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[Yoshi]

Do Wii U games need to be rated with USK or something to hit Germany? I haven't really looked in to all the ratings stuff yet as we are still nailing down our final strings and cut scene content first (Which is required for PEGI etc).

Yes, Wii U games need USK ratings in Germany. Those ratings only apply to Germany. As far as I know (but here I'm not completely sure), you also need to get the rating for each platform independently, so if Sony requires USK ratings in Germany, too, then this could be quite expensive.

 

[Paz]

Yes, Wii U games need USK ratings in Germany. Those ratings only apply to Germany. As far as I know (but here I'm not completely sure), you also need to get the rating for each platform independently, so if Sony requires USK ratings in Germany, too, then this could be quite expensive.

I know XBone requires USK but I think PS4 is just PEGI for an EU release, and I think PEGI/ESRB let you get multiple platforms rated off of sending one version and justifying that no version has significantly different age related content.

This whole ratings thing is a mess, be glad you aren't releasing in Australia and have to deal with the OFLC

 

[Yoshi]

I know XBone requires USK but I think PS4 is just PEGI for an EU release, and I think PEGI/ESRB let you get multiple platforms rated off of sending one version and justifying that no version has significantly different age related content.

This whole ratings thing is a mess, be glad you aren't releasing in Australia and have to deal with the OFLC

If I wanted to make this my job, I certainly would have to release in Australia, as it is just a hobby, I will only release where I live (Germany) and wherever I can release without additional cost (so for now, the US?). I really hope this IARC thing gets started soon, for my own sake because I could get around the USK fee, and for all of the professional indie's sake because it probably is a huge hassle and a lot of money. In particular in Germany, if you have to pay the full fee, this is a cost that probably takes a sizable amount of units sold unitl you have recouped the cost... It's a bit annoying you can't just say "I release without age rating, just apply the highest available to my game" :/. I'm still wondering about IARC, do you happen to know if religious content is considered problematic there?

 

[Paz]

I only briefly looked in to IARC before deciding I didn't have the time to bother, it looks like they'll be integrated in to Australia some time next year and then I'll figure it out.

Can't come soon enough really.

 

[missile]

Ahhhh. Nice! I have never seen that LDA until I just looked it up. Doesn't look too complicated with simple maths and a bit shift? I'm skimming at the moment so I may be mistaken - unless I write the math I'm usually very bad XD

Not really complicated, indeed. But the interesting part of Bresenham's line
algorithm is buried deep down below, i.e. how he eliminated the division.
Thing is, this concept is quite universal. You can stretch lines with it!

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

So much life in there! Just that the right hand color seems too dark when compared to his left.

Thanks!
We will look into that for sure, now that ypu say it maybe I see it a little strange.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

So it looks like Apple combined their developer programs, so you now don't have to pay extra to release on OSX if you develop for mobile.

 

[Yoshi]

Regarding my IARC question, for anyone else who wants to have a glimpse at the questions, Mozilla has some screenshots of the questionnaie with one screenshot seemingly showing all topics that can lead to higher age ratings and another one where you have to detail violence in the game (I assume in case you clicked yes in the step before for the question whether there is violence in the game). Too bad they did not show the detailled page for disrcimination though, because I guess this is the important part for my question wrt religion.

 

[anteevy]

Already getting great and valuable feedback in my Google Form:

Which sections (if any) did you find too difficult?
-> "Only played 1-1"

What is your general impression of the game?
-> "Boring sorry."

What would you like to see improved?
-> "Make it more interesting"

(the only 3 questions that were answered)

Not sure if trolling, because he/she left an email adress in the form.

 

[GulAtiCa]

Do Wii U games need to be rated with USK or something to hit Germany? I haven't really looked in to all the ratings stuff yet as we are still nailing down our final strings and cut scene content first (Which is required for PEGI etc).

Probably going to try and get Wii U + PS4 + Vita + PC all rated at the same time whenever all the content is in one version, the whole ratings thing seems so annoyingly complex and obtuse with nobody having all the information :/

Yeah. Nintendo requires USK for Germany if you want to release there.

