I would kill to be able to drop everything I'm doing and have my primary goal be game dev, but alas I have work and my primary secondary task is to make sure I learn JP enough to be in a good position to read raws or get an N1 certificate.

Although once that's done I really want to start doing something with all the ideas I've had floating around my head for various games that I've either collected in my head or written down, which are far fewer than the random thoughts that have come and passed. Probably want a notepad I can just jot them down on whenever they pop up, really. Making something out of them just seems like the most fun thing in the world to me. Although I'm more prone towards wanting to avoid AI because I want to understand everything from the ground up, though maybe for the practicality of making something with limited time that's a luxury.

If someone ever wanted to make a metroidvania I'd always be glad to help out with the level design because I think that more than anything I want to make my perfectly envisioned world that's interconnected in the maximum possible ways that can lead to the most fun discovery process of anything out there.

I watched a bunch of topology tutorials, although as is usual with tech tutorials made after 2005 some of them had accents that were difficult to understand. I think there's a market for taking existing tutorials and giving them to a native English speaker.
I learned that I was really retopologizing the wrong way by focusing too much on edge details instead of seeing the big picture. My old mesh is simply too complicated and nonsensical so I had to abandon it. These days games can handle far more vertices so efficiency isn't as important as it used to be, but I really do want it to be able to morph and flex. Muscular girls in video games that are supported by vertices instead of normal maps seem pretty rare, so I want to make that part of a game. Oh, and plump girls, too with belly bones. You know, biceps actually bulging when they're being used and soft-looking plumpness. Nothing complicated and overly realistic, but I think it looks good and erotic. Same thing with butts flexing, Japanese games (which are the only people making this stuff of course) tend to show very little attention to this stuff. Just those cursed P-shaped girls.

It's much too early for me to actually share what kind of thing I'm envisioning, so I'll just talk about 3D model stuff.

I messed around in godot for a while, made a very basic traditional roguelike thingy. Got vision implemented (stolen from elsewhere though, wanted another vision algorithm but that one I'd have to adapt to gdscript and I'm not at that level), basic monster AI, item generation on said monsters. Basic ui and inventory stuff like picking up/dropping/equipping too, although dropping broke after I updated godot and I don't feel like fixing it right now.
Can't say I had anything concrete in mind other than something similar to elona/now elin. It was fun messing around though and getting at least some idea of programming (or scripting? whatever).
If I do pick it up again it'd have to be another game with no graphics or audio (so either purely ui or ASCII), which personally I'm fine with but it's not something an average civilian would be interested in.

There's a couple of things I wanted to make but I really really really really do hate programming. It's like every single step you take you have to pause doing actual work to instead read tutorials and documentations. Often times I don't even know how to search up solutions because programming is so specific, so instead I try to make it a more general question which then you have to sift through several posts and sites because only a few of them actually match what you want. And then a while later you find the precise solution you wanted for it by sheer coincidence, and it would make it easier to work with the project you're working on, but you'd have to rewrite basically most of the work you've done for it to fit properly.
It's like trying to verbally instruct a 100% maximum autist on how to go to a job and do it, you have to instruct him down to which muscle he's supposed to use and not forget to tell him when to breath and out, and match the heartbeat appropriately as well.
I absolutely cannot wait for AI to make programming a thing of the past. I know the whole point is to make code efficient, but when you have to be so laser specific about the tiniest detail for every single detail, with instructions manuals basically telling you to go over the whole book to get the commands you actually need, I feel like the point is lost
i really really really hate programming. really.

>>2735
>I really really really really do hate programming
Yeah, me too. Unreal has those things called blueprints that help bypass programming to an extent and people create and share/sell lots of frameworks. I'm hoping AI can be used to plug the gaps until there's enough of a game to say "okay, let's get a human to look this over" or something. I'm not looking to create something groundbreaking, at least not at first.

>>2735
>>2736
me looking at you programming haters who obviously werent using a computer from lolihood

I've been in the "I'm going to get started on that game" stage for like a year. I got a lot of stuff written out and designed for it and a couple dummy graphics for it here and there, but taking step one to dive right into it is hard when I've got other skills I'm trying to learn. It sucks because I keep getting more game ideas for small stuff.

Yeah.
I'm in the middle of making a soulslike h-game. Spent last year relearning how to program and laying out the game's framework.
This year I'm studying art since the game'll need sprites and CGs.

>>2741
You better have rewarding H-scenes and not just ones for losing...

>>2742
Oh, there won't be any "lose to see h-scene" moments. Not a fan of games like that.

Got attacking, movement and a bit of enemy pathfinding down. Player has a lock on and dodge button(forgot to dodge here, but trust me). The tiny blue squares are weapon hitboxes.

The sprites are shit, but the game's supposed to be top-down.

I'd like to write a kinetic novel. I already have a good idea of the plot and which engine I should (ONScripter if you're curious). I want to avoid making big plans so it won't have sprites or musics right away as I prefer to focus on background graphics and sounds instead. Writing is probably the hardest part for me as I've never written a story with that amount of descriptions and from different character POVs. I don't plan to write a long story right off the bat but I'd like have a 1 or 2 hours self-contained story that could pass as a neutral/bad route.

