
antivirus bros, lets pour one out for him

>>535556859
I turn 32 in 3 months so I likely won.t
Maybe 33. Gotta finish this game before 33. I can still get to date young girls if I get rich at 33 right?

>>535557050
uhh... sure

>>535557050
>I can still get to date young girls if I get rich at 33 right?
yeah.... good luck with that

>>535556897
>do players care about that?
I think some of them do, there was this one Anon the other day who told me it’s the only good part of the project; and personally it has been a huge motivation. (I mean I was very motivated to make a custom engine that works exactly the way I want.) After the recent Stormgate debacle it may also be a bit more prominent of a topic.
But yeah I would only run these ads in designated autist pits.
Gonna make some that are more basic. It DOES seem a bit stupid to advertise very generic properties like "10 Campaign Missions" for a game that looks like crap. Though the game design is somewhat unique, I’m not sure if I can condense it into an ad. Maybe I just run the logo and some action.

>>535557050
>I can still get to date young girls if I get rich at 33 right?
Absolutely.

>>535557918
>>535557505
>>535557441
But I was promised a rock star life with drugs and sex at conventions...

>>535557050
>can still get to date young girls if I get rich at 33 right?
yes, in SEA

>>535554569
What book? If it's manga I'm not interested thank you.

just like me fr

talk me out of making a small-scale GTA-like for my 10 year project

>>535558275
>yes, in SEA

>>535556442
Feels like you are advertising to me, an amateur game developer, who wants to see your engine. Not to a slop eating gamer

Solodevbros, we're so back.

> wHy ShOuLd AnYoNe PlAy ThIs OvEr X?!?!?!?
Because it IS X.
I'm committing copyright infringement.

>>535559442
Wrong. It's X, but worse, because a self-taught amateur made it vs the highly skilled team of professionals with decades of experience that made the original.

>>535559679
You don't understand. I didn't make it. I stole it. It's copyright infringement.

>>535559830
You're an amateur thief. Leave the stealing to the trained professionals.

>>535559943
It's okay because I made more money with ads on google play than the original owner did giving it away for free on itch.io.

>>535559301
>this could've been marmoreal

That shitty drive horizon assetflip yesterday finally convinced me that it doesn't matter how good or shit your game is, if you pay a bunch of 1mil subscriber jewtubers to cover it then it will sell.

>>535547848
heh, funny pic. I once read through a game design book (it was called level up! a guide to great game design) in one sitting because I really like game design learning and I still do, I WILL re-read jesse schell's book once again sometime soon.

>>535560158
retard

What would be the best engine for someone with 0 programming knowledge to make a roguelike kind of like pokemon mystery dungeon. Also I'm pretty stupid so it has to be really easy to grasp.

gamedev is not doing good things to my brain

i give up
maybe tomorrow will be different

>>535560640
you can't make that. mystery dungeon is a big boy programming game.

>>535560640
this is a really poor choice of hobby for someone pretty stupid with 0 programming knowledge. can't you find another hobby?

>>535559232
Maybe it appeals to me also just because I am dev-brained.
I wonder if the "THOUSANDS OF UNITS" angle is enticing at least, or there’s too many games like AoS that already did it and revealed that more units is generally not very interesting after a certain number (low 100s).

>>535557918
>just don't be a creep bro
>what's creepy?
>if you're unattractive everything you do is creepy
>how do i know if I'm unattractive?
>stop being a loser
>I'm a billionaire
>bro women don't want to be approacjed by creeps

>25 years later
>where have all the men gone?

>>535560640
You need some math and programming skills to create procedural dungeons and there really isn't any prefabricated way of doing it. You should go for it though! You'll learn a lot. Any 2d engine like gamemaker would be fine. You should be more concerned with how you're going to make the art and music than which engine you'll put them in.

>>535560920
It says
>Hundreds of agents
Which is a weird way to advertise, referring to them as pathfinding agents rather than units. The ad is not geared towards the player.
Players would be excited by
>Thousands of units!
Not
>Hundreds of pathfinding agents
But to me hundreds of pathfinding agents is sovl

>>535559301
>artstyle has not improved in 20 years
bros... cris could've been zun, he really could've been him in an alternate universe. what went so wrong?

