@Almo aRE YOU STILL WITH US?

Whoops caps.

@PearsonArtPhoto Instead of all that guff at $666 you become a satanist and call it a day?

LOL.

I'm going to wait until I have a game worth playing, right now all I really have is a demo/prototype.

Wow, I hit 4000+ on a reddit post... I'm getting somewhere...

Now if it could only be to one of my items, I'd be set...

@ChrisMcFarland Thanks for sharing your experience, never heard a greenlight story before. At what stage the game can be shown on greenlight? need to be fully completed?

Your game doesn't need to be completed, but if you want a lot of Yes votes, you should have a nice gameplay video, several gifs, several screenshots. and the more diverse your media is, the better (eg show off different environments and enemies and items or whatever your game has)

Find the most intriguing and best-looking Greenlight listing that makes you wanna click Yes, and study what they do that grabs your attention

@chrisMcFarland the trailer you have on steam is the one you used for greenlight?

I don't remember, but probably lol

the one with femal robo voice

Stitching together video is hard hahaha

:)

Not many people like my video lol

it's a bit long and the voice is kinda weird I think

well your reviews are mostly positive

Yeah, cuz the gameplay is fun :D

I wanted to test this shit

it is right to say that

most of the negatives are just cuz my game doesn't have enough enemy and item variation

wait

does tallowmere sold closely to 13k copies?

on steam I mean

I can't say exact numbers

but between Steam, iOS, Android, and Fire TV, over 14k ;)

I've always been curious if this is reliable

steamspy.com/app/340520

gives a lot of informations about games on steam

so it is kinda reliable

good to know

:)

bah, there are far too things to do in order to promote

I should build a lot of accounts in socials I don't give shits

so annoying

and build and follow a blog

yeah, it's not writing code :/

but first of all I need to finish to ncode the game or at least

yeah cuz writing code is quite funny

blogging is marketing, publishing -- whatever you put out is then consumed by people for better or worse

I'm not much of a marketing person so I just whip up whatever

your blog is directly www.tallowmere.com ?

big companies though, fancy trailers and excellent websites and art and images and effects and really fine-tuned stuff

Really though, if you look at say Valve's TF2 / Dota 2 / Left 4 Dead blogs, they only post updates when they update their game, not much development stuff

But eh, you can do whatever you fancy

Rust, they write weekly updates and show off what they're creating

Edmund McMillen, writes up little teasers about what's he working on now and then :)

well with so many updates probably they have something interesting to say, ahaha

I woud ashame to spam posts on whatever shit I do in the game

That's the thing - if you have something to actually show off (ideally that's playable), updating the actual product speaks volumes

the early stages of writing about your game development, kind of boring tbh

but once there's substance to your game and it looks fun, easily attracts attention

but yes, shouting about yourself is very easy to make it feel like spam

It's a hard feeling

you don't want to annoy people, but at the same time you gotta say a little something, else nobody will know that you exist

but if you have a fun game, people will like and they'll tell their friends and share links and stuff, it spreads

ahhahahah

but if whatever you're producing looks boring or same-old or lame, nobody's gonna care

holy lord, the hard truth

so many things to do, so low time

kinda despairing sometimes

haha yup

If you wanna aim big, yup, takes a lot of time

Angry Birds was Rovio's 20th mobile game or something

and if you have a shitty job because otherwise no food comes at home (or even the home does not let you in any longer) things get worse

yeah..... Common developer saying is, "don't quit your day job"

I think you can undertand me, not a matter of developer thing. If I was alone, I'd quit the job immediatly :) not with 2 kids rofl

hello tyyppi

@Leggy7 haha yeah. my wife and I have two kids. My wife is the one with the stable income!

@Tyyppi_77 good mooooorning

Ah yes

I've spent most of today doing Android stuff for customers

played some Overwatch and some Dota 2 though too

adding new controller profiles ._.

ah @ChrisMcFarland how does achievements work in steam? does steam provides you with something to implement or what else?

