Thread 535605667

impossible edition

>Demo Days
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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
>>535474519

Total tranny death

>>535606036
s/anny/onny/g

>>535580557
good shit bro, sorry for doubting you.

what should i put on my second monitor as i dev today?
Ideally there would be a 3dio asmr video essay on a japan only released ps1 title and its development journey narrated by a mesugaki or mommy vtuber.

>>535606209
Would unironically play a game with right.

>>535606289
better yet, it would be framed as a POV roleplay of a situation where you are in this vtuber's room, and she's showing you her game, explaining its history and teasing you while at it with binaural whispers of words such as "procedural generation" or "emergent gameplay"

Anybody coping with AI Paranoia?

I have run out of easy stuff to do. I have to create visual designs and animations for weapons, enemies and the player character and start using all of the textures I made to make actual levels.

which devs do you hope to see this thread?
which devs do you hope do not post in this thread?

>>535596873
>Women are super fun.
Just have to reply to say this is the most incorrect statement I have ever heard from this general, women are the most disgusting repulsive creatures ever and are not "fun" in any capacity asides from the most shallow ones.

>>535606525
>Looks like a nodev to me
he also has a very familiar writing style

>>535607252
It's not necessarily an "incorrect" opinion. It's just an opinion held by low-IQ retards for whom women are of peer intelligence.

If I put a neurolink in my head will I suffer cyber psychosis???

should I start with a 2D game
or YOLO it and make a 3D game, complexity/scope be damned?

>>535607868
Make 3D Pong.

Reminder that r*nny is a massive schizophrenic and sociopath and at his worst he can go on for hours samefagging and arguing with himself. Do not interact

This Webcam Motion Capture stuff is driving me nuts. I got to take a break from it. If anyone else wants to take a shot at it that'd be awesome! It's running, but the bones aren't updating correctly and I'm not exactly sure why or how to fix it. I basically vibe coded myself into a corner. I think I have to read a bunch about mediapipe to understand why everything is so off.

The idea was just to drag and drop a rigify basic human armature into a scene and then record an animation with webcam so it'd look smoother than my own manual animations.

files.catbox.moe/t51ncx.py

>>535607868
do you know how to make 3d art including rigging/animation?
do you know how to make 2d art including animation?

check yes or no

>>535607868
You can start with 3d if that's your interest but do try to make something small first.

>>535606870
you just announced to the world that you're ngmi.

>>535608012
You joke, but now that I think about it, a 3D spin on a classic 2D arcade game could actually be kinda cool.
...Fuck it, might actually try that

>>535608025
Why are all namefags so strange? Weird behaviour from them. I see bokudev, rotate, and ronny. gogem is the only sane namefag (arguable but I digress)

>>535608407
I wasn't joking. I'm never joking when I tell anyone to make Pong.

>>535608410
in a thread like this, your game is your name
if you dont have a game, what do you do? thats what
now think of the kind of "person" who would hang out on a game development thread without a game theyre developing

What happened to fygoon btw? Did he finally fuck off?
Spent two weeks trying to hyperfocus on prototyping in unity and staying away from any community (including this one) so to only do prototyping

Ronny Redpill vs Fagoon

>>535608410
Everyone is strange in their own strange ways, namefags are simply the ones that put a label on their strangeness so you can easily identify them.

>>535608028
Were you that anon that asked me some threads ago what options there were for mocap and I replied with a bunch of options?

>>535606232
Thanks sis

>>535608410
Probably ADHD

I agree with the other anons. Do whatever interests you most. But if you choose 3D I think you should at least try a small 2D project or prototype first if you're starting from zero experience. I think understanding gravity, forces, acceleration, position, collision, sprites, textures ext in 2D (even just generally) can help from being overwhelmed with 3D.

how do i get good at character design

>>535608028
webcam motion capture will never work good enough for you to use. I've tried every algorithm and method, even bought myself multiple kinect models to see if that would remedy the issue. It's a meme, you'd have to buy rokoko gears or something for it to be actually usable.
Look into "RJ01418225" for more information regarding this.

>>535607801
>he also has a very familiar writing style
Like u mean he is someone else or we know his rl name or game? Is he cancellable too? I hate him

>>535608618
>if you dont have a game, what do you do? thats what
I don't have a singular identifiable game. I have dozens of abandoned prototypes...

>>535608720
Is that jason roher? Ronny is always bragging and simpin at him. Jason is that you?

>>535608618
kek. based and dev pilled.

>>535609121
>Is he cancellable too? I hate him
And you wonder why no one wants to share their game in this thread.

>>535609121
I always suspected he was Jason Roher or Jblow's alt. The way he talks and the things he saida reveals a high intellect and experience in gamedev. Too much for a normal schizo.

>>535608028
>>535609030
lol at that point why not just set up a mocap rig

>>535608618
Well, I am developing a game and will post it when the time is right, likely in time for demo day. I already posted before. I have no problem with namefags I just noticed the ones we have here tend to be strange, but maybe we all are.

>>535609468
Okay but can you please tell me how to identify his writing style so I can filter his alts or expose him on another place if I see him?

>>535608618
an amateur
we all have pong so what?

>I want to cancel this person I don't like
Okay, tranny

who is this faggot trying to make the most boring drama happen. post something interesting instead

>>535609786
Lurk MOAR

>>535609786
nta but that's going too far, relax he hasn't done anything wrong.

>>535609608
>Jonathan Blowjob
>High Intellect
Pick One.

>>535607836
No just regular delusions

>>535610098
Taking off your nametag fools no one pajeet.

>Bobby: in terms of videogame folklore you're up there with like Bethesda... you really are like Todd- what's his name?
>Eric: Todd Howard :)
>Bobby: Yeah you're really fucking important!

https://youtu.be/83DYlsJoaFk?t=3929&si=-Br4sJGFeOevNbFR

Do we agree?

>>535610160
It's possible to be very smart but also very wrong on a lot of things. It's like a computer with an incredible CPU and insane amounts of RAM, but polluted with tons of bad data.

Have a look at a dumb prototype I tried making
The idea was to make a "math game" with a roguelike elements
(Basically "Number"latro I guess)
The roguelike elements weren't implemented yet, just the "get the number for the respective shapes as close as possible to the target numbers" gameplay
I scrapped this prototype because it wasn't very good (it only just confused me when testing it out), therefore I am showing it here
https://files.catbox.moe/fmn6mx.mp4
>>535609186
Same...

>>535609003
i'd listen to a high-def binaural .flac audio recordings of VAs that reflect the characteristics of your design and stimulate my imagination, and get inspired through this process repeatedly

im such a big schizo like im at least 5 different people in this thread

>>535610715
you will never be me

>>535610425
How dare he

Fuck it.
Give me a random classic arcade game to try recreating in Unity in 3D. First reply with 0 as its last digit is what I'll try doing.

>>535610425
eric schizo, I'm starting to think you might have autism with how much you're stuck up on this video from 3 months ago

>>535610425
Is Bobby a gay guy? He has to be because he got molested by a guy with down syndrome every single day for an entire summer right? Which is crazy like you couldn't avoid him for god's sake?

>>535610425
if one person feels even 1/10th as good about my game as bobby lee does with stardew valley, I will be a success

>>535611016
game of life

>>535611119
that's... not a game

>>535610616
I think it's fine. /agdg/ has a bunch of kenyan helicopter devs who keep gluing more cardboard to their aircrafts thinking that'll make them eventually fly. Meanwhile, we make a prototype, immediately recognize that this shit ain't gonna fly, and scrap it before wasting too much time.

>>535611016
do donkey kong in honor of billy mitchell. KARL LOBST.

>>535611215
>GAME of life
proof is in the pudding bud.

>>535611097
What's wrong with asking a cuck a question for cucks?

>>535611016
space invaders

>>535608880
haha ya! thanks for that. from there I fell down a hole of media pipe and kalido kit links and figured I could make my own in blender somehow. but ya I should have just used rokoko in retrospec.

3d.kalidoface.com
mediapipe-studio.webapps.google.com

>>535609030
lol thanks! I actually really appreciate that. I feel like it should work, but its so janky even with a super basic armature.

>>535609630
haha man thats the thing! I don't actually care enough to buy a mocam suit or hand tracking stuff. but seeing my animations look so stiff makes me feel like its worth it to try something if it was simple. in game when two 3d characters are talking and nothing is moving except their arms or whatever something looks really off about that. the opposite also looks crazy. 3d animation is something I definitely took for granted having mixamo and free stuff like that.

>>535611016
Pong. Hard mode: the paddles are be carried by 3D anime girls which move it by walking back and forth

>>535611696
>the paddles are be carried by 3D anime girls which move it by walking back and forth
iykyk

>>535611097
Jon Blow is wrong in this video. He tries to claim that we have past examples of great artists and writers and scientists and so on who failed to be appreciated in their own lifetime. There has never been such an example. The world is perfectly just. Good things are always successful.

