/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

What's the plan for if you have two or more slaves in a scene with your MC? Will you be able to tab into the second slave's bio on the left, or will they both be displayed scrunched into one spot?

Plan is a tab into system for the slave view, so you can rotate them, maybe sometime in the far future multiple, but at this time its not planned.

a punish menu and a reward menu would be nice

Contact Disloyal Heretic on Skype.

I've had consulting experience before (someone was making a comic and needed historically accurate advice) and used to write short stories (science fiction and historical non/fiction). I do /pol/ too which might help writing Hitlerian dialogue.

wew, i didn't think the thread would stay alive for so long

update/rework #3

I'm a programmer and I've been involved in tons of /v/ and /vr/ projects that have crashed and burned. Various experiences:

* I work in Linux with C++ and OpenGL primarily. Team chose Unity as a platform, which didn't have any Linux support at the time. I was the only person who knew how to program, and the other "programmers" had never touched anything except HTML. Lots of art and concepts got done, but almost no programming. I wanted to help out, but contributing code was difficult because I haven't used C# in years and I couldn't test my code. Also, nobody knew how to use source control. It died within two weeks.

* Programming got done, but all the artists dropped out. Game was to be in 3D, and we got a couple unrigged models (and one half-rigged one) but wasn't enough to work with. Our programming-art level models were good enough, but nobody wanted to spend hours on rigging as well as hours on programming for a hobby project. It died within a month.

* Programming got done, sprite work got done, lots of sample levels and level editor got done, but nobody wanted to get around to actually finishing the damn thing except me, and when I wanted to release the source code and level editor to the community FOSS so somebody else could do it, nobody else was willing to let that happen, so it's dead in a dropbox somewhere (none of the other programmers knew how to use version control) because it's proprietary

Those are the more notable ones. Every other project pretty much can be summed up as "everybody started off super stoked, but then everybody got burned out and dropped out, starting with the musicians, then the artists, then the writers, then the project management, then the programmers last". I wish I could do it with just programmers alone, but it takes so much fucking work and time to model, rig, and animate even shitty programmer-art models.

fodasss men, xesq do dele

>>26836

I'd love to help. Contact me on vortex@telegmail.com

I also recommend making a telegram channel for the development.

>>34351

When you do something, get it done. Now this doesn't mean that it has to be complete, just that you need to establish certain milestones and complete your specific task to reach that milestone. Don't worry too much about perfection as minor imperfections can be touched up later. Redoing your previous work is also a valid approach, but you can't redo previous work if you don't have work that you've done.

>>33460

ok so posted

I've worked in gaming for a few years, but can't code - designed a dieselpunk game, studio got shut down. Designed a horror racing game, studio got shut down.

Now focusing on writing and RPG design, mainly on how to make everything super impactful and consequential and visually linked together. We really need a new paradigm to RPG design these days, genre is getting thin-blooded.

Slow board.

I'm learning to 3D model.

>>34376

slow site. bunkers more lively

Heya

>>34224

Updated link because I can't into dlls

https://mega.nz/#!9s4SRIgD!H5uQCEoWDnBVFe0JxBs2xFMFD2R1nfOoDDPAmqVbe-E

Hey /agdg/ fellers

anon.cafe/agdg/ dude here, board is always open if you want to have a failsafe.

>>34128

you still wanna transfer it?

>>34338

Hey friend

Due to recent events I'd like to keep the board just to safeguard against possible spammers which will surely come now that the cat is out of the bag, but if you want me to, I can make you a mod now and let you have it once things stabilize. You in?

>>34250

I see you like big girls

for you

>>34235

Get use to it, m8. Game-dev is full of these whack jobs who are just baiting for a reason to get outraged and you'll do yourself more harm by playing into their hands than.

I don't tolerate censorship, so i will be fucking off, dunno about my brother, but he never posts updates here anyways, follow us in the blog if you want to keep up with out stuff.

https://fablesoflaetus.com/

it's genius as a marketing platform. being able to directly pay for foot traffic instead of ad impressions is something we haven't seen before, at least on this scale.

the game itself needs a lot of work. niantic obviously didn't foresee the success and I have no idea how they're going to moderate such a large user base, especially with the apparent conflicts of interest. cheating is also an issue I don't see them solving, made worse by the game's semi competitive nature.

only just started playing but I'm already a bit skeptical about the mechanics. I'm guessing the success so far is mostly from the social aspect, which could keep it going indefinitely. not sure if just adding new pokemon is enough to keep people's interest once players enter the late game. they'll definitely come up against more competition now that they've proven the idea.

I think it's not a game, it's fucking boring, it's a data tracking app, it's a real life meme.