I can't fucking do this anymore, the loneliness is too much. I just want a girlfriend. I want someone who will at least pretend to be interested in my game because she loves me and wants me to be happy. I want to be able to show her new enemies and ideas I have and see her reaction. I want someone I can hug to distract me from how pointless of an endeavor this all is. My life is so meaningless, I can't go on spending every day alone with nothing but the company of my thoughts and strangers on the internet.

>>535561164
ZUN is one of the best composers of the modern era. He will quite literally make it into music theory textbooks if he hasn't already.

>>535561260
That's a whole lot of "I want". Are you gonna provide something in exchange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-KkP58qukM

good FVARKING morning sirs, lets get it
no matter how grim the jobby is we keep going
NHH
TTD
ALLAH AKBAR

>>535560640
ClickTeam Fusion is an engine for making games without writing program code, check it out, maybe it works for you.
In case you are able and willing to learn programming, you should first focus on learning raw programming for a week or two. No user interfacing stuff, just solving Project Euler tasks and so on. If you feel you have a bit of talent, you can consider picking up an engine where you write code, like GameMaker or Godont. Or you can make a game based on raw SDL2 or LÖVE2D. No matter what, it will be a long, stony road.
But for Roguelikes at least there is a lot of learning material out there, I believe whole YT code-along series of making a basic Roguelike skeleton are available for many technologies.

>>535561346
I just looked up the newest touhou game and apparently he's ai generating the backgrounds, he truly has way more in common with cris than I originally thought.
cris is a music theory expert, why hasn't he made anything? I'm very dissapointed in him honestly.

>>535560852
I don't know what else I'm supposed to do. All I can do is draw but I don't think anyone really cares about that.
>>535561081
The art is the easy part for me and I love doing it, but math and programing takes me days to solve simple things.

>>535561418
Penis and a stable income

>>535561260
You're just a pit that keeps taking and taking. I pity any women that gets stuck with you.

>>535561931
Maybe you should team up with a coderanon? bridge.jpg

>>535561931
Your two options are pretty much:
(a) Improve at programming. You don't really even need much math.
(b) Make a portfolio of your art and and use it to find a programming dev buddy. Don't try to find one here. Too many schizos.

Those are the only two options. You have to pick one of those, if anything. Don't reply to this post.

>>535561805
Cris makes plenty of music and it's as shit as his illustrations. He still hasn't learned fundamental structure in either.

>>535557441
>>535557505
hot 22 year olds?
You mean sweaty 22 year old indians trying to scam you, right?

why was sorcerobe never finished

>>535561484
is ClickTeam Fusion worth the money? It seems expensive.

>>535551123
That is revolting.

>>535562762
It’s a robust product and games have been made in it. Whether it’s worth it foryou.jpg I cannot tell you. Don’t they have a demo version or so?

>>535562458
sorry...

what are you talking about i thought this was /pol/ for a moment gamedev motherfuckers

>>535563629
I wonder why you even bother visiting that board? I thought it was overrun with bots.

>>535563629
It's summer. Timmy and this friends will go back to school soon.

>>535563867
mostly news and when things are habbenings for lols anyways why do you guys care about being a lonely loser and having no gf it's the best you have all the time in the world no family to take care of it so get to fucking work and make some fokking progress

>>535548836
Make a easing function in godont, add a bunch of kinematic bodies, put them in an array and have them get their y position from the easing function based on their x position. Loop over the array and increment their x position, if their x position gets to the end of the escalator then just put it back up top. The top and bottom steps should be hidden from view.

>>535561346
genuinely, what's the one specific thing he's really good at? composition, harmony or what?

>>535556124
>Then I accidentally livestreamed an open file with some important passwords so I stopped that.
Stopped streaming or stopped writing down your passwords?
Retard
>>535557842
>I think some of them do
They don't care. They care about gameplay and fun. I don't care if your game runs on a redstone circuit computer in Minecraft, I don't care how hard you worked, all I care is that it is fun.
Retard.

>>535567045
Who are you quoting?

>>535566926
>Stopped streaming or stopped writing down your passwords?
Stopped streaming. There's no way I can remember a bunch of complex passwords.

>>535567094
>Looking For: someone to make animation
>Rates/Payment Metho: gift card $100 no upfront if you DM and asking for updates I will ignore you . Only pay after seeing updates

>>535567132
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_manager

Gamedev would be like 8x faster if devs didn't have to factor in the fact that the median IQ is like 70.

