game-dev-chat

[viscid compass]

illegal ?

[inland ruin]

Well it sounds like a scam, and pulling people to DMs is a common practice in scamming

If it can't be said publicly in this server, it's not appropriate for this server

[sacred linden]

Is this game dev chat for like all of the game?

[copper moss]

Yes, with a interest in topics related to discord such as the social sdk

[sacred linden]

ok

[tender sleet]

🎮 SCREENSHOT SATURDAY Jul 26 🎮

Time to show off what you've been working on! Drop your game's screenshots, GIFs, or short clips here along with:

• A brief description of what you're building
• What you're excited about or struggling with
• Any specific feedback you're looking for

This is all about learning from each other and celebrating our progress. Links are welcome for this thread - feel free to share your itch.io pages, Steam wishlists, or project repos so people can follow your journey. Just keep it focused on sharing your work rather than heavy promotion and it MUST be SFW. Whether it's your first prototype or your upcoming release, we want to see it!

[marsh basalt]

tbh i’d love to make an fps game like cs go. i know it’s gonna be tough and i’m still new to game dev, but i’m really looking forward to it. i’m good at web and bot development, just haven’t stepped into the game world yet

[limber thunder]

WHY DOES LUA CONFUSE ME SO MUCH 😭😭

[oblique edge]

Same reason as it does for everyone else, tables are used for everything and indexes start at 1

[thorny hatch]

local hi = ‘hi’

[limber thunder]

😭

😩

I will be good at it 🤓 I am slowly getting better

Btw hi

[surreal mural]

[merry kraken]

I’m trying to get into Godot tried a few tutorials already

[vestal fox]

Lower like that

[hollow moat]

Hmm

[neat parrot]

🙄🙄

[limber thunder]

what do you all think, which programming language is the "best" for android game development in the terms of having the most functionality while having the most simplicity?

[oblique edge]

C# with Unity

[limber thunder]

Thank yoh for the suggestion 👍

[tender sleet]

If you've got a solid web and bot dev foundation I'd definitely recommend picking an engine and looking for a youtube tutorial series on building an FPS game in it. Unity and Godot are both great options. This series is a little old now but Brackeys is one of the best tutorial makers for Unity (and now Godot). I bet they explain everything super well!

[tender sleet]

What have you been trying to build? How were the tutorials you used?

[tender sleet]

I think it depends on what you currently know too. For example I've been in Unity for a long time so I'd go with C# and Unity but if you have Android experience with Kotlin it might make more sense to use that instead

[fast whale]

<@&1050493473033289778>

[merry kraken]

Brackeys one

[marsh basalt]

thanks a lot! that sounds perfect, i'll check it out soon :)

[south linden]

erth poker bug

anyone?

do you want me to fix it or what?

[iron niche]

huh?

[south linden]

cant enter the game

[iron niche]

let me try one moment

yeah

looks like server is having some issues

[south linden]

yep

bug detected

who developed this app?

may i know

[iron niche]

This isn't really a support server for the games. Probably would be best to google it

[south linden]

i hope this app fix real soon

[radiant rain]

Yo I'm making a Roblox game any ideas

[tulip valley]

There is no ideas.

[frail inlet]

wsp

[late nacelle]

Is anyone interested in collaborating on a game or helping out with the pre-alpha bug grind?

[crisp bison]

(LIOS) The Last Island of Survival need some Bugs solved

[queen patrol]

contact the game maker to report bugs to them. this isn't the place for that

[scenic blade]

I wish we did more events for game development

[scenic blade]

What game engine you running?

[late nacelle]

Discord / Python, making a text based dungeon crawler

[scenic blade]

oo ok

[late nacelle]

yeyeye, using Ai for procedual world generation

[scenic blade]

thats dope id offer to help hut my python is a bit rusty

[late nacelle]

what language do you mainly use? mine is also rusty but im using Claude Sonnet 4 and coderabbit 🙂

[scenic blade]

ive been working on a game on roblox for the past few months so rn lua is the most predominant in my mind

[late nacelle]

if you are serious id be happy to chop you out on sales if it took up, got a freemium model, appache 2 license, free starter dungeon then $5 per DLC

[late nacelle]

i love the idea of roblox but havent explored it much yet

[scenic blade]

i just like roblox studio bc i like building the 3d models and stuff

but ive been learning how to use blender recently

[late nacelle]

cool!

blender is great i used to use that but fell through on practice when i moved house

[late nacelle]

Hey everyone!

Currently been working full time on a hobby project with full ambitions towards publishing a marketable product in the game industry!

About the project! It's a procedurally generated text base action adventure RPG dungeon crawler, inspired by dungeons and dragons and those old school DOS terminal choose your own story games, I've been working on this project for nearly a week now with python and discord as my primary language and platform, I have a website on GitHub and have been using VS Code as my IDE.

Thanks for your time 🙂

[dreamy inlet]

If you have specific coding questions you can ask for help in #1130600438811590709 but do note that asking for a co-developer/founder is against the server #rules

[late nacelle]

apologies

[storm spire]

need video games in discord :)

like making discord into a video game platform too

games + chatting ❤️

[velvet haven]

Wait what code dos apps use and how do I make one

[inland ruin]

You can make a bot in pretty much any programming language you want. Which one(s) do you know?

[velvet haven]

I only know scratch coding lol but for some resone it can understand lua by just looking at it but can't understand how to place codes stuff together 😅

[velvet haven]

Lua in rbx ofc

[inland ruin]

I would recommend learning either Python or JavaScript if you want to get into making Discord bots. Those 2 offer the 2 biggest discord API libraries (discord.py and discord.js)

You can also use Lua to make a bot but it's not as supported by the community

https://libs.advaith.io/ has a big list of many popular libraries

[dusky grove]

I love the background

[void bane]

@late nacelle

i want to help

[lavish flame]

If you need help just ask

You dont need to ping random people

[frail geode]

Anyone wanna build a erlc server?

[zenith portal]

how can i help

[tender sleet]

🎮 SCREENSHOT SUNDAY AUG 3 🎮

Time to show off what you've been working on! Drop your game's screenshots, GIFs, or short clips here along with:

• A brief description of what you're building
• What you're excited about or struggling with
• Any specific feedback you're looking for

This is all about learning from each other and celebrating our progress. Links are welcome for this thread - feel free to share your itch.io pages, Steam wishlists, or project repos so people can follow your journey. Just keep it focused on sharing your work rather than heavy promotion and it MUST be SFW. Whether it's your first prototype or your upcoming release, we want to see it!

[austere bone]

🧵

[south linden]

thanks it is what it is

[hearty grove]

Hi, does someone have some Ideas for my discord bot

[scenic nimbus]

what type bot do u have?

[hearty grove]

do you want to see

[scenic nimbus]

ok

[hearty grove]

per dm, or can i send it here

it not allowed or

[scenic nimbus]

uh idk

[hearty grove]

ok, i send it via dm

oh, you have to dm me

[vestal fox]

Hi Anthony, how's it going.
This playlist is actually very interesting and the fact that it is 8yrs old makes it feel like it was too advance for that time. I recently got my interest in game designing after I completed making my first app, Do you think that things have changed in these 8 years and are there any other new recommendations from you.
Thanks

• Divine Will

[glacial iron]

unity shader I'm working on for use in vrchat

[lament merlin]

I am looking for some assistance. I've just set up my own discord and im starting to build out the channels but I want to make it more interactive. For example I want to have a welcome journey whereby the new visitors have to confirm theyve read the rules and will receive a role for confirming which validates them. Any suggestions? I've got Mee6 and because its a discord for a DayZ server ive got DayZ++ bots in there but neither do this validation well at all

[tender sleet]

The dither on the white halo is SO good

[glacial iron]

thank you! it's not that complex, I kind of copied the implementation from a tutorial 😅

it's an option in the shader now

[tender sleet]

I do think some things have changed since then but the fundamentals will all be the same so maybe a more recent tutorial like this one would cover newer changes to Unity. I think the best way to go though is to search youtube for an fps tutorial and find one that you find easy to follow along with!

[tender sleet]

I like to copy parts of shaders from shadertoy sometimes as a starting point. Makes it a lot easier to understand what's going on initially

[visual pendant]

hey, can you help me ?

I have an x86 .exe where a dll runs, in this dll I want to insert rich presence, it has to be in x86 too, but I was not successful

using game sdk and social sdk I couldn't even compile the dll

with discord-rpc I managed to compile, but the activity does not appear on discord

[real trout]

[fresh shore]

https://youtu.be/6Oo2tL6itHA its not much and a dated video now I got discord oauth working

[potent girder]

[glacial iron]

Managed to add bars (or steps?) to the shader today. I will not apologize for the music

[fiery tide]

[fresh shore]

what are u making a rythem game?

[glacial iron]

No, a vrchat shader

[fresh shore]

aaaah well it looks great

I remember my VRChat days

I may return I got busy

[granite mason]

it’s too early for Mariah Carey

[eager nymph]

this is new

[elder hound]

👀

[dusk summit]

Guys i'm new in the server

[twilit sparrow]

1

[vestal fox]

Thank You : )
I am planning/watching tutorials for the game at the same time. I have few really good ideas, I wish to bring them to life.
P.S - I was just looking at game dev event, I'm excited to see the results.

[barren nova]

Same

Evolution of a random Pokémon game engine I made last week

Yet to add music and then events (npcs)

Everything is possible to change on an external json, the sprites, tilemaps, map, create texts and even scripting
But it's still really useless at the current stage XD
Unless you like to suffer to draw maps with numbers on a text file with layers ( o.o)

[near imp]

Nice to meet you, I can do it

[barren nova]

hi :D

[queen patrol]

this chat isn't for recruiting

[near imp]

Oh, sorry

[tender sleet]

This is looking really great! What's it going to be?

[tender sleet]

This is so cool to see! I use to build my own map editors for some of my early puzzle games and it was so fun. I love seeing how it's progressed with the animations. What are you planning to do with it?

