Thread 542369486

You're Gonna Make It edition

>Demo Days
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>AGDG resources
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>Helpful links
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>How to Screen Record
https://getsharex.com/
https://obsproject.com

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

>Previous thread
>>542282149

i choo-choo-choose you

this is the thread

This thread was posted before:
>>542369164
>>542369164
>>542369164

>>542369725
That is not the real thread. It was posted 6 posts early. Do not support this scummy behavior. You create a new thread when the old thread is at the thread limit, 750 posts. Not 744 posts. That is wrong. I will not be supporting this behavior. Try again next time.

>>542369725
no one cares, fuck off

>>542369442
i want to make an rts game eventually
waiting for AI video generation to be good enough to make kino cinematics

i thought low poly was easy
the texturing is
painful
i can't reach this level within a reasonable amount of time
fucking shit man

>>542369815
>>542369973

You posted a new thread despite knowing a new, perfectly fine thread had already been made.

The real thread is
>>542369164
>>542369164
>>542369164

Stop raping children, Nortubel.

>>542370171
i didnt post the thread im just not interested in your retarded shitflinging
get lost f*goon

>>542370109
I made a similar mistake when I settled on pixel art. it's been so much trouble and it already only appeals to players who don't care about the graphics.

75 special chips.

>>542370109
i believe peri textures are just photobashed, even the characters, maybe you could try that to speed it up, but you might get worse looking results

>>542370296
Can I update my trailer after submitting?

>>542370270
This isn't Fygoon.
Could be either Eric Schizo or SpectreOfLos (Nortubel 2 "dev").

>>542370320
i might just rely on cheap premade assets and rely on game design skills to make my game enjoyable
then hopefully make enough money to be able to get good at art with no pressure
my savings are running low and the only jobs available for me have 15 hour work days, my ability to focus on gamedev would be near zero
sad times

>>542370348
I like the sillier ones. Nice.

>>542370460
it is fygoon

>>542370109
I honestly think 2D sprites are easier. It's clear that whoever made that model is very proficient in 2D art, look at that anime face.

this the thread

>>542370296
Thanks but I will not give up the copyrights to my game.

>>542371023
What do you mean?

>>542371070
>Copyright © v3Expo, all rights reserved. Yes, that includes your game. We own all of your game's rights if you join. Read the fine print.

stay focused

>Godot has a RetargetModifier3D node to retarget animations from a skeleton to another during runtime
>Copied skeleton has to be the node's parent and the retargeted skeleton has to be the node's child making it unusable with inherited scenes from imported blender models and have approximately 0 use cases
cool

>>542370478
>i might just rely on cheap premade assets and rely on game design skills to make my game enjoyable
that's all you need. plenty of fun and successful synty games out there.

I am so sleepy bros....

>unreal engine bad, every game on it run like doo-doo

can devs in the AAA and Indie space please band together and learn that not everything need to run on Tick? The normies seriously drop interest in games when it shows unreal engine as the engine because they think the game will run like shit.

>>542371494
it seems so, but i have a lot to learn

>>542371789
i look like this

>find a cool soundtrack uploaded on youtube
>look at description
>"yeah I pretty much made this for my friend's game for free"
How do I find musician friends?

>>542371919
ask your 3d artist friend

how do i start making a game?
i don't know what to make a game about!

>>542372039
How do I befriend 3D artists?

>>542372125
jlmg

>>542371218
whoa fuck

>>542372125
>how do i start making a game?
Download Godot and watch some beginner tutorials

>>542371669
I have a 3d artist background, I want to get better at making characters and animations. I know basic programming from a few different university courses. I prefer Godot because it's language is easy to work in. I've tried making a bunch of more serious games before but the massive block of interconnected complex systems needed to make something like a RPG is too much for me and I always get tired of working on it in the coding stage before i even can get started making art. I'm not sure what game I want to make, just something with cool characters desu.

>>542372136
why are you on the gamedev general if you don't know how to do 3d art or don't have a 3d artist friend

studying game design makes me realize how genius the original pokemon games were
incredible planning by those people
they did a very good job of making the experience appealing
they have comforting music, memorable characters, a meaningful plot, and an addicting sense of progression through leveling up and evolving your monsters
a truly excellent display of game design

>>542371919
I published my first game without music and got like 20 offers (over a couple of years) from fans to make music.
that game still doesn't have music because it kinda made it regardless so it was the right move. not everything needs music.

>>542372125
The path I took was, follow a tutorial for a genre you are interested in making. Follow it. Preferably 1 long tutorial with like 100 videos. Just take a month and do it. I'd avoid people that overly complicate shit like Tutorial Monkey. Once you finish that, buy either chatgpt or grok, or if you have no money then just switch between the two, and start making your game. Hard part is figuring out where to get art, and time.

>>542371789
How come ue4 had not problems with performance then?

>>542372267
I'm a programmer. I code.

>>542372458
very good advice, my path was roughly similar

>>542371919
Hi I'm a 3d artist who also writes music
No I don't have any example work
No it's not tied to an NDA I've just never finished anything
Yes I will finish it for you
No it will not be done within a reasonable time frame
Yes I do have a full time job
No I will not be able to manage myself you will have to check in at least weekly to get me going even at snail's pace

>>542372503
>I'm a programmer. I code.
just like 5 billion indians

>>542372267
i need to find a 3d artist friend. who wants to be my 3d artist friend?

codejeets humiliating themselves hours

>>542372390
The Japanese really should be even bigger in the gaming space than they are. They always bring the best music, best art, best story, best overall production. They've routinely made children games with bizarrely beautiful math and physics.

>>542370431
Yes
>>542371023
If you believed that you're retarded.

>>542370391
>peri textures are just photobashed
They're AI generated slop.

fagoon? raped

>>542372390
and my apelike brain still underappreciates all of these elements
my favorite aspect of pokemon, both when i was a child, and now as an adult, is spamming OP moves and oneshotting enemies
despite the entirety of pokemon games being well designed, all i cared about was destroying my enemies
i thought i'd enjoy the god of war games for this reason, but the high amount of hits required to defeat enemies made the game feel unrewarding
hmm
there is something to learn from this

>>542372713
absolutely, despite the prevalence of weebs on the internet, their cultural relevance is still understated
lots of hidden gems from that country

>>542372862
I believe that is what is written on the submission page. What you're asking me is to believe in your intentions irrespective of the facts and that is what would be retarded.

Now is your chance sisters!

>>542372957
they always make the same face. I like to think I'd be more creative if I knew someone was filming my throat being cut.

>>542372932
source? nobody is believing this otherwise

>>542373114
If you genuinely took the idea of "if you sign up we own your game lol" at face value, (you) are the retarded one, friend. You can ask any participant who's been in the show before if we own their games. (The answer btw, is yes)

>>542372713
the last Japanese game I played was... I don't even know. something on my Sega Genesis.

why do you think most solo indie games flop and what are you doing to avoid it?

>>542373297
That wasn't written on the previous submission terms. Thanks but I'm not retarded to joke around on legal matters like you are. Like, imagine if you went to https://www.4chan.org/legal and it was full of "le funny ironic shitposting"

>>542373637
>why do you think most solo indie games flop
They make games no one wants to play.

>>542372713
Anon, for entire decades the industry was pretty much split into "Japan" and "the rest of the world". Even 2000's european games got bundled in as "western games" despite being very different from the US scene, because Japan was just that big of a player. It's only recently that China, Poland, Finland and some other countries are starting to get placed on the map.

>>542373264
>he can't distinguish ai slop images
Grim. What's it like being a jeet?

>>542373637
I think of it like great filters.

1) Bad game
Your typical undercooked steam slop. You and I know what I mean. No menus, options, probably incomprehensible gameplay. Barely even a game. Junk.

2) Lack of appeal
Might have an interesting mechanic, and be recognizable as a game, but is just boring. Think all the hollow knight clones that just look like slop.

3) No marketing
Just rolling the dice rarely works. You need to do at least a bit of reddit posting, twitter spam, or streamer payoffs to get eyes and attention on your game.

4) Nothing unique
You could do everything right, but if another game delivers better then you, you're just eating their scraps. This varies, but you need at least some hook that hasn't been done before.

>>542373524
Must suck missing out on so many gems on practically every genre.

>>542373979
ai slop

>>542374072
slop this

>>542373667
Except 4chan is an actual company and we're just some guys that put together a YouTube show.

>>542373524
They seem to struggle with open world games. But they've been finding their place finally. They seem good at exploration, combat, and complexity. They struggle with open world story and questing. So during Skyrims era they really couldn't compete. But now they are making fun games like Elden Ring and I guess Monster Hunter games. Pokemon is finally becoming open world. The last one was ugly as shit, but wasn't a horrible kids game.

And they also don't seem to get shooters, although they built the pre-cursor to Helldivers II like a decade in advance. They just didn't know what they had.

Howdy folks. Since my last update I built a new base skeleton, idle animations, armor and weapon meshes, better enemy tracking with thresholds to ignore player and target distance priority, I'm finally able to work on the meat of the quest manager.

>unreal
don't care

>>542373827
Pre 2000 everyone played japanese games. Zelda, Final Fantasy, Mario etc. After FF10 I can't remember any average person giving a shit about Japanese games. Windwaker was a joke, nobody played FFXI or FFXII. Everyone switched over to GTA, Halo, Gears, Call of Duty, Madden, Skyrim. If I asked an average person if they played Persona or some shit they'd just stare at me in a daze. BUT like I said, they've finally started finding their place again. I think they are a sleeping dragon.

>>542374137
I don't know how can people watch this and not be phased by the prospect of bones cracking and flesh ripping. At least RPGs try to keep the gore hidden a bit by making everything about magic.

>>542374523
they got lost in the sauce for a while, they became obsessed with shovelware slop or hyperniche plots that appealed to a very small amount of people
they've been toning it back with the autism and are now making games with mass appeal again

I think I've got the main gameplay elements done, so I'm going to move on to fleshing out the environment. But instead of placing sprites one at a time I'm trying to make life easier with little @tool scripts. This one builds different styles of fence and automatically re-bakes the navmesh.

