Scissorfighter posted:

Just finished a little project, trailer is here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ucc3b-gh3w

It's a remake of an older game that I did to stave off the depression that always comes from dev block, and I was stalling pretty hard on my unity game. It's a generic platform-shooter, but I slapped a few hundred hours of polish on it, which was fun and easy enough to do. Thought I'd test the waters of selling it for a tiny fee ($1.75) since it was something I wouldn't mind too much being a complete failure. I predicted 0 sales and got them, so now I'm trying making it free for the first week. Itch has some handy analytics so I know only 50 people have clicked to discover the price in the first place, so this probably isn't much of an experiment.

All I need from this game is for it to be the last time I ever use Multimedia Fusion, but it's a vicious cycle.

Shoehead posted:

Ok went back to it



Works a lot better now, atm I'm just testing with a random hair object flung into the scene to see if it snaps to his head but after I get the creator all put together I can start drawing the objects right on there.

Hidden Asbestos posted:

dupersaurus posted:

Trying to make money off of html5 games is probably even more of an exercise in futility than mobile, right?

dupersaurus posted:

Hmm, that might be something. A tutorial on Phaser's site linked to this, seems more functional: Phone Gap

Dr Solway Garr posted:

Been working on some character animation this week for a little game I've been making on my own.





and because I'm loving stupid (and because it's an animation workflow I'm used to and lets me do silly gpu vertex tricks), all of the art is geometry.




Also, I really, really like this.

Mordiceius posted:

I'm always super wary of gimmicks and stuff, so I'd love to get your opinion on this -

Would an FMV game that's 1950s monster movie themed (black and white, film grain, overacted) be too hard of a sell for you? I mean, the film content is not something I'm too concerned about in regard to it being of proper quality. I'm just curious if a black and white FMV game is something that would even have appeal.

SupSuper posted:

I would just put the movement arrows on top of the respective tiles (or maybe just highlight the tiles) and tuck the other buttons in screen corners.

Manslaughter posted:

I would rather have the arrows in the corners and the other buttons where the arrows currently are. In its current state it would be too easy to fat finger a wrong direction, and putting them on the tiles would make that worse.

Yodzilla posted:

This is why I use enums instead of strings for any sort of named state or type.

Manslaughter posted:

I started programming with Game maker 4, in 2001.

and by saying that I've probably brought our COBOL and BASIC geezers out of the woodwork

e: Lol, when looking for when GM4 came out, found this on the wikipedia page. gently caress your sprites!!

AntiPseudonym posted:

Told Twitter that I'd just implemented cheat codes, and the first thing someone says is "Is there a big head mode?"

So, now, yes. Yes there is.

Shoehead posted:

Those tiles are gorgeous

DeathBySpoon posted:

It's really not that bad. I'm starting to do little bits of this for Roggle and all it is is writing about the cool stuff you're working on and showing it to people any chance you get. Assuming you find gamedev pretty interesting in the first place, since you're doing it as a hobby, I can't think of anything easier than just talking to people about something you enjoy. Your enthusiasm will come through. Just tweet about cool stuff you're doing, respond to other devs about their cool stuff, and you'll start to build a following. Exactly what you're doing here, really.

On that note, Roggle just got a new layer of polish:

Fangz posted:

As a general rule of thumb, for doing animations for explosions etc, how many variants should I do to stop it looking weird when multiple explosions happen at the same time?

JossiRossi posted:

Oregon Trail!
That jitter is bugging me, I'll need to nail down what's doing that exactly. It'll be in my math (what little there is) somewhere.

JossiRossi posted:

Yeah that's my thought. Since I am doing this in Gamemaker as a way to relax, all those land features and items are objects, even each individual white line haha. So every tick, the objects are doing some math on their position. The original implementation resulted in smoother movement technically, but the sprites would compress and expand slightly because GM was being given a float for their x coordinates. So I have the float rounded to a whole number, but that means that each individual object will sometimes hitch, and will do that hitching at a time separate to objects nearby, giving them a shuddery look. If they still stuttered, but it was in unison it might not be noticeable.

