>>1045009 (OP) Is archive.today getting ddos? Its not connecting, will archive previous thread when it does

I'm back to my RPG Maker solodeving, and I've changed my workflow and created design documents to help me along this time instead of just winging it and burning out. I started by designing the world map first, and understanding the player flow through the environment, and what story beats that would entail, then fully fleshed out the first area. Currently working on area 2 of 5 (6 if you count optional side/post-game content). All in all I'm happy with how things are going and I'm enjoying myself again. I'm over my little bout of fuck-it-all when I saw other Steam devs using the same asset pack I am, I'll use it too, I paid for it, what are they gonna do?

>>1045009 (OP) A friend of mine sent me that video about how you can make better progress when you don't headbutt right into developing the best systems for your program and get stuck under your own codebase, and instead divide working into two phases - Prototype and Production. Or as I would call Fuck Around and Find Out if it works for your needs. Or Basic Implementation and then Overall Integration. You can use this in developing a mechanic, and then see how this mechanic can be used in a level, and most importantly switch to the next phase to generate meaningful overall progress. You don't have to plan for days and say I'll put X amount of days in prototyping and then Y days in implementing. You can do switch as soon as you get a single thing working and see how it integrates into rest of your code. See how it works for you...

>>1045024 There's also preproduction where you lay out your ideas and how you plan to tackle them before touching an editor. With that as a design guide it's easier to avoid scope creep.

>>1045009 (OP) benis :DDDDDDDDDDDD

First attempt at hand model. How'd I do?

>>1045081 GAY HAND

>>1045116 don't make me pull out the feet chart for different ethnic groups

>>1045139 Do it, I'm interested. Race differences are fascinating

>>1045139 There's a feet chart for different ethnic groups?

>>1045177 What isn't there a chart for now? Race charts are interesting, digital education not taught in a classroom

I've grown disillusioned with Godot. I started making a desktop program to log some info and needed an image button with a separate "hovered when on" and "hovered when off" images. What a fucking pain the ass it's been. It's all because I wanted all my buttons and all their states to be in a single large image. If I can make it work at runtime, I can't get the button to look right in the editor, and vice versa. I don't think all this FOSS masturbation is worth having to struggle with the tool. I'll make my game in Unity.

>>1045272 It's a real fucking pain when you have to fight with your tools to get them to work. I feel your pain anon. Unfortunately I don't have the wisdom or experience to build shit from scratch.

I managed to get a dynamic scripting language for Crop and Claw 2. It's pretty interesting because if I add functions in the runtime, I can use a command to dump the API (it's just a text file) which the editor can use for color coding stuff. I haven't gotten around to making the code editor yet though. I'd been rewriting the INI saver/loader to use custom de/serialization since I want to dump relatively easy to parse data if using a non-Godot runtime in the future. >>1045272 If I understand the problem, you can have your single collection of button image states, and separate texture atlas resources which the button actually uses. I use texture atlas, manual region setup, and code trickery in CnC for entity walk cycles on the field. Third pic related.

remaking the UI to look more consistent, and also look cleaner - both visually and code-wise

>>1045272 If it's something simple, raylib might be the best choice.

>>1045081 The back of the hand is way too flat.

>>1045272 >I started making a desktop program Just use qt

>>1045464 Doesn't that have some fucked up licensing if your program isn't foss?

>>1045471 The core of it is licensed under LGPL, which lets you link it to proprietary code. The main restriction is that you have to share the source to qt itself and any changes you made to it, and let users link their own qt versions. There's a handful of modules that are GPL only, but those are pretty minor ones like charts, or qt quick 3D. https://www.qt.io/licensing/open-source-lgpl-obligations https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/licensing.html

>>1045464 I mean, I had started it with Godot in order to begin learning the engine.

>>1045499 Godot is very good for desktop programs and UI, which is why I'm writing my editor in it as a game. The issue is more that UI itself is hell. That's seldom going to change no matter what tool you use. You would have to work through the environment and figure out a workflow that fits your need.

>>1045396 I followed your development progress in this AGDG and the last AGDG. Your game is similar to Famidash, a Geometry Dash port to NES. Last week I completed 13 levels of Famidash from the Play Menu on Normal Mode with all coins, and last week I posted this. >It's been out of beta since 10 Oct and on v1.1 since 10 Nov. and may be GOTY among NES homebrews. >It's by kandowontu. He's better known for 200+ SNES Fastrom conversions, Starfox EX, and being the romhackplaza.org manager who makes romhacking.net trannies mad. >It has 2 player, and character palette customization, so in my screenshots, I played as a Spurdo Sparde and Gondola fusion. The game starts simple but later tests your skill where levels get like Celeste C-Sides. As Famidash is similar to your game, trying it might inspire ideas in you. kandowontu himself is also easy to contact. https://github.com/tfdsoft/famidash/releases

https://eyeballtank.itch.io/project-nortubel If anyone doesn't mind some playtesting and giving feedback, passwords for levels are: galeria, tutor1, tutor2, tutor3, c4rr13, k4tr1n, m3lv1n, osc4r0, p33tt3, ang3l4, l3300n, oott00, b0rhrr, p4m3l4, sh3lly, b3rn4d, b00k3r, r1c0t0, phn34s, st3ll4, z4r1n4, sh1hr0, h0lm3s, mcshry, jol1t4, b4rn3y, k4rl44, l13fd1, x444ng, am4l14, y13g0r, clr1ty, kl3rrr, tf00r1, zrkv1l, d3c4rd, fl3nnn, brkstn, m0nic4, ill0uu, b0nkyy, b0nk44, cl4ud1, b0nk3t, dr1l0u, j3r0ld, chrl3s, lmshtn, e1rr4c, n1rt4k, n1vl3m, n4myl3, p3bble, iv4nnn, eul0r1, uulg44, r4cs00, eet33p, al3gn4, k4luub, al1sss, b34trc, h1rdr1, kr1mbs, msgc0v, gr3klv, br1nk4, l4h1rn, h3rrk0, unt0tr, n0rtbl Also still learning about LMMS and looking into samples and some plug-ins.

>>1045593 >similar to a geometry dash port the gameplay is quite different from geometry dash, really. the only real similarity i see is the rough art, but that's because i don't have talent, as opposed to system limitations and stylistic choices.

either way, another alpha version is up (version 2) feel free to try it notably i fixed some movment bugs, make the ground less slippery, and revamped the UI https://dgs-game-studio.com/games/conformer/playtest.html

>>1045733 >make the ground less slippery Good, game ice is only cool in temperature. Slippery physics are the Great Satan and must be purged from enginekind.

>>1045272 Sometimes proprietary function and fastness beats FOSS freedom.

>>1045751 Friction is kingly, heathen, especially when said momentum from friction can transfer to jumps

>>1045272 I don't know what exactly you're trying to achieve or why godot isn't doing so good in that, but you can try unity for very cool UI stuff. The biggest advantage of Unity is there's hundreds of tutorials and questions posted online, you're almost guaranteed to find someone who's had the same issue before (and have a solution)

>>1045606 Tried a few levels. The bold color choices make it hard to see what you're supposed to be doing.

>>1045593 >>1045617 Famidash has a "Fun Settings" menu, where "Platformer Mode" disables infinite running and "Retro Mode" enables controlled jump height. That gameplay's closer. The rough art was similar, and the level names, like "Can't Let Go" from Famidash and "Don't Look Down" from yours. The themes are "avoid spikes," and in a video you kept launching from springs. The other differences mean Famidash could inspire ideas in you for directions to take with the gameplay.

>>1046115 i mean, i've already got the idea of my game down pretty solidly - right now i'm just trying to refine what i got and add more levels until it's in an acceptable state

Added jumping spiders as a new enemy. They jump towards players and thus faster and more of a priority threat to player. With these 2 enemies I can program levels with spawning a wave of enemies, so you're once you're comfortably kiting enemies then suddenly, theres a wave of spiders on your way. Will make the gameflow a bit tense at times and then relax again. Next enemy will be the same spiders but with a web shooting state

Every time I open up unity I feel like those retards who look at a blank canvas and can't paint. I feel like I'm doomed to let all projects that have any sort of game object die in obscurity.

