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leper khan posted:Coherent art direction is really important to the public and lack of it is a sign of amateur hour garbage. Saying this as a non-art programming person. SupSuper posted:This might help: http://www.pixelprospector.com/the-big-list-of-indie-game-marketing/ FuzzySlippers posted:Those covers are pretty terrible. Making all the art better is a pretty tall order but I bet it wouldn't be that expensive to find someone on the net to make a less dreadful cover if that's not his bag. Looking at it I'd just click on the next game without paying attention as it makes me think of low effort RPG maker anime things and presumably I'm fairly close to the niche he is targeting (old rpg fan). He is thankful for the advice, though he says that unfortunately he is already aware of those criticisms and that he can't afford to pay an artist and that that marketing guide is outdated, but that he still appreciates the effort. I'm sorry for wasting your time 
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GlyphGryph posted:Just walk around for wild encounters. Oh right! I was clicking on "move up" and "move down" and nothing was happening! I moved around and leveled up! "Doom" seemed to not work. I like how trippy all the sprites are. Good job for getting it done, I look forward to seeing where you go with it!
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Tann posted:Oh right! I was clicking on "move up" and "move down" and nothing was happening! I moved around and leveled up! "Doom" seemed to not work. I like how trippy all the sprites are. Good job for getting it done, I look forward to seeing where you go with it! Thanks. The Move Up/Move Down thing is to reorder members of your team - probably should remove those when you've only got one guy! I like how the sprites have been coming out too. This dude is my favorite (credit to thehoax, who helped me out here since I was running low on time) 
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Omi no Kami posted:Working on top-down vehicle controls today. Obvious observation: holy freaking crap is vector math ever weird and counter-intuitive. It helps a lot to draw out the vectors out on paper. Remember that adding vectors together you get the resulting vector by drawing the second vector at the end of the first, and subtracting is the same, except a vector in the opposite direction. Most of the 3D concepts generalize into 2D too.
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Game's coming along, decided to make a couple more maps to make screencaps of new features more interesting:
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Noyemi K posted:Game's coming along, decided to make a couple more maps to make screencaps of new features more interesting: That is a really nice palette and I saw the guns posted in the pixel art thread and they are incredible I'm currently making games within a game for Weirder Stuff at the moment, hopefully I cant get it done in time 
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I'm mostly taking a break this weekend, but I made one incredibly important addition to my prototype. It now only lists players that are actually online. No more sending challenges to players who stopped playing hours ago! https://whispering-mountain-88337.herokuapp.com/ (I also fixed Doom not working, Tann) I would really appreciate some feedback, and the most important piece is this: Do people think it's worth pursuing? Could you see yourself playing, even paying for, a game like this, that worked fundamentally the way you see here? (But with a nice campaign and territory control multiplayer) I've got plenty of other game idea I'd love to pursue. I'm happy with how far I've gotten here in personal terms, and now I need to seriously consider taking the time (several years of work properly) I would need to turn this into a real, actual game - or if I should clean up what I've got and call it a job well done. GlyphGryph fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Oct 2, 2016 |
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Thanks to whoever in this thread recommended Game Programming Patterns, it has made my train rides to campus much more enlightening than usual.
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KRILLIN IN THE NAME posted:That is a really nice palette and I saw the guns posted in the pixel art thread and they are incredible Dude how are you getting that effect in Fusion? Anyways, good luck to you. I worked all day. I'm gonna wake up see what I can make for Weirder Stuff tomorrow.
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Omi no Kami posted:Working on top-down vehicle controls today. Obvious observation: holy freaking crap is vector math ever weird and counter-intuitive. What parts of it are you having difficulty with?
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The first footage of Fusion 3 has been released. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JHPgaS83QI Supposedly, they've spent the last four years working on the runtime engine itself, and have only recently started on the actual editor (which runs in the same runtime as games), so they primarily show a couple of new features like isometric pseudo-3D stuff. Honestly, though, I'm not interested until they can show things like "reusing events across multiple frames/levels without copy-pasting them to every level every time you make a change", or "having modern gamepad support without utilising horrifying witchcraft that completely works around the engine's input system".
