What engine and language is used for a project like this for the Wii U? And the other consoles for that matter. I'd love to make a console game eventually but I have no idea how to go about it, both on an engine level and how to get in contact with the console companies :/
Finally completed the -very- simple Wii U (Eshop - US for now) game I was working on.
Objective is to destroy all the targets in each level/world as fast as possible. (record locally saved)
There's so much more features I'd like/planned to implement but unfortunately so little time. (damn full time job)
Features:
- 720p 60fps
- Off-TV
- Gyro aiming (Metroid Blast-ish)
- 10 levels/worlds
Direct-feed gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R35uWvL5R40
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BrokenIcarus
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You can use whatever engine supports these consoles, if you deal with the licensing.
I'd think most people would use C++ for console development and I know that Sony packages a LLVM C++ compiler with their development tools.
I'd figure it'd be very similar with MS and Ninty, but you can use whatever language you want, if you can write a compiler for it
Disorientator
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This was made in Unity.
I'm on my mobile now so can't post much details, but this site (https://wiiu-developers.nintendo.com) has all the info you'll need to get started with Nintendo's indie program.
BomberMouse
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Where and how can I give you my money?
Another shot of the rainforest, just without the rain this time:
Been doing a lot of preparations work toward the launch. There's plenty of left and now a whole a lot of time, but I'm super excited to get so close to the launch despite knowing that it'll be pretty much the only thing at the back of my head.
Will have get some more exciting material next week when I'm back on my work computer, but so far our very closed beta seems to be working quite well. Some crashes here and there (some fixed) and somewhat large balance issues (though known and currently working on them), but we should probably think of ideas for competitions to allow some additional players in. Ideas are welcome...and might get rewarded with a beta key
Been doing a lot of preparations work toward the launch. There's plenty of left and now a whole a lot of time, but I'm super excited to get so close to the launch despite knowing that it'll be pretty much the only thing at the back of my head.
Here's my screenshot saturday... almost done with lining Big Blue's entire moveset this week. Then there's still color...I'm tired
Sick animations! I really like them. Plus the old trainer in the background
#ScreenshotSaturday more like #SaturdayScketches for me... I don't have anything painted, but sketches!
AlphaProspector
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Well, hopefully by next saturday I may finally have a mock screenshot for my visual novel. After going past the agreed deadline with the main character artist (and still no replies up to this day...) I ended up asking the guy who has being doing my kawaii moe uguu fairies (a third one is in sketching atm) to help me with the main characters. Thank god he agreed...
Frustrating, yes, but at least this happened now and not in the middle of publishing negotiations or through a crowdfunding (something I've already seen happening to other projects). He's been much more clear and transparent in his communication too so that has been a huge plus as well.
Meanwhile, I'm experimenting a lot on the coding side too since I got a bit rusty from all the writing and graphic editing. That part where you put the wrong script or code and your screen comes out all borked, screen elements placed everywhere but in the places where they should be, lol.
edit: mStudios I feel your pain. Sketch hell is like a sketchy hell, haha! Good luck with those and looking forward to see them finished!
Frustrating, yes, but at least this happened now and not in the middle of publishing negotiations or through a crowdfunding (something I've already seen happening to other projects). He's been much more clear and transparent in his communication too so that has been a huge plus as well.
Meanwhile, I'm experimenting a lot on the coding side too since I got a bit rusty from all the writing and graphic editing. That part where you put the wrong script or code and your screen comes out all borked, screen elements placed everywhere but in the places where they should be, lol.
edit: mStudios I feel your pain. Sketch hell is like a sketchy hell, haha! Good luck with those and looking forward to see them finished!
Haha, thanks. I do have a Patreon, but it doesn't have any traction, so you're probably better off just waiting for the actual release, which is... still a ways off. But I'll get there, even if I have to stitch my drawing hand together with glue before then :-D
(On that note, I'm debating between different price points for the final release, but I'm also strongly considering a "pay what you want" model with no base... anyone got any experience on that to share?)
Sick animations! I really like them. Plus the old trainer in the background
#ScreenshotSaturday more like #SaturdayScketches for me... I don't have anything painted, but sketches!
Whoa, that's one big emote! Thanks
The old trainer/referee doesn't have much of a role in the rest of the game, so I'm putting him to as much use as I can where I can :vG'luck with the sketches! That's the phase I kind of like most, apart from when it's all actually finished and coming together :-D
AcceptableGhost
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Does everyone get a message from this guy?
