Me if i was a game dev

Hey, i want to make a game and i need some help, so I'm looking for a team.

What i need is:
2 programmers
3 graphics artists
2 level designers
1 music composer
2 dialog writers
1 web designer for page and forums
5 testers

What i will do, you ask? Well, I've got some really good ideas. I think the game should be like Final Fantasy, but bigger and better. I worked with RPG Maker for two months, but I'm best with ideas. I think my ideas would make some incred...

GO SHOVE YOUR IDEAS INTO YOUR ASS! The idea means nothing. I got an idea for the best game ever, right this morning while i was taking a SHIT!

Hobby teams need people who create content. And people who can do stuff will more likely work with someone who does stuff as well and has proven that he is able to get things done.

"I won't need math to make games!"

This speaks to me on a spiritual level...

I was working in a small startup with very cool people as a GameDev. One day I turned towards my colleague to tell him about a joke I just read and I saw flames coming out of his CPU. He was so focused on his work that he didn't notice.

I yelled "OH, SHIT' and quickly reached to the main switch and turned it off. Everyone turned towards me to yell at me, but then they saw the flames and everyone ran outside.
After few minutes the flames died. My colleague was in shock to lose his work as the HDD was completely burned.

Logo (For my Hacking game) just finished. Thoughts?

1. Finish my own game
2. Get a publisher
3. Get rich
4. Buy a big house with a swimming pool on the top and get 2 bisex girlfriends

Other people playing games: "Nice graphics!"
Me playing games: "Wonder how they did that shader..."

One day I'll get you working on Linux... One day...

I’m making a puzzle game! Cool!

Concept - done
Mechanics - done
Art - done
Ui - done
Puzzles - uhhh... this is harder than expected.

"Oh you make games!
Can you make something like Pokemon Go? We you need to make it quick cause we only have 10 days till the event."

😓

I love making little scenes.

Unity crashed, and then the crash reporter crashed. Well done Unity!

I'm developing my "game engine" for over 2 years. 9 complete rewrite and 3 language change (c#->java->c++) but I love doing it. It's an amazing experience :D

!rant
Handed over my keys and computer to my boss a moment ago and left the office for the last time. Spent 3 years there, and most of the people there came with me from my previous job I spent another 3 years at.
Feels heavy to leave a bunch of great people.

Two weeks until I start my job as a developer at a game company though.
Took me 6.5 years of work to finally get there.
Super stoked!

And I won't lie, some stickers on my new work laptop would not be a bad thing.

New stickers 😍

Making those Unity cubes more attractive

Hi guys. This is my first ever post so just wanted to introduce myself and say hi. It's really nice to be a part of your community and I will look forward to laughing my @ss of at all your posts.

Here is a pic of my coding/ gaming set up for your viewing pleasure.

See you in the comments 😊
Rich

Hi, my name is Juan, I'm 17 years old. I started programming when I was 12 years old (I started with Visual Basic 6) and I'm from Venezuela. A friend, named Javier, recommended DevRant, and I think it's a fantastic idea. I'm an inveterate lover of UNIX and all its variants, and of course, also of C/C++. I have so many projects in mind for the gamedev, but emptiness eats me and I can't develop them, it's pathetic.

#include <iostream>

int main() {
std::cout << "Hello, devRant\n";
return 0;
}

A guy wanted me to convert his Unity project from Android to ios.

He was offering less than 50$....

It dosent end here....

He sent me the files in a zip on Google Drive.....

Also the project size was around 3 gb......

😢😢

Person- Hey! are you a game developer?

me- yea.

person- Nice! so, you make games, right?

me- NO! I fuckin' scroll through my Twitter feed!

person- Ahm hah.. ok then, ttyl.

me- T.T

I met a guy on facebook group, where was post asking how to make easy platformer game in a week. And I tried to explain post author how to start. Everything was good untill this guy came in. He commented my comment "Yoo you are wrong, he can learn it in one day". My comment was about starting with unity and programming, and that need time to learn (without copying tutorial, everything made by himself). So I started to gently explaining him why it is unachivable in 1 day. Of course his respond was like "Omg you are so fooking stupid, It's sooo easyyy" this conversarion took good 15 minutes, and I ended it with "Ok, you are right" just to end thid. I hate people like that.

WE MADE A DEVRANT GAME!

Please press PLAY GAME on:
platrant.com
(not mobile friendly - yet!)

One week ago I posted asking if any fellow devs wanted to make a game with me. @Trey50Daniel and @burtybob replied, and what's more fitting than making a game around devRant?!

Needless to say it's full of bu.... features, but we're proud of what we've learned and done in just one week.

Want to help? Want to learn game development? Found a feature that you think you can fix? Introduce yourself on discord.gg/nNmQbBS

Note that this is a community driven open source project, that has no affiliation with devRant itself. We just love it, and @dfox was kind enough to give us permission to borrow inspiration from it.

*FourWeeks From Deadline*

Two CoWorkers: "Oh cool, Visual Studio 2017 is out, I am gonna switch"

Breaks the build.

