/v/ - Video Games

>>14197889

you need to set your limits if you're going on a one man job, anon.

the dude who made that FFXV looking game is something else

>>14197905

he uses work made by others.

make a video game about super realistic mech building and operating simulation kinda gayme

>>14197932

>he uses work made by others.

and you should too.

What is the deal with autsts here and reinventing the wheel?

just got into testing, and its true that writing tests for your code really makes you see how shitty your architecture is

>>14197973

>application deadline: March 2, 201

>>14197889

What's the game you'd like to make? I can help if you need a programmer.

>>14197991

Selection year: 2017

The screencap is from last year's form. Assuming it's like any other government form, you'll have until March 2nd of this year to apply for 2018's benefits.

>>14197889

>>>/tech/855436

>>>/tech/854951

Just how desperate for a pity party are you?

>>14197997

just remaking old nes and snes games, but I really doubt somebody will give a fuck.

>>14198050

I do give a fuck! I was making my own game, but I got unmotivated. I can't do music or very much drawing. But I'm pretty good at programming. If I can help someone, that would be great!

>>14198062

is not that, even if I were able to code and music and art, it will take years to do a game.

sure the guy that made stardew valley and minecraft, but it took them several years.

compare that to music where a masterpiece took vivaldi three weeks to compose, or how you can finish a digital painting in less than a week.

a game is simply too much work and you need hundreds or dozens of highly skilled workers.

is just a pipe dream to think a single guy can compete with a professional team.

>>14198078

No, that depends on what kind of game you're making. And if you have a working prototype, more people will be willing to help.

What kind of games are you remaking? I'd love to make something like the modern Battle City, lol.

>>14198087

I've always taugh maybe I could specialize into art and remake the assets of such games in HD and hope someone code the game.

but I am not sure, should I give a try to that?

>>14198108

Ubisoft did something like that with HOMM3 and it was pretty successful. They even did a deceptive marketing campaign. If people have good memories from the game, they will jump onto it.

>>14198111

I would love to remake the first super mario brothers sprites in HD.

Scrapping Unity and switching to MonoGame was the best decision I've ever made. So glad I don't have to deal with dumb "engine" issues that are out of my control. Fuck that bloatware. I recommend all other anons start programming from scratch

>>14197889

What, you think you'll make yourdream game this early? Do people participate in a pro boxing championship before even entering the amateur league? Step up your game nigger first do some games, grow, make some bux, perhaps start a company and one day make whatever dream games you want, but until then it's hard work and eating shit. There is no shortcut.

>>14198188

you can't outwork something that took entire teams of professionals several years to make.

is not possible.

>>14198202

You're right, you'll likely never create a game with will compete or eclipse a release from AAA studio. At least not by yourself.

Who cares? If you're doing this to make a lot of money or get famous you've got the wrong hobby.

>>14198218

that's not the issue, the issue is that at least in music you can compete with the genius by yourself, it will be hard, but is doable for a single guy.

or literature, or art.

is not possible with games.

>>14198231

but videogames are art

seriously though how did you think that fat blob Notch made his billion?

The true art of the game is on the design of its gameplay, all else is but complimentary enhancements

>>14198231

Well you can't start a rock band by yourself if you only know how to sing. People like that become solo singers. Instead setting your goals too high, just make something that you can make alone.

>>14198231

>compete with the genius

what the fuck does this even mean

do you think that AAA games are "genius"?

Also you realize that throughout history there are examples of composers, writers, and artists that were unknown when they were alive until someone rediscovered their work years after their death.

If you want to make something "artistic" then do it. But if you want to be recognized as an artistic genius, then make an "art" game about overthrowing the patriarchy while being a trans-woman of color.

>>14198265

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>>14198284

>>14198294

You're not getting it.

In music somebody could finish a piece in a couple hours that could make millions.

Or in art you could finish a painting in a couple hours.

In games you can't even finish a prototype in one day less alone finish a single game.

Is about focusing on a single skill that being mediocre at several.

>>14198309

>music somebody could finish a piece in a couple hours that could make millions

Technically possible, but by the same logic someone could buy a $1 lottery ticket and make millions. Such an outcome is not typical. And if you think that music only takes a few hours to make millions you are naive. Even modern pop music has teams of people that work around the clock with expensive tools and equipment. And modern albums still take weeks to months to come out. I'm sure there's some exception where somebody slaps music together in an hour and makes millions, but again WHO CARES

>in art you could finish a painting in a couple hours

Again, this is simply naive and unrealistic. Most of the great painters spent literal YEARS on a single painting.

Sure it is possible to slap a painting together in a few hours. It is also possible to make money off of such a painting. Maybe even a lot of money.

I'm not sure what it is you're complaining about. Are you mad that people can make a lot of money without (seemingly) a lot of effort? If you really think that, then you should take up music or painting and start making millions with the pieces you create in a few hours.

>In games you can't even finish a prototype in one day less alone finish a single game.

absolutely false. Why do you think we have game jams and ludum dares where people make a complete game in 48 hours? It's possible. Most of the time it results in a subpar game, but sometimes not.

I think you're just just frustrating and its lead to you being whiny and lashing out.

Bottom line: you are not going to be regarded as a genius-level artist by making games. Making games won't make you a millionaire. If any of these hard truths are deal breakers to you, then get out of game dev now and save yourself the anguish.

>>14198309

Yes, you're right, so stop whining and develop artistic and musical skills. If you don't want to, then pay someone else to do it. That's how it works

>>14198333

>>14198353

>>14198360

I just want to make some money, not millions, is hard to be 29 and be a failure.

On topic:

I need some advice for Godot (3.0 RC 1)

I've got a lot of Floor and Wall tiles, all as separate images.

What's the best way to get them as sprite nodes in Godot so I can create a tileset out of them? I don't want to have to manually add all of them (there's about 248 total tiles).

There used to be an addon for this type of thing I think, called Tileset helper. But it doesn't support 3.0 yet.

>>14198380

I just want a fucking game engine where you code everything and they don't force you shitty editors.

I guess libgdx is what I want, but they still don't have engine features like quadtrees and shit.

>>14198369

Game dev is not the industry to try and make money in. You're better off just trying to win the lottery. People make games because they love to, otherwise they'd be software engineers.

>>14198399

>features like quadtrees and shit

Here's a secret:

code it yourself

>>14198377

I'm sure you can still select lots of images when making a tilemap.