This did make me wonder how other games handle scrolling graphics though since it is a deceptive problem.

anothergod posted:

Yeah dogs get on that MVP poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvCri1tqIxQ

Cut everything unnecessary out of your game. Make sure it is a dope proof of concept. Braid was essentially made in a week. For an indie game anything more than a month or two is just spinning wheels. Once you get to that point you needed to shoot it off to other people to see if it can gain friction and lurch forward more. Does anyone remember Spelunky Classic's dev schedule? I feel like it got put together real fast and then got smoothed out over the course of a year or so.

Bert of the Forest posted:

Being one of those who HAVE been "spinning wheels" rebuilding their game from scratch in a new engine which has stretched development time to nearly 3 years now, I say hell, still stick with it if it's important enough to ya. You'll get over that hump eventually, and hopefully have a pretty great product by the end. (That part remains to be seen in my case, of course.) With that said, I actually HAVE been working on something else lately, since I've been doing school and Deeper simultaneously, and school required I make a tiny game this year, so that's precisely what I did.

Specifically, this was a group effort, with me leading half of the Game Design class to create a small game based on a prototype for a mobile game I pitched here a while back! Some of you may remember it, but regardless it's published and free on Google Play now, making it my first official published title on mobile devices. It was an interesting, albeit frustrating experience (most of the class hadn't ever actually put games together before themselves, despite being in a Game Design program, so finding useful jobs for everyone was challenging at best) but it does help to motivate me to jump right back into Deeper. Check it out if ya'll get the chance - there's a PC build and an Android build so go wild:


PC Build: https://teammom.itch.io/mind-over-matter



Android Build: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.MOM.MindOverMatter&hl=en

anothergod posted:

We're nearing the early access release for Combat Jr. We're putting together a trailer proper, but I think I'm going to keep that longplay on the right, too. We'll just have to figure out how to embed the trailer on the left side via HTML magic. This is the itch.io page: https://interdimensional.itch.io/super-combat-jr-ii?secret=8jr9QESsqK5ZcCk26yfhbEIKKMc. We're applying to IndieCade soon (deadline is the 15th!) and the itch early access is going to start between then and May 24. If anyone here is interested in streaming we are going to definitely try to get that happening. I think other people playing and having fun might be, uh, more engaging than the devs having fun w/ it. Or maybe not! I don't know!

anothergod posted:

The voxels are made with MagicaVoxel and the game itself is made with Unity3D. I always thought it would be hard to move from something supereasy like Fusion to Unity, but it wasn't. It helps that I have a programmer, but I'd say I program half of the battle sections anyways.

Shoehead posted:

Other than that I spent all day fixing bugs and adding in little checks here and there to make sure you couldn't do silly stuff like roll while knocked out. I also found out that in GML if you switch a sprite it doesn't start that sprite's animation at frame 0. You have to manually reset it somewhere else, so say for example you are on frame 4 of a walk and switch to the roll sprite to roll, your roll would then start at frame 4 (or maybe 5?), which was breaking all sorts of things I had tied to animations. The more you know right?

Switzerland posted:

A challenger appears!

https://twitter.com/bzgeb/status/733723960513302528

Steampunk_Spoon posted:

This mostly started as an exercise, which then quickly got out of hand. Textures are mostly adapted from a tileset meant for 2d games, which ended up working surprisingly well. I wish I had access to some nice 8 directional sprites, but I guess 4 directions works well enough.

http://s1.webmshare.com/NdjGx.webm
I have no idea where to take this from here, but at least it was a lot of fun to put together.

FantasticExtrusion posted:

Reiley posted:

We have a loose concept for a future game where two ideas for helping draw player attention to things were a) darkening the screen except for where an item is the closer you get to it and b) muffling music the closer you get to an object. It's hard to think of subtle ways to make important things obvious, or guarantee a player will eventually be led to a necessary thing while also still feeling like they found it themselves.

asmasm posted:

My game has turned into sim bolt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLEgieErnSg

Hover posted:

I love the look so I wanted to speak up on this. What you're looking for is contrast, not necessarily "bright" vs "dull" colours. With the palette you have going, anything cool will stand out from your foreground, like most of the background does. Maybe play with a cool moonlit shoreside in the background? Or lean into warmer colours in the background and a cooler rocky cliff for your collision area? Outlines might also work for less effort changing the art.