Really hope Nintendo implements that new system soon so we can get rid of these old rating boards..

 

[MrNyarlathotep]

Too bad they did not show the detailled page for disrcimination though, because I guess this is the important part for my question wrt religion.

I just checked my Google Play Services content rating page to see if I could get you more info, but Discrimination isn't even a category there outside of a single entry in the Language section.

EDIT:
If you're German, it's possibly a territory specific rating; Germany has very explicit laws about the portrayal of "dehumanising elements" within videogames.

 

[Yoshi]

Thanks for the help . I guess, if Nintendo will be ready with IARC in time for me, I'll just pick "often" wrt discriminatory language even though that's probably exaggerating, but being too strict with yourself in your answers should be fine, I guess? Religiously themed conflict does not seem to lead to a complete ban, because otherwise they would probably have to go more into detail here.

 

[MrNyarlathotep]

being too strict with yourself in your answers should be fine, I guess?

I dunno, I had a child friendly game where you play a cartoon witch who shoots cartoon bats jump to being an Adult Only rating in australia because I ticked a box saying bats are 2spooky4me.
I decided to uncheck that box and it dropped back down to a 7+ everywhere.

 

[jimmythepage]

Remade the character screen UI from scratch, the movable windows were a clusterfuck and the drag&drop bug with Unreal4
made them impossible to use, now having them in fullscreen it will be much easier to play with a controller.

OLD

NEW

 

[Blizzard]

The new screen looks like it would be easier to use and clearer, to me.

What drag and drop bug is in UE4, for future reference?

 

[Yoshi]

I dunno, I had a child friendly game where you play a cartoon witch who shoots cartoon bats jump to being an Adult Only rating in australia because I ticked a box saying bats are 2spooky4me.
I decided to uncheck that box and it dropped back down to a 7+ everywhere.

This seems drastic oO. Anyway, I'd be fine with an 18+ rating, the amount of kids playing SRPGs is probably low anyway. As long as the game does not get banned from the eShop everything is fine.

 

[_machine]

Yeah, Pug Bowling by a friend of mine got a "PEGI18 - Extreme Violence" rating and it makes absolutely no sense, especially when CS-esque shooters get a PEGI12 rating.

 

[MrNyarlathotep]

This seems drastic oO. Anyway, I'd be fine with an 18+ rating, the amount of kids playing SRPGs is probably low anyway. As long as the game does not get banned from the eShop everything is fine.

Yeah, Pug Bowling by a friend of mine got a "PEGI18 - Extreme Violence" rating and it makes absolutely no sense, especially when CS-esque shooters get a PEGI12 rating.

It's the problem with a one-size-fits-all checkbox solution; there's no real context behind it.

I found a non-developer link to googles content rating help doc if thats of use to you.

 

[-COOLIO-]

Hey guys, lets talk company names.

If you're naming your company X, what's your favourite way to end it?

...games, studio, company, gameworks, entertainment, co, or... just x?

 

[Blizzard]

Hey guys, lets talk company names.

If you're naming your company X, what's your favourite way to end it?

...games, studio, company, gameworks, entertainment, co, or... just x?

", LLC" (since I think some variant of that was a legal requirement)

But for the fictitious name, I ended in "Software".

 

[D4Danger]

Hi! Full disclosure: I'm helping out the devs of this game

Home Improvisation: It's a game about assembling modular furniture without instructions. It's super whacky and fun and launched on Steam Early Access today!

It's 2-8 players co-op and has a bunch of customization options like colorizing your creations. Check it out!

http://store.steampowered.com/app/357670/

just watched the Giant Bomb QL on this. I knew I saw it in here somewhere.

as someone in the comments said "This seems like the Vinniest of video game."

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/unfinished-home-improvisation-06-02-2015/2300-10225/

 

[jimmythepage]

The new screen looks like it would be easier to use and clearer, to me.

What drag and drop bug is in UE4, for future reference?

Thanks! The built-in Unreal function makes the game crash if you're playing in fullscreen, for that reason we had to remove the fullscreen option for our alpha, but it's something that has been addressed in the 4.8 update of the engine, which shouldn't be too far from release.

