/agdg/ - Amateur Game Development General

Where's that link that explains what happened to the agdg community after the exodus? About splitting into groups and whatnot?
I can't find it.

>>1894
> I have to be very careful not to slip and scrape the traces on the motherboard.

Wow that's fucking awful to do.
Probably because it would happen to me.

>>1895
What does the inside of your computer look like? Mine's full-size everything but still so cramped that once everything's installed, it's a puzzle to take any one component out. I guess I got the wrong model of motherboard...?

>AMD Ryzen 7 2700
>MSI B450M PRO-VDH
>4x8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR4
>MSI Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB
>512GB Samsung PM951 NVMe SSD
>500GB Samsung 850 EVO SATA SSD
>8TB Seagate Barracuda SATA HDD
>Devuan Daedalus 5 (Debian Buster 12)
p much no problems, all the problems i've had are as a result of debian with its old packages and not devuan without systemd
overall i'm happy

For Heaven's sake if any of you are about to build/upgrade a computer, do NOT get two of a kind storage devices.

>>1906
Not in insurmountable task, but I did give myself a chuckle installing a few SSDs of the same make and size and trying to sort it out by UUID later. Wouldn't do it again on purpose unless trying my luck building a NAS box or something.

>>1903
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>>1905
I'm about to write a manifesto about how little I want to hear about programming languages. It's like you're halfway through building a holiday resort and struggling to figure out how to connect the bathing area stairs to the second door on the outdoor balcony, and someone starts talking about what hammer to use to drive in nails again.

>>1907
Well, sorry. You(?) said that C++ is not helping you with a design problem, and that you don't struggle with languages, so I suggested taking a peek at some languages that are radically different to open your mind to how things can be done differently in the language you're already using, not necessarily that you should rebuild everything  in a different language for its own sake, which you would know if you read my post. The idea that all programming languages are effectively interchangeable is a flawed one probably propagated by OOP-oriented language dominance in universities and the industry. In a nobler less pants-on-head retarded time, Scheme (LISP dialect) was required learning in American computer science courses, now it's all OOP-only C/++/#, Python, and sometimes Java, and see where that got us.

Remember, there is a tool for every use case. Besides domain-specific languages, almost every programming language tries to be a Swiss Army knife, and all of them fail, some harder than others. Sometimes using one language to do one problem is like using English words to write Japanese. That doesn't mean that you have to move to Japan and integrate, but it can mean that learning a bit of Japanese may show you how to better express certain things in English. Do you get what I'm saying?

How to spot a LISP user: don't worry, they'll tell you.

>>1910
I don't use LISP, I'm just better off in everything else that I use after learning it, and it was the FP-oriented language I learned first. Haskell is probably as enlightening but I don't know because I've never used it. OOP is embarrassing and decreases IQ points, just learn FP already, it's 20th century technology.

I just want to say it's okay even if you haven't achieved your goals yet.
Just keep at it, making progress one day at a time.
Don't stop.
:)

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Whenever I see the Stardew Valley dev post some weird motivational messages, I feel bad about not having made more progress. For some reason I can empathize with the idea of making it big and then wanting to help other struggling devs, the idea that he couldn't reach anyone makes me sad so it makes me want to achieve something great and thank him or the encouragement.

Basically what I need is my personal spiritual encouragement person who makes me feel bad for disappointing them. Maybe that's why religious people achieved so much greatness in the past, because they wanted God to think well of them.

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What's your excuse in 2025, /agdg/ ?  :D

>>1863
I didn't know there was morse code for backspace.

>>1801
Dwarf Fortress is a massively complex game but it's much easier to make in 2D. TABS is an arcade meme game but easier to make in 3D. Complexity is unrelated, it's specific features that determine it.

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Merry Christmas /agdg/
May you use this extra time this week to master Blender, and help you're are waifu make The Big Escape(tm)(R)(C)(Pat Pending)(Do not steal) in teh realworld!

>ps. I'm really glad you survived to make here to Trashchan, Bros! Cheers.  :)

>>1813
Merry Christmas to you too, anon!

>>1813
Merry Christmas, Chobitsu.

>>1817
You too, brother. Cheers.  :^)
TWAGMI

>>1755
I try first then use the AI, it's just an easier google search

>>1758
That says more about the current state of search engines than anything else.

I finally got some time to work on stuff but I'm so drained.

>>1787
Great stuff.

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>>279 (OP) 
Is there an archive of threads, past "fan" games/content, and/or an archive of the 2015 stream(s)? I've only been able to find a handful of those. Thanks.

It's dead, isn't it? 
A shame. Even cuckchan could finish their SJW parody game.