Does everyone get a message from this guy?
Heh, yep, I got 2 messages from this guy. I imagine some devs gave him some keys for being "funny" so now he's trying the same with everyone. In my case, I just ignored him.
I wish I have ignored all the "Steam reviewers" that also ask for keys (guys that don't have a blog or youtube channel, just want keys in exchange for reviews in Steam... but not even that they will do at the end). I advice to send keys to small youtubers, several of them are pretty thankful of getting keys, in my case none of them failed to make videos about the game.
Jacksinthe
Banned
Sweet. Filtered his email to my trash. Perfect!Does everyone get a message from this guy?
That looks neat and I will probably order it. I did notice several comments saying that the 4th edition is pretty bad (smaller font, removed chapter on color, removed margin notes and/or smaller font in margins, paper so thin you can see through it, etc.). I'm trying to order the 1989 paperback edition instead.Yup. I'm learning how to draw alongside C# and Unity stuff. Starting off with this book
I'm also taking art classes in this upcoming semester.
That's awesome, do you mind sharing some of the tutorials and resources you found? Some of the rest of us also trying to learn to do art ourselves might find that really useful!Speaking of programmer's needing art I ended up posting online about paying someone to put together a "real" model to test my systems on compared to my objects made up of default cubes in Unity. Don't want to keep working on building things that might not work with an actual character model. Surprised that once I told most folk what I was looking for (no texture/low-poly) they would suggest I do it myself and sent some great tutorials/resources.
Still needs to be rigged but I'm hoping that for testing things like rotation, animation and everything else it will work out. Once I get further along to in development I'll probably end up paying for something of a higher quality - have to get to that point first though!
You can use whatever engine supports these consoles, if you deal with the licensing.
I'd think most people would use C++ for console development and I know that Sony packages a LLVM C++ compiler with their development tools.
I'd figure it'd be very similar with MS and Ninty, but you can use whatever language you want, if you can write a compiler for it
I see, thanks
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
Here's my screenshot saturday... almost done with lining Big Blue's entire moveset this week. Then there's still color...I'm tired
That looks great.
timetokill
Banned
Latest voxel body progress
Jacksinthe
Banned
Anyone want to give me some backfeed on the site layout and design?
http://absinthegames.com/
I'd appreciate it!
http://absinthegames.com/
I'd appreciate it!
liliththepale
Banned
It's pretty good. Not particularly inspired, but easily readable and plenty of proper information at a glance without being too busy.
One minor gripe is I expected the Games button in the navbar to bring me to a sub directory, rather than having the drop down menu as the only option. For now, since it's just the one game, you may as well have "Games" link to IC.
I would probably combine the About and Contact page into one. You don't have to—I've seen lots of sites both ways—it just feels neater to me.
That looks like it's going to be a pain in the ass to animate. Any plans for that?
Jacksinthe
Banned
All good feedback, thanks. I do have a legit "games" page setup I might revamp to get rid of the drop-down. Probably neater that way.
HP_Wuvcraft
Banned
I fear linking the SGC page here.
A bit more work on my little gameboy game side project, I have tile based collision, and transitioning between rooms working - now I'm working on filling out a simple map.
Progress has been really slow, it's crazy how many little details you have to think through when everything is in assembly. In particular I have to spend a lot more time thinking about data layout.
I don't think I'll have a game to submit for gbjam at this rate, but I'm having so much fun that I think I'll keep working on it for a while.
Progress has been really slow, it's crazy how many little details you have to think through when everything is in assembly. In particular I have to spend a lot more time thinking about data layout.
I don't think I'll have a game to submit for gbjam at this rate, but I'm having so much fun that I think I'll keep working on it for a while.
Look good, very clean. I'm not sure I'm a fan of the huge absinthe games banner/header on every page though. Need to scroll on every page to see the content. Also, I personally like to immediately see the link to like/follow the game, as well as where I can buy, preorder, green light, etc. When I scan the page (for Infinite Cosmos), I'm expecting the Facebook / twitter icons, as well as the usual Google Play / AppStore buttons.
dancrane212
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Majority of what was linked is in the Reddit tutorial Wiki for blender but the most helpful resource was this video - pretty specific to my case though!
Rigging was much more difficult than I thought - think it took me twice as long as modeling did.
Should be working on a mech dancing simulator.
i assume it's when you give it to someone who doesn't have any idea about the fact that it takes work to make things
seeing behind the curtain ruins things!
