itch.io

I can understand if the rest is just content creation from here on out while trying to sort out ONLINE ability; which I'm hoping there might be some for of Standalone in the future without needing Steam, though I'm sorry if that's not possible: But is there any plan to allow user's to make quest's or write up a few to add to the world?

This one is.... Weird.

Mostly it's for money, other times it's because they can't really get any HELP on a project, sometimes in control and other time's, the team is just at each other's throats with piss, vinegar and enough rage to slaughter a field of.... I guess, just insert something to Slaughter here.

I knew a 2 man team working on a Horror game together, one was working on the art while the other was working on the coding. One of them use to be a roommate renting a room from me and he refused to get a real job outside of coding as his Teammate was paying him for the coding.

He got kicked out because he fought with the teammate over the direction of the game they worked on and got pissed it wasn't going to make him famous, just the artist who made the thing. When he bit the hand that fed his pockets to keep him in the house, he got kicked out and it became a tale of both Control and Power.

-=-

Trust me when I say NOONE in indie WANTS to work on a game SOLO; they do seek out others to HELP them; but everyone wants them greenbacks, cash, paid work and it boils down too 'who is willing to work until it make's it big and who want's all that money NOW' or 'Who is willing to work on the project and not throw a fit when nothing goes their way?'.... and very rarely 'Who just wants to help work on a passion project without pay?'

Like the Title Says and I went back through to notice several tags are missing.

So I'm wondering if they were pulled on purpose and noone bothered to update the community or other.

I believe there is a Bug with Agatha's Figurine.

If you accept the Candied Pair Quest; then the figurine doesn't show up and if you accept Agatha's request first, then it does.

I've also had to play Metal Gear Solid trying to evade Julis looking to force the player to follow them while trying to look for that figurine to figure out where it exactly is, checking the corners of the entire house/place.

I did,  mechanics are solid and so is the art. Aside from my nitpick on the subtle theming and the Firefox bug, you have a solid retro shooter. You should consider making a large one to sell.

It was on for retro FPS search results, I didn't notice what it was until the last second.

Game is solid, I'll admit that, I just don't like the undertone of it.

The game drifted my aim to the right and I ain't a big fan of the Yaoi/Gay imagery.

... How do you even get up there?

So no updates this year?

Well, ya should anyway mate. I'm a dev myself, though my stuff won't get published due to my inadequacy in understanding 3D. XD
And if you do a proper Sonic game, Sega would take you under their wing; I've seen Nintendo go after dev.'s even remotely touching an I.P. of theirs from years upon years ago: If there is another gaming crash, they would not last.

To correct myself; they would survive like last time, but if there's no competition with the exception of the indies, then folks may go to the indie dev's as a cheaper source of entertainment for games that give more for their small budget's like the editor you should try to publish beside your project, should being my keyword but it's your game, not mine, so do what you will.

Well, good luck to ya! I'll keep tabs on your project!

This is actually quite impressive. If you publish the editor/engine beside your game when you release it, you can encourage modding and for someone else to do this whole journey after. So long as you don't act like Nintendo!

I get of it kinda is. But if I look at the homepage, it's the basics like tools, resources packs, games; and going into tools, I can poke at a few search parameters to reached what the community gathers and posted.

But why isn't this list in ease of access is what I'm asking is all. Is it to keep folks on the site?

Why is this list not on the Itch.io homepage?

Your all good mate. :D

I did, under multi support as Godot supports C#, C++, Python if I remember that last one right and it's own scripting language.

Between Unreal and Flax.

It even says popular alternative.

I agree with this.

Problem with me though is I don't know how to setup code to interpret bumpmaps, bitmaps, jpeg's, packets and ports or how to get it to call home to send data to keep up with 4 players positions and inputs while reducing latency to keep it fair,  keep that jerk 'Greg' from cheating and incorporate an easy method for folks to mod what I put together.

Most of these environments have this pre-built. If there's a mid way that can be approached and understood,  I'll abandon an engine and start using Raylib; otherwise,  I may just need assistance in understanding how to build my own tools.

Fair enough, there's a reason I didn't give it the free tag, but this helps fulfill why, thanks!

To tell the truth folks, I never trusted Unity as a whole. I know there are folks for the changes and the mob who are against it with torches, pitchforks and the type of weapons that would help the user commit a war crime if the trigger was pulled once.

This topic is to offer other alternative's to folks looking to step off Unity. I guess you can think of this as a google search slightly more simplified. Willing to update this list with any other post's to offer alternatives too if available.