>>1046567 The first step is to not overthink shit. Just do

>>1046587 I created a square that can move and jump with a vestigial crouch if needed, now I just need to make platforms that don't fall in space.

>>1046591 >>1046567 That's the first step ;)

i made platform physics really good. before they were a bit jank and didn't really feel that good to play with. but not anymore! they also apply to enemies now, too.

How's that for a jump tutorial? I think it gives the player a good chance to understand the movement without going crazy. Tiny signposting with special tiles shaped like skulls to direct moves, I think I'm going to make something with a cavestory sort of vibe.

>>1047007 I really gotta update my bitrate settings, horry shitto.

>>1047007 Good job, anon. Does it stick to the walls if you press against them mid-air? Assuming you don't want that, that's the real test.

>>1047014 Had issues when I made the tilemap collision initially, had to swap the character's bottom to a circle instead of a square just in case, now he sorta roundly slides off most environment, but you can catch the edge of corners just right still and be unable to jump, though you can roll your way up onto a platform that way, allowing you to complete some maximum distance jumps.

>>1047016 One option is to switch the physicsmaterial of your character's rigidbody when he is in the air to one that is frictionless.

Got one map down, now I need to program doors to lead into other areas, water slowdown, and enemies.

im certain like one or two of you nigga's will get a kick out of the techers in this vid https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=aXfTgCCsRSg

>>1045009 (OP) What are everyone's thoughts on using emscripten to compile a C++/SDL program into a browser game? Stupid nonsense? A good distribution method? I'm thinking about doing some giggles with emscripten.... >>1045081 A man's index finger is shorter than his ring finger. A woman's index finger is the same length as her ring finger.

i got some feedback about not knowing the level before picking upgrades. solution: previewing.

Gonna post my code here since I got no clue what's going on here, the game refuses to read Inspect as a valid buttonget It can read crouch, jump, and movement, but it seems to be refusing to acknowledge Inspect as a valid item.

>>1047255 Let me know if you do and the fruits of your results

>>1047074 also have this https://github.com/HackerPoet/Engine4D https://inv.nadeko.net/playlist?list=PLh9DXIT3m6N4GygehtlHl0ukgrgPJZteI and minute 9 onwards from https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=6GuqNrV8LsQ

>>1047331 >if (Input.GetButtonDown("Inspect")) > { > Inspect = true; > }else if (Input.GetButtonUp("Inspect")) > { > Inspect=false; > } The simplest solution is that you don't have an "Inspect" control thing like you do with "Jump" and "Crouch". Maybe you've misspelled it? Add a Debug.Log in there to see if it's activating.

>>1047387 I have a different line of code that activates when I hold the button (down arrow) near applicable objects and the debug logger is telling me that it's activating, so it is reading the input for sure, just not registering the line that tells it to animate in the same way for some reason. I had a thought to put the animate line of code in the one that has a function for the interaction, or even merge the two into a single script, but I figured it'd be stepping over itself and it wouldn't solve anything.

I just realized the code that handles the animation is actually in a different script, I'm probably going to hang it up for tonight and go diving into the guts of it in a few days when my brain is out of this funk

>>1047331 >>1047393 >>1047395 Are you using a CharacterController2D from unity itself or from somewhere else? Its good you're using that instead of writing from scratch, that way you can focus on making the game, unless you want something new added. The Inspect variable is not in use in this file. As you found out the animations are in another script. So you'll have to send this Inspect variable onto a function on that script. The grayed out field on whatever editor you're using quickly tells you that field is not being utilized; 2D platformer is easy to run but hard to fun, learn from this guy >>1047271 A few more suggestions- 1. You don't have to use fixedDeltaTime inside FixedUpdate(). FixedUpdate already runs at a fixed rate per second so you don't have to multiply with any deltaTime to make it smooth. Right now its always multiplying a constant value, something like 0.025 or something. You can safely make changes to your runSpeed instead. 2. You don't have to use setBool or setFloat to switch between animator states. You can directly tell the animator to play a animation state from code using animator.play("nameOfState"); It will either play the state once or loop it, depending on how you have set up your state. Use Set methods only when your animation needs a variable to its functionality eg. An animation that changes color depending on how fast the player is moving. (Or you can directly change the color from code lmao); 3. Just like you're setting the value of horizontalMove every update, you can set crouch = Input.GetButton("crouch"); so it'll set crouch to true or false as the button is kept pressed or released. Your method is already good, so its upto you. It has negligible performance impact. 3. On contrary you set jump=false on FixedUpdate, which is a bit redundant. It will set it false on every frame and only change once the player presses jump button. Put a condition if(jump){jump=false;} on it, so atleast it'll check if the jump bool is true first. Or a better way is to first check if the player is grounded, and automatically set it to false once its grounded. No need to set it every frame. I assume this is_grounded check i on another file. 4. This method of setting a bool crouch as true and then false in order to set up the "current state of player" and changing animation, controls, special behaviors according to the state is called a State Machine. You'll learn it soon, don't worry about it. Your Unity Animator already uses a state machine, you switch between them using SetBool and SetFloat;

>>1047074 Oh yeah, I love watching his videos

gather round oh ye nodevs https://archive.fo/8KISp https://archive.fo/xlaKl https://archive.fo/CytNO https://dagorenginedata.cdn.gaijin.net/rel-ceec7596681cd53080ae54d5c7f30f8e9a282a80/east_district-dagor.tar.gz https://dagorenginedata.cdn.gaijin.net/east_district_ue.zip https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/DagorEngine/releases So apparently Gaijin Entertainment, the devs behind War Thunder, open sauced the Dagor Engine. Like FOSS and everything like how it used to be with idTech. And it's been out for an entire year and more. And that rendering looks real good, native resolution, no "buh with an upscaler" crap. Best of all there's huge backlash against Unreal 5 right now so this is a great time to sell your game as "optimized at launch unlike those AAA games you've stopped playing.'' However you may feel about Gaijin they're not Godot. Nodevs, we're going to make it, there's hope yet. >>1045272 The answer to your dilemma has arrived.

>>1047271 i took the liberty of condensing the tutorial levels down. from 10 to 6. they're a lot more coherent, too, and should hopfully teach better. >>1047461 my biggest opponent has actually been the physics engine rather than fine-tuning the fun. besides QoL, of course. and also UI, too.

>>1047604 Unity's biggest boon is their UI features apparently, so I hope you at least utilize it. Also >>1047271 I do my own art, and I'm taking a break from coding if you want me to pen up some assets for you to use. I'd just need a rough idea penciled out, then I can paint and color it, if you like it then use it, if you don't, no time of yours was wasted, and I get to practice some design.

>>1047613 >Unity's biggest boon is their UI features I'm not using unity >if you want me to pen up some assets for you to use i already have someone who's going to be doing some art for the game, so i think that ut'd be wasted effort

Today I learned that Godot is legitimately a strong contender against WPF, Electron and Avalonia UI for desktop applications. People in real industries are using it. Apparently it's great because it's cross-platform (unlike WPF). Also, alternatives today force you into writing XAML markup crap to describe your GUI, while Godot is WYSIWYG. There's also additional benefits for communicating with other programs, which webapps have a hard time doing, and being a game engine, it has capabilities for any functionality, including 2D/3D rendering and libraries for complex math.

>>1047530 I will still use Godot engine and GZDoom tbh

>>1047634 Yes. You can even disable the constant screen refresh to make non-animated UI less CPU intensive. It's why I'm using it to make our game editor. It just takes a while to get used to all the different tools for constructing UI correctly.

>>1047613 an alpha version 3 is out. i think i might make this the last public alpha release as i start to refine the maps (and get sound+art) this build features a reworked tutorial, platform physics improvments, level previewing, and some bug fixes so please, report any bugs, errors, or gameply feedback. https://dgs-game-studio.com/games/conformer/playtest.html

I want to add soon home made guns basically just wooden furniture and some sort of pipes held together with bolts and duct tape as cheap weapons for my doom mod but I have difficulty telling what caliber and if its a semi or a auto of the said home made guns, once I have made those I will increase the prices of other weapons so that at the beginning the player needs to use weapons that are poorly made before being able to afford the better guns.