>>535611016
Donkey Kong

>>535611016
human centipede

>>535608025
Ronny still posts here? I thought he was dead desu

just realized snake is essentially tron light cycle but singleplayer

>>535612327
Anyone can put "Ronny" in the name field.

>>535610160
He's right thougheverbeit. The decay of the world and bad games are correlated.

>>535612453
Not anyone can mimic how much of a faggot Ronny was

>>535612121
I remember him saying the same exact thing when asked if he was bothered that people didn't "get/understand" the Witness.
It's a cope. "hey people don't care for the thing I made but when I die and have no way to attest my belief they will totally recognize me as the genius I am"

devs of /agdg/, what chair are you using while you dev?
please specify the chair, how comfortable it is, and if you are a nodev or a yesdev.

this is important, I have a theory that chair comfort directly correlates with gamedev success.

for example, simply imagining myself sitting on pic rel makes me want to work on my game. the chair also looks comfy.

>>535612235
What the fuck? I have never heard of this game in my life, but it looks great.

>>535612778
I'm using a cheap chinese office chair that will probably blow up and kill me one day before I release my game

>>535612721
The Witness is still remembered now so, he’s right. A lot of people got filtered by the non-story and the line puzzles. They even got filtered by ending.

>>535612778
office chair, comfy, yesdev
>>535612778
>the chair also looks comfy.
armrests are a nono

posted my autism in a wrong thread, damnit
anyways here's my today's dose of autism, I participated in autistic activity called gamedev

>>535612778
A real Eric fan would know he started in the worst possible work chair ever. Hope his back is doing okay

>>535612778
I'm a yesdev that has gone through several chair iterations. I'm currently using https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FDF6KNV7
I think back incline is a critical feature.

>>535613331
This is unironically a good texture style. I would play games that looked like this.

where is blud going??? will he get there???

>>535613918
funny drunken man simulator

>>535613332
>started development with the shittiest computer and setup possible circa 2011
>somehow made it
If this guy made it with those circumstances, anyone can

>>535613918
blud = me
the box = agdg

>>535611016 (me)
Nobody replied with a 0 so now I have to decide for myself
Fuck
I hate deciding on things

nobody plays video games anymore

>>535614140
But he is le nepobaby!1 his father was an astronaut and his mother an oil tycoon and he was the nephew of Xbox's CEO. He made a deal with the Israeli deepstate promising to promote gay marriage and in exchange they would get all the world's journalists to write articles shilling his game

>>535611016
Tetris in 3D, give it some sort of gambling element.

>>535614140
>shitty setup
just remove the plant, solved

New graffiti, grunge and plastic chairs on balconies.

>>535614601
I knew I should've become a drama youtuber back during covid. They don't have to play my game though, buying it is enough.

>>535614958
Tetris is already gambling. You can easily kill yourself while waiting for that I-block you desperately need.

>>535615237
wrong moron
look at any high level play

>>535614958
Wait, this is genius.

nobody likes me

>>535612453
wtf he's right

>>535615458
>High-level Tetris strategy focuses on building a stable, flat stack to maximize Tetris opportunities while minimizing the risk of topping out. Key strategies include planning ahead, creating "wells" for I-tetrominos, avoiding dependencies, and utilizing the "hold" piece effectively. Experienced players also employ techniques like "rolling" for faster piece placement and "T-Spins" for high scores.
Yeah, that sounds like gambling to me.

where can i get free .blend files? i'm trying to learn 3d and i'd like to see how other people do certain things (specifically, a fat ass)

>>535616684
>where can i get free .blend files?
there's a program called Blender which allows you to make them

>>535616684
have you tried google

>>535616684
You are supposed to use .fbx

>>535616809
>>535616863
>>535616889
can't you just answer the question?

>>535616684
https://www.blender.org/download/demo-files/

>>535616684
turbosquid, cgtrader, fab, sketchfab, poly.pizza

not all of them will be as .blend files, a lot are either fbx, gltf, glb, stl and whatever other files. iirc the only file type that blender has trouble importing are .max (3dsmax) and also ascii files from maya (blender uses binary)

>>535615162
This dude stole a whole ass block

>>535616959
yeah

>>535617027
>ascii files from maya (blender uses binary)
The fuck did maya mean by this?

>>535617027
>>535617007
alright thanks

>>535617119
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.

>>535617707
>literally no reason

>>535612798
there’s a movie based on the game. check it out “human centipede”

Why are you all talking about me!? :c

i just realized there's absolutely nothing preventing a dedicated autist from buying stardew keys en masse and dumping them here every christmas to create a false narrative of eric being /ourguy/
a few hundred bucks is nothing for someone that mentally ill

I saw a humongous oak tree on my incelwalk but I can’t post a picture because the file size is too large. Not sure what type of oak, I think black. There was a full size pickup truck parked next to it and the tree’s trunk was as wide as the back of the truck.
You should put big ass trees in your game if it doesn’t have them already.

>>535618507
but he does it for switch too

>>535618507
lets pester Thomas Brush to interview Eric and then ask him about it.
>So, Eric, a lot of game devs already know who you are, but the question that's on everyone's mind is do you or do you not go onto 4channel dot com every year around christmas and provide free keys to your fans?

really easy, but that mormon is probably too chicken to ask the questions that matter.

>>535618796
when I was a kid there was a huge walnut tree in my backyard, our house caught on fire but the tree survived, but parts facing towards the house got charred.

sometimes I go on google maps to check on it.

i really miss that tree.

>>535618507
Explain the images with hidden messages? Explain the secret video?

>>535618507
>he doesnt know that ericschizo is eric

this happened to my buddy eric

>>535618507
The exact same post and replies have been posted on agdg before

tfw you will never have a tree

>>535620053
time is a flat circle

>>535383214
https://xcancel.com/CyborgLavery
It's from this guy. Just like all the others I think he's missing the point. Bunch of 2d props in the skybox that you can't go to isn't what people wanted.

>>535620053
Time looping is a past time here since no one wants to post progress.

Good morning.
Time to make some progress.

>>535620334
>Bunch of 2d props in the skybox that you can't go to isn't what people wanted.
Wrong

Damn I can't believe I missed the mathlet thread ...

>>535615162
Don't fall into the 1:1 realism trap, you'll get stuck and waste so much time when you run into things that you can't find references for or are hard to model/ will require too many textures/physics bodies to make. I go back to look at the models in stalker and it's amazing how I never noticed how little sense they make or don't match any real things.

>>535613331
damn dude that's autistic

when will the hyper realistic AAA trend end? will it ever, if it's used to avoid current spec obsolescense?

>>535620334
to be fair, "people" didnt "want" anything
they were excited because they THOUGHT they had a slop machine so they can print shit and escape mumbai
never happening by the way

>>535621697
AAA game companies are paid by hardware companies to do it.

>>535620334
you all missed the point because nobody wanted that game in the gif to begin with, everybody was bullshitting and lying just to have something to discuss. it's called "socialization"

>>535621697
It ended like a decade ago, the top played games are cartoony, the entire arena shooter genre is cartoony, the only thing is that you need real gameplay if the hook of your game isn't hyper realism.

>>535621998
>he thinks socialization is about lying
I'm sorry you don't know real friends, anon.

>>535621697
There’s no reason for it to end. The vast majority of consumers expect better and better graphics with each subsequent game. This website (despite what /v/ seems to believe) does not represent the average consumer at all. The average consumer is a normie college student who players NBA 2K, FIFA, Warzone, etc.

reposting from last thread

i really need some good resources/examples on onboarding players, new players are leaving within 10 minutes and i can't figure out good ways of informing them how the game works without placing walls of text. i don't really play that many games and i have a hard time picking out specific things from a larger picture.

the game is a roleplay life simulator, i've posted it in here before. you start off in a room with a tutorial npc and that's basically it, a lot of people are too adhd to explore on their own so i need some kind of intuitive system to guide them that's not too forced.

i already have three quest npcs that are quite visible from the spawn area, but i don't think this is enough to get people hooked on the game. there are things like cooking, farming, cutting trees, mining ores, running businesses, etc.

>>535620428
feet...

>>535622148
you don't understand what I mean, whatever, I didn't find the right words to use.

I am almost 27 years old. I’ve never been on a date, I’ve never kissed a girl, and I’ve obviously never had sex. I’m starting to think focusing on making a video game shouldn’t be my top priority at the moment.

>>535622198
The average consumer is a millennial father in his 30-40s.

>>535622460
it isn't, blogging here is

>>535622203
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbzhHSexzpY

>>535622460
dont worry. you have that thought now, but things are better now than they will be in 10 years.

>>535622203
Ive seen you post but honestly I dont really know much about your game. All I can say is try and show the hooks early on to show that there's more to the game rather than a basic life sim.

also problem with a generalized life sim is that people might think everything in it is unfocused compared to a game thats just a farming sim or just a store keeping sim.

>>535620941
Yeah that's good advice. It does take a lot of time.
Before making any model I'm thoroughly planning it, so that I know it can be done with my resources in a reasonable amount of time. Here for example I'm skipping most of the shit on the balconies, as that would require way too many unique materials.