 

[SpacePirate Ridley]

So our pixelartist was bored and made this. Motherfucker is fast as hell lol

Im amazingly lucky of having him as a friend and making this quality in so little time for our game.

 

[_machine]

Thanks! The built-in Unreal function makes the game crash if you're playing in fullscreen, for that reason we had to remove the fullscreen option for our alpha, but it's something that has been addressed in the 4.8 update of the engine, which shouldn't be too far from release.

Should be coming this week actually; we're really looking forward to the improved foliage tools (the current UI is properly PITA) and GPU particle collisions.

 

[-COOLIO-]

", LLC" (since I think some variant of that was a legal requirement)

But for the fictitious name, I ended in "Software".

I hadn't considered software actually. I shall ponder my new options.

So our pixelartist was bored and made this. Motherfucker is fast as hell lol

Im amazingly lucky of having him as a friend and making this quality in so little time for our game.

wow.

 

[Yoshi]

It's the problem with a one-size-fits-all checkbox solution; there's no real context behind it.

I found a non-developer link to googles content rating help doc if thats of use to you.

Thank you .

 

[mStudios]

So our pixelartist was bored and made this. Motherfucker is fast as hell lol

Im amazingly lucky of having him as a friend and making this quality in so little time for our game.

A fucking dream come true haha

 

[GulAtiCa]

^^^ That is awesome.

Yes! Finally got word that my game's patch is finally going live Thursday. ZaciSa's Last Stand. You can see all the stuff I added here.

I spent so much time since Nov working on this patch. So excited to finally have it releasing.

 

[HagiG7]

Hey guys!
Just put together a trailer for my game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeqKyY-m5h4
That was my first attempt at making a trailer ever.

Spoiler

I used windows movie maker .

If you have any tips I would be grateful.

 

[pixelpai]

So our pixelartist was bored and made this. Motherfucker is fast as hell lol

Im amazingly lucky of having him as a friend and making this quality in so little time for our game.

well.. i'd like to be his friend, too... is it possible.. please.

just awesome.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

So our pixelartist was bored and made this. Motherfucker is fast as hell lol

Im amazingly lucky of having him as a friend and making this quality in so little time for our game.

Hold on to that friend

 

[mStudios]

Made Celia Breathing animation:

Tried to make her eye moves. However, doesn't look good on the animation, since the animations its a loop lol

 

[bkw]

Made Celia Breathing animation:
Tried to make her eye moves. However, doesn't look good on the animation, since the animations its a loop lol

Nice and subtle. I haven't checked any references, but I wonder if people move their eyes that slowly and smoothly if they're not tracking something. Don't eyes dart around more? Maybe keep the eyes still and put in a blink instead?

 

[timetokill]

So our pixelartist was bored and made this. Motherfucker is fast as hell lol

Im amazingly lucky of having him as a friend and making this quality in so little time for our game.

Hell of a friend to have, dude. Give him my regards.

 

[mStudios]

Nice and subtle. I haven't checked any references, but I wonder if people move their eyes that slowly and smoothly if they're not tracking something. Don't eyes dart around more? Maybe keep the eyes still and put in a blink instead?

Thanks!
Well, the eye moving is not part of the animation at all. I made it to control the eye through coding(Which Live2D SDK allows to do so), in case she needs to move her head (which I haven't done that animation yet). I also need to do eye blinking, I've been forgetting!

 

[Five]

Tried to make her eye moves. However, doesn't look good on the animation, since the animations its a loop lol

It looks like you're only using two key frames. I'd change it up a little if I were you.

First of all, the eye movement shouldn't be on the timeframe as the breathing even if the loop length is the same. Otherwise it's a little too obvious. This is a moot point if you're doing dynamic eye movement, but just in case you're not, I'd recommend either offsetting the keyframes by a half measure or making it so that they eyes quickly dart instead of smoothly interpolating.

The other thing that helps with resting animations is a double bounce where one of the bounces is larger than the other.