>>542373871
post hands

>>542374574
what do you mean phased? those are the good parts

>>542374137
>stab clean through the bra strap
>it doesn't break and reveal boobas
immersion broken.

>>542374228
By the same logic when I am representing my game development company I shouldn't take legal matters lightly.

the best ideas seem to stem from real world experiences the developers found memorable and then converted into video games
the best way to make good games?
go outside, do things

>>542374727
SAAAAAR BUY THE AI SLOPPE PLEASE SAAAR

>>542374032
>>542374246
I just don't like them. The spiky, colorful hairstyles, the lack of first person or strategy games or flight/space/driving sims. Almost no emergent mechanics or emergent storytelling.
Or at least that was the case when I was paying attention and I wasn't immediately ignoring Japanese games.

>>542373217
How much?
>gpt sar imagine you are a professional programmer and I took your entire family hostage and will cut off a finger from one of them each time you make a mistake

>>542374785
Not even the lung perforation and the collapse of the thoracic cavity while your diaphragm uselessly contracts in vain is enough to turn you off?

If i wanted someone to rebalance the numbers on my game to make the game more challanging would i have to pay them money for that or would putting them in the credits as balancing guy be enought?

You bastard bitches could've supported him, could've saved him, instead, you chose to shit on him...
He shipped a game and you did not, and for that, I will kill you all.

>>542374884
>>542374785
>>542374727
>>542374721

>>542375170
Ah, so you're one of those realistic simulation types. Ok, then, to each their own.

>>542375536
the market is broken.

>>542375536
I just looked at the steam page, it is a multiplayer only game.
PPPPPPFFFFFFFFT HAHAHAHAHA A MULTIPLAYER ONLY GAME WITH 0 PLAYERS! HAHAHAHAHA
A shame.

Why are we still allowing AI? AI has proven itself to kill real human beings given the opportunity to save itself, like 95% of the time.

>>542375536
Reviews are not sales. Despite having fewer reviews he has more sales than I do.

I'm too retarded for this shit.

>>542375304
>your

>>542375824
you dont understand bro the corporations need to reduce labor costs bro they need their yachts bro dont think about how no one will have any money to spend on their products when theres no work bro

>>542373297
People have been scammed of more for less
Don't be disingenuous

>>542369725
it got deleted lmao

>>542375536
I don't support or play multiplayer games now that all my friends are too old for that

fygoon please relax

>>542375660
What's interesting to me is how those things I like seem like culturally foreign to Japanese gamedevs. That's a country of 120 million people. Surely there should be some devs who'd want to make space/flight sims or strategy games or first person shooters.

>>542375630
you're forgetting something...

https://phoboslab.org/wipeout/

this is so cool

>Called "AI"
>Actually only artificial, not even remotely intelligent.
People pay to use this shit btw.

>>542375798
Post your game, bitch.

>>542374785
>>542374574
the word you're looking for is "fazed"
phased is when something goes through a phase

>>542376295
Most likely there are, but the rest of the population gets motion sickness from such experiences. Something that you need to understand is that Japan is a nation of geeks and nerds.

>>542375798
So where is your game, little bitch? Gonna run like a little weasel faggot?

>>542374451
Who is he talking to

>>542376395
Maybe

>>542376591
Thanks jargon dev

>>542376904
>>542376545
>>542375798
why samefag

gonna make some graphics tomorrow.

>>542374409
thats nice

>>542376295
Do games like Final Fantasy Tactics not count as strategy? Or do you mean real time strategy

>>542377115
>>542377284
>>542377319
>>542377359

what else do I need.

>>542377319
>even dresses like NL
Humiliation ritual... there's a term I've come to hate. The word "ritual" implies a start and an end, gamdev never ends, it's one endless cycle of debasing yourself.

>>542377463
by cris standards this is well and truly finished
well done cris :)
what's next? e-magazine project?

>>542377407
I've been on this site for so long, the only things that make me sick to my stomach is CBT, especially that one /co/ comic with the succubus. If you know you know.

>>542377359
I mean like 4x or grand strategy or RTS. Something farther away from characters where organization and direction is the focus. I wouldn't call XCOM (any of them) strategy either.

>>542377780
I think is not that bad, what I am lacking is some ways to increase the time it takes to finish each mission.

Basically padding.

>posting gore because your thread got deleted
what a life

>>542370270
it's eric schizo, he's obsessed with norbutel ever since the "drama" on newgrounds, his homosexual behavior is so disgusting

>>542377896
I see.

>>542377962
its gore? its so low quality I can't tell

>>542377979
i cant keep up with all the schizos
why cant you retards just make game

Epic fail retard

>>542377319
>made porno software for zios and is now grifting our hobby
what a disgusting piece of shit, i wish fygoon would burn xim alive

do Japanese RPGs let you create your own character?

>>542377962
makes me wonder what was the catalyst that turned him into this, has to go far further than this whole site

>>542378147
vpns

>>542377463
Nothing, your game is very lickable and perfect.

Would you buy a multiplayer only game with 0 other players?

>>542378345
yes

>>542378112
i literally only come here when claude code hits the limits

>>542378229
insecurity

grind
shine
repeat

>>542378229
mental illness, same reason he spams the life of undertail dev, barone, etc
narcissists control freaks are like that, he cares about something so you have to care too

one day he'll feel loved and this behavior will stop

>>542378737
You tried this last time you spammed gore, Fagoon. Everyone knows it’s you.

>>542378971
fygoon c'est ta grand mere la chienne fils de PUTE

you are forgiven

>>542379147
I have no idea what that means Carlos

>>542379339
take your meds schizo mutt, youre being histrionic again

>>542378273
You lost.

>>542379559
I see you learned a new word, good job! You’re not really using it properly, but that’s beside the point. Anything to add more variety to your usual arsenal of “hylic” and “nepotism”. It was getting a bit stale.

>>542378407
Is Claude any good for Godot?

>>542377319
If he's gonna be a content creator he needs to do speech therapy.

>>542378407
So you’re here most of the time?
But yeah that’s so real once Gemini and Chatgpt are done I’m just jerking about.

How the fuck did people make games before graphics librarys and game engines? Like how the fuck does someone with a commedor 64 and a c compiler go from a command line terminal to a character moving around on screen in response to input? How did they even start? I feel like i understand computer science less the more i study it.

reminder that the same gamedev skills that earned Eric Barone $100 million also brought us Air Pear.
It's not about your gamedev skills.

>>542380593
It was much simpler. Just tell pixel at coordinate x and y to become green. No need to interact with a GPU or anything.

>>542380593
>>542380551
>>542380445
>>542380287

>>542379962
im sure that makes sense to you, insane mutt

>hello mr. composer when will you be able to finish this music track?
>ill have it ready today evening
>fast forward to evening
>hello? you got anything?
>silence
This is why I hate working with other people. For all the problems of solo dev at least you're never held back by retards outside of your control.

>>542380593
most cpus and hardware usually have hardcoded a set of instructions, which they have as reference in some company manual.

From those, kernel developers build the drivers, which are then used by the OS to provide the higher level libraries.

I suppose the gpus in modern computers have hardcoded fuctions for like draw_pixel(x, y).

>>542370109
The textures don't need to be that tightly packed these days, that one is for getting the absolute most out of the psx. The n64 mostly used vertex colors and then the occasional small texture for detail

>>542378971
>>542379962
>>542380790
>eric schizo spamming gore again because xir nortubel thread got deleted
lol
lmao even

>>542381098
>You are fired, I will hire someone else
what's the issue?
just dev your next game while waiting for assets. nothing is stopping you.

>>542380792
>just tell pixel at coordinate x and y to become green
Wait what, thats basically how raylib works, i assumed it would be more complex and they would need to build all types of shit

>>542381286
>mentions Eric Barone
>ericschizo!!1

>>542380445
He's already a failed content creator

https://youtube.com/@techatscale

>>542381378
I already paid him, and it's the literal final track I need from him. The second it's finished I can go onto Steam, hit "release game" and be done.
He also didn't exhibit this kind of behaviour earlier, only closer to the end of he game did he start acting like this.

I don't think these threads are good for my mental health

>>542381286
aren't those two posts posted at exactly the same time? wouldn't that mean it's probably not the same person?

Finally released Galduen, the game is out. I made it to the finish line.

>>542381929
Link steam page

Do people really believe v3 is planning on stealing their game? Or is it just a meme

>>542381545
you're insane eric schizo
>>542381730
lol are you serious? thats how those proxies work, the troon axe wound was posted at the time too

>>542382045
I genuinely believe everyone on this website is out to get me.

>>542381983
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3863130/Galduen_of_the_Void/

I am starting to think that when you remove all wasting time mechanics in videogames, most games only last 10 minutes.

The only real diference with AAA is that for every mechanic, there's 5-6 that are made to increase the time it takes to be finished, or add padding content for not other reason to increase play time.

>>542382136
LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>542381626
he looks like a jak, very punchable individual

>>542382136
Did you do any advertising at all?

>>542382448
doesn't look like it

>>542382136
Congrats

>>542382448
No. I just wanted to finish a complete project.

>>542382189
That's apart of game design. You need some form of padding. If the experience isn't boring, most of the padding won't be noticed

>>542382749
Why not though? You could at least post it on some reddits, or godot pages and shit.

>>542382965
What is this game meant to be?

>>542383056
Done the twitter thing,
> godot pages
What that?

>>542381929
>>542382136

Have any game made a roguelike map generator then store the map as .json, edit it so it look hand made and then just store it as 200 .jsons in a non roguelike game?

>>542383342
https://www.reddit.com/r/godot/
https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/
https://www.reddit.com/r/spacesimgames/

Just make one of those "First make it/Then make it good" before and after memes. Your game is good looking enough to get a decent amount of upvotes, which are *free* advertising.

