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glugslove · 2 days
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Tiny lil rock bugs!!!!
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paleopinesofficial · 3 days
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💜We just wanna stay with our VIOLET haze dino 💜
As part of our most recent colour update, we asked our discord moderators to choose a colour scheme to add to Paleo Pines! Our wonderful Gelatin Berry dreamed up Violet Haze- and we knew the PERFECT dino/clothing combo to show off this purple dream! We could just stare at this colour for HOURS…😍
Grab a Violet Haze dino in Paleo Pines! Available on PlayStation, Xbox, Switch and PC!
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snowhavenstudios · 3 days
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It's been a while since we posted on here, but you'll be hearing from us more often as we gear up for our upcoming Kickstarter for Drops of Death. Drops of Death is a mystery visual novel with a romantic twist, the killer is randomly selected from one of the four love interests, and you may unknowingly fall in love with them. Each love interest has a 25% chance of being the killer. There are 55+ different endings, meaning you could have a killer romance ending with your favorite characters!
Play as MC Adrien Lee, choose your pronouns, and decide between masculine or feminine sprite appearances.
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Does this sound like something you would enjoy? You can follow our Kickstarter page here and get notified when we go live. Make sure to follow us on Tumblr as well because we'll be posting more exciting things soon, including the character profiles! Stay tuned~
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samuraiunicorn · 1 day
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Life on the South Waste is hard, but simple... Sort scrap, make quota, live another day.
While you won't be heading out to the South Waste anytime soon, it's important for the overall worldbuilding and story of Samurai Unicorn to know that other areas of Australia live on in the retro-future of 1998.
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cultofgalaxy · 2 days
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I think it's so silly that starsprites need to be in a bubble to travel underwater with Kinoko.
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acornbringer · 16 hours
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Want to learn how I create my game assets? I just posted an in-depth tutorial up on Patreon where I share my whole process from start to finish 🎊
Follow the link in below and consider supporting the project 💖
patreon.com/acornbringer
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qkayoostudio · 16 hours
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I'll make official character files for everyone once all the sprites are finished but until then--
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adhd puppy (left) and standoffish cat (right). both in their work attire.
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insertdisc5 · 4 months
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🎮 HEY I WANNA MAKE A GAME! 🎮
Yeah I getcha. I was once like you. Pure and naive. Great news. I AM STILL PURE AND NAIVE, GAME DEV IS FUN! But where to start?
To start, here are a couple of entry level softwares you can use! source: I just made a game called In Stars and Time and people are asking me how to start making vidy gaems. Now, without further ado:
SOFTWARES AND ENGINES FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW HOW TO CODE!!!
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Ren'py (and also a link to it if you click here do it): THE visual novel software. Comic artists, look no further ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It has great documentation! It has a bunch of plugins and UI stuff and assets for you to buy! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) You can also port your game to a BUNCH of consoles! ✨Cons: None really <3 Some games to look at: Doki Doki Literature Club, Bad End Theater, Butterfly Soup
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Twine: Great for text-based games! GREAT FOR WRITERS WHO DONT WANNA DRAW!!!!!!!!! (but you can draw if you want) ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's versatile! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! (You'll just need to read the doc a bunch) ✨Cons: You can add pictures, but it's a pain. Some games to look at: The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo, Queers In love At The End of The World, Escape Velocity
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Bitsy: Little topdown games! ✨Pros: It's free! It's simple! It's (somewhat) intuitive! It has great documentation! It can be used even if you have LITERALLY no programming experience! You can make everything in it, from text to sprites to code! Those games sure are small! ✨Cons: Those games sure are small. This is to make THE simplest game. Barely any animation for your sprites, can barely fit a line of text in there. But honestly, the restrictions are refreshing! Some games to look at: honestly I haven't played that many bitsy games because i am a fake gamer. The picture above is from Under A Star Called Sun though and that looks so pretty
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RPGMaker: To make RPGs! LIKE ME!!!!! NOTE: I recommend getting the latest version if you can, but all have their pros and cons. You can get a better idea by looking at this post. ✨Pros: Literally everything you need to make an RPG. Has a tutorial inside the software itself that will teach you the basics. Pretty simple to understand, even if you have no coding experience! Also I made a post helping you out with RPGMaker right here! ✨Cons: Some stuff can be hard to figure out. Also, the latest version is expensive. Get it on sale! Some games to look at: Yume Nikki, Hylics, In Stars and Time (hehe. I made it)
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engine.lol: collage worlds! it is relatively new so I don't know much about it, but it seems fascinating. picture is from Garden! NOTE: There's a bunch of smaller engines to find out there. Just yesterday I found out there's an Idle Game Maker made by the Cookie Clicker creator. Isn't life wonderful?
