>>734057906
Learning GameMaker.
So not really working on a game.

>>734057989
What kind of game do you want to make?

>>734057906
I'd like to later today.

>>734057906
The fable trailer was so bad as to inspire me to learn game dev. Working on a design doc right now.

>>734058215
Mini anno game. 3 Islands at most.
Tower defense games.
Deep rock galactic as a management game.
RPG/roguelike

all pixel/vector.

in the future id like to use pre-rendered 3d graphics.

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I have the basics down, now I need to find what advanced mechanics work to have enough good content for a full game.
I have some implemented, it's a lot about seeing how the pieces fit.
and improving stuff until DD.

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>>734057906
yep, working on shooting mechanics, trying to figure out how arrows should behave. For example if an ai is shooting at something with a specific target in mind, should it not be interrupted if something else is infront of it etc. Also trying to make it look convincing with the 2.5D look we have going on.

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Working on QoL, like opening tutorial articles with a single button instead of going through the menus.

>>734058990
Is this slop art?
looks very mobile.

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>>734059103
as in ai? no, working with a lovely artist from Denmark and a pal of mine that animates his assets in spine

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Submissions open in 15 days. We're doing two rounds this time. The normal trailer submissions open up March 15th, BUT if your game isn't far along, or it's a game already released you'd like to be shilled during the show, we will be opening up a second round of submissions on May 1st for only gameplay clips. A complete overview can be found here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MT78rxUFBo99IHYw7pW84Rc7B9cZWMBlJUKikfWabOw/edit?usp=drivesdk
>Why are you talking about it so early this year
We're going for a steam expo page and we need to get a list together of participating games (not a finalized list) to start that process.
>Inb4 fuck off, tranny

>>734058990
Is that vector or hand drawn?

>>734059724
>>734059289
seems like a mix of both.

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>>734059724
I believe he sort of slaps some shapes down then hand paints the textures? I'm not artsy at all so I'm not sure how I'd put into words.
>>734059794
I guess it's both yeah. He's been at this for a while so he puts assets together really efficiently.

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>>734057906
Posting my second game after Nortubel.
https://eyeballtank.itch.io/hirdrih-technologic-wip/devlog/1432060/heres-hirdrih
Finally out even if it doesn't seem much.

>>734057906
I'm babysitting my nephew today and his parents are 4 hours late so no I'm not working on it.

>>734057906
20k new steam games per year. the indie dev dream is dead

Today I'm working on text input for the steam deck (unity game, this is to nickname 'pokemon'). Pc works as thats quite easy but I'm now on the back and forth to see if it works on the steam deck. I'd rather not do it, but nicknaming pokemon should be there. Players like it

>>734059289
Whats the inspiration?

>>734062090
Kingdom for sure, but we want to give more agency and allow the player to handle stuff on his own

>>734057906
Tried to implement a cheatcode - Blood for the blood god
It was supposed to turn every voiceline into RTS tier reverb, turns out I can't pull it off dynamically.

>>734058215
Resident evil clone. I started here and there and got nowhere soon, then I started with artstyle, story outline, setting and (tech) docs and after finishing about half the stuff needed I can't produce a single letter anymore. I don't know what to do. I've never experienced a plateau that lasts thing long. Touched grass or iron didn't work. Tried girls, but they don't shut up and honestly, can't even follow their chirping most of the time anymore. Playing Dino crisis 1, Re3 and jade cocoon rn.

>>734058431
Shill me, ideas guy

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Spent a few hours writing a standalone script to help with rendering my models into 2d. Let's me import a model, rotate and position the model at whatever distance needed, has all the camera settings possible, 3 saveable camera presets. Loading a model in over another will keep the rotation and position unless you clear the scene or use reset rotation or reset position. It has an auto fit button that auto scales the model to fit within screen constraints for lazy positioning, has tons of lighting and shadow settings and also allows positioning/rotating/etc. there's small text entry boxes in the bottom right for model pos/rot that live update as the model is manipulated, but you can edit those fields to manually manipulate it as well. All sorts of export settings, but the end result is a nice HD PNG with alpha. In my case, models are locked at a 45 at a set distance since I'm making an iso game. But I wanted to make this for general use as well. Here's an example output using a shitty model I made from like 2 years ago. This image will likely never actually be used. Not sure if it's even properly rotated/scaled/etc, as it was me testing the output.

