JOEY
FYGOON
thats it, thats the xeet

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>>559045942
>fagtroon?
Bullied and raped for being a sensitive lil faggot.
>lil 'shua?
Bullied and raped for being a sensitive lil faggot.
>osh?
Well respected for being an emotionally mature yesdev.

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Well, I at least did this today. God

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art progress

>>559046479
Where are the 30 Tweets in a row where you show people each world and each boss? Games show people everything except for the final boss these days.

>>559046479
you already posted this

>>559046258
>yesdev
Debatable

yeah im thinkin CHADgoon won

>>559046258
You forgot Betz and Cris

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How do I know if I am good enough to draw my own VN?

>>559048472
IDK

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>>559048472
stop asking and start doing stuff

Wow I feel sad now

>>559048472
>How do I know
This has always been your problem. You simply weren't born with talent nor the mental capacity to ever develop the vision. A normal artist will just know if it's good enough or not.

>>559048904
NTA but why do you believe that nobody can make it based on honed skills

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>>559049342
That's Cris. He's been spinning his wheels for well over a decade. You need to hone so many different skills to a fairly competent level in order to compete in today's gamedev environment, which is simply not possible within your short lifetime if you're not an extremely fast learner. For everyone else, your best bet is to hone one single skill to a very high level and then try to get a job or join a team.

>>559049637
Well, I'm considered a fast learner by some when it comes to visual work, so I might have a chance?

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my trader uncle told my dad that massive assets are being liquidated in the middle east right now it never happened before, something big might be happening and i still havent finished my game yet

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>>559049805
PYW? That feeling usually just means you're currently in an art high.

>>559050436
No because I'm not very good. I just tend to progress fast

>>559049342
>>559049805
I used to think anyone could be a talented artist, but Cris shattered that belief.
He is improving but it's at such a slow pace that he won't be considered a good artist until he's 80+.
I believe in you, though. I still believe most people can be a talented artist, just not everyone.

>>559050563
What good is fast progress if it's not good progress?

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>>559050664
IDK, I just don't think my art is particularly good. It's like, fine I guess but not very good.

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give gamers what they want

>>559050929
Especially given that it takes me a while to draw due to my wrist problems

I feel like gamers really want an anti-pedo game right now, with anti epstein sentiment being so high. Just a random thought I had.

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>>559051607
>with anti epstein sentiment being so high
proofs?

>>559051764
>>with anti epstein sentiment being so high
>proofs?

>>559051812
>It was real in my mind.
Pipe down, goy.

>>559051965
>>It was real in my mind.
>Pipe down, goy.

>>559051607
Anti-pedo games are like dei games. They're praised by non-gamers but nobody will play them.

>>559051992
Streamers will, which means that gamers will.

What ever came of the betz crashout?

IDK about you, but I can't texture for shit!

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>it fucking works

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>>559053581
That's okay. Just pick a style that requires little texturing.

>>559055513
No I mean I literally do not know how to do that shit in Blender properly.

>15 posts per hour
'goon won

>>559055613
Oh right. Yeah I forget that Blender is a pain in the ass to learn. Just gotta keep doing them tutorials until it sticks.

>>559055967
Like, I can model/animate on an at least FUNCTIONAL level, but texturing? Yeah, right, that shit doesn't work

If my game doesn’t sell my country is literally going to draft me and send me to Iran

>>559056601
>If my game doesn’t sell my country is literally going to draft me and send me to Iran

I don't understand how to use these game engines like Godot, Unreal, and Unity. I don't understand this fiddling with the editor part.

I get using something like pixi.js or phaser.js. Everything in them is code and I can easily follow how the everything flows, but I just get so lost in an engine like Godot. Having to fiddle with things in the corner of some UI elements feels so weird and I'm so lost. Is there any hope for me?

>>559056601
don't worry, little drumpfie doesn't have the political capital for a ground war in the middle east
this "war" was just an assassination
weekend oil futures confirm that nothing ever happens

>>559051607
kinda late now since the epstein hype is dead. Better to get started on a game focused on Donald Trump with some epstein stuff added in. drumpf is 80-something and obese so you probably have a few years to develop and release right after he croaks

>>559050929
Have you considered shading things?

>>559056843
Editor tools were created so that high-IQ engineers could give low-IQ designers a way to interface with the game without touching the code, so you'd be even more retarded than them.

