Poll of the Day > Who creates games on here? Are there any I can try?

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@AwesomeTurtwig IIRC? You create/used to create pc games?

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He did make a game. And he let a bunch of us play test it to help him. He may be able to let you test, as well
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ya thought it was him

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I think SullyTheStrange was developing Sneaky Ninja as well

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SilentSeph posted...

I think SullyTheStrange was developing Sneaky Ninja as well

This is true. I believe helIy usually ask every once in a while about it
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I've wanted to for years and maybe one year I'll actually attempt to, does that count

Unity/UnReal/GMS2...

All are Free (to Create, Pay to Export)

There are plenty of Sample Games/Tuts out there to get started...

https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/385556/The_Microsoft_Game_Development_Kit_is_now_available_for_free_on_GitHub.php

i made a game called pokemon, but you probably haven't heard of it...

*walks away*

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@gamedeveloper

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i make games in my spare time but i havent published any of them anywhere in the last ~6 years, so you can't play them. sorry.

ive been working on a libble rabble clone recently to learn godot but it will probably never be fun enough that i actually want to show it to people

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Yeah, Biologger is my game. I have one of the five worlds free to play in the demo on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/833060/Biologger/

2 worlds are completely done. 2 other worlds are 90%+ done. The 5th world is about 10% done. Plus Steam workshop integration needs a lot of work.

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@gamedev

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I made a really really super basic atari/coleco style game like 10 years ago. it's only available on XBox 360, if you can still buy community games on it.

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AwesomeTurtwig posted...

Yeah, Biologger is my game. I have one of the five worlds free to play in the demo on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/833060/Biologger/

2 worlds are completely done. 2 other worlds are 90%+ done. The 5th world is about 10% done. Plus Steam workshop integration needs a lot of work.

Thanks Turts. Ill give that demo a go.

What engine did you use to create it?

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I technically do, but haven't worked in like 5 years

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FatalAccident posted...

Thanks Turts. Ill give that demo a go.

What engine did you use to create it?

Unity

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Give me another day or so and you can try my upcoming roguelike demo out. It has 1 of 4 classes and 2 of 6 areas unlocked but otherwise you can get almost every item and etc. It focuses on being easy to get into, and not having to memorize 1,000 key commands to play- this is the biggest barrier to these things for myself and what looks like many others!

Here's some basic info about it I posted in June, but it's improved a lot since even then:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/547980/announcements/detail/3019082105869328634

And here's a recent progress report with it up through last week. This took maybe 3 weeks to complete. It's pretty big so long read ahead:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1630690/announcements/detail/2994316383677419605

EDIT: The screenshots Valve had me use are all 1280 x 720, which makes them look more horizontally stretched out than they actually are. I hate that :(

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Yay, I like your DXF Games stuff

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Lokarin posted...

Yay, I like your DXF Games stuff

Thanks a lot!

I really like this new one- it takes lots of things I learned with my first roguelike and fixes or makes them better. The best part is that it's not slated for release until November so I still have plenty of time to tweak and polish things and make it as good as possible.

Now that we can upload pictures, here's what the title looks like-



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@Activision

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I'm a hobbyist. If you want I can dig up my old, shitty games I made when I was like 12.
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GanonsSpirit posted...

I'm a hobbyist. If you want I can dig up my old, shitty games I made when I was like 12.

hehe, same - but mine are largely irrecoverable - I have them on a 3.5" floppy disk

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Black_Crusher posted...

Give me another day or so and you can try my upcoming roguelike demo out. It has 1 of 4 classes and 2 of 6 areas unlocked but otherwise you can get almost every item and etc. It focuses on being easy to get into, and not having to memorize 1,000 key commands to play- this is the biggest barrier to these things for myself and what looks like many others!

Here's some basic info about it I posted in June, but it's improved a lot since even then:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/547980/announcements/detail/3019082105869328634

And here's a recent progress report with it up through last week. This took maybe 3 weeks to complete. It's pretty big so long read ahead:

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1630690/announcements/detail/2994316383677419605

EDIT: The screenshots Valve had me use are all 1280 x 720, which makes them look more horizontally stretched out than they actually are. I hate that :(

Yo, want to collab on social media (if that makes sense?). Like we both retweet eachothers stuff, and try to share community.

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AwesomeTurtwig posted...

Yo, want to collab on social media (if that makes sense?). Like we both retweet eachothers stuff, and try to share community.

I wouldn't be much help, I don't do Twitter or Facebook or Discord or any of that. Just here and reddit, really.

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I want to help, and get help - but I've been in a mentally crippled state for several years

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I used to make lots of topics about the games I was making, but I'm functionally dead

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I can't stand advertising at all. It totally sucks. Publishers have contacted me before but what they want is just too much. It's either tons of free keys (TONS) or $4000 / month which I can not afford at all. So it boils down to putting links in my signature because it's easy and free (lol)

I did try and put up a post on r/roguelikes however the mods took it down because I had to wait 3 months between bouts of self-promotion. The last time I made a post there it was looking for beta testers. I didn't think this was self-promotion and they did. And they hold the keys, so what can you do?

That being said I have about 4 more days before my window arrives mwhahaha.

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Jeez, 4000 a month? If you sell your game for $10 you gotta get 400 before that even starts being worth it. With how many indie games are out there, can publishers even make that heavy of a marketing lift? I know some obviously sell way better than that but it's rare. Feel like I'd rather just sell three a month on my own, obviously that's not enough to make a living, but it's net positive at that point, I think.

And I know that between the publisher and storefront cuts you don't get nearly $10. So let's just say you net $5, then you're looking at 800 sales a month.

@THQNordic

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Ok... I'm been forced into a corner

GameMaker has just switched to a subscription model - which means I have to decide if I want to keep making games or not, like, istead of just procrastinating I need to either commit or quit

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This really sucks, I hate having to decision.

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Lokarin posted...

Ok... I'm been forced into a corner

GameMaker has just switched to a subscription model - which means I have to decide if I want to keep making games or not, like, istead of just procrastinating I need to either commit or quit

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This really sucks, I hate having to decision.

That DOES really suck.

I was looking into upgrading my crappy video editing software and the one suggested to me the most (Adobe PP) was also a subscription model. I just want to buy it once and be friggin' done with it. What am I, a Hollywood director or something? I just want to be able to edit a stupid minute-long trailer.

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Lokarin posted...

Ok... I'm been forced into a corner

GameMaker has just switched to a subscription model - which means I have to decide if I want to keep making games or not, like, istead of just procrastinating I need to either commit or quit

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This really sucks, I hate having to decision.

I used Gamemaker 4 through 8.1 and stopped using it when they switched to Studio. Now I use Godot.
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@FatalAccident

Sorry for the delay, the demo is finally up. I won't post about it any more today I don't want to test the mods' patience!

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1630690/announcements/detail/4271087968785600526

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