[barren nova]

Thanks! :D
I'm trying to do it so people can create 2D pokémon-like rpg games with a simple game editor, but I won't use it for my own games, because it seems I'm too lazy to finish any game I start :p

[tender sleet]

Sometimes building tools is more fun than creating the full game! It can be really fulfilling to release them and see them get used

and also very humbling when you see the bugs people run into

[barren nova]

I'm trying to make the editor to be limited at the point you can't easily encounter errors
if people decide to edit the json file directly to get more freedom and get any bug, I hope they don't blame me ( o.o)

because I would for sure let some thousands of bugs slide without noticing lol

gonna purchase a google play console account, hope it goes well o.o

[tender sleet]

Yeah I think a good UI will give the user feedback about the error or even prevent it from happening. Also really great for modding to let users have access to the raw json and do what they want with it

[tender sleet]

Do they require a purchase now? I remember I signed up for one way back and I think you had to pay like a dollar to make sure you weren't a bot

[barren nova]

yea $25

yay could do it

it seems my bank doesn't make me pay extra taxes for international payments when it's related to google development :O
saved around 6€

[sleek wraith]

Good morning ladies and gentlemen 😊 ☀️

[queen patrol]

this isn't the place for recruiting

[obsidian zenith]

Ohh mybad

[fresh shore]

Thank you, its gonna be a MMORPG, I bought an kit years ago that aids me in the backend and gives me some demo stuff like the level shown I make the character and made it load levels dynamicly and I've been tinkering with the UI and ofcourse with the social sdk, might make it a activity

would be fun to launch a MMORPG directly from discord VCs

totally possible too seeing Unity supports web builds
Edit: not possible due to the framework not liking web builds

but I also put it on steam

already got its app with fees paid

I also want to make a Junkbot activity but I will not use the name Junkbot(lego might get mad they still potentually hold some rights to the name) nor the long name of the HTML5 clone of it(will use the clone if I do this its open source)

I did that before in a project to kinda make an arcade activity but I think making it its own thing is better its really nostagic as lego junkbot was a flash game I adored as a kid but the MMORPG is more of a priority

also the MMORPG is a remake of the game I lost code of

[fresh shore]

okay maybe it wont load as a activity

[tender sleet]

That's really cool that there's a starter for it. Does it handle all of the backend and server for you or is there still configuration you need to do?

[tender sleet]

If you run into specific issues definitely ask in #1219055432232992778 !

I know other Unity devs are building activities using Dissonity so it's definitely possible

[eternal quiver]

Looking for developer who have good experience with faceit i wanna create a faceit standoff 2 server pls dm me

[tender sleet]

This server isn't for recruiting #rules

[hearty kraken]

a question

How do I discover the multi-accounts on my server?

I know there is a boy who has it but I don't know which one it is.

[pulsar leaf]

Are selfbots patched ?

[pulsar leaf]

What's multi accounts

[lavish flame]

What?

Selfbots are against tos

[pulsar leaf]

It was just question

[pulsar leaf]

I'm against selfbots

Ts corny and immature

I've had my server nuked liked that before

[neon bobcat]

@tender sleet

[open adder]

Did you add security key for 2 step auth?

[neon bobcat]

How do I cancel it?

[inland ruin]

do you have your recovery codes?

[open adder]

you got backup codes/

[neon bobcat]

naeam

[inland ruin]

if you dont have your recovery codes, then youre SOL

[neon bobcat]

lyh

[serene cloak]

j#hi

[acoustic topaz]

i have a problem with my fivem server who can help?

[prisma pagoda]

This is not the place for that, try asking in the FiveM discord server or forums

[sterile seal]

im not sure if itll let u remove the security key without having the security key

but thats the first time i've seen someone have a security key thing actually work

[fiery tide]

Really? I've been using them for like 8 years now

[tender sleet]

Hey yall instead of doing weekly screenshot Saturday threads in here we're going to be using the new #1403120755360796762 forum channel. If you've got anything cool you're working on drop it in here! https://canary.discord.com/channels/613425648685547541/1403147282714722405

[dreamy inlet]

Sure, just make a server and moderate it. BOOM! Instant Discord moderator!

Now, if you mean "handles user submitted reports" then you need to apply for a job at the Trust and Safety team.

[rare oriole]

I'm talking about that

[dreamy inlet]

That's the staff badge. And to get it you, uhh, need to be a Discord employee. So again, check the link above on how to get a job

If you're just looking to add badges then you're out of luck, since badge hunting is off-topic for this server

[rare oriole]

No I was just asking how it’s possible to work at Discord with a new account

[dreamy inlet]

Again, to work at Discord you get a job. Account age has literally zero to do with your ability to do whatever job you apply for

[gleaming basalt]

Because they probably made a fresh one to be their employee account while their personal one remained private

[rare oriole]

ok

[tender sleet]

Anything is possible in this crazy world

[novel sandal]

hellomm

[wise halo]

Fr bro

[main hinge]

Leme list something

I cnt list anything now

[wispy talon]

Friendly reminder to game devs that the free assets rotate tomorrow from Fab: https://www.fab.com/limited-time-free

I've missed a few months but there's thousands of dollars if not hundreds of thousands (if you count the Paragon assets they released for free, but I don't) of assets and templates that you can just collect and keep every 2 weeks.

I just did the math, I have $4594.57 worth of assets for free just in the last year alone.

[tender sleet]

Oh woah this is super useful. I've been buying so many one off 3d models lately

[wispy talon]

yeah they're so all over the place in general but like a few weeks ago this was released for free: https://www.fab.com/listings/7bac6c72-ba72-4ca2-891e-9b8970dd3277

it's usually like $30 for personal, but I always get the professional license just in case (since both are free)

https://www.fab.com/listings/786d44bb-41fb-446a-b786-560d57edcef4 or like full on maps

[eager igloo]

<@&1050493473033289778> I can't join #events VC. Why?

It is locked for me.

[tender sleet]

We only unlock and use those when we have events or gaming hours here

[eager igloo]

Oh, alright. Thank you.

[haughty sun]

How would y'all make melee attacks fun in a turn based game

I'm thinking of letting them target certain areas with some having a higher miss chance than others

[deep light]

@tender sleet did you mean to delete your ping to me?
Saw it this morning but then it disappeared when I just came to respond to it. 🤔
Anyhow, as for people complaining, I haven't seen much complaining beyond nit picking.
I think it's a necessary "evil". If there were a better way to do it studios would probably already be doing it.

[deep light]

I'm gonna lose it. I lost too much time on this.

[nocturne sigil]

guys im bored can someone give me a project to make in python

[final basin]

templeOS

[nocturne sigil]

whats that

[final basin]

https://templeos.org/ is an OS made by a schizophrenic person; Terry Davis, the best software engineer in history probably

[fast whale]

same thing happened to me way too many times

[spare wind]

connect 4

[nocturne sigil]

👍

[spare wind]

I have a slash command for a Connect 4 I'm making, with a good little base, if you want to play around with it

[tender sleet]

I don't think that was me? Sometimes we have people impersonate and ping

[tender sleet]

oo I would love to see it in #1403147433369800888

[deep light]

was it someone else elsewhere? hmmm

[boreal solar]

was it someone else elsewhere? hmmm

[deep light]

lol mb it was someone else

[tawny kayak]

Wow😭

[nocturne sigil]

sure!

[hybrid raven]

Well

[dull light]

https://github.com/discord/discord-example-app.git

[covert hedge]

what does iy mean

[spare wind]

https://github.com/BunnyMelonne/discord-bot/blob/main/commands/puissance4.py

[nocturne sigil]

thanks

[glacial kayak]

hello how tou use bot disgner for discord

[lavish flame]

You should ask in their server or google some guides. This server is for the discord api, and this channel specifically is for game dev.

[glacial kayak]

-_-

[fiery tide]

He's not wrong - almost nobody here has any experience with BDFD

[terse cliff]

Guys if i try to imagine a really big render in my head why does it lag 💔

I can even imagine how it would look like

I just think laggy

[hot dragon]

there’s is bug, when i sent messages

[cursive atlas]

wym how to use it?

little more specific?

[cursive atlas]

@glacial kayak

[south linden]

test

[vestal fox]

Any idea when will the results gonna be announcing for game dev event? It was supossed to be in August right?

oh yep, I just saw it was august ! Date not mentioned tho

[tender sleet]

For the gamedev world championship? We submitted our judging and it sounds like the full announcement will be early September 😎 I'll make an announce as soon as I have a date for you!

[floral nebula]

i wanna make games and stuff like indie games does anyone know what would be the best software

ts dead

[tender sleet]

That depnds on you! How familiar are you with programming and what languages are you best in?

[shy spruce]

I only know Arabic

[burnt gyro]

Anyone know how i can make a nhl25 league website that can track stats,standings, rosters n stuff like that?

[potent vale]

Hello boss can i ask u in private someting ?

[tender sleet]

no

[potent vale]

Bruh u are here staff

Imaggine u are discord staff and you dont help peoples like *** WTF ***

[gleaming basalt]

not every discord staff is in the support team, and support team doesn't do live chat support, you have to go through the ticket system like everybody else

staff devs do sometimes answer questions and help in the channels on the server, but that's up to them and if it's relevant to what they do / which team they are in

[potent vale]

Its persional question not about server not about anyting about here thats why i ask him *** IN PRIVATE ***

[gleaming basalt]

well, they don't do DMs with users, so that option isn't available

[potent vale]

Ohhh okay thanks for explaining all u the real one 🤌🏽

[gleaming basalt]

if it's not related to development, this server is off topic for that anyway, personal question or not

[tender sleet]

If you've got questions about game development though, this is the place for it!

[potent vale]

My question is just does u got payed for your JOB as Discord Staff

Cuz on my region or anywhere i ddimt se anyone with this icon

And its intresed see someting like this

[ivory niche]

intressed

[potent vale]

[copper moss]

Not related to game dev, but the NHL has an API. https://github.com/Zmalski/NHL-API-Reference

[balmy cypress]

also beware they randomly change their api data structures all the time

[copper moss]

Ah, that's unfortunate

[pallid canyon]

Does anyone know what coding languages I have to know to create software applications?