They then tried to spend hours trying to get the project to work on both versions, with no success, then let us know.

I am just glad we use Git

Gaming anytime!

The reason I become intrested in computers was gaming.
Given I started out as a game dev, playing games helps me think more about it and imporve my skills.

Also sometimes it reduces my productivity :P

Soooooo true....

prof: were gonna program snake today
me: yay!
prof: but program the way i did it :)
me:

Apartment owner tells me to get out for a few hours while he repairs some stuff around the house . Get laptop , get wallet , go to kfc , go to order , only have money to get a large coke and a coffee , set up laptop , start working on my 2D game project , one hour later hobo comes in and begs around for 2 mins , before the guard catches him , he goes to order instead and gets a large duo bucket with coffee ...fml being a poor dev before paycheck...

Some time ago I went for a job interview (Unity3D Dev). I have little experience in this field and never thought that I would get this job but wanted to gain some and thought that it would be a great opportunity.
So after the interview, which was great and I really enjoyed it, I've been tasked with making a simple minigame. Only requirements were that there have to be player controls, character must avoid obstacles and camera must be moving with player's progress. I've made a little spin on those. In 2d minigame I've created you are piloting simple (made out of 3d primitives) rocket. You have to avoid randomly spawned platforms. If you hit one, you explode. You also die, if you hit a wall or fall out of camera and hit Destroyer. Camera is constantly moving as long as you are moving. The spin is that you have very limited fuel. To regain it you have to land on said platforms with your thrusters. It took me around 12h to make this game. The only reason I know it is because they wanted this info. I've learned a bit while working on this minigame and had a lot of fun. It was a great impuls to start learning gamedev again and stop stagnation I fell in when I started my studies and work.
Today I've got response. Obviously I didn't get the job. They took more experienced person and I totally understand that. But there's more. They were so great to give me pretty extensive review of what was done good, what could be done better and how to gather more experience. They said that the game met their expectations and was written well. That's great, because I was worried that it would be bad since I haven't worked on graphics at all.
So, at least I got an impulse to start learning and maybe I'll even go for some game jam!

When a mod with a ego so big just because he took his first computer class thinks he knows better

Ah it's so freeing to watch others play your games. Had to showcase it for school so my partner brought in his HTC Vive, and we set it up in the lab. Oh boy watching people fucking about in my game was very, very satisfying.

Making a multiplayer game is so frustrating. :/

!rant
finally i finished a project and released my first game in google play!
very satisfaction, much wow.
now creating a list of features i will add in future updates, working on a marketing campaign and building concepts for future projects.

This is a somewhat old story. I joined a project in making a 2.5d platformer in Unity. A couple months in, the project manager had decided that this game would have two sequels, an MMORPG, a live-action movie and a web series. He informed the whole team of this decision. One week later, every member of the dev team had left. This scope crept forth from the depths of hell and ruined a simple project. Lesson learned: Keep the scope small and don't bite over more than you can chew.

Edit: I know that you should dream big, but don't make 4 games, a web series and a movie simultaneously.

When I hear people talk about love and the first thing that comes to mind is the Lua framework for 2D game development

When you gotta refer docs, write code and Test mulitplayer........you need the squad!

Working on implementig mulitplayer for my game!

Scenario 1
Friend 1:"Hey, you're good at computers right?"
Me:"Erm yup."
Friend 1:"Can you hack Instagram? I've lost my password."
Me:"Oh My God."

Scenario 2
Me looking at a friend's unity C# code
Me:"You know there's an enter key right? Why is your code horizontal not vertical?"
(Means that after a semi-colon he continues his code)
Friend 2:"I like to read my code in horizontal, that feels natural to me"
Me:"What ever, as long as it works. But why do you have so many if function inside another if function?"
Friend 2:"Cuz I want the player to do this while moving"
Me:".........."

I'm learning Unity! I don't have a lot of experience with C# or game development but it's fairly simple and super interesting so far so I'm excited!
!Rant, just excited :)

Crack the Code!

A few years ago, a fellow programmer called me to teach him how to use git blame to find out who wrote that piece of code that broke the monetary ecosystem in this game. He was pretty upset about it because they blamed him about it. I gladly helped him just to see my own name there. Sad story.

When your models screw up...

I hate "imposter syndrome" because I have it all the time while making games.

I followed a lot of tutorials while making my newest game which I just finished today. I should be damn happy for creating a tiny world, but instead I'm just dwelling on "I'm not a real gamedev, you just looked for tutorials on internet and made a game that others have made thousand times before!!! You're fake you little shit!"

Aaahdfgjkh why can't my brain let me be happy about myself. It's true that it's a bit similar to the tutorial game but I added so many things of my own there, I drew my own graphical sprites, I tweaked and edited a lot of the code after I was done with the tutorial.. I added so much! For fucks sake I even wrote my own lore for the world!

Yet my brain tells me that I'm a shitty fucking wannabe that never goes anywhere. Maybe so... Maybe I am a fake. But I had fun making this and I learned a lot about Python.

Do you guys have any similar stuff? How do you deal with it? Sorry about crap english + crap formatting, 4:30 am is my excuse for it.

