I decided to postpone the launch of my porn in order to add a small "hole in the wall" level. I just dont want people to refund because theres not enough there.
links to free ai and RPG maker sale (one day left)
https://www.humblebundle.com/store/search?sort=bestselling&search=rpg%20maker&page=1
https://promptchan.ai/r/xteuMADYvnWEejleziQuFxCAFBi2
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At what point to I begin posting about my game?
when you get something that resembles a game
Bet.
walking sims aren't games you gay
>You know who;
who
Me, homie! Will be uploading another atrocious nightmare video soon, now with patented Nintendo 64-esque framerate technology that enables my game to compete with the likes of other games on the system, especially my favorite game out of them all: Perfect Dark!
early on if you need help
when you have a cool gameplay clip that is unique enough to post on its own without any context
the instant you have anything worth posting
every art asset, every sound effect, every song, every gif or gameplay clip, anything and everything should be posted constantly everywhere from the very beginning.
>Not rotating Fiona instead
You had one fricking job
when you have gameplay. if it is not fun early it will not be fun later.
please if you do it to sell, don't spend so much time. i don't even have to search to read stuff like this every day. if it's a business, you analyze your risks, in 1 month have something to show for like this.
and if you have good reception, you continue, if not, don't waste time "fixing" your dream game.
or take the sovl hobby path and have fun.
>or take the sovl hobby path and have fun.
That's why I take the porn route. I know it'll never make serious money unless I go the patreon whale route, but that takes some serious legwork first. As long as I make one person coom and give back just a little bit to the community that's loved me over the years, it'll be worth it.
>50$ for 1000 views
it was 20$ for 1000 views when i did it. odd.
Why would you release a game with no audience? First thing you have to do is make sure they are buying your game, how do you spend 3 years working on something and not realize there's no market?
this is hopefuel: even if your game is as bad as an asset flip made over three years with no artistic sensibility, you can find one person a week who is willing to buy and play your game
very generic looking game
Yeah, art direction seems a bit... lacking I guess. Like it's a screenshot, but a lot of it just kinda blends together,
that font is super hard on my eyes ngl
The problem with this is that it looks like its bad and more than likely it's not polished, its jank, and is unoriginal.
What is your core gameplay loop? Is your game a “game” yet?
You can start posting anytime, just be warned that people will never respond to anything that doesn't have shiny graphics or some easily visually understandable gimmick, even if it's a legitimate feat of dev that took weeks/months/years.
Badly, because I keep changing projects and am in endless hell.
Feels like I dont actually enjoy gamedev and only keep trying to do it because no game I can find fills the void I feel, I try an idea, get all the basic systems in place and get a working demo in a test level, and then lose interest as some better idea appears in my head. I'd love to finish a project and wish my brain would stop giving me new ideas all the time (and honestly thinking of the whole thing gives me a huge headache), so I could just batten myself down and grind threw the unfun hell that is development to prove to myself that this wont make me happy either.
Man I was messing with RPGMaker 2003 since it was on sale, and I have a question. Yume Nikki had the ability to do stuff like pressing buttons (like 1), to do a specific action, and I have no idea how they did it. I thought it was something to do with the key input command or something, but I just don’t get how it works, and it feels like there’s no easily digestible tutorials on what they’re used for or how to use them, even for later versions.
Button Common Events is a recurring plugin for later rpgmakers but not sure about 2003
Yeah, I’ve seen a few plugins for stuff like MV (I think), but I feel like what I’m after should be possible vanilla, I just don’t know how to manipulate the system properly.
I was faced with a big decision and I decided to bite the bullet and update from Unity 2018 to 2020. I also updated to URP. This has me scared shitless though, as only two minor things broke. I thought I would have had to redo all my shaders, but not only do they work on windows, linux, and mac, they also are working on android despite being broken before. It's going too well and I'm scared there's some massive bug lurking under the water where I can't see it.
Sad face
Are visual novels games?
yes
I dont know what yumi nikki is like but theres this option. I think you have to be standing on the event to do it
The current "meta" for key input processing shit is in a somewhat advanced (for 2k/3) state. I'd focus on doing something to listen for key input in parallel and store that input in a variable so you can use it for other things.
That doesn't look like a game.