>>559043217
Are they wrong though

>>559056959
Yeah but I suck at it

>>559057458
Have you considered learning more than two perspectives?

>>559057110
I understand that but it feels like I'm dealing with some magic code that at some timing calls my code if it's instantiated by pressing the right buttons on some UI. The viewport also contains a whole bunch of stuff in it to give you a scene overview, but inevitably things are done through code, so the viewport isn't giving you the full picture because some stuff gets added only during instantiation. It just feels like a mess to wrap my head around.

>>559057458
It does give your game kind of an interesting look though. It looks amateurish, but that is also different from what you normally encounter in games like that.

>>559057720
Anon that's not my game. It's just a drawing I did
>>559057575
Yeah

>>559057110
>high-IQ engineers
>low-IQ designers
a game set in a distant future where IQ controls have been set on every profession. at first the mandatory minimum IQs save humanity from the compounding effects of the competency crisis. but as centuries pass, the IQ test becomes corrupted into a system of birth and patronage so that all human progress is made by impoverished geniuses in spite of the oppressive "merit-based" system

>>559057619
Yeah, you might be too retarded for this. It's a standard event driven architecture. It's the same way any GUI application works, from video games to websites.

>>559057619
>The viewport also contains a whole bunch of stuff in it to give you a scene overview, but inevitably things are done through code, so the viewport isn't giving you the full picture because some stuff gets added only during instantiation.
i think you just invented a loading screen from first principles

blood moon in 2 days

I feel so slow

>/v/ gamedev thread
>like 10-15 different games
>agdg
>up to 3 lolicon games
nigga this place is finished

>>559059806
all of those loli games are on /v/ too thou

>>559059806
I’m just cripplingly depressed

>>559051607
It's kinda bizarre how epstein just farmed aura with this shit, nobody even cares about the pedo shit and just memed the whole thing. I actually think that if someone made an epstein island kind of game it would go off, kind of like how that drug dealing game did super well

>>559060552
>It's kinda bizarre how epstein just farmed aura with this shit, nobody even cares about the pedo shit and just memed the whole thing. I actually think that if someone made an epstein island kind of game it would go off, kind of like how that drug dealing game did super well

I really just want nothing more than to make this

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Mongol ui.

>>559061190
I like it

>>559061396
Thanks fren.

>>559058336
No? I'm talking about the fact that these game engine tools have a 3D viewport that's supposed to give you an overview of the scene, but inevitably you end up with scripts that run on instantiation they spawn a bunch of things and change what the scene actually looks like.
>>559057998
And websites are absolutely retarded when it comes to that leading to a crazy amount of complexity.

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What gamedev skill is the most approachable when first starting off?

>>559062347
>websites are too complex
Video games are 100x more complex than websites. Give up. You don't have it in you.

>>559063181
Imagining yourself making a game and shitposting on /agdg/ for years before even downloading your first game engine.

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>>559061190
kino

>>559061190
Creepy and kino.

>>559063385
:>

>>559063181
Download an engine and do a tutorial.

That's nice, I would never post my game here to be associated with all these mental ill freaks and subsequently cancelled for it. And if you're smart, neither would you,

>>559064973
Honestly idk where else

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NZ themed Oregon Trail clone. I still haven't gone back to rethink all the stuff I display up top. I haven't got "The Trader's Offer" event with the rat before, a bit funnier compared to when you have the dog or sheep lol. My mate said I should add an event that could trigger later where you find your animal again, I don't actually have any events that chain together like that yet but I'll definitely have to make some. The game is broadly playable from start to finish, and next I just want to do a bunch more writing before getting into the real details/polish; I'd like to see if my sister or any of my acquaintances irl have ideas to contribute, 'course I'd add their tombstones in too. To be honest I've never finished Oregon Trail (I have Organ Trail...) so I still need to do that sometime for more inspo.

...I still don't know how fun it is. It's surely more fun than when I started as I've added various features and more writing, so I'm hoping it will all come together soon; I reckon I just need a volume of events to enrich the world enough. I think that will come with more balancing too, I've only done a wee bit from where it was completely borked before. I suppose I haven't thought of some things enough yet while I was largely tryna recreate the features of another game...
Interesting decisions. That's what a good game needs.

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>>559065416
>...I still don't know how fun it is.
>look inside
>[existing game, but worse]

>>559063385
>>559063385
Insane detail. I have never been this close to a woman's face before.

>>559061190
Sick!

>>559063181
Programming, it's the most soulless/least soulful skill.