>>14198409

The only way I've found to make a tileset is by manually adding sprite nodes to a scene and exporting that scene as a tileset. I wish there was an open to open up each image as a separate sprite node

http://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/learning/features/2d/using_tilemaps.html

>>14198120

Good work, follow your dream fam, remember we are all here to support you.

>>14198231

You're setting yourself up for disappointment by comparing things that are very different. Video games have always been primarily a team effort. Music, art and literature have always been primarily a solitary effort.

Not to mention you're ignoring the amount of failure all these artists went through before they got their winners. It's even ignoring how many game ideas are trashed by AAA studios before they publish a game.

Your reasoning is shit.

>>14198369

If your reason for wanting to make video games is because you feel bad about yourself. Then you're doing it for the wrong reason.

>>14197889

>touhou

>cave story

>small games nobody cares about

How has nobody pointed out how fucking idiotic this statement was

>>14197972

>What is the deal with autsts here and reinventing the wheel?

Pride.

>>14198038

The way I would probably start is by having each anchorpoint have a value that dictates which part of its side its on(ie like a coordinate system) and then when two anchorpoints are linked you can math out which ones are allowed for the second point. So if the top left point is 0,0 and its linked with another 0,0 then the point to the right(0,1) can only link with another 0,1 and not a 1,1(which would be the bottom right aka on another face's anchorpoint.

I dont know how much sense this makes. I qould make a visual which would make more sense but I'm on my phone and I'm just trying to visualize in my head.

Help please. I have lost almost all my drive for game making. Took a few months off (hoping a fresh take would do the trick), but still have zero passion for anything. Not like I hit a roadblock or anything negative that would ruin my time, just completely lost the will to work on it.

Someone please suggest ways to get myself out of this garbage mindset. How do you guys hype yourselves up to work on stuff when you otherwise wouldn't want to?

>>14198593

Schedule an hour of time to work on the game, and then during that hour work on the game and don't do anything else.

>>14198593

Are you finding yourself doing other things instead? If so, try to consciously avoid them or restrict access to them. Start by doing something, no matter how small. Tackle that small, insignificant bug or something trivial that you put off. Anything to gain back some momentum. Beyond that are you working on a game you're looking forward to play and are invested in seeing get done? Are you unsatisfied somehow with how things are going? And be honest with yourself.

>>14198593

Play video games until I feel like developing again.

>>14198552

Nah I get what you mean.

>>14198593

In my opinion simply starting and the first few minutes is the hardest phase. Just open a program you can work in right now no matter how much you don't feel like it, since once you started working it's easier to keep going. Another thing that could help you is Music, listen to some high energy music like dnb or rock to get pumped up. Other than that, stand up right now and do jumping jacks or something similar warming up will turn your body into "work" mode and your mind will be more eager to do something. It's also very important to never say "ok i'll start tomorrow" because you will say that everyday from then on, don't procrastinate, it's a dev killing trap.

>>14198552

>>14198677

The problem is I don't think that scales very well with both the object scale and its shape. If I had a triangle or something. It's gotta be more robust

>>14198685

Like you want to connect a triangle to a square kinda thing?

If that's the case maybe you should instead check for overlapping colliders when two blocks are connected and reject the link if two blocks are overlapping. It looks like you are using Unity and it has built in functionality for checking overlapping colliders. That might be simplest way to do it in a general case that will work for different shapes.

>>14198400

Correction, game dev is the industry where you can make a ton of money, but people here aren't part of the industry and being in the industry is soul crushing work.

>>14198784

Sure, but even in the industry, the hours-to-pay ratio is incredibly bad. For programmers anyway.

>>14198775

I don't have a specific side project, but I do side stuff for fun. Right now, I'm editing an overlook of the budget phone I got, as there's only one review on Youtube, and it's in Russian. Editing videos in general is a really fun, one-off two-day side project for me, and helps me think over my gamedev work in my mind.

>>14198620

Will try that next. I remember hearing good things about keeping yourself to a personal schedule. Hope I can actually keep to one though.

>>14198644

>be honest with yourself.

Hmm. I'll have to think on this one more. Thanks for the advice anon.

>>14198654

I tried that, doesn't work all that well for me as I just start wanting to play vidya instead.

>>14198679

Music sounds like a good idea, and never thought of using exercise to get warmed up. Any suggestions for music to go with vidya work? Also on this bit:

>ok i'll start tomorrow

I am guilty of this. Far too guilty of this.

Thanks for the help guys. I don't usually check these threads, but I think I might drop by more often in the future.

>>14198935

Do not view game development as a chore and don't force yourself into it even if you don't really want to, because you think you have to. It's important to realize that you develop games because it's fun. That's when the motivation will just come in on its own.

>>14199413

9/11 boypussy

>>14198946

Stop posting varg

also I gotta ask. does anyone here know how to into java and would be willing to work on a 8chan mod for wurm unlimited for us?

>>14199493

i do

and i don't want to do any more java

>>14199536

cool beans you'll start on monday

>>14199683

Cool stuff. Are you using blueprints?

And, unrelated, but did KH ever give a specific answer to who the disembodied voice is, or is it just a narrative thing? It would make sense for Sora's to be Ventus, but it doesn't speak like him.

>>14199683

your stuff always gets me wet, once i finish what i'm working on i will make an autism hearts clone

featuring dante from the devil may cry series

>>14199918

girls can't agdg, only cuteboys

>>14199882

Neat

I know this has probably been asked a million times before, but is there somewhere I can go for decent beginner 3D modelling tutorials? I've been hopping from youtube video to youtube video trying to find just one decent video about anything, but all the videos are 40+ minutes long with some retard that seems like he doesn't even know what he's doing droning on and saying "uhh." Actually why is every type of tutorial for 3D modelling either done by a retard or done like they're trying to teach a retard?

>>14199969

>asking for somebody is the same as being somebody

tbh

>>14199834

IIRC Sora kind of talks like this to Ventus when he gives part of his heart to him to keep him alive. I'd wager that there is more going on with Sora then we are currently told. 5 bucks says he is somehow kingdom hearts incarnate.

>>14199974

I may be able yo help, but there is one caveat. Do you speak German?

>>14199993

Poste mal den Link, bin auch auf der Suche nach nem guten Tutorial

>>14199993

I only speak English, but thanks anyway.