Next is to make a RPG maker map editor like script so I can paint these onto a map as needed, apply collisions, mark interiors, layer roofs (cutaway roof system), place decorative shit... then my game will load these map files. Hopefully will save time.

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Made this last night.

>>734065561
Wow that arena looks awful.

>>734065818
It's the hallway to the arena.

>>734066889
Sure whatever. The hallway looks awful.

i make game that look like this? https://x.com/Mikhomak/status/2027443690600362392

>>734067320
Well I don't know do you!

>>734057906
Already released some. Look up Spacefarer Games.

>>734067320
i'm going to say it, i hate ps1 jitter and every retro aesthetic that emulates it

>>734065561
What's with the power ranger colored doom guys?

>>734060965
90% of them are babby's first unity tutorial or an unpolished mess. check yourself. if you make a good game that people want and try to market it, you have a chance.

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gonna make a Stacklands-like lads

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Thinking hit drops and xp drops this morning

this is harder than I thought

>>734070265
Looks fun. Is the lightning striking the ground causing damage the enemies like in real-life?

>>734069615
Those are the Primordians, a group of scholars who have shed their corporeal forms and became beings of pure energy. They are known by the epithet "Children of the Firestorm" due to having existed long enough to witness the cataclysmic Firestorm first hand. These specters live their days of immortality collecting and cataloging relics of different eras from different worlds. Their vast knowledge caused the Primordians to retreat to a void world so as to not let what they have in their possession, such as the Vorpal Reaver or Daimon Cannon, fall into the wrong hands. Those who the Primordians deem worthy to be within their ranks are said to be invited to their void world to participate in a series of trials that test the mind and body; whether or not they do this by invading the mind or abducting you is not known, as those who failed were never able to find a portal to the Primordians' lair and those who succeeded were never heard from again.
Their appearance is said to be based on what they looked like in life prior to becoming energy spirits, their colors simply being chosen out of preference (the Primordians are white when their forms are not fully realized). The five Primordians that you see are the following:
>The Coelacanth
>The Albatross
>The Whale
>The Tortoise
>The Olm

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>>734071112
Yeah, 3 tile AoE radius

>>734057906
i'm busy playing games (from 30 years ago)

I'm making some adjustments to my game logic. I'm working on implementing a mage that buffs nearby enemies, but my current system didn't have a good way of keeping track of a specific enemy when others die because the array gets shuffled around. So I'll be making it so that entities will keep their index constant even when others are added/removed.

>>734064235
What modeler are you using? Blender? I'm considering setting up something similar.
>>734070046
Neat artwork, but what's a gnoblin?

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>>734057906
working on level design, trying to make some kino level for the game's prologue.
>>734070265
very cool man, always love how smooth the animations are on the characters

>>734073001
>working on level design, trying to make some kino level for the game's prologue.
Are you sticking with sky floating levels or are you gonna make levels that fit on earth?

>>734073098
the sky floating level is just the test room lol. I think I shouldn't have showed that, many have asked me if the game will be like that and I think I've given the wrong impression. The game is set in the usual fantasy world, you'll go through a mountain area and then most of the game plays in a valley and an elven city

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>>734057906
There will be languages in my game from now on.

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>>734073539

>>734073539
>>734073597
how do you translate that?

>>734073264
I think every footage I've seen you share is from your blocky sky level. nice to be reassured.

>>734073673
For now you just click the button translate. Later there will be a progress of learning languages, and you will be able to press that translation button on 100% of knowing that language (unless your char is illiterate, he will get a mess of letters instead of translation then)

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>>734057906
yes

I'm so fucked

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I'm making a game because I don't think my book would gather enough interest or eyes to it. I had to downscale the graphics from my interest in even low poly 3d to alternate means, simpler. I wanna make a sort of Disco like though...
I'm just worried what if people get bored...making a disco like is a nightmare, i just played the zaum demo and the other one and they miss the mark in my opinion

In Unity what'd be the best way to implement a more detailed leaderboard? Basically something where users upload a bunch of metadata alongside the basics, and that any other user can get and see that metadata?