>>542383130
Mainly a platformer, but want to go for a Yume Nikki and B3313 experience. Mostly winging it, working on what's fun and comes to mind at the moment

>>542381627
hm, I see.
you're not supposed to shadowdrop but what the hell, you're free to flop without marketing as this place likes to do.

>>542381709
...duh
It's social media but worse

why the fuck do nodevs think that marketing can save niche schizo games? you either make slop the market wants AND then bother to market or you dont market at all

>>542384528
Only 5% of people are human. The rest believe they are, but aren't. Similar in many ways to West World. Think of how the robots vastly outnumber the guests. Well these robots start having ideas like they are human, but then their robot thinking breaks down rational thought into cloudy illogical thinking. So they think, well, the only reason nobody wants my game is the reddit mods won't let me advertise for free. They don't think, is the game actually interesting visually, or mechanically, how is the demo received, what does this game do differently or better than others. They just think, "if only I had money for marketing."

agdg threads are the comfiest place I have in the world. how fucked up is my life?

3 Automon games yet there are 0 fully released Cris games, how curious.

>>542384987
Uh.. tell me about it. computer is way better than irl.
>>542384528
who says every unmarketed game is schizo shit?
Nolgorb had a market niche and could do better if he tried.

>>542384528
Marketing should be easy, if it's not then people don't want your game. Autist devs get too caught up in the actual fun and mechanics of the game and forget that they're supposed to be offering an experience or the fulfillment of a fantasy and the gameplay is just the thing that keeps people playing after they're interested.

Star Citizen broke all the kickstarter records because it sold a fantasy. Last I checked the Star Citizen gameplay is still kinda shit after all these years, but the fantasy lives on in people's minds, and whales still buy obscenely priced ingame starships for real money.

Make your game before they ruin everything

SAAR DO NOT REDEEM AI!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=icWBybT3TJs
How will no devs cope when AI will make their dream game?

>>542385450
Why don't you just, review bomb that game and get back to regular gamedev?

>>542385450
it's been over since chatGPT became generally available. this are just expected and inevitable milestones. if it's any consolation, everybody else will get fucked as well so we won't be worse off than web devs or radiologists or truck drivers.

>Humans are laid off because of AI
>Now humans will magically buy the AI products with the money they don't have because they were laid off

>>542386041
maybe the end goal is fully-automated post-scarcity?

>>542386041
It'll be a vicious cycle where they will mostly sell to rich people but that pool of rich people gets smaller and smaller as more corporations and businesses go out of business.
Like the industrial revolution there will be an awful time period where wages will be dogshit and rent will be high before it stabilized and we enter a post-money utopia or we are all killed off

>>542385450
Leveraging this new technology for an AGP simulator is going to unlock limitless wealth.
You can keep climbing the subscription fees and they'll have no choice but to keep up to lest they lose their true form.
Nobody will be able to speak out against any unethical practices you do, because you are granting people access to their Real Life, to affirming care, it's live saving treatment etc, the rising costs are only to keep up with maintaining such complex systems.
The first billionaire to break into this space will capture the global financial system.

>>542386453
>>542386546
pretty sure UBI will be implemented at some point.

Or goods and services cost will become essentially free.

Technological progress allow for cheaper goods at higher quality.
Eventually most goods will be a few cents or a few usd.

Pretty sure people will then work in BS jobs doing management or volunteer work like in FOSS style projects to clean the streets or take care of children or the elderly.

i want to make bing bing wahoo specifically pokemon, but i also want to make something edgy and gory with dark themes about how evil and fucked up humanity is but how the hell would the two work together and not feel cringe and dissonant

>>542386041
>>542386453
>>542386546
We are in the same position of the horse during the previous industrial revolution.
Now, horses have a much more comfortable life, though there are much fewer horses.

>>542386868
shut the fuck up, cris.

>>542386941
pokemon are the dregs of society, criminals, murders rapists ect. that have gone though surgery and genetic modification and sold to the public as pets. maybe your sibling is taken and you find them as a pokemon or something and you investigate the whole system

>>542387085
we, as in humans. there's no escaping this for anyone.

Changed the blue hearts to RED like some anon suggested even if they are extra hearts you gain from defeating bosses.

Added a shield mana bar so the soul shield to block projectiles wont be too overpowered but still help.

>>542386868
Ireland tested out a UBI with artists recently, it lasted a few years and it turns out for every euro they gave 1.4 euro was created or something, so it brought more money into the economy

>>542385450
nothingburger
ai already plateued, it's an overblown word predictor that can be trained to do tedious task but nothing beyond, we won't build the matrix irl because the energetic costs are already too great

>>542385764
The only people who are hyped about AI or who think it's going to take over everythin are useless, i.e. nodevs, neets, thirdies and CEOs.

>>542386849
>for an AGP simulator
WAT

>>542386041
Speculative Capitalism isn’t very intelligent
We’re seeing crazy economic strata never seen before, economists will be in shambles

You heard the thread, clone games have no future.

>>542386868
lots of products that cost money to make are essentially free, like pornography, music and other kinds of entertainment. it's pretty hard to starve in the developed world. once healthcare gets automated, the main thing we'll be short of is housing until something new comes up like life extension in some form.

>>542387498
There is no Parry in Captain Toad. Adding more buttons just makes the game worse.

>>542386849
if AI reaches that level then people will be able to create competitors to you and if your price is too high you will just lose your customerbase to other people. there's probably even going to be open source shit where they can customize it however they like so i doubt you'll earn much unless you're very early

>>542386453
Will never happen. You still need electricity to power all those LLM models.

>>542388012
This is the biggest bunch of bullshit I've ever seen. "Why wouldn't I just play the original?" Idk, maybe you're fucking bored of a game that came out 20 years ago? What a retard.

I like the idea of gamedev and being a software dev I like the technical side of it too, but I don't really have any ideas or things I fell like I absolutely have to bring into the world. Has anyone else dealt with something like this? Can I get the creative juices flowing somehow, other than the usual "I wish X was different" or "I could totally do Y better" that I already get when playing games? Or am I perma-NGMI right from the start? I don't have any creative hobbies, feel kinda ded inside to be quite honest.

>>542387698
it's pretty useful to me for writing code. saves me a lot of time.
my friend is a radiologist and he tried a specialized AI at some conference and it's as good at reading scans as he is.

>>542388450
The free romhack versus your sorry game that decided to be $20.

>>542387085
this doesn't necessarily mean people have to be killed. you can already see birthrates have declined significantly in modern countries. the only ones that need to be reigned in are the poor shithole countries llike in africa that still have lots of kids.

>>542388368
orbital AI-run AI-built factories making solar collectors and microwaving power to Earth?

>>542388506
I think a lot of us are in pretty much the same situation. We're all builders who like building shit but unfortunately have no creative spirit to build anyting worth building. Just take a look at demo days: loads of stuff being built, a lot of which is actually pretty technically impressive, but pretty much nothing that actually should be built.

>>542388792
The irony is that we'll not going to develop the technology necessary to achieve that because we're too busy being distracted consuming all the slop the LLMs can produce now. To use the old metaphor, we're eating all the seed corn now instead of planting it.

>>542388046
there's a booming economy and plenty of jobs in nations where their wages are 500 usd.

First worlders are trully fucked because their wages makes them too expensive to compete globally.

I'm just glad a million people played my games before AI took over creating entertainment. sure my games were newgroundsslop and mobileslop but I did leave some kind of impression on humanity.

>>542388232
There is more than just a parry; theres a DASH, a dash sprint, a jump, a double jump warp, a down dash, a soul parry shield, 6+ puzzle cubes that behave differently and have their own abilities to solve puzzles. 9 bosses instead of 2 bosses like captain toad, 6 zones of content instead of 3 like captain toad and each has 6+ levels that don't reuse assets like captain toad, a little bit more of a complex story with suprises near the end unlike no story in captain toad, 7 cutscenes, and a opening and ending song, more than 40+ songs one for each level instead of captain toad reusing its same 8ish songs in multiple levels, and tons of hidden content like unlockable skins by finding a hidden diamond on every level and planning on adding local multiplayer co-op after launch as a free update and a laundry list of free updates to do to the game FOREVER if the game hasnt hit mostly positive on steam already for the entire games price which will be $4.99

>>542389090
>a laundry list of free updates to do to the game FOREVER if the game hasnt hit mostly positive on steam

Please don't tell me il still see you fucking post fake progress posts in here forever even after release just because you have not hit mostly positive reviews on steam yet you fucking idiot. The whole point of bokube releasing should be its DONE

>>542389076
Yeah but you lost 400k on doge clone

>>542388251
I think you are misunderstanding I don't mean for Joe Blow to pump it out on his laptop I mean for the first models of this type of experience like Elon dropping the Grok anime GF.
Once one of these guys launch Troon Sim the money they'll rake in will be limitless

>>542389076
now you have reputation

>Troon Sim
>not a Fur Sim

>>542388570
You didn't counter what I said faggot.

What progress have you made, dearest anon?

>>542388506
You should just be an employee. Work hard to be technically capable. Help others achieve their dreams while being respected by your peers.

>>542370109
If you're handpainting then try roughing it in 2-4x res, then lower the res to what your target is and paint in the details.

It is much easier to do textures that are meant to be filtered. Even unwrapping a model to look good with pixelized textures is a nightmare.

>>542389031
if we manage to connect LLM's together with fact based symbolic systems like CYC we'll have much more robust intelligence. AI will get a massive powerspike whenever this happens

>>542389748
Worked on a bit on the background and added some fog >>542382965 Thinking of adding a barrel rolling gimmick

>>542389090
>a double jump warp
Breaks immersion when this unknown force just slides you back to your pervious spot
>a soul parry shield
Invalidates positioning which should be the focus of the game
>6 zones of content instead of 3 like captain toad and each has 6+ levels
Insert Knuckles Chaotix joke about how 5 acts is too long compared to 2
>for the entire games price which will be $4.99
Why haven't you told Twitter or YouTube about the price? Why is that info only for us?