I doubt there are very many sophisticated games that ever stopped being a big pile of assets and problems. Being an experience often takes distancing yourself from the project, which obviously is hard when you're neck deep.
If there are some parts of the map you haven't played recently, go back and play them. Have some fun with something you're not actively working on. It should help bring some abstraction and understanding back.
Thanks, that Blender list is nice!Majority of what was linked is in the Reddit tutorial Wiki for blender but the most helpful resource was this video - pretty specific to my case though!
Rigging was much more difficult than I thought - think it took me twice as long as modeling did.
Should be working on a mech dancing simulator.
I seem to remember rigging being somewhat simple besides the user interface when I was doing it, but I was doing a basic human-ish skeleton instead of a mech. I also didn't mess with constraints or whatnot. Here's a very short video which you might want to watch anyway since it shows how to rig very quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLsBnLn41-U
On an unrelated note, the first round of Ludum Dare theme voting is up at http://ludumdare.com/compo/ if anyone wants to vote. I downvoted everything besides Seasons this first round, which is kind of rare for me.
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timetokill
Banned
Planning to break it apart into parts and rig it like a multi-part model.
liliththepale
Banned
Oh, okay. I didn't know if you're going to make a new model for each frame like Phil Fish did in Fez, or something else. It's been a while since I played it, but I think the method you're doing is how they animated characters in 3-D dot game heroes.
timetokill
Banned
Yeah, if I was gonna do a new model for each frame I'd make it like NES size. Which I still might do, I'm just exploring for now.
I've missed Screenshot Saturday by a few hours, but whatever. It's still Saturday somewhere.
I just got done adding scenery objects and parallax background layers, and I'm really happy with how it looks. And I did the HUD on Thursday, with the circular health bar that took forever to figure out.
There's still so much work that has to be done before I'm even ready to show off one level, but I'm happy to already have something that somewhat resembles a game.
I just got done adding scenery objects and parallax background layers, and I'm really happy with how it looks. And I did the HUD on Thursday, with the circular health bar that took forever to figure out.
There's still so much work that has to be done before I'm even ready to show off one level, but I'm happy to already have something that somewhat resembles a game.
timetokill
Banned
Annnnd one last update for the "end" of Saturday. I felt like I was decently productive. Getting faster at this now.
BrokenIcarus
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Minor gripe, but I hate it when you have navigation boxes where only the text within is a link, you should be able to click anywhere in the box imo.
Other then that, I'm loving it!
So for a beginner this has been a pretty productive first proper week.
Learning to code (albeit i did a little c++/cobol on a course 20 years ago.....) in c#, use Visual Studio, and start to get to grips with Unity. Considering i've only been doing it during limited moment of free time, it does go to show you can teach an old dog new tricks!!!!
Been a pretty steep learning curve but I grabbed parts of what i've wanted to do from various online sources to put together the basics - controlling player/camera, spawning/killing enemies with projectiles and then restricting the player/camera to make it look even more like a level.
I've really enjoyed it especially the problem solving (once they were solved anyway) and probably the silliest mistakes were the best as it helped me to learn what was going on instead of just c&p someone else's code and loosely getting to grips with things
I've even managed to 'from scratch' create a basic enemy ai so I really feel like i am beginning to gather some of the early building blocks required to take things forward.
You never know i might even have a gif to put up before the end of the year ........
Thanks for posting that would have probably ordered the 4th edition and not realised - i didn't see anything like that in the quick look that i had for reviews on amazon uk. Made me dig a little deeper and realised what a bad decision the 4th edtion would be - probably going to go for the 3rd edition but i reckon both 2 and 3 are just as worth it.
Learning to code (albeit i did a little c++/cobol on a course 20 years ago.....) in c#, use Visual Studio, and start to get to grips with Unity. Considering i've only been doing it during limited moment of free time, it does go to show you can teach an old dog new tricks!!!!
Been a pretty steep learning curve but I grabbed parts of what i've wanted to do from various online sources to put together the basics - controlling player/camera, spawning/killing enemies with projectiles and then restricting the player/camera to make it look even more like a level.
I've really enjoyed it especially the problem solving (once they were solved anyway) and probably the silliest mistakes were the best as it helped me to learn what was going on instead of just c&p someone else's code and loosely getting to grips with things
I've even managed to 'from scratch' create a basic enemy ai so I really feel like i am beginning to gather some of the early building blocks required to take things forward.