I'm morbidly curious if any anons have delved into functional programming. It feels like in the realm of gamedev, it's only just starting to get around a few months ago when I taught myself some basic Lisp, and resources are woefully lacking when coming back to other stuff. If you haven't messed with the paradigm much, it's worth a look, since it massively cuts down code and lets you get more flexibility for less effort, but since everyone's coasting on babby's first programming tutorials which never talk about the subject, it gets overlooked.

>>1048390 When you study Computer Science, babby's first Programming 101 tends to be functional programming. After that, you get into theory-perfect OOP so that you end up as a viable programmer. In a project of any complexity, pure functional programming will become a maze that no one will be able to understand.

>>1048390 i'm not exactly sure what classifies as functional programming, but i sure do like to break my games down into a state machine which rely on function calls to interact. though, i think that my style is best described as an entity component system more than anything else, which is perfect to pair with several functions to perform calculations with, since i hate the rigidity of traditional OOP implementations, and my language of choice gives me the flexibility i need to change whatever i want at runtime.

>>1048397 >i'm not exactly sure what classifies as functional programming Imagine your entire program consisted of code files that only had functions and nothing else, calling each other, and automatically executing a function called main() when run. That's functional programming without OOP. No classes.

>>1048390 In my unenlightened peasant opinion, functional programming is good especially for calculation heavy stuff or stable environments, but for games where most of what you handle are things with unique attributes, side effects and the object paradigm are more straightforward.

>>1048400 No even. If you wanted to run some algorithm on a giant list of stuff, I'd still make sense to encapsulate it all in a single "heavy calculator" class, even if it only had one instance. In functional programming, all functions are available to all others.

>>1048396 Usually it's iterative programming. The more advanced functional stuff barely even comes up. >>1048402 >you need a class because... >you need a class nah

>>1048406 Listen bro, hating on OOP is always trendy because idiots take boilerplate too far, but encapsulation is a vital necessity. You can't make a large program when everything's visible and accessible to everything. In the best case, it'll lead to extreme bugs all over the place and terrible spaghetti interconnections where every change breaks something. In the worst case, the complexity of the code will be so large that one will spend more time trying to relearn how something works than coding new functionality.

>>1048409 Does that mean that ECS is a meme and doesn't actually increase performance as everyone make it out be?

>>1048409 >You can't make a large program when everything's visible and accessible to everything. yes you can, it's called don't fuck it up and let things access what they shouldn't. leaving the door open for anything to happen allows you to do a lot more easier than if you artificially impose limits on the code.

>>1048402 > I'd still make sense to encapsulate it all in a single "heavy calculator" class, even if it only had one instance. You are everything that is wrong with enterprise-grade OOP. If all you have is one instance of a class with one method that's just a convoluted lambda. >>1048390 I love FP, but it's a lonely world. There is an abandoned GNU Guile framework called Sly that tries to make games in a function style by effectively modeling the state of the game world a massive stream of streams of streams... https://dthompson.us/projects/sly.html The problem is that most people write imperative code for games, so there are barely any resources and barely any people interested. If you want to give it a try then all the power to you. In my opinion FP works best when it comes to building pipelines of data. A long-running application where data comes in, gets processed and in some way comes out again. Things like data engineering, web servers or data science. A great resource is this blog: F# for fun and profit https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/ All the examples are in F#, but the principle applies to all functional languages. Another option for game-dev is Love2D with Fennel. Love2D is a minimal game engine/framework which uses Lua for scripting. Fennel is a Lisp which compiles down to Lua. Fennel is not strictly functional, but it has a bias towards FP like Scheme does. This is probably the most practical stack if you want to write a game in the FP style because you have access to the entire Lua ecosystem and Love2D libraries. And if FP turns out not to work well for you, you can still keep the tech stack. https://love2d.org/ https://fennel-lang.org/

>>1048410 I've never seen an implementation of ECS that has no classes whatsoever. It's not like I'm an OOP fundamentalist, mind you. I'm just making the point that functional programming alone doesn't work for complex proyects. >>1048411 >it's called don't fuck it up Humans make mistakes, anon. >>1048412 >If all you have is one instance of a class with one method that's just a convoluted lambda. I have a singleton in my current Unity project. It's literally a class with a single instance.

>>1048412 >Love2D i once tried to use that, and i have to say that i do not recommend it. everything is so convoluted behind OOP, and the actual features are so barebones that you'll spend more time coding basic things like UI click detection than making the actual game. i'm sure for people who enjoy making every single system it's a nice thing, but for most people, i would say it's not even an engine, but more of a convenient wrapper for input, rendering, sound, and physics >>1048413 >ECS that has no classes i experimented with a bigger ECS system in a prototype project that never left the ground. the issue was my scope was too ambitious, not the framework. classless structures are feasible in the right language, the closest i did to assigning classes to anything was in the construction phase of an entity to define what properties it received. the rest was just assigning the right functions to entities, and adding guards to functions to ensure that nothing would break if the wrong entity type was provided. it really was quite nice to have all of these properties together and be able to do anything with them that i wanted. >Humans make mistakes, anon. yes, but strict OOP doesn't really prevent this - it just means that instead of a bug, you get an error thrown. the fundamentals haven't changed, and now you've just limited your code for the sake of convenience.

>>1048409 Dude, there are web servers running on lisp, even entire operating systems running on lisp. And in common lisp, you can use packages to separate your function names. >boilerplate And that's where functional programming really shines, instead of dozens of base and child classes which do the exact same thing, or the shitty templating system you literally just call a function where you pass the data and the corresponding function for that data.

Funny that this kind of caught some attention. I'm not strictly locked into FP, though I found mixing the right parts of OOP and FP (with some care and acceptance of imperfections) is pretty powerful. For example, I wrote a custom file manager for Godot because Crop and Claw 2 needs some arbitrary file reading/writing. I can pass functions or lambdas in to dynamically generate classes or share some parts of code, rather than strictly inherit. https://dev.dinoleaf.com/pyral/GD-VirtualFileAccess if anyone wants to check it out. I had open sourced it, but it's not complete and I had lazily hardcoded everything into the VFileAccess.CREATE space rather than chunk some common functionality out, so that is currently really large and verbose. It's GDScript but a programmer knowing what to look for can probably feel out the logic. If someone deep in OOP doesn't get FP, the first real grip I got on it was using first class functions as a substitute for the Command Pattern. I don't have to write nearly as much Command Pattern boilerplate since I don't need to carry all the command's context in a dedicated subclass. >>1048396 >When you study Computer Science, babby's first Programming 101 tends to be functional programming. Not really. You start learning imperative programming. The fundamentals of step-by-step processes. Unless someone deliberately starts in a functionally-prioritized language, it is unlikely that a beginner will be able to articulate concepts like first-class-functions, closures, immutability, etc. >>1048399 >Imagine your entire program consisted of code files that only had functions and nothing else, calling each other, and automatically executing a function called main() when run. That's functional programming without OOP. No classes. This, but when I say functional programming, I'm not being super strict. Since I'm in Godot, forcing pure functional programming into GDScript would be awful. >>1048402 You don't need classes to hide functionality. Namespaces, or treating static classes as namespaces, works just as well in most environments. >>1048409 I wouldn't want to do pure functional programming for games, but a class-based codebase can still benefit from it. I see a pattern where people seem to conflate FP with spaghetti. If your functions are immutable, this would be even less of an issue since part of what makes spaghetti code unmanageable is unpredictable mutations. >>1048412 I'm currently just writing in Godot with FP in mind, but I'd like to in the far future just build a specialized engine for our RPGs with Common Lisp in mind and live like Andy Gavin. >>1048413 If that singleton is a static class with static functions, I'd call it a bootleg namespace (but serviceable nonetheless and it's what I do with Godot and GDScript.)

>>1048434 why not just use the program's IO library mixed with an OS call to retrieve files?