>>14197973

Too bad the EU is falling in on itself

>Project Star Wards

Thats a lawsuit

>>14200078

I dunno that Broforce game gets away with having characters like Rambro and Indiana Brones in its game and didn't get sued.

>>14197889

Of course nobody will care. Nobody cares about anything one makes unless it has good marketing. Take something such as Monopoly for instance. Not a really good game, but it blew up in popularity because of marketing: an iconic mascot, a low price-point(not free, as free games gain absolutely zero traction, popularity, or attention), and the right time for release all combined to make Monopoly tremendously successful, so much so that we still talk about it today.

>>14200012

Ist kein Link, sondern ein Buch.

https://www.amazon.de/gp/aw/d/3836244543/

When I wanted to learn Blender, all the online and YouTube tutorials pissed me off. Most were obviously made by people who taught themselves.

>Uhhh

>It just works that way. No I won't (read: can't) explain why

>We'll cover this in a future video that I'll never upload, because I'm going to loose interest soon

And don't even get me started on their fucking around in the menus, because they apparently don't know the basic hotkeys of an application that is build around using hotkeys.

I bought the first version of that book for 50€ and don't regret it one bit. It was written by a guy who knows Blender inside out, it's well written and structured, it's complete and it doesn't waste any pages on fucking around.

If you put in the time, 1-2 weeks with that book will make you know Blender better than most of the idiots doing tutorials on YouTube. The rest will be up to practice and experience.

It's not a book on how to create art though. It's a book on how to use the tool.

>>14200022

Sorry. Last time I checked it wasn't translated into English.

>>14200194

Danke, anon

>>14200078

>EU falling in on itself

>bad

wew

>>14200283

>>14200755

Are you doing like 1 texture per file?

My game takes advantage of a 512x512 sprite sheet and I'm deathly afraid of using larger or multiple textures for some reason

>>14199112

My friend went to school as a programmer, later left the vidya industry a few years later though as there were better paying + more stable jobs in other industries. He sounded like he hated it tbh, and said most of his coding friends either went Indie or followed him into other non-vidya stuff.

>>14200835

The thing is software developers/engineers can make much better money than game devs, by spending lower effort developing business to business software.

Breaking into the game dev industry proper is difficult. Work in the industry proper (and even indie work due to the current landscape) is soul crushing.

Doing gamedev is best as a hobby.

If you can, do the same, but if you want to do game dev, save up, pay off debts, and try to get zero worries so you can focus on the work you love.

>>14200819

yeah I am, it's true that it's not the best way of doing it, since for example something like CONST2 has the obvious problem of requiring ARB_texture_non_power_of_two at best and ARB_texture_rectangle at the very least. It can't be mipmapped on a card that supports ARB_texture_rectangle and not ARB_texture_power_of_two. So, it would make a lot of sense to just pack all of those special textures into true power-of-two textures and access them that way. I'm going to have to deal with that eventually, just not right now.

If I packed a few textures into one big texture sheet, and then had a separate file labeling where they all were, that would make a lot of sense. I could also check for mirrored textures and then label them so that I can use IBM_texture_mirrored_repeat on them, saving more memory by letting me cut them in half. That whole system i'm thinking of will take a while, and I don't know how much it is worth to implement, so for right now I will just use one texture per file and think about it later.

>>14200994

Now also, isn't a texture atlas basically just a dynamic texture surface that can be drawn to, with entries being added or removed as they are loaded?

>>14201221

It's just a texture that has multiple images on it. Instead of using one texture per image, you use one texture with multiple images on it and then crop it accordingly to access the image inside of the texture that you want. It's really useful for stuff like fonts. It's not dynamic but you can add and remove things to it if you want. This however is worse than just storing a bunch of textures and then adding and removing new ones as they are needed. To do it, you would need to keep an uncompressed copy of the atlas in RAM and then to update the atlas you would need to copy that into texture memory which is a slow operation, it's a lot better to just manage a bunch of little textures if you need it to be that dynamic. Ideally you want to set your textures once per level or whatever.

The issue with using a texture atlas though, is that you cant tile textures that are on a texture atlas if you load the entire atlas as one texture on the GPU. Also it has the issue of being bad for mip-mapping because of textures bleeding together. I actually didn't think of those problems, so perhaps a texture atlas is a bad idea for what I am doing, which will heavily rely on tiling textures across a quad. So, I will probably just manually tile textures like CONST2 to get power of two textures.

>>14201266

>The issue with using a texture atlas though, is that you cant tile textures that are on a texture atlas if you load the entire atlas as one texture on the GPU

What shitty tool are you using that doesn't allow for that?

>>14201270

I think he means that while the whole image can be tiled, if you go OOBs on the texture coordinates, you can't tile subimages from it.

It'd be cool if I could figure that out in XNA/FNA for a future project actually

>>14201270

Graphics cards are simply not designed in such a way- API's like OpenGL reflect this by not allowing the programmer to do it.

So let's say I have a texture atlas and I want an image that is at UV (0.0f,0.0f) to UV (0.2f,0.2f) in the texture. The way tiling works is that you just set your UV's to values higher than 1, so then it repeats the texture like that. So, giving a quad UV (0,0) to UV (2,2) would tile it so that I have four copies of the texture. But of course, if I give the quad anything higher than UV (0,0) to UV (.2,.2), it will just show me the other parts of the texture atlas, and tile the entire texture atlas. You can of course just fix this and achieve the same visual result by having more quads but that is not the same as tiling the texture across one surface.

>>14198685

Give all connectors on the same side of a object a value that they share, that is different from the value of the connectors on the other sides.

When you check if a connection is valid

>check that all connectors on the first object have the same value

>check that all connectors on the second object have the same value

>if either of these is false, reject the connection.

game dev diary:

2 years in and i still have no idea what the fuck im doing

here's some crap i jammed together from store assets

>>14201723

Make a tactical fps cyberpunk game about being in a virtual world hunting evil hackers.

>>14201748

Also, give it a green filter.

>>14201298

There's no reason you can't modify the basic shaders (that you have full access to) to cause it to wrap around on the tile you've got, without adding extra quads.

>>14201684

sounds like a really bad bug

the kind that would make you search the issues or write one if it needs it

>>14201684

And now you realize why bigger companies don't upgrade to newer 3rd party engines often.

