Thread 543453960

threadly reminder edition

>Demo Days
Next: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-65
Previous: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-64
Older: https://hackmd.io/LhEB6VCZSx-oBalI2cWWoA

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

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

>How to Screen Record
https://getsharex.com/
https://obsproject.com

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

>Previous thread
>>543399993

What are you progressing on lately?

>>543454014
The fucking scale

When my game is published, I'll travel to the other side of the globe on a motorcycle. I think travelling and meeting new people will fix the damage done to my psyche by being a shutin for 5 years. I won't get a ton of anxiety when talking to people because I'll leave that place in a few days.
Knowing my luck, I'll crash at the start of my trip and be a cripple, but if everything goes right I'll get the good ending.

I think 2020s is the testing phase god is putting us through. Everything will be ok in a bit. WAGMI

Day 0 of making a fnaf clone to teach myself godot

>>543455938
retard

Day 0 of making pong

>>543454014
I've been reworking the combat to not be sucky. Turns out not getting good sleep makes it hard.

Day 20. I added a jetpack. Tomorrow I'll probably paint it and add particle effects, then disappear for a bit to cobble together some sort of game loop and fix bugs. Maybe I'll make it to demoday, maybe I won't. Thank you for attending my progress conferences this month.

>>543455090
>Knowing my luck, I'll crash at the start of my trip and be a cripple, but if everything goes right I'll get the good ending.
Motorcycle + driving on the opposite side of the road you are used to = disaster waiting to happen.

>>543456369
so he's some kind of secret agent or what?

>>543454014
My game feels so clunky and not enjoyable to control I hate it

>>543456132
>retard

>>543456850
>my game feel so retro and eurojank, sovl!

>>543456369
>a month of work for this
GRIM

>>543455938
>not using MMF

>>543457151
>20 days is a month
what planet are you from?

don't think im gmi bros

>>543456369
that's cool
what's the goal? Action platformer or something more?

testing... testing..

>>543456369
keep going anon, your game is attracting crabs already
>>543454014 see >>543456369

>>543454014
More level building stuff, I can add active objects, NPCs and enemies. Now the plan is to add dialog editing with all parameters configurable in the editor.

>>543457812
i look like this

>>543457261
Planet Business lol

How long until AI can rig?

>>543458310
>How long until AI can rig?

>>543456804
He's a Star Trek

>>543457151
Please understand. Networked physics are unpleasant to work with.

>>543457508
Friendslop is the genre. The ultimate goal is to have a game where you and some friends take on roles (science officer, security officer, doctor, etc.) and work together to complete tasks on some alien planets to earn points, which can unlock the next planet. Stuff can knock you over and you can knock stuff over. That's the big idea. I have some other smaller ideas about progression, item unlocks, and the different tasks you can do, but I'll worry about those if I can get to them. As for what I might submit to demoday, I have no idea what that might look like. I'll have to see what I can slap together.

>>543458310
rigging is the easiest part of making assets (if you have good topology)

>>543458427
This is only true if your assets are unambitious. If you start having to drive bones with logic it immediately becomes insanely annoying.

>>543458310
accurig

>>543457876
hey I like the busty gazongas on the lady keep up the great work just stopping by

There are ppl who work on their game everyday?

>>543458613
post ambitious asset

anyone need an artist?

>>543459002
art commission scammers are the worst, 50% chance this poster lives in jakarta

>>543459002
I'm probably gonna have to end up hiring some kind of visual artist and maybe somebody who can make music if I'm not able to cut it. Feels like most people are naturally good at that stuff but somehow I missed out. I'm good at systems though

>>543459002
Are you a hot girl?

>>543458813
brownoids sure don't

>>543459002
Yeah show me a high quality texture sample of your talents.

>>543458310
>How long until AI can rig?

The ability for Artificial Intelligence to improperly influence or "rig" an election is not a future concern, as the technology is already being used for this purpose. This timeline is not about when Artificial Intelligence will be able to do this, but rather how quickly effective safeguards can be developed to counter its misuse.

>>543459234
You might not need to hire a music guy desu. Did you listen to the ai gen nipponese playlist that was posted in the prev thread?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08qWMhEZeF8

>>543458310
some ai model gens come with rigging/animations. try tripo

>>543455090
I've been watching this Italian guy ride the pamir highway without "adventure gear". Pretty cool desu. Someone should make a game that captures this feeling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFZa8DcFnr0

Thidies don't adhere to road rules, so travelling by motorcycle is risky.

>>543459224
some people think i am a scammer because my prices are to low for fully rigged and textured lowpoly models, is 85$ really that cheap? i thought that was the normal price

>>543457876
awesome level editor!

>>543459635
these lyrics are so dreadful I can't listen. the curse of knowing japanese...

>>543459635
how do you gen this?

>>543459798
what do people typically charge for something like picrel, but more inthe 64x64, 128x128 size?

>>543459898
*basically "it was a dark and stormy night" of lyrics
every song i clicked opened with a variation of
>the night was quiet...

>>543460126
AI can make that

Do you vros ever have to start doing shit like this once your spaghetti starts spilling all over the place just so you can quickly remember what the fuck is going on?

>>543460126
400 sprites at 64*64, but one color?
couple of thousand. it would take around 100 hours.

>>543460285
Oops, hadn't saved over the version on my desktop yet.

>>543460345
two weeks is actually not that bad desu, but I'd probably want to be able to have multiple layers that I could modulate the colors on to reuse sprite across levels

>>543459635
Wait, this is actually good

>>543444384
>not even the maintainers know where they come from

can't they read the code exception/segfault to figure it out? lmao?

>>543460285
>>543460450
No

>>543459002
2D or 3D?
any work samples?

anyone need a programmer?

>>543460285
I can't. my spaghetti is too strong. a set up like that would look like a biblically accurate unreal blueprint angel if i tried to figure it all out.

>>543460450
I spent all my upfront time make a nice event bus system and everything just consumes it's own events. Some things produce events that other things consume, some things combine events. etc.

>>543460791
If I needed screensize in godot and then needed a random Vector2 what would the code look like? (this is your hiring exam)

>>543460140
I like to listen to calm music in languages I don’t understand when I’m trying to focus. It’s less distracting.

>>543459635
Reminder that AI shit can’t be copyrighted so if you find a cool AI song you like you can just use it without credit like it’s public domain

>>543460791
What are your skills/interests?

>>543461016
Good question — here’s how you’d do both in GDScript (Godot 4):

Get the screen size:
var screen_size = get_viewport().get_visible_rect().size
or simply:
var screen_size = get_viewport_rect().size
Both give you a Vector2 with the width and height of the window.
Would you like me to show how to constrain that random Vector2 within a margin (e.g., not too close to edges)?

>>543461331
Yes

>>543461331
You didn't randomize it. Failed.

>>543461016
uh I um eh ah *groks it*
(nta)

>>543460450
might be worth learning some basic uml

>Cuffbust dev gets clearly burned out and dumps out a 10 minute demo for sale at $20
>flops

Jesus. Why the hell are you even doing gamedev if you don't enjoy the process? If all you want is to make money literally anything else is a better use of your time.

Anyone need an ideaguy? No need for payment, I will give them out for free.

The only way to beat reddit and escape wagie is make normie slop
your story game? nobody cares.
your turn based game? nobody cares.
your platformer game? nobody cares.
your 2d non h-game? nobody cares.

