Indie Game Development |OT 2018| Come, help, learn, show and tell!

Deleted member 2620 · Oct 25, 2017

hey y'all

I've been working on something for a while now, a VR action game named Horizon Vanguard:

Released a demo back at the start of September, got help and advice along the way from this thread's spiritual predecessor.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's updates and posting some of my own!

andymcc said:
Hope to be more active in this thread this time around!

My boy Vas and I are working on a game. We'll probably post a bunch of gameplay clips soon.

Can't wait to see everyone's projects!

Glad to see you guys are still at it!

Parham · Oct 25, 2017

Mik2121 said:
The Report icon scares me all the time though, haha.

Reported.

;)

Mik2121 · Oct 25, 2017

Parham said:
Reported.

;)

:O

Anyway, hope to see a bunch of cool stuff here as always!

SPRidley · Oct 25, 2017

Yeah, report button is too big and in a strange postion hahaha I always tend to go an click it as waypoint's like button and its a Nooooo, phew! hahaha

missile · Oct 25, 2017

Hey missile here! :) My name got some fine badges! xD

andymcc · Oct 25, 2017

Tain said:
hey y'all

I've been working on something for a while now, a VR action game named Horizon Vanguard:

Released a demo back at the start of September, got help and advice along the way from this thread's spiritual predecessor.

Looking forward to seeing everyone's updates and posting some of my own!

Glad to see you guys are still at it!

Looks rad and we are! Expect some sort of concrete announcement in the coming weeks!

Jack · Oct 25, 2017

Dr Wily said:
I really hope this doesn't get moved into commun... er, hangouts, as its traditionally been a specific kind of help forum rather than a community about a product, much like a "building a PC" guide thread would be

Same. It's good for it to be on gaming side for everyone here.

HelloMeow · Oct 25, 2017

Great to see this community here! I hope I can start showing off some stuff soon.

-COOLIO- · Oct 25, 2017

Hey all, it's -COOLIO- from gaf

I don't think i've posted much about my game since the first page of indie dev thread 2, but hey it's done now! better late than never, right? It also somehow seems more fitting to announce a game with the new forum.

Re-introducing Rage Quest! Battle through the internet to harness the power of hate!

http://www.ragequestgame.com

It's actually pretty inspired by my years on GAF.

I'm planning to release it on Nov 8th.

Popstar · Oct 25, 2017

Blizzard said:
I wonder if embedding YouTube for better framerate will partially replace GIFs here.

I'm looking through the resources list on XenForo and it looks like there's add-on for stuff like Imgur GIFV and Gfycat. Might be able to have built-in support instead of me writing another browser extension.

Samban · Oct 25, 2017

Also OP can you add Jukedeck to your list of procedurally generated assets? It's a procedural music generator and it's actually really fucking good (although a bit too predictable in some genres).

Tim · Oct 25, 2017

I just downloaded Pico-8. Does anyone know of a good newbie tutorial?

Noogy · Oct 25, 2017

Oh nice, YouTube functionality!

Testing my trailer for Never Stop Sneakin'.... 60fps. Almost done with this sucker... it's been a LONG two years.

Popstar · Oct 25, 2017

Samban said:
Also OP can you add Jukedeck to your list of procedurally generated assets? It's a procedural music generator and it's actually really fucking good (although a bit too predictable in some genres).

Do you have a link? I just see a big email button when I go to jukedeck.com

Samban · Oct 25, 2017

Popstar said:
Do you have a link? I just see a big email button when I go to jukedeck.com

Click on the "make" button at the top-right.

NintendoMariah · Oct 25, 2017

YAY its back :) so excited....

lowpoly · Oct 25, 2017

glad to see this community pick up where it left off, looking forward to seeing everyone's work!

My game Mini Hockey Champ! comes out 11/2 on Steam, crazy to think that 2+ years of dev is coming to an end next week, but I'm super excited for folks to play and hopefully enjoy the game:

Deleted member 2620 · Oct 25, 2017

Tim said:
I just downloaded Pico-8. Does anyone know of a good newbie tutorial?