>>535602582
I'm not interested, the same way I wasn't interested in quantum mechanics. I fucking despise all that by-the-book math that's all just hashing out formulae and solutions and shit.

Solving math equations at any level is usually not really fun because you don't get any real output from it. You can't visualize it or contextualize it. A lot of what you get taught only starts to make sense later down the line, or when you do something like gamedev.
Then, when you have to calculate the area of an UI element of the volume of an odd or changing 3D object, you have an emergent problem that has gratification at the end of it.

So yeah. I have no opinion on the matter.

>>535622725
i'll have a look, thanks. interesting title.

>>535622851
it's a life sim/sandbox in many ways, but you're still limited by money progression. lots of stuff to play around with, including logic nodes like wiremod and an electricity system for all electronics. maybe it's too hard to explain for an outsider, it just has tons of stuff in it

>>535622460
>he thinks kissing a girl is the highest priority
the highest priority is probably actually to find a way to cope with the bleak reality of life. well maybe what you said is a valid cope.

>>535622203
Literally just give me goals.

>>535623394
do you just want an always active tooltip on the screen that shows you a goal to work towards?
it's not really a game like that in a sense considering you can do whatever you want so you're never strictly locked to one thing at once and it can't really know when you're doing that one thing

>>535623370
Love is the best cope of all

>>535623557
Yes, draw an arrow on the ground with a path too then give me a goal to pour coffee and mix concoctions to get fireworks. Give me a reward for pouring twenty cups too.

>>535621884
No, you're messing up basic vocabulary. You're thinking of the word "position", not "orientation". The word "orientation" describes a state of being rotated, whereas "rotation" describes a change in orientation. Think of it as position vs displacement. Orientation is to position as rotation is to displacement.

>>535623860
hmm i do have an arrow already for the navigation feature in quests.
for mixing things there could definitely be some preset things to work with, but it's just a very small part of the game as a whole

I’m literally the hardest working nigga here
day in day out the grind never stops

>>535625414
bro thinks he's him

>>535624901
I believe the word your looking for is equestrian. 3D equestrian.

>>535625414
bro thinks he's me

>>535625510
I am him

what if agdg just focused on jams and not dream games that are never finished

>>535622203
What is the actual game? What is the win condition and what is the loss condition? What are the challenges a player will face when attempting to meet the win condition and how can the player navigate around these challenges? What reason does anybody have to interact with the systems you created?

>>535625616
remember the last jam we had?
exactly

Hot take: Games don't have to have win conditions.

>>535625705
i'm not sure anyone has made a game like this before, a bit difficult to describe it. maybe i just have never heard of it.
it's an online roleplay experience with a lot of systems working together, and you mostly just try to earn more money to buy more stuff and furniture, finding more things.

the lose condition isn't that big at the moment, but it would probably be encountering other players who will rob you.

i'm not sure about challenges really, it's just doing things, like watering weed plants and setting up farms etc.

the reason would be to explore and see what there is in the game (and possibly find more efficient methods for doing things), for me personally that's enough of a reason but maybe not?

>>535625414
can you stop pretending to be me, thbanks

>>535626097
Games don't have to have developer specified win/lose conditions. Developers can simply let the player define them.

>>535626157
Lifesims are a thing thoughbeit. SDV had the community center has a huge thing to work towards.

people are probably going to hate my game

>>535625616
I'm making my dream game and you can't stop me

>>535626576
i mean i've heard of the term before, but not applied to the thing i've made
i don't know what that is.

>>535626157
so it's just a FiveM server?

>>535625750
actually no, I come here sporadically

>>535626694
i've never played those, but do they have temperature simulation, liquid mixing, food nutrition, electricity with cabling, logic automation, resource gathering, crafting?

>>535625552
kys nodev tourist

how acceptable is some rixel aliasing?

>>535626734
honestly this is going to sell a lot of copies. this looks like the sort of game that is going to be a huge Steam festival hit. it won't be long until /agdg/ claims boku as their own after shitting on him for literal years.

Just finished refactoring a few more large sections of my code base. Shit runs like a raped ape now. Replaced about 150 async object loads with a single data table lookup. Still working on the other 800 tiny shits that are using the object model instead of data table.
Progresso.

>>535626157
It sounds like you're giving the player too much to do right from the start. You should start the player somewhere small so they don't need to do much to have a big impact. Start them in a small house with a small garden, so they can only grow 4 plants or they can only do 1 thing in the house, their days are short before they have to go to sleep in the crappy bed that takes longer to get sleep in, all that shit. The player works on $1-9 dollars a day so if they plant a single plant and harvest it and get $10 that's big.

I'm avoiding saying "restrict the player's freedom", it's specifically that you don't overwhelm the player with everything.

>>535620334
looks really underwhelming in comparison
maybe because the pixelart isn't as good?

>>535626639
Tell me about your dream game, frogposter.
>>535626717
It was turbo-bad. I think like, 3? entries of shit.
>>535626895
Depends on your quality acceptance. No matter what you do, there's 15 fanatics out there to snipe the tiny details. Learn to love it. It means they care!

>>535627118
it makes sense and i've heard that advice before, still unsure how i'd implement it in a multiplayer environment where everyone has to exist on the same map, especially where they shouldn't be able to go in there and take things for free at any time

>>535626157
Have you heard of ECO? Cool game similar to what you mean.

>>535627503
sounds a tiny bit similar maybe, i really want my game to be able to have a fully run player economy, but that will take a lot of careful planning and a lot of placeholders if nobody is on

>>535626872
I don't think so, but do you have autism?

>>535627410
you might wanna look at roblox games, there's a ton of games like that

>>535627408
>It was turbo-bad. I think like, 3? entries of shit.
too bad, I think I'll look into joining open jams then

>>535626898
idk how to market a puzzle platformer tho

>>535627791
yes

>>535627813
i'd rather not play that game, especially with all the recent drama stuff, but maybe i can research on player feedback about games on there

>>535612631
Did I do a good job? Be honest.

maybe if he did more marketing it'd be pulling in more numbers?
but his demo was good
the art style is decent
and its a zelda esque title so...
man if hes got it rough maybe i should not bother with 3d and make a few 2d games first....
3d has just way too much work with creating, rigging, and animating models

>>535627408
>Tell me about your dream game
I'm making a Shining Force-like. It has the same positive vibe and low-stakes fights, but unlike the original Shining Force II you can customise the way your characters develops a bit more, for example, whenever someone learns a new spell, you can choose the spell yourself and not just get the next one in line. Non-casters get powers, too, roughly the same way casters get their spells. The characters you'll meet and have join your party are more fleshed out and you can talk to them, gradually revealing their backstories (if you like to).
It's more of a hobby project of mine and I'll give myself roughly until I retire to finish it. Which, if things go normally, still is 25 years away. I think that's doable.

>>535627950
up to you
I don't even play roblox I've just seen other people play it enough that I've seen various games where players all have their own houses and buy shit and it's all somehow multiplayer at the same time with people running around

>planning 25 years ahead for a game
I like him.

>>535627876
looks like shit

>>535611016
bump

>>535627086
I don't wanna leave this one un(You)'d but I have 0 idea what this game is about, and I've seen progress from it before. Really nice art, very atmospheric. The fire is lit unrealistically, the logs aren't being shaded like that fire is raging around it, they're shaded like there are only embers. Same for the tents and floors around it
Solution: change it to embers, add a faint red glow to the area

>>535629005
Anon, I've already given up, I'm now thinking of trying different types of games to prototype

>>535629226
Don't waste our time again we are protecting our energy from nodevs

>>535629527
I'm not a nodev though.
I'm a future yesdev, I just need to find that spark that'll push me towards yesdevdom.

>future yesdev
And I'm a future millionaire.

>>535629796
Eventually you will be.

>>535629226
don't give up
that's all i really have to say

It's never been more over. My PC died, and I can't fix it. I think the motherboard has some short that keeps frying any power supply I replace. What do I do? Do buy a new PC right now? Or do I wait until I after I ship my next game and buy one after as a reward for myself? I have a craptop that I can still dev on, but it's less than ideal.

>>535630050
What's your next game

>>535630194
I was prototyping on a voxel mining game before my PC died, but I was running into certain issues with it and was getting ready to give up on it anyways. For a short craptop-only project, I think I'll make a clone of Rusty's Retirement.

i shidded n pisseded myself. it smells like victory

>>535611016
centipede with this level of kino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h5yypRCrQQ

played vidya and listened to two podcasts. No progress yet. Time to dev

>>535613331
extreme low poly like the car looks so wrong in modern lighting and shading

>>535632208
I have a headache, can't dev like this

Remember bros, every line of code typed is one line closer to release

will other gamedevs be mad at me if my game turns out to be much better than their games?

>>535620538
Are you trying to say people wanted 2d props in skybox?

>>535621998
Something about the video hit hard for normies since it went so viral. Normies aren't thinking they can make games like that. They saw it and wanted to experience it as a game.

