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GAF Indie Game Development Thread 2: High Res Work for Low Res Pay
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congrats!
ChiefofCitadelSecurity
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Thank you ! That is a good source.
Awesome! Congrats.
Congrats and good luck!
WOOOOOO!
Jacksinthe
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I'm too busy to make a new thread but you can be the first to be featured in the OP a week from the game's release. I want to start featuring GAF developers and their releases in the OP so you can be my guinea pig.
Also, I CANNOT FUCKING WAIT!
GAF devs should start a quarterly, TBH. I wouldn't mind recording.
MR BLACKMAGIK
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Thanks for the response. I'm still in the very early stages of getting my feet wet with game development but my initial question of costs was referring to the extra costs that can accumulate when actually shipping the game. Such as the list of extra costs outline by the Sixty Second Shooter Prime dev:
http://kotaku.com/how-much-it-cost-to-put-an-indie-game-on-xbox-one-1613428070
Most of those costs were not needed to actually make the game. They are post-development costs associated with publishing the game. If I'm not mistaken.
timetokill
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Wow dude, congratulations!
Dead Prince
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google hangout would be great.
The evidence is now on the record of hot dog bribery and COLLUSION. A thread must never be.
*edit* Too late, the hot dogs are out of the bag.
They were NEVER IN THE BAG
Jacksinthe
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Another, non-editor look at random pixel fades:
Chaos
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Jacksinthe
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I'll work on getting things setup next week. We should all get together and pick dates, format, etc.
FEEP - I've got you down for 1 week before launch for the OP's featured release.
Everyone will get a feature when i start doing them a week before releases, too
Wow, the other indie thread reached the limits? The indie scene is alive on neogaf!
I've been away for some time, and now I'm back. I'm finishing my game. It's currently on beta testing on android and iOs. Soon I'll ask for beta testers here, I'm just fixing some final bugs. I'll post some details soon.
I've been away for some time, and now I'm back. I'm finishing my game. It's currently on beta testing on android and iOs. Soon I'll ask for beta testers here, I'm just fixing some final bugs. I'll post some details soon.
Love the way that fades out. Is it animated or procedural?
As someone who reads these threads for fun but isn't actively developing something, I would love to listen to that.
Jacksinthe
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Procedural-ish. Each 10x10 square fades out at different times and at different speeds every time. Well... That's more random than based on a set of rules so I don't think it qualifies as procedural.
The crappy thing is that I can't ask Mecanim what the current frame of animation playing is when the special attack button is pressed so I have just 2 stances at the moment.
//because Unity
plagiarize
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I'll have to get a bunch of my attractive friends together to try out my game when I plan to do a launch trailer. I could even try to get some D list celebrities I know to do comments on it for fun.
"Primitive has lots of rights angles." From the guy who drew Swamp Thing.
"I suppose maybe there was some direction involved in getting the voice actress to know when to talk?" Says the woman who directed some episodes of Teen Wolf.
"I guess a guy I let sleep over at my house once made a game maybe." Says the guy who co directed a bunch of behind the scenes extras documentaries.
Congratulations all the same. The game looks cool. I loved the original Xcom games and playing something this way is a really neat idea.
Worked for me!
-COOLIO-
The Everyman
congrats man!
Jacksinthe
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Procedural it is! Hahaha! Thanks, Vark!random values based on rules still count
Either way it looks good!
plagiarize
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Something a tiny bit different. My work environment! I'd love to see everyone else's setups. This is most of my evenings. UE4 on all my monitors, music playing.
Something a tiny bit different. My work environment! I'd love to see everyone else's setups. This is most of my evenings. UE4 on all my monitors, music playing.
That's awesome. I'll post mine after I...tidy up some.
Jacksinthe
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Nothing special. My audio rig is in another room.
plagiarize
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Nothing special. My audio rig is in another room.
Bah, to you saying 'not special'. A lot tidier than mine with cool art work. I lobbied my wife for years to let me buy a replica pulse rifle to mount on the wall behind my desk... but no dice. Still, I can't complain much... not many wives would be cool with all the headsets and money I spend on PC hardware.
Jacksinthe
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I'd take pics of the rest of the room which includes custom made lightsabers, original Star Wars figures, artwork, plenty of unboxed toys from the 80s, my coveted original Rubik's Cube still boxed, a master sword, framed Nintendo Power mags and a comfy couch, to name a few.
But its much too powerful to view with virgin eyes in a photo. It must be experienced. I do need a new coat of paint tho. I like the dark and my creativity seems to feed off of it. That and Bassdrive or Space Station Soma when they spin live. Occasionally Venice Classic if I'm only doing code.
I need more monitors tho. Maybe a big ass TV mounted on the wall above to throw TNG on shuffle.
Looks awesome. Congrats! Launch party! Getting the Indie GAF ball rolling for the year.
OccamsBlender
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I love this site, especially for sound effects. I think the OP should have some "looking for graphics/sounds?" resources.
Here are mine:
www.cgtextures.com/
Thousands of free, photo-based textures for non-open source game use. Lots of great seamless tiling textures! The free membership limits you to 15 megs a day and only gives you access to the lowest resolutions. You can pay for unlimited downloads of higher res textures. Many AAA studios do.
Public Domain Photos:
http://www.public-domain-photos.com/
That and using Google Image Search's new licensing feature where you can select Public Domain/Creative Commons license etc.
Congratulations, you have the opposite problem of (I'm guessing) most people at least.
I think a Indie GAF podcast would be fun. Maybe if there were a couple of regular hosts and then two or three guest devs each time. That way there's some persistence but also everyone who wants to step up could have a turn.
Feep, if you still need someone for a thread here, I can help out.
Feep, if you still need someone for a thread here, I can help out.
You don't need to learn everything. Recruit or hire someone, if you don't have the money then use placeholder assets until your project becomes interesting enough to attract talent, etc.
It seems to me many indies kind of look down on specialization, I rather be good at one field than mediocre at many.
I have the same issue he does (thus trying to make placeholder pixel art) and it's mostly a matter of everything looking like shit kills my motivation.
Jacksinthe
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So here's the procedural randomization in action 15x over. I improved some timings a bit and brought the starting opacity to full for each square - i had some start with slight alpha transparency but I do like the pure white to instantly dissolving a bit better.
MR BLACKMAGIK
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A lot of you guys have amazing looking games. Seriously.
Congrats, excite get!
That's the second SSD I've heard someone on GAF talk about dying recently, may I ask what brand/model?
plagiarize
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Backing up right now! Doing an online back up too, which I've been meaning to get in the habit of doing.
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