>>1048413 >I have a singleton in my current Unity project. It's literally a class with a single instance. I was not talking about implementation, I was talking about the principle. Of course when you are using C# you will have to create a singleton instance of a class, but that's effectively re-inventing what a lambda assigned to a variable in in FP. >>1048414 > i once tried to use that, and i have to say that i do not recommend it. everything is so convoluted behind OOP Huh? The Love API is imperative if anything. Unless you are talking about 3rd party libraries, but that's entirely up to the community. > and the actual features are so barebones that you'll spend more time coding basic things like UI click detection than making the actual game. Fair enough. Love2D is right on the border between engine and framework. If you don't want to write everything yourself you can use the existing libraries for things like GUI, collision detection and so on. It's perhaps better described as a "Frankenstein together your own engine".

>>1048437 >The Love API is imperative if anything. call it what you will, it just feels obtuse to me in the same way that OOP does.

>>1048436 The default way to access files in Godot is FileAccess, which specifically does "give me a filename, here's a file pointer" stuff. That works for files and nothing more. CnC2 supports loading game files from zip files. The first being the base game, then an arbitrary amount of zip files after (player provided mods as zip files are easy to make and edit even without our custom editor) and then normal OS file access. I need to be able to read or write in as little code as possible for brevity's sake. And I should be able to tell it what file formats to support and how to load them into Godot. This package just does all of that for me. vfs_loaders.gd even shows me using a dictionary that takes file extensions as keys and functions as arguments to dynamically select what files a specific loader should be able to accept. I don't expect people to be able to make use of the stuff I open source, but they're available. I may release my function task scheduler I use for async command processing once I've confirmed it won't explode.

>>1048442 why use zip files at all? seems like that would make startup slower than it needs to be

>>1048434 >Not really. You start learning imperative programming. Ah, you're right. >when I say functional programming, I'm not being super strict. Neither am I when I talk about OOP

>>1048444 I'm using Godot for the editor and runtime today, but it'd be more accurate to say I'm building our games' protocol for future-proofing's sake. If we ever get out of Godot, I only need to write a new implementation of the game runtime in a different or custom engine to reach feature parity. Godot uses its own PCK file system, but I've had issues with it with CnC1's editor-sided dev. Also, it means we'd have to re-implement PCK loading in another engine. Another way to think about it is I want to enable people to make mods easily, and I want the possibility to do what OpenMW did to Morrowind. It reads the game package but with a more specialized runtime, and is more portable than the closed-source exe meant for Windows 2000. Godot is just my familiar tool for the moment, but I'm not as locked into it as if we entirely build our infrastructure around Godot itself as a dependency. This isn't a use case most people might understand, but I would rather our games be in timeless formats and easy to change for fun's sake. >>1048442 Adding to this. We rely on some non-Godot asset import plugins (we use Tiled as a better tile editor than Godot and we have MIDI support for music, with soundfont replacement as an option) The problem is a lot of plugin devs hardcode FileAccess with their load_whatever functions. I actually just made an entire video ranting about this to scream into the void, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSurjCgebjw because no one really talks about decoupling file loading from file parsing.

how, or where the fuck do i learn programming from zero? Is it really oversaturated as people like to say? Or its just the basic bitch area of programming the one who is crowded?

>>1048451 Daily readings of your SICP.

>>1048451 Crack open a good book my nigger. But first, play some fucking spacechem, or some other programming/electrical logic adjacent puzzle game. If you can wrap your head around those, you have a good chunk of the fundamental thought patterns necessary to headdive into programming

>>1048446 i don't think i get it. i have dynamic map file loading which doesn't use any sort of fancy system - and when i was experimenting with script loading in another game, i just stored the files in raw directories and loaded them like that pic related is my function to get files/directories

>>1048472 Packing into a zip makes sharing files easier, and I don't need to bother with requiring unpacking. I don't want all my game files in loose directories, necessarily. Compression doesn't hurt too but that's secondary to me. I can also archive game content builds easier. Another factor is if I want, I should be able to fetch files via networking. But that's a case I've not implemented yet. VFS allows for extending it pretty easily. Yeah, saving and loading files to disk isn't typically hard (though your domain doesn't seem cross platform given you have a bunch of OS dependant code) but it's limiting and if you can't IO (especially the O part in a readonly setup) then complications quickly arise. I also like that I can treat a zip practically like a ROM with its own internal file index, so as long as I can call a zip reader to open it, I can be sure the hierarchy is as it should be.

>>1047862 i lied, i made another version to address some big issues. game runs faster now, and the camera shouldn't jitter behind due to frame-tick delays. also spikes should cause less confusing deaths now, too.

>>1048451 Go into youtube and go through a couple of "Make X game from scratch" tutorial series for Unity or Godot from an account with many subscribers. that'll get you started.

>>1048434 >>1048437 >>1048418 >>1048400 So the working method to achieving good results is... use whatever is simple and appropriate for the results you want. Don't be limited or blindly follow a programming pattern because its the "correct way to do something", first check if its really needed or not, if there's a simpler way to achieve same. If its too much voodoo for your platformer game. Be fluid in your programming. Got it.

>>1048451 Youtube videos are a good start. Any beginner level, grade school level video will get you started on basics such as - >data types and variables >input and output on those variables >how line by line instructions flows >if-else stuff >loops and how logic flows through them >functions and passing parameters through them >output prime numbers from 1 to 100, output even-odd numbers, etc. >arrays and string manipulation (reverse a string or check if its palindrome) >classes and using them properly, putting data and functions inside them These are the basic things that beginners should know. After that you can move to making some basic projects like read/write to files on your computer, or pick up gamemaker and other simple engines and start making your pong clone. Meanwhile, https://www.onlinegdb.com/ here's your testbed, an online code environment where you can practice basic stuff for many languages >Is it really oversaturated as people like to say pajeet tier coders are a plenty. But actual programmers, one who can make and handle a medium-large project on specialized applications, work with old ass code that someone write 10 years ago, and tard wrangle managers and noobs into making their absurd requirements and deadlines work, and more importantly work within constraints of company and their retarded pre-existing software - those are rare and keep the world afloat. And sysadmins of course, they're always in demand.

>>1048577 Yes-ish. But I mostly tend to advocate FP not out of feverish hype, but because people tend to overlook it since it's a different paradigm. You can't really reap benefits from something you don't know about or don't know exists.

>>1048584 >But actual programmers This, too. The difference is that of a builder and an architect. Anyone can slap some slabs of wood together in their back yard and call it a shed. A skilled builder can craft a stable shed that won't collapse. An experienced builder and architect can design the shed with what they need and know what they don't, and get exactly what they need. I often get reminded of Blizzard. For the longest time, there was a single guy who really understood their physics system (C++ and a library called Domino or something) and he was so depended on, they had hardcoded his name into error messages related to it. No one understood how to use the thing and apparently Blizzard just couldn't find anyone else able to meet that skill. Granted I'm not saying you should learn physics and work for Blizzard (lol) but the fact is knowing your tools and practices is a skill unto itself that code monkeys never achieve, thus make you either irreplaceable or a mistake to replace.

>>1047369 thoughts on anything of this?, even just the segment i denoted?

>>1048868 I don't understand how to work with 4D space on a programming level, nor how to make a fun game that's not essentially 4D pitfalls like in golf or 4D holes to pass through puzzles.

AI can't code

>>1049172 Holy shit it's Fred Durst!

>>1049173 Let's listen to Limp Bizkit and make AGDG great again

>>1049172 It can teach, though. ChatGPT is way faster than googling stuff.

>>1049186 Coding-wise.

>>1049186 i used chatgpt to help me learn the basics of C faster. it was pretty helpful in that regard, actually. though, once i got the fundamentals down, i started using it less and less

>>1048451 Unzip this image.

>>1048451 https://roadmap.sh/game-developer :^)

>>1050234 >image says 2MB >download it >280kb Huh

>sleep deprived, loopy from a non-drowsy antihistamine >lets work on our code, what could possible go wrong >troubleshoot the menu for assigning stats >finally get it working, need to check the db to confirm >see pic related I knew altering stats directly would be a risk but I did it anyway. Now my fucking playerbots have ascended and I'm not sure I can unfuck this without a purge.