It has been a loooong time since i have had awesome programming day like today, i've been doing earth simulator kind of game for mobile and lots of its core mechanics are starting to take shape. Still long way to go but it feels great! Days like these remind me why i started programming. I will have to deal with memory management because there will be lots of shit happening on screen not yet sure how to deal with that in corona sdk. Sorry for good feels.

Unity is trying to communicate with aliens

Dear game developers, if you are building your game on Xbox and are adding support for Xbox One X, please please please stop just adding 4K

Please just add a 'favour resolution', 'favour details' and 'favour performance' option... Yes 4K is nice but most of us don't care and would much rather richer visuals or an uncapped frame rate.

(Yes I know PC gaming exists but I hate PC gaming and prefer the ease of console)

Level up 😊

That moment when you finally optimized your game to run on 60FPS from 20-40 FPS. I love OpenGL.

Just got accepted for a game developer. Ive been making games since I was 12 as hobby. Did a few months of university level of Game Development. Then started as web devloper professionally. The company I work for found a project as game dev for me.

I love my work and the sales team for finding me that job, even though its out of scope of their regular projects.

Hey all, this is my first post here, and this rant is mostly towards myself. I did a stupid.

I wanted to make a new cool game for a gamejam. I've had this idea of making an 3D RPG (you probably can see where this is going) so I thought I would continue on it during the jam, trying to make as much stuff as possible.

When I started, I realized that it's too much work to get anything cool done during the jam, so I ditched the idea and began to planning on a roguelike. It didn't really feel like my thing, so I passed that too. The mistake here was that I barely tried.

Then I was thinking of making a 2D RPG and started planning on it. I was an idiot and bought a 20e asset for it.. Then I realized that it would take too much time, too, and I had wasted money. Ugh.

Cue panic, where I go through all three ideas, devoting a lot of time into each one of them, then moving to the next, then I panic more. I was an idiot, very tired idiot.

Then I remembered the magic words: "Keep the scope small!" and decided that I will make that roguelike game. I delved more into it, found a python+libtcod tutorial for it and began reading and coding.

If I had realised that earlier, I would have done good progress on that roguelike, but instead I wasted time and money on something unachievable.. Well, I learned that I should always start small. It cost me multiple headaches, money and all around bad feels.

So don't do the same mistakes as I did. Just keep the scope small.

Hopefully this was a good first post, haha. And sorry for any spelling/grammar mistakes, English isn't my first language. Thanks for reading!

PS. I've been working on that roguelike a lot lately and I'm having so much fun. After this is done, I'll make something with that asset I bought so the money won't go totally wasted.

If you do this as a developer I will personally come over and make you eat all your money you earned with this scam cent by cent until you exploed and die.

Fuck you.

Reading this sweet baby.

Very nice so far.

- finish compiler
- get into gamedev
- learn Android dev
- finish framework (or at least make reasonable progress)
- create scripting language

We'll see what else comes to my mind during the year

Overloadception

Setting up a CMS for my personal gamedev with JenkinsCI for automatic testing and continuous delivery to Steams servers. Every time I see JenkinsCI post a success in my slack channel I cheer a little on the inside.

-Writes an algorithm that randomly generates a dungeon for my RPG game I'm writing in C++ with SFML library-

after 6hours of reading papers about algorithms, writing an algorithm myself, at 4 am I decided to give up and re try tomorrow and fix all of the problems, but all that I had in mind is, what the fuck did i just write here.. I'm sure the next day me will not understand what the hell is going on-

So I made a simple online game. One guy tested it and he complained about 4 or 5 visual things I was aware of.
I asked him if he found any code related errors and he said: I couldn't kill the enemies.
THE GAME IS ABOUT KILLING ENEMIES WHY DIDN'T YOU MENTION THIS RIGHT AWAY
(The enemies worked on the client but not on the server)

Not really a rant and I'm only a beginner/hobbyist, but for a few months I've been active in a local gamedev club where I recently managed the courage to approach a much more experienced (5+ years) programmer.

We managed to have a good 30 minute chat (despite not using the same programming languages) and he told me "I really appreciate talking to someone who actually understands programming and what they're talking about!"

It felt like a pretty big milestone on my path to game development, at least it feels like I know more than I care to admit to myself.

Me : I like making games,I think I will take that as my career.

Dad : *like every generic Indian Parent* Games are waste of time, use your skills to make something productive !

I felt like a "dev badass" when I had to teach and explain programming to our gamedev teacher.

We were being taught more about 3D modeling on those classes since it was more an artistic vocational school (Finnish edu. system) and I was one of the few who could actually code things to work. He then made me work on some bigger project for our local museum.
I don't know what happened to that project since I graduated before it was finished, however it was really fun to do and I kind of miss it all. Managed to finish few prototypes on those classes and got more into gamedev during that time, which I'm thankful for.

Found this pearl on the code of the game I made with some friends on a game jam the last week
Beautiful

I need someone who knows how to use 'ssh', to help me make a mockery for my game.

Just need to ask a few questions

I never have touched Swift, not did I touch iOS.