P.S. can I live in your lighthouse? I bet I can see the ocean from there

Hover posted:

I have no idea how I'm going to make low poly waterfalls look good. Probably texture work I guess.

Love Stole the Day posted:

Posting progress:

I'm about 9 hours of effort into this project that I started a few days ago:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VS4WyEekHN4

I'm wanting it to be a SWAT4/RavenShield-like game: multiplayer co-op terrorist hunt and hostage rescue FPS.

barge posted:

Gamemaker sounds like the the right kinda thing though, thanks for the suggestions

anothergod posted:

I'm not going to give up on the faux top-down view, but if there are any ideas/suggestions/etc. I'm all ears.

Polio Vax Scene posted:

It's not that big of a deal, I have no issue with playing games in windowed mode nowadays. Just have an option for 1x or 2x since its kinda small on 1x.

baby puzzle posted:

Hi. I have created a demo/test version of my PC game called SEQUENCE STORM. It is a rhythm game with racing elements.

I don't know if google drive will be happy with many downloads, but we will see what happens. I suppose I will probably put this on indiedb.com eventually. https://drive.google.com/open?id=13entbDhJf0a6t7Rk8tWzYQD4_M0Sj-ZS

I'm also trying to write up a description of the game...

- Here's some footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPGHXgDlUWA

The final game will have:
- 31 music tracks
- A story mode with 59 missions
- It is a PC rhythm game that uses a game pad or keyboard
- Split-screen multiplayer

If you give it a try, then please let me know what you think. It is still in a beta/bug fixing state so I'd be interested to know if you have any issues, and send me your log.txt file.

FantasticExtrusion posted:

For when there are just too many antlions:

https://i.imgur.com/6Cd4beF.gifv

Coldrice posted:

Hey guys, been a while since I posted about my Project Duster. I have a new build out to try. Pax Submissions will be popping up soon I'm sure, so I need to convert this into something I can submit. Obviously a tutorial is REALLY needed. Heres hoping I can figure it out. I think I'm going to try to solicit funding for this project...



I posted the newest build on itch. Keyboard ontrols are in the folder, but its designed for an XBOX controller. The goal is to assassinate the "wanted" people in the menu, and then use the clues they give you to find the lost mine.

The "wanted outlaws" menu is in the inventory (Left trigger to get to wanted) and the map to actually track them is also there (right trigger)

https://coldrice.itch.io/duster/devlog/32101/v002d-is-live-career-bonuses-factions-more

baby puzzle posted:

Screenshot Saturday?? Here's what my game looks like on the hardest difficulty, and also an example of how bad I am at it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRltc18BTp8

I was trying a new shape for the "target bar" but it doesn't really look very good. Also, this is "score mode" which is just like a regular rhythm game, with no racing involved. I'm thinking that in this mode, I won't even draw the ship on the screen, since you aren't racing or anything. Actually maybe I should have taken it out for this video, but oh well.

e: It is surprising how exhausting and time-consuming it is to come up with these note patterns. I feel like every section of every track needs to be something unique, but also goes along with the music properly. - oh, and actually be possible to do.. and aesthetically pleasing.

KRILLIN IN THE NAME posted:

_{devolver digital gave it a 👌 emoji on twitter so i guess this means i should pitch it to em when im done}

quote:

Here's how it looked earlier this week.

baby puzzle posted:

You do lose some boost power if you miss.

e: You lose speed too. So it is actually often worth it to use boost power to "catch up" after you've missed and slowed down. It is analogous to ramming into a wall in a normal racing game.

ee: I got a huge spike in visitors on indiedb yesterday. Apparently, because they tweeted about my game directly: