GIF-Tutorial on SmokePoofs- Movement! Hope it helps you (: |
- GIF-Tutorial on SmokePoofs- Movement! Hope it helps you (:
- SMILE GAME BUILDER is a new 3D game engine to make RPG Games. here it is a Speed Map
- Dev says game started selling 400% better on Steam after releasing torrent
- Spritesheet generator update: Shadows and Children added!
- How to finish your first game (and NOT take 10 years to do it)
- People who's gamedev is their dirty little bit on the side....how do you make sure you fit it in around the rest of your life?
- Making an Indie Educational Game: Forgetful Dictator Post-Mortem
- How a Blizzard Artist Approaches Stylized Character Creation - Some super useful tips in here
- Our friendly tool for writing game dialogue, Yarn Spinner, just hit 1.0 (MIT license)
- How to replicate this in a fragment shader?
- Accessibility - What is the minimum time I should give the player to press a button "quickly"?
- Giveaway: 2 Vouchers for 275 realisic and wide-ranging human vocal sounds. Includes Male and Female vocalization for fear, screams, laughs, sighs, breathing, grunts, and much more!
- Steam's year in graphs: An in-depth 2019 breakdown
- How to make an inventory system?
- Looking for a story writer!
- Is the name of our game offensive?
- Mondays be like...
- Looking for feedback on my combat system (crosspost from r/GameDesign)
- Is there a list of popular games and what programming languages were used to make them?
- A weird tutorial that shows you how to make jumping look cool in Unity!
- Struggling with pathfinding
- i wanted to make a game but...
- How can I begin making games? Where do I start. Got a dream game I want to make and I want to learn how to make it a reality. Programs and such. To make a game that works like stardew Valley but a whole different story.
- What are some great indie game dev channels?
| GIF-Tutorial on SmokePoofs- Movement! Hope it helps you (: Posted: 12 Jan 2020 10:04 PM PST
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| SMILE GAME BUILDER is a new 3D game engine to make RPG Games. here it is a Speed Map Posted: 13 Jan 2020 03:34 AM PST
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| Dev says game started selling 400% better on Steam after releasing torrent Posted: 13 Jan 2020 08:24 AM PST
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| Spritesheet generator update: Shadows and Children added! Posted: 13 Jan 2020 11:55 AM PST
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| How to finish your first game (and NOT take 10 years to do it) Posted: 12 Jan 2020 12:36 PM PST
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| Posted: 13 Jan 2020 10:58 AM PST It's always motivational to hear how others fit in their passion around work and family! So what is your schedule like? How many hours of gamedev (or other projects) do you attempt to tackle during your day or week? Do you set weekly tasks or time goals? My working day with commute is around 12 hours, out the door at 7am and back around 7.30pm. So I get and hour or 2 in the evening if I can face staring at a PC any longer (work on computers in day job). Weekends are spent with my little boy so a couple hours here and there is about it. I love doing it so not complaining! Just curious how others get on and want to hear some tips on how to feel like you are still smashing it in the limited time you have :) [link] [comments]  | ||
| Making an Indie Educational Game: Forgetful Dictator Post-Mortem Posted: 13 Jan 2020 03:10 AM PST TLDR: Making educational games is a lot of work but very fulfilling. Please consider it! Hey folks! I'm Eben, the developer who made Forgetful Dictator - an educational game about conquering the world. It plays like a simple strategy game but the primary mechanics are based around naming countries, capitals, flags, and other geography trivia. In this post I'd like to detail what the development was like and try to convince others to join me in making them! My background Although I work in the games industry I'm technically not a developer. During my day job I make trailers and other videos for Path of Exile, so this has been a hobby project that I've been doing on evenings and weekends. I have no formal training in programming or art. With this in mind I kept the scope small and made good use of the Unity asset store. I also hired contractors for art and sound. Why on earth did you make an educational game? The prospect of teaching through a game is enticing, it feels like you're doing some good for the world. I'd tried making various games before and always burnt out after a few months. Forgetful Dictator was the first game I was motivated to finish because it felt like I was doing something positive. For that reason I decided to make it free for educators (which on PC is simple enough to do by giving out keys on Itch.io). Another enticing reason is the "extra-curricular" learning. You're not just getting better at game development, you're also learning a lot about your chosen topic