I've been messing with it for the first time for Fantasy Console Game Jam and I ran into this:

https://twitter.com/lexaloffle/status/871048334525341697

it's obviously not comprehensive but it was a good quick start, lol

The light cycle tutorial on youtube seemed good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuaLuMhwcc8

lasthope106 · Oct 25, 2017

Looking forward to participating in this thread.

Deleted member 5167 · Oct 25, 2017

Noogy said:
Never Stop Sneakin'

I don't think I ever mentioned how much I appreciate just how well you nailed the aesthetic on this one

e:
Or do I mean ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ

-COOLIO- · Oct 25, 2017

lowpoly said:
glad to see this community pick up where it left off, looking forward to seeing everyone's work!

My game Mini Hockey Champ! comes out 11/2 on Steam, crazy to think that 2+ years of dev is coming to an end next week, but I'm super excited for folks to play and hopefully enjoy the game:

Great looking game man. And it looks like we're in a similar position of launching our games in 1-2 weeks. How're you marketing? So far I've just made forum posts and reached out to one or two new sites. I'm thinking about just throwing all of my marketing budget at keymailer.

Deleted member 2620 · Oct 25, 2017

Noogy said:
Oh nice, YouTube functionality!

Testing my trailer for Never Stop Sneakin'.... 60fps. Almost done with this sucker... it's been a LONG two years.

lowpoly said:
glad to see this community pick up where it left off, looking forward to seeing everyone's work!

My game Mini Hockey Champ! comes out 11/2 on Steam, crazy to think that 2+ years of dev is coming to an end next week, but I'm super excited for folks to play and hopefully enjoy the game:

whoa, these are both really impressive

i also like that i can quote multiple long posts without worrying about taking up a massive amount of screen space

-COOLIO- · Oct 25, 2017

Noogy said:
Oh nice, YouTube functionality!

Testing my trailer for Never Stop Sneakin'.... 60fps. Almost done with this sucker... it's been a LONG two years.

I read the mgs1 vibes loud and clear. I love the song. I hope you can fill in the mgs gap somwhat since, well, yknow.

sabrina · Oct 25, 2017

already posted this on Twitter a couple days ago but what the heck. Ring in the new fora

Noogy · Oct 25, 2017

Dr Wily said:
I don't think I ever mentioned how much I appreciate just how well you nailed the aesthetic on this one

e:
Or do I mean ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ

-COOLIO- said:
Great looking game man. And it looks like we're in a similar position of launching our games in 1-2 weeks. How're you marketing? So far I've just made forum posts and reached out to one or two new sites. I'm thinking about just throwing all of my marketing budget at keymailer.

Awesome, thanks! Here's what my workspace looks like today:

BTW, really like the slick multi-quote option.

JoeG · Oct 25, 2017

Thanks for this thread. Just starting to dabble but I'm sure this will be incredibly helpful!

RHANITAN · Oct 25, 2017

These threads are so inspiring for me to look at. I used to just lurk in the old threads but im trying to make an effort to actually participate more. I already posted this in the Waypoint thread earlier this week but is the first gif I i made of my game Whippa Stitcha.

MoogleMaestro · Oct 25, 2017

Good to have the gang back together. Here's to a start of a new indie-dev era!

Vas · Oct 25, 2017

RHANITAN said:
These threads are so inspiring for me to look at. I used to just lurk in the old threads but im trying to make an effort to actually participate more. I already posted this in the Waypoint thread earlier this week but is the first gif I i made of my game Whippa Stitcha.

Oh that looks so sick! May I ask what genre you are going for?

missile · Oct 25, 2017

While we were decording our asses into resetera, I also worked a lil on my
custom DoF implemenration, that is to say the background blur now depends on
the focal length, i.e. increases with increasing focal length and vice versa;

RHANITAN · Oct 25, 2017

Vas said:
Oh that looks so sick! May I ask what genre you are going for?

Thanks! It's an action platformer. It's inspired by castlvania and zelda 2 I would say.

Jobbs · Oct 25, 2017

Good to see you all here. :)

titch · Oct 25, 2017

Oh your here - awesome!!!!!

FullMetalTech · Oct 25, 2017

Excited to see this come back again

SaberVS7 · Oct 25, 2017

Good to see everyone I can remember from the old thread is here. Was worried that IndieGAF was going to scatter to the winds from the kind of posts I saw the past three days.