A friend needed help making an iOS game in XCode for his work. I spent 3 hours of hell making his game from 0 knowledge.

Never again am I touching it again *shiver*

(Swift seemed pretty nice to type though..)

printf("should i further my learning in python? what would you suggest for game development?")

Why do you want to work for this company?
I'm broke and i need a placement for Uni next year

Finally got my stickers! Thanks so much guys 👌👌

!rant
I just stumbled upon a first game I ever programmed back in highschool. Oh the nostalgia and the urge to cringe. Apparently I thought programing a game in visual basic and leaving an enormus memory leak was a good idea. Well I guess you have to start somewhere.

This is the evilest thing any developer can imagine. 😈😈😈

For you game Devs out there,

There should be a UE 4.20 this year... Gives a whole new meaning to baked lighting 🌿💡

So there is my stupid ass friend which I just absolutely hate every second fucking day, because sometimes he is a nice and cool guy. So let's just begin. It started when we worked on our first HOBBY game project for school. We actually just agreed that it would be just for fun, SO THAT FUCKING 2 MONTHS LATER I HEAR THAT HE WANTS TO SUBMIT THE GAME TO A COMPETITION AND ALRREADY TALKED TO A TEACHER AND WE CANNOT GO BACK ANYMORE.

Good thing tho... the competition is in like a year so we have plenty of time for our small game and there won't be any competition as all other submissions usually were some games made with some cheap GameMaker.

So I am little pissed about that shitty move, but it actually gets worse. Months go by and we're both doing our stuff and everything is fine. But now he starts being an asshole and LITERALLY SEARCHING MY CODE for stuff that HE DOESN'T LIKE. The fucking thing is that my code is fine and he literally edited my code to make it look worse. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?? LOOK AT YOUR SHITTY CODE THAT ISN'T EVEN WORKING AND THEN START CRITICISING UNNECESSARILY.

Now I am pretty pissed and I work and less and less on the project, because that dude is just too fucking annoying. So after a few weeks of having a break and the competition is in like a few months, I look into the game.. And I am impressed. It looks pretty good actually, so I start debugging the game to see how well it runs AND IT RUNS LIKE SHIT AND I REALIZE 80% OFF MY CODE IS GONE AND SO MANY FEATURES ARE MISSING. So I ask him where my fucking stuff is and he just says: "Ahhh... I deleted your stuff. Also you should thank me because I did everything in the game and you did nothing." ARE YOU FUCKING RETARDED, BRO. YOU DELETE MY STUFF AND NOW YOU CLAIM YOU DID EVERYTHING. WELL HAVE FUN PLAYING THIS GAME WITHOUT ALL THE IMPORTANT AND COMPLICATED SYSTEMS THAT YOU WEREN'T ABLE TO DO.

But I didn't want to sit there like an idiot at the competition and reimplemented all that stuff in 2 weeks and at the competition we actually somehow won a prize. The fucking problem is that he still claims that he did 100% of the work and I did nothing. So somehow it ended well with the game, but the time before was a pain in the ass and I never want to work with him on something, because he is actually a nice guy...

Currently I am working alone on my project and he on his. He rants about my game, but I don't really care and actually laugh my ass of, because every week he asks for help with his game. Well fuck off cunt, ask some other idiot this time. I learned my lesson.

PS: just installed the app and read some posts and thought about making one myself. Hope I didn't swear too much and that it isn't too long. Well, hope you have a great day.

I want to get into game dev, but don't know which engine to choose, Unreal or Unity. Both would be free, because Unreal is free for students. I already know C++, but I think it depends more on the API than the language itself. Maybe I would like to create games for Android too.
Which one would you recommend? Any experience?

Thinking about taking part in a two colour game jam on the weekend, I'm thinking some kind of retro space adventure game.
(I'm not the best pixel artist, but I'm pretty happy with how this mock-up looks)

Really hate pen drives, lost all my 2D game on Unity 😭😭

I always thought my dream was to get into game development. I've released a few over the years but my God it's so fucking tedious and boring. It's 5% creativity and awesomeness, 95% repetitive bullshit. For the love of God, don't do it solo!!

Once you've done the game logic all you've got left is hour upon hour upon hour upon shitty boring tedious fucking hour of content creation, and that is worse than a minimum wage data entry job. Get a team and pass it off to some other poor sucker.

For the record I don't use unity or unreal, so this is gamedev without their constant crashing and unstable updates.

The most exciting bit is creating the framework and tools to try and reduce the time needed for content to creation, but using them? Mind fucking numbing. Even with a project your passionate about.

App and tool development is becoming more appealing by the day. Do app developers feel the same about apps?

Build one minigame each month. To get better with unity.

Making scripts for custom physics is fun. One moment, the object gets stuck on the ground. The next, it shoots off into the far distance.

Lesson of the day? Don't be an idiot for once, stop, grab a notebook, Google some formulas and think like a human being before messing around with the script again.

Hi guys, I have been accepted into game developing (college), do you have any advice (language, and etc) for someone looking to start learning before even he starts his college course?