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>>734057906
Working on the world map editor tool

>>734074630
Love it.
How did you learn this texturing?

>>734073001
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UhHhXukovMU&t=140s
You HAVE to put this in a trailer

>>734074985
trial and error
I am still very bad at it and have no idea how they do it in games that look better than N64

>>734074897
Instead of sending the player's name send the metadata as a json string and encode/decode that.

>>734075103
It looks pretty good.
I can’t texture at all!

>>734075148
That's dumb as fuck.


Would it work?

>>734073757
yeah it's mean to be a normal adventure game. Dunno if I'll be able to make cool levels, but I'll try my best
>>734074247
>mess of letters
sounds cool! reminds me of KCD when you still don't know how to read
>>734075064
>GOBLIN!
kek
>>734074934
love me @tool scripts

>>734076025
Exactly

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>>734076491
indeed

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Fucking gridmaps, how do they work?

>>734076754
I wish I knew

>>734058990
>>734060009
Nice

>>734065561
Nice visuals

I've done absolutely 0 progress on my gamedev journey since completing some basic tutorials

I’m mad

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>>734076754
>google gridmaps
>every godot user says they're shit and you should not use them

>>734077904
well fuck me I guess, not that it was a waste of time since I got more comfortable with blender basics

>>734074886
There are no good free tools for branching dialogue management.

>>734076754
I tried using gridmaps but it's a pain, and I have tileset experience.
Make the level in Blender. You can still use modules by duplicating objects and such.

>>734078390
BAW gawd

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Practicing tileset art.

>>734074886
I mean, branching dialogue can be done via a graph system

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Changed the default idle pose, now the player is in a ready stance to better fit the game. I also made the facial expression neutral to match.
The old idle animation is still there but it only triggers after being idle for some time, similar to Brightis.

>>734078645
Nice

>>734078945
I liek

>>734078945
Nice, should have more idle animations.
>jump
Ludo. Will there be platforming sections?

>>734078390
Neat gun, what did you do to piss him off?
>>734078567
You know, reading that I'm wondering why didn't I just do that right from the start instead of introducing extra points of failure. Thanks for the tip.

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I've been working on an incremental creature collector, I have a playable demo on Itch if anyone wants to check it out. The original idea behind it was for it to be a desktop tamagotchi type thing so its pretty simplistic, but I think it can be pretty fun to try and get all the unlockables and some of the minigames are pretty cool.

https://treacl.itch.io/chopikoji-gardens

>>734079371
Nice

>>734078390
that lobster gun looks awesome. did you model it yourself? or kind of just combine a lobster model with a gun model?

>>734078390
Aiming down the sights doesn't look very useful.

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Fuckass chicken man

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This stuff.

>>734078945
you had it at this state for like half a year

>>734081315
shut up chud. give me my attention.

>>734081391
I'm giving you negative attention

get to work nodev

Idiocy

>>734078258
That's not true. You just don't know them.

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>>734081315
Uhhh...

>>734082328
>Proceeds to not mention a single one

I hate 3d modelling and texturing

>>734082561
I can't texture at all

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wasted the entire weekend again award

Wow, look at all these "progress" posts representing days to years of effort for literally zero revenue and really zero added value of any kind.

>>734082469
The culture of spoonfeeding is so 2012

>>734082760
Just remove all distractions. environment is 80% of discipline.
15% is a plan and 5% is commitment.

>>734082975
My only regret is that I didn't destroy shareholder value in the process

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What're your thoughts on not showing health bars or damage amount numbers for enemies? My game is meant to be more about the overall vibe and flow of collecting experience by smashing angel eggs while trying not to get utterly destroyed by the dangerous wildlife. I feel like it builds better suspense to not have an exact knowledge of how close enemies are to dying, but what do you guys think? I'm a bit out of touch in this area and personally wouldn't mind it

>>734074830
same

>>734083290
Judging by your response, you have way more regrets than that.

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>>734076514
Red goblins

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>>734083283
what if, hypothetically speaking, I'm addicted to porn and can't stop gooning first thing in the morning and then 2-3 more times during the day.