>>1051034 It's okay, you can just use your version control to rollback your game to right before your cough syrup editing spree. :^)

Melancholy. How're your projects doing, anons?

>>1051868 It's dead. I am contemplating modding TF2 and see if it can be used as a base to make arena shooter out of it or something, UT2004 style. I didn't know it supported a lua like language for modding, but apparently I need TF2 Vintage for it?

How do you like my lerp, guys? I can map whichever input to whichever output, no matter which is negative or larger, and can clamp at will. So I can map inputs 0 and 1 to -5 and 5, like a normal Lerp. Or map inputs -10 and 50 to 200 and -100, respectively. The input2Lerp uses the input range, to 0-1, which is convenient for me.

>>1051883 >The input2Lerp uses the input range, to 0-1, which is convenient for me. Meant to say that the input2Lerp uses the input range, instead of 0 to 1.

>>1051868 Holiday responsibilities and sickness have stalled progress to a halt. And also goofing off a significant amount, I wanna enjoy the holidays too Feeling better now that I'm getting more sleep, so I'm going to do my best to make progress when next year rolls around. Also going to start taking some steps next year buy back more time for myself to work on games. Being a solo dev for this long has given me skills I know I can market somehow so I gotta just figure it out.

>>1051868 Got most of what I wanted fixed tonight. The core of the mod that I'm basing off of an existing mod, gotta start somewhere is now essentially done, the rest is rounding off a few corners and making things more user friendly. There's nothing I can do to force the exp bar to display client side at level 80, so players will need to either use an addon or run a macro to track their exp, but they can now gain exp beyond the servers level cap and apply it towards bonus stats.

>>1051868 good. i've remade the levels to not be dogshit, and refined the movent a bit more snappy. though i'm starting to feel the burnout a bit now.

>>1051868 I forgot about it so it's dead. But I've got another idea: I'll make an RPG game about what I'm currently studying which is eating all the time I'm not procrastinating and that way I'll get to both learn the subject and make a video game at the same time. That's foolproof!

Circumstances have forced me to use access modifiers and inheritance. Considering how I feel, I thought the image looked ironic.

>>1051995 >>1051034 wow using azerothcore? You're making an mmo mod? That's certainly new. How do you add players into that?

>>1052032 >>1051883 Im not sure whats happening with lerp and clamp in this code, or what those inputs with a clamped and scaled output helps with between a bigger range output.

>>1052061 Well, the idea is that I can map any input range to any output range. So I have a float called player.lives. When lives falls below 2, I want a visual effect to begin fading in and get its maximum strength when lives is 1. Thing is, the effect consists of a saturation value, a vignette intensity, and a contrast value. Saturation will peak at -100. Vignette at 5. Contrast at 40. All with the same input. this function makes it easy: saturation = lerp (1,-100,2,0,lives); vIntensity = lerp (1,40,2,0,lives); contrast = lerp (1,40,2,0,lives); So an increasing range can be mapped to a decreasing output, and vice versa. That's the neat thing of it. I can also clamp the output to its range. The conditional in there is necessary in case the output range is decreasing, so that the camp math function works. I don't know what happens if you write Mathf.Clamp(3,-3);

>>1052152 That's kind of what I assumed but it's still a dumb way to go about it. You're calculating the scalar factor from one interpolation just so you can stuff it into another interpolation and doing that for every single lerp call. You can do the same by calculating the scalar factor separately and clamping it to [0,1] if needed.

>>1052162 It's versatile.

>>1052182 Less versatile than regular linear interpolation. You need to add two useless extra values every time you use it.

>>1052186 I like it.

>>1052056 >are you using azerothcore? Yep, easier to set up than you'd think. >you're making an mmo mod? Yep, hoping I can have it published before Christmas. >how do you add players into that There's 2 competing modified core projects to add server side bots: playerbots run off actual characters and accounts, and can use the standard ui, while npcbots work like creatures that you can 'equip' with a janky gossip menu but are a lot cheaper on server/hardware resources. Both have some basic ai and will fight in dungeons and raids on autopilot and will obey player orders. Tested and confirmed I can add new entries to the spell_dbc table and not require client-side patches for invisible spell auras, so now I'm safe to create custom auras to apply stat bonuses in customized increments instead of whatever I can find in the base game. I really need to find a better tool for creating SQL statements though, sifting through a 200+ column insert statement sucks ass.

>>1052286 >adding players To be clear, you CAN host a regular server and let other players connect with azerothcore. I just don't really want to devote the time to daily maintenance or the cash for a vps. The /v/urm lads deserve better than wow anyway, God bless you wherever you are. Wurm2 someday. I hope you can all forgive me someday.

Meh I guess I won't be modding TF2, the fucking VScript language looks too complicated for me to handle, I don't understand nothing of it.

Sniper rifle that pierces through enemies. I'll be making progress on having a mission complete screen and offer new weapons as rewards inside the mission itself

>>1050511 oh, the board ate the embeded data. it was a pdf of SICP (the book she is handing you in the image)

>>1052286 Finally got all the custom spell auras in the db and redid the menu system. Did another cleaning pass, we're lookin good. Next up I need to figure out how I want to let admins customize how big a boost each point is worth.

>>1045081 bad >fingers have more than two joints >the band from the thumb to index is uneven in terms of topology / spread of the quads >due to how the finger bends, its better to just indent the joints on the 'front' of the hand

Is there any 3D Map Editor available that I can use with Godot? Blender sucks for making maps with and Trenchbroom is too limited.

>>1053057 There are. I had a list that I deleted and don't remember the names, because I realized Unity's ProBuilder was enough for my purposes, but look up .bsp editors and you'll get the same answers I got. I believe the editors that can make quake3 maps were the most advanced, but I'm not sure. Just make sure they can output obj or something that Godot can handle. the hard part of level making are the UV's. Unity's ProBuilder does a lot of UV's automatically, so you seldom have to handle UV islands manually.

>>1053106 I tried GMod Hammer and Hammer++ (HL2 version) and either they don't launch or it gets severely bugged out in Wine

>>1053057 Nobody remembers the nodev who made this hooman model, it was a guy who tried to make a failed rust clone and got butthurt at Ika (Sigma Engine dev) for releasing a game. I am the oldest agdg nigga here.

>>1053578 How's the tank game coming along?

>>1053583 I haven't worked on it in ages because I have still no good map editing tools.

>>1053585 Bullshit, Fuck your map making tools, how about system mechanics.

>>1053589 Uhm okay...

>>1052819 I'm calling it good enough to share with the class, and I'm ready to be bullied for being a fucking retard. I know there are still some things that could be improved upon, but we'll get there when we get there. It works on my pc(tm) so here's 1.0: https://github.com/NhobodyImportant/Prestige/tree/main I'm honestly just proud of myself for having something finished for a change, even if it is jeet-code. Don't give up, you too can make mods.

>>1054646 Never played WoW so I can't even begin to test it, but good for you, anon.

Nortubel: The song for the credits cutscene will have it so when it reaches the cast sequence, it will have different songs based on the setting represented.

>>1054646 Jeet-code is better than no-code anon. I never played WoW either but pride in yourself for having finished it is pride earned.

>>1055009 Game is very close. Now I want to check some music related shit and maybe the updates just to cool my autism off.

>>1055175 Will be the last wedding image and just like the previous one, it's accessable in a specific area where to get there, you make use of an exploit involving jumping and taking damage.

>>1055175 >>1055741 https://eyeballtank.itch.io/project-nortubel/devlog/860107/nortubel-is-finished-hopefully May have to check something if it seems off but still.

for ye portal tinkering nigs, if just to view & think https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=1zgBwQVr-wI https://github.com/optozorax/portal

>>1056726 Pretty nice. I like how you did the floor. The subtle gradient on the wall is comfy and aesthetic.

