/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

I'm currently a system administrator.

Always wanted to learn how to program some simple C and create some simple games.

Is it worth it? It feels like people who can program breathing worlds have a lot more "power" than those who don't.

>>24616

You could learn the blueprint system from unreal 4, its quite easy to make simple games working off the templates

>>24616

Yes, a custom engine that you hand craft will give you all the power you can get. You're limited by your own skill set, time, and computing power at that point.

But you are also reinventing the wheel, and that takes a looot of work. One of the most daunting things about AGDG to me personally is that I have to "wear every hat" and be project manager, programmer, artist, music, etc any of which is an entire team for a AAA project.

So if you want to learn to program, more power to you, but consider what your real end goals are and what the realistic options for meeting those goals are. If you just want to make simple games, why teach yourself to program gaming engines? Take an existing engine, use it to make your simple game.

In other words: do you want to be an artist, and show off your art in a game? Do you want to be a programmer, and show off your programming in a new engine? Or do you want to make simple games, and use someone else's engine to show off your game design and ideas?

>>24616

>Is it worth it?

Depends on what you're trying to achieve here.

In general, programming is very useful even if you want to just like make games. You probably won't be using C ever, but it's a very good stepping stone. Even if you're going to use a third-party engine, it most likely utilizes some sort of programming language to describe game mechanics.

>>24616

>Is it worth it?

Depends if you enjoy doing it. Grab some C tutorials and SDL (once you get the hang of C) and give it a shot.

I was talking about progress on my scripting language engine thing before.

I've now completed an interpreter which takes my compiled opcode and executes it.

It's now complete with Engine Functions to allow scripts to execute functions in C++ along with Parameters and Return values.

I've got all your standard control structures in place, and functions.

I'm tossing up whether I need to implement classes or not... it looks like an absolute fuckton of work.

Is Board Owner dead? Why is Progress General #4 stickied while this isn't?

>>24643

You should always aim high and higher. It's your time you're spending at this.

>>24652

The new mini jam thread gets stickied eventually so I think he only visits occasionally.

>>24704

God that's a beautiful aesthetic.

>>24719

Thanks man, took a while to figure out.

>>24704

so beautiful, would love to play that and get high

>>24740

I also had the nodes set up to match the gloss of the bottle, but I took them off when The logo wasn't showing up.

>>24743

you shouldn't need to uv the entire thing, what the context? is it wood? if it is you need to uv/model it it like how it would be built

>>24716

Name of song?

>>24785

If you want to let it stand out rough you can use the logo texture as the 'fac' input of a mix shader that mixes a diffuse black colour and a red glossy colour.

I need to completely refactor my AI to a new system and I don't wanna

Need to force myself. Disciprine.

>>24836

Figure out where the main light source is. Your shadows are all over the place.

Sorry for not creating a new thread, but is it illegal to use real life names in a videogame?

>>24847

that would depend on the context

>>24848

like on a political game?

>>24836

Pixelshit won't save you when you're making environments like that.

Start by learning real art, or reconsider what your game should look like.

>>24847

I'm no law expert so don't take this as a fact, but I recall hearing that if you portray the person negatively, it must be a parody. You also can't use real names in a commercial product without permission.

>>24836

Pixel art is part medium, part style, and just like any art style, you need to know fundamentals before you can use it. Take some beginning drawing courses, pick up some pencils with different hardnesses (from an art or craft store), and practice basic stuff like two-point perspective, lighting studies, still lives, etc.

Once you understand the basics, try these pixel-specific tutorials:

http://thepixelpalace.deviantart.com/journal/IJ-Pixel-Shading-Dithering-and-Pillow-Shading-335733411

>>24740

I don't think i could ever pick something worse to model than a cologne bottle... i would imagine the smell all the way through... i fucking hate cologne... i'm getting dizzy just thinking about it.

>>24643

>Topdown overworld with 2D platforming scenes

I like this.

Even in Link's Awakening, it was nice

>>24862

My biggest complaint about GM (maybe they fixed it with Studio, I don't know) is that deleting objects doesn't "free up" object IDs in the editor

If you deleted your retard smiley face and drew another, they'd start at like ID 1000058 or whatever. It always seemed like a potential memory leak for long-running projects.

Also consider creating objects via the room load script, then you can import/hardcode object positions via a txt file or something.

>>24847

If I see a John Smith in your game, I'm suing.

>>24893

Yes

>>24932

I know it's a sin but I like the indie style modern pixel art graphics, I think they look cute.

Also I like Gamemaker (it's what I'm using too) but it feels like everything is going to explode and delete itself if I sneeze on it, but that's most likely because of my sloppy coding.

So, long time, no dev.

Time to get back in the groove of it.

Which should I work on?

>Mario Tennis GBC Style Sprite based tennis with RPG mechanics & endurance system with dive/sprint/charge shots etc.