I just do not feel that I should waste time to wait for my college to start and then wait for a couple of years before I do something... I would love to progress a bit faster, as I am highly motivated.

Dear Game-Devs,

if your game takes some time to load that's fine but please do NOT let me press a button after starting the game and THEN start loading the menu for some time and instead load the menu immediately! What's the point of that? If I know it takes some time I want to start it and maybe get a coffee and when I come back everything is loaded...

GameDeving.. soon my boss asks us if we can use CI, we make unity fully function with jenkins, after a week, he asks us to use gitlab ci, we make it, 2 hours later he sees the results: "yeah.. forget about ci.. let's use the cloud build".

i'm crying.

I've started at school, but thinking about it since I were a child (10/11 YO) thanks to Crash Bandicoot!!
Damn, I've loved that game! And since then, I've dreamed about becoming a"videogame programmer", then I've found out that developing it's funny too, so for the moment I develop every time I can, one day I'll do my course to become a gameDev :D

Feature creep is absolutely terrible. Every freaking time I start working on my game I’ll tell myself, “okay, I’m almost done. 90% done, just got to finish up these designs her- wait a minute, does that button look right?” *Proceeds to completely redesign the UI and add 8 more options.* etc, etc.

Point is, I need to stop adding stuff. I need a hard deadline.

Being able to make THE game I've wanted to make for 4 years. I have a team of people who wants to participate (dev, artist, etc) and I even started building my engine from scratch.

But most importantly, my dream for this game is to have it published on the Nintendo Switch (also PC, OSX and Linux of course)

But right now I must focus on finishing my degree and doing contracts to make enough money to hopefully work full time on my game.

I'll see you in 2 years Albi

My first rant. Woohoo!

Honestly I do the whole shebang ussualy depending on what the needs are from network to servers to coding because for some reason nobody has any technical experience where I work.
I just started app development for a gamedev startup and I am in sheer awe of the amount of transpiling/compiling etc that needs to be done for an multiplatform app for iOS and android with js(x)/typescript, html, css.

I remember when I could just write some spaghetti code to make it working by following a couple of tutorials. Then refractoring and testing it for a couple of hours and be done with it. push it into production.

Now I am lost having to learn OOP, functional programming, reactjs, react native, express, webpack, mongodb, babel, and the list goes on and on...
Why not just make a new backend that does all of that in another language which supports all of that.

I have no formal education in programming/coding and the last time I learned JS it was just some if else, switches and simple dom manipulation.

I just want to get to coding a freakin' game but I have to learn JSX for the front and typescript on the backend.

I am this close to going back to ye ol' lamp stack and quitting this job. 😥

The struggle it is to find some music and sounds for a small game I'm working on...

I have even come across this website that provides "free" sound effects, but every single track costs like $2.95. The word "free" was literally in their website name.

And then I didn't even mention the fact that 80% of these websites ask you to log in to download files from their end.

At last but not least, some are offering .mp3 files for free, while the .wav version, with the EXACT SAME FUCKING content costs money. I could literally just use a file converter

Can't wait until I get my stuff to create my own music and sound effects

Can gamedevelopers stop using lua as their freaking scripting language..
Every time I try and figure out how tables work and think I finally get it it throws a big fuck you curve ball.

Oh and then they use json file to store the data of a table except that those json interfaces are complete retards.

If you are going to support json files then why the fuck won't you put in a small fucking inconsecential JS interperter so you can actually find some docs regarding more complex fucking docs then those simple minded t[guildName] = "guild"

Another thing, why the fuck does lua not use {} like every other langauge. I use those curly brackets to figure out where shit start and ends half the freaking time.

Fuck this I'm out for today...
And a big fuck you with both middle fingers to any dev that thinks lua is a great scripting language for plugins.

I was trying to build a simple 2D (drag the fish to eat other fish) game in JavaScript, cause why not there are already many libraries i will certainly find one for my use.

I'm already familiar with p5.js thanks to Daniel Shiffman and his coding train sessions.

I thought to build the game with p5.js with the play and 2Dcollide libraries, but it turns out they don't have a custom irregular sprite collision detection neither the other thousands libraries which are rotting on github.

Guess, I need to build somethig own my own.

And I also hate it, cause I have to design those fishes, the main game logic, this collision detection function and levels

I need a coffee with a coding partner

!rant

Today is the day, i'll finish up all the contract work that sits on my desk, cash in the money and finish up the free website i made for a befriended gamedev.

I've been sooo angry about other humans over the week but escaping into development and helping the few friendly humans out there is making me calm again.

If anyone of you feels down, grab a tee, clean your desk, take a bath and just start coding silly things, or try to help a mate in need. :-)

any gamedevs here with tips for gamedev students

I'm still learning a lot and I find coding fun. Being able to make my own worlds become real and then making them alive by coding is just such an amazing feeling to me.

Arg!

Revenue from ads going downhill and I can't release a new version of a game because it's tied to an event, and I can't even announce it yet.

Sent a proposal for a government grant. Deadline was Aug. 15th, but still no word on it - they didn't even updated the website, which by all means, still have the "send proposal" button active...