I've made 2 more missions for game. One is straight up an area defense for a friendly base structure, where you've to defend it against 3 oncoming waves. You get to bring (2) friends with you. Another is a giant walking crab enemy (well a giant png crab) that you've to kill before it destroys the city. I know it doesn't look much like a city, just a crab wandering around. Its a boss fight mission. I think the game's mission will largely be similar to EDF missions, and the main "meat" of the game. I don't know it that is enough to keep engagement and fun for players. I already have a "points system", combo for getting high score, random weapons drop so you can replay with bigger guns, and bigger power fantasy when replaying missions. I still don't think it has longplay fun yet. EDF games are simple kill bugs, fight bigger bugs with bigger guns, gain larger health pool and obliterate everything (power fantasy) as an engagement loop. Vampire survivors has leveling system to random dopamine hit of bigger weapons with bigger spam, and failing a run still gives you characters with a gimmick, new weapons, as a rewards, and RNG to give hope to play one more run. That's its engagement loop. I don't know which path should I implement.

>>1058814 >he's still doing it bless you, ant-deleter I really like the ChoRenSha-style upgrading

i'm up to 30 levels now, and have the soundtrack, too also did a few more refinements to movement mechanics.

>>1058957 aah, a cat character. But now it blends in with background. You can change the background color to something light. Like our yotsuba blue bg color. Are those levels still saved in the a text format with letters and symbols. And if you can, please tell if this >>1058814 looks fun or not, or if it looks too repetitive

>>1058957 >>1059027 I'd say go for a lighter fur pattern or make the cat a more saturated color. The White highlights 'do' do a decent job of making the player visible against the dark background, or at least the most important parts (center of mass, and feet)

>>1059027 >>1059031 >blends with background the backgrounds are subject to change. also this background is the placeholder because i forgot to set it in the editor. >please tell if this >>1058814 looks fun or not hard to say. it's not really a genre i play. but i will say that the sprites rotating at the aiming vector looks strange, and also i don't like screen shake.

>>1058827 oh I didn't realize Chorensha was a game. I saw it and its a shootmup with powerups that spin in triangles, you can pick up any one of them to either get a shield/life/xtrapower. But if you managed to stand inbetween all of those for a few seconds you gain all 3 powerups at once. Very cool mechanic, Mine is a far simpler, just stand near it to gain powerup mechanic. Thanks for revealing such mechanic to me. >>1059032 >sprites rotating at the aiming vector looks strange yeah its a placeholder for now till I get actual sprites >i don't like screen shake I'll have a option to turn them off Any other observations you have? I don't want it restricted to a single genre audience

>>1059045 > [sprite rotation is] a placeholder for now till I get actual sprites It's still better looking if it just didn't rotate at all.

>>1058957 kot

>>1059027 >Are those levels still saved in the a text format with letters and symbols they're stored in a mostly binary format with a bit of plaintext sprinkled in. for example, pic related is level 1-2

>>1056186 thoughts?, also have another thing to peruse https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=P_5QCJO4ELI https://github.com/Oliveriver/5d-diplomacy-with-multiverse-time-travel

Does anyone know of local AI models that can generate 3d models?

I went back to Crop and Claw this week to remember how we managed to make a game. Ended up making a randomizer for it. Shuffles items and non-overworld enemies. Kind of surprised it worked as quickly as it did. Funnier though, I got a RG34XX-SP, which is one of those budget emulation devices that fill Amazon, but this one came in a clamshell like the GBA SP (I miss clamshell designs) and under the hood, they're usually just Linux systems running on ARM CPUs. Sure enough, with some demonic sacrifices, I was able to get Crop and Claw running and played a randomized run in full. I even tried with Godot 4.3 and some 3D effects which run pretty okay. Requires an unofficial SDL build and the guy doesn't allow distributing the runtime in a license which is really unfortunate, or I'd add it to the guys at PortMaster who organize this stuff. Wish I had this stuff 20 years ago. I'd be having a field day. This feels like it shouldn't work at all.

>>1060205 glad you are enjoying yourself

>>1060205 comfy

Wanted to share this becuase i dont see where else does it goes. You folks are familiar with GBStudio right? some dude its making a fork for the NES calles BBS (Big Brother Studio), and its even making a mapper for it, it was made to port GBC projects on the NES, but there;s nothing prohibiting you from making NES games from scratch in theory. https://github.com/michel-iwaniec/bb-studio

>>1060639 Huh, neat. I wonder when someone will port Pokemon to the NES

>>1060205 >Godot runs on a chinese budget emulator What kind of sorcery is this?

>>1060651 It's made to run on low spec devices. Especially versions 2 and 3.

>>1060640 There's a high quality Chinese bootleg Pokémon yellow on NES

>>1060651 >>1060670 Originally I targeted the Pi5 for our future games. And I'm developing on my Pi5 as I type this. Godot 4.x itself is pretty capable (they started making pre-built ARM builds a while back). It's still pretty annoying that we can't distribute the unofficial SDL build, but it seems there's some interest other devs targeting devices like these to write a properly FOSS/MIT/Whatever runtime port so 4.x games can be put on PortMaster. Developing for ARM devices are pretty cool too because they tend to be lower specs, and a lot of creativity and scope-control for old games came from clever use of constrained technology. A lot of game devices are ARM-based since it's cheaper and easier on batteries, so it's a pretty nice way to try making games that can be played on all sorts of weird devices.

>>1060639 A Link's Awakening DX port to the NES would be really cool.

How's this for a placeholder rotating aim? Instead of rotating the entire player sprite its a child sprite in the shape of pointer arc

did anon ever finish that steven universe game?

>>1061087 Much better, and actually pretty clean! Wouldn't mind that staying in the game alongside your planned 5-directional + 3 mirrored sprites

Archive of previous thread https://archive.is/ChGp8

>>1061119 He's already selling and adding more things I think

>>1061087 >>1058814 >>1052678 >>1046163 Made a new DEMO for the EDF 2D shoot-em-up game https://anonymfile.com/JE1JZ/edf-survivors.zip Now it has - >actual missions >a pause menu >6 weapons >money collecting and health upgrades with moneys <No save files so you lose all progress on exiting game <just 5 missions <just 2 enemies types <graphics still sucks Play and feel free to give any feedback

>>1061155 You can critique about things like - 1. How the gameplay feels? 2. How the gunplay impacts and feels? 3. How the player movement and weaving around enemies feels? 4. Are there any "oh shit" or "fuck im gonna die" moments when playing? 5. How is the urge to replay missions? 6. How is the urge to move on to next mission? 7. How the missions and objectives feels? 8. Shit that made you go "I'll play it later"? 9. How are weapons and health upgrade system? 10. How are the BGM tracks? 11. What does the game need more? And any other things you feel like >>1061127 Thanks, Im trying to find some good sprite assets but most of the good ones are part of an expensive asset pack. Do you have something in mind?

After being done with Nortubel, I want to start another game. Also did this character that will be new to the game. Despite the style here, she will not be added to the previous game (Since it's already finished) and I plan to tweak the art here, since I want to try a different style.

>>1061155 >>1061157 >EDF 2D ahem <2DDF

>>1061157 >Sprite Assets I'd say learn how to make simple low poly 3d models and pre-render those bitches, or if you don't want to touch that area, go full doodle. Reason I say that is you have far more control over your assets and aesthetic quality. If push comes to shove though, just pirate/steal placeholder sprites from other sources, until you need to replace them for commercial use.

>>1061253 >> just pirate/steal placeholder sprites from other sources The technical term you're looking for is "ripping". All fangames resources use it. Its never "stealing" as long as you literally don't ship for monetary sale something with not your own resources.

>>1061339 >Its never "stealing" as long as you literally don't ship for monetary sale something with not your own resources. This is a myth legally. They can treat it like stealing if they want. Like yeah, obviously it's not really stealing, but they'll try to sue anyway sometimes, and sometimes win. And many online "communities" will melt down and come after you for "stealing" their materials, even if those materials were just ripped from some game or copied from some other source anyway.

>>1061348 All you have to do to not get sued is not to have retarded patreon with your real name on it asking for money for game made off nintendo sprites like all the rest that got sued for fangames.