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AntiPseudonym posted:What parts of it are you having difficulty with? Nothing completely unsolvable, but I find it really difficult to mentally parse how vectors will interact without seeing it happen. Case in point, I was doing a thing earlier where I had a function that expected to manipulate a 3d vector in a certain way, and I needed to rewrite it to do the same thing from a top-down perspective. That required me to figure out how the original function was oriented, and provide it a new orientation. Neither thing is that tough, but I ended up just spending 2-3 minutes trying every combination of vector.up/down/left/right for each argument until I tripped over the combination that produced the desired movement.
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anothergod posted:Dude how are you getting that effect in Fusion? I'm using the CRT shader for the frame from the Looki mega shader pack (free on the clickstore but you gotta make an account and add the $0 item to cart)
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So after a long time of really not being in a good place to try to work on games, I'm back to doing little game dev projects when I'm not at my day job. Currently I'm trying to do a Star Fox-ish shooter in Unity 5 only with it being more like a late 50s/early 60s b-movie where you're fighting alien invaders in period-accurate jets. I've got a very rough implementation of a system that moves the camera through waypoints, and keeps the plane from leaving the screen (gif below) The problem is I'm already obsessing over the problem of how to do landscapes. I don't really know what the limitations of how big I could make the "terrain" is, or how to optimize performance in that way. Obviously the optimization part is something I should worry about later, but I'm still thinking of it now. Does anybody have any experience dealing with large areas/worlds/terrains in Unity, or knows of tutorials that might shine some light on what limitations or tricks I should worry about?
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 I'm making some mockups for GBJam since I can't code for jack. This is for an imagined noir adventure game!
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Angry_Ed posted:So after a long time of really not being in a good place to try to work on games, I'm back to doing little game dev projects when I'm not at my day job. Currently I'm trying to do a Star Fox-ish shooter in Unity 5 only with it being more like a late 50s/early 60s b-movie where you're fighting alien invaders in period-accurate jets. I've got a very rough implementation of a system that moves the camera through waypoints, and keeps the plane from leaving the screen (gif below) I don't (yet) have experience doing it the technically correct way, but the place I'd start is looking at how Level of Detail meshes work in Unity (particularly their terrain system if you're planning to use that). You can make some really huge spaces if the distance detail is simple.
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I wasn't planning on using their terrain system since I'm aiming for a low-poly flat-shaded look, but the LOD mesh stuff could definitely be helpful.
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So I've been doing some experimenting with Unity, I'm trying to setup a 2D pixel/particle based destructable terrain test (think Worms, or Cortex Command). At the moment I have each "Pixel" a 2x2 square, and I'm currently reading an enormous xml file to load the level. I realize there's probably a much smaller storage format for that but that's not really the issue at the moment. My issue is with Unity iseach of those pixels have a small box collider, since I'm loading something like 300,000 pixels, that's a lot of colliders. When I actually test it, it runs understandably slow. So I'm trying to think of another solution. There's probably a way I can dynamically generate the collider, and update it whenever there's a change to it. I'm kind of following a Java based guide here: https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/coding-destructible-pixel-terrain-how-to-make-everything-explode--gamedev-45 (Since it's all I could find). Has anyone had any experience setting something like this up?
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DarkAvenger211 posted:So I've been doing some experimenting with Unity, I'm trying to setup a 2D pixel/particle based destructable terrain test (think Worms, or Cortex Command). At the moment I have each "Pixel" a 2x2 square, and I'm currently reading an enormous xml file to load the level. I realize there's probably a much smaller storage format for that but that's not really the issue at the moment. If I was doing a worms thing, I'd set up a mask for nondestructed terrain, and then either work on that directly or walk around it to generate a collision solid.