>Anti-Grav Racer with "Mode 7"/SMK/F-Zero style 2D graphics and WipEout style weapons

>Pokemon clone with Active-Time Battle style system, multi mons active at once.

http://strawpoll.me/6604782

>>24943

> with RPG mechanics & endurance system with dive/sprint/charge shots etc.

can you instead do something like punch out with the same ideas?

these guys made something similar to this idea

http://gamedesign.jp/flash/boxing/boxing.html

although there the fighting kind of feels like random buttonmashing at times. but the rpg elements are in there

>>24943

Muhnstar Arupeegees are tight as shit and putting an Active-Time spin on it could be cool.

>>24943

Collect-Em-All RPGs are good shit. And none that I know of have used an active-battle timer. Do it.

>>24941

It's good if used correctly. Hyper Light Drifter looks good with it. But even Hyper Light Drifter has a unique color scheme when using the pixelshit art style. The problem is the sheer number of pixelshit games that use primarily green, brown and other muted colors in their palettes.

>>24730

>>24704

Oh fuck, I remember you, anon! You shilled your kickstarter here, and the game looked fucking great! What was it called?

Been learning how to make music, though I have no idea how it came out.

I've been emulating Shoji Meguro's (Persona 3, 4, Catherine) non-vocal style, where the music works both in game and outside of game.

This is my best/least shit work so far.

https://clyp.it/u04oe3jc

Loops around the 3 minute mark.

i had no idea putting my shit out there would be so god damn terrifying

fuck

>>24983

>i had no idea putting my shit out there would be so god damn terrifying

>fuck

Don't worry about it, anon. It sounds okay. It's a bit samey with only a select few instruments, maybe adding a few more will make it a bit more varied. I'm not a musician though, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

>>25039

>movement engine that allows for both platforming and "open world" controls.

Might be a dumb question, but why both? Are you gonna use the same engine for different games? It'd make more sense to use a shared basis, but modify it as fit for every different game.

As for the text engine, I'm not sure. I'll be needing one soon enough, but I've only really been working on a script, as well as sprites and music when I feel like it.

I do recommend, however, making it so that all the in game text is in one place, or at least in a few, rather than spread apart.

What I mean by that is, when you need a certain bit of text, you call the textbox script, case N, and that "case N" will feature all the text for that one part.

This is a better alternative to calling the text box script, and including the text in whatever object that called it. This way, all the in game text would be spread apart a bunch of objects, which would kinda be annoying.

I might be retarded on the textbox thing, as I haven't done much Game Maker coding yet, but a few in-joke filled "games". However, I think it would be possible to implement it this way.

>>25040

My reasoning was pretty much just "I could re-work the controls for every game, or I could make one large script where I input five arguments and then have different movement." Seemed obvious to me which would be better.

And that's actually a really solid piece of advice. I hadn't thought to do that, but hypothetically, I could set up an INI file (or maybe just some directory inside of the code itself) that has all the lines, and then have a script that just calls on that based on what line I'm telling it to read. Thanks for that!

>>25053

>didn't even model nipples on it

shameful

>>25054

Wouldn't serve any purpose right now. No nipples makes it easier to make armor.

Spent the last two days getting a build ready for halfchan to tell me how shit it is, then when I go to submit the post with the download link (the first time I've shared it since Nov) the site goes down, FML

I'm working on a blue glow around my levels. Vid embed.

I still have to find a way to blur the edges of a picture.

>>24983

Needs more variation. Right now it just sounds like you've got a basic beat down.

>>25131

That screenshot looks pretty dope, though I'd lower the film grain but it definantly goes well with black and white.

>tfw you relate to every banner on /agdg/

it hurts to live

>>25178

I fucking hate doing 3d art, iv wasted so much time on it

>>25039

>Right now I'm figuring out shooting

use some spacial structure like quadtree inside your scene manager to group entities based on some AABB and their world position

query for coliding entities in the path of your projectile as it moves (based on your projectile AABB)

do shit when it interact with the right type of entity (like all enemies or all non-NPC characters...)

>>25202

Looks badass, keep it that way.

>>25053

Very nice anon, do you have a blog or something which I can use to keep updated on your work?

>>24704

Well I'll be damned.

What a small world we live in. When I saw those videos, I instantly remembered where I saw them before.

You (or someone else working on it) have contacted me in the Unity Forums (regarding my Unity Serializer fork).

I really hope the game will be at least as fun as it is pretty.

>>25231

I know that feel, I'll never stop coding for a few days, you just lose it and when you come back it's like seeing a house burnt down, and you have to piece it back together.

Slope collision... well I don't know if you want it in 2d or 3d, but it's not that hard. I know it took me quite some time to figure it out though because I'm slow.

>>25234

2D, I kinda already have slope collision in another game, but it uses a hacky math trick that only works on 45 degree angles (I didn't know trigonometry back when I made it). I want to make something that allows me to set the slope to anything and it'll work just the same.