>>14202141

>not knowing what Sigma II is

>thinking Ika works in RPGMaker

hownew.ru

>>14202151

Is Sigma the one who keeps making those shitty doom clones? Basically retro/pretentious "I made a minecraft clone" stage everyone goes through.

>>14202169

I'm not dogging him, I also want to make a doom clone sometime

>>14202157

>someone makes ONE Doom clone, then starts working on his next engine

<is that the guy who keeps making Doom clones?

>>14202201

YOU MAKE ONE DOOM CLONE AND YOU'RE KNOWN AS THE DOOM CLONE GUY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. DOESN'T MATTER HOW MANY ENGINES YOU MAKE, IT DOESN'T MATTER, ALL PEOPLE CARE ABOUT IS THAT ONE TIME YOU GOT WASTED AND REMADE DOOM HOLY SHIT

>>14202157

t. rustdev

Let's cleanse the palette with something that always motivates me, personally

>>14202585

I'm just giving you a hard time, we all like to see your progress

Question boyos,

So my "game" is a 2d grid based dungeon crawl and I'm implementing very basic physics / collision detection.

Basically when a GObject status changes the physics component of that object triggers and it sees what direction its going and then resolves the collision with whatever is the square it's moving to (its passed a pointer to the world class).

Right now I have a map of active entities that exists in said world class. There's no easy way to tell if there's an object in (x,y) when pinging the world.

So I decided to go ahead and add a container to the world that is a two dim int array that holds an integer (entity id) if an entity is there otherwise it holds a -1.

So far so good but then I realized I wanted to have multiple things on one tile.

Is a three dimensional array of integers really the best structure for this type of thing?

I just feel like that is a lot of wasted space since most of the map will probably be empty tiles. I had planned on using this container as my second layer for drawing to the screen as well but my map works better (since there's no wasted spaces).

And now to the autism question:

Is having a world function that iterates through a map of entities that then pings each entity for it's x and y and adds them to an array to be returned better than the 3dim int array (this would also require moving these values around whenever something moves)?

And yes I do realize this goes against the whole just do whatever is able to be implemented quickly and "just like make game".

>>14202911

Instead of holding an array of every single position, which is a giant waste of memory, why not store x,y points for each entity? Now of course this takes up much less space, and is better than the arrays, but the superior option is a spatial partitioning tree like a quadtree which will allow you to search and store enemy positions efficiently.

>>14202970

>>14202995

NVM. I had a hard time reading the other post because it's formatted like shit. I didn't realize the other anon literally wanted to make an array that holds every single grid space in his entire game. Holy shit.

cool, just wrote my first needed code for bitflag operations in godot, still lacks test

#	toggles bitwise at position
func set_type(bit):
	if bit & T_SUM:
		type ^= bit;

#	checks bitwise at position
func get_type(bit):
	if bit & T_SUM:
		return (bit & type) != 0;

>>14203251

pardon my ignorance, I think .new is right, the editor was just messing up for some reason

maybe because the script isn't loaded as scene

>>14203677

do a combo mode like savant - ascent

>>14203699

I just looked that up and damn thats some great art. I wish I could do it like that. What do you mean "combo" mode though? Like as in it has both?

>>14203710

the game is about going for as long as you can while getting alot of points via hitting enemies in a succession to get higher combos

>>14203728

Hm. I'm not sure how that would work with my design, since I'm following a more traditional Castlevania/Ninja Gaiden style design philosophy where enemy and obstacle placement is very methodical with specific intended methods to beat them. So I don't generate anything, its all placed out. I could try and come up with something like that but it would probably feel weird.

>>14203758 (me)

nevermind they're not

>>14204011

for every good GDC talk there are 10 gender study pink haired brown whales talking about their experiences in being a diversity hire instead of talking about vidya

>>14203759

something like the first mario game then, Mario Bros

>>14203251

objects you use .new(),

for scenes you use .instance()

do not rely on the editor, it is garbage.

Is developing for Android hard? I don't see why more people aren't taking advantage of the market if it isn't. Why aren't people copy pasting and tweaking games for mobile? They already copy paste other mobile games all the time so why don't you just reskin and tweak a good game from pc to mobile?

>>14204282

Because you don't have M&KB on mobile and the vast majority of PC games would play like shit without them. Even strategy games like dungeon keeper would have to be completely different. Also you can probably just rip the source code/assets or find the code the original makers copied off the internet, and copy that. Plus a lot of android games are basically simplified flash games (keyword simplified because even PC flash games probably have 2-3 buttons you need)

>>14204282

> Is developing for Android hard?

Considering you can use a variety if engines for both platforms, that's kind of a difficult question to answer. For the most part, no.

>I don't see why more people aren't taking advantage of the market if it isn't.

Because the PC and console ("core") market and the mobile market are two different markets with little overlap. Mobile games don't sell very well on PC and "core" games don't do well on mobile, either. Mostly because the mobile sector consists of casual gamers that need something to play for ten minutes while on the train. Look at the games that dominate the app stores. They're all really, really simple, instant-gratification games that any semi-talented Unity developer can fart out in a week or two. (That's, incidentally, how they're developed. You can read as much on the Unity forums.)

You won't find a sizable consumer base of gamers there, because those people haven't spent hundreds of dollars on their expensive phones in order to game on them.

You'll find the gamers, the enthusiasts, the ones who care about complex games on the platforms where hundreds, even thousands of dollars are spent on dedicated gaming gear.

If you make games for the mobile sector, you're making games for people who play games because they don't have anything better to do at the moment.

If you make games for PC/console, you're making games for people who will make time to play.

>Why aren't people copy pasting and tweaking games for mobile? They already copy paste other mobile games all the time so why don't you just reskin and tweak a good game from pc to mobile?

Because it's damn near impossible for the most part. Touchscreens are ridiculously limited.

>>14204711

Looking real good man. How far do you figure you're out from release anyways? You have such a large base done it seems.

>>14204938

we'll see how much can be done before demo day, I'll be able to judge then. There still is a heap of things to polish and add. Like itemization, which will still be a ton of "placeholder +50" stats on 02/02, unfortunately. **expect

new skills though**

I was actually hoping to have most of the game/base done in 2017 but it wasn't the case, with more and less obvious factors contributing to delays in development. We seem to be back on track, though so wish us luck.

