/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

>>29072

Gamemaker is not THAT bad

Depending on what you guys are doing you probably doesn't need an engine

>>29073

Well, in order to make the best of it we'd need to buy it, something we dont have the money for yet.

What's the easiest engine/scripting language to learn

>>29048

Probably Lua with Löve

Gamemaker is probably better though.

Unity is next on the line, but uses C# which is slightly more difficult.

>>29019

You are literally lying and literally a tranny. Stop posting.

>>29034

Please tell me this is not an example of multi-level geometry in the source engine.

>>29035

>youtube poops are game dev

>youtube poops are multi-level geometry

Still shitposting from the tranny club, sourcefam? They haven't yet arrested you yet? lol.

>>29045

Did you even fucking watch the video? Stop shitposting you gross nigger. Niggers can't into gamedev so get out.

KYS OP

Found some more links from the archived thread;

>Server download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/thft2j2c2l0p2 ... r.zip?dl=1

>Repositories:

>client: https://github.com/LeComm/aof-client , voxlap renderer: https://github.com/LeComm/aofclient-voxlap-renderer , server: https://github.com/LeComm/aof-server

>it's written in D and S-Lang

I'm curious whether there are any anons who actually use these languages.

>>28979

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t61h2ira9u5cvgi/AAAWPkKDIYPyyi-yzkdD3qGAa?dl=0

Found the other shit for the client.

>>28521

>>28527

Oh, and PvE is still shit because enemies do contact damage or spam arrows when you get close. Skeletons have just as much DPS at two blocks out as a zombie has to start (granted, zombies get a damage boost as they take hits...which is also annoyingly un-telegraphed, because they do contact damage and there's no attack animation to convey to the player that they're gonna hit).

>>28487

>Minecraft isn't actually Voxel

imo that just makes the whole indeh "voxel revival" even worse when voxel-based games now have to fend against any visuals that would call to mind Minecraft (unless they're shitheads intentionally banking on Minecraft's still-remaining popularity)

>>28993

>quit making game because they added dragons

>make own game

>don't know how to finish it

>add dragons to game

>sell for billions

>/pol/acks gettring this triggered over a tiny jam game nobody will remember 3 months later and spam their thought terminating cliches

lmao

>>28796

>spending all of your time on making a game to trigger a small subsection of people on an anonymous image board instead of doing something productive, interesting, and intellectually engaging.

wew lad

>>28798

>productive

>interesting

>engaging

>8chan

Excuse me?

>>28668

>learn C++

>open your mind on how the memory works with pointer

>make a bunch of of data structure in c++ such has linked list

>implement your own popular algorithm such has quicksort, radixsort, quickselect,...

>implement first binary tree

>learn a multimedia library(SDL, SFML,...)

>make fun stuff and shit

>realise you require linear algebra

>do your linear algebra

>start writting shitty 2D game

>realise you can't write proper software

>grab a book on design pattern

>start writting your shitty game

>learn other higher level language to boost devlopment

>realise you have absolute no skill in drawing

>learn to draw with pen/paper

>start with perspective(put a box, fruit, stuff in front of you and start to draw them)

>get good

>learn to draw basic human anatomy

>16h a day later for 6 month drawing

>grab a tablet

>slowly get good with it

>1 month later

>finally start doing the 2D game

>realise you forgot the sound

>cry

...

also godot is a pretty nice engine

>>28674

I thought GameMaker was hated for some reason? Or is it just the licencing fee?

In the same boat as OP, looking into/using Godot. Totally free. Big update made it "viable". But their showreel is some real shit (basic early internet Flash Games on iPhone tier).

>>28740

Nodev memesters hate anything and everything.

The people who own Gamemaker are supposedly some kikes, but the engine itself is very good.

Godot is a pretty precarious engine. It appears to be capable but we lack proof in the form of good games made with it, and the next update is going to break compatibility with old versions because of some of coming overhauls, but those overhauls supposedly improve it significantly.

I'm personally pretty excited about Godot, but it's complicated to recommend at the moment for the reasons mentioned above.

>>28668

My child, no one other than other devs will know or even understand what your game is made in or what technologies it uses, as long as your game works as intended.

Find a language/library/whateverthefuck, and see if something LIKE what you want to create has already been made in it. This will let you know how feasible whatever the fuck you chose is for your needs.

Then go through the tutorial pages of that technology. Bonus points if you can find a tutorial that makes something similar to what you want to create as the end-product.

If you hate using the technology/language/library as you go through the tutorial, decide if you want to tough it out, or try something else. Rinse and repeat until you find something you enjoy working with.

Pro Tip: Don't write your own engine.

>>28741

The main timesink depends on genre of the game and scope of the project.

Sometimes it can be level design (including dialogues etc.), code optimisation or anything else really (engines used to be troublesome in the past as well, as many upstarts had to make their own or rework some old ones).

