/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.

>>1690
Anon you can't do something all the time when awake.

>>1692
Why not?

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>>1693
Because I am now an old man.

>>1696
NTA.
>Because I am now an old man.
Lol, pls. Just crack the whip on yourself, Anon. Lots of great works have been accomplished by older men. In many ways, you have much more life-experience than young snot-nosed Anons.
>tl;dr
Get.Busy.  :^)

>>1696
So? If you have 2-4 hours of free time, what do you even do with it? Stare at a wall? Just work on your game instead.

>>1606
You sound way too autistic. This kind of pointless approved-words-only autism doesn't help anyone and is one of the reasons why imageboards are dying.

>>1609
Maybe he just means you don't need permission to make a new thread anon.

>>1610
It's not about getting a permission, it's about what you're allowed to do without mods getting mad and deleting your thread. I've had lots of threads around the webring deleted for not being somehow worthy, or because there's still a bumplocked thread buried somewhere in the catalog. But I have no idea what the standards for this board are, which is why I asked;
<What's our policy for bumplocked threads?

>>1611
If the thread is autosaging, you can make another.
I've taken your suggestion and set the bump and post limits closer (530/550) than they were before.

Thanks for the cleanup, it's appreciated.

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>>1668
>if you dont try to intentionally abuse the player, it should be fine
It's not though, there's a lot of things that can be accidentally harmful, as demonstrated here >>1626
Even you seem to mention "weekend bonuses" as if that's not a blatantly abusive thing with no benefit to the player. Holiday events aren't inherently bad because they're a form of celebration and community/culture. But now imagine that you want to make your holiday event even more fun, so you give people 5x XP and make bosses drop unique rare legendary items during Christmas. You might think you're doing people a favor, tons of people log in so clearly people love it, but in reality you just slapped your playerbase with a huge bag of FOMO and made them feel obligated to spend as much of their Christmas as possible inside your game. That may be great for people who have nothing else in their lives and who might have spent it in your game anyway, but it's really abusive towards everyone else.

I've played multiple games that I thought I enjoyed but that made me feel like absolute shit by the end, I think there's some kind of unacknowledged psychological thing where you're gaining satisfaction and motivation because you feel like you're building and working towards something, but then eventually the game's content/progression starts to run ou

Also something like an XP bonus would disincentivize players from celebrating a holiday even in your own game. People who would have otherwise socialized in the holiday themed town square now feel obligated to go grinding for that bonus XP.

>>1669
With that logic all games are evil, because people play them instead of doing something more important. 
And if seeing unread notifications makes you anxious, its not the game fault, you just fucked in the head.

>>1671
I don't think you read the post at all if that's your takeaway.

>>1670
That's a good point. It did occur to me many years ago, but for singleplayer games I just started to change the system date to see thw variations and easter eggs.
It's a shame changing the date is such a pain on linux and BSD.

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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.

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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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>>1188
>Is art your only strong point?
I could do abit of music compostition, it.Well not much but at least something.

>You need to figure out what you're making because art is the last thing you work on
My game is fairly simple, which emphasizes on story and 2d graphics as its major attractiveness. It's an rpg kind of game like FE. What else of element do you think that is hard to implement? The battle, inventory and leveling system are pretty straight forward isn't it? Of course there's going to be a twist on the gameplay designing part, but it is not much harder than doing the artwork.

Most pre-dev art ends up altered or never used because what you can envision is almost always different from what you can realistically create within the confines of the real world.

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I'm working on music for my game, which version do you think sounds better? 
ao is just compressed, am has slightly more complex mixing.

>>1351
I don't know anything about music but I hate that thing where audio goes into one ear only, it makes my head hurt, so I'll say "am".

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>>1352
>I don't know anything about music
I just want it to sound good. 
>I hate that thing where audio goes into one ear only
This one is more mono, which half of the song do you think sounds better?

>>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.

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>>1198
Ah, thanks for the explanation.

>no point in 3D 
Nigger its asteroids. There's no player movement anyway.

>>1112
You haven't played asteroids.

>>1080
Surprised noone responded to this post - this is actually pretty impressive. Care to share the code?

Also, are you the guy who did Super Don't Give Up!! in the last jam? You got the same pixel art/pixel font thing going on. Would be to cool to hear you were still around.

>>1187
Yep, I did SDGU!! last jam. I'll try and find time to post the code with bit of an explanation.

>>1189
Nice. Glad to hear you weren't lost in the move.