@Leggy7 Steam has a Steamworks API that lets you call when achievements should be earned. partner.steamgames.com/documentation/api You can sign up on the site for free to get access to the documentation

@Tyyppi_77 I added achievements after I got greenlit

@Tyyppi_77 Nice, yeah that's a big list. that's basically what this InControl plugin I use does. a large list of ID numbers mapped to various buttons and sticks. doesn't have every controller though, but has a very large number. So I ask the customers to use a dev controller app I made that displays the IDs as they press stuff, and fill out a form. Kind of inefficient (ideally would be built in-game), but eh it's good enough

yeah like if I were to do achievements in my sequel, I'd make an AchievementManager, have a list of Achievements (id, title, description, image), and something like AchievementManager.AchieveAchievement()and then do a check to see if we're using Steam, make the appropriate call to Steam's servers, or if we're iOS or Android or whatever, wrap it in there

for my DRM-free version I made a local achievement system with a banner that pops up

yeah

some achievement types also keep track of ints

(without you having to keep track of it locally yourself)

I think so but you'd have to check. I just stuck with the simple bools

but yeah, achievements, leaderboards, opening the overlay/browser, also user-generated content for the Steam Workshop stuff, and in-app purchases too

some networking stuff too

aww great!

yeah sweet

I also thought in keeping some local class to interact with steamworks

goal for this morning is to script player walk in new room

gonna spam over the socials!!!!!!!!!!

ahahah

aye, nice

I used to get enthused to do every screenshot saturday

rofl I hate twitter. built an account several months ago for a job I did and now it only spams me via sms what our prime minister says while sitting on the potty

and maybe if my wife finish to draw the good tiles, I'll insert them. cann't wait to have the new look. THEN I will seriously think to show it

Good art sells

nice

how was I able to live without resharper? I really don't know

I'll have to try out Resharper one day

I agree with chris but, generally, your whole art is really effective! Very simple and very good looking

If I will be able to be a gamedev by profession I'll enjoy to have time to practice painting graphics for my own videogames. It should be really rewarding to bring your own fantasy to life

yeah, half the reward is watching your hard work come together

The other half is all the attention you get from hot babes

HEAPS

?

I don't think it's because of vertchar = vertstring.data();

I'm gunna go with that it needs a size too work..

@Tyyppi_77 I would get all emotional if I could see like a full dev vlog or website too see the development of that game.

you little star :P

Programmer job with Canadian gov if interested

Must starts at 66

No must

@Tyyppi_77 Hahaha panicing on fire enemies that is golden.

@Tyyppi_77 You wouldn't happen to know the real difference between a char *buffer and allocating a new char[arraysize]?.

Because apparently OpenGL can't convert a char buffer only a allocating new char[arraysize] whatever that is? :/

const GLchar **strings

glShaderSource wants a pointer of strings .

sorry string

which would give you a pointer to an array of chars of size?

hmm

Oh okay so const char *vertbuffer[vertlength]; would give you a pointer to a vertbuffer array rather then a array of strings like const GLchar *vertstring = new char[vertlength]; would?.

Now it's becoming clear , you should never give a buffer unless it specifically says it needs a buffer. : P

I need to read more into memory management especially new , delete :)

Unity requires quicktime to run videos as textures, really?

unsuprising

ball of mud design

@DH. be grateful you can do it at all

on mobile you can't without a plugin or coding it yourself

@Almo that's a good point for unity

I found out last night my new engine doesn't have a networking layer ... but the next version of .net has a multiplatform supporting version of System.Net.Sockets

I have most of a cross platform C# async socket client coded up now :)

its nice to be able to just "update .NET" as I see fit for my game :)

Not missing unity yet at all!

Stupid bank.

I tried to get that wonderful fog asset last night and they put a block on my card. Saying that they thought it may be a fraudulent purpose since the payment was going to Germany.

Sigh.

I should probably call them up and see if I can't get the Unity store white listed. I mean I don't use them much but sometimes for art assets.

another day, another sexual harrassment charge at work

Against you?

naw i write up one per day

Geese. That's not good.

life sucks being this sexy man.

