/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

i'm a media composer if anyone is looking to colab. i'm currently working on a few game soundtracks and i'm always looking for more

work.

[email protected]
soundcloud.com/ethanb/the-retreat

soundcloud.com/ethanb/journey

soundcloud.com/user-283653942/bushy-eyebrows

soundcloud.com/ethanb/improv-on-june-5th-2013

soundcloud.com/ethanb/the-grand-walk

soundcloud.com/ethanb/abandoned-train-station

soundcloud.com/ethanb/frozen-raindrops

soundcloud.com/ethanb/c-sharp-minor-stuff-2

soundcloud.com/ethanb/sailing-in-the-autumn-sea
ethormusic.com

I agree, big asses and tits are unappealing, and should be synonymous with 'overweight'.

That's true, I took it more as generic, I guess, but you're right.

If you don't like Petite to Donk, and also maybe Badonk, then I don't know what you're doing with your life.

What's all this fuzz about waifu jam? We're not even close to may yet

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nice Cuphead clone

How can anime even compete?

i love that first piece

I wish I was at the point where I could think about music so I could get something like that. But it's just not the case.

when did you realize that japanese blogs are better documentation than epic's own documentation or the unreal wiki, even without translation?

I haven't had any trouble with UE4 docs. They're pretty damn good imo.

>Developers developers developers developers
>AAAA stop talking about games, talk about frogs and anime!

They're shit but the functions are self explanatory enough for the most part.

youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh_GeBPOhs

It's full of shit like this:

docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/API/Runtime/Engine/Engine/FLatentActionInfo/

What good is that?

What are you trying to do?

I self-identify as Japanese and proceeds from my game will go to corrective surgery fixing my disgusting western eyes

Will my kickstarter succeed or no?

well keep me in mind if you've got something you're thinking of working on.

I got it guys, nostalgia jam.

That's most indie games

Fail
>doesn't know the japanese like western eyes

I'm trying to run a function of my own to load a save game after opening a level. Google turns up a few hideous hacks involving hardcoded delays etc.

Epic's wiki as a reference is useless. It only mirrors the information already in the engine itself (which is usually decent, though), so if you get lost there, the wiki won't help.
Thankfully, and to be fair, the forums are pretty helpful, and I can usually find what I need, or at least a nudge in the right direction, with a google search.

really good stuff here

oh I just realized I had kept a bookmark of a guy asking the exact same thing from a while ago, and it turns it's you. so maybe you will be available years from now.

I'm gonna do it
I swear I'm gonna do it

In terms of devlogging/progress reports, do I need a tumblr, or can I get by with itch?

itch isn't for blogging

First pass on the cockpit complete. Just need to replace the ejection seat and fix the dials when I eventually build a library of them overtime.

Why not?

it doesn't have an interface for it, it's just the game page
and you can't subscribe

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itch is kind of a dev circlejerk and the dev circlejerkers want to keep it that way, the devlog is tucked away at the bottom of the page and there's no clear way to subscribe to a devlog
itch doesn't seem to care about actual customers being interested in the games

lol its all good. i made a post a while ago so it may have been.

Fucking sweet man, keep it up.

Is the text in the middle panel readable?
Can you post a screenshot? It's hard to see in the blurry webm.

functional mrrors when

psst, hey, want to get a million dollar idea ?
VR support

Fuck it.

I'm making a Souls game

yeah right; post your art

Souls but with mecha
You can thank me after you've made your first million.

Souls but with cute anime girls
You can thank me after you've made your first trillion

read Blame and watch blade runner 2049 then make a souls game based on that

>one text file for undecided ideas
>one text file for validated ideas
>one text file for discarded ideas

Souls but with nothing related to Japan. You can thank me after you've made your first zillion.

Nope. It's just there for aesthetic purposes. If it was readable it'd be in swedish anyway.