of education. After researching and writing hundreds of trivia questions my geography knowledge is so much better than it was before! Designing Forgetful Dictator I knew if I wanted to turn any heads with an educational game it'd need to be a bit ridiculous, so I began with a ridiculous theme: a clueless dictator trying to conquer the world. I built it up from there. I have a design philosophy that can be summed up with this Picasso quote: "Art is the elimination of the unnecessary." I think this can be applied to educational game design. I wanted to design mechanics that serve the sole purpose of teaching geography in a fun way. Any mechanical fluff that doesn't tie into that would have to go. I'm not convinced this is the best way to make an educational game, but ideally it does create a "pure" result. I also knew that kids would be playing the game, so I did my best to keep it intuitive and simple. Mechanical complexity would just get in the way of the geography. I made the game so that someone watching over your could instantly pick up what's happening and help you with the trivia questions. I don't think I was successful in creating a groundbreaking game, but I'm happy with what I ended up with. Developing it I knew from the start that my success in finishing the game would depend on time management; whether or not I could get it done fast enough while maintaining my interest in development. I cut a lot of corners using Unity assets. World Map Strategy Kit was the base for my game. Thanks to that asset, even though I'm not a good programmer I found that adding new features didn't take too long. The biggest single time sink in an educational game like this is the research - I spend months writing trivia questions and even then (as explained below) I didn't have enough on release. Was it successful? In terms of cash returns, it did okay for my first game I developed in my spare time. As of now I've sold around 800 copies on Steam and I have yet to release on mobile where I suspect the game will do better. With better marketing I perhaps could've got more out of it, and I think my launch price of $15 USD was a bit steep. Beyond cash, I'm very happy to have created this. Here's a message I received from one teacher who tried it with their class: "Lastly I would like to congratulate you on making an engaging and fun educational game. Honestly I haven't seen children so engaged with an educational game since I was in elementary school and we played the Oregon Trail on our Apple IIs." What I did wrong From various reviews I've discovered is that the game really needed more trivia questions on launch. It can take a long time to write them - they ate up months of development and still I did not have nearly enough. A good question can take over an hour to write and 5 seconds to read and answer. I think perhaps this is the stuff that scares off developers from educational games, so I'd recommend keeping everything else simple so you have time for the research. Artistically the UI of Forgetful Dictator wasn't great either. It might've been worth hiring a professional UI artist. And mechanically speaking, the score system in the game is a bit boring and I haven't yet figured out what to do with it. I used an old version of Unity (5.6). Although nice and stable, I there was a lot I couldn't do because newer assets weren't compatible with it. Looking ahead I'm not completely burnt out from making games which is a good sign. I'd like to release the mobile version, and look into other significant features such as multiplayer (although this is super daunting). Thanks for reading! If you're like me and struggling to finish a game project because nothing feels worthwhile, do consider making an educational game. Those extra elements, although challenging, might just be motivating enough to get you through. [link] [comments]  | ||
| How a Blizzard Artist Approaches Stylized Character Creation - Some super useful tips in here Posted: 13 Jan 2020 08:57 AM PST
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| Our friendly tool for writing game dialogue, Yarn Spinner, just hit 1.0 (MIT license) Posted: 12 Jan 2020 06:21 PM PST
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| How to replicate this in a fragment shader? Posted: 13 Jan 2020 09:10 AM PST