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>>279 (OP) 
None of the Undertale AUs /v/ermin and quasi-normalshits have made have been even close to the original in quality, so I doubt this will really make Toby Phoenix eat hir heart out, but they're still fun to play I guess.

bump

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>mezzo is a trap
i thought you were going to REMOVE the gay from the game

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Consider this your ANCHOR POST.
Link your submissions to this post.

sleepy/v/ thread is up: https://zzzchan.xyz/v/thread/253345.html
Make a duplicate post over there with your submission.

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I was not prepared!

>>1631
Take your time. There is no rush.

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I want to make some assets to put into my game, but I don't know what to make so I decided to try to design the home map first, and I got demotivated super fast. It's harder than I thought.

Making a map by itself isn't hard, but it's hard to figure out what I want the player to do. I have a vague idea of the player finding items for some upgrades/unlocks (like more storage containers or a better crafting table or something), but I'm not sure what. And when I started drawing a house, I feel like there's way too many containers, I want the player to feel very restricted by inventory space at first and then build/unlock more containers. It's as if I need to make the game first and then design the map, but then I'm running into a chicken and egg problem: I don't know what content to put into the game because I don't have a map design, but I don't know what kind of map to make because I don't have content.

Maybe I can just design a "final" map, and then remove most of it? Like I can put a fridge into my house design, but in-game it's not there and you'd have to first unlock it. Or an entire room is blocked/broken and you need to build it. Or you start out with a bathroom (which feels pointless, but also weird if there isn't one), but can upgrade it into an chemistry lab later.

There's also the problem that I kinda want the player to be able to build as many storage containers as they feel like gathering resources for (I don't think having a hard storage cap is very fun in

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>>1587
Are you trying to invent cataclysm:dark days ahead?

>backpacks
Why not just make everything into a storage? All existing items have to be stored somewhere, and a lot of items are both storages and "items". So simply register every item, by ID/pointer into its storage space. On loading, recursively load all used storages, starting from "the world". 
Its actually important part of the interface. Depending on number of items/buttons, game might start lagging, if every button pressed checks every other button location against it. You will need to separate them into containers anyway. 
And with everything being a container of their own, you can have "hidden" part, where item stores materials its made of.  

>how to ID
You either use half assed system, or make a proper all encompassing item ID system. 
> I want to refer to the inventory by it's name
You dont mean, you literally search all existing items via std::string or something like that?

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>>1587
>>1588
>create_item()
>create_inventory() 
I just realized that the way I explained it doesn't make any sense because I left out context. Those functions in reality are create_iteminfo() and create_inventoryinfo().

The way my stuff is organized is that I have objects and infos. The info represents the object's type and has all the static information about it, like name and description and sprite, you only modify those at game startup. The object has per-object information, like how many items are in an item stack, they are actual objects that exist in the world.

Pic related are the actual, un-edited data structures for my items. What I'm talking about is creating an Iteminfo, and connecting the relevant Inventoryinfoid into it. I don't need or want to store the inventory info's string ID into the item info, I just want the numerical ID, but the item info may be created before the inventory info so the numerical ID wouldn't exist yet.

>Are you trying to invent cataclysm:dark days ahead?
Not sure what makes you think that.

Test.

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New bread.
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>>1194
It just I did everything alright the first time, but it didnt work, so I have to redo it over and over, until I learned that I simply used radians instead of degrees. Not the first time angles fuck me up, its like every fucker invented his own measurement system for them. Yeah, I should have known that this thing uses fucking quaternions, and not degrees, and I am totally heard of them before.  
I spend few hours trying to figure out why textures dont work, and it turns out directX cannot keep textures in memory, if you resize the window. Do you know how hard it is to fix a problem, if you did everything right, but something slightly related has some weird quirk? 
But the good news is, its basically done, and I needed that stuff anyway.

>>1194
>Unrust on your math skills a bit and you'll be capable of pretty awesome complexity.
That reminds me, does anyone have some relevant math resources they'd recommend? I ended up using a function for circle-line distance in >>1160 that I don't understand and I figure developing a stronger foundation will be important.
>>1195
>Do you know how hard it is to fix a problem, if you did everything right, but something slightly related has some weird quirk? 
The last missing piece of the puzzle always seems to take the longest to find! Looking forward to playing your game anon.

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>>1196
>maths distance
Its always the basic geometry and right triangles. 

//lazy square distance
if (abs((int) _a1.posX - (int)_a2.posX) <= 2 ) {
	if (abs((int) _a1.posY - (int) _a2.posY) <= 2) {

You basically check x1-x2 first (and mod it to get positive values), if its below threshold("radius") it collides. And than do it for Y too, because its faster to separate them. 

//advanced distance
/*	if (sqrt(pow(TargetX - posX, 2) + pow(TargetY - posY, 2) * 1.0) <= 5) {
It just works.

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>>1197
In case first image is 100% transparent for you too.

>>1197
>>1198
Ah, thanks for the explanation.