It's either that or REALLY high quality indie. heavy combat simulation(TCA, Bounty)/3d colony management

>>543462110
>The only way to beat reddit and escape wagie is make normie slop
>your story game? nobody cares.
>your turn based game? nobody cares.
>your platformer game? nobody cares.
>your 2d non h-game? nobody cares.
>
>It's either that or REALLY high quality indie. heavy combat simulation(TCA, Bounty)/3d colony management

>>543461857
they cut the full price to $10, don't think I've seen such a backtrack so quickly
>Why the hell are you even doing gamedev if you don't enjoy the process?
are you serious? the majority of games are made for the money first and foremost

>>543462309
Sure if you're a corpo. All the creatives are in it out of passion. A programmer will get paid more to do anything else besides gamedev.

>>543462106
post ideas

You lost the job offer. Easy question and answer times up.

>>543462106
Sure, I could use one. I'm currently stuck on figuring out the story of my game. I need a compelling reason for the characters to be stuck inside a house and to go into the house's basement. Also would be nice to have some ideas for a compelling ending after getting out of the house and why it'd be a big deal for the characters.

>>543462636
- Farming sim without real-time timers
- Detective CRPG with Ace Attorney gameplay
- Top-down night-survival base-builder

>>543462838
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=998&supportedlang=english&developer=LTZinc&ndl=1
dude's a machine, wtf

>>543462790
What genre is the game? What do they do while in there? What emotions are the player meant to feel?

>>543462618
>All the creatives are in it out of passion
show me 5 devs that made a successful game saying that

>>543461721
I know UML. This is me doing a quickl lazy "doctor's handwriting" version or "chicken scratch" version of it. I would only do proper UML if I was doing a publisher pitch or something.

>wasted an entire day going down GOAP autism rabbithole
>doesn't even work

>>543462106
Ideas I got, kid. What I don't got is talent! Same as you!
*Blows smoke in your face*

>>543454014
Adding difficulty levels, similar to Balatro's. Need to figure out a way to change the color of all my UI elements, but it's going to fucking suck it seems. SAD!

God I'm so fucking horny...

>>543463425
>67
alphies will be all over this

>>543463807
I went on a white water rafting trip like 2 months ago and our zoomer guide was explaining this meme to us. Is it still a thing?

>>543463425
>Need to figure out a way to change the color of all my UI elements
Either make them grayscale and set the color in the modulate variable, or use a shader to change the color palate.

>>543461016
https://pastebin.com/iFrAQc1R
easy

>>543463952
They're all tied to a single theme, so I wish I could just set that to a single color and have it propagate to all the things that use it. But apparently godot doesn't work like that. The greyscale is a good idea though.

>>543463734
most tranny groomers always are

Material Maker runs like ass, is there another lightweight shader/vfx art-assist program?

>>543464278
>I could just set that to a single color and have it you can though

>>543464480
How? It'd be super helpful

>>543464703
>>543464480
Never mind, I figured it out. That's great, ty

>>543464191
Incorrect, you fail. Also so much extra unnecessary bs and a terrible var name.

>>543463941
idk I haven't actually heard it irl.

>>543464703
use theme_type_variation or theme overriding, themes propagate to children

If you had the choice of giving a key to a youtuber that would get 1milion+ views, but he's an asshole and will trash your game design unjustly, would you do it?

>>543462838
all his games have more reviews than the average agdg game. bought the reviews?

>>543456369
Croc Quest is so based. So much progress in such a short amount of time. Keep it up anon!

>>543457876
Neat. Making a level editor seems like scary work to a newbie like me. What is your game about? All the NPC's and enemies seem kind of dissimilar and a little anachronistic.

>>543454014
Working on attacks for the robot with the cock.

>>543465295
Depends, probably though, youtubers don't play good games so it wouldn't shock me for them to shit on it because it's not something dumb

>>543465295
no, "bad publicity is still publicity" meme doesn't work anymore

>>543465295
no. my game is already going to go viral by virtue of being good.

>>543464959
works on my machine

>>543465676
I didn't say it wouldn't work. Dumbass.

>>543465764
if it works, it's correct. Thinking otherwise means you're a nodev

say I'm making a helicobter enemy
is it more performant to animate the rotor and blades with a simple script rather than an animation from blender?

>>543465340
trooncoded flopslop

>>543466089
depends how many copter enemies you will have. if many, animation is better. but for real performance, animating the blades as 2 swapping blurred sprites is better.

>>543466037
It's not correct code and is overcomplicated. Useless variable names and no commenting.

For example we're talking vectorsize and your random is going to 200000 lmao. Should be a min/max x/y using screensize.

>>543466289
>moving goalposts
you needed the screen size and a random vector2. My code gets you both. If you needed the vector confined to screen space you should have said so

Genuine question: What are some things that the devs who actually made it such as Project Wingman and World of Horror do to make their games a big hit? Why did they succeed while others from here failed?

>>543466568
Why the fuck would you want the vector2 outside the screen space you dunce

>>543466593
Take a wild guess, anon. I want to hear your thesis.

>>543466714
you were the one who asked for a random vector2 retard

>>543465340
*dies*
*keeps attacking*
what a savage kek
>the robot with the cock
>

>>543466089
>premature optimization
never gonna make it

>>543467004
You failed, good day sir. Goodbye.

>>543466267
*btw look up vertex-based rotation, animate it via shader on the GPU, rather than spin it via cpu

>>543467008
Heheh. Yeah that wasn't even intentional, but I guess it's just a common thing developers don't think about because I've seen it a lot in other games.

Kept it in cuz it's funny :^)

>>543466593
World of Horror was pure GMI, dunno why you have to ask about that one

There is no society in which /agdg/ is seen as a good place to be in.

>>543466593
project wingman, almost as good as ace combat, btter in some respects, but 30% of the price.

>>543467252
>>543466267
I'll look into doing it via shader but if it ever causes issues I'll go with sprites since I was thinking of doing that from the start
>>543467189
generally I don't do this but premature optimization seems like a GMI behavior unless it's every little detail

He stopped playing my game just now.

>>543467861
do you know what the word premature means

I moved house and productivity has increased during the hours I dev but the hours themselves have decreased.

I'm still really horny

>>543468340
does your gf sit there and stare at you while you enginedev

>>543468616
only a little bit she gets stuck into her own art quite deeply but we put the desks like that so we can see each other easily

>>543468616
that's my niece's desk

>>543468105
do you?

>>543468340
this looks like two kids' desks, like a brother and sister sharing a room

play my demo, I'll play yours.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3176830/Monster_Freaks/

>>543465340
I thought that mech was for its own game, not just an enemy in that one
can I please play as the mech instead?

>>543468858
seconding this request. let me play one of the arcade machines and it's a simple Virual On clone

>>543468918
arisu...

>>543468851
thanks we are going for that feel/aesthetic

>>543468340
>>543469153
why would you do this to yourself

>>543468918
wish me luck, arisu. I"m locking in

>>543468857
based.

>>543467630
no society is a good place to be in

https://store.steampowered.com/app/893030/Music_Racer
this is how easy it used to be before 2019

>>543468858
>>543469045
Okay anons I guess it could work if I let you play as the mech in one of the arcades, but that's also something that I can't promise since I have a ton of other stuff I need to do.

Maybe if you keep pestering me about it down the line it'll happen.

>dev for 5m
>shitpost on /agdg/ for 15m
this needs to stop, I will break the chain

>>543469153
>neutral meme hotel
did you meet on the 4chan dating app?

>>543469539
How do you possibly only dev for 5 mins? I start and can't stop til I have to. Last week I literally troubleshooted for 30 hours straight until I collapsed in bed.

>>543469526
it's ok, I have other mech games to play. you've just done such a good job with the model it's stirring up that desire.

>>543468857
MF! dev here.
seriously. give me some demos to play. I need to make content for my YouTube. let me play your /agdg/ games.

