/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

The probability of this being actually made is -120%

there's a version on git and a download in itch.io

you don't want to see the placeholder art so just give me some time to draw pictures

Its still being worked on.

>>>/vm/ bro

>>33043

That + politics. I get why more and more people are moving to much more moderated communities to try and avoid the current "culture". My inner tinfoil-hat tells me someone is behind the mass dumbing down of millennial's and Gen X who'd otherwise oppose the status quo. More realistically though, it's probably that but to a larger extent just instant gratification and shortened attention spans.

>>33295

Why would somebody have to be behind it? Humanity was given the society it wanted. As long as you can show up to work every day, then society is designed to keep you alive. Kinda like how cows don't need to do anything except eat grass and grow. The side-effect is that people become stupider. If there's no reason to learn things, then most people are going to be perfectly content going through life ignorant.

We also insulate ourselves from danger. Initially this meant protecting our homes and families, but slowly things have gotten worse and now people want to be protected from thoughts that make them feel uncomfortable. Eventually people will get scared by anything they aren't familiar with. The scariest thing is that humans want this. I once had a supervisor complain to her boss, saying "he makes me feel unsafe". This was in a fucking factory lol. We have these people in the blue-collar industry now.

Anyway this rant doesn't belong here really. My point is that people are perfectly capable of destroying their own society without any external force.

>>33310

>Humanity was given the society it wanted.

Not really. Colonialism forced this way of life upon the rest of the world.

They didn't want it, they were forced to accept it. And it doesn't end there.

The forced institution of fiat money puts everyone into debt slavery.

The banking cartel don't have to work. They just leech of the rest of mankind like parasites.

>>33350

I wasn't making the argument that you as an individual wanted this. It's what out society collectively decided. I live in the west and therefore I talk from a western perspective. There are cultures out there that do things differently, but so far it seems that capitalism is the only system that's working. Unfortunately it's also self-destructive.

>The banking cartel don't have to work. They just leech of the rest of mankind like parasites.

Debating this would require a comprehensive explanation of how economies work. I'm not prepared to do that here, however The Ascent of Money is a good primer.

Isn't the publishing fee like $100?

>>31702

In the ex-Second or currently Third World, that can be a significant portion of the average paycheck.

What is it about Wizardry that interested you to re-create it? That's an obscure taste in 2018.

>>31634

how many testers do you have, how many hours have they spent beta testing, how many hours long is the game

publishing on steam is a beast in and of it self. doing a non-shit job is a lot more expensive than the publishing fee.

But two hours of man labor is plenty expensive on its own.

>>31634

Damn dude I love Wizardry, sign me up.

>>31640

Is it not possible to heal using your priest and then recovering his spellpoints for free by sleeping at the stable?

About what? The awkward video or the unreadable screenshots?

>>33283

Wait what is this?

Requests:

The character should be more bouncy. If you drop her form too far up, she should bounce once before stopping on the ground. Same for the sides of the screen. Physics are cute.

Also, does the system you have support using animated images? I think that might be important in the future.

Bug?:

If you grab her midair, she'll stay in her falling animation.

>>32614

I like the bounce idea, I'll see about adding it. As for animated images, the images used are gif so there shouldn't be any trouble using animated images. You can test this by replacing the frames in Data with a gif of the same name. If not I'll see about adding it.

> bug

thanks for reporting it. The next big feature apart from another code refactoring is the animation state manager which should handle all animations and fix these issues. I appreciate the feedback, it'll make the next update a lot better.

>>32615

>You can test this by replacing the frames in Data with a gif of the same name.

The two .gif's I tried animated only the first 2 or 3 frames, which made them look awkward.

As much as I like the idea of desktop mascots, they do occasionally get in the way, so maybe a way to put them in time-out while you're busy would be good.

Drop in a kotatsu, a cardboard box, a bubble or something and put them in it while your busy, then when you don't mind them wandering around and interacting remove the 'time-out' object.

>>33274

>Trying to get into contact with people to help with some of the work?

Don't ask people to waste time working with you if you've never made anything before and don't even know where to begin, not to mention when it's "just for you to learn".