>>25238

You don't need any math at all for slope collision, you just need to understand the logic behind it.

Does the player encounter a very high object? Stop. Is the object/hill not very high? Move above it and continue horizontally. Is the ground below allowing for a fall? Begin gravity. If not move the player on the ground below and continue horizontally. There, no math at all.

>>25231

I know that feel, too.

But with me it's more like:

>Work on bigger project

>Have to fix/look something up in old code

>Everything is shit

>All of it

>>25231

i use unreal, I never comment anything so if I come back to something months later I have to decode my own retarded thinking

>>25257

I assume that most people here use an engine, unless stated otherwise.

>>25296

Oh god, that reminds me...

I'll probably have to set up a social media page of some sort, to interact with a potential audience, since this place is so niche.

Fuck.

>>25299

What kind of game you are making, and what kind of audience you want?

>>25296

>I added a little mail icon button

I'm loving it!>>25307

>I know it's pretentious to expect that I'll ever build up an audience, but a man can dream, right?

If you make the game for yourself -- the way you like it, such that it pushes your fun buttons and tweaks your interest nipples, then other people will like it too because there are many people out there like us just minus the ability to just like make games.

All the other issues with social media aside, the most important thing you can do is have some place that notifies the player that you've released an update or a new game. This is the real trick to how you build a community. It takes time, but so long as you funnel those who like your work into your next production the community will grow. Etc. communication systems are just icing.

>>25202

looks like that lucas pope/dukope Papers Please game, Obra Dinn or something. Cool. Also pretty cool that you're using tessellation, no one seems to be goddamn using it

Progress is a very small prototype of my hacking game

https://vestigial.itch.io/hacking?secret=Zm8icDwiO3ohGMtzByu0hoH6lc

All critique is good critique

>>25363

It's shit, no offense

>>25369

Like its buggy or theres nothing to do or its not fun?

What's the best noise generation?

Opensimplex?

>>25378

The shield raising (or shield bash?) looks good

The FoV seems too small, it adds confusion but seems disorienting

The viewbobbing during a strike is also pretty disorienting

Like 0:09 to 0:11 is just a clusterfuck because of the fov

I think the spectral highlights/normalmap on the shield and the overall shader are pretty cool

>>25379

There isn't a shield bash yet

im designing the game so the player can play the way they like to, eg upgrade your strength so you can hit harder reduce swing sway etc endurance for reduced cooldowns on dodging extra speed etc etc

Its all meant to be disorienting and harsh, you can widen the FoV by taking the helmet off but one direct hit and your dead.

>>25379

>>25384

You can play a stealthy role aswell

>>25378

I already like your game anon

>>24717

nice, i love tibia

>>24615

We have to stay together, developers.

I have just created this Channel on discord to search for like-minded people who create games in their time. So let's please meet up and talk about this on a daily, more active basis and help each other out in a friendly manner!

Feel free to join!

https://discord.gg/0qAAr3tfVE9z1AON

>>25475

good chat can confirm

>>25514

image_speed is pretty simple to understand, what problems do you have with it? Maybe I can help

>>25520

Well I can tell you one mistake that I made with image_speed some time ago. You need to remember that if you want something to happen at image_speed 0.4 you must not do an 'if image_speed == 0.4', you must use a greater or equal than sign. Because when you keep adding up the speed to the image speed it won't always equal to 0.4, sometimes it will be 0.42, or 0.48 and the IF won't return true.

So if you want to play a sound between 0.3 and 0.4 you must do an IF image speed is between 0.3 and 0.4, and make sure it will be played once, and the speed is not greater than 0.9, so it will fit well between that interval. I'm not sure if that was your problem but I figure that it might help.

>>25527

>and the speed is not greater than 0.09*

Just remember that an animation with 3 frames, starts from 0 to 2, and image_speed is basically a number that once it will reach an integer, it will move onto the next frame. If want something to happen at frame 2 (last one), it won't always return true because the image_speed might be at 2.1. What I would do is IF image_speed >= image_index - SpeedOfAnimation then...

>>25527

I tried to play the sounds on certain frames of the animation. The image_speed is constant.

It's just that image_speed, coupled with image_index caused problems, by creating frames in between frames.

The game would, for some retarded reason, desync and, since the frame is a decimal number, it would not do the action.

I never check for image_speed, since it's constant. It's that image_speed fucks with image_index, creating problems.

>>25529

Just so you know, I made a mistake in this post >>25528. Yeah, you are right, don't check for image speed.

I wanted to say, IF image_index >= startFrame && image_index < endFrame is how I would do something at a point, and the image_speed would be lower than startFrame and endFrame. If I wanted to check the end of an image I would do IF image_index >= spriteFrames - 1 - image_speed.

Maybe I am wrong with this, and I wrote some bullshit. Kinda weird to hear it desyncs, doesn't happen to me.