>>543468857
seriously. give me some demos to play. I need to make content for my YouTube. let me play your /agdg/ games.

>>543469997
we don't make games

>>543469526
>you play as the mech but it's a costume

>>543469241
sick and tired of always being based, and never being cringe.

>>543469997
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3748640/Wasteland_Bites/

>>543470241
I'm on it

>>543469724
Thank you, anon. I am chuffed to hear this. I also remembered the other day that the design was inspired by another mecha I forgot to mention: The Woundwort!

Someday I'd love to make a mecha game, but Tamabuki doesn't quite allow for that. (There *will* be more mecha enemies though.)

>>543469997
Post your YouTube?

>>543469631
I'm very tired, so I've only been doing a couple 'thoughts' of code before losing concentration.

>>543470135
This could be kind of funny actually... You have successfully embedded an idea in my mind I may act on in the future when I have some time to do some silly funtime modeling.

>>543469997
https://coomichoo.itch.io/paloo-spiral
appreciate it anon

>>543470374
I just don't code if i'm tired

>ask him to post his youtube
>he never does
Something ain't right here, niggers...

>if he doesn't meet my demand within 15 minutes he's sus
anon...

>>if he doesn't meet my demand within 15 minutes he's sus
Yes. Posting a youtube chanel is not that hard.

>>543468857
either your screenshake imlementation is bad or it's extremely strong. allow users to tone it down, it's one of the most hated things in games.

>>543470241
>https://coomichoo.itch.io/paloo-spiral
this game is hella dope, I gave it quite a few tries but i could never figure out how to prevent certain deaths.

>>543470308
https://www.youtube.com/@CorporateFilth

>>543468340
>bro got an arthoe
this isn't fair!

>>543470241
this game is hella dope, I gave it quite a few tries but i could never figure out how to prevent certain deaths

>>543470308
>https://www.youtube.com/@CorporateFilth

>>543471941
yeah i got a tip from another anon saying that horizontal screenshake makes him dizzy, so i made it only vertical, and it looks a lot better that way

>>543473364
I watched a vid by a dude that said he made all his screenshake rotate the camera instead of move it since moving it is what makes people dizzy
it improved my attmpts as well.

It's getting brutal out there....

>>543473558
duly noted :)

>>543473873
People just autowishlist the newest slop their favorite streamer is playing at the moment and then go back to League

>>543473873
Goodheart's law in action
"when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Reimplementing the cosmetic boku system I had to scrap awhile ago because it hurt the games performance. Since I didn't want the month long work I did last year on making the cosmetics I fixed the performance issue by making the bokube cosmetic dog shop be a separate scene but accessible still from any scene. You still spend a single diamond (1 hidden on each level) to unlock a random cosmetic by random from a list of about 39 of them or so.

This version of the cosmetic shop is much better than the old one and will play way nicer on a controller since its all UI buttons mostly no more drop down slider menus and whatnot like before.

>>543474443
i feel personally attacked by your comment
why did you have to call me out like that...

>>543474950
I encourage you to create your own engine in an open source library like SDL2 or Raylib.
you obviously are passionate about your project (I have seen posts about boku for ages) so why not make it 100% your own intellectual property?
We live in the era of chatGPT and AI, anything programming wise is possible unless you are an uber-retard.
>t.moderate-retard.

I want to make a masterpiece like valhalla bartender
https://youtu.be/p_WBKVNi6xk

>>543475290
>hey bokube, I know you've been workin on this game for 10+ years
>but maybe rewrite the entire game engine from scratch mmkay?

>>543475763
Post game

threadly reminder that luck is a factor.
as this high fidelity quantum simulation shows, even if luck matters only 5%, the top 3% games on Steam will have >35% more luck than the average game.
so it's not entirely your fault if your game flops. just remember that luck is random and that it's going to average out in the long term so just keep making games as best you can.

>>543476336
>threadly reminder that luck is a factor.
>as this high fidelity quantum simulation shows, even if luck matters only 5%, the top 3% games on Steam will have >35% more luck than the average game.
>so it's not entirely your fault if your game flops. just remember that luck is random and that it's going to average out in the long term so just keep making games as best you can.

Why is there not a single good arpg that doesn't have a generic fantasy setting? I want to make "diablo but scifi" but I wonder if it's a bad idea because every game that tried that so far is complete ass. Take "The Ascent" for example. Looks beautiful, but that's about the only positive most people can give it. Gameplay is mediocre at best and it has tons of game/save breaking bugs. Is "diablo but not generic fantasy setting" just cursed?

>>543476405
>Why is there not a single good arpg that doesn't have a generic fantasy setting? I want to make "diablo but scifi" but I wonder if it's a bad idea because every game that tried that so far is complete ass. Take "The Ascent" for example. Looks beautiful, but that's about the only positive most people can give it. Gameplay is mediocre at best and it has tons of game/save breaking bugs. Is "diablo but not generic fantasy setting" just cursed?

The best move for most of you would be to give up and go do something else

>>543476546
>The best move for most of you would be to give up and go do something else

>>543470515
love this games artstyle, this is awesome, and the music is a perfect fit, but man was i bad at this game lol.

>>543476689
Glad you agree

>>543476814
>love this games artstyle, this is awesome, and the music is a perfect fit, but man was i bad at this game lol.

>>543476546
statistically the best move for everyone everywhere would be to get a job, build a career, and be financially responsible.

>>543476832
>Glad you agree
>>543476891
>statistically the best move for everyone everywhere would be to get a job, build a career, and be financially responsible.

>>543476546
>but not ME I'm special!!

>>543476546
>for most of you
With a weasel word like that, you can say almost anything. Kind of a pointless statement desu.
Regardless, I'm not like other gi- devs so I'm going full devtard.

Please spam quote this post as well.

>>543476405
because technology influences combat and arpgs work best with melee combat and magical abilities.
but you can try making something like The Ninth World in Torment Tides of Numenera. It's not an arpg but it's set billions of years in the future and the technology you find is so advanced and inscrutable that it's basically magic. I mean if you want to not have a generic fantasy setting, that's one way to do it.
or you can do something like https://store.steampowered.com/app/485400/Mechajammer/ (same couple who made Banquet for Fools).
or you can make something with vampires in the modern age?
but what you really need to do is to first make pong if you haven't already.

Newfag here, if I only made simple games in Roblox, should I switch to another game engine or just keep practicing?

>>543477072
Well yeah, I've already released games and they get well received

>>543477296
that can change abruptly. your next two games could be flops.

>>543477296
Alright post em

>>543477220
Keep going until you start to feel like you're limited by your current engine. That includes the audience, I imagine most players of roblox are children, so if you want to make a more serious toned game it won't be a great place.

>>543477296
>Well yeah, I've already released games and they get well received

I couldn't lock in.
I failed...

>>543470241
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUT_4OKdm-g

>>543471373
>>543471690
>>543471761
not him but this is my youtube -
https://www.youtube.com/@lizardlizard4904

>>543477776
>let me hijack this thread asking for one anon's channel with my own
autism moment

>>543477862
pls dont bully me

Some signed angle fuckery going on causing the eye to jump from -22 to 22 degrees. I'll figure it out tomorrow (mega tired rn).

But yeah, mono eye can now, kind of, follow the player!

oh if anyone is trying out the monster freaks demo, let me know if you want to play around with a couple cheatcodes

I'm not sure where to ask this but since you guys are devs. Does anyone know if there's an active fan translation for Dragon Knight 4 in either the DOS, SNES or PS1 version? I've seen the OVA but I want to understand the story more. They said it was popular in Japan back in the day.