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| Accessibility - What is the minimum time I should give the player to press a button "quickly"? Posted: 13 Jan 2020 12:20 PM PST I've noticed that some games nowadays will bind two actions to a single button in order to provide more functionality without over-complicating the control scheme with UI menus or mode selection. The best example I can think of is Death Stranding, where you hit RB quickly to scan but hold it to hold breath. The first action is therefore determined by the release time since the button was last pressed down, which means there is some threshold value at which you can perform it before the hold action kicks in. I have a similar control scheme in my game where pressing a button does one action and holding it does another. I've tweaked the aforementioned threshold value until it felt right to me, while still giving as much time as possible for the first action to be performed. Currently I use .34 seconds as a threshold for this logic. However, it led to a question of accessibility--what feels right and easy for me may not be easy for players with disabilities or other impairments. I can make a toggle option for the "held" event so that if you release after the threshold it will perform the action until you press the button again, which will help people that can't hold buttons down. But that won't solve the fact that I won't know how long they need to release their finger from the button in order to perform the "quick" event. I've never heard of a standard time for letting people press a button quickly so maybe it's nothing to worry about, and I may add an option to increase this time for people with poor motor skills at the cost of response time. But it would be nice to get an idea of what values I might expect for either setting. Perhaps I can save some time and just rely on .34 seconds being enough for everyone? I suppose it's a somewhat minor issue since I don't think it'll affect many people, but I just thought it would be good to consider anyways and I couldn't find anything online about this. For context, the quick action is bound to one of the core mechanics of movement in my game, so that's why I thought it would be good to make sure it's easily accessible to everyone. I'd appreciate your thoughts on this if you have any suggestions or research I can look into. Thanks! [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Steam's year in graphs: An in-depth 2019 breakdown Posted: 12 Jan 2020 09:46 PM PST
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| How to make an inventory system? Posted: 13 Jan 2020 10:27 AM PST Hello, i am making a game in C++ and i am wondering how to make a good inventory system. What i was doing before is having an inventory full of ItemStacks and an ItemStack contains an item id and amount of this item. This worked well at first but then i realized that this isn't going to work for the following reason: I also plan on adding "customizable items". For example players will be able to change accessories of their gun this means that i have to store that information somewhere. How can i do this? Thanks for your help! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 13 Jan 2020 10:22 AM PST Hey! I am making a small text-based game. I'm wanting it to be kinda spooky and play similar to the way you read a goosebumps book or play DND. I am looking for someone who writes stories to create a storyline/dialogue for me. I'm not sure if I'm going to release it for profit it's mainly just a project for fun, but obviously you would get credit for the story. If you're interested comment here or message me! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Is the name of our game offensive? Posted: 13 Jan 2020 09:59 AM PST Hello everyone! Our studio is currently working on a 4 players cooperative game where you play cute witches working together in a hurry. We wanted to name it " Witch Craz' ". Because we like how it sounds, and we think that it gives an idea of what the game is. 2 Questions : - Do you find it offensive, regarding history (the witchcraze period was when witches where persecuted ) - Does it inspire you the idea of a fun coop game ? Here's a preview of the game: https://reddit.com/link/eo7o6a/video/w9mfcvhn4la41/player Any advice is appreciated! Bonus points if you have any cool idea for a name ;) [link] [comments]  | ||
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| Looking for feedback on my combat system (crosspost from r/GameDesign) Posted: 13 Jan 2020 09:53 AM PST I've prototyped a multiplayer spellcasting game in an effort to explore projectile based gameplay, player engagement, and autonomy. I'm looking for feedback on a few key areas: spell overload, melee ranged combat, and spell morphing. Forgive the lack of screenshots I am away from my pc and only have a a few debugging screenshots available, but could provide a few rough pics/gifs if needed. First the combat system as it currently exist, using a fireball as an example: The goal is to provide player mastery/skill expression while maintaining accessibility. This is done by placing the spellcast on one button and adding gameplay to the spellcast by sectioning it off into states. Charging - the player is building up this spell. Release - the player is casting this spell Impact - the moment the spell impacts another object All spells have these three states. The Level of engagement provided to each state varies on the different spell. For example: Fireball states: Casting The fireball has a lengthy cast time(4secs), during this time it spawns immediately as a physical object that is gaining size and power, Can be morphed into a