>>25532

That's what I did for a while, and that's how I figured out that the game was desyncing.

Problem is, since the sprite runs at 1/5 the framerate of the game, it'll create four or five instances of the sound at a time.

As I said, I could do a check for whether the sound is already playing, but, if the character was running, the sounds would probably cross over, and it would only play when one foot touched the ground, and not the other.

So instead I just did an alarm system, where the game, when the button is pressed, sets the alarm 11 frames ahead (start of the third frame) and then, the alarm, after playing the sound, will reset itself to 15 frames later, for frame 6 and so on.

>>25534

Ah, well either way I'm glad you figured out a way to do it, it's a headache though just for footstep sounds. I usually just did a random alarm that plays footsteps, if a sound is not already playing, because I thought too many footsteps would sound annoying. But if it works fine for you that's good, also I would try posting in the game maker forum for asking about the desync.

Your character is pretty cute, post some webm footage!

>>25535

I'll post webms when I have things to show off.

Now, all I have is a bunch of nonsensical code and unfinished features.

>a spotlight I can switch on and off with the N key that does nothing else.

>walking up and down, but not sideways, since I haven't done the sprites for that yet.

>game window scaling with the numpad

And a bunch of shit not in the game yet, like a script for the story.

I am working on something kinda nice, though. Hopefully will finish it in a couple days. When that's done, I can pretty much say that development has officially started.

Took me long enough.

>>25536

Don't hurry it up if you don't feel like showing it yet, take your time. The character is not trying to copy yandere chan right?

>>25537

>The character is not trying to copy yandere chan right?

Considering the fact that I've never even played that game, no.

don't want to say too much, since her character is a mystery throughout most of the game

>>25547

Seems like you'd want as little jumping as possible.

Get on those slopes m8

>>25514

>drawn pixels

>dixels

>>25580

Jumping in to this fad before it explodes, see you in hollywood suckers

>>25573

Where is the lighting and shading. It seems that you have a lack of knowledge in the fundamentals of these things. Things like picking a light source, colour palette and such are vital to making a good piece of digital art. In addition your design has far too much blank space making it look empty and flat, try putting some folds in the fabric.

Although I'm not a pixel artist myself the links below look like good resources.

http://androidarts.com/pixtut/pixelart.htm

http://opengameart.org/content/les-forges-pixel-art-course

http://gas13.ru/v3/tutorials/sywtbapa_almighty_grass_tile.php

http://pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299

>>24615

Doing an arena-shmup thing in Love2D. Enemies come from different sides, based on the round number (specifically, it does a bitwise AND with a table of walls that enemies could come from). I've got the foundation done--enemy spawning, collision, game-over, even a pretty nice-looking HUD if I do say so myself. My sprites, however, are shit. Debating between using the solarized palette ('cuz muh hacker aesthetic) and using the NES palette ('cuz muh vidya). Also debating using my own art. I'm shit at art.

>>25586

it's because you monsters forgot his birthday.

>>25588

well shit

I guess I'll just have to finish this game as a birthday present. I'm working on sounds right now because tackling my shit artwork isn't gonna be easy.

>>25582

Thanks for the resources. Also, keep in mind it's my very first attempt.

>>25558

Im just trying to get a decent amount of gravity. Its meant to be a platformer.

>>25589

>>25588

>>25586

https://dawnbreez.itch.io/segment16

It's released!

>>25645

Looks nice anon. If I had to give a critique it's that it's a bit on the orangey/bright side. I get what you're going for but it could be toned down slightly and I think it'd be perfect

>>25650

Cheers, I'll tone down the lighting a little. I'm going to have the levels in different settings so it won't all be orange desert anyway, but I don't want to make them too exciting & have them distract from the important stuff.

>>25651

Pretty good.

I'm slowly levelling up in UE4 and my ultimate goal would be to make a combat flight sim with AI.

I'm also thinking of a gigantic artillery game in the same theme as Heavy Object.

>>24615

I'm stalled on finding an algorithm to test my pathing/raycasting/line of sight algorithm to see if the same tiles are generated if the start and end points are swapped.

Think a line tool in a pixel/raster drawing program.

You define a line with your tool and the program then decides which pixels to fill based on that path.

So if you start at 0,0 and go to 9,9 then the same pixels should be filled as if you went from 9,9 to 0,0.

For this I would like an algorithm that takes a 10x10 grid and goes through all possible line connections like that.

as in.

0,0 to 1,0, 2,0,3,0 and so forth

then 1,0,2,0 and so forth criss crossing all over the place until every permutation has been tried.

There must be an algorigthm out there for this but I don't know of it.

Do you? I'm not a good engineer nor am I very good at maths, I know, bad for game programming, but I gotta learn from someplace, right?

>>25658

right now I am doing 4 for loops

x1 < 10

y1 < 10

x2 < 10

y2 < 10

Which works out to be 10x10x10x10 permutations.