Meanwhile also developing another game, but I can't seem to decide on the music and sound fx for it. Can't find some style that will "fit".

Oh the joys of gamedev. :P

Prototype.

I've made so many main menu designs and realised after the game I made wasn't very fun. Therefore having my time wasted on the menu. (and graphics)

Suddenly remembering that you're in a two week game jam and you've only got 3 days to put something together!

Learning Machine Learning, JavaScript and finishing my game!

Happy New Year!!

Heyo, it's me. That fool who always says shit about unity.(:

So.. i just got my first real hands-on down, and phew, i gotta say.. I overestimated that heap of bullshit.

It's not like there are basic concepts of gamedev, framebased ticking and stuff like that since before the fucking gameboy - nope - let's do shit different. More ... Shit. First, we invent something new. Lets call it "prefab". None of these fuckers is going to know what that shit is.
What next.. oh the new-keyword. That's bullshit, all languages use it. Lets make Instanciate(). That's the stuff.

On we go, scenes. Most shit is statically created beforehand and used by scripts glued to stuff. Hell that so neat actually. Creating materials beforehand and then we can just load em!(:

NOPE. yo bro your Material where u used one of those loading-methods is null. We ain't telling you whats wrong, cus you know.. Load() returning null is like completely normal, why throwing an exception?
Oh and btw, it needs to be in ./Resources/, but it wont make any difference.

So now you want to google your problem, eh? Forget it. The Forums only answer on stuff like "how to add 2 numbers in unity" and the guide shows you how you did it, but they say it works that way.

Dude holy shit, of course this is a buhuuu i don't know how to do shit rant because i feel like good 8-10 years of dev experience collected while not doing homework for school were for fucking nothing.:b

And i have to use it.

Subjective Opinion: Unity was made by crackheads.

Anyone working remotely here? What kind of work do you do? I have been doing gamedev for 4.5years and want to go remote, thinking of transition to webdev/backend, good idea?

Went for a interview for a first time after I've found a job as developer last year. It was my first time trying to get a job in gamedev. My dream has come true - they asked me about what games I like and we have talked about mentioned titles for about ten minutes. No idea if I presented myself good enough but experience was really awesome.

You know something bad is about to begin when some of your resource names look like spr_Elf0_Male_Attack_Up

Hmmm, a few too many underscores for me :-/

Any idea how I should shorten this down but still be readable?

Feels so good to make progress on my entity personal project and now I have to somehow calm down for bed ;)

1) Miss Ludum Dare 40 because you remembered it is on one day after it started.
2) See Ludum Dare 41 is this week on time.
3) Lack the time to do it.
4) Commit suicide.

Everyone is bragging about ther linux customization. Gamedev be stuck with windows.

Anyone got C++ code for Minecraft?

Anyone with game development experience? I'm thinking of doing a game development side project soon. Not expecting the best results, but games like cuphead, hollow knight and salt & sanctuary inspire me (2D platformers).

Will PyGame or LibGDX suit me fine or should I use a bigger engine like Unity or Unreal?

fuck, took me a whole hour to debug an issue in my game that causes the start menu to switch right to the game itself, only after an hour i realized that i named the start game method as a default start ( a default method that executes at the very start of the scene). feeling so dumb now.

I spent the last 2 days, my father's birthday, and my birthday working on a bug for the game in developing for mobile. And I've done everything to try and fix it. Optimize the vertices, deleted assets not in use, organized all my assets into separate folders, and you know what. Fuck it. If "app not installed" I'm going to port it to PC.

So I finished today the first iteration of my roguelike game and whenever I close my eyes I just see lines and lines of python and keep constantly thinking about what I could improve in the game.

Save me from this fresh hell, I really need a break..

I'm studying games development at university and as a course it may not be the best but I enjoy it. With the department courses like Computer Sciences etc run alongside and we're given the choice to swap if we want. At the end of first year a few left the class and a few came in.

Forward to now where we're actually making games. I'm in a team of 4 working on a minecraft clone using Direct X 12 (50% of the module). Immediately one asked "who actually wants to make games?" to which they all said "no... This course is pointless, I don't want to make games" . So now I'm stuck on a team with a group of people who think its all stupid and want to do bare minimum work and want to solve no problems or do anything interesting with the project...

Any game developers have any insight on using a wacom tablet with UE4

October's begun and I haven't even started on my game. Fuck.

My SO's birthday is in December and I wanted to make a small game for her using elements from Limbo and the like because I can't draw anymore and because the graphics automatically become easier to make by myself that way. It's a 2d puzzle solving narration driven platformer where the player finds their way across the levels to his other half (simple and cute, maybe even cheesy).

But see, the thing is, I took on too much work again and I can 'barely' juggle them let alone work on the game and it's going to be December before I'll even know it. And I made sure to plan a really simple game with no extra flowers and shit to make sure I'd finish it on time but I won't be able to at this rate and it just makes me sad, like fuck, should've thought this through before. :/ But now here I am, ranting away while taking the dump of my life on the toilet taking out my frustration in quite the literal sense while verbally slapping my shit on devRant.