I’ve been messing around with that, but I can’t seem to really figure it out
>I think you have to be standing on the event to do it
I don’t think that should be it, YN has a mechanic where you can pinch yourself awake from wherever you’re at (except when you’re awake). I dunno, you might be right in a way I can’t comprehend with my current understanding of the system.
another anon mentioned parallel processing, that seemed to work, just uncheck all the keys except numbers or you'll lock yourself in the game
Hm, I’ll try that. I need to get it to work in the first place, before I can try out my idea. Thank you.
Hm, I got it to at least cause the text to pop up after talking to an NPC, but that's not quite what I'm going for, and I also can't turn it off. But it's more than what I had before.
This is a dangerous practice that is sure to lead to classic RPG Maker jank issues.
The better and more modern way to handle key input in 2k/3 is
>checking for input yes/no on an individual basis for each key that you'll listen for and keeping that info in an array
>secondary array that you + or - based on whether the keys in array a are pressed or not
>optional: feed the results into one or more variables that store the current key input (based on how many simultaneous inputs you'll need, but one or 2 is usually OK)
Now you have control over each individual key for custom input checking, like repeat inputs, input only on key press, input only on key release, input on both, etc.
I'll need time to parse what's going on here, but I greatly appreciate all the help in this thread. RPGMaker felt rather smooth sailing, and then with this, the difficulty shot up by a ton, so I really needed the help.
The gist of it is this
>you have an array of variables where you are checking every key you'll be listening for
>you run a loop that "points through" that array and checks if it's 0, or not
>a secondary array where you store a "timer" for each key is being pointed through at the same time
>if a key's value in the first array = 0 (not being pressed), the key's timer has -1 applied to it
>if a key's value in the first array is !=0, the key's timer has +1 applied to it
>using the information in the timers, you can ascertain whether a key has just been pushed (=1), just been released (=-1) and you can use the further +- values for other purposes
visualization of this here:
Don't worry about this causing performance issues, because this process is inexpensive to perform constantly.
You might want to make a common event that forces the secondary array to a positive value that doesn't trigger any of your key shit later on to avoid doubled inputs or conflicts, but that's a different story for other times.
I think I'm getting what you're saying now, I was finding it a bit difficult to apply it to what my goal was, but your explanation helped. Thank you.
Kys chink
AI shill cris schizo thread
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/648393634/#648393634
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/648275313/#648275313
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/647536160/#647536160
Don't post in this shill ai Black person thread.
real thread:
>be indie dev
>go to gamedev forum
>fellow indies crying about not making much, gamdev being too hard, etc
>mention AI and other new technologies and how they could further streamline gamedev
>get victimized, blocked, and even banned in some cases
>...
I'm working on enemy designs again and I'm wondering if this one is too busy or looks stupid
it looks alright
looks good
>ECKO shirt
Hey now.....no need to get all personal about it.
Personal? I'm just nostalgic for brands like ECKO and DC
>Go to my old mall
>Store where I bought all my ugly ECKO shirts is gone
>The stand selling bootleg anime and kung fu flicks with literal porn on the lower rows was gone too
It was the end of an era
>literal porn
I remember buying anime porn from the mall. I just recognized the carameldansen girls i didnt know it was porn.
guys I need any input I can get
I'm trying to go for this desolate-industrial-desert type of environment
what would you add what would you change
any good references?
looks cool. you can just duplicate those assets in rows like this
Look at Steel Solider Z for that (not the remake)
I would start with things like spills/environmental damage due to machinery falling apart/lack of maintenance. You have pipes and stuff, but the next logical step is what function they serve? where do pipes lead to typically? Reservoirs for oil/liquid gathering, typically lead to large-scale refineries. Pumps would be necessary to lift, though not necessary to animate if abandoned/disrepair.
For wild-life, cacti and google. It isnt uncommon for wildlife like snakes to make homes inside pipes that no longer function.
I got a team but I think the only person besides me that's doing anything is the programmer.
Finished another playable character recently.
I want to have 3D backgrounds for this game, but this is Gamemaker, so frick. I know it's possible, at least.
Frick this looks good, do you have any socials or steam/itch page? Also why not do prerendered backgrounds? They're known to increase soul by 30% at least
>do you have any socials or steam/itch page?
