/agdg/ - Amateur Game Dev General

This.

Me, but really slow. Honestly I just liked browsing, but I've picked up a lot of info and messed around with some tools. I was never intending to make games, but I might give it a shot this summer. Or do something stupid like record sound effects, just because.

This is why you have a nodepad by your bed and write your dreams down as soon as you wake up

I have a few. But as far as amateur devs go, it's Marty. I know he doesn't finish anything but I'm always rooting for him. His art and the little prototypes of his I've played have always been fun. I know he'll succeed one day!

Firstish for real progress

It's shit but i'm working on it

All I remember that it was a platformer and you went down and there was unlockable content.
UGH FUCK

>nodepad

Any AGDG oldfag, really. If you've been seeing someone work for over a year, it's cool to see them make progress or get better.

>great game
>destined to make it
>platformer of all things

be happy you can't remember it

don't be mad, when you are dreaming your brain release tiny amount of dmt and it makes you more creative

I too shit on entire genres as if it was valid opinion forming / consume feces.

Glad to see there are like minded people here.

Should I buy some dmt then? Will it help to dev?

I love how a lot of people never knew marty was noill

How do you even know it was a great game idea? Also, most dreams that seem like great ideas are actually pretty retarded when you actually think about them after sleeping.

The world doesn't need more "great" platformers

>How do you even know it was a great game idea?
The girl I was playing with said it was her favourite game ;_;

It's like smoking weed.

It just makes you perceive that your thoughts are profound and great, not that you're actually coming up with good shit.

you should do something safer like drinking or smoking weed/ listening to music
don't wait for it, it will come

Have you never recounted an AMAZING dream to someone else, and watched their complete and absolute boredom as you tell them?

That's your game.

I didn't even know who noill was before these threads a few years ago. But it's cool I mean, who doesn't draw porn.

What would you expect in a Harvest Moon-like game set in the Alps?

I'm talking about mechanics here but also cultural stuff.

>he fell for the "brain damage makes you more creative" meme

Sloweh I really wish he would show more progress but I guess there is a reason why his name is Sloweh.

Sauna

Picking flowers, staying warm, petting large wooly animals

Lets all do a bunch of drugs and come up with great video game ideas in the same room

He's slow, eh.
Damn canadians

Dying in the cold, alone.

The dev making the maid game.
I was a part of the same jam where he started. I made this game I thought was cool but stopped working on it to focus on my career, and take a promotion, despite hating my job and loving to dev.
About 4 months ago, I saw a post and got pissed off at myself. Quit my job, started deving.
Now I work gamedev job for the day, come home and dev personal projects. I honestly didn't know it was possible to be actually happy in life.

(・ω・)

You're still working on this? Awesome, I thought you finally gave up.

Hexen(I think there's a 3 in there?) probably. his maid game is cute, progress is steady, and I admire that he's doing it in C++ and Direct X, even is direct X means I won't be playing it.

That's no easy task.

Every time I see his progress it makes me want to work.

knightdev or neetdev they are the best devs in this shit /agdg/ community

>I made this game I thought was cool
What was it? Where do you work now?

How do I make this shit more fluid

look at an actual person walking

The torso has to move
Look at videos of people walking
Make it a druid

I give up when I'm ded bud

It was a game where you played a sub shop employee. Took orders for subs then had to go hunt the meat you needed for the orders. I never posted it because it never really got finished.

And I'm a junior programmer at a pretty major studio. They made one of the best selling games ever. Hoping the new one won't be shit, haha.

You're already dead you skeleton nodev
Finish rainbow already

>and why is it you?
Because everyone else is a nodev.

>Hoping the new one won't be shit, haha
Does it matter? How does it affect you as just an employee of theirs?

>And I'm a junior programmer at a pretty major studio.
Is this job any good? All I hear is that working in the gamedev industry is soul crushing.

A sense of isolation and despair as the winter sets in

Show me progress I need my fix.