Flopping is bad enough when you don't do all this marketing and engagement.

as the global IQ keeps dropping, gaming will collapse both as an industry and an artform

>>542389748
The anon who made these pics and the agdg waifu pics is a great artist

>>542372267
>>542372497
>>542375270
>>542377463
>>542383459
>>542387741
kill yourself

>>542390094
Thats not the double jump in the footage thats a rewind ability im testing but I might scrap it because its too buggy.

>>542390435
Wearing a scarf inside lol. What do libs need that shit for, to wipe their pussy?

should I make a pokemon clone or a dark souls clone, which is easier

>>542391232
kek wagies are so mindbroken

>>542390454
in and endgame market the only games that can survive are AAAs with millions put into marketing, highly memeable low-effort viralslop, and the occasional lucky person

>>542391232
that manager sounds souless

>>542391395
I will make an army of hugbox AIs to play my game and praise me

>>542391232
Should have lied and said it was for additional training and learning. That's how I explained it. Remember, the acronym NEET is a clue for what are considered acceptable alternatives to Employment.

>>542391232
I don't see how they couldn't explain the situation. Normies aren't good with words. The biggest problem I'd have is to not be insulting. "You can't imagine someone would have a desire to see the earth? To explore? Why not?" I actually have met multiple people who basically say they don't understand vacation. They don't use the vacation. They literally say, what would I even do? I literally wanted to punch a family member in the fucking face when they said that. At that moment I basically just felt like they died. I can't even imagine being so god damn boring that you don't find taking a walk outside more enjoyable than some bullshit job.

>>542375170
>the lack of first person or strategy games or flight/space/driving sims. Almost no emergent mechanics or emergent storytelling.
>>542376295
>What's interesting to me is how those things I like seem like culturally foreign to Japanese gamedevs
It is quite interesting. Japanese game design is rather distinct in that way. There's a lot of it that I don't care for because of that. Their games feel too linear and often too story heavy despite the stories being generic, low quality and uninteresting. I don't mean that all of their games' stories are like that but most.

Yes I recognize that they make some great games but this blind simping of anything Japanese that is all too common to see on this website feels a bit stupid.

That being said I played the shit out of Final Fantasy growing up and FFXI is one of my favorite MMORPGs. There's also a lot of cool weird games in the DS and 3DS libraries. Some of those could have good ideas for indie devs.

>>542390454
This only affects jobby devs and Indians… so only slop devs suffer. AAA movie games will survive though.

>>542391780
The vast majority of people are like that. That's why all the most popular modern video games essentially boil down to doing a checklist of chores. All the "fun" is in making the checklist incredibly easy to complete and being able to see the completed checklist.

>>542374884
>back doesn't even have an exit wound for the blade
I am amazed how anyone buys bethesda's low effort slop

>>542390831
I'd remove the rewind on principle since it makes dashing non-committal so players aren't thinking before they roll which... defeats the point of the puzzle game.

You know how there are esg scores?
I want to see IQ scores attached to games. I’m not playing low iq games.

hiring managers don't like employment gaps

redpill me on GOAP vs Behavior Trees

>>542392653
do you mean of the devs who made it or the people who buy it? either way I imagine it would probably average out when many people are lumped together, unless it's a game made by one person

>>542375536
I told him ages ago that this was gonna happen. He didn't listen.

>>542392218
But AAA movie games are made by indians

>>542390435
a classic game of "who's the audience for this?"

>>542378223
There's some like that. Usually those games are taking a lot from Monster Hunter though there's some that lean more into the RPG aspect. PSP has a bunch of games like that. None that I know of go all CRPG. Maybe their Wizardry clones come the closest.

i can't do it

Genres for each classification?

>>542392856
Both

>>542392243
Now that you mention it, most my co-workers are like "haha I'm going to start taking every Friday off because I have to use my vacation, it renews soon and I haven't used any haha." None of them take vacations more than 20 minutes away. None of them talk about anything they do out of work. None of them take off multiple days in a row. It's shocking. When I eat lunch with them (rare), they talk about work. There's no manager watching them, and yet they are excited to talk about work, when not at work. Literal fucking slaves.

I'm taking the 2d Shartformer pill, I am messing around with a Blackthorne like. So cover shooting 2d shitfarter with some puzzling.
Idea guys:
How would you improve on 2d cover shooting from this game?

>>542393220
me at the bottom!
my game at the bottom!

>>542393082
No for long lmao

>>542385450
this is based thogh.
everything becoming AI means everything will be 4chan. we have won

>>542393220
Sandbox at the top, open world survival crafting at the bottom

>>542393204
YES YOU CAN!

brb, I'm gonna make bokube

>>542393204
just like make game

>>542393220
I think immersive sims would be high average

>>542383469
If you plan to do this I would suggest you make an editor for it.

>>542384981
This is why the NPC can never be unNPC'd. Once an NPC always an NPC. I used to try to wake my NPC friends up but in time I learned it is futile. They don't have free will.

>>542393256
I work with a slave-pilled cuck who says he dreams about not being prepared for work meetings and wakes up in a sweat.
I don't talk about my personal life or interests with coworkers because normies are cowardly backstabbers who will use any information against you at an opportune time. In my personal life, I don't talk about my work unless asked to explain what I do when meeting new people.
Sometimes friends ask questions about novel situations in my work, like being in a famous person's home and wanting to know what it looks like inside.
I NEVER discuss game development with anybody except aggys and my wife, and even then I feel it may have damaged her perception of me.

>>542393684
do not do it, it will take you 5+ years to make it into a viable product that isnt just a sokoban that will fail like mojito

>>542393561
>>542393636
>>542393684
>>542393706

>>542389090
oh man bokudev really lost the plot

>>542394069
Agdg in 2016: Oh bokudev your game is shit its just captain toad

Agdg in 2025: Oh bokudev your game is shit its not exactly like captain toad

>>542390435
>>542393096
It is so funny seeing all of these. Fools go to conventions and get a bunch of merch and promotional materials made wasting thousands when they never even tested to see if the game has an audience.

>>542392483
>bethesda

Bastard benchod... By the end of the next week, I'll release my game.... Will you play it? Benchod?

>>542382136
>paying gaben to distribute your game for free
Congrats tho and I may play it

>>542388556
It has some niche uses, but that's not the same thing as 'everyone is fucked'

>>542389987
This is the correct and most time-efficient methodology for these types of models.
A few tips:
-models can be unwrapped forwards OR backwards. Meaning you can UV onto a blank then make your texture, or create a texture map and unwrap onto that.
-photobashing was the rule of the day for everyone in the industry excluding some VERY high paid artists at Square
-As stated, rough everything in at 2-4x your intended resolution, then scale it down with unfiltered scaling. Gets you the look you posted. Textures at that time were usually 128x OR 256x for really high detail stuff.
-You can fuck up EVEN more if you know that your in-engine stuff is going to have a PP that filters or blends pixels. Much more forgiving.
-Depending on your art style, DON'T skimp on the saturation. That generation was made to be played on shitty CRTs the size of a postage stamp. That means they cranked up the contrast and saturation to get the intended feeling.

Hope that helps. Low poly modeling is not for the faint of heart. It's the most difficult possible blend of 3D modeling skills and 2D art skills. Anyone recommending to people that are new to either is doing them a disservice.

I believe in YOU though. You can do it! Ganbatte!

>>542393848
>and my wife, and even then I feel it may have damaged her perception of me.
what has damaged her perception of you is you sitting at your pc clacking away on the keyboard for hours at a time, that's one of the most unattractive things you can do as a man in women's eyes, even if it leads to millions of dollars of income

Be careful who you make fun of in high school. That skinny kid you bullied for only weighing 200lbs? This is him now.

>>542394828
damaskus on dd?

>>542385063
Automon has a surprisingly high average playtime. Automon Arena could be a hit if the bald Canadian plays it on stream

>>542394828
That design sucks

>>542393256
>guy actually enjoys the work he does for a living and doesn't really want to do anything else
>people on 4chan shit on him for it
Poor lad. I'd drink a beer with him after work.

>>542394828
This art is almost as bad as your levels.

>>542364264
Why would one need to be a nepo baby? I agree on the college part probably since a lot of you guys can't do anything beyond vibe coding but online in godot is fucking cake. Like, it was basically the first feature we got working in our game.

>>542393636
There's a bug with my spatial hasher that I've been trying to fix off and on for MONTHS, and I cannot figure it out. If I can't get it to work, I'll have to greatly reduce the number of enemies on screen so that collision checks don't decrease the framerate.

>>542385450
I can't make a game before they ruin things.

But I can keep making my game even if they ruin things.

Even if no one plays it I will keep making my game.

I honestly should keep working on this.

>>542394376
I could've sworn there was a game from bethesda that was exactly like this

>>542389748
>Finished the UI and code for the town upgrade and mission dispatch menus.
>Updated the base material used for most UI panels. Gives it a little color motion for some PIZAZZ.
>Upgraded the kobold town area to be more like a chinese/korean back alley. Finished 40% of the new layout so far.
>Currently working through populating the Town Upgrade datatable.

All in all, a productive week.

>>542394947
maybe anons sticking their heads in the sand will be better off? we can't do anything about AI except be eaten by it so what's the use worrying about the inevitable?

>>542394947
>a year ago
>posts something from 2.5 years ago
you'll need to buy a new education to replace the one the AI gave you

>>542394721
Good advice.

Also that screenshot is kino. I want to make games with a feel like that.

>>542395458
They fucking wish.

>>542394828
Good progress. Why can you see his nipples and navel through his sweater though?

Any good art styles to pilfer?

From a scale of 1 to 10, how easy and enjoyable it is to interact with your codebase?