You know how it is.
>Also why not do prerendered backgrounds?
Because my first game, which this is a sequel of, had them. I want to try something new, and if it doesn't work out, I'll make the backgrounds 2D like before.
Looks like it plays like MM Zero, which makes it of great interest to me.
you can do 2d renders of 3d backgrounds
Who would be moronic enough to announce their game on Ganker of all places? This place hates games
How would you go about announcing your game?
its the only honest place on the internet
This
At least if you post something that looks like dogshit here, you'll be instantly bombarded with actual opinions (how useful they are depends on what you posted) on why your game looks shit.
Do the same on r*ddit? "WOW DUDE LOOKS GREAT" "WELL IT'S NOT MY STYLE BUT IT LOOKS GOOD DUDE" "NICE, WISHLISTED" and suddenly, on release day, crickets followed by your very own
>I released my indie game and no one downloaded it. What went wrong?
post.
Source2 when?
>I will never have a good idea for a short and simple game that can be made in a month and become popular
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
base a game around a single script or mechanic
nta but I can't imagine a game like that to be fun
people like that man in a cauldron jumping with a hammer game
was that fun? seemed like it went viral with streamers because they had meltdowns when they fell, didn't seem like fun to play
not that anon
i almost have the achievement for beating it 50 times just because it's fun to frick around with the physics, and also fun to utterly shit on a game that was considered ass torture by youtube facecam slaves like 6 years ago
you can make a pretty solid game focused on very simple mechanics if those mechanics work well and are paired with scenarios that let you play with them in neat ways
well how do I come up with such a mechanic? I think I prefer complex games as a player and it leads me to come up with ideas for complex games
it's hard to come up with small game ideas that seem worth even prototyping
complex games are made up of component parts that can work as smaller games, and smaller games can work as components of a complex game. look at Resident Evil 4 and Tetris
if your idea for a complex game is any good and not "you can do anything" tier then you can scale back and focus on a part of it that works on its own
how would you take diablo 1 and turn a part of it into a simpler smaller game?
Maybe make a game that'll make you want to 'sink your teeth in it'?
If you can't even conceptualize your game in any way then there's quite literally no point in trying, other than being a codemonkey/artmonkey for someone else.
just make a horror game. empty house with programmed jumpscares
Should I learn RPG Maker mv? I think it will degrade my (already) shitty programming skills. I feel like I have one of two projects that could be made using it but I'm not sure if it worth. I don't wanna give up late on development because I got filtered by it or too limited
RPG Maker MV bros, help me.
you can code on the side, most devs end up working on side projects anyway.
what kind of games would you make on mv?
rpg game with small puzzles and battles like pokemon. I'm an artist so I will probably make all the art (including tilesets).
I heard that it's a pain in the ass to work with tiles (and graphics overall) in RPG Maker that are slightly bigger than the standard ones
>slightly bigger
sort of, i rely heavily on these tilesheets where you can lay images over the standard tiles. You can use them to make your own larger tiles as long as theyre in intervals of 32. so when i have a repeating tree pattern i want, but the trees are 96 pixels tall i have to use this. it takes up alot of room on the tilesheet but that doesnt really matter, you can use as many tilesheets as you want in your game.
sexy tiles, bro.
I think I should make a prototype to see how it goes. I own rpg maker mv but I'm just really worried if I should put time and effort learning it. I messed with it for a few minutes and looks comfy af.
I've used other tools before that filtered me so hard that I almost gave up on gamedev
>Gaben cucks to luddites and Sweeney tells them to frick off
Wow.
What it took for me to finally consider publishing my game to the Epic store
>AIgays now tied to the sinking stone of EGS
It only gets funnier
Cope and seethe more
Unreal Engine is the industry standard
in his defense too, plenty of websites like deviantart who sell their images to AI training, make their users sign a thing that says they give the website the right to do this.
Good on DA
The absolutely stunning scenery done by AI cannot be taken down
>Sweeney sucking up to AI gen games
>Not realizing what easily mass produced slop could do to his storefront like steam greenlight asset flip era.
>Not taking cues from sites getting flooded with generated noise
Its over...
