Game Development

How does it look? What do you think? i have a video of that here too, you may check it the video here: https://www.tiktok.com/@shortsnowgame/video/7397678540273110304

Here is the link of my game if someone interested in to add wishlist: [https://store.steampowered.com/app/3054440/Short_Snow/](Short Snow game)

note: free demo coming this month

What features would you like to see in this survival game, that you never saw on other survival genre games?

Thanks for reading

Hello everyone here on the Fediverse

I'm making a free and open source platform fighter featuring FOSS mascots (like Tux, Nolok, Konqi, Wilber and others). I'm doing it on my free time, but it's something I'd really like to get it done. It's been brewing in my head since May/June, and that's really when I got the basics done using SDL2 (I will use SDL3 when it gets officially released). Right now I'm working alone while also having a job in the meantime, and that's basically to get contributions from you that I wanted to post it here. Right now, I got the 2D rendering engine done using OpenGL 2.1, and I'm looking to add OpenGL 3.3 support as well.

For those interested, the repo is already on Github at this link.

And if you don't think you can help me with the development, feel free to also talk about it around you and tell me what you'd like for this game. I will be happy to see your suggestions (and contribution if you can ^^).

Best regards and hoping to see you here

Draknek just announced their "New Voices Puzzle Grant" for 2024!

It's a USD$15,000 grant for developers from traditionally underrepresented groups who are working on puzzle games!
Includes 1-on-1 mentorship and super flexible terms when it comes to how the money is used.
Deadline is October 7th 2024.

More info in the link here: https://grants.draknek.org

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#GameDev #IndieDev #PuzzleGame

The Melbourne Queer Games 2024 Festival is open for submissions until August 23, 2024

There are no geographical restrictions regarding the submissions. Queer games from all over the world are eligible, and entry is free!

http://mqgf.com.au

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How To Market A Game: What Steam’s big demo update means for your marketing strategy

New blog post by HTMAG on what to do after the steam demo changes:

https://howtomarketagame.com/2024/07/31/what-steams-big-demo-update-means-for-your-marketing-strategy/

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For context, I am using the bevy engine.

I know that you aren't supposed to store stuff that might contain a lot of information, such as dialogue, NPCs and skills.

I already found a library that helps me store dialogue (bevy_yarnspinner), but I've yet to find such a library for other ressources.

So I was wondering, usually in RPGs, where and how are stats, skills, NPCs (including enemies) and maps are stored? And how does leveling up work?

Dames 4 Games is currently accepting submissions for their fall 2024 showcase! Their showcases feature women and individuals of underrepresented genders in the gaming and gamedev community 🤗

Here's the event page

And the submission form

However, despite all the attention Godot has been receiving, the switch from Godot 3 to Godot 4 called for the removal of Godot’s visual scripting system. This presented us with an amazing opportunity. We knew we needed to provide more to our users, and now Godot was lacking in a function that we know really well! And that’s how the current plan was kicked off.

Makes me wonder if they'll do something similar for RPG Maker if AGM does well enough commercially, since the RPG Maker Unite, which was supposed to work with Unity, died thanks to that charge the devs per-install kerfuffle.

Update from the dev on reddit (you can skip the OP, it’s full of false and inflammatory claims just to get upvotes):

Wow, I never expected to become the centre of one of these game dev controversies - I want to set the record straight about some of the misconceptions I'm seeing in this thread.

Firstly, no it isn't coincidential that there's a visual similarity between my game and his. Yes, I was inspired by certain aspects of Kenney's game in designing the visual identity for mine. At the time I didn't believe this stepped over the line of becoming plagarism - after all this is an industry where games are always iterating on previous ideas and that's by and large seen as being a good thing. Especially in this particular genre - where there's only so much you can do visually in the first place - at the time I didn't see it as problematic whatsoever that the games look visually similar. However I've spoken with Kenney directly and come to an agreement with him. It's also not good for the long term success of my game to be seen as plagarising and I would like it to stand on its own merit rather than under his shadow. That's why I've decided to make some changes to create some distance between the two games.

I don't hold any ill will towards Kenney and as far as I'm concerned we're on good terms - yes I do wish we could have resolved the matter privately instead of using the force of 100k Twitter followers against me - which he presumably know would result in the inevitible twitter shitstorm - but I also understand that emotions were running high and I can understand the perspective that he assumed I was acting in bad faith. It's not an ideal situation but it is what it is and as far as I'm concerned this is the best outcome for everyone.

Here is the Steam link if anyone interested in: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3054440/The_Short_Snow/

Hello Community I've recently released an Unity asset to create geometric meshes. Geometric Line Mesh Generator I still have plenty of vouchers available. If you would like to test this asset feel free to comment. I will pm you the voucher code. You can find a demo video on youtube.

How to Sell Visual Novels at Conventions

This is a guide on how to set up and run a booth to sell games and merch at a convention. Super useful if you have never tabled at a con before:

https://arimiadev.com/how-to-sell-visual-novels-at-conventions/

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A lot of old games have become unplayable on modern hardware and operating systems. I wrote an article about how making games open source will keep them playable far into the future.

I also discuss how making games open source could be beneficial to developers and companies.

Feedback and constructive criticism are most welcome, and in keeping with the open source spirit, I will give you credit if I make any edits based on your feedback.

(I didnt write the article, thats just the title)

Stolen from 2009scape Discord uwu