Crumble loading screen - Inspired by the new Spyro !

I started working remotely for a company recently. An artist there contacted me and told me they needed some work done and had a spot open till the end of the year with plenty of hours, so I replied with my hourly wage and availability. I explained I usually keep track of my own hours and send a bill every two weeks. He said it sounded good, so he sent over their contract. It protected them and did nothing for me, but I didn't mind signing. So I got started, and immediately there was a problem, but it was my mistake. I offered advice on how to do something differently and was told to stop wasting my time. So I shut up and did the work as I was told. (I really need this job so I'm not interested in rocking the boat.) A few weeks pass and things are going smoothly: I'm talking with people up and down the chain of command, they seemed to like my work, and they would pay me quickly after I bill them.

That has changed. I suddenly got an email from one of the guys higher up 'clarifying' how working remotely for their company works. They say they will no longer pay me when I bill them, but instead, they will pay me at the end of the month. And instead of paying my hourly wage, they are going to pay me based on milestones determined ahead of time. (Yet while I'm typing this, I have my next task from them, but I won't get paid my hourly wage, and we didn't agree on any value ahead of time... so what am I even doing?)

I'm honestly shocked and don't know how to take it. Did the artist that initially contact me have no authority to agree to my wage and I'm just now hearing the real deal? Is that why I have a task right now that I have no clue how much I'll be paid to complete? Are they just changing it on me because they didn't like how much I billed them? I'm leaning toward the latter, since I'm just now hearing about this, after they've been paying me for weeks now.

Being paid once a month is pretty annoying to be honest, I've never worked a job that paid everything at the end of the month. But I guess I can shut up and endure that part. But what's really driving me up the wall is the change to milestones. Had I agreed to that and been financially ready for that payment method, it wouldn't be so frustrating.

If they just want to simplify payment, that's fine. It feels super unprofessional... but fine. I'm going to at least ask for their milestone payment estimates before doing any more work for them, since that... seems obvious. But if it looks like they are just trying to pay me drastically less for the same work, I might explode.

What do others think? They just want to pay me less right? Was it my fault for not demanding the "agreed" terms be in the signed contract? Are they at least being unprofessional cunts a tiny bit? I'm so mad I can't see straight, so I just don't know.

EDIT: Okay, some more information. It makes me look even MORE dumb but it's the honest truth: The contract I signed did actually protect me more than I realized. I still think it's a mostly fair agreement looking over it again. But the catch is, it ended. I had forgotten it was a short term contract 'open' to being extended through mutual agreement because they kept saying I had work lined up through the rest of the year. They just kept sending me work (the very day after it expired) so I kept working, assuming we had extended the contract. A lot of people are pointing out this is my fault, and I fully agree. I've learned a lot about what I want and need from a contract. Maybe someone will see how I fucked up and learn from it.

submitted by /u/farfarfarsss
[link] [comments]

How did you become a game developer?

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 08:44 PM PDT

Just looking for people's stories! Please feel free to share as much or as little as you like, such as if you got a degree, are self taught, how many hours per day you spent learning, learned asset design or programming first, etc.

How did you make it happen?

submitted by /u/_the-dark-knight_
[link] [comments]

I want to help make a game

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 06:45 PM PDT

Hello everyone, I am very interested in the development of making games. But I do not have to much experience, I do however have a good amount of experience in modelling on Maya. What I would like is to help someone (or a group of people) make a game. I DONT want to influence your game at all, I don't care what the story or game-play is like, I would just like to help you with some modelling. And in turn absorb as much information about the development process as possible. If anyone is interested please DM me. Here is a link to my sketch fab, it is not a lot as I did not add everything to it. Thanks https://sketchfab.com/ErnieBurrows

submitted by /u/_WhiteBoyGamer_
[link] [comments]

Some of the reviews I get for my game are something else..

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 10:59 AM PDT

Hello fellow devs,

In the last few months my game got quite popular in India,and of course,some of the reviews I got are just hilarious,so I wanted to share them.But first I wanted to give some context about my game,it's a game similar to "I am Bread",but for mobile called "I am Egg",for anyone interested here is a link for it:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.AquaStudios.EggRun&hl=en

Anyways,let's see some of the reviews:

https://i.redd.it/1pz5cq6qfy431.png

https://i.redd.it/njs71g6qfy431.png

https://i.redd.it/1dweqxjbhy431.png

https://i.redd.it/g47svi6qfy431.png

https://i.redd.it/z3ffon6qfy431.png

https://i.redd.it/g1r1ni7qfy431.png

https://i.redd.it/haytzfkbhy431.png

Just wanted to share,also another thing I find funny is indian kids playing this game on youtube,I might post a link if anyone is interested

submitted by /u/AquaBomber
[link] [comments]

My movement implementation for roguelike

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 04:10 AM PDT

Hello folks,

this is my first post so use mercy . I'm a Perl programmer and I'm trying to develop my first game. It is an ASCII rendered game running on console/cmd.exe probably similar to a roguelike (more info on the current state are available here if interested).

I've followed a great article about movement and speed: a turn based game loop

Basically every actor (player and NPCs) get some amount of energy during game loop and when their energy reaches a treshold they can move.

