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Pizzatime
Apr 1, 2011

is there a couple good places to check out for that? Like I'm a musician slash artist slash coder so I just wanna get to know some like minds and do some devin' together

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Doctor Goat
Jan 22, 2005

Where does it hurt?
set your monitor to 320x240 and make your only keys z and x and they'll find you

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug
where do you live?

LaTex Fetish
Oct 11, 2010

drat i've been dabbling in amateur game dev too.

i'm all programming though, no art.

Cannonballoon
Jul 25, 2007

Doctor Goat posted:

set your monitor to 320x240 and make your only keys z and x and they'll find you

Pizzatime
Apr 1, 2011

eh, can't hurt to show what I've got then: http://www.kongregate.com/games/flyinganchovies/super-run-jumper

Ekster
Jul 18, 2013

you will never be able to surpass the genius of fez and the world is not worthy of its never to be completed sequel

But Rocks Hurt Head
Jun 30, 2003

by Hand Knit
Pillbug
do not try to make an imp zone game

Cannonballoon
Jul 25, 2007

LaTex Fetish posted:

drat i've been dabbling in amateur game dev too.

i'm all programming though, no art.

yeah Im a giant sperg too and am trying to create an accurate metroid engine just to get an idea of how all that poo poo works

maybe I'll become an insufferable piece of poo poo make a game with it someday

romanowski
Nov 10, 2012


how the frick do i play this?

Cannonballoon
Jul 25, 2007

romanowski posted:

how the frick do i play this?

dont press spacebar trying to jump or youll be continually frustrated, use w

Pizzatime
Apr 1, 2011

romanowski posted:

how the frick do i play this?

yea: wasd. sorry for not mentioning

LaTex Fetish
Oct 11, 2010


legitimately impressed. a simple idea that saw execution. good job bud

Pizzatime
Apr 1, 2011

LaTex Fetish posted:

legitimately impressed. a simple idea that saw execution. good job bud

thanks! it was a decent starting project, but doing things solo without earning anything only holds your motivation for so long I'm afraid

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
tigsource is not completely awful, OP.

I hung out there when I was an indie dev and it was okay.

Pizzatime
Apr 1, 2011

PleasingFungus posted:

tigsource is not completely awful, OP.

I hung out there when I was an indie dev and it was okay.

ah right, someone mentioned that to me a while ago, thanks! why're you not deving anymore?

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

Believe in your dreams OP

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

Pizzatime posted:

ah right, someone mentioned that to me a while ago, thanks! why're you not deving anymore?

my computer died four times in six months and then I bought a mac

probably I could pull all my old files off the old hard disk and set up a new dev environment and so on

but i haven't

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off
it was fun while it lasted tho

Pizzatime
Apr 1, 2011

aw, bummer! I did all my deving on a mac too, albeit running windows 7 via bootcamp, cause after 4 years on a mac I just couldn't take it anymore.

LaTex Fetish
Oct 11, 2010

i am a mac because i need a command line environment and also photoshop

SeXReX
Jan 9, 2009

I drink, mostly.
And get mad at people on the internet


:emptyquote:
Itch.io is like the bandcamp of games


also they host jams

http://itch.io/jam/ruinjam2014

Pizzatime
Apr 1, 2011

SeXReX posted:

Itch.io is like the bandcamp of games


also they host jams

http://itch.io/jam/ruinjam2014

oh man jams! I totally forgot about those. thanks!

tupac holocron
Apr 23, 2008
The son of Maryam is about to descend amongst you as a correct ruler, he will break the cross and kill the pig!
let me tell u about the touhou doujin game scene

Pizzatime
Apr 1, 2011

brave nazi aviator posted:

let me tell u about the touhou doujin game scene

lets say I wanna keep the anime to the japanese and I can't speak japanese so there'll be no overlap there :shrug:

romanowski
Nov 10, 2012

sometimes i want to make a game but i'm bad at art so i get discouraged and stop. anyway that's my story

Pizzatime
Apr 1, 2011

romanowski posted:

sometimes i want to make a game but i'm bad at art so i get discouraged and stop. anyway that's my story

I'd make u some art

mabels big day
Feb 25, 2012

I'll make the website. Also, I have some pretty good ideas as well.

Schnedwob
Feb 28, 2014

my legs are okay
All I do is make lovely maps for source and udk games because I'm too lazy to learn how to code, so what you people do seems like witchcraft to me. keep up the good work

romanowski
Nov 10, 2012

Pizzatime posted:

I'd make u some art

cool man now i can learn how to program

Pizzatime
Apr 1, 2011

romanowski posted:

cool man now i can learn how to program

check back with me when you're ready, I'll start doodlin

Pizzatime
Apr 1, 2011

by the way, any other active game jams? ludum dare just ended yesterday I think? bummer. Apart from Ruin Jam I couldn't find any other that's not over for a long while now.

PleasingFungus
Oct 10, 2012
idiot asshole bitch who should fuck off

Schnedwob posted:

All I do is make lovely maps for source and udk games because I'm too lazy to learn how to code, so what you people do seems like witchcraft to me. keep up the good work

having tried to make lovely source maps in the past, the feeling is mutual

loving hammer, man. how does anyone ever get anything done in it

Cannonballoon
Jul 25, 2007

PleasingFungus posted:

having tried to make lovely source maps in the past, the feeling is mutual

loving hammer, man. how does anyone ever get anything done in it

I used it for quake and quake 2 back when it was worldcraft and it worked fine for what it was except that it loved to crash and slow to a crawl with levels of any decent size

Axel Serenity
Sep 27, 2002
your game is p. fun, OP and I hope you make more and bigger games but you probably shouldn't since you will become known and then people will bitch at you because your shadow man is not a shadow woman

Pizzatime
Apr 1, 2011

Axel Serenity posted:

your game is p. fun, OP and I hope you make more and bigger games but you probably shouldn't since you will become known and then people will bitch at you because your shadow man is not a shadow woman

don't worry I'll do it like cactus and just offend anybody so that nobody would even know what to do with it and just leave it alone

Pewdiepie
Oct 31, 2010

Pizzatime posted:

is there a couple good places to check out for that? Like I'm a musician slash artist slash coder so I just wanna get to know some like minds and do some devin' together

Indie game developers live in the AIDS districts of most towns.

Number Two Stunna
Nov 8, 2009

FUCK

Schnedwob posted:

All I do is make lovely maps for source and udk games because I'm too lazy to learn how to code, so what you people do seems like witchcraft to me. keep up the good work

I'm too lazy to make source maps so I make lovely Doom maps

Stink fag
Aug 21, 2014

PleasingFungus posted:

tigsource is not completely awful, OP.

I hung out there when I was an indie dev and it was okay.

Nice avatar. TooL FTW.

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Babylon Astronaut
Apr 19, 2012
indie butt

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