>Watching a GDC talk about shilling your games at events

>Talks about ways to bring people to your booth

>Reminds me a ton of school events I use to go to

>Talks about all these people he got to show up and how he got a huge crowd

>After going into tons of detail on how to get your name out there towards the end he mentions that none of this shit effects sales at all

>Talks about how you should still go because you can get connections like the Extra Credits crew

Moral of the story: Don't go to game events. They're just for getting cool with the San Francisco indie circle jerk although his games might have just been shit

>>14204384

Not sure about 2px outlines.

>>14205174

I watched that talk, it seems geared toward party/arcade games.

The real lesson is to get your game shilled by a big youtuber.

>>14205195

That seems more like a matter of luck since probably every dev in the industry is shilling to them.

>>14205233

What's true? That his game is shit, it's only for indie circle jerks, or you can make connections?

>>14201301

Interesting idea. I'll write it down and see how it comes out in practice. Thank you anon.

>>14205330

Personally I prefer it with the eye-liner (assuming it's eye liner)

>>14205330

weird nose and belt line tbh

>>14204124

>editor sucks

Good, I like doing things programmatically. That'll be good for when I actually pick up Godot

>>14204011

>Shut the video off because this is so off topic it's ridiculous

It's like I'm really on /v/

>>14205229

I quite like your tileset. I assume you're using whatever one you could find, but it still has a nice quality to it, for some reason. Are you randomly rotating or flipping the drawn tiles, or do you just pick a set of random ones to use?

Which sort of mapgen algorithm are you using? I've seen some that use polygonal bounding and it went way over my head

>>14205876

so where's the game?

>>14205229

hint: the best random maps I've ever seen pre-built blocks to them, so you can have sensible touches and details to each block, but they overall structure is still random

doing actual full random map gen seems pretty complicated and specially hard to look good

>>14205890

isn't this the thread where we talk about shit we'll never finish?

>I'm not gonna make it in time for demo day AGAIN

Fuck my ass.

>>14206041

lube or spit?

>>14205983

it's my dream project, of course i'll finish it. I just want it to be good.

>>14206072

I'm >>14205569

why not make the sprites in blender?

It will take you much less effort and will look better.

trust me, you will quit at some point.

>>14206106

I have a passion for pixel art, 2D animation and such, so I can channel my autism into it, one animation at a time, and have fun drawing and learning. I'd quit if I didn't use sprite animations.

>>14205565

I'm following a roguelike tutorial that was built for Godot. I found this project on github ( https://github.com/YeOldeDM/godot-roguelike-tutorial) that contains all the source code and graphics, and it also contains mini projects of each step broken down iteratively. The problem was it was built for an earlier version of Godot and I wanted to use 3.0 for C#. So it was completely broken. I'm in the process of digging through the code and refactoring it, learning as I go.

As for cycling the tilesets, I have several tileset familys (sets of walls and floors that go together) and right now I randomly choose a family when starting the scene.

I'm not using a formal named algorithm for map gen at the moment. It's just a shitty brute force method of generating a bunch of rectangles in random spots on a map and connecting them with corridors.

>>14206139

<I have a passion for pixel art, 2D animation and such

if you had actual passion, true passion you would do actual animation on physical materials

>>14206041

There's no rule against releasing demos whenever you want.

>>14206436

agdg police will get on your ass

>>14206144

Is it possible for a corridor to connect two rooms but also jam through a third room? Or are you doing spatial stuff? Can your corridors do HVH corners or what not or are they just a single corner?

>>14200835

And they're right to go into indie. Game programming is like carpentry. Doing it independently is so much better once you find your market and build a reputation. Which isn't that difficult if you actually take the time to make something that is good.

Fun Fact: Every indie who talks about failure and how hard it is to stand out in the industry never made anything good, only just barely competent. The stories of how hard it is to become an indie success never come from the people who make games like Darkest Dungeon, Nidhogg or Rogue Legacy. It comes from guys who make mobile games in saturated genres or 16-bit "retro" platformers.

>>14205174

It's more likely that his game was just shit. Cuphead was almost completely unknown until it showed up for all of 10 seconds in Microsoft's Indie Reel and the fact that it looked rad as fuck is what generated it's audience.

>>14206757

Rather than moving them constantly until they reach their attack distance, make their moves segmented, so they move 30px, then stop, then 30px, then stop. You'll have to play with the distance moved and time stopped to get something that feels good. Also, make them spin for a 1/4 second before attacking.

>>14206794

Do you mean like they pause during their normal movement every now and then? I feel like they might be too easy to escape by simply ignoring them if they did that. I suppose I could have them speed up if the player is further away though. I'll give that a shot, it does sound like a good way to get them to stop overlapping since it'll offset their movement. As for the spinning before attacking thing, that sounds pretty cool. Right now the tell is that they stop moving and the eye on the sword narrows.

>>14206757

The problem is they move towards you linearly and consistently. I'd suggest that once they get within a certain range of the player, they pause, record the player's position, then move really fast towards that position while in the attack state, then pause again after they reach that location.

This way dodging one is no problem but getting sandwiched between two like in your clip will be very stressful.

>>14206806

Look up CV COTMs Bloody Swords

>hover and drift in a random direction

>pause, then spin

>aim for player and try to dash through them

>pause, then repeat the whole process

They can also float over walls

>>14206834

I actually have them do just that when they attack. They record the position they want to hit, then move towards it. They also wait there for a little bit until their attack animation finishes. However, I just implemented >>14206794 's solution using a really short timer and it works great. They pause every so often and I have a variable thats tuned by their distance to the player that accelerates them if they're too far away.

>>14206866

I just tried having them pass through and that looks a lot better and is a lot more fair since they have less of a chance of hitting you twice.

Thanks for the suggestions guys it cleaned them up a lot. The behavior is a lot more crisp.

>>14206984

Just to clarify the line its complaining about is the "world.resolveCollision(&object);" line even though it says line 77 it means line 74 (I have been making some changes to try and figure this out).

>>14206993

>>14206984

Never mind, it was a circular dependancy. I split my code from my Player.h file into a .cpp and now it works. Compiler / Linker treats them differently

>>14206984

Huh that is weird. I just looked through it and I can't seem to see what it is either. While I'm familiar with the stuff you're doing from some school projects, I don't use em enough to be an expert though. Maybe someone else can help, but this is a little beyond my ability to answer lol. But a quick question ,why in the second image do you have "class World;" above your class definition for GameObject?

>>14207091

But it looks like you found out right as I posted anyways. At least you were able to fix it.

>>14207093

Never mind I'm retarded, you talked about it in your post.

>>14207281

>not sure what I finished in the last 3 months

>>14205174

what can you do, at least they are not as bad as TED talks. I have a rule of mainly watching veteran devs who I'm sure are have a lot of interesting experience to share, even if they are cucked and/or simply rambling about their careers. Barton's channel is way better for that than most GDC talks.

Oh, and you know what? There are thigns way, way worse than SJW devs telling you about your priviledge.

Incompetent devs.

Just watch this piece of shit. Unbearable.

Hey, what are the names of the libraries to include when you compile your ogre3d game ? I can't find shit.

>>14207667

Nvm found it.

<ldconfig -p | grep libOgre

>>14206758

right now it's only a single corner. Corridors are only built to connect the last two rooms together.

>>14208026

>the unity docs don't even have a fucking list of which buttons correspond to what

Why though

>>14197889

>cave story

>small games nobody cares about

>despite it being ported over to literally every fucking console in existence

lol okay retard

>>14208026

what do you wanna do? Sounds kinds strange, especially that getbuttonup only works in the frame the button gets released

>>14205174

Steamspy says it has sold almost 700k copies but maybe this talk is before they sold their soul and did tie ins with shit like Rick and Morty.

>>14204124

>>14205565

I don't disagree that the editor can be finicky at times, but it got a decent completion

and besides, the neat thing about it is that its wholly based only on itself, its super lightweight

>>14208049

I need to know if the user releases the button, but also use that button as if it were constantly being held down in another situation

I know I can make a separate input class to do it myself but I wondered if there was an easier way such as the one described in the post.

>>14205174

A friend of mine said that his game did see an increase in demo downloads after having a booth at a few events. He got interviewed a few times as well, but didn't make any connections despite meeting a few relatively big names.

I think it definitely does help spread the word if people want to play your game and see others having fun with it. If it's trash then it's obviously not going to help.

Unrelated, but I really dislike GDC talks and the GDC in general. Every time I see someone link a talk it's something like "Your game sucks" or "You will fail because", held by someone hugely successful like Vlambeer. It's like indirectly discouraging potential competitors from trying to get into making games. Not to mention the whole thing is a San Fran circlejerk.

>>14208173

I really think the industry needs a smaller version of GDC. I'm optimistic this will eventually happen now that indie games have gotten to a point where a lot of devs can actually create quality content consistently.

The important is moving away from the US honestly

>>14208195

I love that slide.

Like, it starts off giving it a logical reason as to why Marxism would be useful. You read it and you go, alright I might not agree with the ideology but determinism could be useful in game design. That's probably what the guy means.

Then you read the next point and your brain doesn't quite grasp it and it leaves you confused.

Then the guy goes back to the original point as if the second part wasn't even mentioned.

Really special

>>14208179

Spreading it out is a good idea, both as a different event and in a different country. Who knows if or when that'll happen, though.

Germany has Gamescom but I think that's starting to become too big and isn't exactly in the best country. We have next to no domestic indie devs here.

>>14208195

Yeah, this kind of shit as well. Shoving politics where it doesn't belong.

>>14207515

I have no tolerance for cringe and don't think I could bear retards who ruined one of my favourite game series talking like they have authority.

>>14208173

I think the "X things I hate about your game pitch" was good, because it gives you a perspective of what publishers are looking for so it's worth digging for the diamonds.

You're not wrong. The majority of the talks are by out of touch San Francisco leftists or incompetent hacks who literally only have a job because their major studio controls most of the market share.

>>14208214

Gamescom is more of an european E3 I think.

>>14208220

I don't watch GDC talks anymore, but taking that one as an example I think a title like "how to pitch to a publisher" would be more effective in the long run. You can still warn beginners of potential mistakes but you ultimately want to encourage more people to try. It's easier than ever to become successful as a small developer, so the negativity those hackfrauds force is really bothering me.

>>14208225

At this point it is, yeah.

>>14208237

TBH I prefer the harshness. It's the one place where you wont be treated like a special snowflake and tell you how it is. Honestly, they probably word it like that because they get so many trust fund kids and cucks that they have to be bold and to the point.

>>14208195

the fucking piece of shit looks old enough to have lived in the cold war and know what communism IS.

>>14208172

can't you use input.getaxis instead and check whether the value is 0 or not?

>>14208273

The problem isn't getting the value the problem was that I needed to know if the button was released or not.

I found a workaround anyways

>>14208285

shouldn't you be using input.getbuttonup instead of getkeyup tho?

>>14208291

That's what I was doing

>>14206757

your shit is way too close up. I know you spent a lot of time on your sprites but you need to make it smaller, or at least increase the number of visible cells.

>>14208294

can't really test this now but have you tried creating a new input and calling it something different but having the positive button remain the same as the axis button?

>>14208345

Yes, but I have no way of knowing if the positive button is the same number as the axis is.

Like, I'm using axis 10, but I can't find any info to confirm if it's called joystick button 10 or something else

>>14208361

>I have no way of knowing if the positive button is the same number as the axis is

do you have any debug logs set up?

>I'm using axis 10,

http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=Xbox360Controller

Right Trigger then? I see no reason why it can't be set for two separate button inputs, one set to axis and other to key press, as said before and make both use axis 10

>>14208393

>Right Trigger then? I see no reason why it can't be set for two separate button inputs, one set to axis and other to key press, as said before and make both use axis 10

This did not work.

>>14208416

post screenshot of input in inspector and code. I really wonder what might be the problem

>>14208442

that's what was done the last time. It was even stickied. The only problem was that there was irrelevant /agdg/ discussion happening as well.

>>14208447

Well shit. That's cool I was awol then pls no bully

>>14208442

We did a separate thread last time. I think we should still all post our games individually though. I'm sure most of us need to explain what we'd like people to test, what requirements there are, controls and so on. Having an anchor post or something, like they do in draw threads, would help make them easier to find.

>>14208462

The Anchor Post as second post last time kinda worked, but people kept posting their demos without quoting it because it seems not everyone here is well versed in imageboard etiquette.

>>14208442

time to catch up with the backlog then

http://8agdg.wikidot.com/agdg/%20thread%20archive

https://web.archive.org/web/20171222135052/https://8ch.net/v/res/13774137.html

demos were good

>I'm not gonna have my own project in any state to post a demo for this demo day

>but this weekend is Global Game Jam so I might post what I finish with my roommates

Woo, I might be not useless for a change.

>>14208544

they were not shown in Diablo, I think

But that's why I post this stuff, so you can give me suggestions like that.

I'll have to remind myself how decibels work (they are logarithmic, right?) to have the numerical values for the sound. I'll add them, though,

>>14208544

Showing the numbers just leads to autistic min-maxing. I'm glad there are none.

>>14208768

Autistic min-maxing of brightness, contrast, gamma, audio effects, and UI scale?

>>14208559

You probably shouldn't use decibels for sound, because that would imply how loud the sound is coming from the speakers, which depends more on the OS and speakers themselves. Just a 0-10 or 0-100 scale for the majority of them is probably good enough (or even -10 to 10, with 0 being default).

wow people actually post on this chan?

calle captcha is gone so 4chan is now dead forever

>>14206757

was it your base intent with your game to have the view be so zoomed in? because it looks extremely claustrophobic and uncomfortable to play

>>14208832

No, they don't. Fuck off

>"artists should be enslaved" autist shitting up the unity thread again

Wew. I really hope he doesn't post here.

>>14206757

>>14208843

>>14208322

I think the biggest problem is the HUD taking up 1/5th of the vertical screen space. Changing that might make it less claustrophobic.

That too, I asked if it's his intent because it looks almost like the gimmick he would use to market it

"This game is uncomfortably zoomed in, prepare 2 die"

>>14208868

>>14208322

I've been thinking about either getting rid of the top thing altogether or increasing the resolution a bit. I like having it there but It does tend to have this effect of squishing things down. Makes it hard to plan vertical challenges.

>>14208931

Personally I'd put it at the bottom. Blocky HUDs like that generally feel pretty "heavy". If it's at the top it feels like it's looming and about to fall onto you, but at the bottom it would feel like your character is walking ontop of them. You have a lot of unused space there anyway.

>>14208956

Seems kinda unnatural to look down at your health though. Almost every game of this type ever has that information at the top.

>>14208970

It's more natural to me than looking up.

>>14209001

<I am a fucking loser who always look down on life

Get a grip!

>>14209013

>I'm a stupid retard who stares at the sun

You get a grip!

>>14209016

>>14209013

lmao. Well I guess it probably depends ok n what games you played the most. I just remembered stuff like Doom and Diablo had the UI at the bottom while Ninja Gaiden and Mario have it at the top. I have too much of a one track mind when it comes to this stuff. I'll play around with things. I think a resolution change or a shift in the camera vertically will take care of it but I'll play around with it.

so they froze godot on 2.1.4 stable while making the move for the features changes of godot 3

don't they have a more recent version 2 with fixed stuff that doesn't fiddle with 3's features?

>>14208931

If you're mimicking older style HUDs you have to remember they were made for 4:3 screens. Vertical screen space is at a premium for 16:9.

>>14209086

That's true. I think I'll try removing the black background and accomadating some more transparency by shrinking some things down a bit.

>>14208798

>You probably shouldn't use decibels for sound

yet this is what Unity uses in its volume mixers… what can you do. I'll do some experiments and give it a percentage value.

>>14209902

Decibels are logarithmic, +10 decibels is about double the perceptive loudness, and -10 decibels is about half the perceptive loudness. You just need to convert from Unity's linear taper to something more manageable:

http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=Loudness

>>14209965

thanks, bro. exactly what I'd be looking for.

I seriously hope you guys use bitmasks for your multiple boolean values instead of like 20 boolean variables.

anyone on godot 3 care to share his experience?

are at any real major changes, does it a lot of improvements interface/documentation wise, regarding old stuff?

>>14210308

Pretty huge change to the 3d rendering, it uses pbr now. Lots of improvements to gdscript, visual scripting (lol who cares), a ui facelift, nine patch support for tilesets, and 2d soft shadows are some of the features. I like it a lot.

>>14210186

>I seriously hope you guys use bitmasks for your multiple boolean values instead of like 20 boolean variables.

You can't take those 19 bytes you saved to hell with you, grandpa

>>14210746

not the quarter of gui on screen?

>>14210760

That's probably what's causing it, among other things

>>14210186

Always anon. Almost every struct in my codebase has a "flags" variable for shit like this.

I want to make an online game. I have some general concepts down when it comes to multiplayer, but I want to implement it all myself because Unity's online is slow, expensive, and easily hacked. Any good reading material out there? pls respont

>>14210837

>pls respont

You know that you have to show us your penis first for that to happen.

>>14210852

be nice, anon, or else I'll ask what dilation is

>>14210861

This is /agdg/, not AGDQ.

>>14210861

>>14210867

What's dilation?

>>14210837

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms737629%28v=vs.85%29.aspx

>>14210882

STOP

>>14209035

2.1.4 was released in August, so it's not too old. After 3 stable comes out, they're planning to put out 2.2 for compatibility/final tweaks. If you're impatient, look for unofficial builds or compile yourself.

>>14210965

ANON NO

>>14210965

You know you're an awful person.

>>14211101

I don't need to dilate, so I'm relatively not that awful.

>>14211021

You should check out the second one.

>>14208195

fuck you. post wholesome talks

>>14211157

Thanks, definitely gonna watch this. Alexander Brandon is a legend.

>>14210965

I am far too afraid to open this.

>>14211237

You need bravery to /agdg/

>>14211237

It's worse than you think

dont open anon

>>14211237

Tranny "vaginas" are nothing but a permanently open wound, and in order for it not to heal up, they have to dilate it regularly by sticking things in it and using anti-healing drugs. They are just some images of that beautiful and natural process in action.

>>14211344

Hard shifts are better because having the camera move all the way up and all the way down for a simple jump is really fucking annoying. I don't think I've ever seen a good platformer that did that.

>>14211344

Did you make those graphics all by hand? What technique did you use?

>>14211360

Yeah, I do all the work right now by myself(code, sound, graphics). Only thing I can't really do even at the most basic level is music, still looking for the right guy to do this.

>>14211352

Doesn't Symphony of the Night behave the same way in any room where the vertical space is high enough that the camera has to move? And Super Metroid and those types of games? They might use some kind of threshold of movement before moving the camera though, I can't remember.

>>14211360

I forgot to answer your question though. I use asesprite. Before that I just tortured myself with GIMP. I would say about 80 percent of what I've done is done in GIMP using the pencil tool and all the new stuff is done in asesprite. I use BFXR for most sounds, though some are sampled using some equipment I borrow from a friend.

>>14211388

>asesprite

Thanks anon

>>14211465

It's a good tool. I have heard that the developer is a toolbag but I don't know about it or care, it's a really good program.

>>14211487

I wasnt implying anything or being sarcastic if you thought that, it looks pretty good

>>14211487

At least it's free if you compile it yourself, which isn't very hard at all.

>>14211468

Post some code. What exactly are you doing to raytrace that? Is it in software? Is it with a GPU shader?

>>14211534

Older versions of OpenGL are much easier to work with, and also more powerful than abstracted 2D libraries. It's a good middle ground between ease of use and power.

>>14211493

No That's not what I meant, I'm just covering myself because last time I brought the program up there was this guy who went on a rant about the creator.

>>14211565

>Older versions of OpenGL are much easier to work with

I've heard this before, and thought about trying to learn Legacy OpenGL 1.1, but is that a good idea? Should I actually try something like OpenGL 2.1?

>>14209677

>loops can go wherever they want

Id delete that and start again. There are so many errors, you use a 3 point to double up a loop when you could just move the loops above it down, theres a six point pole, what were you thinking?

Topology isnt exact but use some reference holy shit, even if you have a personal style of topology that you know works its still a good idea to use reference.

>ask someone to rate my game

>they tell me to throw it away and try again

>>14211678

>They didn't even give any specific feedback.

Throw them away and try again.

>>14211678

Not bad advice.

>>14211678

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>>14211718

Not bad idea.

>>14211729

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>>14210736

>not savouring every byte

>>14211627

OpenGL 1.1 is the simplest to learn and has all of the features that a beginner needs. If you use OpenGL 2, you will have access to programmable shaders, and all of the other extensions adopted into the standard between OpenGL 1.1 and 2.1. You probably won't take advantage of the features of OpenGL 2 beyond the programmable shaders at first, if you are starting out, so it's really more of a question of whether you want to learn how to write shaders right away or not.

I'm pretty bad at math. Would (((college))) help?

>>14211849

everything past school doesn't teach you dick. you're just there to pass exams

>>14211849

Only if you major in math and stay with it for more than a year.

>>14211877

How deep does it go? Around here you have to take the whole physics chain to graduate with a bachelor's

>>14211021

>>14211101

>>14211092

yeah…. what was that about?

>>14211893

see >>14211274 or just click it faggot

>>14211881

Chances are that if your field just forces you to take some supplementary courses, like physics or computer sciences or something you can get away with not learning too much, and forgetting most things after you somehow pass. If you go full math you either can't avoid learning math thoroughly or you give up and quit. If you don't like math, you'll probably quit. You could also try to work your way through a textbook, but that needs major discipline since you need to actually work on and solve the exercises to get it, or simply try to properly do whatever supplementary math courses you might get in your major. Or you minor in math.

The thing is, all of this shit isn't really necessary for gamedev. All you need for gamedev is basic vector math and being able to implement other people's algorithms. It just helps sometimes.

>>14211971

>or just click it faggot

it was deleted, that is why I asked

but from the comment I think I've already seen it

>>14211849

Just like watch Khan Academy.

>>14211604

Aseprite is good but the creator is a bit of an sjw

>>14211972

Seconding this. CS requires shockingly little math education at most schools and making games requures even less than that(for the most part). There are some areas of gamedeving that can get really math intensive, especially if you're trying to do something new and dont have many resources to work with. In that situation having a string understanding of math can really pull through for you. But moatly gone are the days where you needed a strong understanding just to get started.

>>14212069

Yeah, you're right

>>14212872

Are you documenting the developmemt of this in more detail anymore, like on a blog? Id be interested in reading more about this since it looks like you're song your own engine. Its kinda beyond me and Id like to learn more about it.

>>14212383

That topology would work, it just seems stupidly inefficient at many steps, I only have a phone for a few more weeks, I can't provide any reference or good crit til then, try look at models actually used in real videogames, preferably more recent ones for good topology.

>>14211544

making a porcelain bowl?

>>14210186

>bitmask

or bitflags, and >>14203386

because I didn't get any (you)

>>14206072

That dress is going to be a pain to animate around.

>>14211627

Just learn modern OpenGL, it's really not that complex and it's way more interesting

>>14214982

The way I handle Animations is I keep an int rect array that I loop through / update the sprite on whatever sprite sheet I'm using.

https://pastebin.com/mf1TVvrb

Here's my code if you're interested.

>>14215272

Freesound maybe?

So… SFML is kinda neat

>>14215890

You can hit the ground running a lot faster than SDL with it.

>>14215711

Well I won't pretend to know enough about anything like that to suggest it, but based on what I do know my instincts tell me that yes you should at least be pretty good at it if you want to do something new that's not just new on a surface, visual level but is rather new from a technical standpoint.

>>14215272

There exists some relatively cheap but good sampling equipment that can be had from places like Amazon and you can use free programs like Audacity to manipulate them for basic stuff. Depends on the fidelity you want though. If you're going to be downsampling a lot then this method is pretty good and can get you good results, but it depends on what kinds of sounds you need to make and how much you know about sound engineering. What exactly is it you're trying to do anyways?

>>14214795

Huh well I'll look forward to it then. I just really like reading about people's though processes as they're doing this thing. That one robot platformer game that a guy posted around here that got released on steam and was made in a custom engine had a website with tons of details, it was fascinating.

Can someone please explain how custom signals work in Godot? Specifically asking about C#

Is it possible to declare a signal and handle in one Node's script, and emit the signal from a different node's script?

I'm able to get it to work if I declare the signal, connect the handler, and emit the signal all in the same script, but that seems redundant and not useful. I'd like to be able to use this to pass info between different nodes

>>14216737

>What exactly is it you're trying to do anyways?

Simple sounds for my game. I'm too cheap for a foley artist, but at the same time, don't want to ship with free sounds, so somewhere in the middle I'll end up making some stuff I think

>>14216743

https://godotengine.org/qa/19389/how-to-make-a-custom-signal-using-c%23

According to this, it might still be a pending thing to be added, as of Nov last year

>>14216743

>Is it possible to declare a signal and handle in one Node's script, and emit the signal from a different node's script?

That's the entire point of signals. Might not work that way in C#, though.

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=l0BkQxF7X3E