Feels bad man.

How many other c#/monogame developers are on here and looking for people to collab with? Just curious

So someone just beat my highscrore i held for over 2 years in a game I release on Google Play. On one hand I'm happy some put a lot of effort into playing my game😆, on the other hand I'm sad I no longer have the highscrore😢...

adding curve balls to my baseball app today.

What are you doing today for work?

Seems like I have to choose between a tool that is popular and one that'll get the job done cleaner and faster.. :/

Not an easy decision considering I don't have time to do it all myself and there's a team depending on me.

I know I'm annoying people with my questions about what to do in the future, but I'm hoping that this is the last one (for now).

Anyway, I want to study Animation/Game Design/Game Development at Uni, and I'm not sure whether I need to take up A Level Computing/Computer Science in order to be allowed to do one of those courses.

I have like 4 days to make up my mind before I enrol myself at college and finalise my A Level choices.

TL; DR
I want to study Game Development/Game Design at uni
I'm not sure if I need to have an A Level in Computing/Computer Science to study that course
I have a few days before I have to finalise my A Level choices and confirm them

Thinking of getting my feet wet in GameDev. Unreal 4 or Unity?

Tearing my hair out over a skybox in DirectX 12 please save me

Just spent hours trying find why my game was so janky looking in movement only to realise I dropped the max frame rate to 30 instead of its max 240... Well done Alex!

gamedev logic

Just about to get ready to import all of the hair sprites for my game and calculated it to be 1260 sprite strips to import... Fan-Fucking-Tastic!

To anyone out there thinking about making a 2.5D RPG, don't managing sprites is the worst thing known to man -.-

The double-edged sword of teamwork. I'm an indie Game dev, so I have no choice but to work with others of completely different fields. I enjoy it and I get a lot of motivation seeing things done and learning many new disciplines, but team projects have so many downsides when you have to handle everything from programming to cinematography that someone else was meant to do.

My final team uni project I even had to do our music composing cause our sound effects guy did almost nothing in 6 months (he wrote 6 midi notes in 2 weeks at one point).

Just got hired as a programmer. Still currently moving to the new city. I got a freshly installed windows PC to work with. Didnt finish some stuff on friday have to finish it today (monday) until 12 a.m. had to wake up at 4 am to get to the train so I could be at work on time (10 am). I arrived at work and turned the PC on, and now im sitting here and wait for Windows Update to finish. Its at 8% after 20 minutes.
(I actually like windows but) Man this sucks.

What ya'll working on this week?
Im working on a html5 puzzle game for a local gamejam 😛

Hi webdev here, who would like to start developing 2d indie games. My main language is JavaScript. Is there any way I could start developing games without learning a whole new language?

I just realized I've been writing C# with a C++ accent since I started using unity

that moment when you can’t figure out to make a certain functionality work, and after a bit of research you find out that you’ve been doing this all wrong so you delete all of the code and start all over again.

I've learned a valuable lesson on my journey to work in a gamedev company as a creative (Game/Level Designer):

"They always need someone with more experience."

They can test me, give me tasks to design a game/level but at the end it is experience that matters the most.

In designing games/levels I can't get experience by myself, so... maybe you, DevRantees (DevRanters? idk..), have some ideas about how I can get into gamedev company to get that prescious experience?

Do you think it's possible to get enough of a following on YouTube and twitch to fund your living expenses and use the rest of your free time to work on your own studio projects?

For example I'm a VR and AR game developer. I do the whole shebang for game development and design on my own. I could stream play throughs of the current game I'm working on as a weekly thing and create tutorial videos for other developers and students for more content on my channel, but to also stimulate growth in the VR and AR industry. I'd in a way be creating my own market. I could also stream the development of the art assets and whatnot.

Could possibly make some money from the ads at first. Maybe even within the game?

Idk I'm trying to avoid having to get a job anywhere else if I can float my own success as an indie start up. So thoughts on this rant please?

When I finally learned how to use vertex lists with OpenGL bindings in Python and optimized my game's tilemap rendering. I think it is my best written code snippet so far. It took me weeks to finish it.

I'm trying to install the environment of one of the currently gaming consoles...

I'm stuck in no-man's land because part of it depends on removed features of .Net from 2006-2008 that are not included right now...

So fuck this. I'll try again on the next one if uses more updated tools...

I'm a web developer that would like to do some game development. I focus on front end, and have done backend work (not a lot of databasing, though). I mainly use JavaScript and Python, with enough knowledge of Java, C#, and PHP to get by when I need to. I've also got a background in graphic design.

What aspects of game development might be a good fit for my skillset?

Where and how do I get started? I've looked at Phaser in the past, since it was inspired by Flixel, a Flash game library I used for a some simple projects in college.

Ugh, making a game engine (It's more like a framework than an engine but idgaf) and it's all based around easy to make content and everything is built using 'mods' hence its name, The Mod Engine but I've been trying to come up with a logo for the engine... Why is it so fucking hard trying to make a logo!