firebolt, and held for a short duration at max charge. The fireball has most of its gameplay dumped into this stage. Release Fireball acts as a standard projectile and is shot out at a distance scaled by overall charge. Not effected by gravity. Impact Does single target damage, soft aoe damage, and puts a fire dot on players hit. Lightning Bolt States that has a different profile of these three states. Charge The player can charge the spell and release it, it doesn't behave as a physical object during this time, but can be held at max charge for a short duration. Release On button release the lighting bolt performs a hit scan, if it hits the player then it immediately arcs to them dealing damage. If it's a miss then it simply arcs forward for its set distance. In both cases the bolt lingers for about half a second, pulsing a few times before it dies. Impact Struck players are marked as a conduit for a duration, in which time if they are hit again the spell will arc out to nearby enemies. Movement Standard WASD movement, at very grounded speeds(think mediocre high school athlete). I went this route to create emphasis on using spells as an avenue of success. Player is slowed while casting. Sprint Players have infinite sprint as it's honestly a jog. They cannot cast while sprinting, this helps me to avoid the need of stamina. Blink Replaces sprint while the player is casting. The player trades spell charge for distance, can be done in any direction, and leaves an after trail appropriate to the spell being casted(fireball leaves a fire path) I think that is everything for the base combat system. TL;DR: Onto the questions: 1.) Right now I'm not exactly sure how to handle melee distance combat. Currently the player doesn't have a weapon. And I would prefer to find a solution that is more elegant than just allowing them to punch/kick that fits into the games mental model of channeling and using power. 2.) Spell morphing- right now players can press a button during the charging phase of the spell to change their spell into another spell that is similar in type but different in area of use(so fireball can morph into a flamethrower for short range or firebolt for long). I'm open to implementation feedback or even different concepts of what spell morphing should do or be. 3.) Spell overloading - I like the idea of being able to overload a spell to enhance its the thematic effect(fire burns more, explosion radius is larger, etc). Currently, once the fireball is at max charge the player has a small amount of time to cast it before it starts overloading. While overloading the radius of the fireballs impact point is increased, but if held too long it implodes and hurts the players. I'd really like to be able to incorporate that playing with fire(pun intended) feeling but give the player actual control over when to do it or to what degree. Thanks to the few of you that probably got through this! As a reminder this isn't "an idea" I have, it's a functional prototype. I know I missed some details so apologies in advance and I'm looking forward to your input! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Is there a list of popular games and what programming languages were used to make them? Posted: 13 Jan 2020 08:18 AM PST It would be cool to see what languages are most often used in each type of game. Are there trends if you compare genres, indie vs AAA, 2D vs 3D etc.? I tried to search for a list but I didn't find anything so I came here to see if any of you happen to know one already. [link] [comments]  | ||
| A weird tutorial that shows you how to make jumping look cool in Unity! Posted: 13 Jan 2020 08:09 AM PST
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| Posted: 13 Jan 2020 01:21 AM PST Hello there! I'm programing a 2D top down game (in Clickteam Fusion). NPCs have to find their way to a specific point on a random generated map. All the obstacles in the world are Actives. How can I make them avoid the Actives, but go in the desired Direction (and have them go out of dead ends). Any ideas would be greatly appreciated as I know this is a complicated topic. [link] [comments]  | ||
| i wanted to make a game but... Posted: 13 Jan 2020 10:55 AM PST
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| Posted: 13 Jan 2020 06:30 AM PST Programs? Good channels to watch on YouTube? Never done this before but I wanted to try my hand on it [link] [comments]  | ||
| What are some great indie game dev channels? Posted: 12 Jan 2020 02:15 PM PST I really want to find some more indie game dev YouTube channels where independent developers show off their work, as well as anyone that makes open world RPGs and procedural generation? I'd really like to find some channels to watch in my spare time and I really like home made stories about average people just working on their dreams. I already watch Blackthornprod and Brackeys. Can anyone recommend some really cool indie channels? [link] [comments]  |
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