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GENUINE CAT HERDER posted:You should PM user VideoGamesVet. I think the guy's been in the games industry since before a lot of us were even born and has worked on all kinds of stuff. Most recently he made The Climate Trail (https://www.theclimatetrail.com/) among other things. Yep, my first game was published by Avalon Hill in 1980 and delivered on cassette tape! 
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Games I did ALL the coding on: Avalon Hill: Conflict 2500 Voyager 1 Controller Aegis Development: The Pyramid of Peril McChallenger the Space Shuttle Simulator Deep State Games: The Climate Trail. Games I did the technical production, part of the coding and/or co-designed. Activision: Manhole CD-ROM Rodney’s Fun Screen LGOP2 The Return To Zork Lightspan: A whole bunch of games I did concept stuff Bonus Mobile: The Dozens PlayScreen: IWhack Pigs A’ Pop;’n Bailout Bonanza Word Carnivale Bag Bigfoot Impossible Hex
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Oh dang, that's an appropriate username  Legit question: do you still get the same kick you did from typing code by hand on those ancient microcomputers as when you program in the modern era?
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Saoshyant posted:Oh dang, that's an appropriate username Somewhat. I coded “The Climate Trail” in Ren’Py, and learning Python to do stuff like the hidden object mini-game was fun. It was nice to be able to program all of a game. I missed it, the last game I had really coded on my own was stuff on the original Mac in ‘85. But when I did Return To Zork’s ‘engine’, I was programming stuff like the digital video player and audio stuff right at the ‘metal.’ It was amazingly complex. For example the audio compression was adaptive, audio encoded at variable rates. Ditto the video frames, so streaming this from a CD was a feat of engineering. Even the lip flap was based on the current audio compression rates, a nice side effect. Unity and Ren’Py are so high level by comparison.
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I made a game! Would you help me playtest it? The Solar Scion playtest is here! Do you want to be a part of development? Have your feedback heard? You can speak up on the Steam community page
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I'm necroing the poo poo out of this thread because my Steam page finally went up here It's basically spacewestern Zelda, on pc 
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This was linked in the steam thread. Sad that I am left out of the paragoons! I have worked on: Victoria 2 (I also made mods for Victoria 1 than ended up being folded into official patches) Hearts of Iron 3 + 4 (I was also a beta tester on HoI2 and did some work which was included) EU 3 + 4 CK 2 Now that I have left PDS I work on Old World. Might be worth mentioned that the Hammerting dev, Zerf, used to work at PDS too. IIRC he worked on Victoria 2 and CK2. Wiz took over Victoria 3 when he left Stellaris. He also worked on EU4. Lordmune worked on CK3, but has escaped back to Stellaris. Darkrenown fucked around with this message at 21:44 on Jul 21, 2021 |
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Jun 26, 2021 15:39
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Holy poo poo. Not only have goons worked at major studios, which I would have expected, but goons have written/been on the teams of some of the indie smashes of the last few years.
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Shoehead posted:I'm necroing the poo poo out of this thread because my Steam page finally went up I wishlisted this basically instantly. Love how you've got a 2D platforming section just like Link's Awakening. It's blatant but in the absolute best possible way.
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Shoehead posted:I'm necroing the poo poo out of this thread because my Steam page finally went up I look forwards to trying this. Definitely down for some weird space Zelda, and looks like it's got enough of its own thing going on to catch my interest.
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My arcade naval combat simulator, Waves of Steel, launched on Early Access today. Does that count?
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There was also Moutain of Debt that was done for a SA Game Jam that was a solid Metroidvania. Unfortunately it was Flash based so I have no idea if it's ever going to be playable again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO5niMsgR2U Here is some video of someone playing it.
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So I got Mountain of Debt working, but it's a bit of a hassle. 1) Download and install Newgrounds' standalone flash player. 2) Macromedia has disabled flash with a setting in a config file. Newgrounds' player claims to override this, but it didn't work for me, so I had to override it manually. Download mms.cfg and overwrite the file in the following directories (if they exist): C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\ C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\ 3) Download the Mountain of Debt SWF file. The official page download is very slow (several minutes for a 12MB file), so I'm also providing a Google Drive mirror. I'll down the link if the author (or anyone) disapproves. Official link Google Drive mirror 4) Run the Newgrounds flash player and load the SWF. I'm not sure if everything works properly, but it seems fine for the first 5 minutes! Hopefully it'll eventually work with a flash emulator, but it appears to use features that aren't supported by Ruffle yet.
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Don't forget the Dogpit. Lots of awesome games as well as goon-filled game jams happening with them. They're awesome and great, and I'm not just saying that because I did the score for The Cherry Orchard and will be scoring Red Star Azimuth. 
