/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

==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.

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>>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.

>nobody has posted this yet

This looks interesting.

>>34083

Isn't that something Notch is working on?

>>33261

Short answer: yes it can.

I think it's pretty interesting idea - to make a game smh like daredevil. That a guy would lose its eyesight and have to learn to see with echolocation and tactile senses. And to the end of the have he become superhuman. It would be interesting for dude to be able to see through car and identify engine, but unable to see through glass because the room is soundproof.

But to actually implement it you need advanced 3d knowledge. And I barely can make some point and clicks with Godot.

P.S.: O.P. is ideaguy.

>>33261

Also check out Scanner Sombre by Introversion. Apparently a good game that didn't sell too well.

>>33261

>is it impossible for non blind people?

Yes.

The reason is that non-blind people literally have not formed the neural connections necessary for echolocation to be used. And the only way to form those connections is to force yourself to navigate by sound alone, which forces your brain to make those connections to better enhance your auditory senses to compensate for lack of sight.

The only way I can think of is to actually find someone who used to be blind, who has also developed a usable form of echolocation and interview them directly and ask of their ability to echolocate has diminished after being able to see.

>>33975

What nigger, there are clickers designed for blind people to use to navigate.

>>29794

Thanks for the videos, I'm definitely going to want to check those out. Not only for the content itself but they remind me of the fact that there's a huge legitimate indie game and media community out there and that it'd probably pay to get involved with them to some degree from the beginning.

As far as a demo goes, I don't think that's in the cards yet. I don't have the money to pay for a programmer (part of what the campaign is meant to address) and I'm far too busy working on animations and trying to figure that whole process out. I could have several proposed in-game animations and pieces of splash art ready to give people an idea of what to expect and what their money is helping work towards though and I believe that will be sufficient.

I'm a big fan of physical media as rewards and would like to frame my Patreon as a sort of slow-rolling kickstarter. Do you know of any good companies offhand that make limited run games, music CDs, print books etc.? Part of the dream is reliving that feeling of opening the box and seeing that instruction manual with all of the cool character art and story blurbs and having something I made on my shelf. Is it possible or even desirable to contact a mainstream publisher about this sort of thing? Where do I go or who do I talk to to get a real game made?

In any case, I would like to be able to keep close track of who's given what and I'm not sure how that's done. I've heard a lot of horror stories of hit-and-run patrons who "donate" in whatever amount, take all the content available to them and bail before they actually have to pay (well, not so much a horror story but one of a minor inconvenience, I guess). Say I send out art books or something like that to Patrons who've given $100 or more over time (after taxes and Patreon's fee that'd be about $70 in my pocket I believe). I imagine printing a book is hugely expensive (wouldn't be surprised if it cost at least $20 for an art book with 50 pages or so and that's not including at least $5 for shipping) and the last thing I want to do is give something like that away to a mooch that looks like he's been supporting me for months but reallyPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>26420

The answer you're looking for is: don't hire, get hired.

>>34077

So this is what the bookshelf of a nodev looks like.

if you like the idea of making a game engine sure go for it, you'll learn a lot and if you manage something it will feel really rewarding.

Seems like you already know Casey. Most of the things you see in that stream is how actual engine programming looks like, so there's that. C is simply a better tool than modern c++ because it lets you manipulate memory as you please.

Whatever you do please don't try to do low level programming in modern c++, it's just not what it was made for.

>>34148

Like this anon says, only code an engine if you want to do it for fun. Coding your own engine is #1 cause of missing persons cases

You're best off learning general programming best practices. Not making problems unnecessarily localized is yet another lesson.

>>30656

I've published a game on steam.

You don't need to disclose any information unless you want to give someone access to the steamworks account.

Actually in the agreement valve will not disclose your personal information. But yes you do need to disclose to them your full legal name because of money laundry laws.

However, if you have a partner you trust, you can use their name.

>>32693

Unless you're posting on desuchan, then yes. Or at the very least sage it if your reply isn't in support of OP. Let bad threads die.

>>29670

Add me on discord manic#4266

>>34108

tropic is that you?

i really "have to" rework impregnation system

-sperm rate of like 300M /ml is basically stud horse level and roughly close to theoretical limit

-pregnancy chance (if you disable this demo shit that every girl gets preggo every time) is like idk 1 to several trillion

to do:

- more realistic, returning general pregnancy chance

- maybe it should be dependent on cunt pH

- one value for semen and another for sperm amount

-configurable girth, semen and sperm amount/production rates (idk, it's so hard to try to modify someone else's code. i mean custom UI elements "should" work but they don't)

personally i would love to make it shota x loli game

>>34372

on dev's private github probably

If this thread is still around when dev possibly, maybe never, comes back.

8KUN HAS BANNED LOLI

Abandon thread, and maybe check out /hgg/ on the imageboard webring if you want to talk about this game.

>>34369

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>>34373

Why are you still posting here? This thread could be nuked at any moment.

any new updates

or maybe infos where to follow development

still waiting

is this place still being used? I wish for a new version if possible. the gitgud zip file does not run..

This board suck so much

Hey Shinobu dev, what was that site that you used to find the voice actress. ;-; I want loli voices too

>>34031

voice-koesen.com

Better brush up on your nip.

>>33314

Dev, hope you will give a look at this suggestion.

Couse i'm looking at so much potential ti would be a shame if the project remain just "That".

Not that i dislike Shinobu, i also love that character so much but, there is no OTHER game whatsoever with such detailed anime Expressions , nor such fluid Movements or Options.

What i'm suggesting you is to use Shinobu Project as a "Base canvas".

keep doing this shinobu Projec alive t to get more attention, But then have a way to be able to Change the Title , the whole story and everything to something ELSE! Using Shinobu Project as a Prototipe of it , Nobody prevents you to keep the girl being a Vampire loli, nor to be blonde nor to have that watanabe akio Art-Style.

But really later add back the porn part, and modify the title , story , location, names , Hair colors, Dress Etc AND SELL IT THROUGH SOMETHING LIKE DLSITE, with The amount of Effects, expressions and everything even if this wasn't VR you would probably make something FAR better than CM3D serie.

Just Release that before they catch up to you , because you are basically Risking to lose millions for "keeping this project a Fanwork on somebody's else Creation" Pretty sure Nisio wouldn't give a crap, but you could deliver us the BEST VR Porn/All ages Vampire loli Dating Sim, whilst making so much money and making a Hit that not even KISS's CM3D serie could beat.

Please i beg you, turn this into something more.

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>>29382

What advantages does godot have for 2d?

Im in a similar position to OP and finally decided it would be better to make my 2d game in unity

>>29414

https://www.slant.co/versus/1047/1068/~unity_vs_godot

Godot has any feature you would want in any 2d engine. I don't know how this compares with Unity.

>>29236

Is that Caesar III? That's my favorite game also. Suggestion: Don't use a pre-made engine. It's 2D and mostly just placing pre-drawn tiles in fixed spots; the only "game move" logic needed would be for the people wandering around your town. Well, unless you're adding the military aspect to your new game; that could get interesting.

>>33932

Why are you digging a 2 years old dead thread?

You can use C# as a scripting language in Godot, with Mono installed. There's literally no reason to use Unity, especially with former EA-kike John Riccitiello as its CEO.

>>32655

It's 32bit now in this link http://thelastboundary.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TheLastBoundary-0.0.2.zip

I'm resurrecting this game with some changes.

Now, the game will be less story driven. Your ship and crew will still be randomly generated, but now the idea is that you and your crew have been transported, unwillingly, across space to a distant star (basically the premise of Star Trek: Voyager).

As a result, your ships computer has calculated some jumps to get you home. These jumps are shown on the star map. So from your current star, you can jump to one of several stars etc. You can see all the jumps that can be made ahead of time so you can plan your moves.

No one star is a "dead-end", every star leads to another one.

The player also has limited supplies, so trips to the different systems will yield different amounts of supplies. When the player is choosing a system they can see what the long-range scanners say in the way of supplies and danger.

Goal is to get to the home system

WIP of the star map.

I've made a new demo build. Would love to hear some nodev feedback. https://deckhead.itch.io/the-last-boundary

You need to spend way more effort into making this censor proof, or turn it wholly p2p.

This shit will be scrubbed from the face of this planet.

Hi, friends, thanks a lot for your support.

For personal reasons, I am pausing my 3D Anonymous Imageboard project. It’s too much moderation and maintenance for a lone person and I will not be able to provide this amount of work during the following year. Lot of people were hyped by the project, so I published full the sources on Github: https://github.com/AlexKrunch/AnonIB-3D

It’s a pause, I will comeback with a new project (I think, in 1 year), with a minimal server side part + and the files being torrented to escape censorship.

Why though? Just git gud and learn to make a real game instead.

>>33751

>Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley

>but simplify it into text

You literally get a Visual Novel

rec me a text game i don't think i've finished one

>>33751

Text as in Dwarf Fortress or as in Zork?

The former: Do the same as you'd do with any other game, but represent entities with ASCII-symbols instead of graphics. Probably both easier and more sensible for this type of thing.

The latter: Write general descriptions of rooms and associate certain states with certain words.

For example:

You're on a field. There's [$PLANT] growing here. It seems to be [$HEALTH_STATE]. It's [$HARVEST_TIMER]. Look into how Evennia represents rooms and stuff for an in-depth example.

>>33925

Zork.

I want to build a text-game but more closely related to a MUD. Basically I want to create something people will play so there's fun player interactions like in HellMOO. Can someone give me ideas in terms of gameplay and things this game would need to have to maintain a small but active playerbase?

>>33807

>yuri

you won't finish, as yuri games aren't real, check the threads on /v/ if you don't believe, there are typically only ever the same ten games posted i those threads, and of them I'd wager 90% don't even have girls holding hands

the idea of the yuri game is nothing more than a freudian fantasy held by individuals repressing homosexual thoughts

Futa MC patch?

>>33807

Looks nice and fluid, I'll be keeping an eye on this. The sound design is great too.

I think the dialogue could use some touching up, but that's probably a given. A thing I tend to notice about professional games compared to amateur games is that there's much less dialogue, but since you mentioned you wanted some adventure game elements to it, I guess you don't really have the choice of cutting that down. If nobody else brings it up, then that probably just comes down to my personal taste.

It's probably the standard for this board and amateur game makers in general, but I really don't like itch.io. They don't store dates for their releases anywhere, and whether old releases are stored or not seems to come down to developer preference.

This is definitely just personal taste, but I thought the boss death animation was kind of lame. I get that you're going for a rockman feel, but bosses exploding in white light feels utterly generic for action games these days. Maybe if it tripped over and fell on the bottom of its chin or something, that'd come off as being kind of cute. This would mean you have to animate a unique death animation for each and every stage boss though, so it might be better to keep it consistent after all.