A long time ago an anon recommended some book as maybe inspirational material for making a game. It was set in a place where the Earth was frozen and iirc he posted a book cover where the illustration had a guy wearing a suit with red glowing eyes and maybe snow and ice in the background. Anyone know the name?

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>>559065756
lol for some reason i have always been in love with the idea of oregon trail, but the theming never interested me much; a long journey with simple strategic management, and a feeling of randomness.

>>559066213
That's pretty much every rogue-like. Why do we call them rogue-likes and not trail-likes?

>>559067251
That's probably why I like roguelikes as well. I want to make a better one someday than my previous attempts which were even more unoriginal; I'll wait for a better idea to come.
I'm actually surprised 'The Oregon Trail' on Steam doesn't have the roguelike tag...
Ha--Trail is much older...we wouldn't be first to argue it as the proto-roguelike. I wonder if it did directly influence Rogue in anyway, I can't immediately find quotes about Glenn Wichman and Michael Toy being fans tho.

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>>559045538
make a game with this vibe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCZt1UDf99E

Going to attempt a game with SDL2 as a way to learn C++
Do you guys recommend anything else in terms of libraries?

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Today I shall vibe code

My body hurts so much

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I sometimes wish I had a job and I could go to work for money instead. It's crazy how much people get paid for going to a place and being there for 8 hours while doing some light repetitive tasks. It doesn't seem so bad in retrospect but maybe that's just my selective memory.
I actually did the things I expected to do yesterday: ensure quest viability and do first pass on reputation system. I guess that means I wasn't ambitious enough. I'm not sure what to do today. Let me think...
Okay, fix two bugs and tie damage taken to reputation and quest success. Maybe some more UI work if I have the time.

>>559069385
That's pretty vague. You should try to localize the pain before figuring out how to deal with it. A few weeks ago I had chest pains the whole night and I went straight to the ER and they got really serious and engaged when I told them where it hurts.

>>559051003
Their money back?

>>559069536
Specifically my ankles and knees hurt.
I don’t know why this happens honestly

>>559069424
>I sometimes wish I had a job

>>559046364
Btw this guy can do a backflip kick like he’s using Beowulf in DMC

>mmo 98 passed 10k wishlists
Are they finally gmi?

Struggling with how to structure the game
>Don't like linear hallways or something like gow 2018 where it's just 1 main path and the other is chest
>Don't like backtracking
>mostly don't like open world
>Don't like missions
>Like exploration with secret areas and bosses and unique loot

Is agdg dying?

>>559073869
It's healing.

>>559073869
Waiting for paper sky....

>>559069424
>no donuts
I dont even know who you are anymore
good choice though

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>Talented artist
>It's just work that uses photo references or professional art references and 1 to 1 copy

I'm looking for colorful 1:2 skyline min 960x540 pixel art bgs for common rpg areas (thnk forest, desert, tundra, castle anything really). Think pokemon emerald credit scene with the bike. Is there a repo or assetpack like this?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL24xiL-bRI

>mfw agdg crabs will never understand what is to grind for years and years a skill with no reward except insults in 4chan and with the only hope a day the hard work will pay off

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a game that takes place fully in the astral realm and looks like this, golden age pre-adamic humans (same kind the greek gods were) vs reptilians and various species of astral demons (mantids, gray aliens, etc). yes or no?

>>559076676
just write a book if you just want to feel epic

>>559076676
500,000 years ago btw

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>>559076676
yes anon.

Also add shit like modern sunk cities in cuba and japan, lemuria and atlantis, and shit like the antikara computer and evil AI.

>>559076676
Yes and you are building a harem of women to populate the earth with

>>559076676
first a game where you hit a ball with a paddle
then whatever you were describing, I couldn't read through all the way

>>559076676
No

>>559076676
now draw that image yourself and post it again with this text and see how you feel.

>>559072169
It depends. I feel like the demo pretty much shows everything the game has to offer. I don't feel the need to replay at launch with just a few hours more of gameplay.

>>559078670
>I feel like the demo pretty much shows everything the game has to offer.
That's a good thing.
The purpose of a trailer is to manipulate gamercattle into buying your product no matter what.

AI devs are cooked,

I just made a mesh and model on my own.

1. Make loli game and be happy but not that poor with a fanbase that is accepting of all fanbases
2. Maike hag game and slightly happy but rich with a fanbase that might cancel you someday for making loli models
which way?