I don't give a shit about it, I will continue to emulate old pokemon games as usual.

fix

I'm a programmer and I've been involved in tons of /v/ and /vr/ projects that have crashed and burned. Various experiences:

* I work in Linux with C++ and OpenGL primarily. Team chose Unity as a platform, which didn't have any Linux support at the time. I was the only person who knew how to program, and the other "programmers" had never touched anything except HTML. Lots of art and concepts got done, but almost no programming. I wanted to help out, but contributing code was difficult because I haven't used C# in years and I couldn't test my code. Also, nobody knew how to use source control. It died within two weeks.

* Programming got done, but all the artists dropped out. Game was to be in 3D, and we got a couple unrigged models (and one half-rigged one) but wasn't enough to work with. Our programming-art level models were good enough, but nobody wanted to spend hours on rigging as well as hours on programming for a hobby project. It died within a month.

* Programming got done, sprite work got done, lots of sample levels and level editor got done, but nobody wanted to get around to actually finishing the damn thing except me, and when I wanted to release the source code and level editor to the community FOSS so somebody else could do it, nobody else was willing to let that happen, so it's dead in a dropbox somewhere (none of the other programmers knew how to use version control) because it's proprietary

Those are the more notable ones. Every other project pretty much can be summed up as "everybody started off super stoked, but then everybody got burned out and dropped out, starting with the musicians, then the artists, then the writers, then the project management, then the programmers last". I wish I could do it with just programmers alone, but it takes so much fucking work and time to model, rig, and animate even shitty programmer-art models.

Ask on /v/ /agdg/, it's less dead than here.

And be more specific next time.

Worms uses this for multiple weapons.

- Let go too early, it'll curve back and hurt you, or send you flying off of the map to your death.

- Let go too late, and all of its curvature is lost. So it either moves in a straight line towards your intended target, or if you were relying on the curvature for it to hit a target, it'll hit somewhere else entirely.

- Position and angle are really important. You're limited to a certain degree of angle, so you want to position your worm in very specific spots.

Another example of it was an old atari game wher you have to charge up a spring to shoot ants over a wall to land in a jar.

I'm pretty sure quite a few sports games have used it too, especially for shooting hoops in basketball.

>>26173

I recently saw an LP of a Scarface tie-in vidya that used this mechanic for intimidation.

The bar has a failure zone at the start, and a success zone at the end, with a nothing-happens zone in between.

Charge too long, and the bar wraps around from the end to the start, which leads to failure.

Worms uses this for multiple weapons.

- Let go too early, it'll curve back and hurt you, or send you flying off of the map to your death.

- Let go too late, and all of its curvature is lost. So it either moves in a straight line towards your intended target, or if you were relying on the curvature for it to hit a target, it'll hit somewhere else entirely.

- Position and angle are really important. You're limited to a certain degree of angle, so you want to position your worm in very specific spots.

Another example of it was an old atari game wher you have to charge up a spring to shoot ants over a wall to land in a jar.

I'm pretty sure quite a few sports games have used it too, especially for shooting hoops in basketball.

fodassss men

I've been working on adding a few container classes for things like enemy headers, palettes, weaknesses, and drop items that sort of stuff.

Also set up a public repo (everything is GPLv3) if anyone using C# is keen to mess around with stuff https://bitbucket.org/JackalsoftGames/metroidtools/

>>34028

Thanks for the information. I don't understand why Godot is so popular if it's so bad, is it just good marketing?

>I'd recommend just using something else to be honest.

Can you please give me a few recommendations? Unity? Gamemaker?

>>34000

No. Either ES 2 or 3.

>>33997

It's fine. People struggling with Godot will struggle with any engine. It's easier to blame the tools though instead of learning to use GDscript correctly, design performant algorithms, and move what they need to be very fast into C++

>>34030

Godot is popular because it's the only free and lightweight Unity like engine that is developed enough to actually ship games with. It also has a lot of shilling done for it as you suspected.

If you want to make something more toaster friendly and want something fully free I'd recommend a framework like monogame or haxe. Unity and Gamemaker are unironically more toaster friendly than Godot, but both aren't fully free, require accounts and may get more toaster unfriendly down the line.

>>34033

The 3.x ES2 implementation is god awful compared to what they had in 2.x.

Can someone give me a rundown on how to use C++ for game logic in godot?

I've looked into native module but it all looks so complicated

>>34269

I found a series of short tutorial videos on doing that:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWc2hibTd7kqTk2wkYw7LsgE3V801AROL

It's a bit outdated now, but after a quick look on the NativeTools github, it doesn't look like much has changed.

What specifically are you having trouble with?

Not that anyone's reading it but here's a minor update testing some swimming logic. Probably a lot is going to change.

Looks good so far anon. Sprite looks a bit big but shouldn't be too hard to adjust later if necessary

Got some new footage.

Implemented the swimming animation, some sound effects, and added an NPC character.