The wannabe game devs are who took it and went
>AKSHUALLY you can't make a game like that
>AKSHUALLY it would be a shit game since you walk in a straight line
and so on.

>>535621896
Yes the indians think AI will allow them to make things on par with the west it won't but that's different from what caused the virality imo.

>>535627192
Well he's using AI generated slop as the assets. No surprise it doesn't look good.

>>535632623
Some flopdevs might. Me? I'll be proud of you.

>>535632623
no, only nodevs will be mad.

Need money helpI'll do anything

>>535631202
i can’t lie that’s pretty fucking kino

>>535628067
I went 2d after trying to make 3d games for a long time. They're just too much work.

>>535633124
I'm itching to burn money, how good are your level design skills, i.e. 3d modelling. Post something

>>535633124
>I'll do anything
make a successful game

>want to but can't make a minecraftlike because there's nothing I can do to innovate or make it stand out
>same for pokemon
hmph

>>535633124
>I'll do anything
what about get a job?

Slowly figuring out a new AAA workflow, chuds.

>>535633171
I feel that. There’s so many random hidden challenges. Even lighting is hard. The more I flounder in 3D the more respect I have for quake era games.

>>535633665
Hi cris

>>535633565
You're in love with the idea of making those games and receiving the amount of money and popularity they got. You don't actually want to make them because as you say you have nothing to add. You simply wish you had been the one to make Minecraft instead of Notch.

Honestly if this is the extent of your gamedev dreams then you might want to reconsider where you stand with the whole thing. It sounds like you don't want to make games.

>>535633665
>not a sexy anime girl with big jugs
nice try not cris

I fell for the pic related mentality and lost 5 years of my life for nothing. Please don’t let it happen to you.

>>535627941
Copy the marketing from other successful puzzle platformers on steam... such as... such as... um...

>>535633894
Don't worry I already know my real life is over.

>>535633813
What?
I never said I'm in love with the idea of making money for those games, I genuinely love those games and just want to make my own (cause the new ones suck).
I think you're projecting a bit, anon.

>>535633676
>The more I flounder in 3D the more respect I have for quake era games.
Oh yes. Sort of related I used to hate the billboarded sprite style, especially when done with prerendering. Whenever I saw someone doing that in current year I was like why, just use 3d models since we have the compute to do that. But once I got deeper into trying to make 3d games I became to appreciate billboarded sprites. Producing the sprites takes some work but it does come with benefits that make things easier compared to true 3d games.

>>535633894
ha! those are rookie numbers! it’s been 10 years and i’m confident i’ll make it soon and my life can finally begin.

>>535633647
>>535633356
I'm too SCHIZOPHRENIC and nobody can tell how bad it hurts

>>535633565
>>want to but can't make a minecraftlike because there's nothing I can do to innovate or make it stand out
Hytale is an example of minecraftlike that stands out. Of course the project is dead now but it's definitely possible and there is a demand for a game like that.

>>535633960 (me)
Also I would like to add that the reason I want to still innovate and stand out is mainly for legal/safety reasons; the rabid fans of the newer, shittier versions/iterations of the things I loved will think everything too similar to their sacred cow is an attack on their favorite corporation and should be burned at the stake.
I don't want Nintendo to go after me for making a monster tamer rpg and for their fans to cheer on my potential death.

>>535633960
You're lying to yourself. You want to make them because they're popular. You wish you could have that popularity. It's a hard pill to swallow. Gamedev isn't for everyone.

>>535634335
Okay, whatever you say, anon, you keep telling yourself that.
Besides, the real reason I want to make games is so I can play my own games, not for "popularity" or "money"

>>535634243
It makes me dizzy to think about how much money Hypixel prints

>>535632323
take a nap, anon.

>>535634176
of course you ignore the game dev answer
get the fuck out of here if you are just gonna whine instead of making games

I'm convinced everyone trying to "demotivate" and convince people to quit gamedev are just jerkwads trying to gaslight potential competitors into throwing the towel
To these massive cunts, the less competition the better

>>535634729
You call those losers competition?

>>535633894
What's the alternative? Wageslave in a worsening job market?

>>535634850
Who are you calling "losers", in this scenario? The gaslighting demotivators?
If so, yes they are indeed losers.

>>535612778
Everything about how this guy presents himself is so calculated. It's really offputting.

>>535634243
of course there is demand for a game like minecraft. and that demand is met by minecraft. it's not a genre, it's just one game.

Don't throw that towel
You can still make it
As a wise hare once said,
"NEVER GIVE UP, TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS"

>>535634851
Assuming you’re asking seriously, the alternative is wageslaving while trying your best to live a fulfilling life outside of work. Don’t do what I and many others have done and turn game dev into your second full time job that consumes all of your free time. It’s not worth it. Spend time with your friends and family, meet new people, enjoy your life while you’re still young.

>>535633171
You need technical skills if you're going to make a game, if you have technical skills then you have the skills to make a 3D game. If you can't draw then you can't make a 2d game, period.

Unless you're going to steal clip art and make a game out of static sprites.

>>535634729
>I'm convinced everyone trying to "demotivate" and convince people to quit gamedev are just jerkwads trying to gaslight potential competitors into throwing the towel
It's a doggy dog world out there, and I am the fucking chinaman

>>535632612
Or one more line to have to review or fix or delete later.

>>535635243
thanks, fren. wagmi

>>535635898
That's still one line closer to release :)

>>535634729
Anyone capable enough to be my competition wouldn't be demotivated by my posts. Those that have it within themselves to make it will make it regardless of what anyone says on a Mongolian stir-fry discussion board.

Solo indie gamedev is one of the absolute hardest things you can be doing with your life. I've stated that fact numerous times, and no one has ever even attempted to dispute it.

If you want to make a living off of gamedev, most of you are much better off getting a real job. If you have some real skills, why not try finding a job in the gamedev industry? The problem is that many posters here do not have any real skills that could even land them a gamedev job.

>>535627086
Is this the 4 niggas in a row canyon game with the jelly enemies that suddenly switches to a different art style during combat?

>>535627086
>Shit runs like a raped ape now
what did he mean by this
looks good anon

>>535629203
Appreciate it. And I agree with the lighting, but I'm also not shooting for photo-realism, rather kind of a gen5.5 / 2000s pc kinda vibe (the project actually started as a 3DS game and was dropped).
Game is a semi-open world JRPG dungeon crawler (think Wizardry 1-4) where you play as monster races. Some light platforming, city-building, and army management thrown in for spice.
It's a spare time thing for me, and I've had to re-write the damn thing twice because Unreal is tricky. So progress is slow, but steady.

>a game that takes place in an alien civilization that revolves around learning the rules and language of said civilization, how their technology operates, and how to interact with it in order to solve puzzles and progress
Could this work? I mean truly alien, not just ayy lmao greys or Scorn’s “woah bro it’s like a machine but made of flesh”. I mean stuff that’s so far removed from what humans are familiar with that the answer can be right in front of you but it’s impossible to solve without learning how to operate it first.

>>535625616
It takes me a whole weekend just to implement pong without menus. You think I'd stand any chance against fullstack teams of 20 somethings?

Hmm. these sprites out of this asset pack look oddly familiar. Are they legally distinct enough?

im afriad other people will dislike me if my game becomes a success, this board included

>>535636114
Yes it is, but that's an old screenshot. Still have combat zone shit (no real escaping that with EO / Wizardry like), but the art styles are more congruent as development goes on. And there are 5 (FIVE) Niggas now.
>>535636231
https://www.yourdictionary.com/like-a-raped-ape
Means fast as fuck.

>>535636730
That's already my idea, buddy. Sorry, but you can't take my market. No, it won't be finished for ten more years because I have to study Latin, Stoney Nakoda, and Pitjantjatjara.

>>535637093
Let’s work together :)

made some good progress, but I'm not gonna show it

>>535622203
Maybe you need better aesthetics/writing/lore to make it feel like the world has interesting things to see

>>535636736
but you can solodev for a jam, I don't get your point

>>535636958
Success breeds jealousy.

>>535625616
Yeah ive been working too long without feedback but on the other hand im basically following an established formula

>>535637025
>but the art styles are more congruent as development goes on

It gets less and less interesting as your art style gets more congruent.

>>535637552
I’m success

>>535636736
All you have to do is make Pong again and again until you can speedrun it in an hour. Haven't you ever done LeetCode? Same thing.

>have a 92 page design document
>not even a prototype done yet
daydreaming is hard work...

>>535625616
Yeah I like masturbating in a circle too, that sounds like a good idea, anyone want to team up for this group masturbation session?

Ever had a bug so bad it broke the value proposition of your whole game. Just managed to finally fixed one of those, I feel sick.

>>535637727
Post design doc?

>>535637901
no

>>535634460
If that were true you'd be making them and not caring if they're pure clones or not.

Well fuck

>>535637941
>even xer design doc is only real in xer mind

>>535637901
its handwritten and scattered across 4 separate notebooks

I'm yiiking out!