How to overcome the feeling that your skill level isn't quite good enough and you'll end up ruining your project if you start now?

>>559080658
doesn't matter. most likely no one will care enough about your game to do either, so do whatever is more fun for you and hope you get lucky.

Is Claude down for anyone else? I can't do shit anymore.

>>559081130
You endure the pain of having to ruin your first projects so that your next projects can be better.
It is unfortunate but you have to kill your first children so the next ones can be stronger.

>>559080658
Making money with loli game is very difficult nowadays.
If you need to make porn games, use hags and avoid school settings.
Otherwise, create games under two different identities, one SFW for professional game devving and one NSFW identity for your loli game.

>>559081154
>complains about Claude being down while Zombo.com is still up

>>559081387
It's over. I'm just going to hope that players find the amateurish work somewhat charming.

If you suck at art just give it up there’s no point. Let the real artists craft video games while you stick to coding IoT dishwashers or whatever

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>>559081647
You're lucky I can't use Claude to write a snarky comeback right now.

>>559082101
I asked zombo.com if there was any bugs I could fix
it pointed out that under 5 stacks of hypnosis the diagonal-moving enemy could move in the cardinal directions, and the knight-moving enemy could also move in unintended ways, and then fixed these bugs

it's just so easy

>>559082101
That’s what they get for betraying national security. Don’t fuck with the USA. Elon Musk knows this well.

>>559065416
2036 nz is the compelling aspect to me. any lore? or just some vague disaster? post ww3?

>>559082392
>That’s what they get for betraying national security.
What happened? tl;dr?

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>>559081886
Nope, very successful indie games often have programmer art:
>Minecraft
>Terraria
>Rimworld
>Your only move is hustle
>Undertale
>Noita
>Lethal Company
>Brotato
>Vampire Survivors
>Rogue Tower

>>559082905
usa millitary asked if they could use claude to power autonomous weapon systems. mr claude said nah

>>559082101
is it only down for free / pro users? im on max works fine

>>559083216
The art in those games is cohesive and good. The trend here though is that a strong and novel concept will attract a lot of players. Every game in this list had a novel gimmick that no one else had at the time they released.

>>559083216
by me

>>559083863
Sure, but usually only after multiple public builds, before which the games were already getting popular.
Compare MC Alpha's textures to current MC. It's a completely different color palette.

>>559083216
Id argue most of them are successful despite of their art, not because of it

>>559083863
What novel gimmick did Undertale have?

>>559083216
terraria does not have programmer art
brotato does not have programmer art
its like you are nondev blind to good art

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>>559083863
>The art in those games is cohesive and good
also vampire survivors looks like shit and is the textbook definition of an assetflip. If a game is fun enough people won't care about graphics.

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progress: another bluesky artist accused me of being a Indian scammer so now i have no capsule art

>>559073869
I hope so.

>>559085464
You are objectively wrong. I've got close to 1k hours in lc, and let me tell you, it's immersive as fuck.

>>559083216
now think about it
are these games simply "generic high quality pixel art"?
no, Undertale worked with an artist to develop a unique style
Terraria had its own unique style
Minecraft had its own unique style
Noita had its own unique style

you can't call it "programmer art" when the developer has managed to do what many artists fail at, in creating a unique identity that also fits into the gameplay (some art works horribly with some games), is easy enough to produce and doesn't look like ass.

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Graphics don't matter and art doesn't matter
>But what about-
Nope doesn't matter
>But-
Silence!
Asset flips and synty slop are on new and trending outselling every /agdg/ game every single day.
GAMERS
DO
NOT
HAVE
STANDARDS

>>559086073
>Graphics don't matter and art doesn't matter
>>But what about-
>Nope doesn't matter
>>But-
>Silence!
>Asset flips and synty slop are on new and trending outselling every /agdg/ game every single day.
>GAMERS
>DO
>NOT
>HAVE
>STANDARDS

>>559084209
Combing bullet hell with RPG mechanics. Also, while not wholly unique in and of itself, the concept of being able to spare enemies in an RPG and win fights with attacking them hadn't really been done a whole lot.