Anyone have any suggestions? :-/

Hey guys, gameDev here, wanting to branch out to software development in my spare time. Im using C# and Visual Studio, and rarely C++.
I want to make some software in c# or C++ with a GUI, more than just CMDs. Im trying to program a project manager or something else but dont know how. Need some tips!

That one time I got the procedurally generated and fully destructible (including toppling over if half is destroyed) buildings programmed and working for the first game I worked on

Currently working in an office where my tasks are pretty boring and not fun at all. On one hand I wanna quit and get a job as a gamedev, cause that is what I truly enjoy and love doing, but on the other hand my current job is paying pretty good money, so it would kinda be a step back.

Maybe you guys got some tips or advice on what I could do?

Who else is kind of stressed because Ludum Dare ends in less than a day and nothing really works?

Parents got a computer home when I was 7 years old.
Used to Play Serious Sam,Rally Trophy and Freedom Fighters on it. Alaways wondered how these games were made just to follow that Passion and make my own 12 years later :P

Experimenting with imgui and imgui_dock. I think I keep this 😊

There isn't many Dev bootcamps where i am from but i think they are a great idea for anyone that codes as you can get new ideas and learn new skills no matter what your ability

Is it possible to be well paid as a game developer?

Anybody in game industry? For me currently I am digging into some bullshit our smartest artists created, some guys just wrote their name in the commit log without any useful information, OK, OK, I know who you are already, please don't tell me your stupid name again thanks#YOURACCOUNTISYOURNAME!!!🙈🙉🙊

Why is it so hard to get a Game Dev internship, such a lack of support from Uni

one of game development pros .... you can name variables stuff like "fishArray"
i know it's silly but it made me giggle

Any game developers out there with some tips for game development? Starting a school project and have decided to do a video game :)

Would be glad to hear your advice and I'm sure there are others out there who would too!

anyone taking part in ludum dare 37 ?

There needs to be a new (MOOC) class for people like me.

Hi, I'm William. I can't get my head around designing systems. I've read GoF and a few breakdowns of it as well. I find some patterns obvious for my field of interest (game dev, woot!) while I'm reading through the stuff, but have a pretty hard time retaining much of it. I'm aware of the danger of over using patterns, so I don't worry that much about it. I'll look something up when I'm sure I need it.

Still, I'm tired of the tutorial blues. I can watch a few different people write entire games, usually not in the language of choice, but that only helps me so much.

How do I fight scope creep? In the meantime, how can I make things extensible? Scope does need to creep some, after all.

People joke about starting with (visual) BASIC ruining you forever. I don't believe in that crap, but is this just denial? Am I too dumb for this? Not that I'd ever seriously blame a language for that.

I've been a hobbyist for well over 10 years, please don't make me count exactly how long I've been unsuccessful.

I'm baffled by Löve. I think it's the coolest shit I've seen, maybe ever (unless we're counting IPFS).

I think what really prompted this rant, apart from the obvious degradation of my mental health, was my search for an entity component system for Löve/Lua. Hold your replies. I know there's a few of them, and I'm positive that they're fantastic. I'd roll my own, but that requires actual Lua specific knowledge that I just haven't dug all that deep into yet. I can't wrap my head around the ones that exist, even though I can tell their complexity is next to none really.

I have severe tool anxiety, I'm shocked that I've stuck with ZeroBrane Studio as long as I have. It feels good though.

Sorry to use this as "Devs Anonymous", but I think that's how this community helps (me) best.

I feel like I should stop now and just say: Advice? before this gets much deeper/less readable.

"Keep It Simple, Stupid" -some gamedev forum, however I know this is a mantra that has been repeated since dawn of time

Have any of you used Godot Engine to make anything? If so, what was your overall experience with it? I'm thinking of learning it fully to make some game side projects

Some mystery emulator-5580 stopping me running an android project 😬 WHERE DO YOU EVEN COME FROM

About to scrap the multiplayer functions in massmello altogether and work solely on the singleplayer package instead - i had far more done in regard to singleplayer functionality before i had the packages split anyway. >:(

m4a vs mp3

Trying (having) to develop game by Golang. Pick Raylib as library to go. Got stuck by cgo with goroutine somehow.

Deadline is coming...

!rant
any game devs here? wanted to know what kind of engine and sdk you most prefer? what do you think is the best for basic 2d mobile games? how did you make your choice?

Spent the weekend to configure my pc to be able to build Love2D to Android. Had problems with NDK, but it turns out that I need to install an old version of it (release 9 to be exact). Productive weekend ftw!

i wonder of the programmers/ designers for the game The divison are here.. if so.. you guys fucking suck! geez. never played or even hear of a game with so many bugs and glitches. then when they patch it. they actually make the game worse.

If you have to interview someone for a position not directly related to your position(example: you're backend dev he/she is gamedev) , and he/she has more experience than you. What are the things you should consider? How you would approach the situation?

Trying not to end it all at the thought of a whole game dev team working through perforce. Incoming "oops I checked out the whole thing"

!rant

Is someone else participating in the global game jam here? If how is it going?

Code running together.....must....sleep........