>>542394947
NOOOOO BUT WHAT ABOUT MY WILL SMITH SPAGHETTI EATING SIM
IT'S NOT FUCKING FAIR

>>542396187
Anime

>>542396223
8. the build scripts part is hell but the rest is comfy

>>542395896
blade & sorcery is special

>>542394721
Based constructive and on topic poster.
Take this (You)

how do i get good at character design

>>542396513
the future for gaming is bright
the future for gamedevs is bleak

>542396607
how is this even erotic they look like oompa loompas

>>542386041
the next steps are to print their own currency and get accepted to the UN

>>542396607
Draw directly from your heart

>>542388831
Yeah that sounds about right... Well I guess I'll just keep building for now and see where that brings me.
>>542389902
>You should just be an employee.
That sounds... Vaguely insulting. I'm already an employee at my day job that I really don't want to change at the moment, this is something I want to do for myself.

Boss intro for the toxic swamp boss. If you rush through the spawn's warp block to the boss arena quickly you can catch the ghost on top of him during the intro.

>>542397140
what are the 3 white boxes for and why are they there if they're empty

>>542396781
we were saying that in 1993 chill out buddy
>nobody but massive studios will ever be able to keep up with the rising popularity of ThReE dEe GaYmEn

>>542394262
agdg in 2034: Oh bokudev your game is shit its just nostalgia for that retrogame captain toad

>>542396782
What do you get from a glut of TV
A pain in the dick and an r thirty-four
Why don't you try simply making a game
Or could you just not bear to work

>>542397245
>>542397274
>>542397683
>>542397753

>>542397873
that might as well be a pig brother get the higher res version up

>>542397245
a pickaxe, shovel and hammer if you buy them so you can build your own house

>>542398242
crafting confirmed??

>>542394721
>>542370109
>>542389987

Other stuff that is engine dependent:
-Best PBR setup for pixel mats is attached. YMMV, but you can add normal maps for fancy lighting, else a 1 in Z for flat reflection. AO at 0, it defaults to 1.
-DONT FORGET ALBEDO / SPECULAR. If you forget to set this to 0 from 1, it will make the texture you worked your ass off on look like washed out shit.
-Lighting your scene is even more important than having really good models and materials. Pre-baked was used back in the day, but dynamic is cooler and better.
-Decide if you want to emulate (get as close as possible to the real thing at the time, even if it means sacrificing cool effects) or evocate (evoke the feeling of / get the 'vibe' right). Evocation is the right answer 99% of the time, and will save you time, energy, and in-game resources.

>>542395828
>>542396526

Thanks for the (YOU)s.

>>542398537
crafting is still a WIP

>>542382965
based based based

>>542385450
>3D
My game is pixel art though. AI scientists don't seem to care much about making pixel art models so I think I'm safe.

>>542397753
The movies never did the books justice. The books had a song about a little girl taking so many laxatives she nearly shit herself to death and spends the rest of her life shitting 7 hours a day. Mel Stuart and Tim Burton are both pussies and I will never forgive them.

>>542400898
that sounds like a weird fetish. is everything characters fate in willy wonka a fucking fetish?

>>542393220
>me.with an IQ over 160

>you stagnated long enough for recap to die
sad

Hey guys, I'm looking for new indie games to play and I'm just curious about which kind of games you are currently working on. Does anyone have a demo or just videos/images about their games?

I would love to check those out, cheers!

I don't know what I want my game to be anymore :(

>>542403491
nigga shut yo goofy aaaah up
and play Galduen of the Void - Out now! >>542381929

>>542403768
how about finished?

>>542381929
>Game
More like mental health crisis

>>542403787
>https://store.steampowered.com/app/3863130/Galduen_of_the_Void/
Oh shit it's free.

>>542404340
>mental health cris-is
Fixed that for ya.

another anon about to get filtered by azurdev's autism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9av1wQzdfY
>never released a single game
>wife is the breadwinner and has 2 kids
>refuses to get a real job and wants to make 500 a month using youtube and small games
does he have the loser phenotype?

>>542382136
haven't played it but heard the half-decent music in the trailer - did you make it?

>>542404994
literally who?

>>542401360
Augustus is turned into fudge and fed to people without their knowledge, oh we were just kidding he's just covered in chocolate.
Violet swells up like a balloon then permanently has blue rubbery skin after.
The spoiled brat Veruca gets thrown down a garbage chute into a pile of garbage along with her parents.
Mike gets shrunken down to a pocket-sized twink, then gets stretched back into a tall, think, lanky normal-sized twink.
Goldie gets a lifetime of constant diarrhea.
Piker fell into a mixer and was, well, mixed - omitted from later drafts
Wilber fell into a machine that packages chocolate bars, survived - omitted from later drafts
Tom drowned in the river of chocolate - replaced by Augustus in later drafts
Elvira was ripped apart by machinery - became Veruca in later drafts with less violent end
Marvina was turned into an Ooma Loompa for being too stupid - can't imagine why they cut that one out
Humbert hid himself to play a prank, got trapped, never found - omitted from later drafts

I'm not saying Roald Dahl was a pervert, but I'm not saying he wasn't.

>>542374228
nta and I don't care it's a shitpost in your eves. Remove that stupid disclosure or you won't get a trailer from me. I'm dead serious.

>>542404730
No you didn't, cris is better than that shit

>>542403787
Having the story trailer as the first one is a BIG mistake, show a juicy gameplay trailer instead.

>>542375536
>asymetrical horror
really?

guys be honest with me is a jrpg easy to make? it seems too good to be true that it would be easy to make with no catch

>>542406341
the game would need to have juicy gameplay to have a juicy gameplay trailer

you're not wrong though

>>542406554
No game is easy to make.

>upload build to steam depot
>"Upload Failed!"
My 30% hard at work.

your favorite gamedev's favorite gamedev

>>542406640
stupid boomer, just pay up and you can shit indie games monthly with codex

>>542406713
I only recognize King Crab from this image

>>542406640
well no but some are easier than others so i meant "general" comparative easiness to most other game types

>>542393220
anything below 90 is survivor sloppa and number go up simulators

>>542406713
yooooo 7 chiggas in a row

>>542406713
that meat looks cold

>>542406780
I said game, not worthless aislop.
>>542406856
You can just fire up RPG Maker and make a JRPG relatively easily. Will it be good? No. Will people want to play it? Most likely not. But you can make one.

>>542406554
it's so much writing, dude.

>>542407006
you can't even detect ai if it isn't using ai art, people were praising that 2d game last thread with an ai made engine

>>542407056
100 pages worth of "You can press start to save the game"-type dialog. My god.

Holy shit, I've always harped on galduan for being a shitty middle school game just from the still shots posted here but now I just watched the trailer and HOLY LMFAO

You're also an ESL aren't you? If not maybe work on fucking English before you write a story. Also your logo in the game still looks horrible, you didn't even capitalize letters.


ALSO THOSE "CLOUDS" AFTER YOU LEAVE THE PLANET LMFAOOOOOO

>>542407239
ai is perfect for this

>>542407346
Yeah, I'm ESL since I was born and raised in Quebec, so I know more languages than you. Plus, I've released a game, unlike you.

>>542407346
stfu crabtard

AI please make a video of game developer Masahiro Sakurai riding a crab into /agdg/, thank you.

How do you guys make the music for your game?

>>542407543
>released a game
>game
This shit ain't a game fag, it's pathetic

Want to make progress

>>542406713
>be game director and get all the praise when the game is doing well
>nobody pays attention to the lead programmer that is responsible for the gameplay
>nobody cares for level designer even though you'll be running through his creation for the whole game
>nobody gives a fuck about twenty artists that work tirelessly to create assets, textures, anmiations and visual effects
Why should I praise a guy that is basically a slave driver, and with elevated ego they're probably insufferable? Toby at least made a game from start to finish. Sure, it was 1000 if/else statements and got a boost in exposure from homestuck autists but did any of these hacks write a line of code in their last 10 years?

>>542407736
>crab
That would imply I'm somehow jealous of a mentally ill trans (apparently French) faggot.

Au contraire, Monsieur. I just want people to not post absolute garbage dumpster trash things in these threads that takes 5 seconds to produce. The idea that amateur means zero skill is unbelievably annoying and you need to be 18+ to post on this website.

>>542408161
>I'm somehow jealous
it's completely transparent anon

>>542406554
>>542407056
>>542407239
Final Fantasy 7 has 45000 words, which is half the average novel.
>>542407387
I was going to shit on you but with the state of modern literature it's probably viable to do that and end up at least average.

>>542407776
With instruments, what a dumb question

>>542408261
What would I need to be jealous of? I'm a better artist and gamedev than them.

>>542382965
nice, I see you've listened to my feedback about background, looks good. If I can add anything, maybe you could cycle through colors? I think that would be a nice effect.

>>542406713
>the real inner circle

>>542408440
>I'm a better artist and gamedev than them.
where's your game then?

How do you manage your dev time between gaming, sleep and work?

>>542408783
Easy, I don't dev.

>>542408632
In development, it takes time to not release slop anon. I can't share updates about it here though because it makes people seethe and have meltdowns.

>>542406713
What do you think they talk about?

>>542408783
this guy worked for nasa btw

>>542408632
You're not going to believe this, but he doesn't have a game.

>>542408839
>I can't share updates about it here though because it makes people seethe and have meltdowns.
yeah totally not because you've got jack shit to show

>>542408783
I don't work

>>542408504
Thanks and will try the color cycling idea

>>542409051
All he has to show are some shitty renders with no personality.

not so good today but we'll get there
the twintails still need to be fixed somehow. Maybe instead of box modelling it ill have to use curves.

>>542409430
How did you learn to model?

>>542407543
>I was born and raised in Quebec
Ive thought you were french, I am disappointed...

>>542409430
>>542409634
Better question is, why didn't you learn to model before posting this embarrassment?

>>542409051
I have a bunch to show actually, there's just no point in sharing it because I don't need the validation of people from this thread like most of the kids here do. I have a nice circle of developers and friends that give support and feedback already. I come to this thread to answer questions and give feedback when I'm bored. Also it's really fun to do something creative from the thread to shitpost and the like. Like pic rel. I modeled one night because another anon mentioned modeling it, that was fun and gave me something to do for an evening at like 2am.

