Making games is incredibly, unbelievably difficult, and even making "the most simple game" can be a backbreaking task. Many of us in here are lucky enough to have the free time/financial resources to work on games, but many don't. If you ever do complete even that simple game, feel very proud of yourself. You can do it!
I've finished one game, and that was a 2-day twin-stick shooter I made in C++ and SDL. Also it was 4 years ago.
My problem is that I feel like I have the skills to make pretty great games and I have tons of free time, but I'm just too lazy and unproductive to get any work done.. But I guess I just have to force myself more! ?Thanks for showing your process. Love seeing the behind the scenes stuff!
Do what I do; make a bunch of crap in a genre you want to make a good game in until you make something good. Like if you want to make a platformer start off with a one screen game with a simple tile system.
Flexible funding, I believe. You can still get raised money even if you don't meet your goal.
Then we may likewise suppose you don't have these skills.
I'd been sitting on this placeholder frame for one of my enemies for a while, so today I'm animating it.
To make this puppy move, what I'll be doing is slicing it up into a bunch of pieces, retouching the pieces to fill in any blanks, get them all moving in the desired way, then retouch.
Here's my initial butcher job. I expanded them out so you can see them better.
I knew what I wanted to do was start iwth a basic idle motion. Kind of a bobbing up and down, with some parts pulsing grossly. What I decided to do was focus on just the downward motion, and after that's in place, I'll reuse some of those frames to bring it back up.
I use photoshop to do my animations. To start, I just did some basic sliding of the body parts to orient everything to the bottom point of its travel. This is 6 frames.
There's no retouching yet. In some cases I rotating a body part a bit by frame to keep it lined up.
Now with that more or less in place, I duplicated some of the frames for traveling downward and put them at the end, but this time in reverse order, so it travels back up. I also retouched it a bit with the brush over top of everything, to add some lighting and other oddities to make it look more natural. I also tweaked his arm and fingers some on the way back up to make it swing a bit more naturally.
This looks about right now, and it didn't take me much time at all. It's kind of a hybrid system -- It's sort of a 2D doll, but it's also sort of traditional. I did more or less the same thing to animate the player character, just with more work put in to get all the poses right.
I'm on schedule to do hopefully finish all of this enemy's remaining animations by the end of today.
For sure. :+It gets worse.
I did.
What I wrote is more or less an advice for those interested, because
I screen, you screen, we all screen for #screengifsaturday.
New slash effects. Improved curve tangent generation for slash arcs. Fixed the hitstop implementation finally. Added radial zoom to solid hits.
New splash effects. This pond has been in the test level forever but I never show it cause it didn't have splashes.
2D game now? When did I suggest otherwise?I did.
at times I see people stumbling with graphics while getting hit by all the
matrices thrown on them, whereby matrices add nothing substantial regarding
basic translation, rotation, scaling, and projection.
So you want to make a 2d game now? What is it about?
Hahahaha. Ask and ye shall receive?
Time to monetize!Had my game 'Gleamer' for free on iOS for the past 24 hours and its now ranked 12 in the most downloaded puzzle games (US store). Ranked 64 in overall games, and 198 in overall apps. Pretty cool...even though I don't get any money.
Take that Tetris!
Thanks
I just updated the design for Saymund, (one of the most important NPCs in my game) which is something I've been wanting to do for a while.
I just updated the design for Saymund, (one of the most important NPCs in my game) which is something I've been wanting to do for a while.
The old design seen in the Kickstarter listing was thicker and rounder and didn't suit the personality of the character as much.
I really like the look of your game, this along with Ghost of a Tale have impressed me as stand out examples of excellent 3D art and animation done by one or two people. It makes me want to learn how to do 3D animation. I think I have the mindset for 3D modeling and animation, I just lack knowledge of the actual software and tools. What do you use to do this?