This feels right but my brain is seriously lacking in this department.

>>25658

Why would that be a problem? All you need is four nested loops.

>>25659

This seems right.

>>25659

Hm. My instinct is that there's a better way, but I dunno what that is.

>>25669

Well mathematically you can say that obviously if it works for (0, 0) to (9, 9) it will also work for (1, 1) to (10, 10), unless there's a very glaring bug. So maybe there's no point in varying the origin (since that's implicitly tested since it computes both a->b and b->a for every pair of points).

>>25658

>I'm stalled on finding an algorithm to test my pathing/raycasting/line of sight algorithm to see if the same tiles are generated if the start and end points are swapped.

Actually come to think of it, do you need this? Because the simple solution would be to just FORCE it to always go the same way by swapping start/end coordinates so they always go from left to right.

>>25693

s-sorry

I don't have anyone to show it to and can't into shilling properly

also yeah there's no progress, I want to get a hang of shit before making something

>>25694

>can't into shilling properly

>I want to get a hang of shit before making something

You're supposed to have something before you start shilling it, anon.

>>24622

>One of the most daunting things about AGDG to me personally is that I have to "wear every hat" and be project manager, programmer, artist, music, etc any of which is an entire team for a AAA project.

That's what I like about it: I get to exercise all of these hobbies that I have and become better at them.

>>24622

>One of the most daunting things about AGDG to me personally is that I have to "wear every hat" and be project manager, programmer, artist, music, etc any of which is an entire team for a AAA project.

That's what I like about it: I get to exercise all of these hobbies that I have and become better at them.

>>25763

And now there's a set of 4 "themes":

>White shapes, enemies have red glow

>White shapes, enemies are red and have white glow

>Solarized Palette, because someone on /cyber/ liked the old colors better (white glow on enemies)

>NES Palette, because muh retro (white glow on enemies)

>>25651

>space flightsim

>realistic physics

>RTS elements(?)

MUH DICK

>>25848

>RTS elements(?)

:^)

Although I've kind of split it into two games. Right now I'm just making a simple mini-game type thing where it's like a moba - ships spawn from each side, capital ships act as 'turrets', and each side pushes the other.

But once I'm done that I'm going to return with my experience to my open world space pirate game. And that game will have an RTS system like vid related.

>>25849

Fuckin' sweet.

>>25865

Same here. I feel like I don't understand what chord progressions are.

So you do an I-V-vi-IV chord in the key of A major, that's an A major chord, an E major, F minor, D major. But what do I do with these chords? What additional notes do I add to this base? Songs do not just take those 4 chords and play them over and over..

>>25872

>But what do I do with these chords? What additional notes do I add to this base?

second pic shows that, I believe.

A major would be A+C#+E; F minor would be F+G#+C.

That would most likely be the lead. Which means you need harmony, bass and a beat.

The bass line is kinda simple, since it's often based on the lead itself. You could technically repeat the same note, for example, C3, and then, in the next part, step down by a few keys and make it A2 or something.

Or you can have notes change octaves instead of repeating the same one. So, C4 -> C3 -> C4 -> C3.

As for harmony, god fucking knows. I have not gotten that to work whatsoever.

As for what to do with the chords, I have no clue. You can do the same chord in a different key, you can do a different chord of the same key. I dunno if there's a way to know how progressions work well.

I've been mapping out a few songs and trying to figure out why they work, but no luck with that either.

I read up on musical theory and musical composition a bit, and I have this knowledge, but I feel like I am still unable to apply it properly. Or I'm still missing a lot of important steps.

embed related impresses me to this day. Motherfucker can do amazing music with three channels, whereas I can't do shit while not having any limits but my own stupidity.

>>25881

Here's what you do.

If left is pressed, then subtract 1 from a variable--I'd call it "xVel" or "vx". If right is pressed, add 1 to whatever this variable is.

If up is pressed, subtract 1 from another variable--"yVel" or "vy". If down, then add 1 to yVel.

Then, move the character along the X axis by their walk speed times xVel, and along the Y axis by their walk speed times yVel. Boom, diagonals. And you didn't even have to learn trig!

>>25865

>>25872

Basically, you take the notes of the chord and play them on another octave for your melody. Sorta. I'm pretty new at this myself. This video should make things clear.

>>25894

What are you writing it in? Will you add any kind of dynamic shadows?

>>25908

Writing it in Haxe using Lime framework. Yeah, shadow mapping is one of the planned features.

>>25894

>>25910

What model of architecture did you use? How did you manage game objects?

>>24615

It is component based, each object is a GameObject class instance (including the root, which is at the top of the hierarchy) which can contain other GameObjects within itself.

Each object has methods like render() and tick() that are called when appropriate and a Transform object, which contains position, rotation and scale related stuff. Because of the hierarchy model all children of a game object inherit its transformation properties, so moving the parent also moves its children.