>>559086073
If two different games play the same but one has better art than the other players will just pick the one that looks the best, graphics are how you get ahead of the competition

>>559082905
bread and circus

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graphics do matter
people are visual creatures

>>559086073
>implying synty assets look worse than agdg games

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>>559082730
I think it's more of an understated pre-apocalypse. Everything is sort of shitty but we're not quite living in 'Mad Max times' yet. Actually, I hadn't thought about this until right now, but perhaps the state of things in the original Mad Max isn't a bad reference point--society is still functioning on some level, it's just a bit lawless after the collapse of government and dwindling resources an' such. The tone is a little more lighthearted and less extreme though; less bands of raiders looking to rape and more being run off the road by dicks in a Hilux. I don't think there's a specific disaster point, it's probably more one of those 'the climate got worse and resources got scarce' boiling from situations and the South Island is cut off and abandoned by the North (which is sort of how things already work now).
I'm still not sure about the framing though, I almost thought to present it someway still like how Oregon Trail does--that there is an educational aspect. Like you're playing this game from the perspective of someone many years after 2036 to learn a bit of what life was like back then. There is a little bit of that already with how it presents the location information when entering a town to you as though to a tourist learning about the place.
Currently your goal is simply to reach Nelson for the last seasonal fruit picking job (Luxon would be proud).

Aggy games don't even look as half as good as Luck Be A Landlord

too much theory

>>559086073
Gamers don’t have standards so much so that AI slop is actually overtaking real games in sales… oh wait it’s not and nobody plays AI slop

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Still working on the game, things are significantly slower. Got really busy with work since they're forcing everyone to return to office, my manager is turning into a real prick and my progress is fucked. I have about 3 years worth of money, i'm thinking of just leaving and go full on gamedev.

>>559086073
gamers have standards, it's just not for the things developers care about
learn storytelling, fantasy is everything

Cuffbust

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>>559089124
arc raiders, the finals, expedition 33, cod all used AI
>uhh actually its ok when they do it but all the OTHER ai usage is bad because uhhh uhhhhh
we're done here

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>>559073869
maybe

>>559089834
>arc raiders, the finals, expedition 33, cod all used AI
>>uhh actually its ok when they do it but all the OTHER ai usage is bad because uhhh uhhhhh
>we're done here

>>559088139
lake taupo go boom and poison gas everywhere

>>559089921
I thought this place would be booming since AI made programming, famously the greatest gatekeeper of gamedev, obsolete.

elf girls owe me sex

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>>559089124
>Everyone hated Deadlock until valve started designing their characters with Midjourney

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>>559090460
u wot m8?

>>559090667
>>Everyone hated Deadlock until valve started designing their characters with Midjourney

luddites taking big fat Ls lmao
they cant come up with a single argument thats based in reality

>>559090815
True though. Their original characters sucked ass and were somehow more derivative than the characters made by Russian contractors using AI.

>>559090874
>luddites taking big fat Ls lmao
>they cant come up with a single argument thats based in reality

>>559084209
The genocide route. No game had done something like it, at least not to the extent Undertale did. There's a reason megalovania is the most popular song, despite the fact that finding it in the game is quite difficult.

>>559090886
Valve lost all their actual artists when they decided to focus on making the most money possible. More proof that artiods don't matter lol.

Can I make a fighting game as a solo dev? Actually what games can I make alone (presuming I can do art music and UI design which I can)

>>559091765
only if you are an incredible animator

>>559091765
you cant make a game unless you can program only undertalelike slop

>>559092013
Fair. Is it hard to do from a technical standpoint though? Like programming the actual game?
I’m just combing through genres that I could possibly make but fighting games are some of my favourites and I really want to make one.

>>559092184
ive never made one but it sounds complicated to handle things like input buffering, netcode, and other various shit involved in fightans

Progress:
My game's MC installed SillyTavern yesterday for the first time and dont want to be a gamedev anymore. He just want to get any shit work to pay expenses and coom to AI all day.

>>559087642
post your ngmi folder. how many of these do you have

>>559092770
uninstall

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>>559092836
I only have 7

>>559092365
Yeah true. I don’t think I’d bother with netcode and make it single player only which would probably kill all interest in it but I prefer single player games anyway.

>>559093608
theres at least a big fgc tourney scene so even without online if the game is fun theres a good chance people will play local matches anyway

>>559093608
>I prefer single player games anyway
>Making games for yourself
It's like don't want to make it

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Gamedev did this to me.

>Twitter is adding a made with AI label
>A bunch of slop accounts are crying and saying it will kill their engagement
Why are AI fags so proud when they are bragging about using AI but also against AI labels on products?