>>543478736
>I'm not sure where to ask this
not here

>>543470515
youtube.com/watch?v=i1JI3P-t7HA

>>543478813
I see. Thank you.

I can't not use AI anymore for developing. It's too much of a timesaver. I'm beholden to the globohomo AI companies paying a monthly fee. Help

>>543478736
learn japanese or wait for this troon to complete the translation https://twitter.com/ShintoCetra

>>543470515
>TikTok
>No YouTube shorts
Why bother if you're not gonna double dip? Reuploading is worth it if it hands out 5 more wishlists.

i made a fluid sim, but suddenly there's this bug that looks like i'm simulating boiling water lmao, now i don't wanna touch the fluid sim anymore as the bug might go away

>>543470515
>>543478334
your "games" look like transcoded shit

>>543478935
oh, never mentioned it in the video, was more of an after-thought, but the demo is too short, i want more!

>>543479157
you are not a real developer. you should give up immediately and transfer all of your wishlists to me.

>>543478334
how do you texture everything? i want my game to look like this

>>543479515
>how do you texture everything?
how vague. what do you mean? just....texture your 3d models. what?

>>543479343
>fluid sim for just one pool
seems kind of overkill to me, just spawn some ripples on the surface and call it a day

>>543479680
nta but pools are a staple of jusha. you revive in one each time you die

>>543479680
very cheap in term of perf, but true, kinda overkill but hey! i can use it in other places haha

>>543479421
>you are not a real developer.

why do more developers not sell a game on itch first for free before releasing on steam and flopping?

>>543479913
because we're not homosexual like you

>>543479913
>why do more developers not sell a game on itch first for free before releasing on steam and flopping?

>>543470940
I'm too tired to do another video tonight, but I'll play this one tomorrow

>>543480185
Tonight? Bruh, it's the middle of the day

>>543479913
I thought about it, but if I'm gonna flop I'm gonna flop. itch first would only help so much. better to just do playtests

>>543479913
>Sell
>For free

>>543479861
>very cheap in term of perf
Maybe on your (good?) pc, but it's still ~1.3% of a frame at 60fps (.227ms). On target hardware it may hit harder. But I'm being a bit autistic, it's more than likely fine as long as there's not more than a few on screen at once.

>>543480185
You're a good lad. You've earned your rest. however streaming bonanza isn't an agdg game. it's a reddit game irrc that got in trouble for using a real streamers voice clip in a youtube short.

>>543480064
>>543480118

>>543480227
Its 3:20 am for me.

>>543480274
for free as in there is no fee to list on itch vs 100 on steam

>>543480468
the $100 is given back after you make $1k in sales, it's literally nothing

>>543480468
Ah, yeah that makes sense. I see my mistake.
But to answer your question: I'm trying to make a product worth selling on steam, itch is full of very low quality jam games, I've done my time in game jams, I want to move up to the real thing. What better way to know if I'm ready than to go for it?

>>543480641
You made it

>>543479515
I'm not sure exactly what you're asking. If you specify I can answer better, but:

My workflow for my texturing is to UV unwrap everything and then use an add-on in Blender called TexTools to set the texel density (124px/m for characters & 64px/m for environment). Once this is done I use the Pribambase add-on (for Aseprite & Blender) to see my texture update in realtime in Blender as I draw it in Aseprite. I block out colors and then typically go for a relatively simple style akin to Mega Man Legends. If I want something to look damaged I'll just sample a high-res image of rusted metal or something else, downscale it, despeckle it, then do 'new palette from sprite' in Aseprite limiting the color palette to ~8-16. I then change the color mode to indexed with dithering applied. This last bit can just help to get some nice dithering applied stuff whether it's a sampled image or something you drew yourself.

But yeah that's about it. Hope that help sin some way.

>>543481370
how's the transition going sister?

>Diwali
>AWS goes down
hmmm....

>>543481370
>Hope that help sin some way.
how ungodly

>>543480446
>>Session limit reached

>>543474950
Nice.

>>543481505
Stop being Hinduphobia saar

>>543481793
It's okay I switched to GPT-5 Codex it's gotten decent recently

>>543481913
I can't fathom outsourcing your thinking so much you can't dev without it.
fucking retard

>>543481960
I'm doing the thinking and write down the high level logic then check how it did

>>543481960
It's just a tool benchod!

>I will make a game
>it will be trans-coded
>it will contain subliminal messages
>the other 59% will not survive

>>543481960
>I can't fathom
ask chatgpt

G'day adgg. new branno kino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6__nSWehWg0

>>543481960
>>>/wsg/6005678

>>543482390
You can always count on him to give his thought on what matters

>>543482390
>silence from Chris Zuk
>silence from GameDiscoverCo
>silence from CodeMonkey
>silence from Jonas Tyroller
>silence from Thomas Brush
Based Branno.

Is this considered as somewhat decent pixel art that would suffice for indie devs? I did it in 45 minutes and with mouse because I didn't have drawing tablet available.

>>543482669
Branno is what we call an "independent thinker". Unlike most of the faglord ecelebs he's capable of forming thoughts and observations without waiting for a mainstream consensus or someone else spoonfeeding him what to think

If you're not talking money, I don't wanna talk

>>543482816
yes looks good the top of the skull is a bit thick though

>>543482816
yes
>>543482952
I disagree with this person.

>>543482816
Gameplay? This looks like something pixillab can shit out in 3 seconds.

>>543482816
your skull doesn't have a jaw
but to answer, yes as long as it's not zoomed in, seeing the pixels makes it look worse right now

>>543482816
Looks good.

>>543482952
>>543483319
I think it could do with a bit more shading around the orbital bones to bring out the cavities there more, but it's not really needed.

nigga I'm boutta go FREAK MODE

>>543482952
>>543483319
>>543483319
>>543483603
Thanks for the answer. I did it on 64x64 grid and zoomed it 400% when I saved it which i posted here. I have literally no idea what Im really doing as I wanted to try pixel art as a lot of devs are making pixel art games

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wU3T21HapI
>Make a wonderful game with interesting mechanics and early y2k art
>People naturally flock to you and fund your game
Now, the key is advertising, goodgame-schizo. If he shadowdropped his kickstarter nobody would find it.
This is inspiring hope though.

How do i stop realizing everything im making is shit and freaking out which interrupts my devving be chill and confident like Cris.
He can just pump out rancid garbage and act like he just made the best game ever.
HOW?

>>543477572
His game has big GMI energy

>>543483958
this looks nothing like a y2k game, and as a Gothic fan I'm appaled, since the main appeal of Gothic was never the fucking combat. It was the believability and depth of the world

>>543484079
Lobotomy.

>>543484160
He also put effort into worldbuilding and lore from what I can tell.
>gothic but much improved combat
what's there to dislike?

>>543484864
I've been burned a hundred times by games that copy over the superficial layer of classic games but completely botch the essence and gameplay

>>543479913
Like ten people know what itch is

>>543484989
Fine, don't buy it. this dude gets millions of views on youtube on a DEMO
he's mega GMI. and that was my point. A dream game can become true if you know the crowd for it exists.

>>543485161
you're a fucking retard. Your definition of GMI is always "guy who already got lucky". Your beliefs are based around magical thinking not anything real. How about instead of sperging out about the game's performance you focus on the game itself. Oh wait I forgot you don't play games or care about games, you only care about online discourse about games.

>>543480523
I will never get back at 5 bucks

this general lacks loligames

>>543485323
nta but what is your definition of gmi that isn't pure luck?

If someone makes an interesting looking game and gets interest in the form of views and attention... That's luck and not a response to the game? How exactly did the inner circle manipulate the algorithms to direct viewers to his game?