[lavish flame]

Pretty much any.

Your question is very broad.

[shut bolt]

Wassup Guys

[oblique edge]

Yes, discord staff are employed by discord so yes, they do get paid

[potent vale]

Per hour or a day

What u think

[glass talon]

Why cant i say “hey” 😭

[oblique edge]

Usually full time permanent, so it's a yearly wage

[potent vale]

Ouuuu

Intressed

[oblique edge]

Wage levels for the US https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Discord&track=Software Engineer

[tender sleet]

Time to show off what you've been working on! Drop your game's screenshots, GIFs, or short clips in #1403120755360796762 along with:

• A brief description of what you're building
• What you're excited about or struggling with
• Any specific feedback you're looking for

This is all about learning from each other and celebrating our progress. Links are welcome for this thread - feel free to share your itch.io pages, Steam wishlists, or project repos so people can follow your journey. Just keep it focused on sharing your work rather than heavy promotion and it MUST be SFW. Whether it's your first prototype or your upcoming release, we want to see it!

https://discord.com/channels/613425648685547541/1403147282714722405

[granite mason]

Most satisfying game mechanic?

[balmy cypress]

Winning

[azure hamlet]

how come its so hard not to rage while building something

like i was building on roblox studio a part flew away from me and i almost threw my mouse at the tv

[barren nova]

Fun

(sorry for saying such hard mechanic for todays games)

[tulip gorge]

Smooth, fluid movement imo. Take a look at how the game Celeste does movement, it’s so good.

[analog linden]

Am well basically working to create a discord Ai bot for everyone to chat with like chatgpt

[final basin]

Recreating fluid movements from scratch using real life-based equations into a game engine must be a pain, but I guess it's the only way to create fluid movements close to real life ones

[finite thunder]

real life isn't the goal for game movement in most cases

[final basin]

This is just pain 😭

[finite thunder]

celeste and similar feel so good because of coyote time, the fact that you do not just plop down if you walk over the edge

[final basin]

Yeah but if you aim for realism like Sea of Thieves did, it's the best

[granite mason]

To be honest I like the story and music of Celeste, but the movement feels clunky and so awkward that I stopped playing. Sometimes the arrow keys don’t register, and random letters are used for the controls too. I like games where it’s fun and easy to move across large distances, like Dandara: Trials of Fear, Sable, Hyper Light Drifter, The Pathless.

[sand minnow]

now while you could do this why would you not just opt for a bunch of noise and get 90 percent of the way there

[final basin]

There are a lot of techniques to create realistic fluid mechanics, I just mentioned the most accurate one (based on real-life mechanics)

[hybrid lion]

I really can't say I agree

realism should not be the goal

ultimately fun should be the goal

[hollow shore]

hello people

[finite veldt]

scnx

[final basin]

"If you aim for realism"

Also, realistic water makes the game very fun to play

[tawny kayak]

Isn't that like one of the easiest game engines💔

[copper moss]

Might be easiest to get started with, does not mean all projects will be easy

[vague nexus]

@foggy helm

[fervent roost]

Bro

[inland ruin]

There's no need to randomly ping anyone

Is there anything we can help you with?

[wispy talon]

https://www.fab.com/limited-time-free

just a friendly reminder to those game devs here.

if you get the professional licenses

ngl the warehouse one looks massive as well

[fossil lichen]

love ya matt for this

[tender sleet]

Yeah appreciate the reminder! I've been using a bunch of 3d models in some audio visual work so it's nice to have a library to pull from

[vital raptor]

Visualize my perfil!

[merry vessel]

hello ,
been looking into Embedded APP SDK for a bit now, there's 2 things that I am currently missing:

1. the ToS/ToC for Embedded APP SDKs (what I can have as an embedded app and what I can't have; what I can add in my embedded app and what I can't-to be exact looking into advertisement here since I am not looking into the monetization section)
2. I haven't been able to see anywhere if it's possible to "define" this embedded app sdk to be for a specific server (don't really have an interest in making it public for everyone) so it's somewhat close to a private discord bot that can only be used for my specific server
   -# Please mention me when you respond, thank you

[true glade]

@merry vessel

1. Check out #6 here https://support-dev.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/8563934450327-Discord-Developer-Policy
2. Correct that there is no way to define a specific server for activities. If you only want it to work in a specific server, you could check the guild in your embedded app when someone tries to use it and not allow folks from outside your specific server to use the experience

[merry vessel]

Correct that there is no way to define a specific server for activities. If you only want it to work in a specific server, you could check the guild in your embedded app when someone tries to use it and not allow folks from outside your specific server to use the experience
thank you
Check out #6 here https://support-dev.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/8563934450327-Discord-Developer-Policy
ah aight, so the same as discord bots apply here, although, I've seen Youtube provide us unrelated advertisement which is why I thought maybe that advertisement related are more lenient and would allow some additional funds flow for the application, especially that the whole Embedded App SDK would be based on those ads (basically with the permission of the user, the application would then be able to run).
if that doesn't really make sense I could explain what I'm attempting to do, and you'd mostly be able to understand through it ig? no clue how else I could explain this

Thank you again btw ❤️

[tender sleet]

Was anyone at devcom or gamescom this week? Our team was there all week giving talks and we just revealed our new collaboration with NVIDIA, showing off cloud streaming in Discord featuring Fortnite!

[fossil lichen]

how tf are you staff and have only been on discord for a couple months

[lost dirge]

LMAO

[inland ruin]

||in case that's a genuine question...I can't tell...many people make second discord accounts when they represent a business on the platform, discord staff included||

[lost dirge]

Starry is about to find out about staff accounts

[fossil lichen]

oh, right

[fossil lichen]

yh i was being stupid sorry

[lost dirge]

I wasn't, but I saw a lot of really good things about it, this included!

[inland ruin]

Ya having privacy is pretty nice...and being able to leave the company without forever being "ex-discord staff" on the platform too

[lost dirge]

Right lol

[tender sleet]

Yeah I'm sad I didn't get to go to this one, but I'm heading to SLICE in Seattle next week and it was too much to do both. I've been hearing people say it runs better in Discord than on their own machines

[lost dirge]

This is likely due to platform optimizations tbf 😉

Trying to make your game run on a relatively wide set of machines versus discord means there's a lot of time to put towards making it playable

[tender sleet]

I think it would be the case for me, I built my personal machine in 2015

[lost dirge]

Ok grandpa

[tender sleet]

but yeah being able to optimize for one platform is really nice

[lost dirge]

Mine is a 2019 machine tbf, and I have noticed a lot of.... Difficulties

[lost dirge]

I want fortnite in discord on windows XP and I want it now!

Optimize for that platform pls

I wonder if I could get that working

Anthony you've created a terrible weekend project for me

[inland ruin]

I hadn't heard of SLICE...I wish I wasn't working that day, or I'd probably stop by, looking at the schedule...those look fun!

[merry vessel]

Good luck 😛

[tender sleet]

I mean if Discord works on it then I think it will right since it's just streaming?

[tender sleet]

Yeah right before PAX West too so it should be a pretty fun week for game devs!

[tender sleet]

Thank you fellow Anthony

[lost dirge]

Getting discord to work is the challenge

[tender sleet]

Time to show off what you've been working on! Drop your game's screenshots, GIFs, or short clips in #1403120755360796762 along with:

• A brief description of what you're building
• What you're excited about or struggling with
• Any specific feedback you're looking for

This is all about learning from each other and celebrating our progress. Links are welcome for this thread - feel free to share your itch.io pages, Steam wishlists, or project repos so people can follow your journey. Just keep it focused on sharing your work rather than heavy promotion and it MUST be SFW. Whether it's your first prototype or your upcoming release, we want to see it!

https://discord.com/channels/613425648685547541/1403147282714722405

[pseudo obsidian]

Hello anyone can help me

TO make game

[dreamy inlet]

In order to help you, you first need to ask an actionable question. What game engine are you using? What type of game are you making? What pain points are you suffering? What specifically are you having troubles with?

[cerulean cypress]

Yo anyone can help me make ma games?

game*

[tender sleet]

What are you trying to make? We can help you figure things out but this isn't a server meant for recruiting

[cerulean cypress]

ye ik am sorry

[near sun]

hey is anyone familiar with creating world gen??

[nova hedge]

You trynna do terrain generation?

[near sun]

yeah kinda

but trying to do it in 3D

doesn't make sense i know

[nova hedge]

Use layered noise

My PCs currently unplugged so I can’t give you a good example

Gimme a sec

[nova hedge]

https://www.redblobgames.com/maps/terrain-from-noise/

https://www.olivercoding.com/2023-10-03-terrain-generation/

[near sun]

oh thank you so much

[nova hedge]

No problem 🙂

[autumn bear]

Hi there - As a reminder, please use this space for commentary and discussions around game development. Thank you!

[wispy talon]

Another week, another set of free assets from Fab!

https://www.fab.com/limited-time-free

[worldly saffron]

Oh fire, thanks for that

[tender sleet]

I use so much perlin noise in my work. Especially in shaders. Once you start using it I feel like you realize you can do it everywhere

[nova hedge]

I love perlin noise, I use it for damn near anything at this point

[granite mason]

Just a word of advice, when you hear a game developer say no one wants to steal your ideas, that’s because they are stealing your ideas

[livid heron]

Really tru

[surreal dagger]

yp

[shrewd swan]

I just want you all to know I'm not stealing any of your ideas

[shell linden]

hi mr discord staff. if you don't mind me asking, what do you do as staff?

[tardy loom]

This is off topic for the server, read #rules

[shell linden]

Apologies, im going to be reading the rules right now.