GameObject instances may also have components like MeshRenderer and SpriteRenderer that handle rendering to the 3d scene or 2d plane.

This is the first time I'm trying this model but far it's pretty versatile.

>>25917

Dang I meant to reply to >>25915

>>25917

Do you use any space subdivision shit to speed up rendering/future collisions?

Minigun test

ignore music in background it was my Pandora. >>25972

>>25329

nice !

figuring stuff like that for the first time is like figuring how to ride a bike

I almost shit myself out of pure joy from managing to move a simple rectangle via mouse

>>25972

combat mechanics better than in 99% of AAA games

..damn, is that even a compliment ? Im not sure

>>25378

badass aesthetic you have going on there, +10

would not put the resting shield/weapon position so high, just doesn't look right. looking forward to seeing more

>>24641

>>25131

it visually reminds me of art-style employed in The Museum of Broken Memories.

http://www.jonas-kyratzes.net/games/the-museum-of-broken-memories/

Very nice, but kinda funny you're using an incredibly modern engine to simulate an antiquated look and feel.

I mean, if you think about it, by using an older engine that requires much fewer resources instead of UE4 to work on that project you vastly increase your target audience from only people with high-end gaming PCs, to basically anyone.

>>25972

needs smoother animations

>>26011

>>25968

Progress demo

>>26062

that looks impressive, did you do the models too?

>>25873

Make music in Famitracker. Having only 4 channels of synthesis forces you to be more creative.

Also, I've found it helps a lot to hum melodies, and try to write them down by ear.

Music theory is for the faggots playing piano at age 3 and forced into musical academies.

>>26063

No, I bought them / got them for free.

>>26064

The engine is Urho3D, has excellent design. C++ and scripting with Lua/AngelScript.

My game is fully and easily moddable.

>>26056

I couldn't make it on any other engine im not a programmer, Pretty much any modern pc should be able to run it, my pc is 4 years old with a borked graphics card and its somewhat playable

>>26062

Gameplay test

>>25965

wow I was in your tumblr minute ago :D Pretty good work. I really wanna be java dev just like you. Unfortunately i don't have time now. I'll start learning everthing this summer. Can you suggest anything to start with :3 ??

>>26083

Eh that's actually a pretty normal naive implementation and uses a lot of memory. Come back when you use instancing.

>>26096

I won't use instancing for this, map sectors will be static objects batched together and consist of more than 2 tile types. I will use instancing for particles later.

>>26083

NEVER GIVE UP on giving up.

Just use an existing engine instead of wasting time.

>>26107

Most of the people who make engines for their indie games are making them out of sheer enjoyment and the engineering challenge, rather than straight up making a game.

>>26107

>>26116

Also, if he can pull off dynamic shadows and 3D tilemaps with 250 frames per second, he can do whatever the fuck he wants.

>>26114

>>26116

>>26117

You can also put a finger up ur butthole and move it around for enjoyment.

It's a waste of time and gets you nowhere, just don't get delusional about it.

What needs to be improved next?

i made a video and did some work on the block/AI today

>>26062

Ni9ce. You should probably design levels with more contrast though. Dark/light areas, cramped/open, and especially the environment textures to make the areas seem distinct.

>>26074

Damn that's a lot of monsters.

>>26074

I can get behind a Doom clone. Stomp Doom 4 back into the hell hole it came from, Anon.

Progress has been writing a save system for the game, breaking game world stuff into lines of text, one line of text for each variable, with things like what game object its on, what component, the Type name of the variable, and a string representation of the variables value, or the hash of what it points to if its a reference. That way its human readable and editable. Then to Load I go through the lines, and rebuild the scene reflectively. Last night I added event listeners, and the last thing I have to do is add Dictionaries.

Currently I'm working on how to save ViewControllers, since thats outside the realm of Model data that gets saved. I can know which windows should be opened on loading, because that data is saved in the model. But things like window position, or what text has been entered into the textboxes in the window, thats whats awkward right now.

>>26351

tell me about your game?

>>26352

It's going to be an action adventure game, somewhat like LBA (video related) but with juicier and more fun combat and movement. Right now I'm working on the engine for it. I will start a new thread when I can show some hints of actual gameplay. All models are placeholders right now, but I like vivid colors so that aspect will remain.

>>26352

It's going to be an action adventure game, somewhat like LBA (video related) but with juicier and more fun combat and movement. Right now I'm working on the engine for it. I will start a new thread when I can show some hints of actual gameplay. All models are placeholders right now, but I like vivid colors so that aspect will remain.

>>26351

Nice.

Although you should add SMAA, since, unlike FXAA, it isn't shit.

>>26363

You're right, SMAA is better, but I didn't find a good GLSL shader for it that I can just plug into my post processing pipeline and forget. I'll probably add it eventually but it's not a priority right now, I should really start working on the map editor and gameplay asap.