I'm creating a game with big boobs. Wish me luck.

>>1061425 Good luck boobsanon.

>>1060954 >A Link's Awakening DX port to the NES would be really cool. There's a bootleg but it's kinda bad.

>>1061427 I like that dithering.

>>1061425 what game is it going to be?

>>1061425 I don't care if you have big boobs while you make the game. Just make the game. Goddamn women.

>>1061151 Oh it's finally playable? Name so I can look it up?

This whole week I ended up building a lot of menu architecture out. Which is great. That's the only thing that really matters in a JRPG.This iteration doesn't even have a field/combat module yet. I've been chunking the game's systems similar to how Final Fantasy's old kernel module system worked, (seen here: https://q-gears.sourceforge.net/gears.pdf) I suppose at this pace, if I get the game's Field and Combat cores working in two weeks each, we'd probably start having something entering "theoretically playable" by late February.

>>1061830 https://amazonessking.itch.io/gem-domination Game's name is Gem Domination. The same guy made Kanker porn game, Ich Will and this thing

the physics are solid, maybe a few issues with platforms, but there's only so much that can be done. right now i'm focused on levels. particularly some that are a bit longer than the rest.

>>1062594 kot

>>1061158 Ended up doing 2 new characters. Much like Lulu, their art will have a "new style" version so it's not just this Nortubel style. Loorhuleen is like an adopted daughter of Euloria and is belived to be from a race of Yevlen that's gone extinct. Heilga is the niece of Staphen and I could make her a boss.

Starting my raylib learning project today. Hopefully I'll have a demo by the end of the year. For those interested: raylib.com

Various combat stuff ended up engulfing this week since I was hitting a wall where I needed more combat infrastructure figured out before I could resume just menus. Even supports status effects that change sprites now, so I threw a Toad-esque status effect that turns you into a doll. Thanks for the placeholder sprites, Chunsoft. Second video technically has AI deciding skill usage and target trickery, but it's error handlers so only does some basic test stuff until I get to specialized implementations. Functional programming tricks and namespacing to organize static functions has enormously cut boilerplate down compared to CnC1's combat implementation.

I've been wanting to post devlogs on youtube for a while now, since I think that's easier that streaming development, and takes less of other people's time but I hate editing. I also think if I'm going to get any value out of them, they probably should be in the shorts format since I'll get more reach, so I've been working on a tool in godot which will let me quickly spit out videos with captions in a way that fits the portrait layout. Right now I have it where I create a folder that contains the dialogue file (using this tool https://dialogue.nathanhoad.net/) with all the relevant media, and I can use the dialogue file to direct the media to a video player or an image display object at the appropriate times, I'd like to add fun tweens to the image display so it's not just a quick image swap, but that's on the "nice to have" list. All I've got left is to add some character portraits and support for audio tracks to accompany the captions, and I'll be done with the main functionality. I think if all goes well I'll be done by the end of the weekend.

>>1065134 Godot's so useful as a general UI toolkit that it's not a bad idea to use it for making some kind of framing overlay to stamp onto a prior recorded video. I've still not messed with proper dev logs since it does require figuring out a pipeline to be showing interesting stuff without succumbing to the traps of dev logs as a time sink or lacking long-term viewer interest. If I ever figured out something, it'd probably be when I take a break from the dev part to do some housekeeping.

New mechanics in KVK: food and cupboards/fridges. Between waves of enemies, food will pop out of the cupboards on the level and then the next wave will begin. Kasha needs to gather up this food and return it to the fridge to cash it out for bonus points. While she's gathering food, enemies can attack her and make her drop it. Also plan on the enemies eating the food and getting stronger if she takes too long to collect it.

>>1065553 Looks good.

>>1065553 nigga remade A Week of Garfield like we wouldn't notice

New update is out! For supporters, though, I'll release it for everyone in two weeks.

>>1065668 Good to see you're having fun working on it.

>>1065668 Amethyst's tits get bigger with every update I like it

>>1065668 >Peridot Is there an option for gremlin mode sex?

>>1065687 More or less. I hate writing for Gem Dom because of the whole 2 routes thing. I have to write twice the amount for it, which is why I really don't want to implement anything similar to that in any of my upcoming games, because Jesus christ. >>1065766 Ye, last update was Peridot's update.

>>1064084 I promise this the last new character using Nortubel's style, because the other new characters will actually be on the pixel style I should try. Much like Heilga, she could be another boss.

Throughout the week I got the Field Module in works. A little after this recording I even got around to binding all the modules, so now it can go along the Menu <-> Field <-> Combat modules, and the field now has the proper NPC/cutscene scripting core. Still not all in place but has been three months of work in three weeks, it feels. Also, skills can bestow statuses now, so tested with the Doll status effect which is like Toad in Final Fantasy. Threw a 100% chance Doll on a staff weapon attack for fun and testing to show it in action with placeholder assets.

Testing mouse controls and menus. Also posting here for the first time in like 6 years because I saw an Elin thread and might stay.

>>1067256 Oh shit this looks sick...

>>1065134 A bit overkill, but just playiny with tweens

Is there no 2/2 demo day thread? I've been playing around with the idea of re-implementing Dragon Warrior 1 in a browser-compatible manner. That seemed to me to be a simple and easy-to-do task. Most re-implementations of DW1 have been in Game Maker, and I think that speaks for itself as to the unsatisfactory nature of things. The base engine has been written in C++ using SDL2. I am using emscripten to compile it to JavaScript, but I can also compile it to a native application (which has been nice for debugging my scripting language). Currently, I have a walking simulator with music and sound effects. I haven't even connected the levels together. All of the necessary pieces are there, I just have to do the actual work of using them to make something. All of the C++ code should be done, and I should only need to Just Make Game in my scripting language. The problem is that this has caused me to play Dragon Warrior 1 recently, and its age has been very noticeable. Should I implement the "Torch" mechanic, that they got rid of in later games? How about needing to select a menu item to use stairs? And, do I want to use the player's name to determine stat progression? I do know that I don't want what would be better achieved by writing an NES emulator with a bundled ROM. Notes on emscripten: you really have to play with the settings to produce a self-contained HTML file. I currently have the whole thing being bundled into one HTML file so that it does not have to be web-hosted. Nice configuration, but hard to get working right. I would rather people download a massive HTML file (it's currently 4 MB) than depend on it being served from somewhere (maybe those are sensibilities keeping me on image boards). Normally, I use GCC to compile things, and using clang has been a non-issue. The only thing I want to whine about is that I disabled my first compiler warning: "-Wpotentially-evaluated-expression" is an absolutely useless warning and the standards association that caused its creation should feel bad.

>>1065982 >Ye, last update was Peridot's update. so, just Peridot and MC?

>>1067508 >Is there no 2/2 demo day thread? Either too little going on or people who are working on stuff don't post demos.

>>1067508 Regarding DW1 remake features, why not look to the SNES Dragon Quest I + II remake or quality of life updates while also retaining some of the spirit or "archaic" designs you'd like to keep? This is pretty damn cool though.

>>1067590 I wanted to have a demo out, but procrastination, burnout, and psychosis prevented me from doing what I needed to do.

>>1067508 Combining the demo days with the Steam Next Fest is a better approach in my opinion since you can both show off your games and sell if need be.

I am absolutely incompetent at making characters.

>>1067920 Yes, you are. Give up.

>>1067925 Just cut my life into pieces, wake me up

>>1067920 I mean it's probably better than I could do.

>>1067942 You think? Man I wonder what else I need to add to my doom mod to make it more appealing, it looks like adding more guns is not really the answer, would people be interested if I add animations and special powers like being able to shoot meteors and diamond storm attack and other such things from the player hands like magic? I am kinda too lazy to bother learning the ZGUI library or however its named that supposedly makes making GUI stuff in GZDoom less painful, I wrote my shop menu entirerly on my own which took me some weeks to get it right. For example the furdoom mod and gardevoir mod seems to appeal to more people. It's not like I care that much about popularity but I am just wondering if a simple weapon mod I am making is too boring for most people, but then again the majority of people of doom seems to be playing brutal doom and its variants and have no interest in other doom mods. If I ever figure out the fucking new GUI library thing maybe I can finally add more features to my mod, I dunno what yet, I guess I could for example add different ammunition types for guns.