>>535636730
These games are called Metroidbrainia.

>>535638032
Took you that long to come up with that flimsy response, huh?

>>535635214
I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Are you saying people wouldn't play a game like Hytale because minecraft exist?

>>535634729
I just wish the best for the people who aren't going to be making games and I hope they move elsewhere as they aren't contributing to the thread. The sooner they realize they won't be making games the better. We don't need any more nodev shitposters that turn into schizos.

>>535638076
I can wait.

>>535636958
The best thing you can do then is leave this place and never, NEVER make changes to your game because you think /agdg/ (or worse, /v/) will like you better for doing so. This website is full of angsty teenagers who think hating anything popular (read: whatever their classmates like) will make them seem intelligent. You could create the greatest game of all time and it would be despised for being “Reddit”.

>>535638234
Elevator pitch it

I don't know why, but suddenly I am in the mood to make a small horror game.

>>535638260
>They're a nodev and shouldn't make games, they just don't realize it yet! It's totally not because I want to gaslight and groom them into not being a yesdev!
Sounds like cope

My game has more than 3 groundbreaking innovations.

>>535638260
This guy gets it.

>>535638128
>nodev lives in the thread and can't even consider the possibility that others have shit to do like making games
It's time for you to leave.

>>535638119
I’ve heard that term before but I never really knew what it meant. Are there any Metroidbrainia games you know of that take place in a setting like I described? I’d like to play them if there are.

>>535638293
hotline miami but with tanks mixed with highfleet and war thunder/gunner heat pc

>>535638315
Same, my horror game will be a metaphor for autism instead a metaphor for depression which is overdone.

>>535638462
Yeah right, not buying it :)
I'm going to be a yesdev, and you'll probably seethe and your game will probably fail, and you probably deserve it for being a gaslighting cunt.

>>535637664
Could you expound on that a little? I always was of the opinion that field and battle graphics should be as close as possible, otherwise inviting disharmony and stopping suspension of disbelief? At least it does for me most times.

Or are you saying you're not a fan of the early 3D game aesthetic as a whole?

Appreciate your time and attention.

>had to travel to another state for a wedding for a couple days
was two days but felt like weeks. finally dev time

>>535638486
trash 2/10 this is an idea for a flash game on addictinggames.com not something that requires a 70,000 word design doc
Pack it in you're ngmi I'm sorry

>>535634649
I got money from my savings and I got a Baja blast zero sugar now I can think straight I'm gonna figure out a plan

>>535638386
You sound like a seething nodev who can't accept the truth.

>>535638583
I'm guessing I'll find you here the same time next year with nothing to show for it. Maybe then you'll be ready to accept that game dev isn't for you.

>>535638291
You know, you may be onto something

>>535638739
>Reee you're a nodev! I'm a yesdev! Just accept my headcanon about you!
Holy hell what seethe
*Yoda voice* Hmm hmm, struck a nerve, I must have
:)

>>535638462
Post the progress you made in that hour then? Shouldn’t be hard since you’re not a nodev right?

how to tell the difference between genuine hate/dislike and crabbing?

>>535638691
crab

>>535638992
Crabs don’t bring up specifics. Only generic responses.

>>535638470
There's a few notable language-learning games like Chants of Sennaar and Tunic.

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

IM A YESDEV STOP TALKING ABOUT ME AND COPYING MY IDEAS you're ALL GONNA SEE

I'll be Honest and True!

>>535639072
he's right thoughbeit

I'm going to make a game and there's nothing you can do about it.

>>535639318
keep posting here, pretty soon you'll lose all ambition

>>535638906
>post progress for (You) to attack
No thanks.

>>535639386
Got it, leaving /agdg/ for good will be the first step on my track towards success.
I suggest others who want to succeed do the same; this place may be a waste of time I think.

It'd be cute to make a game for these thing's specs

They can run a surprisingly good amount of modern 2D games

>>535639474
Are you that afraid of people thinking your progress may be shit?
Maybe (You)'re the one who should throw the towel

>>535639550
not sure which one it is, but I saw one that had a port of morrowind running on it. pretty cool

I think I could challenge myself to make a small horror game in my free time outside of my main project.
>>535639550
I'm thinking of getting something like that has PC porting support, mainly for work. I might try.

people don't like or my game
I should just stop posting it anywhere

>>535638593
This is better, gets my imagination working. Your last webm of some generic looking battlefield ruins was really turning me off.

>that field and battle graphics should be as close as possible

If you want a rigid world with hard limitations and for people to stop using their imagination. The early 3D FF games had completely different world and battle environments. EO changes environments and becomes partial cartoon during battles. The battle screen transition acts like a magic circle and actually helps people suspend disbelief because they are going from a world with one set of rules to a world with a different set of rules and the transition hides that.

>>535611016
Conway's Game of Life

>>535611016
Mappy.

>>535635254
I don't have friends or family, I don't know if you've noticed but people have become fucking awful. Full on neurotic headcases and all they want from me is to fullfil their own desires, they don't give a fuck about other people. I'm here because I AM making the most of whatever life this is, all other roads lead to being a tool for some one else, even women.

>>535635254
Fair enough but I can't agree. Life gets harder every year and I need something that gives me hope and some sense of control.
Gamedev fulfils all of this for me as well as being a great creative outlet.

>>535640495
I love game dev too anon.

>>535640092
I get what the cut of your jib is now. There's quite a few different dungeon environments with vastly different biomes (ties in to the story of the game), so I imagine for different players various ones will be hits and others misses. I do my best to turn the tropey stuff on its head when I can.

Thanks again for the reply!

>>535640941
Now this looks completely different again to everything else you've posted so far, are those normal mapped bricks?

Your art style is not consistent, I played EO untold and it had very consistent art, everything had that 2d watercolor sprite in 3D look.

>>535638291
>Indian twitter screencap

>>535641679
can't wait until the Great Western Firewall goes live

why won't he play my game

>>535642193
Indians are western

>>535642607
SARR

>>535642289
Literally me except looking at certain yesdevs here.

>>535642946
Have you tried asking?

>>535642946
Have you tried making your game appealing?
Have you tried making your game fun?
Have you tried making a game that people want to play?

>>535639681
>I think I could challenge myself to make a small horror game in my free time outside of my main project.
famous last words

Pong, but it's a horror game.

>>535642607
You have to be west of Constantinople to be western

>>535643151
I made 7 simple horror tracks recently, if I force everything with a small scope, I can do 30 minutes a day on something and it should look ok by a certain point.

>>535634729
Nah, it's just the common decency of trying to warn others not to make the same mistakes you did.

I'm a bitter failure who ruined my life trying to game dev and ignoring all the sensible advice that game dev was a waste of time. Now that I have personally experienced it, I understand and try to repeat that same advice. Game dev is a complete waste of time. You will not succeed. You will be a much happier and healthier person if you go do something actually productive with your life.

>>535643948
Oh so you're just projecting then, got it

>>535643525
it is when the ball gets really fast

>>535643948
Relax crab

the goalkeeper save functionality is working. There is a lot of work to make it more presentable but it is working and the goalkeeper continues play after saving the ball.
Next up is the goal routine.

>>535639550
I have a miyoo mini, was thinking of making a pico-8 game for it.

>>535643948
Can you post your game so we know you’re legit?

>>535637871
Yeah. I cut the feature(VR support). good riddance im

>>535643948
>if you go do something actually productive with your life.
such as? I'm too lazy to be a doctor

>>535643948
Go back to whatever failed normie shithole you crawled out of and go seek peoples approval there.

>hurr I wish I had spent my time Living My Best Life™, Travelling™, Meeting New People™, Improving Myself™

>>535636913
I don't recognize them

You know what sucks?
Figuring out a problem and then your brain just goes "Fuck it I'm done"

hobby...

>>535645541
I'm not familiar with this feeling. I feel so dumb most of the time so when I figure out a problem that has been vexing me I feel like a genius. I then bask under the radiance of my genius for an hour or two.

>>535644841
keep it up bro.

Me and my buddy loved blitzball. If a blitzball game came out we'd be all over it

>>535645541
I don't know this feeling either. I just keep going until something else attracts my attention.

>>535645794
*unless the issue was a typo. then I just laugh

>>535645774
one game man... that's me...

a game where I shidded on you niggas, hahahaha

>>535645774
Post 10 successful hobby dev games right now.

>>535643948
Who cares about being productive?

PWN'd

>>535646368
This. Whoever decided people are valued based on productivity lost his marbles. There's so much more to life than productivity.

>>535608649
The googem psyop has been resurrected
Operation fygoon has been decommissioned
And the ronny protocol has been reestablished and is now back in effect for your threadly displeasure
Fortunately, the discord containment is still in effect for the rotate specimen

>>535614140
It's a fucking 2D game, you don't need a fucking supercomputer to make one.

>>535646459
Cool, thanks now I can finally ask him for his autograph.

>>535645845
Thanks. Hopefully I won't dissapoint

>>535613332
Outside view for anyone whose curious.

