#Godot.

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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!!!

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

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

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

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)

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

#reference #gamedev #indie dev #game dev #tutorial #video game #ACTUAL GAME DEVS DO NOT INTERACT!!!1!!!!! #this is for people who are afraid of coding. do not come at me and say 'actually godot is easy if you just--' I JUST WILL NOT. #long post

[koufax73]

mixtraks #408: la playlist che ascolti anche a Times Square

Dovunque essa sia. C’è Comete in cima alla nostra mixtraks numero 408, accompagnato da La Sad con i Pinguini Tattici Nucleari, Mace con Marco Castello ed Ele A, I miei migliori complimenti, rovere, Funk Shuei Project, Puà, Licciardi, Godot., Missey con cecilia, Sequoia e Lor3n.

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#comete #ele a #Funk Shuei Project #Godot. #i miei migliori complimenti #licciardi #missey #mixtraKs #playlist #puà #rovere #streaming

[ggauroras]

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.

#auroras rambles #game dev #gamedev #indie dev #unity #godot #indie games

[wibblus]

HAPPY NEW YURI !!! ! !

#sth #blender3d #b3d #godot engine #amy rose #blaze the cat #my art #animated

[beasblues]

time for a silly post (I say as if my posts hadn't been silly for the past month)

fans of the sonic snapcube dubs will recognize these, but if you don't recognize these, just imagine these lines are ace attorney canon. thank you

#ace attorney #ace attorney fanart #miles edgeworth #phoenix wright #wrightworth #pearl fey #prosecutor godot #ron delite #larry butz #snapcube #sonic snapcube

[kiashieart]

"Sorry I took so long"

[ post prison diego: I don't think he went to Mia's grave when he was Godot, i think he probably didn't believe he deserved to when he woke up. after so many years he'll finally be ready :) ]

#ace attorney #diego armando #prosecutor godot #phoenix wright #maya fey #mia fey #godot #aa godot #miego #ace attorney spoilers #aa3 spoilers #timeskip!godot

[wachie]

guys I have jury duty next month can anyone confirm it’s actually like this

#ace attorney #phoenix wright #miles edgeworth #franziska von karma #godot

[skellagirl]

help help help I can't stop drawing gay lawyers

Trucy should be brown and I'll die on that hill

The fact that Klavier is 5'11" and Apollo is 5'5" 🥹 I love a height difference

I am convinced they drew Valant's hair Like That (tm) in-game because otherwise we would have all fallen madly in love with him

Wesley is my favorite witness in Apollo Justice, I'm so sorry for my shit taste 😔

I've drawn Godot without a mask before but I wanted to do it Again because I am still enamored with the idea of him having white eyelashes

Aromantic Miles means so much to me

I get that it's probably just the way they drew his jacket but why is Miles's little court sprite so caked though 😭

#ace attorney #description in alt text #my art #Phoenix Wright #Trucy Wright #Miles Edgeworth #Apollo Justice #Klavier Gavin #Valant Gramarye #Wesley Stickler #AA Godot #Diego Armando #klapollo #narumitsu #holy shit so many characters to tag (huffing and puffing) #I was decidedly not normal about Wesley when I was a teenager 😔 the mind of a teenage girl is an enigma #I wish AA's side characters got more love from the fandom tbh 🥲 #ESPECIALLY VALANT I'm not biased btw #Valant is only like 44 so not ACTUALLY old enough to be foxy grandpa but it's for the MEME okay #I have VERY mixed feelings about DD and SOJ but the Phoenix/Miles dynamic is so good 😭

[rinamata05]

Cuntiest defense attorneys to ever serve

#ace attorney #mia fey #diego armando #miego #prosecutor godot #aa fanart #rinamata05 art #pov you're a prosecutor who's about to lose to the hottest power couple to ever practice law

[perrigoaway]

Some more practice on working out their faces, like the dgs one I did before! Mostly trying to figure out how I wanna draw their features! In order of appearance!

Bonus below cut! >:)

I know this has been done before but it kept reminding me of this meme when I was drawing him TT im sorry to Nick and Ema for giving them visible eyebags 💔 get some sleep pookies <3

#ace attorney #aa #aa4 #my art #teagies art #ughg gotta tag them all #phoenix wright #mia fey #larry butz #maya fey #dick gumshoe #miles edgeworth #pearl fey #franziska von karma #godot #aa godot #apollo justice #beanix #kristoph gavin #trucy wright #ema skye #klavier gavin #ace attorney fanart

[collisiondiscourse]

I've returned from the depths of Hell to do battle with you.

#codi.png #ace attorney #ace attorney trials and tribulations #prosecutor godot #aa godot #godot #diego armando #phoenix wright #naruhodo ryuichi #naruhodō ryūichi

[n0isetanks]

can't you see we're not opposites?

#zukka #my art #sokka #zuko #their fics are like crake cocaine #forgot sokkas necklace its over #fun fact this is the second time ive linked a song by Phoenix inside the caption in one of my drawings #the first time was for a godot x phoenix from ace attorney #interesting lol

[nyaagolor]

I like to think that the WAA is super haunted because the ghost lawyers got bored and want smth to do

#phoenix wright #mia fey #diego armando #apollo justice #godot #ace attorney #Phoenix makes the house very ghost friendly. There’s a whiteboard and bells and a bunch of stuff they can use to communicate #Mia is actually helpful with cases and uses the bells and whiteboard to help Phoenix when he’s stuck or missing smth #Diego just waits until Phoenix makes a dumb conclusion and dumps coffee on his head or flickers the lights bc he’s an asshole #mod vex #comic #vex art

[ggauroras]

indie games are safe!!

good news! unity has walked back a lot of the runtime fee!

they made a blog post outlining their new terms, the link is here. but if you want a sparknotes version, here's the highlights:

1. the runtime fee is not retroactive. previously released games are safe.

2. the fee only applies to the next major version of unity. developers can choose not to upgrade if they don't want do deal with it.

3. the fee is opt-in and number of installs is self-reported. if they'd prefer, developers can instead pay a 2.5% revenue share. (for reference, unreal is 4%.)

4. interestingly, the splash screen is being completely removed. this is probably a way to improve their reputation.

overall, this is a HUGE improvement! but, if I remember right, there was not any revenue share before, so, we are not at the same point we started. unity will still be taking a larger cut of developers' revenue if they choose to use newer features. but, it is nowhere near as drastic as we thought it would be.

overall, I think we're in a stable spot now, but I also think unity has lost most if not all of the trust it had. especially with indies. there has already been a mass exodus, and I kinda hope that will keep going.

#i felt obligated to make a new post since i feel like i caused a bit of a panic on this site #so we have some good news which is great! #auroras rambles #game dev #gamedev #indie dev #indiegamedev #indie games #video games #unity engine #unity #godot #godot engine

[wibblus]

blazbe gato !! enjoy :3

#sth #blaze the cat #blender3d #b3d #godot engine #low poly #my art #animated

[wherewolfwasteland]

Im kicking my feet and giggling right now apollo wdym best friend you absolute silly

#ace attorney #phoenix wright #ace attorney edgeworth #miles edgeworth #wrightworth #ace attorney phoenix wright #narumitsu #aa #apollo justice #godot