Some graphs to help illustrate what I'm talking about:

 

[mStudios]

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Oh wow, thanks!
I followed your suggestion and did: 0 / 0.5 / 0 / 1 / 0 (to restart the loop)

 

[Five]

Oh wow, thanks!
I followed your suggestion and did: 0 / 0.5 / 0 / 1 / 0 (to restart the loop)

That looks great! I'm glad I could help.

 

[RhysD85]

After a year of on and off development (day job and night dev takes its toll ) Fort Meow has a release date of 25 June! Coming to Steam and iPad More information here - http://www.fortmeow.com

This thread in particular has helped a bunch with inspiration and encouragement, especially when the end seemed so far away. So thank you!

 

[taku]

After a year of on and off development (day job and night dev takes its toll ) Fort Meow has a release date of 25 June! Coming to Steam and iPad More information here - http://www.fortmeow.com

This thread in particular has helped a bunch with inspiration and encouragement, especially when the end seemed so far away. So thank you!

That logo looks top notch. Congratulations and good luck!
It is lovely to see more non-violent games out there as I feel they are rather few and far between.

 

[RhysD85]

That logo looks top notch. Congratulations and good luck!
It is lovely to see more non-violent games out there as I feel they are rather few and far between.

Thanks for the kind words Hopefully it will appeal to people after a non-violent experience, especially people who like playing games with their kids from time to time.

 

[Pehesse]

Oh wow, thanks!
I followed your suggestion and did: 0 / 0.5 / 0 / 1 / 0 (to restart the loop)

So far, I think this one looks the best, too. Good job!

 

[missile]

So our pixelartist was bored and made this. Motherfucker is fast as hell lol

Im amazingly lucky of having him as a friend and making this quality in so little time for our game.

He deserves a beer! :+

 

[bkw]

Sorry if I've asked this before (I feel like I have...)

I'm trying to mask an area of my gameplay off in Unity, but I can't figure it out. I have a rocket ship on a background that I want to appear inside a "box" or a window, and then have it "take off" so it disappears as it moves outside of the mask/window area. How would I approach this? Stencil buffer? Render textures? Something else?

I'd generally have to dabble with shader right? I don't have too much experience with shaders.

 

[Jacksinthe]

I have a question for everyone:

If you are presented with a myriad of weaponry, are you the type to find one you really like and use it 90% of the time or are you the type that will use them all equally?

I'm going over boss weapons at the moment. Part of me likes having multiple weapons available to the player but the other part of me thinks the concept is an exercise in nothing more than switching to the best weapon and hitting the same button again to produce the same end result (usually).

Would you prefer one-off powerups that make you feel strong or the always available weapon swap with balanced weapons that aren't OP?

 

[Blizzard]

Sorry if I've asked this before (I feel like I have...)

I'm trying to mask an area of my gameplay off in Unity, but I can't figure it out. I have a rocket ship on a background that I want to appear inside a "box" or a window, and then have it "take off" so it disappears as it moves outside of the mask/window area. How would I approach this? Stencil buffer? Render textures? Something else?

I'd generally have to dabble with shader right? I don't have too much experience with shaders.

I'm not familiar with Unity, especially not 2D in Unity.

However, if you're doing 2D could you just make the "window" object and put it in front of all other objects on your "stage" or whatever it's called? Then everything would be seen through the hole.

 

[Ashodin]

^^^ That is awesome.

Yes! Finally got word that my game's patch is finally going live Thursday. ZaciSa's Last Stand. You can see all the stuff I added here.

I spent so much time since Nov working on this patch. So excited to finally have it releasing.

Patch buddies!

 

[GulAtiCa]

Patch buddies!

Did yours get NOA approved? NCL testing now?

 

[Ashodin]

Did yours get NOA approved? NCL testing now?

Fully through! Should be out very soon!

 

[bkw]

I'm not familiar with Unity, especially not 2D in Unity.

However, if you're doing 2D could you just make the "window" object and put it in front of all other objects on your "stage" or whatever it's called? Then everything would be seen through the hole.

I just don't know how to properly make the window object.