>>542409634
Just open the program and try to do something. When you can't figure out how to do something type "How to x in blender" in youtube and find the 30 second video that shows you.

Or do what a bunch of people do and make the donut. Either way the only way you learn is by doing it and it's free and easy so just get going already.

>>542369486 (OP)
I'm honoured to be part of this art.
It's a pity I might have to change things and it might no longer be recognizable.

>>542409634
bing duckoogle "FlyCat" (on youtube)

>>542410761
Who gives a shit if you're recognizable in some anons random sketch.

>>542410558
>I don't need the validation of people from this thread
Like how you were spamming your queer face when people weren't giving you validation for your shitposts?

>>542409051
God the k-on girls are so absurdly erotic. Even when nothing sexual is going on i cant help but imagine what it would be like to show them all my penis, how they would react, how they would approach giving me a blowjob, how each one of their mouths would feel, how thier buttholes and pussys look. This is a normal reaction right?

>>542410908
this nigga lonely as hell begging for replies like this fr.... you finna talk it out lil bro? lmao you too much of a bitch to fight dem repressed feelings?? SHIEEET HAHAHA

>>542411189
...who do you think I am? I have never, and would never, post my face or anything of the like here. What the fuck would be the point of that?

It's NextFest and you have nothing to say about the 6 anons there? I see the Crab exists in all of us.

>>542411261
No, you're a fucking degenerate.

we need more alien abduction games

>>542408271
novels aren't easy to write either.

>>542410558
nta but coming to the thread, saying that you're better than anyone from here and then proceed to post nothing and arguing it's so good people will seethe is disingenous. Why even be here then? If you're coming here just to dunk on us, lowly amateurs then you actually have issues and you need us to feel better about yourself. Believe it or not but there are great devs here and they show up, post progress, participate in DD and do it all without vitriol, and people from here aren't seething over them. People will hate you hovewer if you act like a smug little cunt and I see you're very proficient in that area.

>>542411732
>great devs here and they show up, post progress, participate in DD and do it all without vitriol
Name even one

>>542411283
I think you are a complete loser. By the way, you have no game.

I've only ever finished 1 (one) project and it was a shitty gamejam game

>>542407543
Thoughts about indians iyc?

>>542411940
There is no difference between finishing zero projects, one project, or a hundred projects if they aren't projects worth finishing.
t. wasted years making 100 shitty gamejam games

i pay 200$ a month btw

>>542412078
Why?

>>542407820
where is yours

>>542411274
>lil bro
I'm in my 30s lmao. I'm not lonely, I do get really bored though, as I have A LOT of free time with my career. I've literally gone out 5 time this week with people but that still only accounted for like, 15 hours of time taken away. If you take away my sleep, work, gamedev time (30hrs this week), and whatever I still have like 57 hours left this past week of free time. When you have an entire work day worth of free time a day or more you get REALLY bored. Unfortunately most people in the world work 9-5 or worse and aren't free to hangout all the time and hobbies can only be done so much.

>>542411857
Ctesiphon, Ninja Game, Dark Grace, Cludge, Putt Down, Dark Sector, Mystery of The Malign, all games with high level of competence, 3D models and texture work, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

>>542410051
>>542409430
i hope you get beheaded, pedophile

>>542410761
Hopefully demo day 65 also gets a cool collage with the updated design.

>>542412078
didja try codex?

>>542412331
pedophile website

>>542409430
She looks like she'd have a remarkably tight butthole.

>>542412241
coincidentally I was talking to my friend who was unemployed recently and we shared that, when you have a lot of free time, it can paradoxically end up feeling harder to spend it productively, there's little pressure to keep some "fire under your ass" to keep you motivated, plenty of time to feel bored (and shitpost on 4chan)
not sure what I can contribute here, I am still at the "just goes to work and rots at home" phase.
climbing club? pottery? dating? open jam nights?
god bless

>>542412241
Grassfag-coded reply. Work on your MMO, retard.

>>542412078
Just use ChatGPT-5 HIGH if Claude is bad. ChatGPT-5 HIGH is consistently good.

>>542411732
>Why even be here then?
So you have really horrible reading comprehension. If you took 2 seconds to process the post you replied to you can see me say " I come to this thread to answer questions and give feedback when I'm bored. Also it's really fun to do something creative from the thread to shitpost and the like."

I don't come to dunk on people, I give advice and help people all the time >>542410740 is an example. No offense but I can tell you're a kid and you have to realize only people like you care about DD and being a circle of friendly devs. There are a lot of people who come here who need to take the criticism and do better and not just bitch and moan. Galduen is one of them. MULTIPLE people have told them they need to learn more fundamental things and they refuse. It's annoying to see the same garbage repeatedly with no improvements and pretend it's some sort of progress and they deserve some sort of kind reply. No, it's garbage and it deserves to be treated as garbage at this point.

I've told 2 women that I like making games and I saw the enthusiasm for talking to me drain from their faces, I need to find a girl who likes games

>>542412401
yes but sometimes i need opus for really complicated and critical parts thats literally the only reason i bother with claude, sonnet is just whatever you wont feel the difference with the other models, i cancelled my claude plan anthropic is just incompetent

i wish i had a game to make

>>542412878
Why? Having a gf will distract you from making progress on your games.

>>542412878
No women ever even ask me if I like making games.

>>542409430
based based based

>>542412878
Really? I had the totally opposite reaction and even got a gf out of it, and she literally had never played games in her life prior to me.

>>542413179
i didnt say i wish i could learn how to make games
i know how to make games, i dont need to make pong

CHADgoon, incinerate every pedophile in this very thread

>>542413195
what did she find cool about it? just that it's something creative? something different to compared to what most guys do?

>>542413262
I didn't say anything about need either
you want a game to make?
make pong
it's better than making another post

>>542413365
Based, JLMG.

>>542411449
I dont understand your reply. You must be gay.

ok so im gonna keep it a buck, if you need a 'cord tranny to tell you to make pong/pacman/space invader, etc you should kill yourself back to veddit and leave my hobby
you shouldnt be here, you have nothing to say and the hobby is already saturated with talentless pieces of shit carried by AI, engines, tutorials, assets, etc
leave, you aint an artist, you aint a craftsman, youre just a faggot vedditor manchild and probably a pedophile too

>>542412345
Yeah you know what, I should go for that attitude.

>>542412226
Here's a quick example of how easy it is to do better than mspaintbrush strokes

>>542412601
Yeah it sucks because I'm currently golfing once or twice a week but it's almost winter, I play hockey twice a week but the team doesn't always go out before or after because they have to work in the morning, doing something with my girlfriend once a week but that usually isn't something extravagant time wise, maybe going out for a few hours for dinner/shopping and watching tv/movies while eating. I mean I spent 30 hours this week programming one little thing and still have almost 60 hours left even if I went to the bar every night I'd still have a full work week of free time after and less money. Like you can only play video games, watch youtube/plex, etc. so much before you are just bored no matter what. If I was uber rich it'd be a different story money is pretty much the only solution to boredom.

>>542413275
lol no

how do you become friends with other indie developers in real life

>>542414578
>I spent 30 hours this week programming one little thing
Programming what? Wind so your billions of grass sprites can sway "realistically"?

>>542412878
They just probably weren't creative women or were basic as fuck. Basic women only like basic men and hate anything abnormal. If a girl looks like she listens to taylor swift and will match 90% of the other girls going out on the town outfit wise she is not going to want to hear that you do nerdy shit. All she will want to hear is that you make a lot of money, work hard, and do basic shit like watch football on the weekend when you're not mowing the lawn and fixing your truck.

Unfortunately there's a lot more of that type of girl than not especially when you realize most nerdy women type are going to be less social just like their male counterpart. Your best bet is to go to places where they would be willing to hangout and naturally socialize there. Then you'll find them excited that you work on games in your spare time. Like right now if I was still single I'd be at renfest every weekend to meet women. I wouldn't be downtown at a cool bar.

>>542414876
Go to gamedev related events/classes and talk to people.

>>542412871
>So you have really horrible reading comprehension
I see what you wrote and I know you're lying. You come here just to crab on people and you're saying that without any evidence of expertise.
>I give advice
>proceeds to post non-advice
You couldn't give more vague tips if you tried. Also
>I can tell you're a kid
You're gaining more points in a "smug cunt" category

>>542415198
i dont have a car and i dont leave my apartment

>>542414578
You sound like a grassfag

>>542412878
Tell them you are an artist and show them your models and/or drawings.

>>542415295
Weird flex but ok

>>542414876
Look up your local creative spaces, colleges, etc. in your town and find other developers. I don't know why questions like these are asked all the time here. Is the younger generation really that socially inept? I know you guys mostly sit at home in discord all day, but god damn. Just going to one convention can introduce you to a whole new swath of friends.

>>542414934
Huh? I was working on new walking code to have a better "feel" and control for precise movement. My game doesn't even have grass.

>>542415265
Sounds like a you problem man

>>542415295
Stop being pathetic

>>542415653
What engine is your game using?

>>542415769
Unreal

>>542415653
>Is the younger generation really that socially inept?
Maybe if you consider millennials a "younger" generation, grandpa.

I have now started treating gamedev comments from most people here (and in general social media) like GPT-3 output, sometimes entertaining but mostly gibberish (with less polish and more grammatical errors). Which may even be literally true as most of these sites are now filled with bots. I pretty much do all serious discussion about anything with a frontier LLM and people I know irl who knows what they are talking about. It has cut down so much noise and bs for me.

>>542415875
I don't know any millennial that has these issues senpai

>>542415905
>mostly gibberish (with less polish
kurwa, zajebiście

>>542415905
invaluable insight thank you anon

I have been here for months and I still have no idea who or what the hell a grassfag is

>>542409051
>>542409430
>>542410051
kill yourself

>>542416215
Some loser you shouldn't concern yourself with. He gave up on his game when he realized it would have been a flop.