You never know i might even have a gif to put up before the end of the year
........Thanks for posting that would have probably ordered the 4th edition and not realised - i didn't see anything like that in the quick look that i had for reviews on amazon uk. Made me dig a little deeper and realised what a bad decision the 4th edtion would be - probably going to go for the 3rd edition but i reckon both 2 and 3 are just as worth it.
Day 2 of Ludum Dare voting is up (http://ludumdare.com/compo/ld33-theme-voting-round-2-of-5/):
Ludum Dare said:
Icyflamez96
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Can anyone who knows Unity help me out with a problem i'm having? It's something probably basic that i'm having trouble figuring out. The comment chain tells you everything about what my problem was and where i'm at with it now https://www.reddit.com/r/Unity3D/comments/3h55je/help_i_have_an_empty_object_with_an_audio_source/
Yup. That's why I avoided that version.
i'm sure that guy hates me by now lol
Yup. That's why I avoided that version.
Dead Prince
Banned
I voted for something broken. Just so I can release a broken unfinished game
dancrane212
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Turns out I was setting pivot points all over the place and kinda borked my rig. Ended up doing it over to get the animation working "better".
Figure that's good enough for me to do my testing. Happy to wave goodbye to Blender and get back to working and coding in Unity.
Figure that's good enough for me to do my testing. Happy to wave goodbye to Blender and get back to working and coding in Unity.
GroundCombo
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The error message tells you that the world1 reference isn't pointing to anything (= is null), so you probably haven't dragged the scene object containing the music script to the world1 variable in the MainMenu object.
Icyflamez96
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:O Ohhh so you drag the whole object into the slot.... Thanks!
HellBlazer
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Well, that's getting rather convoluted but... To make it work as it is now, I think you just need to drag the game object that has the World1Music script (not the script file itself) into the World1 slot of your Main Menu object.
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Risk Breaker
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Been working a bit on a (main?) character this week, learning anatomy and stuff since it's the first character I ever do.
Also did some work on my environments, not much though. Learning how to decal, trying materials and post processing, fog, etc.
I would also like to ask you guys, specially since you know next to nothing about my project (it'll be ready at some point!), what name intrigues you more:
or
? Both names still subject to change 
Also did some work on my environments, not much though. Learning how to decal, trying materials and post processing, fog, etc.
I would also like to ask you guys, specially since you know next to nothing about my project (it'll be ready at some point!), what name intrigues you more:
Twelve
Twelfth Moon
Chaos
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3dbuzz.com sell a dvd called Maya fundamentals, there is a project in it where you model and animate a simple mech.
It uses Maya but you might be able to follow along in blender if that is any interest to you.
https://youtu.be/tagDIZXfQ7o
3dpalace make mechs tutorials in 3dsmax
http://www.3d-palace.com/store/#!/Hard-Surface-3d-Masterclasses/c/13657816/offset=0&sort=nameAsc
timetokill
Banned
Wow, how am I supposed to follow that up with my voxel humans? XD
Also, neither of those titles really sparks my interest, but at least the latter suggests something like... sci-fi or something.
Uh, anyway..... ;__;
liliththepale
Banned
I would also like to ask you guys, specially since you know next to nothing about my project (it'll be ready at some point!), what name intrigues you more:
orTwelve
? Both names still subject to changeTwelfth Moon
Twelfth Moon is a little generic. I like how structurally obtuse "Twelve" is. It doesn't mean anything on its own, but being a title you know it's supposed to mean something, so the audience ascribes a level of mysticism to it. It's fantastic! To me, at least.
Icyflamez96
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orTwelve
? Both names still subject to changeTwelfth Moon
I didn't think Twelfth Moon sounds more generic, I actually thought more the contrary if anything. Still, Twelve sounds better.
Twelfth isn't a good word.
electroflame
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Twelve is better, but when picking names it's also important to think about the "Googleability" of that name.
If you type "Twelve" into Google I don't think it'll bring you anywhere close to your game. Even typing something like "Twelve game" might not help.
Of the two, I prefer Twelve, but I figured I'd bring up that it will confuse search engines when people are trying to find out more info on your game.
If you type "Twelve" into Google I don't think it'll bring you anywhere close to your game. Even typing something like "Twelve game" might not help.
Of the two, I prefer Twelve, but I figured I'd bring up that it will confuse search engines when people are trying to find out more info on your game.
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