>>535645794
I guess I'm just utterly exhausted

Remember to get a good night's sleep for work tomorrow bros

>>535647825
so much work for so little reward? buy yourself some nice headphones

>>535646459
I'm not a narc so I'll let it slide, but just be aware you are a naughty boy.

>>535647260
close! he's not on the ground floor in that pic. I know because I found the layout blueprints of the house online by requesting it from the city clerk.
the only windows in that house that would receive that level of outside light are on the second floor!

>>535648545
you're breaking two rules in your post. you gotta go back you fag

>>535649115
>see? nobody cares

Stop stalking me you freaks.

Sometimes when I'm developing a video game in the Gaydot game engine it shocks me how intelligent I am.

>>535607868
Prioritize whatever will get you in the groove of making games. If that requires 3D then do 3D

aggy bros... is he right? my "game" that is totally real and not made up won't have a map, markers or saves at all, how strewed am I?
Am I demanding too much from the player

>>535649882
>Sometimes when I'm developing a video game in the Gaydot game engine it shocks me how intelligent I am.
same, but only when watching the hit TV series Rick & Morty

see? I even used the amplestand; instead of writing the word and.

>>535649998
you are so strewed

Mort and Ricky is my favorite video game

>>535650179
I am skewed ...

I really, really like Richard & Mortimer.

>>535644946
>pico8
making pico 8 games is pretty fun. the limitations really help you get things done without being too picky and the tools are good for working in those limitations. since they added tabs I don’t actually use an external editor either.

Game Idea: "Our World Simulator", it looks similar to Space Station 13 and has simple core gameplay (just avatars moving around) but this is so it can be extremely massively multiplayer (100-500 people per round) but the core gameplay isn't why you play, it's because you can affect the world more than in any other game. The game replicates what's going on in our current world, a 2000x2000 tilemap of Earth like pic related, including the major governments. Like SS13 you spawn in with an available role, which could be US President, Police Officer, Illegal Mexican Gang Member, African Migrant Rapefugee, Jeet, Xi Jinping, etc, all the most notable things in our modern world. An African levels up by rape and murder and stealing for example. A core feature is controlling vast amounts of NPCs of your "kind" (jeet, mexican, etc) as their leader. So as an illegal Mexican you can also convince 20+ illegal mexican npcs to do what you want. Other players playing ICE would try to take you and your NPCs down. and it's just stuff like that across the entire world.

>>535650841
what the hell is blud yappin about

>>535650841
Then there are banks and if you choose "Jewish Banker" you will be one of the jews in charge of global banking and use your powers to start wars where you fund both sides and fund importing of migrants to destroy host countries, all while answering to Israel

okay get this right...
a turn-based auto battler.

>>535651068
I already made automon.

>>535650841
Boring, this would always result in the same thing -- every player trying to nuke Israel.

Check out this pic my girlfriend drew of my main character

God my shit is ugly
I still like it though

Of all men they are the most indefatigable, if it be some business that can hold or detain their mind.
-francis bacon on yesdevs

animation is hard, thank god i'm going retro/ps1 look so I have a reason for it to look stiff and shitty

>>535651531
cute!

>>535652264
uploaded the wrong thing, maybe I should change my naming convention

>>535635254
Do I really have to do all that? I'm comfy just sitting in my home and using the 'puter.

>>535652442
animation makes a lot more sense if you think of it as a bunch of rotation values, at least it does for me. doesn't make it much less time consuming, but the approach feels better.
Whenever I look at a reference, I'll think of the person as being rigged, and how the rotations are changing as they move

looks good btw

>>535652974
What do you use for your references, there some some kind of 'videos of people moving around' library? I'm mostly just doing it myself a bunch like it's some kind of tick until I get the general movement down

>>535652974
>animation makes a lot more sense if you think of it as a bunch of rotation values
That's sort of the FK approach. And the IK approach is thinking of each joint as something you can move in the space and considering how it affects the bones connected to it.

>>535652442
she looks like she fucks little boys

>>535653687
Um I don't know how to parse this feedback

>>535653450
just search youtube for reference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOV8yZyeZGc

>almost trips over own chair
kino reference

>>535652442
kino

>>535653956
What did they put in this mans drinking water

>>535654735
He went to the beach that makes you Colombian

>>535652442
she looks like she is built for ryona and graphic death sequences

>>535640941
Notch? Is this your new game?

>>535653956
Are you going to pull a sneaky and sue the devs who use your references for copyright infringement tho?

>>535655346
As long as she evokes something in you anon

>>535652442
will this semen demon be at the next demo day?

Added a rudimentary health system and a health bar.

>>535656145
rectangular bar? pfft uninspired.

>>535655847
Nope, there probably won't be a demo of my game for at least another year.

>>535655847
>>535655346
>>535653687
But I'll be sure to include some small goon material in the game just for all of you pervs

>>535656401
give her a huge throbbing penor or else I will leave bad review

I can't replicate the fucking bug.

>>535627086
Looks good but I'd add a slight increase/decrease loop to the light for more of a real fire vibe

>>535656339
all in good time, anon

>>535656564
Maybe someone will commission that for you. After all, you've only ever truly made it when your oc successfully adheres to rule 34

>>535656730
big fat stupid dummy. fix it instead of posting whatever that it.

new workflow and level unlocked.

chuds BTFO.

>>535657301
I need to be able to replicate it before trying to fix it otherwise I will never know if it's actually gone.

reading about godot animation trees

>>535656730
little girls shouldn't be saying those words

Should I release my next game as a separate game on Steam or should I just overwrite my old failure game already on Steam?

>>535657617
your brain is going to unlock a lot of possibilities when you figure this one out brodie stay strong I was just there

>>535658141
>or should I just overwrite my old failure game already on Steam?
I will report you to the proper authorities if you do this

>>535658540
If Valve can overwrite CS:GO with CS2, why can't I make a "2.0" update to a game that basically turns it into an entirely different game?

>>535639658
I'm not particularly interested in having a schizo obsess over my game because he didn't like something I said.

>>535657581
holy kino. i kneel

cris is the official king of /agdg/

>>535651531
>cucked by your own MC
uh-oh

>>535658851
You're allowed to do it. Off the top of my head Orion Dino Beat Down, War Z, and Dying Light all did it. I don't know if it will actually grant you any visibility though.

>>535648358
No

>>535662178
WELL FINE THEN BE LIKE THAT!

>>535657597
Schrodinger's bugs are the worst

Well anon, are (You) a run of the mill clone with no future?

>>535664774
I think they're being a little generous with that math to get to a million, but I think it'll hit a million with time. Good for them.

>>535664774
No one can explain what make StS good, and there are plenty of good deckbuilders like Monster Train, Balatro and Shogun Showdown.

>>535664774
my deckbuilder was made before sts came out, but I forgot to release it and become a millionaire.

>>535665450
Replace StS with Diablo and that nails 2 anon games. Or with DOOM which nails 3 games. Or whatever roguelike that anons are clearly LARPing as. The downfall of anon games makes perfect sense now.

>>535665781
Kalemonvo and who else? Marmoreal or Plunderground? Boomer shooters are too many to count.

i want to make like a superhero sim game. there are tons of games with superheroes, but very few where you can create your own. I think a game kind of like crusader kings(at least the roleplaying aspects) would be great

>>535666251
same except not crusader kings but more like morrowind

>>535666251
>>535666554
there are hundreds of roblox superhero sims just like that...

>>535666907
but why aren't there hundreds of non-roblox ones? open market

PWN'd

>>535666907

roblox is for pedos

If I have a boxed out 3D room I'm ready to start fleshing out, is it better to do the lighting before the assets, after the assets, or do you really just gotta iterate on both?

>>535607868
The choice you make right now will have heavy consequences 5-8 years later in your life.
t. asked the exact same thing in aggy 10 years ago

How would you deal with bootleg merch of your game?

>>535668110
it's free advertising.
don't pull a nintendo, and don't sperg over nothing

>>535668110
I want a slave made Emily sticker.

>>535668110
Those sprites were traced off of Harvest Moon sprites so...

>>535668476
I want a Emily maid slave sticker

>>535668110
bootleg merch of a bootleg game

>>535668796
Don't slave the Emily

>>535668110
The game is top-down but none of the character sprites are actually drawn top-down, they have front perspective. Except for the scarecrow, apples and the hat-guy which actually makes it more inconsistent and bigger of an art crime in my eyes.
I wouldn't have permitted myself this kind inconsistency and would have spent months correcting them, yet the game still sold millions.
Really makes me think.

>>535668110
Jas!

>>535669119
it's a video game moron
it doesn't have to be realistic

>>535669119
The game is not top-down, it uses a 45° perspective.

>>535669232
No one used the word realistic. Get back to /v/, adults are talking.

>>535669441
having correct perspective is realism dumbass

check out my realistic pixel art

>>535669370
I think you are confused, the 45° you're thinking of is what people refer to when using top-down today, something like Hotline Miami or the old GTA is called "true top down", old top-down or just "top perspective". When you say top-down nowadays most people think of stuff like Legend of Zelda sprites, which show the top of the head more but not completely.