I love fantasizing about sex and creating persistent scenarios and characters that I return to and track my progress with.
It's like an alternate world that I can return to whenever I am horny.

I really want to "capture" that in game format, but it's difficult.
I wanted to make something like DoL, but the dynamic sex scenes are really repetitive and I can't come up with a better alternative.

Launching zim on the blood moon tomorrow on producthunt

>>559082101
local claude works :)
https://huggingface.co/collections/Qwen/qwen35

>>559093608
didnt notice you said singleplayer only, i definitely think fightans need local matches at least
unless something like this counts as fighting game i guess? https://store.steampowered.com/app/2273430/BlazBlue_Entropy_Effect/

>>559094561
In highschool I had an imaginary harem of some of the girls in the school. I even had days for each one to masturbate to

>>559094106
I don’t care about making money. Obviously it would be nice but if I ever did make a full game I’d put it out for free and maybe charge $10 for the soundtrack and a digital artbook. I’d feel bad charging for something that will likely be very amateur and a bit shit.

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>>559082269
here we go
an enemy at >= 5 stacks of hypnosis is compelled to move onto the same tile as the player, but for this enemy she has to move in a weird way to reach the tile

what's interesting is if you needed long-distance knight-style pathfinding, you could make an astar grid that has only L-shaped moves connecting to L-shaped moves, and it would find the shortest number of L-shape moves to get to a particular tile. I should keep that in mind, but I don't need it for the foreseeable future.

>>559094674
based fantasymaxxer

I actually hate that paint makes the background transparent now it fucks up my workflow

>>559094549
AI labels will never work for video games. Get over it.

>AI for the code
>Cheap assets for the art
>Old noggin for the content
Unbeatable

Why do AIdevs never post their progress doe

Wimdows smells like mcdonalds I can't even install wine

>>559095221
cris posts progress all the time tho

>>559094979
>AI labels will never work for video games. Get over it.

in my videogame all the basic enemies are jewish

>>559094549
links?

>have 20 dollars
>Cost is 19.33
>Oh sorry you don't have enough for it
What the fuck did Epic mean by this

>>559096802
and bosses?

I'm getting something professional that's stupid and cheap, but also really good to have on hand.

>>559097098
a hooker?

how expensive would it be to hire a music artist for the sound track to my game?
not there yet, but im curious
i cant imagine that its that expensive, theres so many music artists out there

>>559097568
go on twitter/bluesky. there are a lot of brokie cloutchasers that can do something decent for you

>>559097207
No.
>>559097568
It's actually not that expensive for normal vidya, even vocal tracks aren't too bad. It's mainly there is almost no money in music to make unless it's heavily promoted out of the ass.

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>>559096959
what about the tip?

>>559098083
I fucking hate that this happened recently where a forced 1 dollar tip was taken outside of anything else as a hidden fee. I was able to get it removed, but it was gay.

another gamedev podcast without a single mention that you should improve your skills. that's why all those devs are hardstuck. they can't fathom the fact that skills are improvable, that consistency is improvable, that knowledge is improvable, that pattern recognition is improvable. they never want to take the "git gud" pill. they want the "which easy mode shortcut can i take?" pill. not only does it keep them poor, it also makes the gaming industry piss poor because you only get piss poor games by piss poor developers who a greedy for your money.

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I'm gonna drew my sprites in HD because I'm finally good enough where It would be simpler and cheaper to just draw them over doing pixel art or 3D or AI.

>>559099040
Cute desu

I don’t feel like I’m doing anything right

I'm starting a game dev podcast based on /agdg/ lore. The first episode is about Fygoon. What should I go over?

>>559045538
>200 posts in 15 hours
TOTAL FYGOON VICTORY

>>559099803
he will report your channel for privacy violations

>>559100297
He'll let it slide because he is an attention whore who tolerates even negative attention since it feeds his NPD

>>559100297
Oh don't worry I'm planning on changing names . So I won't refer to him as fygoon directly. Just going over stuff he did.

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Im thinking about adding weight limits to floors.

>Dwarf Fortress Adventure mode/CDDA/Caves of QUUD type game
>floors can be made of any material(potentially)
>thinking of adding other traits to materials beyond hardness
>got the idea to make floors breakable if a weight limit is exceeded

>Can already
>move as fast as the flash
>jump and conserve momentum
>turn your full body into a material like Iron
>can 'human cannonball' into someone
>they explode into gore

>soon will be able to
>stay at inn
>go to bedroom on second floor
>sleep
>have character trait where you can randomly cast an ability in your sleep
>it rolls that 'change form' skill
>it rolls a really heavy material like lead
>break bed
>break floor
>fall down and land on the innkeeper
>they explode into gore
>get arrested by town guard
>they put you in jail... on the second floor

Tell me, is the FUN potential higher than the annoyance potential?