I'll have some good new content to show of Azure Jaegers, Red Foxes to show here soon, and maybe a playable Alpha-build to put up for some critique.

(Also, apologies to anyone who can't remember me and is confused. I went under the name CertifiedFP before, and AJ,RF was just "REDFOXES" back then while I was still trying to come up with a full name for it.)

sabrina · Oct 25, 2017

Well, there was and is some scattering, but it's okay. All of the pieces will be picked up in due time.

andymcc · Oct 26, 2017

RHANITAN said:
Thanks! It's an action platformer. It's inspired by castlvania and zelda 2 I would say.

ooooohhhh! me likey! i'll keep my eyes peeled.

Professor Lich · Oct 26, 2017

Glad to see this thread, I'll have to post next time I make some progress.

EDarkness · Oct 26, 2017

I think I'm gonna make a blog video today. I've been meaning to do it for the last couple of days, but got a little lazy. Made a bit of progress with the game, but still fairly far off. Hope I'm able to get more done over the next month or so.

K Monkey · Oct 26, 2017

Whoa so many people which is great to see :D

Anyway I've been working on Ergastulum for the past year and it's now in Beta

Dynamite Shikoku · Oct 26, 2017

Let me ask you guys for advice on a simple thing for my game. It's a mobile game where you are a frog trying to eat things. There is food and there are obstacles. I'm gonna do a combo system for the food where your multiplier increases for each creature you eat. The multiplier resets if you wait too long for the next food or you miss a shot. If you hit an obstacle you get damage. Now you can also catch food and hit an obstacle in the same shot, so I want to ask: do you think it's better to reset the multiplier if I hit an obstacle in the same shot as catching food, or let it increase and have just the damage as a penalty ? Do you understand what I mean? lol

Popstar · Oct 26, 2017

Dynamite Shikoku If taking damage doesn't reset the multiplier if you catch food at the same time you could see that as encouraging people to take damage in certain situations. It adds a risk/reward mechanic. I'd try it out.

Dynamite Shikoku · Oct 26, 2017

Ahh risk vs reward. Good thinking. Thanks

Dancrane212 · Oct 26, 2017

Great that my favorite thread to lurk is here. Love checking in on what folk are working on.

Noogy said:
Oh nice, YouTube functionality!

Testing my trailer for Never Stop Sneakin'.... 60fps. Almost done with this sucker... it's been a LONG two years.

This was a fun surprise for me when it was announced; I figured your next release was still years off with how silent you were. Any idea when we'll get to hear more on the game?

missile · Oct 26, 2017

Dynamite Shikoku said:
Let me ask you guys for advice on a simple thing for my game. It's a mobile game where you are a frog trying to eat things. There is food and there are obstacles. I'm gonna do a combo system for the food where your multiplier increases for each creature you eat. The multiplier resets if you wait too long for the next food or you miss a shot. If you hit an obstacle you get damage. Now you can also catch food and hit an obstacle in the same shot, so I want to ask: do you think it's better to reset the multiplier if I hit an obstacle in the same shot as catching food, or let it increase and have just the damage as a penalty ? Do you understand what I mean? lol

Yeah, risk reward I would say. That's what I'm doing as well for Superstall,
for the aircraft gets damage up until it breaks apart.

Dynamite Shikoku · Oct 26, 2017

Thanks.
In other news, I made a ladybird. Do you reckon there would be like any insect fans that would get triggered it only has 4 legs instead of 6? 6 is cramped.

missile · Oct 26, 2017

^ Now that you say it ... IT HAS ONLY FOUR LEGS! xD
I think it's fine, if you ask me.

sabrina · Oct 26, 2017

it didn't bug me until you pointed it out

Dynamite Shikoku · Oct 26, 2017

damnit

missile · Oct 26, 2017

sabrina said:
it didn't bug me until you pointed it out

lol xD

lowpoly said:
glad to see this community pick up where it left off, looking forward to seeing everyone's work!

My game Mini Hockey Champ! comes out 11/2 on Steam, crazy to think that 2+ years of dev is coming to an end next week, but I'm super excited for folks to play and hopefully enjoy the game:

That fighting stuff is great!

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