>>535669574
If you photoshop a real car in a Van Gogh painting, is it "lack of realism" I'm complaining about when I say it's inconsistent? Go away kid, you don't even know what I'm discussing here. In fact I'm better off leaving myself instead of arguing with you since you clearly have the time to keep going for hours, but I don't.

>>535670190
you probably would cry at learning about cubism

>>535639550
Isn't there an app to run Linux based games on this?

>>535671086
It's probably a raspberry pi running Linux already

>>535670190
eric was so lazy, only spending 4 years at 12 hours a day making topdown art. witchbrook took the long hard route and will be rewarded for it.

all dimetric games would have looked better isometric

Turns out IME behaves differently for every language, in terms of the event data it produces in SDL. I think all of CJK are now working reasonably well, the same keystrokes as in Firefox or emacs will produce the same output. Even the candidates list is showing up somehow.

>>535671693
All isometric games would look better with oblique projection like ultima 7

in unity, i have a bunch of navmesh agents and when they are unable to path to a position they keep trying to reach it and just run into a wall because the target position is still part of the navmesh and they are able to make a partial path

i want them to deaggro off of the target if this happens, but if i have a check for their path state and deaggro if the path is partial then they stop following the target if they just go close to a wall. and i cant just remove the navmesh from that area because some agents will be able to be there if they get carried by the player

how do i fix this problem?

>>535674184
Realising that Unity's navmesh is useless is just a rite of passage for every dev. Enjoy the next 2-3 months of rolling your own solution it'll be grid based.

All the talented young developers are out there making games on roblox and fortnite because they give natural exposure to games on their platforms unlike steam. Only millennials and zillennials refuse to accept that the roblox model is the future of game development. The anon here making the S&box game has the right idea.

>>535674746
Loli devs on here wasting their time with cartoons when they could be grooming real children in public bathroom simulator 2 on Roblox

>>535674948
Kek

>>535674689
yeah i kinda assumed itd be useless so i tried making my own first but i couldnt figure out how to do it in a way that didnt ruin performance, i really dont have several months to figure it out either

>>535675021
>i really dont have several months to figure it out either
Damn... The diagnosis was that bad?

>>535675021
Protip: 90%+ of games don't need a navmesh for NPC pathing. Simple steering behaviors are more than enough.

In Godot 4 I am making a 3d doom clone.

One feature I am stuck on is switches and doors in the level.

What I seek to do is switches that lets you remotely open a door placed modularly in the 3d game level.

Building a switch is easy, a simply enter area and press action. Done.

Doors too are easy. Same as above or if a variable is changed: Open.

The real question is how do I make it so I can place Switch A, B or C. And connect them to Doors A, B and C as I please? For example Switch A opens Door A and C.

>>535675136
yes, it was actually that bad

>>535675197
i wanted to do something like a rts but with mazelike levels

turn based tower defense

>>535675358
In your door script, @export a variable to hold a reference to the switch, on ready connect the open and/or close function to the signal that fires whenever you press that switch

>>535675358
Is your question about how to do it at all, or are you struggling with a particular part of it like doing it across scenes?

>>535675358
>>535675752
export an array on your switch called connections
and when you activate the switch loop over the connections and call the activate function

Im an 2d artist but have no idea how to get into contact with devs. I hate being autist

>>535676029
Make a portfolio and then send it to reputable devs who you know or expect to be working on 2D projects

>>535676029
PYW

>making video games purely for money
Is there even more autistic activity

>>535675358
Add the switch and the door to a group called "doorA" and then when the switch is pressed do get_tree().get_nodes_in_group(group) by it's own group(s) , and then loop over all the nodes returned. If node is door: door.open()

>>535673845
Better times

>>535676213
Speedrunning

>>535676356
Don't add the switch. If anything make the group "switchA" and then have all the doors that need to open as part of that group. Then you iterate over the group, assume they're all doors, and open them all.
I mean, I don't agree with the group usage wholesale but I feel the need to weigh in on this for anyone else who might try to learn from it.

>>535676213
>it's wrong to want to get paid for doing what you love so that you can have more time to dedicate towards doing what you love
>you need to go slave away for Mr. Shekelberg and only make games in your free time
>or you need to mooch off your parents like a failed to launch manchild until you eventually kill them
Is there a more cucked mindset?

>>535676580
I didnt said its wrong I just said its autistic
Making a (complex, good looking) video game is so hard, unless you skip graphics somehow, that doing this and hoping for the money equals to pure autism

>>535676580
Reading is not your strong suit, is it?

I'm the only true solo developer.

>>535676709
The video game industry is larger than film and music combined. Tens of millions of people worldwide make a sustainable living doing gamedev. It's solo indie gamedev that's hard. Maybe try being less autistic and make a team?

>>535675752
>>535675791
>>535675861
>>535676356

These are all really good ideas. I look forward to trying them out later. Thank you everyone!

And yeah I always struggle how to do stuff across scenes.

>>535676880
Fair enough

>>535676961
>And yeah I always struggle how to do stuff across scenes.
I think that's common because the Godot learning materials are generally simple enough that you can get away with just having a variable pointing at another node. The reality is that beyond a point you can't get away with just that and either need to start using the scene tree (e.g. groups) or autoload-defined signals (e.g. the event bus pattern)
These def have their annoyances, though. Variables are better if you can get away with it

>>535676574
>I don't agree with the group usage wholesale but I feel the need to weigh in on this for anyone else who might try to learn from it.
Didn't ask.

>>535606209
>Not the WoW/Dota/Smtie ass art style that plagues fantasy for ages

>>535676961
>And yeah I always struggle how to do stuff across scenes.
@export your variables my godotard friend
and remember, anything you can set and do in the editor, you can also do in code

>>535671521
They're not raspi, they're Chinese arm SoC's from Rockchip or Allwinner, usually

Think the shittiest tablet processors you can imagine running Linux Retroarch instead

>>535652442
Made for black futas.

>>535643525
One of the brackets turns around and makes the ball deflect back at the viewer.

>>535677798
this product screwed up the trajectory of my life.

>>535677798
engine sissies, what do we think of this?

>>535677835
Nortubel dev...

I think it's time to dev now.

>>535677798
Fuck... 90s gamedevs, this is it, it's over. Klik&Play from Europress Software is going to take all our jobs.

>>535676838
What is your game?

>>535679450
fun fact. 'Baba is you' was made in the latest iteration of klik & play (now known as multimedia fusion)

>>535679674
*oh and more notably, Five Nights at Freddy's

>>535609003
Rip off European sci-fi comics

Porn game

>>535679825
careful, that's how you end up with concord

Added some visual feedback when breaking objects

Won a run in The Bazaar and got the 1 in 10000 drop of useless cosmetic currency. This dopamine will hopefully carry me through a day of development.

>>535679947
Concord just did it badly.
Give it to actual nerds with test.

>>535668110
Write a sappy post about how there's nothing I can do about it and that I don't mind fanmade merch but to make sure the merch you're buying is paying that money to artist who made the art for it.
This would get 10k likes and propel me to a status of a basedpilled indie dev and articles would be written about me.

>>535680008
Looks like you're fucking your way through the environment

>>535677798
I wish I had this back in the day when I was 10, it would be a dream came true

>>535642289
Who?

>>535677835
What does that even mean

>>535637727
What game?

>>535678343
nothing because it couldn't handle 3D games, enginedev ftw still

>>535670190
>>535669370
Fellow autismbro, I sincerely appreciate you being correct and showing the retards the correct terms. I wouldn't have done it any other way. Unfortunately your prayers fall on deaf ears and I suggest you stop throwing pearls before the swine because: no one cares lol.
People don't value correctness and formality, they use every single term incorrectly when they feel like it, they call every single game an RPG when it's not, and so on. It's not worth it. Just do it right and don't tell anyone that it's right.

What are the chances I get raped by Nintendo if I make a game that plays exactly like Animal Crossing Wild World/City Folk?

>>535681332
If it at all resembles the art style: very likely

what was Unity/Unreal of the 90s and early 2000s?

>>535681332
>if
Won't happen. You won't ever make the game.

>>535681583
idTech engines had a pretty large amount of titles, even HL1 was based on idTech in the end

>>535657581
>>535660146
>cris replying to himself once again
this is just pathetic

>>535681920
but there wasn't like for the people type engine like Unity?

>>535673934
that looks fucking hideous though

For a mobile game, if 10,000 people play my game for 10 minutes, and watch an interstitial ad every 30 seconds, that makes 200,000 impressions. Let's say interstitial ads make me 1$ per thousand impression. So it makes 200$ per day. And it makes 6,000$/month.
This seems a lot of money easily with small amount of player count. What am I missing here? Is it the 10 thousand player count playing the game regularly that is hard to reach?