>>543468340
>that hand painted skybox cubemap
cute...

>>543485589
We weren't talking about game popularity or game sales in the first place. I was talking about the quality of the game. But you kooks always steer every conversation about games into a spergout about numbers. You're literally incapable of talking about a game without completely changing the topic to some shit that doesn't matter to the game's internal being at all

>>543482816
Content per minute looks like an issue at that pace

>>543485589
To drive my point even further, as an end user, I don't give a shit what jimjam or jumbo said about the game on blimblam. I care about what I'm getting when I boot up the game. This is something the lot of you will never get, because you just don't play games for its own sake. You don't want to play games and don't enjoy playing games so you've got nothing to say about games. Like a true exclave of /v/ this place truly hates playing games and will do anything to avoid talking about games themselves

>>543454014
I started learning 3d modelling characters. it's supposed to be a woman, she looks a little sick because it's for a horror game.
>>543457876
love the vibes in this

>>543486102
>anons don't play games
that's why /agdg/ games suck

>>543454014
No real dev progress this time, but i uploaded the second Devlog Youtube video for Wagie Run:
https://youtu.be/Eh2Kuh93oXk

If you guys have the time, please watch it and leave it a like. Thanks

>>543459224
Scammers comes from India, not south east asia

>>543486395
They don't just not play games, they actively despise doing it, which makes their brains completely averse to ever thinking about it because it causes them pain. A brain like that can't create a good game because it has a pain response to every topic that could understand a game better and improve it. I can't explain why so many people like that would get into this hobby to begin with

>>543486512
most anime artfags are from SEA not poo land anon

>>543485860
>We weren't talking about game popularity or game sales in the first place.
The conversation started with how many views the guy's video got, what the fuck are you talking about?

And no I can't download and play the demo right now because I'm at work. God forbid I have a conversation on the Internet instead. Fucking Christ you people.

>>543486713
I didn't respond to anything you said in the original post. I only responded to the trailer from the perspective of a gamer.
You were otherwise right. I just don't care about those things. I wanted to talk about the game in itself

>>543486840
Have you played the demo then or is your assessment of the quality of the game based on nothing more than your cynicism from being disappointed in the past?

How 'bout da fact dat I hate my general

>>543468673
kill yourself

>>543476336
You cannot control for luck so you should do your best to control for all the things you can. Also known as making a good game that people want to play.

>>543469153
why would you buy bourbon+coke instead of mixing them yourself?

>>543476405
The closest we got is Hellgate London. Basically going scifi makes it into a shooter. If you want to make a shooter with Diablo loot then go for it.

>>543488094
>Also known as making a good game that people want to play.
impossible to know what this is unless "people" are already playing it or you fall for the survivorship bias or baseless confidence.

>>543487069
The artstyle is that really overused pseudo-retro indie style that's already left a bad taste due to how shitty it is. The trailer overemphasizes the combat which is always a bad sign with any game, especially with game types that were never famous for their combat.
I'll try the demo later but that's a really bad start. Maybe it's my fault for overdosing on trashy halfbaked indie games on twitter, but these games all look the same to me at this point
I'll really try it later but I don't expect anything more than Gothic but worse

>>543482816
Anon here. How about this one? Its supposed to be a golden fruit with some devil fruitish swirls

>>543488094
>>543488381
I think you wanted to say "good game that people want to play along with some favors daddy called in with some friends at IGN and PCGamer, and your cousin's 10 million youtube/twitch viewers"

>>543488381
>impossible to know
lol retard

>>543487069
>>543488396
this is how the demo is officially titled. The red flags just keep stacking

The usage of AI voice acting in my game facilitated enhanced immersion by allowing the foreign characters speak their native language and improved player experience by easing the mental load during gameplay critical situations. What's the problem in that? Huh? Why do you hate me for it?

>>543488834
>lol retard
lol retarded retard

>>543486405
This is well edited and easy to watch. gj

>>543488885
when you open the demo this shit takes up half the screen. I fucking hate modern indies so much it's unreal

>>543479913
Who would even buy my game on itch, and if they did would they still buy it on Steam when I released there or would I be actually losing Steam sales by doing it

>>543488529
These are alright, but messy. Looks like old PC game pixelart.

>>543489105
absolutely atrocious memefilter that no sane person could be expected to tolerate in any game over 10 hours. Also game does that braindead thing where it telegraphs your controls to you like you're a lobotmized kindergartener

>>543488094
>he doesn't luckmaxx
ngmi

>>543489356
>desperately nitpicking
that game looks better than anything seen on agdg since time immemorial

>>543486405
>ai voice
I want to hear your natural naselly lispy faggot voice.

>>543461857
>Cuffbust dev
he wasn't even the dev, lmao
https://youtu.be/iXQV_btj0DY
the level editor was contracted out too

>>543461857
what's the furthest toward release you got with a game?

>>543489356
Planned gamepad support for a game that's supposedly recreating a textbook PC game. This dev is a retarded monkey

>>543453960 (OP)
I hope "my" (I'm a co-dev) game will fucking bomb. I fucking hate making videogames, I hope it won't sell shit so I'll finally be out of excuses and forced to go get a real job. I love drawing and modeling but I fucking hate gamedevvan'

>>543489731
>I don't want your game supporting things I don't need!!1
lol retard

>>543489453
These aren't nitpicks. They are significant red flags which reveal more than enough about the developer - trying to be a AAA lite and piggybacking on retarded nonsense trends, not focusing to make a good game.

>>543489356
Looks sick. Post more screenshots.

>>543482360
>>543483284
This has inspired me to make this IQ chart. Because I can't find any that actually show how people stack up.
(Any claims of higher IQ have never been verified. China claims a couple guys in the 270's but that's statistically unsound.)

>>543489854
You can't have it both ways. Any PC game that tries to appease consolefags loses something in the process.

>>543490007
Change average to midwit

>>543489520
what if he's indian?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWlv0N2yCTw

Anyone tried using Substance Painter or something similar for low poly 3d? Basically going for a PBR workflow and fancy materials to bake a texture and then downscale it to get a retro look. Any more videos like this?

>>543490019
so pretty much every non-strategy PC game in the 21st century?

>>543489731
>Planned gamepad support for a game that's supposedly recreating a textbook PC game.
Oh my GOD! Guys... Warhammer 40k Boltgun... it... it had MOUSELOOK controls and WASD movement... It's not like DOOM where you'd use the arrow keys to move forward and turn left and right! HOW can a game proport to be a boomer shooter but I don't have to fuck with my IRQ settings to get the sound to work? HOW is that allowed without the dev being summarily executed in the street by an angry mob? If I see a new game that says it's going to be recreating an old game, I expect it to be exactly like the old game with no modern convenieces or quality of life changes, but no I won't just install the old game because fuck you.

>>543489731
Tried the combat. Seems initially good
the tutorial is done terribly

>>543480684
You should move up with a jamgame/demo/prototype that did well on itch so that you have some reference if it might do well.

am making something cool

>>543490446
reminds me of

>>543488396
>The trailer overemphasizes the combat which is always a bad sign with any game, especially with game types that were never famous for their combat.
you can't make a 3d game with bad combat in current year

if he released his game with this level of popularity and it had bad combat it would be full of first day reviews complaining about the bad combat

>>543489453
Monomyth came from here.

>>543490019
>Any PC game that tries to appease consolefags loses something in the process.
Truth. So many games ruined themselves to support a controller. To support a controller you're limiting the amount of keys you can use which immediately harms the potential complexity of a game.