As someone in a similar industry, half our studio was laid off after a few bad performances, and then we got bought by a conglomerate.

Why haven't you given up yet? gamasutra.com/view/news/271361/Top_Steam_game_sales_steady_the_rest_trending_downward.php

Would a blocked road to the village fuel that sense of isolation?

Would awakening forest spirits fuel that sense of despair?

I take pride in my work. I want to make everything I do great. I don't get anything if its great, but I just like good games I guess

I fucking love it. But its definitely not for everyone. I see soul crushed employees. To be fair, I'm not really in crunch or anything. And its not EA

I too base my life decisions off of reading clickbait titles and stopping there / consume feces.

Glad to know I have kindred spirits here!

Because I'm clearly good enough to rise above the average shitty game.

(・ω・)

>I want to make everything I do great
You can make good stuff either way, but by you mentioning the game being shit as a whole I assumed you meant profits or resume fodder or something.

How do you guys get your game ideas?

I'm doing Demo Day 8, but I can't think of a good one

Is there anything more embarrassing than Googum? He made a rock paper scissors game at 31

>Is there anything more embarrassing than Googum?
Animeposters that don't have a game.

post your game nodev

this

Well it's good to see you back at it.
But as says.
Finish it already man! we are still waiting!

I haven't really done anything lately. Been drawing stuff. But I'll get back to deving. Probably after I move.

Oh! Nah, I meant it as a joke. The game is solid just not my kind of game. Its still amazing. The learning is amazing. Skilled coders teaching me awesome shit.
The job is great for a resume, but the pay is not. I took a big cut switch to deving.
Cannot stress how much it was worth it for me

>tfw you really want to share progress but also want it to be a surprise for the demo

>Is there anything more embarrassing than Googum?

youtube.com/watch?v=97IDWBeohAg

I think the bugs people find and people reacting to your features way differently than you thought they would is surprise enough.

but more people are likely to try it if you tease them with interesting features

"surprise" won't be a good thing for a demo
If anything, it will make people think you're just trying to shill

Huh, still after me after all these years. Pathetic Blake.

Just pathetic.

who wants to collab

>tfw you said you'd make a demo for demo day 5
>then 6
>then 7
>then 8...
>and you are game is STILL nowhere near ready...

Nobody cares. This is what makes you a whodev, I don't care if your game looks like ROR, or Thera.
I want to see progress and it develop over time. not you come out of the woodwork every demo day.

post your game right now
this is the first step towards finishing your game

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Me struggling against Abyss Watcher's second form.
Those rollerskates and his endless END are some bullshit.

>Thera
Did that guy ever finish that game?

This is actually the most terrible thing I've ever seen out of /agdg/.

It's not even that the game itself is bad -- it's the air of genuine pride surrounding it. Like it's not just babby's first steps into the new and exciting world of game dev, but that it's a genuine effort that the creator expects me to enjoy as much as I would Risk of Rain or Minecraft or Stanley Parable or some other decent indie title.

>Featuring Buttons the Paranormal Kitten
what?

>SP
>decent

Probably not if he's any much as autistic as the rest of /agdg/.

>s-someone shit on me! it must be my boogeyman, BLAKE!

A video game where you are fire in a fireplace and you have to escape

Isn't this the game that got removed from Steam?

So that episode of Futurama where Fry accidentally gets a Sun ember on him and takes it to Earth?

Jesus christ that was cringeworthy.

>What happens when /x/ decides to make a horror game.

I know he's going for satire, but this is just cringy as fuck, he can't even do comedy right. All those years of shit posting really paid off.

I hope you start deving again sooner.

This was a genuine real progress post at some point.

Holy fuck.

>it's a "petty faggots fighting over some stupid shit that happened a long time ago and nobody cares about it except them" episode thread episode thread episode thread episode

watching this was worse than Foam Adventure

Why would you mention that?

I remember seeing that shit so much that the fucking LINK to the video is burned into my head.

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>Is there anything more embarrassing than Googum?
touhou

Thanks, user.