/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

I got that it was pathfinding, but I was wondering what the difference was between the highlighed and non-highlighted paths. I couldn't tell what the red outline, blue colored nodes were, but I guess you're just using a different color scheme when outside of the parameter?

How the fuck did Terraria do it? It was developed for 5 months and sold a million in only a couple months after release.

It filled that 2D Minecraft niche at just the right time.

this is relevant to my interests too

It just stole Minecraft's idea and made it 2d. Find a really popular game and change its dimensions.

2D battle royale is a gold mine just waiting for someone to figure out.

It's merely a debug overlay glitch, the floor appears to draw above the solid blue but below the text.
Unless you mean some of the blocks appearing 'brighter', that's propably because of the sprites layering, also a bug of the debug overlay that i'll never bother fixing since the overlay is just a quick-fix to see pathfinding at work and not an integral part of the game.

>mfw worms is just 2D fortnite

What are some ways of making players discuss your single-player game? Is there anything other than lore, characters or funny situations resulting from proc-gen weirdness?

Is there any point in making an arcade-style game in 2017+1 when people are going to stop talking about it after a week?

Memes and porn bait

>Is there any point in making an arcade-style game when people are going to stop talking about it after a week?
Because it's a genre you like and would like to make one yourself?

Leader boards and/or very clear timing and scoring for levels or playthroughs. Competition makes people talk about a game.

nope, a real time worms without teams it is, pal.

This: But also add a button for players to share a screenshot or video of their score to twitter.
Build that viral marketing directly into the game, make it effortless to viral market. It's even better if your game can easily be played back in a short gif, look at Magnum Opus for an example of that.

make it very anti-sjw for free publicity

Too bad Hatred was a lame game in the end.

If it was made in the mid 2000's it would have probably done great

We're reaching the point where I can just load characters and it works.

Also, I feel like the next demo day demo might actually be another "X vs Y" type game, though I'm still working out the details right now.

>New Gamejam still isn't in the op

So Liero then?

post the link

It better be pirates

ah shit reposting in the new thread
colonthreeenterprises.tumblr.com/post/169481438561/i-accidentally-managed-to-visually-improve-unitys

Also, I should change the stage for future screenshots, this way it looks like a carbon copy of DF16

I hate stages though, they eat tons of memory so hardly any of them work

devilman crybaby reminds me of gogem

Sounds like a good way to get your game panned and ignored t b h.

>devilman crybaby
its shit

I got confused about which one was the player character. You might want to make him stand out.

>Meme anime of the week

cuphead sold a million copies off of the back of a gook more retarded than a duck

i only saw one episode but the style screams gogem

Postal was bad too.

>Guilty Gear vs Touhou
>Guilty Gear vs Jump All-Stars
>Guilty Gear vs even more Guilty Gear
The world is my oyster

how much money have you made off your games so far anons

>You will never be as Chad as the CupheadDev
why live?

Postal 2 is pretty fun though.

less than 4 digits
b-but that's going to change soon you'll see

Postal wasn't a great game but the influence it had is undeniable. It's nice to fuck around in but not much else desu

where all the doujins where she gets NTR'd?

Secrets of any kind are the best way to foster discussion.

do you have any idea how rare yuri NTR is

I don't have it on hand but small world won

The expansions weren't that great. RWS really only hit gold with 2.

Too good for this world.

If hatred and the postal games are funny antisjw games then fuck it, I'm an sjw. you'd have to be brain dead to enjoy that kinda of humor.

>The Stardew Valley guy took 4 years to make Stardew Valley
>Loads of random guys on Youtube have made Minecraft clones in a week
>It took Notch 5 days to make Minecraft (granted, Notch has a genius IQ)

>Using a cat as a silencer isn't funny
You're not a very fun person to be around, are you?

Took Notch far longer than 5 days to achieve success
Random youtube fags arent making money off minecraft clones

realistically the SDV guy is what you have to go through to achieve success. Toby fox took 2.7 years

You sound like you're fun at parties.

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>it took Notch 5 days to steal the Infiniminer source code and convert it to Java

sad

Why didn't he just buy it?

>pee on taliban members, then have them chase you into cops/protesters to start a riot
>playing hackysack with severed heads
>huffing catnip, then dropkicking cats to see how far they can fly
Postal 2 is as fun as you make it.

You've found out the only way for your game to succeed is to name your game a 2-word conjunction of the things you can do in your game. What is the name of your game?

Mine's DodgeShoot

>The Stardew Valley guy took 4 years to make Stardew Valley

If you think about it, its kind of ridiculous how much time they wasted on that game considering that that map and cast of characters is tiny and the most complex thing about it is some randomly generated dungeons.

You could say that the art was the time sink, but if you look at how the characters often degenerated in appearance over over the revisions, you have to wonder what was actually going on.

Third revision, best revision.

Isn't he STILL working on the multiplayer or did that finally come out?

Still "working" on it.

no wonder this took 5 years

Fucking degenerate.

you gay

because you have a pp for ants

Because you have incredibly shit taste

Friendly reminder that even mangaka hate indie games.

now movements can have their own memory, I think they are turing complete now

>they
It wasn't a "they", it was 1 (one) guy that made the entire game, including the art, dialogue, music, and story. And he made it during his free time while working a real job. He got a publisher towards the end of development, who helped with marketing, but the game itself was made by just him.
If you think you could make that much progress by yourself faster, by all means do it.

i doubt it will ever come out. He's making a new game and have released switch version of the game

Even if it did, it's most likely mediocre just like his game. The only good thing about stardew valley is pc-friendly ui. everything else is copy pasted harvest moon friends of mineral town.

These threads have been going for at least a year now to my knowledge. Any of you make something interesting yet? Might want to feature it on my internet/tech blog.

Do you know how difficult it is to add multiplayer to a single player game? It probably required a lot of refactoring.

games should be entertaining

as long as they're entertaining, it doesn't matter if they're bad ;_;

my game got 20k downloads on steam
its free tho

Far longer than a year m8, been going on since before Veeky Forums was a board.

/agdg/ has been around since the first day Veeky Forums was created, and gamedev threads existed on /v/ before then.

See homph.com/steam/

I made Risk of Rain

I give up

>Any of you make something interesting yet?
No.
I've been posting since /v/idyadev started.

BlowUp

You can do it. I believe in you.

Looks good, man. But 2013. I can't post about that unless you get into some drama.

>not wanting to have an exclusive interview on Risk of Rain 2
your loss I guess, moving on

no, you can't make me to believe in myself

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>tfw nobody appreciates you even when you larp as hopoo
too real

This is the peak of 3D art, no game has every surpassed it.

yep, the quality and fidelity / hardware limitations made this game a very important piece.

(Cross-thread)
Wasn't aware there was a toon shader in unity, haven't seen anything labled that in the included shader. And thanks for the offer, but I already found a shader that suits my needs for the time being.
Thanks for the link user, not quite what I needed but something to tuck away for another day.

I mean it just looked like a sega saturn game on the ps1. wow big deal.

Game idea:Dogs/cats larping as tanks and planes

Make better art, I dare you

I always tell people I'm best friends with the guy who made Risk of Rain

Bruh, Zoids except all the animals are adorable as heck.

You will make millions.

Believe in me who believe in doge

I just joined a week ago, so not sure what you're on about. I like it here though - lots of honesty & quite a lot of competent posters. Check back with me in 1-3 months tho, right now attempting to make a quick text based survival travel rpg, pixel art style.