But after a while I had to elaborate different movement costs for different terrains and different movement types (humans are the deafault, but a fish will move in waters and not in woods..) for different ceratures.

I have implemented using the following, during the game loop:

when energy reaches 100 an actor can move
after moving an actor looses 50 of energy for NSEW movements and 70 for diagonal ones
if actors have not enough energy to move they gains energy based on the terrain they are: each creature type has their own energy_gain for each type of terrains
actors can rest consuming a minimum of energy and gaining the amount specified by the terrain they are (still to be implemented)
energy can drop below zero
energy can raise above 100 but to a maximum specified for each actor type (150 probably)
terrains giving 0 energy_gain are considered unwalkable for this particular actor type

The above permits to have actors with different speed and also to differentiate (or well: to emulate) speeds over terrains types.

While I'm quite satisfied with this I'm interested knowing different approachs or to know if I overlooked something important. Any kind of comments, material, links or examples of code are welcome.

thanks for reading

LorenzoTav

submitted by /u/LorenzoTav
[link] [comments]

Old 2d traffic game

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 09:15 AM PDT

Hello. I need some help because I m stuck . I m creating an old style 2D traffic game using C++ (kinda like old atari pole position) , but with the premise of the game modified. In my game the player is moving straight, without road curvatures, and from time to time, a crossroad appears and the player has to avoid crashing into other cars. And here my question comes : How can I make the crossroad " come to me" like, viewing it from far away, and getting gradually bigger. I don't know how to change the perspective in such way and I m stuck since the last Friday on it. So ,does anybody have any idea? Any kind of help is appreciated, thanks in advance. Have a nice day:D

submitted by /u/andutzu7
[link] [comments]

If I use butler to update my game on itch.io how will that affect the person who has already downloaded my game?

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 03:55 AM PDT

submitted by /u/BlueBubbleMaker
[link] [comments]

When is it when i need to use a loading screen?

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 08:17 AM PDT

submitted by /u/Cirrustratus
[link] [comments]

Need some help with my game's audio/visual tone (consistency)

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 06:13 AM PDT

Alright, so basically, I want to make my game's tone in both sound and visuals to carry this sort of "retro-style arcade game, but in full 3D" kind of vibe. I worry that my game doesn't carry that across all to well, but aside from swapping textures for new ones, I'm not entirely sure how to get that vibe across. So I'm wondering exactly how to do that.

~~This~~ ~~is my game's second level as of now, provided only for context, as I imagine it would be quite hard to give advice for something you can't really see or hear (be sure to turn sound on if it's muted).~~

(Actually, this is. I updated it based on feedback. Made textures less busy and tweaked some sounds).

I'd love to hear your thoughts on how the game can improve consistency. Thanks!

submitted by /u/VenomousWoe
[link] [comments]

This Father’s Day my sweet daughter surprised me with this detailed rendition of the space ship from my video game

Posted: 16 Jun 2019 12:58 PM PDT

submitted by /u/kiates
[link] [comments]

Where can I learn to do shaders for UI in Unity?

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 08:51 AM PDT

submitted by /u/ZYXgamerXYZ
[link] [comments]

Script not showing in VisualStudio

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 06:24 AM PDT

Hello i just started using Unity 2019.2.0b5 version. I got this problem when i create a script in unity and try to open it with VS, the page is blank. The older versions of unity works just fine with VS. I am using VS 2017.

I cant seem to find a fix for this problem. If someone knows the problem plz help :)

On the left, blank VS file. On the right is what there should be in the file(Code works btw in game)

submitted by /u/AllpacaWarrior
[link] [comments]

We need a Character designer

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 12:04 PM PDT

Hey guys! Alright I am gonna be straight forward me and some of my friends have started a game development startup. And we need someone who could design characters for us. We can't pay cause we are broke. But you could be a part of this teams journey. Hit me up if you are interested.

submitted by /u/BlopsHd
[link] [comments]

How does a game rank #1 for a keyword that doesn't appear once in it's metadata?

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 11:45 AM PDT

This is for specifically for the Google Play Store.

After some research - I see a very popular game that ranks #1 for a keyword that doesn't appear once in it's metadata.

For example - let's say the game is called Bakery Kings but it ranks #1 for the keyword "cooking". The word cooking does not appear once in the app title, short or long description. However, "cooking" is very much related to the game so it is correct.

How is it ranking #1 for this term? Did it have "cooking" in it's description at one point? Is it because user reviews must mention the word cooking? Other thoughts?

submitted by /u/wesdaco
[link] [comments]

3 Tips to Making Your Own Game

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 11:22 AM PDT

submitted by /u/blanktarget
[link] [comments]

When you die on Fire Up 3D (finishing alpha test)!

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 10:50 AM PDT

submitted by /u/mukkadruid
[link] [comments]

How Media Molecule designed a fun and robust toolset for Dreams

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 09:48 AM PDT

submitted by /u/kika-tok
[link] [comments]

How to hit a moving target in Unity

Posted: 17 Jun 2019 09:40 AM PDT