>>535547401
Kino artstyle

>>535549951
bing bing WAHOOO~

>>535560723
same desu

>>535566009
I would describe "ZUN harmony" as something like a recursive harmonic space. Classical western harmony has the music travel from a beginning to an end point in a logical sequence (see functional harmony). Modern western harmony has the music kind of hover around a single harmonic area or rock back and forth between two stable harmonic areas (see chord loops). ZUN's harmony is much closer to the classical functional harmony, except rather than traveling from chord to chord, it travels from key center to key center. He leans on very strong and clear progressions like VI-VII-i, but constantly walks around where that root is.

That part of his composition is what would make it into textbooks at least. His other stuff like his use leitmotifs and melodic phrasing is also very high quality, but is nothing truly innovative.

gamedev is easy actually

added multiple noises to the editor
modifying the UI logic to accommodate it took quite the effort

>>535567883
tl;dw

>>535567396
>it's another episode of anon larping as a gaming executive overseeing multi-million dollar mass market projects intended for hundreds of thousands of players
None of this shit matters to indie devs. Find a niche and make games for that, the players of said niche will understand the mechanics. You aren't Todd Howard.

gamedev music
https://youtu.be/8jJZA-O_B78

>>535568029
Cool, but what’s the planet generation for?

https://x.com/cwisbg/status/1946726304298004762

can any godot user explain why he ain't using tilemaps with layers and having to y sort? i dont get it

>>535567883
1. have a rich father
2. you did it!

>>535568189
Tilemaps can be limiting. That’s all there is to it.

>>535568432
nepotism doesnt exist you jealous chud

>>535568181
to generate planets, duh
I'm spending few days on making this editor to hopefully find a good looking shader for the actual game

>>535567883
Look at that game for 2 seconds and you can see what a flop it's gonna be. No one wants to spend that much time looking at a mid Asian chick

>>535568489
even with chunking? I've seen a lot of people complain about how tiles are handled in godot which is worrying for me project

>never have a problem staying focused while programming the player
>programming the enemy is the most boring task on the planet and it feels like I'm pulling off my toenails
How do I fix this

>>535568730
Have the player control the enemies too
Pretend I put a Molyneux on this

>>535568730
Programming the enemy is fun thougheverbeit

>>535568730
make enemies run in straight line and phase through walls

>>535566926
>They don't care. They care about gameplay and fun. I don't care if your game runs on a redstone circuit computer in Minecraft, I don't care how hard you worked, all I care is that it is fun.
You don’t understand. It’s not about "oh look I made a custom engine" – it’s about the fact that you can immediately tell when you play an RTS or ARPG that was made in Unity, for example, because the units all blob together in always the same fashion. And this behaviour is really shit and ruins the fun, for some people, like me, for example.
There is a target audience that very much cares about NOT having death ball unit blobs. It may be that "Custom Engine" is too technical of a way to phrase it. But the fact itself is very much a core pitch for the game (I would have just made an Sc2 custom map otherwise), and it IS about fun.
I can tell that you are not in the target audience, which is fine, but obviously then my game would never appeal to you, no matter how I advertise it

>>535567396
target the audience with the highest IQ

>>535569765
rick and morty fans already have the perfect game for them, its called High on Life

>>535567396
Gamers aren't that stupid. You're just terrible at communicating your intent. Your audience cannot read your mind. They can only interpret what they see on screen, and if you're terrible at communicating, then what you put on their screens is likely to lead to miscommunication.

>Dragonbones has been abandoned
>COA Tools has been abandoned
>Spriter barely has any features and runs like shit
>Spine costs $400 and can't be cracked
How do we have Blender, a very powerful 3D modelling and multi-purpose tool software, before a proper free 2D animation software?

>>535570246
>before a proper free 2D animation software?
OpenToonz for rigged 2D
Krita for frame by frame

Toon Boom Harmony is a paid subscription, but it's really easily cracked.

>>535561260
>"My life is so meaningless, I can't go on spending every day alone with nothing but the company of my thoughts and strangers on the internet."
>goes another day

>>535570246
Moho is on humble for like $10 sometimes. I had high hopes for Inochi2D, but unfortunately the troon dev for that project keeps trying to kill himself.

>>535570246
3D is easier than 2D.

>>535570831
Way to miss the point moron

>>535526163
Looks amazing
Gmi

>>535526163
Damn, the looks nice anon.
What are you making it in?