When it's not so damn expensive to render.

eventually

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_Vein

1st for wave

How many phases should a boss have?

historically accurate medieval soulslike

>youtube.com/watch?v=UVg5Mnj02zA
>Expanse of Salt

one more than player expects

youtube.com/watch?v=E5O0BnVzmEc

Depends on the game.
Depends on the difficulty of the boss.

What about just link to itch from twitter? I'm already on like five different platforms, I don't want to have to add another into the mix.

Souls but with cute anime girls and mechas, also cute mecha anime girls.

you're already on five different platforms and you don't have a blog?

As many as you want to put in. Just remember that each phase is basically a new boss that the player needs to beat in a row.

Typically I'd say 2, but that's only because I like the idea of an enemy going all out when they start to lose.

Aztec Souls

Is it too much if a boss in a turn-based game first has a phase against a bunch of grunt enemies, then 3 different phases against the boss

I'm fine with multiple phases but I hate it when they reset the health bar. It's unfair to the player because they don't know how many health bar resets there will be and can't plan their resources around it. (atleast the first time)

For example, I used all 5 estus getting through phase 1-2 of Father Ariandel/Sister Friede only for Friede to fuck me in the third phase.

how much of dark souls is art?

Souls but with cute anime girls, mechas and cute mecha anime girls controlled by cute anime girls in a world of cute anime girls

if it's warranted, no
it shouldn't be just some random boss

When did indie stop meaning "experimental and risky new games" and start meaning "generic low budget clones"?

>tfw trying to make an hexagonal room
Man, fuck that. Even in modelling rotations are fucking me up.

It's the dramatic end boss of a chapter who's a crimelord

I'm just making what I want to.

When it became profitable.

Hmm that's a lot. I'd say one phase with grunt enemies, one phase with its basic kit, and then a final phase with everything it has.

Anything more than that is probably pushing it. If it's too easy then you wasted time on a long boss, and if it's too hard then players will hate dying halfway through.

1) Freely available tools let anyone make a game, regardless of skill
2) Zero barrier of entry to getting published on global storefronts

start with a hexagon?

I exaggerated, I'm only on three. But I've done like zero marketing. Didn't see a point of a blog if I had no one to send to it. I was figuring I'd just use itch (I've already got my internal changelog on there), but I wanted to see what agdg thought about it.

(Temporary) game homepage/storefront/hosting: itch
Videos/media: YouTube
Twitter shit: Twitter

I thought about doing dev vlogs on YouTube, but I don't want to spend the time to put the videos together, and the last thing I'd want is to become some sort of personality that's tied to the game.

when steam greenlight happened and amateur developers whom you didn't know about started demanding money for their work because everyone else did

new art

going to spend some time figuring out shaders

indie used to take skill

it is really funny tho
like all those memegames no kongregate or somethign would be released for 10 bucks if they were made today

I was gonna take the piss out of you and say "duuuuh hexagons aren't a primitive" but torus works. As well as placing two circles.
I'll shift the blame on the end of the week, it's not my fault I swear.

Characters moving without any animation always looks uncanny.

He has a point, but could he possibly be any more whiny and pretentious about it?

also a good majority of released /agdg/ games would be freeware if they were made 8-10 years earlier

I'm gonna post my progress and you can't stop me.
Took me far too long to choose a font to use.

tumblr and twitter have videos (I guess just gifs for tumblr)
I'd think youtube is for more advanced stuff, when you actually have something to show
video devlogs seems like an investment, in time at least. you can use tumblr for more in-depth explanations of what you're doing, if you want, twitter for short, cool video demos, and youtube for longer format teasers or trailers. that's how I see it at least.

there are GODS
and we just LICENSE their ENGINE.

6 sided cylinder or pipe

nobody's forcing anybody to buy.

can't u do this in unity now??

yup, so we don't

Its the UE4 mech retard with the smiley crosshair

>making a cotton shirt took time and effort in my time, why did the industrial revolution happen?!
yeah nah, fuck off