Depends what kind of game. If it's DOOM then no. If it's sidescrolling or top down then probably!
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Indie Game Development Discussion Thread | Of Being Professionally Poor
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Sylverstone14
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Got a nice post in the works - my college hosted an indie games festival (called Green Mountain Games Festival) showcasing student works and local developer works today and it was amazing!
Rami Ismail (Vlambeer) and Zoe Quinn (Depression Quest) were there to talk, and it was pretty awesome.
Pictures and a video to come with the next few days!
Rami Ismail (Vlambeer) and Zoe Quinn (Depression Quest) were there to talk, and it was pretty awesome.
Pictures and a video to come with the next few days!
Polioliolio
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Thanks, though I mean between the two, which one should I go with?
I'm completely new to game design other than some miscellaneous classes I've taken 5 or more years ago.. Didn't really learn a thing, but I bet I could.
The game will be 2D. Originally wanted it to be limited visually to the look of an SNES game, but may end up going the painted route. 2D single screen gameplay.
I like Game Maker for 2D single screen gameplay. It has nice scripting if you decide to get more complex, too. Feel free to try tutorials in both, in case one clicks for you more than the other.
Polioliolio
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Thanks. I got the free studio copy today.
Is that competent enough to make a fully featured 2D game or should I go ahead and cough up the bucks for the pro version?
Is that competent enough to make a fully featured 2D game or should I go ahead and cough up the bucks for the pro version?
You can do just fine with the free version. Start googling tutorials and get going! The sooner you try it the sooner you'll find out more, or have questions and we can answer them!
Polioliolio
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Great, thanks for your help!
Depends on if you mean the Free version or the Standard version that's on sale (free) right now. The Free version limits how many objects, sprites and rooms you can have. Standard is perfectly fine.
bumpkin
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Blah, I was hoping to have something together for screenshot Saturday, but my only means of capturing video leads to really choppy clips; even choppier GIFs. Although in all fairness, I'd just be exhibiting core/basic engine behaviors with placeholder art from other 2D games.
Someday!
Someday!
Two new music samples for Project Slide from our composer, Bel_Air_Jeff!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sc2sqshefwY
Hope you enjoy, also any feedback is appreciated.
ALSO we are still looking to bring on board a programmer (Unity, C#) and someone with 3D animation experience, PM me if you are interested.
Bel_Air_Jeff
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Two new music samples for Project Slide from our composer, Bel_Air_Jeff!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=sc2sqshefwY
Hope you enjoy, also any feedback is appreciated.
ALSO we are still looking to bring on board a programmer (Unity, C#) and someone with 3D animation experience, PM me if you are interested.
Check it out guys!
I'm back in business!
After the successful release of Snails, I've went on a break, but now I'm back at full force.
Snails was only released on Windows Phone, and there's no project at the moment to release it on other platforms. This time around, I'm going to aim iOS/Android from the start and reach a bigger market.
I'm developing a new engine based on the C# engine we built for Snails, but this time I'm using C++ to make it compatible with any platform. At this stage everything is working and I've already started developing a new game. This time is a much simpler project. Snails took 3 years to develop, this time I'm hoping to complete the project in under 3 months. Gameplay is almost all in place and soon I'll be starting the visuals.
I've integrated Box2D in the engine to get improved collision detection and physics.
Cheers!
Ho boy, I missed this thread...
After the successful release of Snails, I've went on a break, but now I'm back at full force.
Snails was only released on Windows Phone, and there's no project at the moment to release it on other platforms. This time around, I'm going to aim iOS/Android from the start and reach a bigger market.
I'm developing a new engine based on the C# engine we built for Snails, but this time I'm using C++ to make it compatible with any platform. At this stage everything is working and I've already started developing a new game. This time is a much simpler project. Snails took 3 years to develop, this time I'm hoping to complete the project in under 3 months. Gameplay is almost all in place and soon I'll be starting the visuals.
I've integrated Box2D in the engine to get improved collision detection and physics.
Cheers!
Ho boy, I missed this thread...
My games wrapping up, I've spent longer working out how to do menus and stuff then actually making the main game. People can now toggle between what kind of visual look they want, spent time doing this because I know some people hate scanlines and all that.
I need a couple of people to test the game on different OS before I put it up on itch.io. If you're interested just send me a PM!
I need a couple of people to test the game on different OS before I put it up on itch.io. If you're interested just send me a PM!
That Eyeball shot is terrifying.
That's awesome, really like how this sounds. Look forward to see the entirely finished game!
Oh boy stupid Unity, did a number1 > number2 check and everytime it was true when it shouldn't.