[topaz monolith]

he codes discord 😭

what else is there to do?

maybe he cleans discord floor 🤧

discord hq floors

[lavish dock]

🦅

[modest mortar]

holyshit my ears i had that on full volume

[stoic niche]

OMG SORRY

[modest mortar]

its okay 😭

[covert badge]

lol

[tender sleet]

Time to show off what you've been working on! Drop your game's screenshots, GIFs, or short clips in #1403120755360796762 along with:

• A brief description of what you're building
• What you're excited about or struggling with
• Any specific feedback you're looking for

This is all about learning from each other and celebrating our progress. Links are welcome for this thread - feel free to share your itch.io pages, Steam wishlists, or project repos so people can follow your journey. Just keep it focused on sharing your work rather than heavy promotion and it MUST be SFW. Whether it's your first prototype or your upcoming release, we want to see it!

https://discord.com/channels/613425648685547541/1403147282714722405

[woeful rapids]

got me too

[feral cosmos]

Bro my ears 💀

[finite thunder]

deleted that earblast video, please be considerate about users viewing the content you post (thanks for the disclaimer, but people don't read that before clicking)

[warm plover]

Anyone knows how to fix these 2 problems? Much appreciated

1. When I tried to initialize the Embedded App SDK, if I execute the window.location.search, only got the null character strings;

2. When I launch my Discord activity, I have this link: https://1345932571887931454.discordsays.com/?instance_id=i-1412314087559270430-pc-1347476679014088714&location_id=pc-1347476679014088714&launch_id=1412314087559270430&referrer_id=undefined&custom_id=undefined&channel_id=1347476679014088714&frame_id=17c33c2e-e39f-46cd-93ed-f5dfe6598a95&platform=desktop.
   Do you know why can't the parameters be passed into window.location.search?

[feral cosmos]

Huh?

[marble salmon]

Are you by chance redirecting? I had the issue originally when I was using a React router and did a redirect to my Discord code with the SDK and it removed all the query parameters. Can you do a console.log(window.location.search) at the root of your site that loads within Discord and verify it shows there?

[warm plover]

Yes?

[warm plover]

Thanks bro, let me have a try

It seems it’s the redirect issue

[marble salmon]

So you can either try to capture the params and include them in the redirect... or try not to redirect 🙂. I modified my code to avoid a redirect.

[warm plover]

Totally gotcha! Let me have a try 😊

[feral cosmos]

What?

[warm plover]

Hey how are you

I thought you wanted to tell me something lol

Nvm

[feral cosmos]

Haha no you're good. Sorry I've been distracted by work.

[warm plover]

I usually got distracted as well haha

Have a good day bro

[feral cosmos]

I feel you. Happens to me too, especially when I'm coding. Lol

[feral cosmos]

You too mate!

[topaz rose]

How Are you guy

[vestal fox]

I'm fine, and you?

[topaz rose]

Me too

[vestal fox]

I'm glad to hear, be safe

[topaz rose]

Thanks

[ornate relic]

why is delta executor closed

[night prism]

we do not support hackers or exploiters

[glacial iron]

model is by manyblinkinglights, I'm just replacing the animations with final IK for fun

[inland ruin]

Hey it's like those car ads with the chickens...ohh it's getting a little crazy....OH MY LORD WATCH OUT!

[willow void]

?

[autumn bear]

There goes my safe driver discount

[inland ruin]

[glacial creek]

New Road

[tender sleet]

I thought the wings were on the truck at first. What kind of game is it going to be?

[glacial creek]

The way this second map is being made is this will be a secret update. I plan to surprise the gamers, they will think I'm on a break.

Since this map will be my own creation, I plan to make it more detailed.

[tired tiger]

please give me a tutorial on how to get the "staff badge"

[inland ruin]

get a job at discord...there's no tutorial to get a job

[tired tiger]

I have a discord channel, can I create a staff badge

[dense seal]

what

[worldly saffron]

https://discord.com/jobs

[granite mason]

There probably is lots of tutorials on YouTube

[delicate mulch]

do not trust tutorials on youtube well some of them u can trust and dont be a scrippt kiddy

[elder shoal]

The Staff Badge is a discord employee identifier.
Whatever tutorial that isnt telling the person to apply for a real job at Discord, is likely malicious.

[granite mason]

They said there’s no tutorial to get a job, there’s lots of video tutorials on how to get a job, improve resumes etc

[elder shoal]

fair enough

[granite mason]

Discord also has a video https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hX9MOVIMYkg&pp so from this video I can see that basically u need to be good at throwing inflatables, yoga, pouring coffee, climbing walls, eating nuggets, collecting toys

This video makes me not want to apply because it looks kind of toxic and cringy

[delicate mulch]

so do u work for discored

[granite mason]

No I wouldn’t want to, this video reminds me of all the people I’ve worked with on game jams and projects before that just mess around and leave all the work to people that actually focus

[delicate mulch]

real

[delicate mulch]

is there a plat form that u can make rpg games for free and not coding

[granite mason]

RPG maker

[tender sleet]

Yeah and it's been around forever (I remember using it like 15 years ago I think?) https://www.rpgmakerweb.com/

Another smaller scale fun option is Bitsy

Less RPG and more super minimal game engine

[delicate mulch]

thank u

[granite mason]

That one is fun

[tender sleet]

Yeah!! It's really great for prototyping and making small things. I've seen some really beautiful artsy narrative games come out of it

[granite mason]

and the logo is a cat, it’s amazing

[autumn bear]

Even longer than that. A forum I used to frequent used to make an RPG off this back in ‘06. Insane this is still going!

[tender sleet]

Yeah I love that it's still going strong!

[glossy harness]

👍

[vague grove]

does somone use unreal engine?

[worthy hornet]

uh

[terse dagger]

Ts ddevs…

[modest yacht]

does someone here do lua code scripting? because this script doesnt deal 60 damage damage like i told it to

[dreamy inlet]

Might be a typo on line 18:

rasengan.Tounched:Connect()
---Should it not be
rasengan.Touched:Connect()

[modest yacht]

ty'

[dreamy inlet]

Convo continuned here: #dev-chat message

[modest yacht]

no im just testing

the game is private and its a test game

[vestal fox]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1384313966418727024/1407650414240862238/image0.gif

[tender sleet]

I just throw some blue circles in a particle system and call it water

[vestal fox]

https://tenor.com/view/trump-maga-point-pointing-smirk-gif-5392952251443564731

[lost dirge]

It's the thoughts that count or something like that

[shrewd aspen]

💯

[prime barn]

me

[modest yacht]

bro this was days ago i already figured it out lol

[prime barn]

oh lol

mb

[modest yacht]

lol

[tender sleet]

Time to show off what you've been working on! Drop your game's screenshots, GIFs, or short clips in #1403120755360796762 along with:

• A brief description of what you're building
• What you're excited about or struggling with
• Any specific feedback you're looking for

This is all about learning from each other and celebrating our progress. Links are welcome for this thread - feel free to share your itch.io pages, Steam wishlists, or project repos so people can follow your journey. Just keep it focused on sharing your work rather than heavy promotion and it MUST be SFW. Whether it's your first prototype or your upcoming release, we want to see it!

https://discord.com/channels/613425648685547541/1403147282714722405

[unborn wagon]

Yeah we make games

If you count roblox games with free assets

Fr

14 visits

Not to brag

Wait really?

We making it out of the streets

[uncut jacinth]

Im developing a roguelike srpg! Theres a free demo on steam, its a passion project and I plan to get early access out soon
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3588050/Valiant_Villagers/

Steam

Valiant Villagers

Assemble your villagers and defeat the ultimate evil! Valiant Villagers is a roguelike strategy RPG where your choices determine your army's abilities and playstyle as you complete various map objectives. Pick two of your villagers' initial classes and embark on an adventure as you try to complete 5 maps in a row without your army being defeated…

Release Date

2025

▶ Play video

[timber island]

i went thru some discord tutorials and am trying to connect activity to website

[fiery dome]

Looks good and funny ngl please inform me when the early is out ama download it

[ruby granite]

Cant wait to play it Sir prince 😎

[uncut jacinth]

Thanks to both

[autumn bear]

Hi there - As a reminder, #rules do not allow for advertising/recruiting. Reach out to @stray mortar if you have concerns. Thanks!

[normal pond]

Mods, ban 'em

[tender sleet]

We prefer showing off games to be in the #1403120755360796762 channel which they ended up doing

[normal pond]

It was a joke 😭

[tender sleet]

impossible to read sarcasm in text on the internet

[tender sleet]

Mods, ban 'em

[normal pond]

m0dS, BaN 'eM!!1!!

Peak sarcasm

[raw ridge]

ooo discord staff

i wanna talk to a discord staff fr fr

[normal pond]

@stray mortar

[crimson gyro]

hello people

[copper moss]

Hmmm <@&1050493473033289778>

[shell ore]

hello people

why can i say

why cant i say wsp

[autumn bear]

Hi there - When an AutoMod action takes place, you will receive an additional message involving the action. Please take the time to refer to that if you have not already.

[shell ore]

O

your actaully a grinder

6 year nitro is crazy

[inland ruin]

...it's not grinding...it's just using this platform for a long time

[mild monolith]

Ban, mods ‘em.

[wispy talon]

Oh look it's me again reminding everyone in the game dev chat that Fab has rotated their limited time free!

https://www.fab.com/limited-time-free

[floral tendon]

So cool

[worldly saffron]

fire

[small bronze]

so

[glossy harness]

[lean stratus]

Is this chat for game developers?

[distant bronze]

uh? yes

thought that was the name of the chat

[tender sleet]

The forest in this pack is so beautiful. It's crazy how many different tree/foliage packs I've bought over the years

[wispy talon]

If only these existed for slender and the 8 pages.

[tender sleet]

I do kinda love the psx low poly horror aesthetic though

[wispy talon]

I was actually never a huge fan of that except if they lean in to the whole VHS or line the 80-90s camcorder style.

