Game Making Drive Feb 2014

Archeia · 2014-01-29T18:39:14+0900

What is this? If you're reading this, you probably, most likely are making a game. We all read articles on game design, discuss game design, post our screenshots, and so on. However, the big issue with all of us is how much time we are working on our games and how much we get done in a certain time. A lot of us don't get as much done in our games as we like, and we end up chipping away at our games, sure, we get stuff over time, but a lot of the time, it may not be substantial, and it doesn't add up to quite enough. What if there was a way for us to band together to give inspiration and support for the sake of a common issue and work together towards it? This topic is inspired by a topic back in 2008 in RMN and posted by MOG. This event is handled by Archeia and Shaz. How does this work? What I need you guys to do is think of a time every day where you get at least a half hour to work on your game. It can be more of course. I can be flexible. I'd like it to be around the same time every day. If this is utterly impossible, try to spring for something at least consistent, like every Tuesday and Thursday or something like that. A schedule, if you will. Hell, you can even have weekends not count. Post how often and when you will work on your game and provide updates, and tell us what time zone you are in (for example, "I will work on my game Monday to Friday between 5pm and 7pm. My time zone is UTC-6" - don't say PST or Central - say GMT/UTC + or - how many hours). Now, every day (or whenever you assign yourself) on that time, get something done on your game and post about what you accomplished. Now, it has to be somewhat substantial, it can't be something like "9:00-9:30, I imported a backdrop." I'll use discretion for what's substantial and what's bullcr*p. I'm going to make a signup sheet for this purpose, and I'll go first. Got it? If not, feel free to ask me to clarify. Keep in mind, this is an ongoing thing (which means it's a commitment/schedule) and you have to live up to it! Of course, feel free to post if you want to change your daily time. Of course more people are free to join, just post your time! To register, copy and paste the following into a new post, and fill in the details. DAYS: TIMES: MY TIME ZONE (UTC/GMT +/- #): PREFERRED TEAM: (RED, BLUE, GREEN ; YELLOW is a closed group) The Game Making Drive will start in February 4, 2014, MIDNIGHT (Your Time! February 4, for you, will be your Day 1)Score SheetPlease look at the link above to see which team you're in! Let's all work hard to Release Something by the end of GMD~!

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AStewartUK

#121 Feb 5, 2014, 01:23 AM Source

Day 1 I've done a number of bits and bobs today. Will edit this from my desktop with pics in the morning

Music

Finished and mastered 5 different commissions I've also improved a selection of the tracks I've written also among them slightly longer.

Finished off and finalised a few bits relating to my mini resource pack that I'm releasing soon, just waiting on my artist now and then it'll be all ready. Also had a craving to write a full on ambience piece for a game I'm helping out with so I finished that one off as well :)

Mapping

Did some mapping related to a modern school building it was going well until I realized I was making a few silly mistakes, thankfully they are easily fixed so that was what I did, today :D

I'll update this with images if needed, but I think writing was enough?!

Red +1

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Chaos Avian

#122 Feb 5, 2014, 01:40 AM Source

Today I worked on 4 battler designs and right now (still) working on a bust image. Man, got so into it I lost track of time xD

Here's a WIP for those interested.

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McTricky

#123 Feb 5, 2014, 02:28 AM Source

Day 1:

Didn't do too much today. Since all my saves got corrupted, I had to a do a playtest of my entire game so far, so I can test future things out. So time was spent doing that. Also coming up with workarounds for characters walking across a looping map whilst there is dialog. No uni tomorrow so this is something I can sort out then!
OmNomZombie

#124 Feb 5, 2014, 02:30 AM Source

Day 1

I spent the majority of my free time today working on a concept art piece for my game's protagonist. It took quite a long time to line and colour it, but I'm so glad it's finished. It's under the cut if anyone wants to take a peek at the design.

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Yato

#125 Feb 5, 2014, 02:35 AM Source
Day One

Let's see...
- Fixed all the wrong transfer events as a result of copy-pasting a large number of maps.
- Evented the final four scenes for an upcoming closed demo.
- Polished up a script and made a demo of it for Restaff.
Makio-Kuta

#126 Feb 5, 2014, 02:37 AM Source

Outside of doing a playthrough and making my list for tomorrow, I'm probably done working on game dev stuff for the day and will be moving onto webstory work and commissions. So! Here's my report!

DAY 1

* Finished 16 new Busts for Winter Blossoms

* Started two new maps. They are complete save for a few unique tiles for overlapping trees and a fancy garden entrance

* Drew Racheal an awesome circle orb thing for a script demo

* Did a resource request

* Plotted World Domination
Bloodmorphed

#127 Feb 5, 2014, 03:02 AM Source

Day One

I got a bit lazy and only did one map. For some reason just started feeling bad :( .