>I already know which engine I want to use

>prioritizing which I should learn first

Make (or learn to make) a game prototype with your engine and ignore literally everything else. It's completely useless to make "character designs" and shit if you don't have anything resembling a game yet. Use MS paint placeholder graphics and some random audio files until you have the game's functionality down, then start polishing the assets.

Becoming a 1 man army is not a weekend project, it's going to take you something closer to half a decade if you want to go that way and not suck balls at it, unless you're specially talented. Art, music, and programming are all involved enough that most people to dedicate their lives to one of them. Of course you'll get overwhelmed and confused if you try to learn them all at once as a part of a game, those are 3 completely different fields so you need to treat them as 3 separate skills to learn, not as components of your game.

If you want to 1MA them then learn the required skills first, because any game you make now will not be relevant to you by the time you've learned art/music/whatever.

If you don't want to 1MA then you definitely need some kind of skeleton of a game before you can ask people to make assets for you, otherwise you're asking them to do work that is almost certainly never going to be used for anything.

>>33275

>half a decade

ha

>>33274

Also to answer your question OP, you should do what >>33275 says. Coding is the hardest part for brainlets so if you can cross that bridge and establish a functioning prototype then the rest can come together nicely. When you want to make something look nice, then make it look nice. Design in advance is something that you do when you have experience with the process.

Did you make this? My first impression is that I have no idea what it's about and I can't figure out what to do. An intro or tutorial would be nice. Is it supposed to be a walking sim?

>>33235

Somebody here likes mason lindroth a bit too much

looks like some puzzle game

Keep a look at https://enigma-dev.org/

>>33191

Not the OP, but thanks for the suggestion. I'm giving it a look.

Not sure about the java dependency to use the IDE, but maybe a promising alternative is in the works from what I've read?

>>33277

Yeah they're working on this: https://github.com/enigma-dev/RadialGM

>>33253

Thank you for playing. I was told last time that there needed to be something to shoot at so I added a target for demo day. The current gun is less of a placeholder, glad you like it. I've already fixed the floating magazines since some people in the /v/ thread brought it to my attention.

I don't know why but that gun bugging out there at the end is really funny. It threw a fit. The bug seems to come from inserting a magazine that came from the table and has been in the inventory into the pistol. If I had to guess, magazine collision is not being disabled properly.

Shinobu Project

Autistic singleplayer experience with my waifu.

There is a new tutorial inside for controls and instructions.

This is hardly a game and more of a simulation of hanging out with a loli. Will eventually have more outside adventures where you can explore places but the main focus is taking care of her and deep character interactions. I'm working on v0.4 right now which will have more props and stuff you can do with her like video related. v0.5 will have bathing.

Download for wangblows here no Patreon required, it's a free game: https://www.patreon.com/posts/23946970

>>33245

Fug I forgot. Anchoring. >>33256

Why are you scaling it back up? Just render the game view to a low resolution target texture then scale that texture up to window/renderer size. You also have way too many colors. Clamp to a fixed number and range to mimic an indexed palette. Also you'd get better results with some slight sharpening post processing to better define features that are lost during downscaling.

>>33224

I would tell you that you can then use posterize or one of the other color tools to limit the palette, but they don't apply dithering so it's still shit. Perhaps you could convert it to 256 colors with dithering in Kolourpaint, then open it in Gimp and posterize it, then open it in Aseprite to tweak the palette however you want. Or maybe Krita does all of this, I've not used it extensively yet. Just in the short time I have used it though, it is way better than Gimp so it wouldn't surprise me.

>>33225

>Why are you scaling it back up? Just render the game view to a low resolution target texture then scale that texture up to window/renderer size.

>Also you'd get better results with some slight sharpening post processing to better define features that are lost during downscaling.

Also this.

For me its the opposite, I have so many ideas but don't know to approach them. I can code and I am fully capable of planning I just stop once I start it.

>>31829

Just to add my input to the pile.... Whenever I play a videogame, there's some voice in my head which says things like "this game would be better if they did X". Over time you start building up a mental image of your perfect game, and slowly start to fill in the details of exactly how it would work. Then you start to make it happen. And whenever I sit down to play some vidya, and I get frustrated by some mechanic, it reminds me I'm supposed to be working on my own stuff.