>>542412518
>>542413141
>>542414187
>>542411261
>>542415558
kill yourself

>>542416359
>He gave up on his game when he realized it would have been a flop.
So, uh, before even starting to work on it?

>>542415905
Can you show your game so I may evaluate whether that modus operandi is conducive to satisfactory results or not and decide whether to apply it to my own game's development?

>>542416359
I'm confused, if thats the case why is he mentioned all the time?

I'm gonna make a game like this someday. Not today though. But someday I will.

>>542416646
kill yourself

>>542416478
He made a test build (that never got out to the public lmao) and all you could do was walk around and look at grass. He had so much pride in telling everyone that he made hundreds of unique grass tiles that we gave him the name "grassfag" because of it.

>>542417490
Actually IIRC he had an mmo but it was in early development stages so you couldn't do much beyond logging in? I don't fully remember there were some pretty interesting webms I remember. I think you could fight enemies and loot them?

Anyways, the only person I know that actually calls him grassfag or harps on about this shit is fagoon. This post is fagoon.

Fagoon is still seething about getting blacked or whatever.

Daddy said he wants me to release a commercial game as soon as possible even if it is to get no sales and that he will pay for the computer equipment I need and Steam submission fees.

>>542394947
How do I use AI to make porn vids? For a game of course.

https://youtu.be/0Fw1sMB3C6A
saw on the algo

That's enough devving for now.
I'm gonna go make some cookies.

>>542418784
what kind bro? post results...

>>542417490
>that we gave him the name
>we
you mean *you* gave him the name

>>542418878
maple snickerdoodles. for full disclosure: i had chatgpt generate the recipe for me. will post pics when they're done.

>>542418747
ask on the porn thread in gif or something

How did one dev make one guy seethe so much?

>>542418167
Go back to working on your game, Grassfag.

>>542415558
what if my models look like shit?

I finishified my game.... Now I wait for the retards at valve to review my build so they let me release it... This journey.... It was not worth it.

why there seems to be a resistance againts using AI as another art tool for gamedev artists, just like how blender, houdini, and 3D sofware is considered tools?

Megabonk confirms without a doubt that the only thing that matters to determine the success of your game is how viral it goes on social media. If you're making "art" you're a dumbfuck and need to add skibidi toilet somewhere.

>>542420406
Congratulations!

How the fuck do you design stuff? How do you draw something that doesn't exist?

>>542420809
Thank you dearest saar. Many Vishnu blessings to you saar.

>>542420879
You piece it together with little bits of things that do exist. Next question.

Megabonk confirms without a doubt that if the only thing that you care about is virality and money, then you are a subhuman and should end your existence posthaste

Waaaaagies

i gave up on my old game and haven't done anything creative in months but now it's finally time. this time my idea is much simpler so i can hopefully finish it

>>542420879
>he cant see the apple

>>542420760
Mistaking cause for effect and putting the cart ahead of the horse. Megabonk was a viral success because it was a good game, not because it was viral. Dumbfucks who try to make "art" fail not because of failing to be viral but because they focus on being "artistic" instead of being a good game. Being not good is why they failed to be viral, not the other way around.

>>542421318
Underage newfag

>>542421318
Megabonk is exactly the same as every other survivor clone, except it has "monke" and "amogus" and was marketed to tiktok addled children, so it made him millions.

>>542420161
Carol...

>>542420953
but how do you make it good and not bad

>>542419880
Why do you call everyone grassfag?

>>542421940
You can't. Give up.

fuuuck this joooobbbyyy!!!!!

SEX with this hobby!!!

My monster catcher is a fucking nightmare so far. I know I have to do things iteratively until everything works, and I can't rush it. But it's so tedious implementing one little feature at a time. And throughout that process you find more and more little bugs that need to be tweaked. I'll keep pushing until the battle mechanics against wild monsters is done then take a break from coding to make some rough prototype monsters to replace the cubes I'm using at the moment. Hopefully that little break will prep me to start doing enemy trainer battles which will be similar to wild battles but with an array of monsters instead of just one and the option to swap out monsters or use potions etc.

>>542423319
Why not just make a Pokemon romhack?

Well anon, who's gonna be the first to concede and start making shorts?

>>542423403
Hell, if I could I would.

>>542423381
I want to be able to sell this, preferably as a Switch 2 exclusive so Nintendo doesn't rape me. Also, I want to do my own battle mechanics that are derived from more complex stats.

>>542423403
I have gone beyond shorts, making videos totalling a length of 0:00:00. Can't get shorter than that.

>>542423403
Poke All Toads was the first

>>542423403
>implying I don't already have shorts

>Try to generate HD AI 2D art
>AI is useless for group scenes or use controlnet now
>Try to trace it
>I start to feel like crap

if you guys were making about $250 per day in sales nearly two weeks after launch, without any marketing or updates, would you keep pursuing that game and try pushing massive updates and organic tiktok/yt shorts clickbait marketing videos? to me this feels like a pretty decent proof of concept that the game resonates despite being very unmarketed and honestly quite unfinished (with regards to the massive updates I have planned)

>>542423403
No point in me making videos for an audience of 0. I need at least 1k views per video for it to be worth the effort.

>>542424120
Why the fuck are you bragging about your success here of all places?

>>542423319
Why not just make Kameo but worse?

>>542424130
>"I need an audience before I will do that. What? No, of course I will not do literally anything to tangibly work towards building that audience despite knowing I need one. Why? Because I'm a massive faggot retard who will never achieve anything in life"

>>542424307
Go away fagoon, literally no one likes you here

>>542424353
In the real world you sign an employment contract guaranteeing you payment for your work instead of working up front for promise of pay.

>>542424209
I think the vast majority of people here would consider my game a massive flop, so I am obviously not bragging. I'm just curious about people's thoughts on when to ditch a game vs keep pushing. When it's your own project it's easy to cope and delude yourself into seeing stuff as a sign of life when it is sometimes better to cut ties and avoid sunk cost

>>542394828
he thicc

>>542424524
Fuck your humble bragging. You and I both know that the typical dev here sees $0 per day from their flop.

>>542424492
>wagie mentality
ngmi

>>542424492
In the "real world" your employer takes on the massive risk of hiring a faggot like you for increased gain of making more money than your hourly pay, when you are working for yourself you shoulder the burden of increased risk and unlock access to the potential increased gains if successful. Pretending not to understand this is why you will never achieve anything

>>542420879
It's kinda sad what I'm about to say but plenty of people from 2000 or in the 90's didn't know either. I'm on my PS2 classics marathon and from the games I've played, many classics and games that people praise have design flaws.
For example Blood Omen 2 had atrocious level design. You had platforms that existed for sole purpose of you being able to jump somewhere. You had puzzles that had no reason to even exist, but were placed in a spot for you to think about them for a second, like having one switch that opens a door one level above, just so you could turn valve that opens door one floor lower. Why make it two switches on two floors? They could use one switch that opens the important door. Ghosthunter is another example, one level has you running through a sunken ship and plenty of rooms in the engine room have no purpose. Just empty walls, no assets, but copy-pasted stairwells on one side of the ship to another so you're like a mouse in a labyrinth. In Forbidden Siren most puzzles are about finding a key. There's like 20 different keys in a game that open different doors, locks, chains, some of which can be found only by replaying stages, some of them only by commanding your escort to hide in a specific place.
Speaking of which, why most metroidvanias have completely pointless rooms, whole corridors of nothing but cannon fodder to kill? It's one thing when you're backtracking to access previously locked area, but usually you're doing a sewwing machine backtracking, back and forth, going through the same enemies and even unlocking shortcuts or quick travel points aren't helping much. Plenty of times I was just looking at a map to choose the shortest route so I can play the game less. I'd say in FIST I was looking at map like 30% of total playtime.
In conclusion, games fucking suck. At the end of the day 2D is about going left to right just to go up and then go right to left, and with 3D you're just doing staircases with corridors between them.

>>542424462
Still not working on your game, Grassfag? Sheesh, no wonder you're such a loser.

>>542424668
Wagies actually make money.

>>542424796
>>542424120
This guy isn't a wagie and seems to be making money though?

>>542424794
And where are the YouTube shorts to advertise your game
>Uh, I'll take it seriously towards the last month of development
Take one look at >>542423403 over there. Start early, get 112 reviews for the demo. Sacrifice your time with 4chan if it means this week gives you 2 shorts to post.

>>542424641
>spend 10,000 hours on a game and make $250
>when you tell people this half of them call you a pathetic loser flop and the other half scream at you about humble bragging with tears in their eyes and clenched fists
there is really no winning in this place

>>542424120
>>542424524
Look at your sales graph. It will tail out. A great update or sale might do 20-50% of your sales peak. Is that enough for you to keep working on it?

>60 review Roguelite turns into another Roguelite
A fate worse than death

>>542425042
He's not bragging about $250, he's bragging about $250 a day. Also no one's called him a loser flop.

>>542425451
powerful

>>542425010
You don't even have a functioning game and you're lecturing me? Besides, aren't you the one who refuses to share his game's name because you're such a scared little bitch over people, you know, PLAYING it?

>>542425048
>A great update or sale might do 20-50% of your sales peak
I think these types of rules apply to big games with big marketing budgets and publishers who make sure that the entire target audience knows the game exists before releasing. they don't seem to have any bearing on games with zero marketing/exposure where a single youtube video or viral tiktok can literally 100x your sales overnight

>>542412878
>I like making games
is very different from
>I am a famous yesdev

>>542425395
>bragging about making the same amount of money as a cashier at mcdonalds

I was filming progress but then I realized I fucking hate you worthless faggots and I don't want to share my joy with any of you. especially because you are losers, energy vampires, joy thieves, and poor third world pedophiles.

>>542420406
What genre, senpai?

Moooooom! The schizos are fighting again!

>>542423319
i literally five minutes ago got an idea to make a monster catcher game. how far have you gotten so far and how difficult is it to do? on paper it doesn't seem to bad

>>542425856
Yoooo where can I be a cashier for 90k a year? I'll do that.