I have a really lore rich and unique fantasy setting that is cooler than the lore in Elder Scrolls series. I think it would really succeed in attracting a lot of people cause from years of observation I noticed that people just love to talk about lore in games.
I'm struggling to figure out what is the 'best' type of game to make- I really want something where I can share this lore naturally.
I'm thinking a digital board or card game but to be honest I don't have much experience in them. I think Inscryption is an OK game but I never played any other card games, besides one obscure one that I have in my library but don't remember the name of (Does anyone know any cool card/board video games that are ripe with interesting game mechanics or design?)
Was thinking about JRPG type of gameplay too, but I think it requires more assets to create successfully.
I don't want to make a "Darkest Dungeon" type game.
My setting is perfect for "Battle Fantasy", so a type of game where you can play a Hero with their "adjacent armies" would be a good, but I think more difficult to execute in a card game.

>>535571808
Didn't read. Start with Pong.

>>535567396
if you think it's solely an IQ problem you don't understand dev

a lot of mistakes come down to the developer miscommunicating by accident, simply forgetting to communicate something or, worst of all, falling into psychological patterns to brainwash their players on accident into not seeing what the developer wants them to see
you think I'm memeing but one dev here added a big long UI element on the side that shows something and then they got feedback from players who wanted that UI element but didn't realize it was there the entire time. the developer had somehow created a mental wall that blocks it out of the brain

>>535531818
I'd rather my game die in obscurity than depend on stre*mers.

>>535571910
Ehh. I've already raped and dismembered your mother and played with her decapitated head.

>>535571414
No I think I got the point very well. You said you can't go on with your life doing the same things, but you're not gonna change anything and will keep doing the same things.

>>535571808
>(Does anyone know any cool card/board video games that are ripe with interesting game mechanics or design?)
You wanna check out Cultist Simulator especially for the lore angle

...

>>535572559
I want to fuck him

>>535572072
Relax, nodev.

>>535571986
kek if true

>>535526356
This looks so good. I am jealous because my RW clone looks like a terrible ripoff when people like you put a high-effort spin on the formula.

>>535572559
I want to stomp on him.

>>535571808
Graphic adventure, visual novel, puzzle, or secret box (aka walking simulator).

>>535571986
Devs need to constantly playtest. Valve built their development schedule around weekly playtests. Ape had Chucklefish give him two dedicated testers who played Stardew almost every day. agdg games always suck because they only playtest at most every two months.

>>535571808
>fantasy setting that is cooler than the lore in Elder Scrolls series
That's a really low bar to set.

>I think it would really succeed in attracting a lot of people cause from years of observation I noticed that people just love to talk about lore in games.
In games they like.

>I'm struggling to figure out what is the 'best' type of game to make- I really want something where I can share this lore naturally.
Think about whatever's unique about your lore can be represented/used in terms of game mechanics. Then figure out what kind of game best supports that game mechanic.

But really
>Start with Pong.
I can 99.75% guarantee that you don't know what a mind-boggling amount of effort making a complete game is. Making Pong (complete, with everything a game should have) will give you a good idea of what you're up against and whether you even want to be making games.
You know you can instead make a total conversion of some existing game (like Skyrim for example) with your setting and would take 1/4th of the time probably. You can make a "beautiful corner" (like confine it to one area) of Skyrim and see how it plays and more importantly if you have what it takes to make even that much.

>>535574037
What’s a graphic adventure

>>535575735
shit like Monkey Island, Myst, even The Witness can fall under it

>>535576273
Those are called Point and Click Adventures

>>535570246
you can use pixelover for 2D rigs.

I played 9 kings to see what the popular games are doing, but I didn't realise it was such dopamineslop. There isn't any depth to your decision making at all. Which is the only thing you really need to have in an autobattler.

>>535570773
>OpenToonz for rigged 2D
doesnt matter if the only option is to export in a frame by frame spritesheet, defeats the whole point

>>535577348
Ok now play Darkest Dungeon and Slay the Spire

>>535576893
point and click can be a graphic adventure, it's a pretty wide umbrella term.
grim fandango and nancy drew are also under this umbrella.

>>535577635
I have already. I guess there's a good reason why slay the spire is where it is. As a game, it is infinitely better.

>>535577348
>but I didn't realise it was such dopamineslop
I wonder... are games like this popular because of shit like social media and tiktok. or are social media and tiktok popular because of games like this?

>>535568086
you people never fail to impress me with how ghetto the shit you listen to can be
hear, have some real good shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go99WqXWGgk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr9T-943BnE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CTEj4fbSbk