As for these more specific details, it's part of building up that mental image. Imagine sitting down and playing your finished game. Let your mind create whatever details it would like. Then write that shit down in a design document or wiki. It's important to write this stuff down so you can remember it all. Let the ideas build up and then go over them and think of a way to make all these separate ideas come together.

i dont think its even worth making a game, I've spent 10 years of my neet life playing vidya all day, and 90% of the games I want to play have been done 20 years ago. I'll often find myself thinking up of an idea for a game, and then find out its already been done on the SNES and it's 100times better than something I could ever do.

You should just make assets and templates for a preexisting engine since idiots are asset flipping and pushing shit onto steam and other platforms.

Between old games being clunky and new games being made for the lowest common denominator, there's not many games worth playing. That's the niche to fill.

>>31930

>I know a dude who thinks Minecraft and Rimworld are new things, even though they blatantly ripped off Dwarf fortress

Are Minecraft and Rimworld not good games? If they are good games, I don't understand the argument you're trying to make. OP is asking for help coming up with ideas, not making the next Doom.

>Every ones just reusing old ideas and adding a twist to it.

Aka the history of mankind.

>>33036

Honestly, it looks like you've got a pretty decent amount of work under your belt. I think it would be absolutely wasteful to do nothing with it as it stands, though the borrowed art assets will definitely prevent you from monetizing it.

My personal advice is to spend some time researching similar projects and find out how much they're making, and observe what characteristics set them apart from their competition. See what sorts of themes and settings are popular, and try to keep that in mind when making this sort of thing.

My strategy in this regard is actually to look for a successful NON-erotic franchise that gets a LOT of rule34, then deliver something similar with an erotic twist.

>>33039

Thanks, I did have a lot of work put into it, and I believe the design and finished product could be great. But at the same it will require a lot more of work as well, and then a good amount fiddling to find the best values for the mechanics and a whole lot more in terms of content filling.

>>33036

I loved original Jack o Nine Tails and I've been drawing up some mockups, documentation and fiddling with renpy(cant code, and not the best engine for what I want but oh well) for the few past days because I've been wanting to start my own project for some time. The problem is it's very hard to start properly because there are so many things to do and I don't know which one to do first.

I'd honestly like to help you or work with you, the problem is I don't know any programming language or how to draw which are both extremely important. Writing is the only thing I could do with a modicum of skill and you can get away with text only, at least until you get Patreon neetbux to hire a decent artist for some scenes.

My game idea is inspired by Jack o Nine which is why I'm in this thread in the first place, just trying to scour through everything I can to see what people liked/disliked about it and get as much info as I can while working on my "game".

Lore and setting background are done to the point where I know where I'll be heading but not to the point where it's fleshed out. The nature of the setting means you can put in almost anything and keep it consistent, which is exactly the reason why I've designed it like this.

When it comes the the mechanics I'd like to implement some turn-based small scale combat that is at least somewhat fun, a raiding mechanic which would be part turn based-part VN style choices(not sure about this yet) and a slave management mechanic. Also some basic gladiatorial combat and hippodrome races(like blues and greens, except there would be 4 different teams to reflect each faction, maybe add some hooligan shenanigans for fun).

When it comes to slave management, I liked how the Oldhuntsman did it but it seems to me that he put excessive amounts of unnecessary complicated mechanics. Also the fact that every slave was randomly generated was boring and the grind was tedious. I'd like to add generated slaves you get from raids for instant H-scene gratification, but also uniques that you needPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>31790

Nothing that I know of, except maybe the weird GUI.

>>31544

When I was 10 (9 years ago) I learned it mostly by using a "game" someone uploaded to the site which converted D&D to GML to help learn how to do things in GML. I used it as a reference when I would get stuck. I don't remember if my code was any good though. Considering I was a kid and just learning at without using any sort of guide, it was probably pretty bad.

>>31544

Just use the Help guide. The whole language is explained there. Also tutorials, like >>31574

Out of curiosity, if I made games within gamemaker and had a site associated with them, could I sell the games on that site DRM-free as a steam alternative? Would that be within what the developer license allows?