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Indie Game Development Discussion Thread | Of Being Professionally Poor
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RelentlessRolento
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I think I've looked at this before in the past and was wondering the same... any thoughts by anyone?
Green Wiggly
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Another GIF, this time showing off moving the big block darkening to individual blocks - makes it look more appealing when damage will be dealt, etc.
And have a logo!
That looks really cool! Congrats on your progress.
Thanks man! There's still more to come yet.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
What would be some big gaming forums apart from gaf that we could post about our game?
I just realised I have no idea how to do marketing and get visibility, apart from trying to send out codes to review sites
I just realised I have no idea how to do marketing and get visibility, apart from trying to send out codes to review sites
As promised, here's the Greenlight.
I'm really thinking about how to handle the crowdfunding aspect. I don't know if it's worth to set up a UK company name and account, so I can launch a Kickstarter. IndieGoGo is a lot easier for mainland Europeans, and I don't need a high sum for the licenses anyway.
Steam Greenlight said:
I'm really thinking about how to handle the crowdfunding aspect. I don't know if it's worth to set up a UK company name and account, so I can launch a Kickstarter. IndieGoGo is a lot easier for mainland Europeans, and I don't need a high sum for the licenses anyway.
Post on TIGSource, post your game on indiedb, post everywhere indies are allowed to, basically.
Also have another GIF!
Working on the title screen...
Hey Guys!
I know there's already a word game in this thread, but I figure another couldn't hurt
I've been working on mine for a couple months now, and it's finally starting to be in a state I can show off. Hopefully more will come in the next few weeks!
Let me know what you think!!!
I know there's already a word game in this thread, but I figure another couldn't hurt
I've been working on mine for a couple months now, and it's finally starting to be in a state I can show off. Hopefully more will come in the next few weeks!
Let me know what you think!!!
Hey Guys!
I know there's already a word game in this thread, but I figure another couldn't hurt
I've been working on mine for a couple months now, and it's finally starting to be in a state I can show off. Hopefully more will come in the next few weeks!
Let me know what you think!!!
Awesome look dude! Just one thing, perhaps give the characters a shadow against the background? they blend into the scenery.
Yeah, I've got a couple solutions I need to try regarding that... thanks!
taku
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See, I feel like it's nigh impossible finding any kind of time to sit down and work on my ideas. However, judging by your answers I realize that I just need to be more stern with my priorities..
Also, Servbot24, show us your game!
Hey Guys!
I know there's already a word game in this thread, but I figure another couldn't hurt
I've been working on mine for a couple months now, and it's finally starting to be in a state I can show off. Hopefully more will come in the next few weeks!
Let me know what you think!!!
It's got a nice mix of lovely pixel art accompanied by a minimalistic clean GUI. So I'd say graphic wise, it looks very well balanced!
As already stated, characters need more "pop!" in contrast with the scenery though.
Full time game industry job here. I work in Unity at my day job and on my side projects, so there's some learning / experience crossover that happens. They way I do it is I get up everyday at 6-630am and work for about 2 hours before going into the day job. I try to tackle large goals on the weekend, and spend about 4-6 hours working each weekend day.
We completely redid the user interface of our game Castaway Paradise. Every option is context sensitive. For example: If you're standing in front of the sea, the game will suggest you use the fishing rod. If you're on farm ground, the game will show you the available crops you have. Usability X1000.
What do you think?
What do you think?
FormallyMegadrive
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We completely redid the user interface of our game Castaway Paradise. Every option is context sensitive. For example: If you're standing in front of the sea, the game will suggest you use the fishing rod. If you're on farm ground, the game will show you the available crops you have. Usability X1000.
What do you think?
I love the ui and the art style. Your game looks very appealing.
maniac-kun
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I am thinking about making a adventure game similar to The legend of Zelda but with isometric 3d cubes or voxels. I will try to do it from scratch using Java / LWJGL.
I allready have decided about how it will look and how i should code the editors.