✨more advice under the cut. this is Long ok✨
ENGINES I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT AND THEY SEEM HARD BUT ALSO GIVE IT A TRY I GUESS!!!! :
Unity and Unreal: I don't know anything about those! That looks hard to learn! But indie devs use them! It seems expensive! Follow your dreams though! Don't ask me how!
GameMaker: Wuh I just don't know anything about it either! I just know it's now free if your game is non-commercial (aka, you're not selling it), and Undertale was made on it! It seems good! You probably need some coding experience though!!!
Godot: Man I know even less about this one. Heard good things though!
BUNCHA RANDOM ADVICE!!!!
-Make something small first! Try making simple: a character is in a room, and exits the room. The character can look around, decide to take an item with them, can leave, and maybe the door is locked and you have to find the key. Figuring out how to code something like that, whether it is as a fully text-based game or as an RPGMaker map, should be a good start to figure out how your software of choice works!
-After that, if you have an idea, try first to make the simplest version of that idea. For my timeloop RPG, my simplest version was two rooms: first room you can walk in, second room with the King, where a cutscene automatically plays and the battle starts, you immediately die, and loop back to the first room, with the text from this point on reflecting this change. I think I also added a loop counter. This helped me figure out the most important thing: Can This Game Be Made? After that, the rest is just fun stuff. So if you want to make a dating sim, try and figure out how to add choices, and how to have affection points go up and down depending on your choices! If you want to make a platformer, figure out how to make your character move and jump and how to create a simple level! If you just want to make a kinetic visual novel with no choices, figure out how to add text, and how to add portraits! You'll be surprised at how powerful you'll feel after having figured even those simple things out.
-If you have a programming problem or just get confused, never underestimate the power of asking Google! You most likely won't be the only person asking this question, and you will learn some useful tips! If you are powerful enough, you can even… Ask people??? On forums??? Not me though.
-Yeah I know you probably want to make Your Big Idea RIGHT NOW but please. Make a smaller prototype first. You need to get that experience. Trust me.
-If you are not a womanthing of many skills like me, you might realize you need help. Maybe you need an artist, or a programmer. So! Game jams on itch.io are a great way to get to work and meet other game devs that have different strengths! Or ask around! Maybe your artist friend secretly always wanted to draw for a game. Ask! Collaborate! Have fun!!!
I hope that was useful! If it was. Maybe. You'd like to buy me a coffee. Or maybe you could check out my comics and games. Or just my new critically acclaimed game In Stars and Time. If you want. Ok bye
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devsgames · 2 months
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I saw someone be like "It's still as good a time as ever to take a risk and make your indie game into a breakout success, just look at Lethal Company!"
Let's just be clear that "massively unpredictable viral success making an ungodly amount of money" does not equal "realistic and attainable benchmark" for almost any other indie dev.
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ggauroras · 7 months
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I think the saddest part about Unity's godawful news is that a lot of games are going to just. disappear.
it's like Unity is trying to go the way of streaming where the hidden gems and cult classics don't make enough money, so, they're taken offline. except this time it's with games (mostly indie).
to put it in perspective, hollow knight, cuphead, and ori are made in unity. so are night in the woods, tunic, and countless more indie gems. hell, AMONG US is made in unity. if the devs of any of these games can't shell out the outrageous cost, then maybe the devs will take them offline. and we'll just. never be able to play them anymore
it's a sad possibility that I don't think any of us ever had to consider. but now we do.
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midcocksuck · 3 months
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EDIT: THE BUILD IS LIVE
THE MOUSE IS FREE
DOWNLOAD NOW
Look I know I don't have, like, followers on here but I wanna spread this thing wherever I can.
I'm adding Mickey Mouse to my game the literal instant I can legally do so and I thought that was funny. Check it out on Steam or show your friends so they can find out that Mickey's inaugural project into the public domain won't be a shitty slasher movie.
Link to the Steam page here.
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tommyoliverblogs · 1 year
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Bluey! (Nintendo DS, 2005)
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paleopinesofficial · 2 days
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🌸Paleo Pines Horoscopes- SPRING edition! 🌸
SPRING has officially SPRUNG🦘 And you know what that means… all those Spring Zodiacosaurs have made themselves known! Is your Zodiacosaur your favourite dino?🦖Are you surprised? 👀
Befriend your Zodiacosaur in Paleo Pines- Available on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch
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sukinapan · 20 days
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rental
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nyurakim · 3 months
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what would you do if you saw this outside? Kofi | INPRNT | Mastodon | Instagram | TikTok | Youtube | Twitch
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kalpasoft · 2 months
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Another compilation of a few models I made recently
You can find the last one here.
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