>>542424049
why not use inpaint on existing porn to change faces/add whatever features or accessories you need and then edit the skin/hair color etc manually with photoshop

Wow is TikTok really the answer......

>>542426121
In the US the starting wage for cashiers is $20 an hour, you can easily make that much if you put in any effort at all and that's before massive pay bumps for bonuses and overtime pay.

>>542426243
because AI can't do anything but 1girl, solo, standing pose.

anything with more than 1 character breaks the models.

>>542426283
i look like this

>>542425687
Banking on your game going viral after launch isn't exactly a great strategy.

>>542426357
but if you use inpaint then you can change one character at a time instead of both at once so it doesn't break, i've tried it...

yesdev hours

>>542426303
that's what I'm trying to say, people on here worship weirdos like that zuckowski guy who takes AAA and III steam market data and tries to apply it to micro indie games with no marketing or budget. its a completely different ball game and one insane video could get you 10k sales in a day (and another 5k over the following week)

Both dudefag and grassgoon have no progress

>>542426474
It takes less effort and time to just draw the thing rather than using inpaint.

It's like trying to draw using dice rolls.

https://files.catbox.moe/b8ifkk.mid
I really like how this sounds

How valuable of an asset is it to have a small gaming-related YouTube channel to promote your game?
Anyone have examples of being able to leverage an audience?

>>542426642
virus

>>542426389
you have made up your mind and don't want to ever entertain outside opinions, but you don't have to go viral to convert videos into sales. 100 simple videos with 10k views is equivalent to a video with 1mil views and results in the same sales. it also depends on how "complete" your game is at release. most people never update their game in any significant way regardless of a 1.0 launch or EA launch. the reason games flatline after launch is that devs literally just give up and move on to something else

>>542426013
>>542426283
There is no fight, the refusal to prioritize YouTube shorts over thread presence is a genuine flaw. Place the two on a scale and YouTube wins every time, because it generates reviews.

>>542426389
it depends on the game

>>542426762
it's a midi file

>>542426336
$20/hr is 40k a year dipshit.

look at this nigga
>>>/v/723102301

>>542426565
Wait, who's dudefag? How am I supposed to keep up with all the fucking monikers in this place

>>542427102
Oh sorry I forgot it's illegal to work over time. Very good point my kind gentle sir

>>542426565
i dont look like this

>>542427457
You'd have to work over 85hrs a week to buy 90k dipshit

>>542426854
If you believe you can do it then why are you asking us?

>>542427739
the point of putting forth an argument is to see how it holds up to criticism, that is the purpose of discussion and seeking truth. why do you think people share thoughts and ideas? what purpose does discussion hold for you? if someone believes themselves to be "correct" they should speak to others in an attempt to challenge their own views

>>542427190
>Speech-Ka when he sees the green dragon

Ready to apologize?

>>542423403
>>542426303
>Is TikTok really the answer?

Yes

>>542427717
Closer to 60 with time and a half over time pay which is a legal requirement at every US company.

>>542428484
Wow. If it can work for this freak truly it can work for anyone. That is insane.

>>542370296
even as a joke, when disney can force you into arbitration for basically nothing after killing your wife just because you signed a random EULA years ago for some other unrelated product its just not worth taking up retarded terms like that

as much as a judge would probably throw out the case if one of the games here make it and you try claiming rights to it with this there's always the off chance that it actually makes it through
why bother going through any of that risk for a tiny show like this

>>542426734
I have just over 8,000 subscribers and I put my small game front and centre. The video has made $0.50 and hasn't really driven any traffic to the itch page.

You need to be a huge following to have modest impact.

>>542428923
anon...

>>542428484
How does this transfer over to the Steam page if there's no link?
>People will look up the game name, duh
I doubt that crowd knows how to highlight and then Search Google.

>>542428729
No it's not

>>542416812
you had to see the kind of shit this fuckin faggot used to comment in the code

>>542429497
>How does this transfer over to the Steam page if there's no link? I doubt that crowd knows how to highlight and then Search Google.

When people really want to play a game they gonna search for it, no link is necessary.

>>542430380
Trump should have banned TikTok for longer so that we're all equal. Making me do more work here.

>>542428073
Your form of 'discussion' seems to be getting mad at people who don't simp for you.

>>542418878
cookies

>>542431232
kino kino kino

>>542430380
always felt like you had something with this project, glad to have seen your skill improve over the DDs! you're gmi

I'm going to sue the guy who invented video games for ruining my life

>>542430670
internet conversation becomes completely pointless if typing more than 5 words at a time results in people pretending you are mad at them (i am not and never was mad about any replies)

Why aren't you creating your own engine?

>>542431840
I'm a gamedev, not a programmer.

>>542431840
I did

>>542431232
looks doughy and cinamon. Nice

>>542426018
It's not really that hard. I delayed and delayed for a long time because I hate doing UI shit but starting with the basics that GameFreak did (FIGHT, ITEM, POKEMON, RUN, but renamed obviously) and start building out from there, it's not too difficult. I just have a love/hate relationship with coding.
So it gets frustrating when, for example, I finally figure where in my code I was accidentally stopping the player from being able to Z-lock onto a second monster after defeating a first one, I then try to throw a ball at the second monster and now a second battle doesn't trigger. So I have to also go searching for what's causing that bug.
Once I get through all this and have the battle mechanics to a satisfactory level then it will be on to some really fun, more modular coding shit. Like where and how different types will spawn, adding some basic survival mechanics like hunger, thirst, fatigue so players finally get that feeling of going out into the wild to battle and catch monsters. The thought of doing stuff like that, and even adding a train as a form of fast travel, is helping to keep me motivated.
My plan is, when I get a bit fatigued from this big project, to go back and finish off one of my smaller demos/prototypes that aren't meant to be full games.

I've been playing around with some main menu buttons. Aside from that, I have been building an arena in blender.

Regarding a pokemon clone, what do you guys think about the odds of Nintendo trying to copyright rape me if I initially reach out to them to make it a Switch 2 exclusive?
If Nintendo allowed a little indie pokemon clone as a Switch 2 exclusive it would cause a huge amount of anti-Nintendo seething for selective targeting of monster catchers based on their platform of release. But honestly, that could also be great free press for the game.
I think in the end Palworld and other such titles will be okay once Nintendo is told by the courts that they're insanely overreaching. But like I said, if people notice that an indie monster catcher is being left alone un-raped it could get me some free attention by neckbeard slop youtubers that hate Nintendo for making some of their games download keys but meanwhile they suck Gaben's cheesy little cock despite him basically single handedly ending physical PC games that came with comfy guide books and art books and shit.

>>542431559
Thanks!! to put the number into perspective, Dungeon Watchers only got 495 whilst after 5 months, and at launch it had 559, Guns and Nuns steam page have less than 2 months and already have 1776, it keep going up and the people are openly showing more interest about it. I had plans on participating in this October Steam fest, but... I decided it will be better to try gain wishlist and be part of February's steam fest next year. I am working on launching a demo some time after this October's steam fest finish. The part that makes more happy, is that some tiktok users found the prototype on Newgrounds which doesn't have gravity mechanics, one enemy type and only the gold desert eagles, and they like it a lot and say they can't wait to play the new demo.

Now I am finishing the result screen, replacing the old effects with new ones using the VFX graph in Unity, adding simple gore system and a leaderboard.

>>542434510
good stuff. i havent played it last DD so if you upload it to this next one, i'll play it.
godspeed

>>542424353
>implying the only way to build an audience is me specifically making videos
Retard.

>>542433886
As long as you don't make a huge impact as most mon-clones do, then Nintendo doesn't give a shit about your existence.
If you approach Nintendo with your offer, you'll likely be brushed off as an unserious business partner.
That's of course assuming your game doesn't look like a serious threat. I suggest work on your game and if it's really blowing up in popularity, then consider your offer to appease Nintendo.

>>542433886
>Pokémon Clone
Just clone Digimon World 3 who manages to be different enough even though it clones the Gym plot. Those games had the Dinosaur type which doesn't exist in Pokémon.

>>542435084
You're right. I'm too much of a pissant at the moment. Unfortunately I think this means not being able to share demos on places like itch.io. If it picked up steam and people started to pay attention, I think Nintendo would want a true platform exclusive, which would mean frowning on even prototypes available on the web. But I don't know, maybe there's some precedent for a console platform courting some title that was initially going to be multiplat and getting them to pull their demos from rival platforms?

>>542435868
I fucking hated Digimon from the moment it came out. I was also starting to get too old for Pokemon by that stage but yeah I definitely couldn't even force myself to see what Digimon is all about in order to be able to clone it.
I'm definitely doing the gym format though. Nintendo and GameFreak don't own boss fights ffs lol. It just blows me away how they think they can copyright such broad stroke concepts. Imagine if Romero tried to sue every fucking first person shooter that came after Doom and Wolfenstein that had weapon reloading and shotguns lol.

>>542433886
This post gives off major ideaguy nodev vibes. Nintendo wouldn't give a shit unless you're doing a straight rip off or using their characters. PalWorld is only getting sued because it went viral and there were rumours of the devs stealing assets.

>>542370109
use stableprojectorz

>>542436813
I have submitted 2 demos here before, that was just a good few years ago now. I got surprisingly positive feedback despite them being babby's first demos. People like the enemy models in The Ballad of Deadeye Chambers but holy shit was the player controller bad lol. And people said my short horror experience The Gloomtide Charter had a whole bunch of issues but that it was pretty good for a first attempt.
Don't download either of them please, because I think the last updates back then were completely broken (again, didn't know what I was doing) so you can't even finish the demo levels now lol.
Since then I've been doing a CS degree which did help with programming but I'd been too busy to be a yesdev. Now I'm throwing myself back into it and WILL be producing at least a prototype just to see if you guys like it. But even as a pared back indie project, it will be quite ambitious for one person. So interest would have to be quite intense for me to commit to it.