And because i have no real 3d models that i need i think i could do this project alone. Maybe if iam at a different stage of development i will look for someone who can make me a good soundtrack.
So far i did the first steps for it by coding the base framework and let it draw a single cube
When i have the look i want from it and the editors ready i start thinking about the game itself. But thats still a bit longer away.
I allready have decided about how it will look and how i should code the editors.
And because i have no real 3d models that i need i think i could do this project alone. Maybe if iam at a different stage of development i will look for someone who can make me a good soundtrack.
So far i did the first steps for it by coding the base framework and let it draw a single cube
When i have the look i want from it and the editors ready i start thinking about the game itself. But thats still a bit longer away.
The authors of Chipmunk 2D are in the process of porting their engine over to Unity. They setup a kickstarter (already funded at 5k) here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/howlingmoonsoftware/chipmunk2d-for-unity
Very curious to see how the performance actually compares to the built in Physx engine that Unity uses and how cleanly they can integrate it into the native UI and 3rd party tools.
I've used Box2D for some iOS prototypes in the past, but don't have any experience with Chipmunk. Anyone here use it?
Very curious to see how the performance actually compares to the built in Physx engine that Unity uses and how cleanly they can integrate it into the native UI and 3rd party tools.
I've used Box2D for some iOS prototypes in the past, but don't have any experience with Chipmunk. Anyone here use it?
rbanke
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Hopefully this is a good place for this question. Just want to get a little input.
I've been working on a 2d persistent multiplayer game for quite a while as a hobby for the most part. It's currently written in C++ using DX8 & Winsock with all the other code being my own (no other libraries/engine). Recently I've wanted to expand the scope a bit and decided to make the game more platform independent, mainly targeting Windows, OS X, & Linux and decided that this might be a good time to move over to C# & MonoGame which I've heard a lot of great things about, but the more I learn about it, the more I think I may be mistaken. I don't need most(any?) of the XNA features that it's mainly for and am now it seems that Mono may be the better route for me but I know very little about Mono still so I'm not sure.
I suppose this all boils down to:
-Is MonoGame just a derivative of Mono?
-Am I mistaken in thinking Mono is basically portable C#?
-Is MonoGame still better to use if its networking & pipeline stuff won't be required?
I may as well mention that I was also considering remaining with C++ and just moving to SDL & OpenGL but figured C# would end up allowing me to get things done much faster with probably less bugs in the long run.
I've been working on a 2d persistent multiplayer game for quite a while as a hobby for the most part. It's currently written in C++ using DX8 & Winsock with all the other code being my own (no other libraries/engine). Recently I've wanted to expand the scope a bit and decided to make the game more platform independent, mainly targeting Windows, OS X, & Linux and decided that this might be a good time to move over to C# & MonoGame which I've heard a lot of great things about, but the more I learn about it, the more I think I may be mistaken. I don't need most(any?) of the XNA features that it's mainly for and am now it seems that Mono may be the better route for me but I know very little about Mono still so I'm not sure.
I suppose this all boils down to:
-Is MonoGame just a derivative of Mono?
-Am I mistaken in thinking Mono is basically portable C#?
-Is MonoGame still better to use if its networking & pipeline stuff won't be required?
I may as well mention that I was also considering remaining with C++ and just moving to SDL & OpenGL but figured C# would end up allowing me to get things done much faster with probably less bugs in the long run.
BomberMouse
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I've used it. It's a pretty by the numbers 2D rigid body physics engine. Haven't used Box2D but can't imagine too much creativity on that area. You have shapes (boundaries, trigger collisions) and bodies (mass, velocity, etc.) and lots of types of joints.
Monogame is an open source version of XNA using the Mono framework instead of .net
Mono is comparable to the .net framework not C#. C# is the language .net/mono is the framework the language uses.
I've never used MonoGame but I really like C#. I find it way easier than C++
rohlfinator
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That sounds fantastic -- it's always a bit of a drag in games like Animal Crossing when you have to fiddle around in menus to swap equipment.