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DarkAvenger211 posted:So I've been doing some experimenting with Unity, I'm trying to setup a 2D pixel/particle based destructable terrain test (think Worms, or Cortex Command). At the moment I have each "Pixel" a 2x2 square, and I'm currently reading an enormous xml file to load the level. I realize there's probably a much smaller storage format for that but that's not really the issue at the moment. I haven't done this myself, but it seems more like you'd benefit from not using colliders and instead make the terrain a big lookup table. Instead of saying "do I hit any of these 300,000 objects" your renderer and objects can look up a bunch of x/y coordinates in the table to see if they're occupied or not. That avoids a few thousand update calls every frame as well, easily.
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All right, it's a mess of half-implemented systems, untuned values, and programmer art, but I think my game has enough in place that it's ready for people to try it out. I'm tentatively naming it Windraiders. https://fat.gfycat.com/DelightfulAlertKoalabear.webm https://www.dropbox.com/s/zmmrldnoggqehd5/Windraiders%2010-2-2016.zip?dl=0 I'll have an intro tutorial at some point, but for now, the basics are: - The blue box in front of you is your ship's controls. Fly your ship around and shoot other ships. When they blow up, pull up next to them to loot them. - Dock at a programmer-art floating cube thing and interact with the colored boxes to sell loot, hire crew, craft stuff, and start missions. These are going to be NPCs eventually. - Gain fame to unlock blueprints for better guns, ships, etc. Running missions is the fastest way to do this at the moment. You can view/change the controls in the settings menu (hit esc) and you can view the world map in the captain's cabin, underneath the ship controls. One important button: F1 commands your crew to fly your ship to whatever you're aiming at, like looting a disabled enemy, docking, or boarding a ship. There's lots more I could explain and a bunch of complicated menus and whatnot, but I'm curious how intuitive it all is, so I'd rather answer questions as they come. I'm hoping for feedback on what doesn't feel good, what's confusing, what the game could use more of, any bugs you can find, whether the game works at all or runs like crap on your computer, and that sort of thing.
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I submitted it with roughly 5 minutes left on the clock (my shortest yet) and I've done practically no testing but I've finally finished my Weirder Stuff jam entry. here is my Baby PC 
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DarkAvenger211 posted:So I've been doing some experimenting with Unity, I'm trying to setup a 2D pixel/particle based destructable terrain test (think Worms, or Cortex Command). At the moment I have each "Pixel" a 2x2 square, and I'm currently reading an enormous xml file to load the level. I realize there's probably a much smaller storage format for that but that's not really the issue at the moment. There's probably more modern approaches like deformable polygons or composite geometry but I dunno how they work.
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DarkAvenger211 posted:So I've been doing some experimenting with Unity, I'm trying to setup a 2D pixel/particle based destructable terrain test (think Worms, or Cortex Command). At the moment I have each "Pixel" a 2x2 square, and I'm currently reading an enormous xml file to load the level. I realize there's probably a much smaller storage format for that but that's not really the issue at the moment. Use a picture as the collision mask, and have a separate graphical layer for display. To detect collisions check your colliding object's pixel location with the corresponding mask position. For speed load the picture into a texture or array. To blast holes in the terrain just set appropriate pixels in the mask to 0. Testing levels is really quick when you can draw them up in mspaint.
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Triarii posted:All right, it's a mess of half-implemented systems, untuned values, and programmer art, but I think my game has enough in place that it's ready for people to try it out. I'm tentatively naming it Windraiders. Gave this a try. It's a lot of fun with what you have so far. Plays like a cross between the ship bits of Assassin's Creed IV and your standard spaceship sandbox type game. Random thoughts/minor annoyances: -Having to go into the cabin to access map/inventory/etc: On one hand this really pushes the idea of this being an actual ship to run around on and do stuff on, on the other hand I'd like to be able to just hit 'M' to see where I am and navigate. -Ship throttle: I think this is too sensitive. It's tough to get it to zero for instance. Either a fixed set of a few speeds or a more sticky 0 throttle would be nice. -Related to throttle somewhat: I feel like the ships are too agile, they feel fairly weightless. It'd be nice if they had a bit more heft and presence to them as you maneuver. -Ramming should totally be a thing (sorry if you already have an eventual blueprint upgrade for this). -Get some sounds in! I really want/need to hear cannons firing and the roar of airplanes making that gunning pass on me Edit: -Discovered the brake key, throttle much less annoying now, but still think 0 should be a bit sticky -Gatling guns seem just a bit OP -Had to start listening to this playlist: https://play.spotify.com/album/2lMgz2BBwwzkc9ZfNB9zYi Amstrad fucked around with this message at 16:42 on Oct 3, 2016 |
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Thanks for all the suggestions guys, I'll take a look into some and give em a try.