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Still ripping off Order of the Sinking Star. I'm now getting to the point of being able to make playable level replicas.

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I love me some handpainted metallic shit

>>559100297
He didn't even have the balls to copy strike /v/3 when they blatantly doxxed him on their game jam stream, so no. He won't do anything.

>>559100490
are you trying to be the "the looker" of this game?

I don’t feel good at all right now

Daughterslop is the new meta

>>559101938
Honestly, I’m debating adding a child

>>559092184
mugen :)

>>559094567
>>559094674
i've spent too long on other parts of the internet, i forgot what a safe space this site is <3 unfortunately i don't have time to jerk off before work :(

>>559100474
that sounds fraught with unexpected danger (for the designer and player) and a potential headache...but it is a pretty cool idea if you think it fits in with the overall ethos of the project

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>>559101938

I am at work. Waging. Suffering. But in 5 hours I will be at home devving. I just have to stay strong.

>>559100557
How do you texture like this

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>>559101938

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>>559101938

>>559100474
You are correct in your assessment of fun in that genre and look forward to playing such a game.

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>>559102464
By just painting it with a brush, or projecting an image texture if it's more generic stuff. I'm a digital painter so this comes naturally i guess. I'm targeting that ps2 or old pc games look, not using lots of pbr, people would probably hate it but fuck it.

>>559102979
I wish I knew how to do PS2 graphics

>>559049637
>this image is already 3 years out of date
lol.... lmao.... can we get a 2026 version made?

>>559103057
well, i don't either, lighting is still basic unreal stuff, too much tris for the meshes, and textures may need to be resized but i think as long as you remove that specular/metallic you could pull it off kinda fine.

>>559049637
leeching from the gov't is based though

>>559103349
I’m just sad with how impossible it all feels

it's kinda weird how in real life like 1 in 10000 people try to run their own business and all others just get an education and a job (or neet).
but if you browse the internet it feels like everybody knows what they are doing and run a good business.
i wish there was some real data on unemployment. like not bullshit government jobs etc. - just people who work actual jobs.
probably 90% of people are on pension, welfare, in universities, government jobs, nepobabies and other types of wealth not coming from actual work.

it's hard to forget that solo gamedev is actually a very hardcore goal. when you don't know what to do, you gotta keep in mind that 99.99% of people also wouldn't know what to do, that's why they just get a job so someone tells them what to do.

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another thing I've only started doing recently is, in scenes, tying each character's speech to zoom in on that character's position. But then I can't automate it since characters usually move position.

fuck, that reminds me, I need to automatically hide whoever's in the background when they're in the foreground, at least that part can be automated

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>>559103404
do not fret, we're all gonna make it, remember?

>>559100764
No, I don't have what it takes. The Looker was an inspired game that did something of its own while parodying The Witness. I'm just trying to get a feel for game dev.

>>559103595
I have trouble getting up in the morning

>>559103497
I started gamedev because I couldn't get a job.
It was kind of
>if you can't join 'em, beat 'em

>>559103497
From talking to people and friends it definitely doesn't feel like 1 in 10000. Many corporate people either try making a business or eventually go into making their own business.
More like 1 in 5, even. I'd like to see data if someone finds it.

>>559103670
that's easy, just dev in the afternoon then.

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>>559103595
Some of us will make it. Most of you will not.

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>>559102332
>he's not welfaremaxxing

>>559073869
i just joined

>>559103950
>he got social security income
>meanwhile I got nothing
grim

but if he's truly disabled then I shouldn't be jealous, anyone would pay $36000 to be functional

>>559103950
What a spoiled brat. I live on $300 per year.

>>559103906
just like make game, anon

>>559104165
Cris gets more than that every month

>>559103764
>1 in 5
i dont even know a single person with their own business, they are all in government jobs or big tech corps or doctors/teachers.

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>>559104278
Some of us make games. Most of you do not.