Mono is an open source implementation of the .NET Framework, so yeah, it's basically C# that can be run on non-Microsoft platforms.
MonoGame is an open source implementation of the XNA API that can run on top of .NET or Mono. I don't think it has any affiliation with the Mono project outside of that. I'm not really familiar with DirectX but I think MonoGame is a higher-level framework than what you're working with now, so you may be giving up some control in exchange for an easier API to work with.
If you want to switch to C# but stay a bit lower level than MonoGame, you might want to check out http://www.opentk.com/ which wraps OpenGL, OpenCL, and OpenAL and is cross-platform.
rbanke
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Ok, that clears it up some stuff, thanks
Thank you, I'll look into opentk.
Uber huge SSS
You see two new power ups in this screen shot. One speeds up a clone the other slows it down.
This game is getting dangerously close to being a reality. It's gonna be my first game I'm going to sell. Gonna be talking to lawyers and accountants soon. Need to think of a company name...
You see two new power ups in this screen shot. One speeds up a clone the other slows it down.
This game is getting dangerously close to being a reality. It's gonna be my first game I'm going to sell. Gonna be talking to lawyers and accountants soon. Need to think of a company name...
Green Wiggly
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We completely redid the user interface of our game Castaway Paradise. Every option is context sensitive. For example: If you're standing in front of the sea, the game will suggest you use the fishing rod. If you're on farm ground, the game will show you the available crops you have. Usability X1000.
What do you think?
I think that I want to play it.
Green Wiggly
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My thought too. That pixel art is really going to look great once it pops more.
how far are you with your game? I mean is it just a testing ground, is it playable? how much code is it? is it worth it to completely rewrite it? are you happy with your code quality so far?
i've ported some codebases from win dx8/9 to sdl, opengl etc. - it's not that difficult; especially if you wrote the code yourself.
btw
the mentioned opentk had it last stable release in 2010. the last nightly build is from beginning of 2012. one single file in trunk was changed in january 2013 while the rest remains from 2009-11. i would say it's nearly "dead".
I've gotten lots of positive response about my art, which is a bit of relief. I couldn't get an artist collaborator despite multiple tries, so I ended up needing to doing it myself.
I don't really consider myself an artist, but I'm super happy with how it turned out
Thanks for the feedback. I went through some of the documentation on their main site and it looks as expected. Will likely hold off on picking it up/backing it until there's more feedback on how well it's integrated.
Raonak
Banned
Decided to bite the bullet on game maker studio and start coding up the devil may cry inspired 2D action game.
in a week, i've done a lot of progress. quite liking it. movement, blocking, dashing, got the basic attacks working(including launching), combo system, jumping, enemy reactions, even the style bar is working now! (though still needs to be adjusted)
Once the combat system is finished fully, i'll have to really think about what kind of game I want it to be...
Im thinking it's gonna be an actionRPG, but with a demons souls style levels (ie; 5 worlds, can be tackled in any order, each world has 3 levels)
in a week, i've done a lot of progress. quite liking it. movement, blocking, dashing, got the basic attacks working(including launching), combo system, jumping, enemy reactions, even the style bar is working now! (though still needs to be adjusted)
Once the combat system is finished fully, i'll have to really think about what kind of game I want it to be...
Im thinking it's gonna be an actionRPG, but with a demons souls style levels (ie; 5 worlds, can be tackled in any order, each world has 3 levels)
rbanke
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It's the client that this all concerns and the game is very barebones as it is. The only functionality is the rendering engine w/ gui, chat system, player & object movement and some other small interactions but not a lot I would call gameplay. Basically people can walk around, talk move things around, pick them up but not a whole lot else. Being that this is a project I started to learn about many of the things a game like this does, the code is pretty poorly designed which makes it difficult to work with so I'd like to start over and do much of it in a smarter way. It's not so much code that I'd feel overwhelmed doing a total rewrite.
