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Talk about anything

spacecloud

You can use InputEventMouseMotion.relative, like this:

func _input(event):
	if event is InputEventMouseMotion:
		position += event.relative

Nerdzmasterz

@spacecloud said: You can use InputEventMouseMotion.relative, like this:
func _input(event):
	if event is InputEventMouseMotion:
		position += event.relative

Oh my gosh. Thank you. I've been messing with that mouse forever.

Bimbam

@Tomcat said: I'm very apologetic, that's what it's supposed to look like, right?

Haha no, see I didn't realise till 1am it had to run in a web browser and had a bad time exporting it (it should only be ~60mb but only way to get it running at all was to export everything).

It does work in Firefox just about although textures still look iffy, but in Chrome it's just snow.

Also given it's playing in a browser the scale of all the assets is way too small :(

Nerdzmasterz

For all you Americans out there...

Happy Memorial Day, and never forget those who fought for your freedom.

cybereality

Yeah. I won't be political, but my grandpa served in WWII. We should definitely appreciate the sacrifices people have made to protect this country.

Audiobellum

@cybereality said: Bad artists blame the tools. Like has anyone ever asked what brand of paint Picasso used? No, because that obviously had nothing to do with his talent. And all these people trashing "asset flips" with no clue how games are made. Where does it end? If you use the shaders that come with Unreal you are cheating? If you didn't write the game engine you're not a real game programmer? Did you invent C++? Can't use Linux either cause you didn't write it? Did you discover Boolean logic? What about mathematics itself? These people are failures and will blame everyone and everything but themselves.

Okay, so you’ve brought up a good point that I was thinking about a while back. Yeah, it would be strange if people asked Picasso what paint he used. It would also be strange if people insist that he ought to have made his own paint or build his canvas from scratch for his own artwork. I definitely won’t want anyone insist that I need to have built my own guitar and all it’s parts to be considered a decent guitarist. Admittedly, I could bring up some counter examples. For example, the art school I went to insist that students use quality equipment and brands that did make a difference. However, none of that undermines the point you’re trying to make. All of this raises an interesting question though. How difficult should it be to make art? Where should the line be drawn? Should there even be a line? Even though I’m getting better at GDscript, I’ll admit that I don’t really feel like a real programmer and I honestly don’t care if I am; I just want to make games.

Audiobellum

@Nerdzmasterz said: Let's prove that Godot is amazing by pumping out games.

Yeah, I agree with this sentiment. I think the best way to promote the game engine is to make fun games that people want to play. I think that cheap games that can run smoothly on low end software, can reach a wider audience and might even be a real competitor against AAA games. It would be nice to recreate the era of many flash games but a bunch of 3d browser games instead. Speaking of flash games, here is a video taking about the importance of the last stand series:

Nerdzmasterz

If you're already big into game development or just building games for fun, by all means, make the art however you like. Indie devs might work solo, however. I doubt these developers have the time to make art as well. :)

As for programming, and I don't know where you're coming from, but if you know what print("Hello, World!") does and you're trying to learn more, you're a programmer. Congrats!

Don't believe me? My first game was, like, a bunch of buttons, variables, and if statements, and I was proud of that little endeavor. :p

It's never about how well someone programs, it's more about the learning process, IMO. That pathetic game showed me how to effectively use if statements and that game engine's method for saving and loading new levels/scenes.

Audiobellum

Even though I generally prefer 3d games, they're some genres of 2d games that I really like. I like top-down action adventure games like Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past and anything else similar. I also like turn based RPGs with a charming art style. One of my favorite turn based RPG( of all time) are actually flash games in the Epic Battle Fantasy series. I'd play more turn based RPG if they had a charming art style; I also think that too many turn based RPG have unnecessarily long battles, mostly due to the way important information is given to the player. It won't hurt to also make individual fights be easier, as the difficulty from the battle system can be derived from how the player's characters are worn down overtime from previous battlers( I really don't like long fights). I wish every 2d game was a turn-based RPG or like the 2d Zelda games. Even though the Last Stand: Union City is a 3d flash game, it at least got me motivated to one day make a FPS action RPG.

cybereality

I mean, Itch is basically what Newgrounds was back in the day. It's just like the old Flash games. And the audience is much friendlier and responsive to amateur or experimental games. The people on Steam, for the most part, are jerks and it's not a welcoming place, unless you make an 80 hour RPG.

Nerdzmasterz

@cybereality said: I mean, Itch is basically what Newgrounds was back in the day. It's just like the old Flash games. And the audience is much friendlier and responsive to amateur or experimental games. The people on Steam, for the most part, are jerks and it's not a welcoming place, unless you make an 80 hour RPG.

While I don't know either site that well, Steam did allow games like Sheltered, I think Sheltered 2, The Infected, Inside, Game Dev Tycoon, and other smaller ones in. Not that it was easy for the devs to be allowed to do it.

And Itch had quite a "chat" about DRM. I can't repeat what the Admin said in part of it. :#

Itch seems like a nice place for indies as well, if you don't want any protection from pirates. Some won't care, some will.

Epic Games is another place, but it also has no real protection IIRC. It seems like it may be less difficult to get into it, at least, compared to Steam.

cybereality

You can get on Steam easily now and the audience is huge. So the potential to make money is greater, for higher end games. But Itch is better for experimental stuff that is not finished or demos that are not full games.

Nerdzmasterz

Now what would be funny is if someone posted a sick game on Steam...

Made solely with free assets? :o

some_lame_kid

any asset is free if you make it yourself

fire7side

Kind of weird seeing these old sierra graphics in 3d.

Nerdzmasterz

Honestly, I love them. They'd be easy to make.

cybereality

That looks crazy!

Nerdzmasterz

I've been working on a quick little 2D shooter game, a much smaller game than the big project. I'm thinking of setting it up to be on Android. The player is the little black thing in the middle.

Nerdzmasterz

Now if only ads actually paid well. IIRC so many people use ad-blockers to the point where a ton of games now have a price tag, or IAPs. It's not a very good situation if you're just looking for a quick, free little thrill.

As for the game, at the top of the ground, we see some seeds and a water filter. There's going to be a merchant in the game who is your only semi-friend. He won't fight with you, but he will sell you metal and other items you need to repair and upgrade your water filter, and offer fertilizers and such to protect seeds from being destroyed by the relentless hordes of enemies. The objective is to rebuild your crashed space ship and get out of dodge.

To gain money to pay the merchant, you can sell excess food and collect coins from enemies. The enemy shown here is one of the bosses. These enemies will randomly target the player, the garden, or the water filter- hence the need for repairs. Food can heal your character, and you need it and water to survive- so you must protect your fairly small lair.

Erich_L

It's a factory game so of course inside the ship items have to move on a regular grid, but what, is the outside of the space ship going to just be a cube? Cube's are great for containing physics simulations! So let's string some cubes together- now we've got a rectangular ship. We can add some armor outside and make it a nicer looking cylinder. Now what's the front supposed to look like? If it had to launch from Earth, sure, the cone or pill or phallus shape. But... this ship is special, it's been built in low Earth orbit for use only in space, built to go mine asteroids. In that case... what would the front look like? Any ideas? I'm a little stuck on it. Sure.. could be a cone, but that doesn't seem like an easy thing to program modular-ability and or upgrades. Another easy to work with cube shape? Isn't that plain and boring?

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