I printed out the numbers and sure enough they were the same. I was like wtf. It wasn't until I printed out the difference when Unity decided to showed me they aren't really the same
I printed out the numbers and sure enough they were the same. I was like wtf. It wasn't until I printed out the difference when Unity decided to showed me they aren't really the same
Oh boy stupid Unity, did a number1 > number2 check and everytime it was true when it shouldn't.
I printed out the numbers and sure enough they were the same. I was like wtf. It wasn't until I printed out the difference when Unity decided to showed me they aren't really the same
I had a weird thing earlier. Out of nowhere one of my colliders stopped registering for no good reason. Looked for literally a few hours of code and couldn't find the issue. Deleted the collider and made a new one - nothing else changed. Works. I have no clue why. Literally all i did was delete the collider and re-attach a new one to the same dimensions. Nothing else changed. Nothing.
I'll add yours and mine to my list of "huh... really..." Unity moments. Shit had me fucking strung out like I was on withdrawal earlier ready to set fire to things.
This is the sort of thing that terrifies me about jumping into Unity. At least with XNA if something didn't work, I could usually narrow it down to some problem in my code.
Pshhh, things magically started working for me in XNA all the time.
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
The only problem I've had in Unity that wasn't my fault was when it used to hang on exiting.
Every IDE has its quirks, bugs and issues. Not even limited to programming. Can be any tool from Photoshop to Maya to audio programs like Pro Tools, Logic, etc. Dont even get me started on Logic, FML. Everything has its bugs. Some big, some small. I spent hours once in Reaktor building an instrument in standalone, brought it in to Logic... Nope. Nope. Nope nope nope. Stand alone? Yep. As a plugin? Nope. You just gotta take a deep breath and roll with it sometimes.
Mystic River
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wondering what do you use to convert the kinect capture to 3d mocap? I am also interested to do something similar in the future
electroflame
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First time posting in here -- didn't see the thread for a while!
With Unity, you can use something like Cinema Mo Cap.
With Unity, you can use something like Cinema Mo Cap.
balgajo
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First time posting in here -- didn't see the thread for a while!
With Unity, you can use something like Cinema Mo Cap.
The sad thing is that most of times we don't know why the code works it sends a bug to get us one day.
No problem, as you please! Btw; how many are 'we'?
That's what I'm after as well
, making a game for a niche demographic, agame I can't make today on a global scale, but locally I already evaluate/
develop some of its core components from scratch which will find use in some
other games of mine way before. What I like about making games for a niche
demographic is that people in there appreciate the fine details much more.
Are you guys working full-time on that game?
copy *.*
It was really weird, both numbers should have been 1.8, Debug.Log(number1...number2) showed them as 1.8.
Even Debug.Log(number1.toString("F16")) showed them as 1.8 with a lot of zeros after the decimal point because I wanted to be sure that this isn't a rounding error.
When I printed out the diffference I got 0.2E-07, thanks for letting me know Unity.
If anything it teaches me to use the actual debugger and not clutter the console with debug messages. But I use Visual Studio and apparently I have to use Mono IDE to debug aka too much hassle ._.
Yeah, I figured there's be some weirdness. The worst kinds of bugs are those that aren't consistent, like the example where removing then re-adding an element suddenly made it work. I can deal with something that's broken but can be reproduced. Oh well... game development
We are 3. One of us is a 3D animator and designer who also rigs and sets up 2D and 3D cutscenes. My other friend is a software engineer turned game programmer, outside of my many changes during POCs he loves doing it. I also design, am doing all sprite work for Strafe, I program basic and core systems (I leave gameplay programming to my friend but we defer to each other for almost everything), I work sound FX (both design and Foley) and also have the availability to dive into analog audio for composition with a few friends who pull strings with the Chicago Symphony orchestra (these strings are few so I dont pull them unless I REALLY friggin need them and more for sampling than complete compositions). We all work on this part-time outside of our day jobs but since I have a huge workload that extends beyond development I burn the candle in the middle sometimes, too. I just cross my fingers and hope that we nail everything as best we can.No problem, as you please! Btw; how many are 'we'?
That's what I'm after as well
game I can't make today on a global scale, but locally I already evaluate/
develop some of its core components from scratch which will find use in some
other games of mine way before. What I like about making games for a niche
demographic is that people in there appreciate the fine details much more.
Are you guys working full-time on that game?
copy *.*
There will be stuff for Gaffers after we Kickstart our mini game for about 3k. Just enough for a few Unity licenses we need, the rest I am covering on my own. So its noodles for me for a while ha! Not sure if our mini Ninja Gaiden styled game can get 3k since its not a graphical showstopper but the gameplay is there. We can only voice our passion about making games and our first foray into development with Strafe.
I'm nervous, that's for sure.