>>26374

Is this software or hardware rendering?

>>26380

Software. The walls are done by doing one two-dimensional raycast for every column in the framebuffer. The raycast is used to obtain which wall is visible for a given column of pixels, and how far away the wall is at that part of the screen. From there, the perspective projection can be done to get how high that part of the wall is.

The floor and ceiling are done in a similar manner, but it's a bit more complicated, and I wrote it so long ago I don't entirely remember how it works.

Surprisingly enough, the collision detection was actually harder to implement than the rendering, although it is less computationally intense.

>>26405

Good god I hope the mechanics are solid.

>>26074

new progress vid

>>26260

Yeah, still have some optimizations planned that should enable supporting many more monsters.

>>26308

It's funny that Doom 4 isn't a Doom clone :^)

>>26450

the fov is a bit weird, makes most of the weapons look tiny to me that way

I made a (subpar) game.

https://youtu.be/Swf7ntmIC48

Trying to get it greenlit at the moment (anyway). Loving the comments heh.

>>26461

nice trailer, seems like a potentially pewdiepie bait

>>26463

Thanks. I've always wanted to make a trailer so that was totally worth it.

>>26464

btw is there a point to continue playing after 1 minute? If there is you should communicate it, if there isn't there should be something so it will be more than a gimmick game.

>>26466

There's a story that you can complete, and a few weapons to buy. Thanks I'll mention it. It's just something I made when I couldn't look at my main projects anymore.

>>26461

Very funny, but isn't this basically the Baby Seal Clubbing game that Tom Fulp from Newgrounds made?

http://www.newgrounds.com/seals/

Still, I don't blame you for having a humorous side project.

>>26478

Why pink guy is green?

>>26478

Why is pink guy green?

>>26482

>fight your way out of a concentration camp.

Sounds good, why not? "Good Goy Mode"

We'll have to get some chiptunes Hava Nagila.

>Deadpool

Just fucking around.

>ruined

But I liked the movie!

>>26483

How about the jews build a coin-operated iron-man suit to help them escape?

That would provide a fun excuse for a coin collecting mechanic.

Just a thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKsf6OQ5cPQ

>>26501

is it hard to make 3d with libGDX?

>>26514

It doesn't really make it that easy for you. It handles batching and animation pretty well, but you have to already know how to use OpenGL as LibGDX's 3d support is practically just a wrapper over that.

>>26450

Small test vid of teleporting projectiles

>>26550

It's all about that edit mode CTRL+Click

It just hit me I'm never ever going to make the games I want to make because 2000 was 16 years ago

Working on several things split between Gamemaker and Construct 2.

Latter will be a small platformer with time-control and grappling mechanics, and the former is a school project where I'm supposed to put something simple in a balloon pop game. It's now a bullet hell.

Problem is, I'm running out of ideas for good (and easier) bullet patterns. I've just finished a spiral pattern, and there are various tracking bullets that fire at the player. (A black bullet that stays still for a half second then fires towards the player, and a gray bullet that fires towards the player and when it bounces it adjusts its velocity toward the player again once, and then the typical spiral mindfuck.)

I'm thinking of making a wave pattern and a beam attack pattern.

Also, how could one design a effective respawn system without lives, where the player is punted back where he left off? I'm using a health bar for the player, and one massive one for the boss. Right now, the player's health gets back up to full, and I'm working on deleting all the bullets from the arena, similar to a bomb.

Where is good documentation on the various functions of gamemaker? The only issue I have with coding is remembering all the shit I can bend to my will, and optimizing said will.

http://docs.yoyogames.com/source/dadiospice/000_using%20gamemaker/index.html

is pretty good so far though.

>>26657

It's common to use 2D references for modeling. That being said, I'd suggest you learn a bit more about anatomy/human proportions,

Low poly is no excuse for bad body structure

>>26671

>Also, how could one design a effective respawn system without lives, where the player is punted back where he left off?

That sort of system is only really ever good on online FPS or in games without a linear level progression.

You should consider devising a sort of check-point system that temporarily quick-saves the player's state around every 5 minutes of game-play.

This way if you die after a certain point in the level you will respawn 1-5 minutes behind where you were.

Your right that you shouldn't have lives, as you aren't really making an arcade game so there is no point in having them, but making the player revive exactly or too near where they died promotes laziness in the player, it makes them practice your game less and keeps them from developing the skills to play your game without dying(for example, Bioshock, where death meant absolutely nothing.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMKDIDCKVfI

Here's a video that explains the common mistakes made by AAA devs on player respawn systems better than I ever could.

>>26761

looks FUN

would play

>>26763

Thanks m8. I'll get an itch.io page going.

>>26794

I've seen you steadily post updates on your engine for a while now, if you don't mind telling what do you plan on using it for, personal use or a public release?