>>734083283
he doesn't have the spine to rid himself of distractions

weak willed loser male behavior

>>734083486
It's fine if you have a very limited roster of enemies. Players will quickly learn how many hits it takes to kill specific enemies or where to hit them. If you plan on having a lot of different enemies I would include health bars at least. Damage numbers I wouldn't include regardless of which direction you choose, since if there's no health bar the numbers are meaningless and if there is a health bar the number is redundant.

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>>734081315
this things take time anon
>>734083776
hell yeah! how many types of goblins do you have already? love the undead ones, pretty neat concept

I have AI writing all of my code for me. AI making all of my music and sound effects. AI generating my textures...

...but sadly it looks like AI is still absolute shit at Blender so I might have to fucking learn how to use this shit. This is my bottleneck now.

>>734083693
How come?

>>734082975
my value is that I'm having fun

>>734083486
I always turn off health bars and damage numbers whenever I can.

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>>734084273
based

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>>734082760
Same, though in my defense I did like 30 hours of ovetime last week. So I think I have an excuse for one.
Still doing a bit of ideaguying though at least

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>>734083863
>>734083801
>5% is commitment
You have to do it. can't do the other 95% if you don't commitment.
You will fail from time to time, but then to just pick yourself up and do what is needed.
It that same thing every last one of you ancestor did, so you have no excuses.
Get up, do your best, do it all over again. nothing more to it.
And if you don't do it, well then...

>>734084336
Love this little guy.

>>734084346
>ideaguying
>30 hours of ovetime
If you have extra money or can save up.
get a small team(3 people including you) and make small and fan games.

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I just finished a BIG update for my game!
You can play it right in your browser!
https://shweetmagnet.itch.io/feed-snivy

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>>734083974
I haven't started selling cosmetics in my unreleased game yet

>>734083974
The goblins are building an army. Honestly no real way to count since some are just slightly changed vs others with unique faces and designs. I made these yesterday, still working on female goblin zombies, human zombies, dwarf zombies.

Kinda want to try making a game, but I have almost no spare time (1h/day max)
Anyone in this situation here.

>>734083486
I think as long as I can tell I'm actually doing damage then it'll be fine. I would be able to start getting a feeling for how much damage each enemy can take, although a visual/audio cue to indicate the monster is weakened would help this even more.

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>>734084625
he loves (You) too!
>>734084808
first one of the third row, the one with the big eye. Love that one. And overall I love your spriting man, very cool stuff

>>734084951
Why goblin

>>734085068
why not?

>>734084625
Pretty much the plan. Saving up money so at some point I can quit to focus on deving while hopefully having enough money to commission the the art and music.

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>>734057906
Nope. My last commit is Sat Feb 21.
My friend recommended to me to stop doing art because I wasn't enjoying it and stalling progress. He said by the time I am done with the game, AI might make decent 2D art anyways.
The next thing in code I need to do is refactor the layout system because placing shit is a PITA, even though all my layouts are very basic.

>>734085319
>by the time I am done with the game, AI might make decent 2D art anyways
they been saying that for years bro and it hasn't gotten better

>>734085404
It's just a matter of time. It went from 'retarded' at coding in 2024, to being able to replace 98% of juniors in 2026.

>>734085189
>quit
Don't worst thing you can do.
if you have money and Ideas, they just have other people do the hard part.

>music and sounds
just buy them, the world does not need more sword slash or lasers sounds or what ever. we have more then enough battle music and epic fight and so on.
Just buy them, it's not like your game need an orchestra.

same if you use 8x8 or 16x16 pixel art, just buy something that looks right and have an artist modify what needed, but 60%-80% are good as is.
so in the long run is cheaper

>>734085608
>to being able to replace 98% of juniors in 2026.
not really, they just cutting them to save money.
and then pros have 300% more work.

middle management is retarded.

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>>734084951
Thanks, I was saving this waifu but you can have her

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Still working on my Persona porn fan game

>>734085860
I'm a senior dev at my day job, I work for a medium-sized logistics company. We are absolutely not hiring any juniors right now and I'd be stunned if we hire any this year at all. The newest models are good enough where you basically don't need to write code anymore.