>>1067955 >but then again the majority of people of doom seems to be playing brutal doom and its variants and have no interest in other doom mods And those people are a small minority compared to vanilla doom players who moved on to other games after being done with it.

>>1067978 So Brewtal Doom and its forks are nothing but a meme with a vocal fanbase? I see. Looks like I am completely on my own then when making this mod, well I have no clue either I am kinda lost what I should make next with my mod I mean I can always add new guns but I was trying to think of something else to make the mod more unique, well fuck me then.

Finished the devlog project yesterday. Now all I gotta do is write up some postmortems of my previous projects alongside some random godot trivia and see how fast it is to make videos with this.

>>1068197 Very cute character, what exactly is this for though?

>>1068200 Its for youtube shorts. I noticed a good number of devs were getting traction by creating little devlogs in that format, and while I thought it was worth trying I also thought it'd be really annoying to have to edit in captions like you see on most of those videos, so I made a fake DS screen layout in godot and used a dialogue addon to act as a visual novel style text crawl, with the added bonus of letting me call functions right in the dialogue file. So I can control features like displaying pictures, playing audio, playing video, and changing my character's color right all in a fairly easy to understand format.

>>1067508 Add some way for players to take notes/draw their own world map. I actually just finished playing the GBC version and I spent a lot of time back tracking to talk to an npc or getting lost on the map.

>>1067982 IMO at this point Doom's modding potential has been squeezed dry. Nobody seems to have any good ideas for gameplay mods anymore, and good non-ironic WADs have been unicorns for years. If you are making something, you are basically just making a game in the Doom engine, disconnected from Doom itself. Especially the way the community has gone, Doom's kind of in dire straits. Crazy how Doom basically died with TerminusEst13 What does your mod look like? Got anything to show?

>>1068209 I am mostly disappointed with the recent development of newer-ish weapon mods for Doom, most of them lack rocket launchers or have one but with very little ammo carry limit, making the rocket launcher limited in usage despite Doom has plenty of monsters which requires killing it with a rocket launcher, sometimes they just replace it with other explosives like grenade launchers which is a different weapon and not good for long range shooting. And yeah I can see it, there is only so much you can do with GZDoom. ZScript allows you to do more crazy shit finally but when most modders and including myself have limited coding knowledge so it won't get you far with making the mod more unique. Also I forget to mention that Blender fucks me over with animating my models, whenever I try to animate specific parts of the weapon and the model and having to use constraints the fucking constraints constantly resets its self despite I am using a newer Blender version and I couldn't find anything on the internet that tells me how to fix this bug, like I set a keyframe for the constraint then I animate other part and then when I play the animation the keyframe constraint gets reset to 0. This stupid bug really dismotivated me to work more. >Got anything to show You can check out this videos made by others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=722L7qM8slI&t=337s

Gem Domination v0.11.1 https://mega.nz/folder/QBcxHBTA#iYyWDaC5cLRFiSDQpr0EJg https://www.mediafire.com/folder/uoqmjqpsl1wcp/Gem+Domination+v0.11 Also some previews for The Lewd House.

>want to make a small CYOA style RPG >spend like a month working in my free time only to get the first menu working >roadblock at basically every step Am I retarded? This is my first project and what you see in picrel already has full functionality but I feel like I'm dragging my feet. Last thing I tried and still haven't figured out is loading a new scene which doesn't work for some reason.

>>1070073 >working on UI first well there's your problem. UI always sucks ass to make, no exceptions. It'd be wise to make it functional first, before looking good, so that way you can actually get to making the game, instead of spending a month on just 1 menu and nothing else.

>>1070078 I think I needed to set up the first screen because effectively all the interactions will be coloured by the choices you make on this screen. What you see is just the basic wip visual, although I admit I spent like two work sessions trying to figure out how to easily rescale/resize UI in Unity. The solution is easy, but hey, who to tell you? I imagine now that I've got the first thing ready, the rest is gonna be much easier to pull off. (except the art, which I want to do all by myself, now that is gonna take a long time)

>>1070092 i dunno, i've never started with a UI before, i personally usually just hardcode everything first to get the systems established, then add customization later once it works well enough

>>1070095 Well, I disagree here. My idea is to have a option on branching batch, and those will vary depending on you stats and choices. So writing and making a dialogue/scene tree with just dry options is gonna haunt me on later.

>>1070098 i mean, if you write it with the checks and change the values in the code a few times for testing, you'd get the ease of not having to make a complex UI, and still have the ability to try new things.

>>1066545 I updated this: https://eyeballspunk.itch.io/sweet-dreams

>>1065982 >I hate writing for Gem Dom because of the whole 2 routes thing. I have to write twice the amount for it. You writing two routes at the same time? My nigger, don't do that. Focus on just one route, finish it first, then start writing the second route. Stop torturing yourself.

You can use DeepSeek to cheat in Godot, works much better than ChatGPT. t. got a working roomba movement code

Now that I'm back from vacation, I'd been further implementing field item usage and interactions. Field is a lot more developed now. There's a lot of trickery which lets me do adventure game-esque verb lists for interacting with entities and NPCs. Including using items and skills. All that's showcased here. Even lets you actually use normal items as NPC/puzzle solving if you're facing an entity, and shows your party selection menu if not.

>>1071121 Pink snake (maybe female?)

>>1071192 That's functionally the "Missingno" of the game and serves as an error handler in case no charset or graphics are found for a particular creature. The field sprite is just a recycled naga recolor (they were in CnC1) since we don't have a vine viper field sprite yet (but might get one in the future since they're common creatures.) The enemy is just designed to look like the iconic Valve Missing Texture grid. More vine viper recolors never hurts. Pic related. Year of the Snake 2025.

>>1071237 I like that idea

I am gonna give a shot at making a simple roomba game, I hope people will find it reasonable that I charge 5 euro for this game.

WiP Kitchen. I need to get some more textures so that those things have a more appropriate look instead of the current texture they have now.

Semi-similar code to item usage. But techniques can now be used on the field, including selecting party members or, if facing entities, triggering special events on them. I just have to functionally clone this for spells (the menu is different since they use spell slots instead of an MP-like value) and I think most the field interaction basics are in place.

Man I am stuck with making more progress, for the past several days I am trying to come up with more different design ideas for the stupid kitchen map and yet I haven't done more work on it because my mind is pulling a blank, this sucks I thought making a roomba game that I would release for free on itch io would be easy to gain a foothold as a game dev, I guess not.

>>1072795 The roomba concept does have potential for arcade style fun.

>>1072814 I don't know enough about the math behind transforms so I cannot really code in a movement code that is more "juicy" and I intentionally made the maps fairly small because I didn't want to go overboard with the design of the maps, so I guess for each map around 30 second is needed to finish one, ah well.

>>1072815 Have it be a really shitty Temu roomba that's very slow and takes forever to accelerate and decelerate so you really need to plan your route through the levels.

>>1072848 I guess that is a option too lul

Meh I just need to figure out how to add customizable keybinding since not everyone is left handed (can't tell that to other developers that left handed people exist) and add some few HUD elements and I will release it on itch io, I don't feel like spending more time on this roomba game, I will just make another prototype instead. Maybe I will release later 1 or 2 updates for this game with a few more maps to play on once I have some ideas for mapping.

I never actually posted the finished result for these things here. I think they worked out pretty well, but for the programming ones specifically I'm wondering if not including code snippets is a good idea or not.

>>1067508 I now have a seven megabyte html file that will allow you to walk anywhere in Alefgard. Walk around with the number pad and '7' will create the bridge and reveal the staircase. https://github.com/TediusTimmy/DragonGame/releases/tag/v0.0.0-walkingtour

>>1072861 POV: You got renamon high and are making sure she has a good time

>>1073963 Oh man I'd would kill for some dank kush