Mystic River
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AusRoachman
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I am always a bit too late for #screenshotsaturday so i guess monday will have to-do.
Tweaking my visual style for my game and starting first run of particle effects (shields for bases e.t.c)
I am using games like reprisal and rymdkapsel as inspiration for art styles, i just love there minimalistic style
Tweaking my visual style for my game and starting first run of particle effects (shields for bases e.t.c)
I am using games like reprisal and rymdkapsel as inspiration for art styles, i just love there minimalistic style
AusRoachman
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I love playing with particle effects , so much cool stuff on the unity store
Its all on a dope sheet, child objects, etc. There's nothing complicated about 2D skeletal in Unity. Even their example project uses it. Not sure how much easier it can get just slapping a dope sheet down and keyframing. Then again Ive never tried any 2d tools for Unity so I have no comparison.
Heart of Black
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My niece was over and super interested in what making a game looks like.
She saw me answering emails and writing kickstarter updates and asked me to "make the game". I said, unfortunately a lot of paper work goes along with this thing.
So my kickstarter for Treachery in Beatdown City just hit $10K, which is awesome.
I am exporting a gameplay video right now that's a half hour long. Might be overkill, we'll see.
She saw me answering emails and writing kickstarter updates and asked me to "make the game". I said, unfortunately a lot of paper work goes along with this thing.
So my kickstarter for Treachery in Beatdown City just hit $10K, which is awesome.
I am exporting a gameplay video right now that's a half hour long. Might be overkill, we'll see.
electroflame
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I do not, sorry. Worst case is you could use that and Unity to get your animations, then extract the animations out to whatever you're using. The Store page says it supports Blender and Maya, so the animations should still work. (In theory...)
I want this inside me. I want to bear its children. HURRYAP!I heard somewhere that this thread occasionally enjoys unreasonably large animated gifs.
Working a lot on some cosmetic type stuff in preparation for the new video. Here we see glowing things that glow.
AxiomVerge
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Very awesome. I've been getting the bulk mails from them but nothing concrete. I feel your pain about not being able to share what's going on at work. That's been my life for over 5 years now!
HellBlazer
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Um, sounds like you're simply running into floating point accuracy problems, which is hardly Unity's fault. It's a side-effect of how floating point numbers are represented on a computer. Since binary can't handle fractional numbers, your variable values are actually close approximations of what they should really be (I'm sure that Wikipedia article explains it better than I can).
So for instance if you have:
x = 0.1f;
y = 0.1f;
It's possible (though very counter-intuitive) that in some cases, x == y will not be true - because, say, x is actually 0.0999999999999999, and y 0.100000000000001, or something.
In short, you shouldn't trust straight-up float comparisons in your code, and always plan for this accuracy issue. For a simple example, you could check for number1 > number2 + 0.0001 (or whatever precision you need) rather than simply number1 > number2, though the solution depends on what you're trying to achieve.
Indeed we do. That looks pretty amazing I have to say.
Well, congrats but... not to be pessimistic, but you'll need a huge turnaround to reach your goal there. You reached $10K because there was a big $4K boost today, but that's from only 5 pledges, so most probably one very generous backer is responsible for most of it. You can't expect that every day unfortunately. What kind of marketing are you doing to draw attention to the campaign? Um, well I'm hardly an expert at running Kickstarters but... we have some people with experience around here, maybe they can give you some tips.
whoa. i didnt know this was a thing. Now i want to buy a kinect and play around with this.
I heard somewhere that this thread occasionally enjoys unreasonably large animated gifs.
Working a lot on some cosmetic type stuff in preparation for the new video. Here we see glowing things that glow.
looking really good!
AxiomVerge
Neo Member
I use Sonar X2. I have Reaktor but basically I just modify the settings on included synths. Even with a computer science degree I find these programs to be extremely complicated.
AxiomVerge
Neo Member
I heard somewhere that this thread occasionally enjoys unreasonably large animated gifs.
Working a lot on some cosmetic type stuff in preparation for the new video. Here we see glowing things that glow.
The good thing about particle stuff like this is once you have the first one done, you can now change it slightly and get completely different looking effects. Can't wait to see the new video. Make sure you post it with all caps and stuff so we don't forget to vote!
Whitebison
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I heard somewhere that this thread occasionally enjoys unreasonably large animated gifs.
Working a lot on some cosmetic type stuff in preparation for the new video. Here we see glowing things that glow.
That's beautiful man, can't wait!! are you using Unity or your own engine?
balgajo
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Never check conditions using '==' between two floats. Most of times we learn this from the hard way. XD
Dynamite Shikoku
Congratulations, you really deserve it!
You can use mathf.approximately() to compare floats
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