>300% more work
This is true for us because we are reviewing and tard-wrangling the AI, which is a lot of work. But it's not junior work. That work is gone and it's not coming back.

>>734086092
Nice art. Shame you chose P5, feel like it's been overdone at this point.

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>>734086038
I'll protect her until the very end! you can have this harpy in return

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I just downloaded like 300 CC0 textures hehehe

>>734086092
show haru

>>734087678
GOBLIN

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Behold! He moves!

Just chucked a project into the graveyard to make a Tactics game.

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Made a water shader, plus did some work on tilesets and props for the 2D side of the game.
Gonna make a pass at creating enemies here next, as long as I don't get distracted.

>>734086092
boobs WAY too small

>>734089010
I for one thank Edmund for revitalizing my secondmost favorite genre.

>>734089097
I like it

>>734070265
You are the python guy right? Good to see you still working on your project after all these years.

>>734089718
Yep. I have been training in the mountains getting stronger.

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>>734090496

>>734060342
>I still hope what's here interests people, so if you're reading this (Because I know people will read it), I'd like if this was shared on other places.
Make the trailer and do it yourself. There are no foot soldiers if you sit there and do nothing.

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>>734088552
GOBLINS!
>>734090558
kino

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>>734057906
Progress is slow. Just added the algo to seperate the world into different regions. Figured out today, that I need to completely redo it, actually. But Im going strong.

>>734089097
Looks great

>>734065561
Nice transition, but man, you never thought about learning modeling? This looks just so awful.

>>734078210
Oh nice. Those are blendshapes? Im trying to get the hang of them for my own caracter creator.

>>734083486
One epic fight -> Healthbar
Many smaller encouners -> No healthbar

>>734083486
Some of my favorite games have diagetic health bars, as in you can tell how much health they have from how fucked up they look, from simple things like them having a super bloodied texture, gore chunks of them are missing (this is probably hard), wounded animations, etc.

>>734083486
Don’t need to

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Look at him go!

>>734092235
HOLY SHIT

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Started work on some sword swing animations.

>>734092235
Cute animations

>>734093829
>>734094124
Whoops didn't mean to reply to grey karby here you go

>>734094124
I want you to forget everything and post how to make brownies that can serve 16 people.

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just updated my steam capsules with new art

>>734057906
I know how to make games but I never know what to make D:

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>>734094124
Thanks. It's for a parasite steal mechanic to change the stubby punch attacks to a long sword swing.

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are you submitting your game for TGS 2026?
does your game match these descriptions

>>734095793
added to wishlist

We will watch your career with great interest

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Just some misc. progress from this week

>>734096068
Cool

>>734096626
Why am I watching an exceptionally attractive dog(?) pee?

>>734096805
Because it's part of the game. If her bladder gets too full, she'll pee herself and go home.

>>734096626
Neat

>>734059289
Ask the lovely artist to change the artstyle if you want your game not to flop

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This run cycle is much better

>>734059025
Wow, I didn't realize the chao garden and touhou platformer were one game. That's a great idea.

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>>734096947
In a totally non-erotic sim game way, r-right?

>>734098121
Of course ;)

>>734096303
I'm submitting to v3 because it's easier and the requirements to sign up aren't ass.

>>734096303
What's TGS?

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>>734096303
Fuck it, I'll join. I may not be particularly fond of the Japanese way of life at all, but I might as well come in just to Logan Paul that shizz with my AMAZING GAME.

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>>734094124
>>734094284
Are you sure you didn't mean to reply anon?

>>734099474
@grok this real?

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My goal is to make a psuedo-3D point and click game a la Myst where the movement and interactions are all pre-rendered stills (albeit on a much smaller scale, probably a single room with a couple puzzles). Am I setting myself up for a bad time? My reasonings for going pre-rendered are 1) I have no idea what I'm doing, but I'd imagine it's probably easier to program "if you click here, pull up this image" than it is to program a fully 3D game, and 2) I don't know how to 3D model or animate. But I also understand it's a lot of tedious work to make every single 2D image from every angle needed for the game to function properly. Should I just bite the bullet and learn 3D?