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Holy poo poo. Not only have goons worked at major studios, which I would have expected, but goons have written/been on the teams of some of the indie smashes of the last few years. a goon pal works at dinosaur polo, who make mini metro/mini motorways. which is #4 on steam sales rn, holy poo poo
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:My arcade naval combat simulator, Waves of Steel, launched on Early Access today. Does that count? Heck yes it does
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...of SCIENCE! posted:I do wonder if we shouldn't have an asterisk or something for games that are technically made by goons but we probably don't actually want to be associated with us. Cool video lol.
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We've got a goon gamedev in the wild: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3954084&perpage=40&pagenumber=93#pti19 82apps posted:Heyo, this is Erik, the developer of Factory Town. Just got pinged here by a user to help out with questions. I haven't used SA a lot so my apologies if I break some kind of etiquette. Folks should cruise by the Management Thread and say hi!
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VideoGameVet posted:But when I did Return To Zork’s ‘engine’, I was programming stuff like the digital video player and audio stuff right at the ‘metal.’ It was amazingly complex. For example the audio compression was adaptive, audio encoded at variable rates. Ditto the video frames, so streaming this from a CD was a feat of engineering. Even the lip flap was based on the current audio compression rates, a nice side effect. had to drop by to say thanks for this, I have fond memories of this game
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victrix posted:had to drop by to say thanks for this, I have fond memories of this game You're welcome. It was the best thing I ever did in my career. The UI is still impressive (asking NPC's about photos you took, objects, and conversations ... for one). Very proud of that.
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VideoGameVet posted:You're welcome. Weirdly I had this video pop up in my Algorithm just a few days ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCimuf6F6C8 I'm not entirely sure what inspired it to put that on my plate, but I shared it with friends and we performed the ritual WANT SOME RYE? phone posting rn so I can't do it atm, but remind me to drop by later with my tales of Return to Zork in a small college town
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I made a game about cranking hogs
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Are you tracking boardgames at all? https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgamepublisher/29569/magic-meeple-games I developed and internationally published all of these games. I also designed a board game for another publisher, it was called Magnum Opus. Jemak fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Jan 3, 2022 |
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My game now has a demo on Steam. During Next Fest all the characters will be unlocked for multiplayer. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1492750/Mega_Knockdown/ Not sure when early access will start. Probably will depend on what the feedback on the demo looks like.
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Interstellaria (sort of a homage to Star Control 2) is currently free if you ever wanted to check it out.
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dhamster posted:My game now has a demo on Steam. During Next Fest all the characters will be unlocked for multiplayer. Oh, I announced an Early Access release date today. July 29.
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dhamster posted:Oh, I announced an Early Access release date today. July 29. Aaand it's out! https://twitter.com/MegaKnockdown/status/1553033278751444993
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Trombone Champ is a goon made game https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1572372646012260353 Here's the original post from the making games thread: Polo-Rican posted:A long time ago I came up with an idea for a music game like Guitar Hero, except you played with a big floppy rubber trombone peripheral and everything always sounded awful.
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I programmed Wunderling DX, made a bunch of levels and designed the UI. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVRBmgjPtzo
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Kandria, whose development is documented here.Pigmassacre posted:I programmed Wunderling DX, made a bunch of levels and designed the UI. Oh drat, I really liked that one.
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My ridiculous arcade naval combat game, Waves of Steel, has finally launched! https://twitter.com/byobattleship/status/1622596317041278976
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Oh poo poo this looks up my street, thank you!
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That looks crazy with so many different parts. And it's reviewing well, too. Congrats, my goon! Seems like it was worth the effort.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:My ridiculous arcade naval combat game, Waves of Steel, has finally launched! congrats on the release!!
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Thank you, everyone! If you want to help, spreading the word makes a huge difference. People don't buy games they don't know about!
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Thank you, everyone! If you want to help, spreading the word makes a huge difference. People don't buy games they don't know about! Spreading word now- a goon in the fresh releases thread has a controls feature request you may want to look into. Kenlon posted:I just bought this and then refunded it after trying out the tutorial mission - there's an invert-Y camera option, but no invert-X, and I know from long experience that my brain simply will not wrap itself around that. Separately, I suggest curating some quotes from your negative reviews and making a trailer out of them. vvv entirely fair on both counts. I am using the negative reviews to promote the game to other goons, tho. I especially liked the one from steam user "Kingcop". Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Feb 8, 2023 |
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Discendo Vox posted:Spreading word now- a goon in the fresh releases thread has a controls feature request you may want to look into. Ah, thanks! I had someone ask that on the Steam forums as well, but they also in the same sentence said they were going to refund unless I did what they wanted, which wasn't especially motivating for me. Granted that I was on 4 hours of sleep at the time. Anyway, noted, will look into it when I've slept. (edit: lol, almost certainly the same person in both posts) quote:Separately, I suggest curating some quotes from your negative reviews and making a trailer out of them. I've given a lot of thought to how to capitalize on angry chuds. The thing is that there's an extremely fine line between taunting chuds and touching the poop. I'm not even remotely confident I could pull it off, and if I gently caress it up, it could have seriously negative consequences for my community.
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