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Triarii posted:All right, it's a mess of half-implemented systems, untuned values, and programmer art, but I think my game has enough in place that it's ready for people to try it out. I'm tentatively naming it Windraiders. This is reaalllyy gooooooooood! Even the fairly simple environment you have right now gave me huge amounts of nostalgia for Skies of Arcadia and both the ship combat and the grappling feel great. Things that felt bad: Attacking and dodging, though they seem very placeholdey (moreso than everything is placeholdey) so presumably they'll feel better once they have proper animations. The dodge could definitely use more distance though. The red "You're about to get attacked!" crosshairs were neat, they make me think you should put in Revengeance-style parrying. Additionally, I couldn't figure out how to get my soldiers to attack an enemy ship. They'd board it and stand around getting killed. Oh, and it runs fine on a 750 Ti (and an i5-6600K, though if it ran poorly on that you'd probably have noticed on your own computer). HMS Boromir fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Oct 3, 2016 |
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Hideous posted:
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As someone currently planning to pick up a new dayjob, but incredibly, incredibly afraid I won't have time to do game development in my spare time, how many people here are doing this as a side thing? Or even as their day job? I dunno if this is a good question to ask or not, but I'm kinda curious.
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Here's a list of places with free resources. This is more for myself to keep track of since a bookmarks folder isn't cutting it any more, but I would also like feedback on these and examples of others of any size or quality. Textures https://textures.com A free account can download 15 per day. A paid subscription can get far more and at much higher resolution, but it's still not unlimited. License: "Our images may be used for many different purposes, such as game development". https://opengameart.org 1,645 textures. License: Various. http://www.blendswap.com/ 649 textures, 950 materials, 116 looping patterns. Blender Focused. A free account is allowed 20 downloads per month. License: CC-*. Music http://www.zapsplat.com/ 34 songs License: Royalty Free https://opengameart.org 2,730 songs. License: Various. http://www.soundjay.com/ License: Royalty free Sound Effects http://www.stillnorthmedia.com These guys kickstarted two sound effects libraries. Tons of high quality real gun and medieval weaponry sound effects. Real also means that the guns go 'pap pap' instead of 'band bang'. License: Not sure what you would call it. http://www.zapsplat.com/ 10,379 sound effects License: "Our sound effects can be used in almost any project be it non-commercial, commercial and even for broadcast. " https://www.freesound.org License: Creative Commons http://soundbible.com/royalty-free-sounds-1.html 1,550 sounds License: Creative Commons and Public Domain https://www.partnersinrhyme.com License: Royalty free and Public Domain http://www.soundjay.com/ License: Royalty free https://opengameart.org 825 files. Many contain several sound effects. License: Various. 3D Models http://www.blendswap.com/ 17,163 minus a couple thousand, give or take. Blender Focused. A free account is allowed 20 downloads per month. License: CC-*. https://opengameart.org 2,257 models. License: Various. https://turbosquid.com 656,926 total. 22,468 free. See also https://www.pixelsquid.com/ for stock images. License: "Royalty Free License" http://tf3dm.com/ 15,463 free I like this one. Licence: Various http://www.3dxtras.com/ 10,278 free License: "not copyrighted unless stated. You are free to use these models in your projects to generate games" http://www.thingiverse.com/ ??? 3D Printing focused. License: generally Creative Commons https://pinshape.com 20,126 3D Printing focused. Licence: CC http://www.123dapp.com/ 555,664 3D Photographs, licensed characters, you name it. License: generally Creative Commons-non commercial https://cults3d.com ??? Generally free, quality models that are intended for 3D Printing but many could have use in games License: Creative Commons https://yeggi.com 1,011,883 (!) Serves as an aggregate and search engine for other model sites, so you will need to click to see if there is still a valid download or what the license is. The site acts like it's 3D printing focused but the model selection is all over the place. Licence: Various