>>543490357
Just because AAA slop does it doesn't make it right. They're aiming for maximum quantity of sales which means that they have to cater to console peasants and normies.

>>543490446
Game is well done (from a technical standpoint)
I have no reason to doubt the developer's technical ability to deliver the game from what I saw
But the game design has a lot of cracks. There's implications that they don't understand how to design a game like this from the pure progression/dynamics/experience side of things. I also don't see how they can scale the game without running into serious problems. I'd be cautious about expectations of how the game develops fully.

>>543490357
Yes.
That's like the whole issue of the consolefag takeover.

>>543486405
>AI voice
what nationality are you that would compel you to do this?

I cast many Vishnu curses upon you for your insolence, bastered bitch!!!!

>>543489636
>this is the project he slapped together in a few months
Holy shit, 2026 will be the year Steam is full of projects from fired AAA devs....next wave of saturation. Except this time it's not pure slop.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3439980/Moby_Dick_A_Tiny_Tale_of_Revenge/

>>543489878
I just played the demo, it's fine and you're desperately nitpicking. Everything you've complained about is inane grumbling.
>>543488885 - It's called that because it's a combat system demo, which it says at the very beginning
>>543489105 - Oh no the menu isn't to your liking? What a serious and substantial critique of the game
>>543489356 - Waaa the color depth filter hurts my dainty little eyes. It's far less obnoxious than what I've seen in demoday, at least it doesn't have fucking dithering
>>543489731 - If you play the game's you'll see it would work perfectly fine with a controller, to think that you'd forgoe that feature for the sake of 'authenticity' is completely retarded and you clearly don't have your priorities straight.
>>543490446 - Oh the actual gameplay part of the gameplay demo was... good despite your bitching?
>>543491561 - You're complaining about lack of progression in a combat arena demo, what do you want next a battlepass? Fucking retard.

Personally I liked the demo for what brief time I played, I only played as the fighter, I'll try as other classes later. It's meant to be a simple combat demo but you have a functioning inventory and equipment system, the starting area has items you can scavenge and books that you can pick up and read. When the NPC in the other room beats your ass he leaves you alive on the ground and just helps himself to your stuff which I thought was pretty cool.

All of these things seem like a decent basis for deeper non-combat gameplay, and I think it looks promising.

>>543492281
relax

>>543492091
>no demo
It's likely an overly polished jam game with less than 1 hour of content.

I want to make an RPG where you can unlock different and upgraded skills for your party members after you spend time with them on a ‘date’ and a system where you can track your friendship status and hang out too without increasing your relationship level.
Also I want to add a parry mechanic.
Could this be done in any of the RPG Maker versions? I presume I might have to use plugins?

GOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING /agdg/. Just wanted to remind you that we are officially TWO (yes you heard me right) TWO months away from v3expo's show The /v/erdict 2. If you haven't made your trailer yet, I'm sorry to say there's no hope for you. You can earn that hope back by starting on your trailers NOW!

All the information you need is here: https://thev3expo.com/submit/ trailers must be 4:3.

>>543492515
ye

>>543491971
Indian.

>>543492281
You're trivializing the issues A) because you don't understand their larger implications of the developer's goals and B) because you're probably a consolefag who's in the target audience of watered down AAAlite games.
Believe me, I want that game to succeed, even if only so that it leads to more developers wanting to make games like those. I have faith in the developer's skills. I don't have faith in the developer's intentions. That's all. Stop trying to gaslight me, because we've already lived through 25 years of PC game dilution and this is getting ridiculous. We all know how this goes

>>543492573
Cool thanks.

Having a hearty breakfast before I start today's devvin'

>>543494564
Ayo Dis nigga eatin hearts!!

>>543494564
Saar....

>>543494684
Yummers.

>>543494716
Yeah?

>>543494684
whichever animal's hearts he's eating, he'll gain its courage.

>>543495204
Ah yes, chickens are notoriously known for their bravery.

>>543495384
try to mess with a cock

>>543496546
stop being a nodev crab
you know what he meant

>>543494564
I prefer a high calorie breakfast so I can work right through lunch time. In theory.
In fact I'll be in a food coma until after lunch time.

>>543496546
where do i buy honey badger hearts?

>>543496972
yes if you see somebody trying to do something positive and your reaction is to try to twist it into something negative and hateful so you can try to demoralize people and try to make them as sad as you then you are a nodev crab correct

>>543459002
>Art I got, kid
>What I don't got is programmin' skills
>Same as you
*Blows smoke in your face*

>>543497040
Looks delicious, but aren't you gonna end up scratching the pan?

>>543497525
post your art cutie

>>543497590
Forks are for stabbing, spoons are for shoveling.

How do I get back to developing games after being psyopped by dark forces beyond my control (they had more money)

>>543497525
Artists don't know how good they have it. Just finally sit down for your own sake and learn what a for loop and an if statement is this weekend and you're basically set financially. Now me? Well, I'd have to spend at least 5 years to get anywhere close to where they are. Coding is the dalit caste of dev.

>>543497372
You zoomers are so ill prepared for the real world, it's embarrassing.

I'm a yesdev crab

kek

>>543498017
If you're really saying this that means you don't know how intricate programming can get. You could argue the same for art, just learn how to draw a few basic shapes, put them together, and you have an owl. You cripple yourself in your progress when you downplay the very skills you need to master. You need to have a mindset of "I know nothing" when it comes to all these things. Programming isn't just for loops and if statements, and art isn't just sphere cylinder and box.

>>543497590
Contrary to popular belief, Teflon coatings have a higher rockwell hardness than the steel, copper, and aluminum of the pans they are on in thin layers, and often knives and forks. (Also, Teflon is entirely chemically inert and will pass through our body without reacting.)
Teflon coating delaminate from pains with temperatures higher than 550F (290C), until your pan reaches this tempurature, your pans should resist light pressure from metal cookware.
Pressing too hard can cause the teflon to elastically deform, which can cause flaking, but often scratches aren't the cause of delamination of the coating. Heat is.

>>543498017
If you really know how to program you can get a software dev job where they pay you enough to hire an artist. Artists are poor and can't hire coders.

>>543498783
I've always wondered, how do they get a non-stick substance to stick to the pan in the first place?

>>543498017
2d artists are stuck making boring 2d games(VN, puzzle games), unless they are also animators, but then they have to animate a shit ton and that takes a long fucking time.
3d artists fair better, but often will be bogged down with level design and technical shit. 3d games are bug land.
truly the ones who have it good are the musicians.

>>543498890
For steel, the coating is sprayed into a formed pan. This is because the pan metal is smooth, and the tacky PTFE adheres worse to the surface.
For aluminum and copper, no matter the finish, it always is a little porous so the PTFE is sprayed onto flat discs, and then the pan is shaped.
You would figure that if the machine pressing the pan into shape isn't damaging to the teflon, it can handle your fork / spatula.

I have, for a long while now, been making my game as a a Half Life 2 mod, because I am racist against programming.
However, it becomes more and more apparent the limitations of the Source Engine and how much of a pain in the penis it is to implement things outside of the stock gameplay features of HL2.
Should I take the plunge and just make my game from scratch? What little programming experience I have is from trying to hack in my custom gameplay elements.

>>543499565
>truly the ones who have it good are the musicians
beaten by me routinely muting music when I start a game

>>543499576
making a mod of a game from 2004 in 2025 is wild. yes you should remake it. programming isn't so hard now, use AI to explain it to you.

>>543499565
Or you are a game developer for a 2d game and don't have an artist, so you are spending all your time animating a ton of shit and not making a game.

>>543498890
Which skillset would qualify you as a real programmer? Not even trolling.

