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[crystalgungirlgame]

New Area!

Sorry I haven’t been on Tumblr in a while.

Working on a new Area! It’s kind of a hotter, smaller area. The Festival of Lights is happening and there will be booths of fun things to buy from. There are people from all around the world joining the festival! The festival of lights celebrates the creation of the world through the power of the three lights. The lights of Earth, Water and Life, which came from the eyes of their deity.

No NPCs managing the booths yet. its what I’m working on next. The people here also worship the same three-eyed goddess worshiped in previous areas.

Here’s a small selection of the people living here!

I’ll post a finished version with more NPCs as I complete more content. Thanks for checking this out!

[juicypixelgames]

Delays out the butt.

I am sorry to say but vegabonds is no more. IS WHAT I’D SAY IF I GAVE UP.

HAH. As you may or may not know, I’ve been solo coding for vegabonds, for quite some time now, it’s been lengthy because everything is coded in C# using XNA, we’ve found many gameplay issues along the way, we’ve now only just got something set in stone, I have enough assets for a demo stage, yippie!. But the REAL issue is getting the demo stage done. You see, I work fulltime, which was kinda a stupid move on my part, since I do school fulltime, so it leaves me with no time in the day to work on Vegabonds. I was working on all 3, but then school suffered, so now I should have been finished and I’m on a tight extension where as if I complete an assignment in the time, I basically fail. Now, this school I’m attending is IT Deploma of software and games design, so that’s a big reason I can’t afford to fail (and the fact I’m $22k in debit from the fees .etc). So that’s my excuse why nothing is being done on vegabonds, I don’t know how many people were looking forward to it, but I just want to say it’s NOT DEAD, I HAVE THE ASSETS FOR A DEMO, IF ANYONE SAYS IT IS, THEY ARE LYING. So after school, I can dive straight into working on the engine, and have this thing back in motion, it’s taking all my willpower to hold off from coding on this, because I friggin’ love it, while other developers give excuses, that’s mine, and I don’t really care if you believe me or not. This is because I have the attitude like most of the successful 90′s nintendo devs, and that’s “I’m making a game I WANT TO PLAY” I’m going to be selfish and say I’m not doing it for you, the reader, I’m not doing this game for bear (The leader and artist on this project) I’m doing it for ME, I want to complete this engine, and play vegabonds. So either way, mid this year, I’ll have a playable demo of Vegabonds, all to myself. BWHAHAA. PS: Don’t shoot me, but I’ve done a rewrite, or more of an overhaul of the game engine too, because of physics, but that’s ok, everythings pretty modular. Just bear with me. and my excuses.

[blankthevidya]

Hey! I wanted to ask what you think the best way to start making a game is? and where to go from there. If not that's cool I just figured it might be best to ask you since your game is so well done

A lot of people will tell you where exactly to start, but I don’t think there is really a best way to start making a game. What is more important, I believe, is to keep on making a game and not giving up. Everything you make when you start will be bad and you’ll have to do a lot of research and experimenting on your own, failing a good amount of the time. Making a game is hard, but with each passing failure there increases your chances of success and eventually, you’ll be succeeding more than failing which only comes with time. One of the phrases I hold closest to me is “Just Like Make Game” and that’s what’s helped me push through learning how to program, make art, sounds and music from pretty much nothing.

[titansandtyrants]

Direlands - Combat Prototype

http://strangesimulations.itch.io/direlands-combat-demo

Here it is.  ‘Demo’ might be too generous, so let’s go with ‘prototype’.  I’m very interested in feedback, particularly if the game controls and plays somewhat well.  If you have an issues, or if there is anything you think could make the game better - by all means let me know.  Just keep in mind it’s a very early pre-alpha build.  Thanks for reading, have yourselves a nice weekend.

[juicypixelgames]

Progress:

Fixing the scaling lighting issues

Putting in ledge climbing next

Probably put in ladders first maybe we'll see how it goes

Putting in bow and arrows, so you can shoot arrows the arc and move to where your mouse cursor is, the mechanic is ALWAYS fun.

And always remember to Just Like Make Game, no excuses, I'm a filthy engine dev, if I can make this engine (in XNA/monogame of all things) you can use a basic program and make something wondrous.

Lets talk about my experiences with that subject for a moment:

The only person stopping you is YOU, don't know where to start?

Use several languages till you find one that you like (IT DOES NOT MATTER STOP THAT DISCUSSION CRAP), then make anything and EVERYTHING, don't want to program? start arting, join programmers, it took me 7+ bailed artsts (because working for free is hard and can be unrewarding) before I found someone with the same views, ideas and wants to BE someone, and for that it makes me work HARDER.

Nothing happens by accident, you want to make that great game? well go to it.

Also, doing gamejams can expand your portfolio and expand your creativity quiet often great ideas come from the simplest solutions.

Lastly, when designing your game, make it something YOU would play, if YOU would play it, it makes it easier to make something engaging, it's how a majority of NES era games were made, developers had an idea they wanted to play and made it, and that turned out to be a huge hit, because if YOU like your idea, chances are a ton of other people will too!

Also, don't focus on making money, NEVER do this, money is the sing of how successful you are, so if your game is good, and enough people enjoy it, then the money WILL come, and you have something you're proud of, and helping ME save videogames.

TLDR; If you want to make a game, learn to work with a language that YOU like, can't code? do art and join a coder, like music? join a team!

It's REALLY that simple, but it's hard work.

[blankthevidya]

Check out the entries of /agdg/'s WaifuJam 2014!

http://waifujam.pomf.se/entries.php

Lots of entries! Great job gamedevs!

[theoriginalhype]

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