The camcorder style hits way different

Reminds me of my child hood a bit

[tender sleet]

I love a good VHS shader. I work mainly in Unity and this is the best one I've seen/used so far

I've used it for both scary and retro vibes

[fast umbra]

@autumn bear i'm sorry but i need really an respond from you/Team Trust&safety members i have 3 peoples with psychical mental Breaks and multiple notes of warns. I dont know to handle it when i write with email the respond need to Long Please! I want safe the lifes

[queen patrol]

!report

[lucid pulsar]

This server is for help with Discord APIs, SDK and other various integrations. To make a report to the Trust and Safety team, please use the in app reporting tool. For more information see this help article.

[inland ruin]

we are incapable with helping you...there is no one from trust and safety here

[queen patrol]

none of us mods are T&S, we are not even discord staff. nobody here can help you

[fast umbra]

IT Takes to Long way say suicide... Damned they need help now.... And j wanr help them

[queen patrol]

if you use the proper in app report tooling, and properly report it as that it will be prioritized

high harm categories like that get priority

[fast umbra]

Okay sorry for ping but its Overhelm i never have such a Situation to manage

[queen patrol]

and every minute you spend wasting your time arguing about instead of going through the proper report flows, is minute longer it'll take for someone to be able to see and action it

[wispy talon]

oh I love those style. it just hits different. especially for blair witch vibes

[left vessel]

[tender sleet]

I keep meaning to ask, what are you building currently? Are you using any of those assets in something?

[wispy talon]

Nope. I'm not really into game dev these days. More focus on web dev. I used to do more back in like 14, 15. Its always been an interest but never something I could sit down and do. I even have a couple books dedicated to multiplayer game development. A lot of my own projects in web space even have to do it with. Like Glicko2 research with MMR, stat tracking, game data APIs, etc. I even have done coaching for Overwatch before.

I've had ideas for games in the past, but sadly never had the artistic ability or time to really do it.

I just like collecting the assets for that one off thing I may do at random times like wanting to build a random map or something in my free time in unreal.

Lord knows I can draw for the life of me either and you know, design and modeling is a huge part of solo development unless you asset flip

[tawny kayak]

What motivates you to do web dev? Its oversaturated too much boilerplate for nothing and ai is becoming increasingly good at web dev (it can automate crud apps really easily)

[brave parcel]

I really need help with my app

[queen patrol]

with what specifically? might be best to make a thread in #1130600438811590709 explaining the problem

[brave parcel]

Putting the app in my discord server

Team Unreal

[queen patrol]

go to the dev portal > oauth tab to make a easy link to authorize it with the scopes you need, the instalation tab is where you set the defaults and if it's guild and/or user installable

[distant nebula]

Hi just to make sure this for Discord Games developement or For any games!?

[night prism]

Any games

[wispy perch]

Is this Channel for the Gamedev, Outside discord or, Only games inside of discord.

[finite thunder]

either! there's a huge overlap in topics/advice/questions between developing games with and for discord (using mechanisms like the socials SDK or activities) and more traditional "regular" game dev

[agile flicker]

!report

[lucid pulsar]

This server is for help with Discord APIs, SDK and other various integrations. To make a report to the Trust and Safety team, please use the in app reporting tool. For more information see this help article.

[agile flicker]

Ok

[tender sleet]

I used to make all my own art but it's definitely very time consuming. My favorite thing to do recently is grab a large asset pack with consistent art and then modify it if I need to or have time. This pack has been huge for games and prototypes I've made (plus all of his other assets). I love finding people with a reasonably consistent art style on the asset store too in case I need more from them. That way it feels less like a flip and lets you concentrate on what you love

[tender sleet]

I think AI can automate a bunch of stuff but development is inherently a creative endeavor once you understand the engineering part of it. I don't think it'll ever be able to take that away from us. So just because AI can "do" it doesn't mean it isn't fun still to build and play with ideas

[iron prairie]

thank you bro

[stray path]

I've tried asking on Discord Town Hall server as well, but no one answered. I've tried pretty much everything, basically. I'm unsure of what to do now and I feel as though this is my last resort.
I've tried appealing the Limited Access through support but it's always a bot that answers me and closes the support ticket immediatelly.

I can't DM my friends, but the FAQ claims I can DM friends I've had added prior to the Limited Access, and it isn't working.

There's also no red bar on the top of my screen that says I'm under Limited Access, but the FAQ says it should appear, when it's not there.
It also says I can't join new servers, but I was just able to join this one. It doesn't make any sense.

So I've been sanctioned and I can't do what it says I'm allowed to do?

[queen patrol]

discord doesn't do live chat support, nobody here is involved in the handling of these matters. we can not help you in any way here

read the responses you got from support and reply there if needed, this is the wrong place

[stray path]

I understand.

[lilac gull]

make sure use mod mail instead ping 🙂 you can message a bot pretty cool

modmail very cool to use

Wish they add ticket in the discord server that be cool

for the server setting build in

[queen patrol]

Pinging us is fine, and prefered, for urgent matters in chat

[lilac gull]

true yeah 🙂 if issue

[lilac gull]

but ticket be good suggest for server setting like on ticket bot

[queen patrol]

No, modmail is only for matters related to the moderation of this server

Not for discord suggestions

[lilac gull]

no like build in server setting on the update 🙂

[queen patrol]

Sending that to modmail is just a waste of time, we cant do anything with it

[lilac gull]

Well i did use mod mail yesterday mod use it

pretty neat

[wispy talon]

I actually have a couple of the Kenney packs! I got them for free or heavily discounted. Love asset packs. I used them heavily in a game jam back in like 2016 at the college I was participating in. Sadly didn't win but we go next. I've done a few little projects here and there though. Nothing to write home about though. I wrote like a basic temple run clone way back in like 2013 for the Android and put it on the play store. I've always had a fascination for horror games though personally so if I did get back into it I would love to dive more into that.

These are the 2 books I have:

• https://www.amazon.com/Development-Deployment-Multiplayer-Online-Games/dp/3903213055
• https://www.amazon.com/Development-Deployment-Multiplayer-Online-Games/dp/3903213160

The first is pretty like engine agnostic and focus on the technical aspects and ideas. The second dives into frameworks. I need to finish reading them.

[lilac gull]

oh online game

[wispy talon]

You shouldn't be scared of AI, AI is stupid more often than not. I've seen so many mistakes from web devs and even devs in here because of AI. It can complete small tasks or even large ones depending on how popular it is. You have to remember that LLMs are trained off data so if there's 100k todo apps written and maybe only 2 complex business apps written it will be fantastic at writing todo apps but terrible at the other.

Web dev itself is such a massive landscape though. There's backend, front end, database administration, systems administration, UX and UI design, etc. You can design entire websites and how they'll flow in figma and hand it off to a front end dev who specializes in converting those documents to code. Sure there's a lot of boiler plate but that's only dipping your toe into web.

In terms of game development I don't think AI has cracked too deep in it's surface yet besides art assets but that's a whole different conversation that can stir up a lot of feelings from people and probably not the best to talk about haha.

[lilac gull]

Well aI is ok bot some outdated

I use microsoft colipot thing default window app

Like poketwo help guide example in the colipot outdated

now they use @ poketwo

they don't use command for it

poketwo game bot is ok not bad

you have to guess pokemon name and catch it and level gain

pretty fun

plus you can sell your pokemon for shiny high price with fake coins

[wispy talon]

That's better for #dev-chat, not here.

[lilac gull]

Oh i know just let you know ai bot kind of outdated

That why people don't use them

sucks google ai have build in phone now

android

[wispy talon]

#dev-chat is better suited for that generalized of a conversation.

this is #game-dev-chat

[lilac gull]

i talking game bot though this is game dev lol

[ruby dragon]

Hi, please consider adding the board game "Carcassonne" to one of the games we can play here on discord, Thanks!

[lavish flame]

For app suggestions you use https://feedback.discord.com

This is a devs server

[ruby dragon]

ok, thanks

[glossy harness]

[lilac gull]

oh yeah rules say don't ping moderator though all ways respect the rules

I did read though in id:guide

modmail that was for for report and stuff

most people don't care about the rule some do.

[tender sleet]

I should really read that first one... Do you recommend it so far? I've done a handful of smaller multiplayer projects but I never fully learned fundamentals of multiplayer game dev, just kinda went for it.

[frank mantle]

Minecraft

[shrewd swan]

I'm like RIGHT HERE 😁 (my background is in multiplayer games - also happy to chat if people want to talk about it)

[round fog]

lol

[shrewd swan]

I have those books too. It has some solid fundamentals. I think they get really down this reactor path that I don't think is totally neccessary.

Also... there are standard open source tools for generating code (proto/grpc/capn proto, etc)

But still definitely worth the read

[tender sleet]

I think the biggest knowledge gap for me is what the infrastructure for a real time multiplayer game looks like in general. I've built turn based multiplayer games and APIs from scratch and I've used libraries to handle real time multiplayer functionality but part of me really wants to understand how you'd think about something small like players and collisions for a real time multiplayer game

[shrewd swan]

You should read everything on: https://gafferongames.com/

[wispy talon]

I haven't read it fully yet. I've gotten through the like first few chapters but it's on my list and I really wanna finish it. So far I feel like it takes a practical approach in terms of setting realistic expectations, challenges, etc. I mean the first chapter is basically like "this crap is hard and can be expensive" lol. It has the expectation that you have some knowledge but still dives into like domain specific language and gives you an understanding. If it was like a couple hundred bucks for the book, probably not...but $30? yeah I'd say it's a solid buy. they also have like pay what you want on their own website for the PDF if I recall.

[wispy talon]

reactor path? don't know what you mean in that exact context.

[wispy talon]

whenever I think of it I always remember UDP > TCP for game networking haha. I've never dove too much into it myself, a lot of it is much lower level than I'm comfortable getting into and I don't really have the time to dedicate to learning it even if I want to.

[fast whale]

I do wonder if anyone has thought of using QUIC for game networking

[granite mason]

it already sounds like a boring book, like why set boring realistic expectations and challenges. Set an impossible challenge, work on making whatever kind of games you like with what you have, and if it doesn’t look like your vision then try creating it in a different way.

[wispy talon]

If you're new enough to the scene to not know anything in the book, you need realistic expectations. Impossible challenges are fine, but they're for the people who understand how and why they're impossible because they'll be the ones who solve them.