>>559103764
>Many corporate people either try making a business or eventually go into making their own business
that's usually a person making themselves indispensible in some obscure niche of a big, established business, then making a sweetheart deal with a friendly boss to become a "contractor"

a far cry from just trying to make it in the market from scratch

I almost vented my pressure. just know that something cool happened

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pretty happy with this.

>>559105353
It's not even bad. Keep it up. How long did it take you also?

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Working on the world map today

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>>559105353
fix this but yeah pretty good

>>559105353
I wish I was better at art

>>559106618
Around 20 minutes per frame.

>>559106949
Still needs to ink and color them.

>>559106831
very nice. is it for a homoerotic VN though?

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>come up with a fun mechanic
>can't fit it into the setting
>come up with a mechanic that fits the setting
>it's not fun

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Thread's super slow today, I'm sure all anons are working hard before the demo day

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BTW he can do a backflip kick cuz fuck you

>>559108854
a thousand reviews the first month
meanwhile I've spent 2 hours writing and rewriting a paragraph that I think best represents an NPC and I'll get 6 reviews the first month

>>559104340
to be fair some of these people have said they were gonna start, like, a burger joint but then I've yet to see it
and that has franchising too
fug

>>559108807
Thread is slow because our most prolific nodev is busy baiting /pol/ instead of this thread.

>>559109118
No, won't get anything because it's not good enough

What is the "Ideal" popularity level? For me, JUST popular enough that people in the sphere know about it but not so popular that it gets normie tiktok edits and AI brainrot on Youtube.

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Heart of Evil is ready for DD.
Lots of small performance and visual improvements but the big thing is that I'm experimenting with cutting the boat in this one.
I redid level 1 and removed the rest since I didn't have enough time to redo them. It plays much better, also because I tweaked enemies and they feel more fun to fight. The boat, if I end up keeping it, should have its own levels later.

>>559109992
Damn. Wish I could do stuff like this

>>559106618
13 years

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>>559109990
>for me, it's a goalpost that can always be retroactively moved so that i can feel like i succeeded regardless of the actual results

I wish I could afford a laptop so I could gamedev in coffee shops and have cute waitresses come over to ask about my game.
I wish I could afford to go to coffee shops.
but I'm a solo gamedev so I can barely afford an internet connection.

>>559110580
im a waitress

any of you guys got your tax refunds yet?
>>559108807
I'm going to update the demo tomorrow then submit it, even though I'm in the middle of something with it.

>>559109990
I got AI brainrot of my game recently
I'm sure it was there before but only now someone showed it

I'd say your ideal range is about 50,000 people playing your game

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Just remember niggas, progress in your skill, takes years, not days.

>>559112528
wish i was this clueless

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>>559112528
I asked an AI to extrapolate progress to 2028 and 2032.
I can't wait to get 8 colsees in your game

>>559112642
Where is your game, mister nodev?

Who do you wish would come back to this general

>>559110580
I was daydreaming about the same thing at some point, but honestly I can't imagine being productive on a tiny laptop screen and not having 2 monitors anymore.
Maybe I'll just go for a coffee and croissant in the morning to answer my mails and look up my game's fanart once it's released, before returning to my desk for more real work.

>>559113902
No one? This is game development general, not "game developer" general.
I want YOU, yes you, to work on your game and post it. I don't care about your identity beyond your game, but I want to see your game and I'll show you mine.

>>559110580
Just get on aggybux so you can afford a laptop so you can gamedev in coffee shops and have a cute waitress come over to ask you about your game and an internet conneciton.

>>559113902
Duncan so I can call him a manlet sellout again

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>>559114475
>he's Gabencunt's personal bussy

>>559113902
Trainwiz
Mothdev
Spider game dev
Literally any number of devs please god

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hello aggy! time to make some proggy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYC-5Uo5lHo

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>>559113902
Joey Fygoon, when he was here the thread was alive, now it's dead. It's time to admit he was the heart and soul of /agdg/.

>>559113902
They never left though, everyone is here posting proggy

>>559115954
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UI1cuht8jh0
>PROGGY PROGGY PROGGY

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>>559101938
trve...

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anyone else making an anti pedo game for quick bux? this sounds like a biteme idea but it might just work

>>559117257
there is no quick bux in gamedev unless by getting lucky.

>>559117257
wasnt kanna making a first person shooter where you killed pedos while protecting a little girl?

>>559104384
Cris has to pay patreon every month? That's fucked

>>559117367
how do i get lucky

>>559113902
Jakechi. Betz was too harsh on him and hope he didn't commit suicide.