Geese? Like flying honking animals?

probly mean jeez. come on man! :)

This is going to make me sound like a lazy fuck but oh well. Ya I just woke up at like 10:45AM.

Still groggy.

wow the new final fantasy looks ridiculous

I've tried to get into Final Fantasy quite a few times but it never really clicked with me.

did you see the new one?

The only game I liked related to them was the Final Fantasy Tactics game.

Oh god those voices. Christ almighty that sounds bad.

That blonde haired kid sounds like a robotic chipmunk.

i beat FF1 and FF3

then I played FF7 and was like... wtf is this shit

oh, and I beat a final fantasy game on gameboy

right

@JoshPetrie Same. I never did get to play the PSP one though.

i also don't understand the huge hype surrounding ff7

the game is literally a movie

a boring movie

I actually liked 13 a lot because of the characters but the game just felt way too on the rails for me.

My cousin promised to kill me if I ever touched his copy of FF7.

Said it was worth $300+ or something along those lines.

No idea where he got that figure from.

he's being a huge turd

ebay.com/itm/…

haha

good luck getting that.

@JoshPetrie True. I did cherry pick that listing but I bet there is some sucker who would buy it.

i'd like to get 1 million for it

Ya. It'd probably fetch like around ~$100 if (keyword there: if) he gets lucky.

FF1 and FF3 for life here

FF3, the number of unlockable characters and secrets.. man

that was insane at the time.

14 playable characters

back in the days of SNES

I really like the battle system in mario rpg

I was watching a lets play of the new Ratchet and Clank and noticed that the game looked great. However they couldn't even get the turd to hold a solid 30FPS. Who thought that was a good idea?

console developers

I mean the player could turn the camera too fast and you could see frame drops. It was horrendous.

LOL @JoshPetrie

First game my son played when he was 1, was excitebike

he could beat the first two levels by just holding down the A button

I tried to get him to play mario 1, but that first goomba kept killing him

lol

So did you sacrifice him after that point?

i told him, everytime you die in the game, dad punches you in real life

he hates video games nowadays

We need more parents like you.

haha, that is what my brother did to me

if I won at 2 player games, he would punch me and say he can beat me in real life

The good old days. Nowadays you just have kids threatening to f*ck your mom over the computer.

@Jon you mean super mario 1?

really?

@Almo I shit in your direction

that's what I would call "mario 1"

not me

mario 1

but that's "Donkey Kong"

the other game is "Mario Bros."

making it "Mario 1"

where as Donkey Kong is just the first game with Mario in it. :)

his name is jumpman

yeah funny that

funny thing is... i never liked this game

I always thought it was stupid and boring

The hammer powerup, can't even go up a ladder with it... unplayable

I liked it un til I saw how to beat the elevator level, hiding in the spot where the thing bounced over your head

first example of knowledge is more important the skill that I ran into

this was a similar game, but way better

it did come out shortly after -- but it was insanely better imo

so I got a new work laptop today -- i7 baby

Need all the processing power you can get for them solitaire games :P.

that is not what I do at work

that is stupid

i like it

cool, can you push crates?

can you make slaves run into lava to allow you to complete gaps?

Anyone know if bullet physics is multithreaded?

no one knows

Yeah; you have to ask "errr, dude, bullet2 or bullet3?"

and then which version..

I didn't even get to Disc 3 in FF7

The game was huge

I don't think I quite like it, but it's interesting at least...

The drunkness effect to me is good

I could put a trail renderer, that would actually look neat...

Yeah, I'm not as worried about that. I sobered up the sailors a bit.

I'll do some more tweaking sometime, but...

Just need to improve that "light path"

What I added was the light path.

It's almost right... Sigh.

Yeah you need to smooth the curves

Yeah, it does look better backwards than forwards, doesn't it...

I hadn't even thought to add that as a feature, but I think I will be doing so now...

Would still need to smooth the curves :P

Anyone want to see a live stream of a burrito sitting on top of a poll?

well too bad I'm eating it now