https://www.yobi3d.com ??? Serves as an aggregate and search engine for other model sites, so you will need to click to see if there is still a valid download or what the license is. License: Various http://3dsha.re/browse/ 1,820 free All over the place in terms of quality. License: Creative Commons http://www.top3d.net/ 108 free http://www.3dmodels-textures.com/3dmodels 0 free. http://makerlove.com/Free-3D-Sex-Toys/index.html 16 lol License: Public Domain Honorable Mentions: https://sketchfab.com/ ??? This site has so many models but not many can actually be downloaded for use. Lacking in advanced search tools, so kind of frustrating if you're looking for something in particular. License: Various. Often none. Character sprite sheet generators intended for RPG maker: http://charas-project.net/charas2/ http://gaurav.munjal.us/Universal-LPC-Spritesheet-Character-Generator/ http://www.rpgmakercentral.com/topic/2213-a-slightly-prettier-character-generator/ http://opengameart.org/forumtopic/sprite-creator-3-finished-xp-vx There are a lot of these out there.
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Amstrad posted:-Having to go into the cabin to access map/inventory/etc: On one hand this really pushes the idea of this being an actual ship to run around on and do stuff on, on the other hand I'd like to be able to just hit 'M' to see where I am and navigate. - Concerns about sacrificing too much convenience for immersion are legit, but did you notice the "hold E to enter cabin" prompt when piloting? It warps you straight in front of the map object. I was hoping that would be a decent compromise. - I could make it stick for a moment as you pass 0, sure. - Ships naturally get slower as they get bigger, so I sort of felt like I had to start at a quite zippy speed early on so that the later ships weren't insufferably slow. I'll keep tuning that. - I do have ramming damage implemented, but it deals barely any damage right now. I'll be tuning that to a value that feels better, and adding a craftable battering ram you can put on the front of your ship that multiplies it do even more damage. - Yeah, no kidding. HMS Boromir posted:Things that felt bad: Attacking and dodging, though they seem very placeholdey (moreso than everything is placeholdey) so presumably they'll feel better once they have proper animations. The dodge could definitely use more distance though. The red "You're about to get attacked!" crosshairs were neat, they make me think you should put in Revengeance-style parrying. Yeah, melee combat is the most placeholder of the placeholders right now. I haven't really figured out how I want the melee system to work yet, so I just threw something basic in there. I think I had just been playing Bloodborne, and my dodge was supposed to be like the sidestep-dodges from that. If your crew weren't even fighting the enemy, then that sounds like a bug. Not sure what's up with that. Early on, that's all you can really do - if you kill enough of the enemy crew, they'll surrender. Before too long you'll unlock a demolition charge that you can equip on your crew, which will make them move towards enemy turrets (and shield emitters if they have them) and destroy them. I'll eventually add some way to destroy enemy engines as well, and some kind of loot sack item that makes your crew just steal stuff so you can snatch some loot from a bigger ship and then run away.
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I'm working on a new trailer for pitching to publishers. What do you think about this guy here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ha-j0ZfBD1M older one for comparison It's a lot more up front about how the game works and what's supposed to be fun about it, although i think it sacrifices some of the drama and mystery of the older one
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swamp waste posted:I'm working on a new trailer for pitching to publishers. What do you think about this guy here Also yes that is a much better trailer.
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Shalinor posted:Adult Swim and Devolver (in that order) ASAP. Yeah I would do this. Is Clickteam Fusion even worth messing with? I've seen a couple of game that look decent with it, but I'm not sure if I'm better off with GameMaker.
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swamp waste posted:I'm working on a new trailer for pitching to publishers. What do you think about this guy here Was that...a man with his hand in an ox's rear end??? This looks so weird and also so rad
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