Even if you were to start implementing stuff today with premade assets and systems you're still having to read documentation of those systems which still set expectations and limits.

Even premade assets have limitations, that may be licensing or theming or ability to customize....or just flat out price. Everything has limits, understanding those limits and setting realistic expectations isn't a jail cell, it's freedom from being stuck on an issue and not understanding why.

[granite mason]

If the pre-made assets have limitations then you can use something else or make your own

[wispy talon]

and if you can't create your own assets then you can't hop into Blender or whatever with the expectation that you'll create some AAA masterpiece as that requires experience and learned skills...which means you'll have to set realistic expectations for yourself. Setting unrealistic expectations just leads to burnout before it's even started.

You can't just open up Unity with some FAB assets and Photon and expect to make some crazy amazing MMO game to rival WoW, you just can't. you can try, but it will fail.

But what you can do is scale that idea down and create a much smaller scale game to create a prototype and as you gain experience replace it with better assets and slowly grow the game and it's scale as you have more time, experience, skill, and potentially funding. :)

[latent rose]

ANYONE HERE created minecraft plugin eh?

[pale ingot]

stop crossposting my god

[latent rose]

mb

[granite mason]

I know someone that left their boring job and developed a really cool MMO by themselves in Unity. You can learn how to make your own assets as you work on creating a big game. Games people make in small teams and with less resources are always more creative and fun than AAA games anyway I’ve never played WoW. Sometimes AAA games look like they all use the same assets. See this really cool example made by a small team https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=efg7xf0ZVUw&pp

No one ever creates a moving game or movie or anything interesting by setting realistic expectations, setting an unattainable goal or vision can help push a team beyond their perceived limits. The people in game development who are like, forget about making the game of your dreams are just miserable people stifling creativity.

[finite thunder]

looks like one of these tech demos engines put out that never become a real thing, wew
(though i think this is more of an exploration RPG, not an MMO, don't see how that'd be massively multiplayer)

[granite mason]

This one isn’t the MMO it’s just an example of a small team game that looks better than AAA games visually.

[finite thunder]

ah i see, yeah that makes more sense, but looks stunning!

[granite mason]

but it’s not a difficult achievement to make a game that looks better than AAA when Pokémon Scarlet and Violet exists

The open world is incredibly empty with no variety in content

[wispy talon]

That demo you posted was a graduation project which means it was a way to demonstrate skills learned through investment of time, energy, and brain power created through reasonable, attainable, and realistic goals set as milestones to a bigger project which led to what you're considering as a "really cool example." You see that as an example to strengthen you're argument, but that's just an example of a project that's clearly broken into chunks that can be done over multiple periods. Even looking at the raw gameplay it's relatively basic as the project relies on looks and high quality effects, models, and animations. It's impressive as a project, but it's not groundbreaking by any means. It's a true testament to their skill though (assuming they started from semi-nothing obviously).

[wispy talon]

Realistic expectations are how everything is built. Modern day gaming and software is built on the corpses of failed projects that set the bar too high or made unreachable goals. It only hurts the people involved.

Being realistic doesn't stifle creativity, not at all. It just allows the creatives to dedicate more time to the craft to create a better product that they can be proud of.

It's really impressive though: https://louisefretart.itch.io/resonance

[near fiber]

Guy xbox gamepass code need visa card

[hybrid lion]

yeah, there certainly was quite a bit of effort put into that, it's noticeable even at a quick glance

it's certainly not a project you could hope to do as your first project as someone with no experience though, at least not in a short period of time and doubly so if alone

[finite thunder]

this is game dev chat, i'd appreciate if we returned to that topic and left everything else anywhere else
(will clean this mess up in a sec)

[hybrid lion]

that most likely took quite a while from, let's be real, a team of 8 who all likely had a good bit of experience before starting it

[wispy talon]

oh hell no! not at all, it's absolutely a testiment to their higher learning.

[hybrid lion]

oh wait they actually state it in the video description, apparently it took them 8 months

and it's essentially just an intro to a game, and one that isn't exactly focused on gameplay

[wispy talon]

yeah, but like...it's still impressive.

[hybrid lion]

yeah, and 8 months isn't some unreasonable timeframe for that especially for a team that small

I wouldn't have been surprised if it had taken a year

[wispy talon]

It's almost like, and hear me out on this, they broke it up into reasonable, realistic milestones to ensure that it was a project that could be taken from ideation phase to completion within a reasonable timeframe and make it quality.

https://tenor.com/view/oh-wow-you-dont-say-michael-office-wow-michael-scott-gif-11124235989547302113

[granite mason]

Walking simulators are my favorite genre

[near fiber]

I'm developing a game if I want the community to check it, where can I find it? Thank

[hybrid lion]

it's also like they had years of previous experience from... most likely a number of smaller projects and learning experiences

[wispy talon]

Yeah, they did.

It's almost like creating a project that's high quality requires time, skill, and experience.

[hybrid lion]

and depending on the scale of the project it might even require more people

[wispy talon]

and you can't just go for moonshots without any of that.

[hybrid lion]

a lot of games require tens or hundreds of developers for a reason (said reason being time)

[wispy talon]

ehhh, double edged sword.

more people != higher quality

often it can mean lower

or giving the feeling of very corporate

[granite mason]

Or wasting time because they have to communicate between so many different branches

[wispy talon]

That's not the fault of scale, that's the fault of poor management.

[hybrid lion]

yeah I don't mean that to say that you can't make a high quality game as a solo dev or a really small team, but certainly there are games that could not possibly be made that way

while larger organizations might mean that there's more inefficiency, well, more people still typically means that more work can be done

a studio with a hundred devs can tackle a larger game than a studio with 10, though both could make a great game

[wispy talon]

you can make a large organization efficient, just requires good management and good foundation

[inland ruin]

And poor management is also a major factor as well. Big teams can also be a hinderance because the ones in charge of the product are rarely the ones involved in making it.

But being on a small team has its own problems. You are often waiting on other people to finish even minor things. Core fundamental restructures are too daunting and time committing to touch. You have to make sacrifices to refinement just to have a product

There's many exceptions to this but exceptions only prove the rule

[hybrid lion]

my main point here is that some games are simply far too large, i.e. they require far too much work, for a solo dev or a small team to make - you could spend your entire life trying to create some games and not be close to finishing

[wispy talon]

And how you're team works is important. I'm about to trigger so many enterprise devs but legit AGILE-like workflows are super beneficial to that. Sprints in particular. Screw the poker planning, all the meetings, etc...but breaking up huge features and epics into stories and being able to chip away week by week makes even huge projects, like game dev, incredibly more approachable.

[hybrid lion]

this also applies to other projects, some things simply have to be the result of the work of a lot of people

[hybrid lion]

I'd make the argument that good workflows are essential... but also trying to fit your workflow 1:1 exact to some framework (and especially just doing endless meetings :p) is often very much detrimental

trying to fit into some idea of a good workflow isn't the same as actually having a good workflow

[wispy talon]

which is why eff off AGILE in it's whole, but sprints are crucial no matter the workflow.

[shrewd swan]

Oh the author of those books has a "reactor" (re-actor? I forget) software architecture pattern he proposes as basically the "one true way", and I took it as far too dogmatic than was neccessary.

[wispy talon]

oh? I either haven't gotten that far or my lack of experience in the field makes me not understand the downsides of it. What makes it so dogmatic?

[shrewd swan]

I also read the pre-release versions I think - so it may be it was removed, or in a book that wasn't released -- the pattern itself was fine. It was just presenting as "this is the only way you can solve this problem" -- which IMHO is never actually the case. There's always multiple ways to tackle a problem successfully.

It's all varying tradeoffs.

[wispy talon]

I am vaguely remembering the term re-actor from somewhere...i might have to go grab the book real quick

Looks like it's a part of volume 2

It's all in volume 2 for sure

That's where I've seen it

[shrewd swan]

Yeah, that's the one. Like I said, it wasn't bad, was more how it was presented.

"Lumberyard" - that's how old the book is

[wispy talon]

What pattern would you recommend as an alternative?

A bit older, but still modern-ish

haha

[shrewd swan]

Honestly, straight up depends what you are doing. Modern distributed systems patterns are just fine.

[wispy talon]

interesting

[shrewd swan]

What sorta read rate vs write rate do you have? what sort of durability do you need on your data? what sort of protocols or rpc methods does your client engine support?

it depends 🙂

Also there are a lot more horizontally scalable data storage options now than their were when that book came out -- and general distributed systems horizontal scaling options too -- so it's all a continuum.

[wispy talon]

Part of me has wanted to tinker with "serverless game servers" lol. Like I know they exist with AWS GameLift or whatever and PlayFab but I think it would be cool to mess around with developing that orchestration.

[shrewd swan]

Come join the Agones open source project if you want to work on game server orchestration 😄

[wispy talon]

agones? I feel like I've heard of that before

isn't that google's?

Like horizontal system?

It rings a bell

[shrewd swan]

disclaimer: I founded that project when i was at google, and still work on it in my spare time 🙂

[wispy talon]

Oh yeah then i def know it

it's probably on one of my older lists

I feel like I passed by it many many years ago

or something like it

[shrewd swan]

it's been around.. for ... 8 years now I think 🙂

[wispy talon]

no like actually, I straight up have seen this back around when it was first created

I swear

I remember this

because it prompted that interest for me

but I never explored it

LOL

[shrewd swan]

nice!

Well, here is comes back around again! 😄

[wispy talon]

And the person that founded it, small world.

[shrewd swan]

gaming isn't that big 🤣

[wispy talon]

it's gotta be one an old bookmark archive somewhere

huh...it was actually bookmarked too

[shrewd swan]

GitHub star?

[wispy talon]

nah this is when I bookmarked the website on chrome

I just starred it on Github though

[shrewd swan]

Gotta collect all the stars! 😄

[wispy talon]

but yeah I at least knew of it 2021 lolol

[cursive briar]

How to make game, i made bot never game.