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Boo for lazyness!
Arkecia

#128 Feb 5, 2014, 03:10 AM Source

Bloodmorphed said:
Day One

I got a bit lazy and only did one map. For some reason just started feeling bad :( .
I like the layout of your map a lot, but for your arched roofs it would look better if the top edges stuck out more, because as it is it looks like it was cut off from the top instead of showing the perspective of the arched roof like the bottom half. I'd cut some of the sides off of the top until it forms an arch in a similar shape to the bottom half.

It's really rough cuz I just wanted to get what I meant across, but something like this:

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Engr. Adiktuzmiko

#129 Feb 5, 2014, 03:12 AM Source

from this view, you normally see the top edge of the midline of the roof at the upper part of the roof... yours was CUT-OFF... it really doesn't look nice that way... you could take a look at the arched roofs on Mack's tiles for reference

or even just take a look at the RTP Tent... the roof would look a bit like that
Bloodmorphed

#130 Feb 5, 2014, 03:22 AM Source

I know, I just don't know how to fix it. It is bugging the crap out of me though. To be honest. The cut off part. I know how to fix what Ark is talking about. I have to do some edits to align the roofs tomorrow cause some reason they are off about 3 pixels?
Engr. Adiktuzmiko

#131 Feb 5, 2014, 03:24 AM Source

Don't you have the upper parts of those tiles?

cause some reason they are off about 3 pixels?
really? I never seem to have that problem with those...
Bonkers

#132 Feb 5, 2014, 03:27 AM Source

Feb 5th Entry, in case I loose power for the storm tonight.

Minor adjustments

Sprite editing. I do not enjoy redoing old sprites but it had to be done to fix hair walk animation, and hat placement etc.

To facilitate more action over talking I've started to implement that the player will first have to go through the slums in order to get further inside of town to the first quest scene.

To show social divisions between the humans and the beastmen I've implemented a few npcs that the player will talk to along the way since the path into town. This is how the player will

be introduced into the mine being closed causing the town to go into an uproar.

During this introduction to the town a merchant's shop will be attacked and burnt to the ground

by one of the angry townsfolk who want the beastmen to return to work.

Emmet will be able to move onto the next area once he talks with Ivan.

Ivan will be able to join you on your adventure where no other merchants will travel.

My play tester was happy to hear this, and he thinks that the town has begun to take on it's own

distinctive feel with the custom flag and banner. I'll have more map redos by week's end. Right now I have a SS

of the area closer to town but still in the slums.

Thanks to Yanfly's gab constant window and dialogue heavy starts are gone.

I'll be updating with portrait work when I get home if my power isn't out due to the storm.

*Are mods putting those +1s in people's posts or do we do that ourselves?

edit: Weather was good so got some portrait work in.
Tsukitsune

#133 Feb 5, 2014, 03:36 AM Source

Worked on the center area of Gamut for a little. I've got an idea of the layout, just putting in tiles and experimenting.
Bloodmorphed

#134 Feb 5, 2014, 03:48 AM Source

Engr. Shana said:
Don't you have the upper parts of those tiles?

really? I never seem to have that problem with those...
Upper parts?
Engr. Adiktuzmiko

#135 Feb 5, 2014, 03:49 AM Source

yeah the upper parts... take a look at the roof tiles in Tsukitsune's image above...
Alusair1

#136 Feb 5, 2014, 03:51 AM Source

I'd seen some previous topics on this and wondered when one might occur again. Perhaps this will get me to commit to dedicating a specific time so I don't let this initial attempt just die out.

DAYS: Wednesdays

TIMES: 6-10pm (somewhere in there, going to strive for an hour, depends on a little one cooperating)

MY TIME ZONE (UTC/GMT +/- #): (UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)

PREFERRED TEAM: (RED, BLUE, GREEN) ; Blue if possible
Bloodmorphed

#137 Feb 5, 2014, 04:03 AM Source

Engr. Shana said:
yeah the upper parts... take a look at the roof tiles in Tsukitsune's image above...
Yeah I still have no clue what you are talking about. do you mean the autotiles, or the tiles close to the pointed top of the mack roofs? I'm so confuzzled.
Engr. Adiktuzmiko

#138 Feb 5, 2014, 04:31 AM Source

the mack roofs... just like what Ark posted
Minnow

#139 Feb 5, 2014, 04:58 AM Source

Day 1
Worked on pixels.

Blocked out the basics of the tiles for my opening cutscene. Hard to believe this took me nearly 4 hours but it was mostly spent trying to make the building look the way I wanted it to. Architecture is not my forte.
Tomorrow I will work on adding details to it.

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Also started to rework a tree to fit my perspective better.

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DuncanS

#140 Feb 5, 2014, 06:22 AM Source

Created some rough drafts of water levels for a gardening/farming system:

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In-game:

Did a whole bunch of scripting and eventing for growing the plants over time (will be posting the scripts once I get them all sorted out nicely, or PM me if you're interested XP).

Go blue~!