Its usually 3D assets tho. I still remember the conversion from prerendered 2D to 3D boning rpg's for some 6 years, putting an extra pressure on the budgets, rapidly reshaping dev teams and dropping the quality of the gameplay and storytelling into the toilet as publishers rallied to divert all resources and attention to graphics. I'm still waiting for my real Fallout 3.

>>28722

don't ever call your game a X or Y clone

its really bad

Also a list of features (both planned or implemented) or description of gameplay would be appreciated

>>28726

All I see is a generic sprite with generic attacks that can't move until it finishes whatever animation it started.

much as I hate to get defensive, it's a 3d model actually and making it stop until it's done and then actually restarting has proven a bitch and a half

but yeah, he is pretty fucking generic. Haven't fleshed him out beyond being a base model for building characters off of.

>>28727

actual points here

yes, it's a school project. A great deal of the last few weeks has been checking my game logic, with making sure that the player character cycles animations correctly, walks and idles on command, can't walk when doing something else, etc. Everyone starts learning this shit somewhere somewhere, I'm starting here

I suppose calling it a prototype is inaccurate if you're expecting a brand new mechanic (although the drone is a generally uncommon thing in vidya, even if I don't have anything built for it to interact with yet). It is, however, a learning experience for me and my team

>>28728

>don't ever call your game a X or Y clone

>its really bad

in what sense for a what is essentially a learning project? La-Mulana freely admitted to starting life as a Maze of Galious clone

>Also a list of features (both planned or implemented) or description of gameplay would be appreciated

fair enough:

it's a top-down action adventure game

gameplay features include: a melee attack with enemy knockback as well as player knockback when damaged (which proved difficult as you can't do that by just applying physics in Unity if the model is using a character controller instead of a rigidbody)

>>28730

>Everyone starts learning this shit somewhere

That's no fun, falling back on "this isn't real" takes half of the actual learning out of the experience. Figure out how to deal with the flak without passing the buck. Isn't that why you're testing the waters on some obscure forum as the 'Social Media Director'?

>much as I hate to get defensive, it's a 3d model actually and making it stop until it's done and then actually restarting has proven a bitch and a half

get used to not making excuses, no one wants to hear them; just owning up to the problem leaves a much better impression. If you have to say something it should be how you plan to fix the problem or why I should be exited about the results or whatever. It's not like actual game companies don't fuck up all the time.

>if you're expecting a brand new mechanic

You don't need a new mechanic for prototypes to be useful, a unique implementation of existing ones are tricky enough. Most action games probably go through dozens of iterations before finding the right game feel.

>don't ever call your game a X or Y clone

The term clone isn't bad in itself, you're trying to create a memorable image in the potential customer's head, so unless you'll filling it with something else they'll just walk away thinking of that other game. Sometimes just saying you're going to revive a beloved, old franchise is enough to get people exited, but most of the time that's backed up by copying the art and theme of those games as well.

>how does the game play feel?

Shouldn't be asking this until the game works as intended, not limited to the sprite not moving during animations. Fix the obvious stuff first, before burning through fresh impressions.

>Does the character walk too fast or too slow for your tastes?

Too early to ask this question, and it's probably not going to give any useful answers anywPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>28731

Incidentally, what is your objection to stopping during weapon use? If I'm replicating the controls in top down zeldas, that's practically a requirement.

>>28732

I was mainly commenting on how unpolished it felt, if it actually played like a Zelda game I wouldn't have said anything about it.

Check all ur formulas, matrix/quatertnion multiplication orders. Start by animating a mesh with a single bone. Child bones have to inherit from parent bones in a hierarchy. Took me a week to do it all the first time.

>>28598

>2nd webm

this should be in /agdg/ banner

Just use MonoGame and Protogame's animation class. It has no anim blending but it just works. Just use binary FBX which you can cross check in Noesis for sanity.

>>28621

>java

unless you're that thinmatrix dude that does lwjgl tutorials on youtube you should prolly kys my man

eat shit you faggot

>>28700

THIS!

Bad voice acting is a bad idea. Unless you can get good voice acting in, it will probably hurt your game more than it helps it.

>>28572

How about so bad it's good voice acting?

>>28573

Only if your game is an ebin meme game, i.e. a joke.

>>28568

Of course professionally made assets are better than the generic royalty free stuff, but whether it's worth the time/money is too situational to provide a meaningful answer. Without specifics you may as well be asking what kind outfit the player should be wearing.

This thread 404'd, bringing it back.

The game is being written in unity. we are using basic sprites for it but i found out a friend of mine could make us the art and i know a lot of classic composers who are willing to write OSTs for us

>>25998

>does it work out if you just copy other PC games with third person perspective? all the 3D platformers I can think of are on console so I'm not sure what a good example is without a controller.

I'm stuck on that too. I'm thinking of copying Assassin's Creed since that game is the closest you can get to a modern platformer + third person shooter on a PC. Too bad I hate Assassin's Creed.

Thanks for playtesting, I'll probably take down the demo tomorrow so I can implement everything you mentioned.

>>26012

apparently there are developers who specialize in dynamic camera movement.