The bigger catgirl's name is Milchi, although her sprite is a placeholder (I just had a sprite of her in a fighting game style laying around). I'll replace it with more appropriate graphics later.

>>33099

Uh, what's wrong with using Unity Photon?

>>34158

It's not that old, I can just post a music list, starting at the bottom:

mousefade.mp4 - Altwave - Donkey Kong Country Medley

mousefade_mesh_texrotate.mp4 - Tempest 2000 OST - Hyper Prisim

sigma2_UI_system - Prana - Geomantik - Taiyo (Chakra Remix)

editor_texture_controls.mp4 - Snaketicus - Die Totenmaske Zwei OST (Unreleased) - D E P O T

editor_multi_select_stretch_mode.mp4 - Vincent De Moor - Fly Away (Original Mix)

editor_scaling_works_FUCK.mp4 - Chris Zabriskie - Divider

editor_texture_browser_scrolling.mp4 - Phoenix849 - Netware Violators

editor_multiselect_test1.mp4 - Synthadelic - I'm a Secretary (Radio Soulwax: Cherry Moon On Valium Mix)

editor_multi_select_cut - Vincent De Moor - Fly Away (Original Mix)

editor_copy_paste.mp4 - (cant find it)

editor_absolute_paste.mp4 - Snaketicus - Die Totenmaske Zwei OST (Unreleased) - background sound

editor_undo_cut_brush.mp4 - Juno Reactor - Transmissions - High Energy Protons

editor_timelapse.mp4 - Svenson - Sunlight Theory (O-Zone Mix)

editor_cut_mode_test.mp4 - Zymotix - Rachel In Trance (Maximum Cut)

snap_to_grid.webm - Defender 2000 OST - Track 03

editor_gs.webm - Defender 2000 OST - Track 02

editor1.webm - TRF - Ez Do Dance

editor2.webm - ALEPH - Take My Life

frustum_culling.webm - Ken Laszlo - Hey Hey Guy

ocw.mp4 - Silent Circle - Stop the Rain in the Night

2018-08-06 01-45-17.mp4 - Scott Brown & Dmo - Just Walk Away

CSGworking.webm - Kraftwerk - Neon Lights

CSGbug.webm - Kraftwerk - Neon Lights

hall1.webm - Mr. Flagio - Take a Chance

sigma_II_BSP_working_rooms_map_8megs.webm - 009 Sound System - DreamscaPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

==Uncommon Time Retuned== (Working title)

Uncommon Time Retuned (help me think of a better name please), is a near-total-conversion of FeralPheonix's game, Uncommon Time. 99% of tumblrshit has been removed- including the faggotry/tumblrshit of two of the game's playable characters. This game serves as a "to the side" alternative universe of the original game. Uncommon Time sought to challenge classic hero's story tropes, Retuned seeks to reincorporate them, thus more main characters for the story have been added.

Changes from last demo day.

-- Currently up to Bel Canto, rewrite progress as of this build stops after you get instruments.

-- Truncated dialogue in some parts, mostly arpeggio pass.

-- Added a wandering merchant in dungeons where you can't return to town.

-- Rework of damage formulas across most of the board to make it more uniform and less clunky.

-- Switched from Yanfly's Free-Turn-Battle back to Vanilla, shit was way too clunky for what I needed.

Known flaws, bugs & other shit

-- Just started implementing seperate-window nametags, progress is inconsistent. I will take effort to iron this shit out in the meantime, as 90% of the offending dialogue is strictly in act one.

-- Arena flaws. I need to eventually get a script that allows me to disable the use of items in glissando arena's battle sections, furthermore, some battles have bloated stats.

-- Difficulty is all over the place. This is the challenge working with pre-made content.

-- Healing is broken. Healing is supposed to use part of the target's current missing HP and factor in stats from the healer and the patient, but it's just grossly overpowered somehow.

-- Placeholders galore, the new characters are temporarily using stock stuff and recolors of old characters, plenty of temporary music from other vidya. Some of the party (most notably Mezzo) do not have a good range of faces for certain lines in the game. When Post too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>34226

>>34243

>>34244

Might as well point out because I don't feel like redoing another build package.

Uncommon time retuned has a debug map set as its opening scene. To start the game as intended, do the following:

-- after starting a new game, talk to the old man and go to the warp room.

-- interact with the bridge concealed in the upper left corner of the warp room.

>>33652

if your game idea is just a story, its a shitty game idea and probably a shitty story idea as well

A city-builder/strategy game in the vein of Tropico and Total War, where you play as the dictator of a fictional nation in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America from the 1815 to modern times.

>>31464

>2D ripoff of Thief

>I don't think anyone has made a game like this yet

can you be this dumb?

>>33652

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endgame:_Singularity

>>34069

Why?

>>34219

Nice, I'll check this one out. I'm working on something similar.