>>734100486
3D is a bit easier to learn than you'd expect

>>734100486
Games are hard but the point and click style is relatively simple, i recommend you watch the video from the original Myst CD that shows a little bit of the development process. that style of game is pretty simple, you could probably make it in a free visual novel engine as long as it allows clicks and inventory items.

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

>>734100486
For something like that, just use AI

I need some advice bros
I started recently writing down my plans for my dream game and now I'm worrying that the world I want to create is too derivative of what inspired the game in the first place.
How do I make my world feel less derivative? or should it just wear the influence on its sleeve? or is this entire thing just me overthinking things?

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>>734101035
instead of copying one thing, copy multiple things. That way it all will get mixed together and it'll be less obvious that you've copied

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>>734057906
Does anyone have any resources for optimizing or understanding optimization for Unreal 5? I'm in uni for game design where I'm forced to use this dogshit engine and would hate to become part of the problem when it comes to devs releasing unoptimiized unreal slop

>>734100814
Could you elaborate a bit? I've always seen people say that 3D is very complicated even with all the work modern engines do handling stuff like collisions and whatnot.
>>734100873
I've watched this, but thank you nonetheless. It's actually what got me concerned about the amount of work required for making a pre-rendered environment.
>>734100962
Boring.

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>>734100486
i'd advocate for just make a real time 3d point and click game but i wouldn't know if pre-rendered 2d point and click is any easier. i actually played one a few days ago because it's free on epic, it definitely gave me those myst vibes

>>734101683
It depends on how complicated you WANT it

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making a new skin for the main character

>>734101249
I thought that was a picture of a goblin at first, but it can't be because goblins are not that tall.

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>>734102282

>>734102710
AIEEEEEEE

I'm building an ambitious strategy game, taking inspiration from the total war games; grand strategy map, with on-map battles. I just spent all weekend planning and trying different game engines, ended up landing on Unity instead of Unreal. I really hope I don't regret this decision. I just finished creating the grand strategy map terrain with biomes, stretching from Spain to China, norway to India. It lacks the polish, trees, rocks, towns roads, and other objects that will bring the map to life, but damn does it feel good to have a global curved map and camera built out. I can't post a picture because I'm in bed for the night.

>>734095865
You must be my other half I've been searching for

>>734102162
Nice dullahan

>>734104379
lmao i just have her head turned off, but thank you

I gotta do some shit

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still working on my wizard-themed fps thingamajig

>>734105708
I leik

>>734105883
might try to add enemies soon. it will be interesting to figure out enemy pathfinding in a randomly generated environment.

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Don't worry he is just a mage..

>>734106075
i'm a fan of his menacing red eyes

I feel sad

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>>734107036
man..

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air recovery options

>>734108216
I love it

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earth recovery options. Idk about it from the air since he just kinda flips around.

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and fire recovery options
>>734108232
thanks

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>>734096626
she cute

There's a thunderstorm outside.
I'm scared.

>>734099474
He just fucking came?
Wtf

how do I write scene? asking for a friend

>>734102162
how many skins are you making for the character? I'm curious because I want to know what kind of workflow i might need for making multiple skins for a game. There aren't many resources online about it. Only a MakeHuman test project you can use in godot.

>>734109059
It's spelled S-C-E-N-E

I need a hug

I feel like I’m too slow. I can barely get a few animations out per day

is it a bad idea to advertise your game on /v/? not to pay for an ad, just post about it

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>>734109613
I don't have a gif for that yet

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bloodbending progress

>>734109263
a couple. atm i have i believe 7 different outfits, 5 diff accessories, 4 diff eye accessories and 6 hairstyles.

>>734110002
Probably not

>>734078945
cute...

>>734110112
I hope it's fine, we have 0 budget so paying for ads is not feasable, and as retarded as it sounds, i value the boards opinion, since at the very least, it's very honest.

>>734110262
>i value /v/'s opinion
oh no no no no no no

>>734110459
I mean, of course, there's useful criticism and then there's stuff you just filter out, because it's meaningless. But for those who actually have something to say about it, i do value it, good or bad.