>>543499565
It's true, I need someone who can compose module music, I can't even get a single bar right.

>>543499576
Why are you building a game as a mod for HL2? The Source Engine is a game engine right? Can't you make a game from scratch in source?
Is Source Engine like roblox?

>>543499738
I suppose so. What do you think of making it on Godot? I certainly will need the help of AI for most programming related tasks. Art, on the other hand, is all fine. No problem with that.

>>543498391
He got paid. Gavin's stupidity shouldn't reflect on his contractors

>>543499565
You have to know how to code to make a game. You have to be the one coding it so you understand how everything works and you can fix bugs. Music and art can be outsourced, but never outsource your code.

>>543500021
I'm making it as a Half Life 2 mod because Valve doesn't freely give access to the Source Engine as a whole.

>>543499907
Knowing what you don't know. Question everything to the extent deadlines permit. Don't overcommit and know which things you won't implement because of constraints. At least knowing one or two programming languages really well.

>>543500024
AI is pretty good with GDScript and really good with GDShader. Also GDScript is basically Python, if you know Python you can learn GDScript in a week or two

>>543499576
I'd make a mod and see if anyone actually wants to play it. You could make it a Fallout mod or something more modern and with better documentation and a bigger community.

>>543500065
His video probably made more money than Cuffbust already

>>543499907
The goal is to be able to design complex interconnected systems. System complexity grows exponentially as the number of interactions between different systems increase. Beginner programming is quite easy because all you really need to do is create small self-contained independent black boxes.

>>543499738
>>543500021
How are subhumanized niggers on this board THIS clueless? What the fuck? Do these subhumans even play games at all?

>>543500024
https://github.com/H2xDev/GodotVMF

>>543499907
It doesn't matter what languages you know, companies expect you can learn that on the job as long as you already know a few languages coming in. A "real programmer" is someone who has an understanding of systems and how they interact. For example, my job used a lot of AWS so I had to understand what each AWS service is good for and how to connect them. You should also know how to debug, not just with a million print statements. Another good skill is the ability to abstract repetitive tasks into objects you can call in a modular way. The biggest traits you need to have are curiosity and patience though.

>>543498783
>>543499572
Based

Can I use SDL to make a 2D game without having to learn OpenGL?

>>543500796
yes

>>543493119
Disagreeing with you isn't gaslighting, you're acting crazy, maybe you should lie down.

I do not give a shit about the struggles of artfags, no matter how much they whine here. Your clique doesn't want to make art or games for the sake of it, you ONLY want money and fame whilst undercutting everyone else around you so you charge exorbitant prices for mediocre work.
I'm not even gonna talk about their faggy and hysterical nature.
Learn to code, or price accordingly, or fuck off and get replaced by AI.

>>543500073
templates, code assets and tutorials(for the assets) go a long way.

>>543500209
I see. I've no knowledge of Python, or any other language for that matter, but a man must learn.
>>543500230
I had considered Fallout before, but I ended up going with Source in the end. With my dissatisfaction of Source, I declare that I must make an actual standalone game.
Whether people play it or not doesn't really matter since this is just a hobby to occupy my on my days off work.
>>543500557
Oh shit, this is awesome.
Say, for an obscure non-commercial game hosted by myself, what are the chances of Valve raping me for stealing their assets?

>>543501184
>Say, for an obscure non-commercial game hosted by myself, what are the chances of Valve raping me for stealing their assets?
In this day and age you can find same quality if not better assets for free commercial use even, no point really.

>>543500796
sexo
also just learn love2D instead

reeeeeee

>>543501391
>>543501281
>>543501184
>>543501092

>>543500557
how would they know though

>>543500951
>>543500914
>>543500825
>>543500796

>>543501391
how does love2d compare to something like sfml or raylib? i dont want to use lua if possible

>>543501914
just like make game
am i gonna fucking ask you if you made your game in raylib, love2d or sfml
only retarded ngmi autists do that

>>543502004
i guess so... i think im ngmi......

>>543500750
>>543500558
>>543500557
>>543500476

>>543501914
lua a simple thing
it just werks lol

>>543501184
Python, and by extension, GDScript, is the easiest language to learn. It's practically English. You'll be fine.

>>543500021
>he doesn't prototype in Garry's Mod

>>543500348
>>543500286
>>543500230
>>543500209

>>543501281
I just like the look of them.

>>543502505
They're just fotos stretched over low-poly meshes most of the time with AO baked into the diffuse.

So fagoon switched from cp to gore?

I wish I had been secretly working on my game like I fantasize about doing every day, instead of doing nothing. I would have had a game now.

>>543473873
I use my wishlist to keep track when the game drops below a specific price. If I want a game, I don't need to wishlist to remember to buy it, I just follow it organically and buy on release.

>>543494564
Nice, I bought some too, but I'm saving them for the weekend.

>>543473873
It's almost as if conversion rates aren't good numbers to look at.

>>543473873
Biggest takeaway: don't make indie sequels

>>543476814
>>543478935
thanks for trying it out! really helps with seeing someone play for feedback on things i overlook
I got to add key rebinding eventually, the kb controls are not very ergonomic
>>543479273
we do have both, very hard to catch the algorithm though

>>543473873
anons who even cares about sales and coversions. if you're so desperate for money just have your parents give you some.
this is AMATEUR game development general. if you care about money you shouldn't be here.

>>543503858
wypipo all look the same

fun fact: when you ask the slavix marketing guru worshipper what games his idol made, bro freezes
makes me kek every single time

>>543505272
@grok can you translate this post

tourist xister needs a 'lator, wont somebody help xer

>>543505272
82 reviews in 2 years
mogs me

>>543505671
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2685900/Mind_Over_Magnet/

shartubers have it easy

>>543505982
that's Zukowski?

Working on a new level. What do we think so far?

>>543506339
no this redditor https://www.youtube.com/@GMTK
fraudowski made a garbage shartformer about depression or something

>>543506425
Insincere post.

>>543468857
I tried it. The voice tracks are funny. The gameplay is pretty fun and simple, which is good. Though I wish there was a way to auto-fire the pellets and to switch the weapons (if there is, then I missed it). I don't understand the advantage of the bat. Graphics are good, but I couldn't get very far because firing every pellet manually is tiring.

Also, there's this bug in the first room where the red glow is stuck and motionless on this room for some reason.

>>543478635
I do. Might be nice to keep them in the itchio page, cheats are always fun.

>>543469997
https://bigdogdamon.itch.io/jargon-beta-demo

>>543506653
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1654810/Mix_Universe/

>>543507860
maybe he should have learned how to market a game?

>>543507860
>early access

Miegakure still isn't out. 4d bros... was it hubris?

>>543507948
>This game is a passion project of mine that I have been working on since late 2018. Early access just makes sense since it will constantly be evolving and changing over the next couple of years.
H O B B Y
O
B
B
Y

>>543508187
sounds like cope

>>543508187
I hate goodlifers who can afford to have hobbies. I can't wait for the apocalypse so I can start hunting them down. First stop: my neighbor and his harp collection.

guys please stop posting loli
you're giving me the urge to make loli models
thank you

>>543508525
I WILL play my electric guitar at 8PM and there is nothing my neighbors can do about it

>>543508551
You're the one posting that garbage tho pedotroon, leave.

>>543508525
>I can't succeed in good times
>That's why I'll be successful in bad times
You're not scrappy or hard boiled from being a loser anon. Hobbyists will unironically grill your corpse on their expensive smokers over applewood.

>>543508551
All according to plan.
*plan means keikaku

>>543504147
Not linked on the Steam page. If it's not in that right section it doesn't exist

i give up, i cant make anything

>>543488529
Looks like something I'd see from a Sierra point and click adventure. Very good. You are talented.