I may do some tests with SDL and see what kind of workflow I can come up with for multiple platforms while I'm exploring the options. Along the C# lines, any other suggestions for multiple platforms outside of what's been mentioned?
Ha OK thanks!
Mystic River
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Finally, made some more time to post some more animations of my puzzle game in gif form.
Actually the animations run at 60 FPS, but I am not sure how to speed up the GIF capture tool so they are running very slow... except for the last one.
Also here is a sample of the palette color replacement for one of the characters.
You can read more details on my blog.
Actually the animations run at 60 FPS, but I am not sure how to speed up the GIF capture tool so they are running very slow... except for the last one.
Also here is a sample of the palette color replacement for one of the characters.
You can read more details on my blog.
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The Everyman
Another GIF, this time showing off moving the big block darkening to individual blocks - makes it look more appealing when damage will be dealt, etc.
And have a logo!
Hey Guys!
I know there's already a word game in this thread, but I figure another couldn't hurt
I've been working on mine for a couple months now, and it's finally starting to be in a state I can show off. Hopefully more will come in the next few weeks!
Let me know what you think!!!
two competing word smiting games?!
Then they should have a word with eachother!
... Ahem
Just got into this gif crazyness too with GifCam (Like they would say in my country: "Estrenando GifCam") so I made a gif of a newly created power for my shmup.
Behold, the Nova Shot!
Sword Familiar
178% of NeoGAF posters don't understand statistics
Word yo.
Anyway, I've been toying around with Stencyl a bit the last few days and I've got to say, it's probably my favorite game editor so far. Pre-installed behaviors are pretty nice and the visual programming part feels really easy to understand. After struggling with game maker, mmf2, construct and others, not really finding anything to my liking, I'm positively pleased with Stencyl so far. Might buy it if I get far enough into building a game, but the free version is more than enough for my current needs.
RobotNinjaHornets
Banned
Another pirate game? *high five*
nicoga3000
Saint Nic
I really love GM Studio. It's perfect for folks like myself who don't have time to delve deep into a more involved language.
maniac-kun
Member
Found some pretty good resource for my project maybe someone finds this helpfull if you want to write a Minecraft like voxel engine:
https://sites.google.com/site/letsmakeavoxelengine/home
https://sites.google.com/site/letsmakeavoxelengine/home
Nice effects. Digging the color palette!
Well his is a little different, as you have to connect the letters to do damage.
That sure looks nice! I think you should consider moving the laser's effect to the background, though, since it currently doesn't let you see the enemies that are underneath it. At best, the player misses out on the death particles, and at worst, an enemy that can actually survive that laser (ie: an indestructible object or a boss) might crash into the player without her knowing.
I made some progress with the menu screens for a game that'll be up for public display in early August. It's actually a really short game I made during a local Game Jam that I've mentioned in the past, and I've been asked by someone to polish it so that it can be displayed at that exposition.
Once that's done, or during stretches of time when it's literally impossible for me to keep working on the jam project, I'll get back to my main one. Hopefully, we'll have something worth showing soon.
Thanks, cool reference information!
Thanks!
Yeah, I noticed that after using/testing it for a while, not only you dont see the enemies but also in the level there are solid structures that you can colide with and the laser also hides them, so I will place the laser behind those elements just as you said.
Also, you were from Argentina right? is it a local event? here we only have some anime events a year but I think there aren't that many game devs in the city, so we don't have public showings over here, would love that thought.
Yeah, I'm from Argentina. It was a very small local game jam that happened some months ago. The game's going to be exposed at an art games exposition that'll be held in Cordoba for a week starting on August 6th. It's been an amazing chance for me, since I still haven't gotten any kind of public exposition yet.
Still, I want to get my personal project done, so once I'm done with this game I'll go back to it immediately. I really got to finish a full, polished game (even if it's short) so I can build a reputation for myself.
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