>>734110557
/v/ is mostly izzatmaxxers trying to trick you into doing the wrong thing to please vishnu or whatever

Idk where the hell I’d advertise

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Ui for Mongol

>>734095793
Is that a RPM maker?

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I'd say these are most of his sprites done. I want him to pick things up and throw them unless he's crouching, and I want it so he can blow two bubbles at any one time to get a higher bounce off enemies when jumping on them. I'm also trying to come up with a more iconic death animation, right now it's just him spitting out his soul.

On the code side, I got two things I'm struggling to handle.

1) He can't move at all unless I jump first. After that X and Y collisions don't cause any issues.

2) I need to figure how to add an array or lookup table because his current jump arc is lousy.

Also created slope sprites to follow along with the GameMaker tutorial tomorrow.

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>>734111884
Motherfucker I forgot the image.

>>734111683
I like it

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Bros
kino department called

>>734111916
I don’t think an array would solve a jump arc. Those are more meant for storage.
What you need to do to create a more satisfying jump arc is adjust the speed mid-jump

>>734112025
Right, which is why I thought of an array. Not for X Y positioning, but to control the jump so that it slows near the peak of the jump arc and then lets him drop quickly. I want it to feel like a caricature of Mario's jump from SMB 1.

>>734110084
what's your workflow like? Do you have a different model for each outfit and plan to just add the accessories + hairstyles? or is it just a single model with the outfit swapped out?

Are state machines used in video games ?

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early wip for screen crack shader

>>734112257
thats the dumbest question i've have ever heard

>>734112165
I just don’t think an array is going to do that. I usually use arrays for the sake of a graph, and while I’m not speaking from a place of experience with using an array for physics, I just don’t know if that’s how it works

>>734111247
Why did you have a fit on the cord some time ago and started spamming slurs?
Sorry if I come across as rude for asking but I'm genuinely curious.

>>734112432
NTA but there’s a discord?

>>734112334
>Put your finger here

>>734112334
Cute

>>734112451
That's where the /vg/ diaspora resides.

>>734112165
what if you applied an x directional force in the same way you apply a gravitational one, but it only gets applied when you have jumped? I'm pretty sure there are lots of tutorials that apply air resistance

>>734112432
Mental issues. I usually delete my accounts every now and then because I don't do well with people. You're not rude at all.

>>734112730
I understand, everyone has issues around these parts.
I'm going to bed now but I hope you find a way to relate with others better some day.

>>734112636
Yeah, maybe. Th is gonna drive me nuts. Gotta sleep on it.

>>734113125
Honestly I agree with him.
My code for jumping uses something similar where it applies upwards force before a mounting downward force is applied

>>734057906
>>734113024

Have a thread up for my question, actually

>>734112339
Can you answer my dumb question?

>>734114501
NTA but yes

>>734057906
I was and its been going well, but I put some relaxing piano music on and now I'm actually too relaxed.
I was feeling a bit lost but I've wrestled out a problem I was having with my pathfinding (didn't fix up some code I copy-pasted from an old project properly to account for changes) and now I'm ok.
Hopefully once I've done a little more I can start showing off the barebones basics of my NPC system, I just want people in my game to feel "alive" and actually do things throughout the day and have schedules like Oblivion NPCs did.

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UI hell..

>>734115934
Damn

>>734086092
qrd? Sauce?

>>734111991
Now we got a board

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>>734118705

>>734096626
where to wishlist anon

>>734112334
Nice!

>>734118742
Are they going for a dance off or?

>>734111247
Looks good, but don't let the UI block too much of the screen

>>734120164
No, they are going to beat each other to death (turn based-ly)

>>734084664
I played it already. What will your next game look like?

>>734106075
>>734107581
Looking good

>monday
>thread dies

Bros, I need to make a 2d sprite based vampires survivors in the next week, what makes it the easiest to do that?

>>734111991
Holy fuck, goty incomming.

>>734124712
easiest? i dunno, maybe working on it instead of beating around the bush

>>734078258
The Dialogue Manager add-on for Godot seems to handle it just fine.It's got support for conditionals, and even inline conditionals. So instead of having to go
If met_billy == false:
Billy: Hello.
else:
Billy: Hello again.