>>24763

Sleepless, by Flume

>>24615

Working on a 2d topdown roguelike-esque puzzle solving / exploration game, written in C and Lua. Basic idea is to procedurally generate puzzles as part of the map generation, so I have a hierarchy of small composable puzzle elements (switches, keys, one-way doors, sensors, distances for time-based puzzles, etc.) and the generator will use a mix of graph rewriting and constraint solving to stitch them together and generate varied maps.

>>26795

Sure. I'm planning to make a top-down strategy/tower defense game with it for a start. I probably won't release the engine to the public because it's currently built for the specific gameplay I have in mind and is not useful as a universal engine (yet). Also I'd have to document it.....

I have just a few more things left to do before the rendering core is pretty much done (mainly skeletal animation), then I'll start working on a game prototype and will hopefully have some gameplay to show in a few weeks.

Meanwhile, my first commercial game Hypnorain is in a bundle with 9 other games! https://groupees.com/bagb44

>>26794

I believe practicing is the key right?

>>26823

What is your engine programmed in?

>>26828

I use these three things:

Haxe http://haxe.org/

Lime https://github.com/openfl/lime

OpenGL https://www.opengl.org/documentation/

Looking for Writefags - direct your attention towards >>26836

>>26835

what do you think about vulkan?

>>24875

Gamemaker feels like you're making a game for a 16-bit console while the other engines are for modern day consoles/PCs.

I still love the some of the stuff it includes, such as the tile editor/sprite editor, but it always feels like you're doing something it wasn't meant for when it's something simple in Unity/Unreal.

That being said, GM8 > Studio simply for not crashing on startup at least on my computer

>>26860

everything looks great except for the grass

>>26860

Pretty neat except it looks weird that the resolution of the graphics and the resolution of the icons are different.

>>26863

Yeah I just picked the best looking grass texture I could made, this one sucked the least

>>26867

That never came to my mind when playing it, guess its more obvious from a picture

I dont like pixelated UIs so I think Ill stick with this and hope people can get over it

>>26854

Just using OpenGL for now. Vulkan seems to be too bleeding edge for me at the moment.

>>24932

Are you related to that HeartBeast guy on Youtube? Cause the graphics remind me of it

>>26874

Congrats man, it's cool you have a free demo too.

>>26874

awesome! its cool to see someone followed through to the end on a project and even got greenlit

just curious but what did you make it in?

>>26878

>>26879

Thanks! I used this: http://www.openfl.org/

>>26891

Looking good.

>>26891

Haxe and all its popular frameworks are really, really good. Also both anons are me

>>26900

Well, that makes 3 different IDs in 1 thread... At least I got the dubs.

>>26903

can you try and get some simple looking humanoid to do a walk cycle in there?

and how many bones does that have?

>>26908

how's the comparison between 3d images and sprites?

if someone wanted to do an rts with this, would sprites have a huge boost in performance

actually does it support sprites yet?

>>26909

fuck i meant 3d models, not images

>>26909

>>26910

Did you mean a pure 2d RTS, or something like Ragnarok with 3d terrain and 2d sprites on it? If it's the latter, then the engine doesn't have that yet, but it wouldn't be hard to add.

It has a dedicated 2d layer for UI though. I just added 10,000 sprites to the pause menu and the fps became 45 (without the animated models), which I think is good, considering that each object is a separate entity in the hierarchy (if it was something like a particle system then I could optimize it to be faster).

>>26911

i meant 3d terrain and 2d sprites, like age of empires 2

although you could probably achieve the same visual results with 2d tiles too, i think Zeus is like that

>>26953

looks neat

but what is it supposed to be ?

the sketch looks like some kind of a robot with a snow pusher standing on a baseball glove thats strapped to a hand grenade

>>26954

COme on anpon, oyu can do beter, step it isu

>>26908

What are you using to get the animations and bones into your engine, I've been using FBX, and I keep fucking up the math on importing the Joints somehow

>>26983

My own model format based on this: http://sauerbraten.org/iqm/

>>25378

>>25202

Don't let me down now, anon.

>>26990

I like this style

>>26874

gratz

>>26657

Autodesk creates literal shittons of professionally-oriented books and videos. There are also a slew of third-party training vendors who've created libraries of videos. Also, the Blender Foundation has a number of sets if you're using Blender.

Good modeling from reference still depends on good modeling fundamentally. Also, learning to draw well is a huge step towards being able to model well, so I'd advise you to go in that direction first if you really want to make a career of it.

It's a lot of work either way, so I hope you're internally motivated anon!

>>24616

> breathing worlds

Only if the player can see the depth behind it

You might have a whole neural net with factional allegiance and personality traits, but if all the player ever sees is the NPC moving from point A to point B, its lost

>>26965

There's no SQL in it, but the halfchan demoday version is here

vestigial.itch.io/deeplink-demo-day-9

>>27023

>It's crap but I'm slowly getting better...

Good job then. That's how everyone improves anon.