I don't know if my main antagonist should be God or the protagonist's brother
started a new project after realizing that the one I already spent 9 months in really isn't very fun to play
question, and this is just for games in general, but at what point do you all consider systems like "mp" to be anti-fun? In my game design doc I've mulled over the idea, and the more and more I think about it, the more I can recall MP as a resource has been more annoying than helpful, running out and not having healing items so you just have to do the non-fun attacks until the battle is over, a lot of the times it's more of a time waster than something that actually adds to strategy.
Or in rpgs, use the high mp attack, heal mp with an item, use it again, etc. Mp isn't even really looped into the flow of battle well to where it feels like a sort of afterthought that people add because it HAS to be in an rpg. My idea isn't an Rpg, but it's very Rpg Adjacent, so I've thought about that stuff a lot.
Do you think more games would be better or even the same with replacing MP with like, waiting a certain amount of time, or turns, or would you say I'm kinda missing something about how it's used in gaming? Just curious 🙂
Obvious answer is depends on the game, but I wanna know people's actual thoughts on stuff like that, not the basic b***h neutral answer.
Happens to the best of us, good luck on your new project.
I like the system that dragon warrior monsters does, where mp only limits you in the beginning of the game. its another way for you to feel you've progressed, where you go from being able to use a strong attack a couple times verses as much as you want.
its pretty early on in the game where you get enough mp to cover you for every battle, so it never gets annoying.
>Happens to the best of us, good luck on your new project.
thanks anon!
I'd rather not tell haha. I haven't cancelled it or anything, it's just that right now I'd rather work on something different.
>turn based
Skies of Arcadia charge your mp every turn and put them in a pool shared by all characters. The mp are set to zero at the beginning of every fight, so there's no reason to not use them when available and there's no management in between battles.
>real time
Castlevania OoE: every attack, magic or physical sap your mp which regenerate quickly after. This allows fine balancing to avoid spamming strongest weapons with a low level character.
what was your last game
Mostly studying now since I have to retake something I just barely didn't pass. Made the main mechanic for a new level a couple of hours ago that has platforms that turn on or off automatically (5 seconds off, then 2 seconds off and then repeat). I'll make the boss for it tomorrow.
>just got back a message I barely passed
owned
on a related note did anybody here ever use the shit they learned in those mandatory uni math courses? No way I'm ever using linear algebra ever again beyond knowing what a vector is and putting it in unity, same with all the other advanced math shit. And yet college is basically made up of 80% moron math shit and 20% actual programming
The dot product and the cross product are important to know about. The former is useful for a lock on system.
dot product/scalar product/scalar projection = measures similarity of two vectors
dot(a,b) = value
dot(a,b) = ||a|| ||b||cos(theta) = magnitude (length) of a * magnitude (length) of b * cos(angle between a and b)
cos(angle between a and b) = a.x*b.x + a.y*b.y/ (sqrt(a.x^2+a.y^2) * sqrt(b.x^2+b.y^2))
2D
dot(a,b) = a.x*b.x + a.y*b.y
dot(a,b) = sqrt(a.x^2+a.y^2) * sqrt(b.x^2+b.y^2) * cos(agnle between a and b) = sqrt(a.x^2+a.y^2) * sqrt(b.x^2+b.y^2)* (a.x*b.x + a.y*b.y/ (sqrt(a.x^2+a.y^2) * sqrt(b.x^2+b.y^2*~~
cos(angle between a and b) = (a.x*b.x + a.y*b.y/ (sqrt(a.x^2+a.y^2) * sqrt(b.x^2+b.y^2*~~
3D
dot(a,b) = a.x*b.x + a.y*b.y + a.z*b.z
dot(a,b) = sqrt(a.x^2+a.y^2+a.z^2) * sqrt(b.x^2+b.y^2+b.z^2) * cos(agnle between a and b)= sqrt(a.x^2+a.y^2+a.z^2) * sqrt(b.x^2+b.y^2+b.z^2) * (a.x*b.x + a.y*b.y+a.z*b.z / (sqrt(a.x^2+a.y^2+a.z^2) * sqrt(b.x^2+b.y^2+b.z^2*~~
cos(angle between a and b) = (a.x*b.x + a.y*b.y+a.z*b.z / (sqrt(a.x^2+a.y^2+a.z^2) * sqrt(b.x^2+b.y^2+b.z^2*~~
it's not the biggest thing which allows me to retake it as much as needed, just a wait between trys. You really don't need that many math things for coding unless you want to deal with physics or random doing things like more complex bullet patterns since they have to be spesific
You can retake your courses as much as needed? wtf?