>>543508965
Get a job schizo.

>>543489815
exact opposite for me
i love making games
the only part i dislike is making capsule art, i might pay an artist to make this stuff for me
even advertising is fun for the types of games i make

>>543509148
oh true, though at that point they are already on the steam page
thanks for the heads up

>>543508525
but anon you're in a hobby general right now. Nobody actually takes gamedev seriously unless they have a few million in investments.

>>543509338
He's gonna reply to ximself with the boomer jap, watch.

renpy is too much for me im moving back to rpg maker

>>543494564
????? wtf is this? turds?

>>543509646
No harm, babe.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/Metal_Garden/

Make small games.

>>543510101
Yup, you sure do love this place to post here all day every day. Are you bed ridden or something?

i hate making characters i hate making characters i hate making characters i hate making characters i hate making characters

i wanna dev i wanna dev i wanna dev i wanna dev i wanna dev i wanna dev i wanna dev

How did you pick your genre? Gut feeling? Or something more data driven?

>>543510789
I'm away quite often, but when I'm here, I'm here.

>>543511432
https://games-stats.com/steam/tags/

>>543511212
she looks like she rapes shotas

progress update: i installed an engine (but havent opened it yet)

some games are simply destined to fail

>>543511432
I chose the genre that best fit what I wanted to work on.

my game doesn't conform to any genre. I'm simply too creative to be bound like that.

>>543511597
I willingly dev in the red gaming sector

>>543511597
People like open endlessness and dislike linear challenges

>Make small games.
>links a big game

how do i code AI

>>543513089
run towards player

There's only a single screenshot posted on my game's community page... There's no hope...

a game where you kill and dismember white women

>>543513690
SAAAAAR

>>543513510
Show us it

>>543513089
AI fags are not real gamedevs
I would never buy a game with AI

>>543514436
anon I...

why can't aggy daggy come up with such a simple, yet fun premise?

>>543510594
I did. but... I took a long time.
>5 years for this? sure I only heard about it just now, but I expect more. sure it was only $10, but 5 years man!
real in my head btw

My game is compiling.

Quick test of a level title card similar to NGE

>>543515232
Start with Pong, nodev.

>>543513690
vile pedotroon, die

>>543499576
Is your game more complex than EYE Divine Cybermancy or Dark Messiah? Source engine is capable.

>>543515530
too quick I didn't have time to read it all

>>543515232
there are too many games with the "build a kingdom" premise and not enough with "destroy a kingdom"
i assure you it's a starved market

>>543515694
pong could be the future, just look at the breakout clone.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2062430/BALL_x_PIT/

>>543500796
>>543500171
>>543500825
>>543501391
kill yourself

>>543506425
AI slop

>>543515232
Modern PC gaming is an enigma to me. I don't see how any of these games are fun when you barely even interact with them. I only recently found out that Vampire Survivors isn't even a twin-stick shooter. You can't even shoot. What's the point then?

>>543515904
Not sure if I should keep it quick for the aesthetic. At the moment it won't have any important details aside from the level name and order. Maybe some stats later.

>>543508551
>>543508987
kill yourself

>>543516223
in any kind of entertainment, mass appeal was always about dumbing down. the kind of "people" who like VS are analogous to those who liked 50 shades of grey or fast & furious movies.
with PC gaming this trend has lagged somewhat because the earlier you go in PC gaming history the more skill you needed to be able to install and run a game. the kind of guys who could tinker with autoexec.bat and config.sys wouldn't tend to find games like VS very interesting.

>>543515232
Coming up with small but fun ideas is difficult.

>>543516223
>incapable of considering why some people find a game fun if he doesn't enjoy it himself
NGMI

>>543515694
Post your pong game. You have one right?

https://x.com/AlexBurlis/status/1980289522593050905

if you ever get scared of having your own multiplayer/online architecture, you can do it for 5bux a month
even running an indie gacha as a solodev is possible without having to pay 10k monthly in aws markup

>>543515970
pong has no depth to explore

ball x pit can only be made once there's no room to clone it

>>543511597
>https://games-stats.com/steam/tags/
>my main genre is right near the bottom
it's over for me already

>>543516792
>>incapable of considering why some people find a game fun if he doesn't enjoy it himself
>NGMI
if you find Vampire Survivors fun, you're low IQ. sorry you had to find out like this.

>>543517156
>reading comprehension
NGMI

>>543517262
it's okay, anon. you're no less of a human being despite your low IQ

>>543516994
>listening to an AI vibe coding grifter

>>543517628
You are less of a human being for your inability to consider things without inserting your own feelings into them.

>>543517741
dont care about xim, we use hetzner at work and i can also vouch for it
i remember the steamdb dev crying about muh costs and paywalling his scrapper it almost made me want to call him out on main, i dont get why people are so scared of multiplayer architecture, its not 2005 anymore

>>543518321
What's the difference between Hetzner and other web hosting companies? My web host offers all the same things more or less.

>>543518321
>hetzner
based based based their server auctions are lit

>>543518321
>i remember the steamdb dev crying about muh costs and paywalling his scrapper

When was this? Cause in 2023 he said it was very cheap to run the site

>In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34548908

>>543453960 (OP)
says a lot that fygoon shat on the dead or alive creator but not ian watkins like everyone else
guess being a perv is only bad if it's with fiction and you're not white

why does steam allow this?

>>543519346
free $100 for valve

>>543519346
They'll approve this, but not sex with robots game

>>543454014
Did a bunch of water stuff today.

>>543519346
>4 dollar
for premium unreal game good deal saar

>75% weekly limit Codex reached
>Claude 80% weekly limit reached

>>543519026
It was not Steamdb but SteamSpy iirc and it was a while ago, he tried to grift but Steamdb btfo him.

>>543519346
gamedev is such bullshit

>>543519643
nice water

>>543519643
that looks very nice

>>543519749
What's a typical task you use those services for when coding?

>>543520142
make x
do it professional
kthnxbai

>>543519346
Do you see this game as a threat? If it was next to your game on Steam would you be afraid that people would choose it over your game? If not then why do you care, if so then your game would also get filtered by whatever standard you wish to apply to that game
>>543519824
>if I just make a game and put it on Steam people will buy it
>An Asymmetrical Horror FPS - this is a perfectly adequate description.
These are what goes through the mind of the ngmi dev.

>>543453960 (OP)
My body hurts so much

>>543520328
>>543520303
>>543520249
>>543520142

good morning sirs

>>543520328
sorry to hear that, bundev.
I hope you make it!

I just bought your game,downloaded it,uploaded it to a pirate website for everyone to download for free and then hit refund button and got all my money back as soon as i was done.
Your reaction?

>>543520467
I can't even tell what this is, other than gore.

>>543520548
>Your reaction?

>>543520023
>>543519980
>>543519824
>>543519793

>>543520548
I detect if it's been tampered with and I have a guilt tripping screen (also with "implications") for players who play more than 2 hours.

>decide to make a game with ps1 aesthetics
>shitty 3d or pre-rendered background
>or both
Which way western man?

>>543519749
>>543519695
>>543519643
>>543519593

>>543520548
well almost everything i used to make it was pirated, so fair game.

>>543519456
>>543519346
>>543519280
>>543519026

Imagine a pong game but each paddle is held up and balanced on two anime girls heads, and they run the width of a tennis court and it's 3d models. And one girl has to run backwards

>>543521251
this is impossible to make.

>>543518834
>>543518805
>>543518321
>>543518301

>>543521251
no way someone would do this