You can just go
Billy: Hello [if met_billy == true]again[/if].

>>734124826
Well I doubt UE will be the easiest to pick up for a 2d sprite based game I need to clobber together.
Does godot have enough documentation to make it work, or should i just do unity/gms like everyone else.

>>734125191
well, tell us more
"need" makes it sound like someone's asking you to do it, my guess would be an university assignment, as an actual job would probably be looking for a specific engine experience
so what do you want to make it for, do you have any future ambitions or is this a one-off thing?

>>734125375
Yeah, its not a job, its not exactly an assignment either but down that line. The question is mostly because I can somewhat clobber it together with my basic ass programming knowledge, but it is meant to be a one off thing. Polish it up, enough for it to be a full playable project from start to finish. So it does not have to have any bells and whistles, as long as its functional.

>>734124712
Easiest is 100% Unity because there's undoubtedly hundreds of tutorials for this.

>>734125191
Godot documentation doesn't hand hold you. There's some pages for math, making a basic 2D/3D game and shaders but the rest of it is purely just telling you what class inherits what and what methods and variables are available.

Not to say it's not relatively easy, Brotato was made in Godot. But you're not going to find any walkthroughs of making a vampire survivors in the docs. You'll find methods and functionality about the engine that makes it fairly easy but putting it together is your job.

Probably also has tutorials for a vampire survivors game though.

>>734108341
Thank you, that's what I was trying to go for!

>>734119317
I don't have anything up yet. I do plan on the game being free though, so I'm not too concerned about total wishlists. Just keep an eye on these threads until I end up making an itch.io page!

>>734111324
nah its godot

>>734125657
So like a prototype, and you don't care to keep making stuff to the point of this being a long-term engine choice or career, well then yeah doesn't really matter.
Basically any of the three you mentioned can draw a sprite that you can move with WASD, draw another sprite that beelines to you x1000, give a health value to both and then few pickups and fancy weapon effects.

>>734126670
>So like a prototype
Correct.
>>734125757
Alright, godot is a no go then. Sounds ok for a longer project, but I want to be able to look up concrete solutions on the quick without resorting to ai code.

>>734126793
Just use Unity, it's a perfectly fine engine, very easy to prototype in and plenty of sample code to work with.

>>734127339
Solid, thanks for the help with narrowing down my selection.

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>>734097882
>That's a great idea
It wasn't even planned haha, I just wanted to see how much I could squeeze out of GM. Turns out, a lot.

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I sold my PC and moved countries so I ain't devved for ages, but boy do I have a hankering for it again. Since 2d animated sprites take ages to draw, should I switch to 3d?

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>>734129491
Also should have seen the amount of bullshit I went through just to get pic related changed into lowpoly 3d with colours! Lel do slopdevs really have to battle that hard or is elons one just shit?

>>734127339
How much more work is coding everything from scratch like pygame compared to using a game engine. I have little coding experience from college, but that's like 7 years ago or so.

>>734130426
well in pygame you write everything

if you want a vampire survivors guy, you need to call his hitbox, his sprite, his object, his position, etc every frame.

In Unity you just drag a sprite in, add a collider component, and it works

>>734078390
Looks good but that gun needs more punch. Recoil, impact effects, something like that. Even if it's a lobster gun, like this, it feels weak.

>>734130971
That sounds like 88% less work. I do see that pygame might be for actual pros, that can write code down for 10h, without looking up much.

>>734113232
...may I see it?

>>734129491
>>734129626
Hey I remember this. Where's the dogs?

>>734059571
how many people watch your shit?

>>734078945
too stiff

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sometimes you need to get a little silly with it

>>734132416
between 2000-5000 viewers a show last i checked it out

>>734132416
>>734132553
What this anon said. 5k usually for summer 2k for the (now discontinued) winter shows. Aiming for 6k-8k this summer.

>>734129491
You save time in 3D animation, but you'll spend more doing the models and learning to animate them. It's a tradeoff.

fug I feel like I have the developer's equivalent of writer's block right now
or maybe it's just regular writer's block
either way shit sux

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What engine would be a good choice for an RTS game?