I'm trying to make a Gamebook, you know like a fighting fantasy novel, in twine if that counts?

Topology is important! This is like a giant puzzle of trying to line stuff up, but this clip demonstrates what I'm trying to accomplish. If you have a simple grid pattern, which is what you see on like 99% of porn 3D models, you can't deform it very well or it's very inefficient.
The first two loop cuts I make that are vertical is the usual layout for torso, adding more polygons as the line goes upwards and extends to the arms, which is unnecessary and may cause issues. BUT I made the polygon path curve inward with a C shape and that means I'm only adding more polygons to the belly, where high density is needed when it's big!
I'm trying to have a whole bunch of regions like this including muscles and it's quite frustrating at times. There's still a lot more work and refining to do, but I can do it!

>>2766
HUGE boobers

>>2767
I want them to have enough polygons that they still have smooth geometry at at 2-3x that size hehehe

>>2743
Since I'll be drawing humanoids, I'm copying figures/body parts from Bridgman's book and drawing them again from memory.
The actual figures will obviously need to be sexier than these. I'll probably use Weichun's book + nude female figures to practice drawing women.

>>2823
Some kuso heads I drew as practice.

>>2824
snail

>>2729
my lead problem with full fledged games is that tying together art, programming, sound and gameplay is too hard for a person who's not devoted to seeing a 2 year project, which may never make money, to the end.

You can certainly skimp out on certain area. Like RPGMaker games might use royalty free soundtracks and not have to wory about programming, but now the value of the game is entirely weighted on art and the viewer needs everything else to be less important

>>2823
>>2824
The one of the best pieces of art advice I ever received was that you should construct the major forms of your figures out of cubes and other boxy forms, and then rounding them out afterward. I didn't draw picrel, but it's a good example of the kind of thing I'm talking about

Rounded forms like spheres and cylinders seem easier, but really they're just better at hiding errors. Cubes are good because they face a definite direction and take up definite space, even before you've added the construction lines.

being a gamedev is the modern equivalent of being a prostitute

What does thY make an indie erogame dev

>>2835
what the FUCK did anonymous MEAN by this

>>2836
what the FUCK did anonymous MEAN by this

>>2838
he made a typo and wrote "thY" instead of "that" he's asking a question

>>2836
Your mum.

Downloaded a bunch of tutorials, but I'm not sure when I'll make the time to watch them. It's not that I'm busy, it's just that it's hard for me to stay focused.
It feels like sometimes the tutorial creators are padding it to run up the time, so maybe I should look at ratings or popularity of the videos to see what's worthwhile.

Anyway, I've been doing the retopologizing thing again and it's not as painful as it used to be. I think I'm starting to see quads in my dreams. I don't even know if I'll keep this geometry, but it's legitimately fun to try and puzzle out the shapes.

>>2729
Been learning vulkan mostly

>>2859
Been learning DirectX myself! For Windows dev.
Thinking of getting into OpenGL or Vulkan once i'm "done" with the Windows version, to create a Linux version. Any reason you choose Vulkan over OpenGL (or DirectX)?

>>2860
mostly because it can be fast as fuck and i hate games that dont run good. the level of control you get over resource management, synchronization, command submission, the swapchain etc lets you fine-tune many costly aspects of other graphics APIs, although dx12 generally has alot of these features too and tries to compete with vulkan in that regard.

Been watching Godot tutorials recently, but haven't started anything yet. I'm glad we're getting all these free (at least until you start making money from your game) engines just so I can fuck around without having to worry about buying anything. Ultimately I kind of want to make an open world shooter (think Stalker) but I imagine that's overly ambitious. To start with I was probably going to just make like an obstacle course and shooting range to practice different aspects of character movement and gun implementation. And maybe I'll try starting with a comparatively simpler game like maybe a 3D platformer (though I'm also interested in making 2D games, probably turn based strategy games). I can't model for shit right now though so that kind of limits me right now too.

>>2911
I doubt godot takes anything from you regardless of what you do with their engine since it's open source but I wouldn't really know.

>>2911
I wish Fusion offered a (real) free version, since I refuse to pay for an engine until I've released a game. In my experience, it's far and away the easiest game engine to work with, but the free version is so severely limited that I find myself going for GameMaker instead.

I have terrible choice paralysis so I just keep making crappy prototypes on a bunch of engines and will probably never commit to a first proper game...
So far the one tool that has most of what I look for is RPG Maker 2003 with the Maniacs patch. I don't have to make everything from scratch and the patched editor's ability to elegantly convert scripts to events and vice-versa is very nice, although not very documented.
I tried Wolf RPG today, also a very nice tool that stayed consistent over the years instead of bloating up like recent RPGM editions but the lack of a scripting engine is a deal breaker for me. Everything else is quite nice though, just need a Wolf RPG Maniacs...

>>2932
I used to be like this too, looking through the features of every engine, basically pretending I'd even be taking advantage of most of them as someone new to making games. At the very least, the engines you're looking at do seem to have different quality of life features. I was like looking at Unreal, Cryengine, Unigine, Unity, etc, trying to see which would result in the highest quality final product without even knowing how to use 90% of the features as I'd never made a game before.