[lost dirge]

Well, do you have a concept?

[timber narwhal]

Me too

[cursive briar]

Yes

[crystal holly]

What game are you playing in this server

[cursive briar]

No one

I want to make a game

[crystal holly]

In this server right

[cursive briar]

Any

[crystal holly]

Like which game bro

[cursive briar]

Racing game

[crystal holly]

Ok that cool

[cursive briar]

Idk were to make

[crystal holly]

Can will make it assetto corsa

That a racing game also

[cursive briar]

Ya sure

[crystal holly]

I can get everything done

[cursive briar]

Sure so what i do

[crystal holly]

You want it to be made in this server right

[cursive briar]

Yes

Yes

[crystal holly]

From scratch

[cursive briar]

Yes

Or any

[crystal holly]

Can you DM me so will can talk better

[cursive briar]

Later I will do

Going to sleep now

[crystal holly]

Bro will we need a lot of things bro

Are you there

[night prism]

dont drag people to dms

[crystal holly]

Ok bro

I just mean it for more explanation

[wispy talon]

another week, another set of free assets at Fab. The orb one is lowkey trippy to look at.

[hexed orchid]

#developer-news

[misty cargo]

oh bet

[calm spear]

Guys I need help

[fading marlin]

Whats Up?

[calm spear]

So I may have been given the opportunity to work with gints zilbalodis the man who made the Oscar winning movie flow, to make a game but I need a dev team

[fading marlin]

Hmmmm.

Let me Think.

[calm spear]

Do any of y'all at least know a good server to find a dev team

[fading marlin]

For now this Server here mey be an Good Option.

[calm spear]

Ok then do you think this is a good channel to be asking

[fading marlin]

You can ask Any where for support.

Just keep it Simple and don't Spam.

[fiery tide]

Wait, stop.

[calm spear]

Ok thank you

[fiery tide]

This server is not for recruiting

[fiery tide]

Please do not mislead people.

[fading marlin]

For now.

It may be the Best for him to stay here.

Or he could ask some one eles for an Better server.

Its Optionable.

For him.

[fiery tide]

This server is very good for asking questions, but it's not really a place to find a "dev team". That kinda qualifies as recruiting, which isn't allowed here.

[calm spear]

Oh ok thank you for answering my question tho

[fading marlin]

Thats a better way of saying it thx.

[queen patrol]

Be very careful with this as it sounds like a scam

[calm spear]

I can send a pic of the email if you want proof but he hasn't completely decided if he wants to work with me

[hoary plinth]

definitely a scam

[calm spear]

Nah

[queen patrol]

Anyone can put any name in an email. Big names like that don't randomly email people about work opportunities

They would contact a well known studio to get started on such a project

[fiery tide]

Especially people with no demonstrable capacity to deliver, as evidenced by you needing to recruit a dev team from...Discord...

[queen patrol]

Or somrone with a massive well known portfolio

[calm spear]

I understand we're y'all are coming from but genuinely can not give anything else to prove it and like I said in the other chat I contacted him he did not contact me

[queen patrol]

Still sounds like a scam

[calm spear]

Yeah I get it

[queen patrol]

If you wana continue and fall for it, we can't stop you. But don't blame us afterwards, we tried to warn you

[fiery tide]

Just be sure to not send money in advance, not to provide sensitive financial information, etc.

[calm spear]

I honestly don't believe it myself either

Dw I won't and thanks

[queen patrol]

And if there is any kind of contract: talk to a real, local, lawyer

So you don't get screwed by fine print you didn't understand all implications on

[granite mason]

how to talk to a real

[queen patrol]

A real what?

[bleak idol]

Does anyone know if it’s discord that causes background videos / music to stop playing in apps or is that an app by app decision? Can we code around it?

[vestal crest]

hello, one question, can I add on godot engine the discord game sdk?

[inland ruin]

I am not a game dev so I can't answer that for you. But just heads up, the Game SDK is deprecated in favor of the new Social SDK

[glass sparrow]

probably

[glass sparrow]

btw, fun fact google exists

All it take is around 1 sec of typing + 4 sec of reading title and clicking

and i already found godot official doc saying it supports browser export, so it ill obviously support discord

I haven't read it properly, you can take a took

[vestal crest]

yes but there's no information about it but thank you!

[glass sparrow]

if go dot games can run in chrome it can probably run in discord too

[rough otter]

[oblique edge]

Why did they contact you specifically? Hope did they find you m

[mortal cypress]

a

[calm spear]

I contacted him

[oblique edge]

How did you find them? Or find a contact address?

Have they replied back to you?

[clever vortex]

[abstract glen]

Ok ok

[solar heron]

Is there any blender software user

I really need a help

[dreamy inlet]

Ask your question. Those who know will help when they can

[solar heron]

I found I a free project on YouTube that let me create procedural city in blender. First it was not exporting correctly so I added "realize instance" node then it started exporting mesh correctly but still texture was not exported correctly.

I did some research and I found out I have to bake the texture. But but it still not working. I think did something wrong.

https://mihamarinko.gumroad.com/l/abandonedCity ....................here is the link

[calm spear]

Uhhm I did research

[oblique edge]

Okay, so it sounds like this is a cold call on your part where you've pitched something but not heard from them?

[calm spear]

He did respond and asked me for an example project from my studio but sadly as a new studio I don't have and example project

[oblique edge]

If that's the case, it's highly unlikely they would want to partner/work with you unfortunately

No dev team with previous work history makes it difficult to take the risk in work with you

Unless you have a really good individual portfolio

[calm spear]

Yeah so that's why I've been recruiting people to the studio to work on our first game then I'll ask him later if its successful enough

[oblique edge]

Any luck on the recruitment side?

[calm spear]

I got 2 people so yeah

[oblique edge]

👍

[cobalt crane]

Hm

[outer lance]

I'm working on a short coop puzzle/story based game in discord activities, are there any examples of games like that on discord? I know most people probably wouldnt do that because it has no replayablility but I'm curious if there are any out there

[open sky]

Ehmmm…VC Games exist

And some more like Wordle

[oblique edge]

There's a few games with a loose narrative but nothing that is completely story driven

Discord games tend to fit the typical web game, fast to pick up, quick play sessions, either some sort of multiplayer or progression system

[fast whale]

This chat is for discussion about developing your own games

[vocal bridge]

scratch is peak

[oblique edge]

Probably even better now that someone is porting it to retro consoles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WcRLXbgVDg

[tender sleet]

None that I know of but I think something like this would be really cool to play through with a friend or partner!

[vocal bridge]

so good, i wonder if scratch can make it to ps4 ps3

[oblique edge]

Probably, they've got it on enough systems that it's likely to be a relatively straightforward port for someone that's familiar with them

[unreal ore]

???

[vocal bridge]

true🔥

[oblique edge]

What's the issue?

[oblique edge]

Odd, when I use virus total site against my url, it comes clean for me https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/d139b7fc5acce9719c55cd90a0b39e061f9d745f0c23df9bd475cbfdc9f3836e

[ruby eagle]

Hello everybody, how are y'all doing today

[tidal talon]

Would this person not have their own dev team for you to join if you had a stellar individual portfolio? I can see any scenario where they would be comfortable with a random guy reaching out saying “hey I got this group of people from discord can we help on your project?”

I’ll have to agree with the others, this sounds very scammy… this is not typically how these conversations go

[calm spear]

I do have a pretty normal explanation but I've already said it several time and I don't feel like saying it again

[tidal talon]

I read what you said I don’t need you to say it again, I’m just saying this is very out of the norm

[calm spear]

Yeah ig

[oblique edge]

It's not uncommon for a games company to reach out to an IP holder to pitch a game which is sort of what's being done here by Salty Butter

And Salty Butter was pitching to them so I don't yet see the 'scam'

I've worked at a company where we created a prototype to pitch for an upcoming movie IP and was up against other pitches from games studios

(which is a shame as the prototype looked pretty solid)

[bleak summit]

It's not uncommon for a games company to reach out to an IP holder to pitch a game which is sort of what's being done here by Salty Butter

Yeah ig

Roblox

[stark yacht]

made this, shell for spawn is deprecated. anyone know the not-deprecated counterpart?

[tidal talon]

Maybe I misunderstood. I thought the OP had reached out to a guy that was working on a game and OP just volunteered to help and just wanted to throw a random “dev team” together to make it seem more professional

[oblique edge]

Yeah, there's a bit of history on the thread #game-dev-chat message

[glass sparrow]

I think you should switch to cross-spwan

Unlike built in spawn, cross spawn supports multiplatform, easily

[ocean plover]

I'm not an expert, and I mean no offense if i'm wrong but this kinda looks AI generated

(The code)

[modest yacht]

ok

[tender sleet]

Time to show off what you've been working on! Drop your game's screenshots, GIFs, or short clips in #1403120755360796762 along with:

• A brief description of what you're building
• What you're excited about or struggling with
• Any specific feedback you're looking for

This is all about learning from each other and celebrating our progress. Links are welcome for this thread - feel free to share your itch.io pages, Steam wishlists, or project repos so people can follow your journey. Just keep it focused on sharing your work rather than heavy promotion and it MUST be SFW. Whether it's your first prototype or your upcoming release, we want to see it!

https://discord.com/channels/613425648685547541/1403147282714722405

[stark yacht]

im using child_process which also i think cross-spawn uses.

[stark yacht]

wdym by this? and how?

[stark yacht]

nvm, didnt read the docs. thank you.

[glass sparrow]

yeah it uses child_process but, with some layer overhead

[late nexus]

i am working on a game

[vestal fox]

Nice

[dire sable]

How can we work a UI

[slim echo]

I think I will try to make the best game

[inland ruin]

That's the spirit

[sharp plover]

Hi people

[tidal jolt]

Hellow, where do we actually start to learn the development? is it in their docs or is there resources here in the server?