>>535682068
>What am I missing here? Is it the 10 thousand player count playing the game regularly that is hard to reach?
yes

>>535682068
Try it and see. I would be surprised if you crack even 10 players unless you're willing to front an advertising budget

>>535682027
not really no

most engines back then were licensed from companies that had their in-house engines like epic, id or in some cases they were companies that only made the engine, like gamebryo

engines from that era weren't accessible to individuals unless it was some trash tier one

>>535682417
we truly live in golden times then

>>535682068
Good fucking luck getting to a daily playtime of 100000 minutes.

>>535682068
Over 10x more games release on mobile than on Steam. App stores don't have nearly as many organic discovery options as Steam. You'll pretty much need to rely on paid advertising to get any traction. Attrition will also be sky high, so you'll have to pay for advertising forever.

how many game release parties have you been to?

>>535682512
in terms of indie dev the golden age was like 2013-2017 that's when it was easy to release but the market hadn't been flooded with shit yet

with each year the market is flooded with more trash and it becomes harder and harder to get eyes on your game and we haven't even hit the true flood of vibe coded slop yet

>>535682602
Zero

>>535682665
but isn't it cool anyone can create a video game nowadays? yes all we get is trash, but at least people have the power to create, its not gatekeeped like back in the day

>>535682762
the gatekeeping is what made games successful retard
gamedev as a job is already dead because there's no discoverability

https://youtu.be/foLdvu_uX8s

Is your game bad?

>>535682878
>video games died
good.

>>535682571
>>535682527
>>535682360
I'm scared anons. I need some advice. I don't have a budget for advertisement. Can I just release it and see how it goes, and if it makes some money, then put it in advertisement? But I guess it's better if possible to be prepared from the start to try to raise player numbers from the very start.

>>535683090
look at this thread man, if it was so easy you think we all would be here?

people just want something easy to enjoy after a long day of work

>>535683090
no promotion = no players

show me a nigger that made a game engine with DirectX3 SDK, I'll wait (nowadays, not in the past)

my idea is fukcing too complicated for me to code, and even if i could im not even sure how its exactly supposed to work...

Is Fygoon here?

>>535682762
Gatekeeping is almost always a good thing. People had the power to create back then too - but they had to learn some discipline and make some sacrifices to actually produce something. Those experiences often resulted in better products. The removal of gatekeeping for any kind of product will ultimately only devalue that kind of product.

Fuck gatekeeping.
I'm glad anyone can Just Like Make Game.

>you're what? a game developer? more like a loser making electronic toys for other losers, faggot
Why women hate video games and video game devs?

>>535683765
they're right

>>535683801
women want to live, we should listen to them, they're right most of the time

>so you're making a lot of money making video games? thats so cool anon
they like video games developers but just the successful ones, others are losers

>>535683882
>>535683765
imagine you're a woman and your husband, the father of your children and protector of your family, spends his life making digital toys
just imagine that

>>535683761
That's the thing. Not everyone is actually capable of just like making a game. Too many retards don't even understand what a game is. They can only make a mockery of a game.

>>535682762
even with the tools available everyone isn't capable of making games and even if you can ship a game it doesn't mean that game needed to exist

you only need to look at the games released by the people in this thread to get the picture, like 90% of them didn't need to be released as they provide no value

>>535683123
You're right, but what creates much of the anxiety is the thought of "Am I doing all I can do or am I missing something?". Put money in advertisement, if it doesn't work, that's it.

>>535683317
I have no idea how to do that. Other than just make a post everywhere I can find on the internet, like reddit, forums etc.

Uncertainty is killing me.

>>535684056
yeah for sure bro

>>535683090
>>535683123
this thread is full of retards who think they can make it but in practice cannot

you just don't have what it takes

>>535684056
>>535683660
these anon's are right, people could make a game back then it wasn't that heavily gatekeeped, it was for the better

>>535684012
Why do incels always choose a woman they're incompatible with on so many levels in their fantasies?

>>535684097
It's not that complicated. You buy an ad. You pay tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars to popular youtubers to do a 30 second readout of your game like Raid: Shadow Legends or War Thunder does.

>but but I can't afford that
Then you shouldn't be making a mobile game, retard.

>>535684265
imagine if jon blow had a wife

if i'm the ceo of hasbro that's cool but if i make games that isn't cool

both make toys, it doesn't make sense

>>535684409
ceo doesn't do shit, he's just manging people

Is Fygoon here right now? I have a question for him.

>>535684409
Don't you understand?
Cartoon horses are the manliest thing ever

>>535684056
Everyone understands what a game is, even animals like cats and dogs. It's intrinsic to being a mammal.

>>535684515
Animals intrinsically know how to play games the same way they intrinsically know how to eat food, but that doesn't mean they intrinsically know how to cook a meal, and it definitely doesn't mean they intrinsically know how to open a commercially viable restaurant so that others can enjoy their cooking.

>>535684409
most women would be willing to ignore the infantile nature of your employment if you were making $20,000,000 a year
how many gamedevs make this much?
???
not only that, CEOs barely do any work, all they do is ensure their subordinate teams are being productive
gamedevs slave away at their computers 12 hours a day to make digital garbage that nobody wants to interact with
inb4 >my game only flopped because of marketing bro
your game flopped because it's useless garbage that nobody wants

i'll make that much give me another 6 months

>>535684731
>your game flopped because it's useless garbage that nobody wants
and nobody needs, video games are such a garbage product, nobody takes them serious, they only play games that are popular, so the key here is to make a game that is popular, not good, not pretty not even complex, it just have to be popular among people

>>535684463
Just say it.
Why would you want for someone, in an anonymous site, to ask something when you could just do it now?

>>535684683
A furry banging robots? The future really is here.

>>535684676
A restaurant is just one of the human ways to make food, not the only way to make food.
Animals make food on their own ways.
When a lioness kills a gazelle, it's preparing food for its cubs.
It's the same for games.

Hello! I have no progress to show because I've not felt like making it.
I might have cancer again and if I do it will 100% kill me. If I'm dying does anyone want to finish my game for me?? (Be warned, it is cursed and might kill you too)

i am a ceo
i am a writer
i am an artist
i am a director
i am a designer
i am a musician
i am a marketer
i am an animator
i am a programmer
i am a scrum master

everyone that works a normal job where they're being paid to do one thing is inferior

>>535684825
correct
hence northernlion making dogshit games popular because he spams them on youtube, giving them millions of views
while genuine works of art made with pure passion sit on steam with ~500 reviews, which sadly, most devs still consider a massive success
if video games were of any value, they wouldn't require such intense advertising campaigns
meanwhile literal dogshit slop like kingshot makes $30,000,000 a month because some chinese investors spend millions on advertising, optimizing for CTR and user retention along the way

have fun making your game
do not EVER be deluded into thinking you are doing ANYTHING of ANY substantial value, meaning, or purpose
at best, you are creating electronic toys for mentally-stunted adults
at worst, you are wasting your life to pollute the internet with horrendous garbage that absolutely nobody wants to interact with

be very careful with how you spend your time

>>535684731
if only I could choose a woman that's not like "most women" and pick one who likes toys herself
shame that those don't exist in my headcanon, grim

Imagine taking advice on how to spend your time from someone who posts in this general

>>535685138
/thread

>>535684926
Cubs beg their mother for food. Who is begging for your game? No one.

>>535684853
When will you grow up?

I feel bad for newfriends who'll believe this schizo ramble, or at least internalize a part of it

>>535685232
My future self.

>>535685297
point me to schizo ramble in this thread real quick?

>>535685356
>short form content
I shan't be clicking, refrain from posting nodev traps in the future.

>>535685356
is this pedo shit?

The zoomer mind cannot comprehend that people will buy and play video games for some reason other than their favorite eceleb telling them to, such as because video games are fun to play and that they enjoy having fun.

>>535685440
enjoy your 10 players and $200 total revenue

>>535685440
Zoomers think everything only exists for fandom, aka shallow socializing.

>guy who didn't produce anything good for years is doomposting and blaming the world instead of himself
heh
most of you still have a chance, just do your best and leave your comfort zone once in a while

>>535683417
Fygoon never existed
I made him up

>>535685530
>>535685440
They don't, though. At least not enough people do to justify the time cost of development, unless you're a nepobaby, or already retired. The consequences of this behavior are felt when you're 60 years old slaving away at a construction site with a slipped disc because you wasted the prime years of your life making cozy art instead of doing something productive.

https://youtu.be/aSugSGCC12I

>>535685742
Elaborate on "something productive"

>>535685742
tell'em anon, save some lives

>>535675358
Just make Doom wads

>>535685814
Creating value for the shareholders.

>>535611016
puyo puyo

>>535686020
Grass is greener situation, they'll replace you with a robot in few years time either way.

>>535685742
Is the implication of that thumbnail that we should be spending our time gooning instead

>>535683765
stop imagining women in your head

>>535686060
Winrar!

>>535686107
if women know you're posting here, its a romantic death sentence too

>>535607183
has toby fox ever acknowledged /agdg/?