I can try three times, third fail and I'm out. If I succeed I can try one single time to improve my grade, the very next semester.
I think they did that in my college sometimes, retake tests until you pass
It's a secondary exam that you have to pass before you can take the real exam.
I'm doing it this time. I'm learning blender. I will make the shortstack porn game we've all been dreaming of.
will there be white panties with pubes sticking out the sides?
I'm not a big fan of pubes unless you count fur
Speaking of blender, I'm getting a totally new computer soon since mine is so fricking old. Do blender and gamedev have different needs for GPU/CPU? Seems like Blender is more designed for Nvidia cards is all I can see as a beginner.
my computer is 12 years old and can still handle blender, you can use whatever
Well I figure if I'm getting a new everything anyway, it wouldn't hurt to pick parts that are more geared towards what I want to do, not that I'm planning anything too graphically intensive, that is.
>can code and art
>addicted to porn and cam girls
Someone please help me
>addicted to porn and cam girls
hope that you atleast watch them for free like I do
Can anyone give me some exacts of RPGs with really unique stat mechanics?
Currently creating one of the overworlds (supposed to be a scarlet red forest) of my game, I just finished making my own texture trimsheet and tested it on the current overworld model in Blender. I think the results look better than I anticipated, I would like to find a way to reduce tiling repetition outside of adding more tiles. I found this video from 3 years ago which looks effective but I don't think the nodes used would translate appropriately in my case. Any help or feedback would be appreciated.
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its pretty good
My little brain can't put together the logic of like making things work, even using for example sRPG studio, I have the image in my head and I try to draw it with tiles ... nothing
what kind of image do you have in your head
AGDG has become so cancer I only ever post in Ganker threads anymore.
why is this hobby so cursed that the only viable places left to discuss it are in a general of schizos or a Ganker thread made by one of two schizos
Making the sprites SFW so anyone can stream the game.
...you bastard
Relax, it's only for a stream safe version. The original NSFW is still the main focus.
oh thats good
Spent the day at a coffee shop practicing my drawing
those would make good character icons. will your game look like that?
Maybe, im really just trying to get gud at drawing again in general so I can visualize my game better. I'd like to make a shader to apply my hatching style to 3d, so maybe I could also use these drawings for dialog portraits.
Anons I'm tired fo doing jack shit, how viable would a Thrid person Survival Shooter in like a month? Basic ass moveset with different weapons and side weapons for variety.
In theory I know how to make everything I'd need besides sound, but I have jackshit experience shoving everything together
i think you'd have to do the whole gameplay loop in a week because of how much time polishing a game takes
Added wall running physics but now the player snaps off of steep slopes. How can I fix it?
How's that game selling for ya, anon?
Week and a half here.
Updated this room recently i can finally start seeing the end but i'm scared that my story is hard to understand and players will be too dumb to understand
is it a mystery or just a regular story
Just a regular story it's about a rogue AI trying to kill you
There really isn't a point to these threads.
No sane person would ever shill their game here of all places.
I want to make a porn game to fund my dream game, anons!
What's your porn game idea?
>https://promptchan.ai/r/xteuMADYvnWEejleziQuFxCAFBi2
cant hurt. you can always delete your itch page and start another one if ai is too controversial
You would probably be better off just getting a day job.
I downloaded a mario 64 rom editor and have been reading the manual for it. Little did I know I'd still need to model walls and maps on a seperate modeling software. Is sketchup still free? Seems like it got sold to another company
You could always just use Blender anon
Fair enough. I saw that option recommended too. Not a bad thing to learn. I'll look up an intro guide.
What systems would you like to see incorporated into a turn based rpg? Especially one that is a jrpg version of the The Wizard of Oz
why do people ask questions which boil down to "design my game for me"
because this thread is bumped by a bot.
scroll up and you'll see the same question asked 10 times over
because if knowing what people like in games was easy everyone would be miyamoto
Because I'm fishing for radical ideas. I want to make something different.
get off my case and stop asking, i'll get to it
Not good