[inland ruin]

What type of development are you trying to learn? This channel is specifically for game dev

[tidal jolt]

Games :)

[inland ruin]

There's no real Discord specific docs for game development. Rather you can create games via a web standard using the Activities SDK, or you can use a dedicated game engine (Unity or Unreal for example) and integrate discord with the Social SDK

[tidal jolt]

ah, I thought discord has it's own dependencies for it

thanks, so I can just make a web standard games using anything as long as it's accessible via web?

Do you think using Godot is a good one to start? I never made other games than Roblox, so I'm only familiar with Luau, I heard Godot use a similar language as Python

[inland ruin]

I am not a game dev so take this with a grain of salt

I don't believe you can make a Discord Activity with Godot. As Activities run using the Embedded App SDK which is a JavaScript SDK for sending RPC calls to and from Discord to interact with your activity and user's client

I do know however that Godot is very beginner friendly so if you want to learn Game Dev, I would start with that

[tidal jolt]

ohh okay

thanks Sam!

[granite mason]

I would start with unity because there’s a lot of tutorials and support and u can use it to make discord activities, there’s a video on using it for discord too #server-news message

[tidal jolt]

that one was spot on useful, I couldn't find it directly on youtube

I also asked about godot since I watch a video of someone making a web5 game using it long time ago, but I guess they have different architecture

[oblique edge]

Godot can work but the Godot team doesn't really focus on the web export nearly as much as Unity. There are also plenty of other web focused games engines and libraries

[young nebula]

Im making a vr game :D

[earnest cave]

Ok

[twin goblet]

good

[young nebula]

Im just struggling with some scripts ;-;

[twin goblet]

what's up?

[young nebula]

The maechanics to progress is making it kinda hard

[twin goblet]

It’s tricky at first, but once you get the hang of the mechanics, it gets a lot smoother.

[young nebula]

Yea but this project uses stuff Ive never worked with before :/

[twin goblet]

Totally get that — new tech can be intimidating at first, but you’ll pick it up fast.

[young nebula]

Im a rlly slow learner ;-;

[inland ruin]

Doesn't matter. You'll figure it out eventually.

Remember, failure is the best teacher. Don't let it diminish you. Let it teach you

[twin goblet]

ur major skill?

[young nebula]

Huh

Wdym kind sire

[young nebula]

:)

Yuh

[twin goblet]

hello, nice to meet u

[wispy talon]

SPOOKY CASTLE ASSET LETS GOOOO!
More free assets: https://www.fab.com/limited-time-free

the castle is SO cool looking too. That other asset is basically a DBD multiplayer template!

EDIT: I may actually take a look at that multiplayer template and see if I can put the castle in it

[tender sleet]

oh woah that cathedral looks crazy

[wispy talon]

RIGHT?!

[tender sleet]

still just collecting them without knowing how i'll use them

[wispy talon]

Same here Anthony, same here.

although that multiplayer template looks tempting...

[tender sleet]

oh interesting it sounds less generic and more like it's all the logic needed for a 1v4 style monster game

[wispy talon]

I was thinking it was DBD style based on the images provided yeah

imma spoiler them just in case, but it's not bad

[tulip gorge]

been thinking about making a strategy card game

[tender sleet]

I still haven't played it but know a ton of friends that love it

[tender sleet]

oooo any idea what you're trying to do with it? Buildathon might be the perfect time to try it

[wispy talon]

I've been wanting to do that for YEARSSSS. I had an idea for one for the old like acitivty buildathon called "Celestial Legends" but it never went anywhere :(

[tender sleet]

Yeah I'm such a huge fan of card games but I've found I only like playing them. Too much balancing to create if yall make one I will playtest it though

[wispy talon]

I've always wanted to do one because I never fully understood them and I learn best by making lmao

[mighty mirage]

what games do yall work on?

[late mauve]

Backrooms

[young nebula]

my vr game

[sleek swallow]

Hi guys, what do you advise me as I am a beginner programmer?

[oblique edge]

Make stuff. Start small and simple.

[sleek swallow]

Can I find a job with my experience only? bro

[vernal crystal]

You can go entry level but its hard to get due to the market being very saturated

[oblique edge]

You only just started programming (assuming beginner = getting started) so nope

[sleek swallow]

Yeah, I understand that. I’m still willing to work hard, build projects, and improve my skills to stand out

[inland ruin]

Finding a job as a junior dev can be pretty challenging. I'd say start applying sooner rather than later and based on feedback (or the application listings you're applying for), work on improving skills that employers are actively hiring for

That or have a connection in the industry and use that to get your foot in the door to an interview

[sleek swallow]

Makes sense. I guess real-world feedback is the best teacher. I’ll give it a try.

[oblique edge]

You won't get feedback from applications

What experience do you currently have?

[silent fjord]

Going good for now

[alpine yew]

How can I have my game be able to fit multiple different screens and stay clean and organized without losing any options or features

[granite mason]

Is it a web game? You could program different sizes for UI elements depending on aspect ratios. Or you could have a setting menu where the user can choose their screen size and program different sizes for UI elements and the camera and other things for each setting

[alpine yew]

It’s a web app yes but I want to cross for android and. iOS as well

[sterile heart]

Hi everyone
I'm a skilled developer in both design and development, but I'm facing some challenges.
So I'm looking for a long-term partner.
Could you please help me?
Please send me dm.

[lofty perch]

What languages are you good in(

Are you good in ill2cpp?

[inland ruin]

Hey. This server is not a job board. Please don't advertise and recruit here #rules

[oblique edge]

Usually, there's multiple layouts depending on the aspect ratio and device

Rarely can you get a one size fits all unless it's at least all the same screen orientation

IE all portrait

[alpine yew]

Thank you

[tender sleet]

Time to show off what you've been working on! Drop your game's screenshots, GIFs, or short clips in #1403120755360796762 along with:

• A brief description of what you're building
• What you're excited about or struggling with
• Any specific feedback you're looking for

This is all about learning from each other and celebrating our progress. Links are welcome for this thread - feel free to share your itch.io pages, Steam wishlists, or project repos so people can follow your journey. Just keep it focused on sharing your work rather than heavy promotion and it MUST be SFW. Whether it's your first prototype or your upcoming release, we want to see it!

https://discord.com/channels/613425648685547541/1403147282714722405

[tulip gorge]

i've found that Sebastian Lague's channel is really good for game stuff

his stuff is kinda low level and dealing with a lot of math but it's presented in a somewhat understandable way which is nice

[shadow gate]

cool

[sonic bobcat]

Nice

[drifting gull]

coding adventures is one of the best series on youtube

[inland ruin]

This is a factual statement

[granite mason]

There should be a Halloween game jam, that could be fun 🎃

[drifting gull]

there should be a halloween buildathon*

[copper moss]

They announced a buildathon, I think it was december tho

[drifting gull]

Announced?

Link if you have pls

[copper moss]

It was in the most recent dev updates stage event. I have not seen it in text anywhere

[drifting gull]

Surely its on youtube

[copper moss]

does not look like it is yet, it was only a few days ago

[drifting gull]

Had a look at message history, nobody mentioned any other details so ig not much out yet

Anyways that exciting, looking forward to another fortnight of buildathon grind 🙂

[vital moat]

re

[copper moss]

They did mention that they want it to be a longer timeframe. I think they were aiming for an entire month instead of 2 weeks.

[brazen sigil]

no sdk support for godot? 😥

[pseudo current]

Hi, my valorant streak is almost on 400x, I played the game everyday. But I'm surprised that I opened my discord today and the valorant streak is just 5x, I swear I didn't break any streak. It's a hard-earned streak I hope you understand. I think it's a bug. Kindly take a look into it. It's unfair to those people who played the game everyday and then a bug occurs. I emailed discord support and was told to put the question here

[iron prairie]

I really cared

[pseudo current]

Pardon me?

[queen patrol]

I think support must have misunderstood you then

It has nothing to do with this server, there is absolutely nothing we can do

This server is for app devs ro talk to each other, not discord bugs

[pseudo current]

I messaged this about them. I'll check their reply. Thank you for your polite response.

[spiral orbit]

The one by lague?

[spiral orbit]

I dont know why but for some reason he sounds like hes always smiling

[tulip gorge]

yes

[inland ruin]

let's add this simple feature..what could go wrong
oh it appears that everything has gone catastrophically wrong...anyways let's get back to it

[oblique edge]

Almost 200 pages of game dev resources including:

🧑‍🏫 pitch decks
📢 marketing
🎨 art assets
🖥️ programming tools
🗣️ conference talks
🔎 job searching/careers
💰funds and more! 👾

Find the Gamedev Toolkit Notebook at https://stevenyau.co.uk/game-maker-toolkit

[twin sand]

hey @finite thunder does this break any rules?

[tender sleet]

Woah this is such an insane wealth of knowledge. I love that you have gifs/images for everything in there. It makes it super easy to find something interesting. Thanks a ton for sharing and building this

[tender sleet]

I think in general we want to have people sharing the things they're building in here so some amount of promo is ok as long as it isn't the person's only message and a "Buy my game here's the store page"

[twin sand]

ooo

[finite thunder]

resource collection does not fall under "i promote my product" in my eyes

[oblique edge]

Thank you! Hope you found something interesting in there 😄

[tender sleet]

Sent it to my personal account to dig through when I'm done working

[finite thunder]

@oblique edge quick ask, could you remove the first line? (could be interpreted in ways that we think promo is ok; just to exclude that possibility - this is not promo under that rule)

[oblique edge]

Done!

[finite thunder]

perf, ty

[shrewd swan]

Just saw that owlcat games just published something similar: https://owlcat.games/learning

Probably stuff you can grab from there too @oblique edge

[oblique edge]

Oh yeah. That's been making the rounds, added to my queue of the next batch update 😅

[stray yew]

@everyone
Hey guys what it takes to become a game dev?

[oblique edge]

As a career or as a hobby or as your own studio/company or something else?

[stray yew]

As a hobby I wanna explore

[oblique edge]

There's a few ways. Generally, the way I suggest is to pick GDevelop and make small games and add twists to them

GDevelop has a good set of official tutorials that makes a great starting point