(C#)

Stride(Free) - 2D, 3D: uses .Net 6, Cross Platform Deployment, has it's own scripting language that can be integrated in code - https://www.stride3d.net/ 

(C++)
Unreal - 2D, 3D: An engine almost everyone jumped too, I don't need to explain it. - https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/learn

(Multi-Support)

GoDot(Free) - 2D, 3D: Supports multiple languages, Popular alternative to Unity aside from Unreal. - https://godotengine.org/

Flax - 2D, 3D: Supports C++ and C#, Download is free though unsure about anything attached to it legally. - https://flaxengine.com/

(Legacy)
Blitz Basic - 2D, 3D: Popular dialect of Basic, ancient but is still used in a few projects today, can be found in the ITCH.IO Tools

 prefer to try and support Gog though I will purchase the Itch.io release later.

Got this game on Steam; loads of fun for the short play time. :D

Would have loved to got this on GOG as steam is becoming less favorable with everyone chanting the mantra 'YOU OWN NOTHING' and Steam enforcing that sh*t.
If a sequel is made, can't wait. :D

If this is made for a Co-Op for fun, really can't wait. 8D

I saw and  played that one; though I somewhat disagree to an extent. Once you beat the game, it becomes the  player's playground and they put in some extras such as a cut level or 2; though it doesn't accomplish the idea of an open world game like Morrowind or Skyrim as the game funnels you to a single goal like Banjo Kazooie as your given levels where you need to overcome with your skills in platforming and problem solving.

Still; it's a good call out. :D

It's a weird thought, though I wanted to see how everyone sort of FELT about it in a sense.

Everyone remembers the Nintendo 64 and games like Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask or Ocarina of Time or Banjo Kazooie/Tooie.

Though playing games like Skyrim, Morrowind and Breath of the wild; I'm wondering if anyone is working on a project of such where it's an open-ish world where you can tackle anything you want from fighting to interacting with the world doing other things, but in the same 64-bit-like style of low-poly models.

I've passed this thought to friends and they mentioned the titles above along with games Spyro 1 -3 on the Playstation or Dues Ex.

While I agreed to a certain extent, I couldn't count the Zelda titles, Spyro or Banjo Kazooie as those we're more focused on completing the main goal or quests while making side-trips to improve the character or it was required in order to progress. The former being more akin to Legend of Zelda and the latter being akin to Banjo Kazooie with the required Moveset or Spyro needing to free a number of Dragons or gathering certain treasures. Even then, I can't put Spyro on the list of a vast place to explore as the levels, while non-linear, are still blocked by the need to progress in the story or level before you can reach it.

So, I've kinda come full circle to ask if this IS done, being made now or has been done. I've been pointed to Lil' Gator Game and it's been fun to play and explore while gathering materials to basically have fun and play around in the game world where it's basically the playground you could never play in as a kid; the rest isn't there what I'm asking about.

Sorry for the long post, this is more curiosity than asking if someone will make one or asking for help.... Which if it was the other two, I'd post elsewhere though I don't think any modeler or programmer or even musician would take part in a project of the like.

I have a card game where in which I need help testing one of the newer expansions to collect and roughly adjust for data.

If you have Tabletop Simulator, then that will make setting up test's a lot easier. Willing to teach how to play the game just to get what I need to further develop my project. If you prefer a free method unto which to play the game on for testing and can gather 3 others willing to test on certain date's, I need to know the software/service which to put the game on and time to set it up for play-tester's to participate.

It's not a paid gig, though if you enjoy the game after testing, players may add a card of their own design and I'll add it to the current library.

This is more of an open question to all game developers to think about for a moment. I could be right, I could be wrong and open to criticism about this topic, but doesn't it feel like games, newer ones specifically and even by AAA studios have abandoned the ability to let the gamer's or users think for themselves when it comes to interacting with the game the developers designed? As in just spoon feed the player in a sense? (Except anything 'From Software' creates as they're known to up the difficulty WAAAAAAAAAAAY up there.)

An example or examples, take a game like Horizons Zero Dawn or the new God of War with Kratos, his Son and the hilarious Simpsons mod replacing Kratos with Homer and his son with Bart; Horizon's dungeons have locks that are color coded based on a bunch of the stuff players pick up from earlier rooms that was easy to attain so we just plug it in so the door opens. God of War, a bramble bush that can be set on fire and the game tells you a weapon that has fire can clear the way and so on... Though that's easy to ask, as I pulled these examples from a youtube video;

But my argument still goes beyond these examples.

Such as the Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask; which if there are any retro purists, just hear me out as I'm wanting to draw a comparison between it and the 3DS remaster with an example of what I'm arguing. At the start of the game when you arrive in clocktown, you need the Deku's bush in South Clocktown; it gets blocked by a business scrub and starts a chain of unmarked quests which begin with the Bombers and needing to get into their secret base as the guards don't let you leave town for anything as a Deku Scrub. To get into their base, you play hide'n'seek, find them and learn their secret code to get in but won't let you join their club as they don't want Deku Scrubs in their outfit. (It's a kid thing, it's happened and still happening to everyone.) After you return to human form, you can now officially join their club though this is where the differences start between the 3DS version and the N64 version.

In the 3DS version, the happy mask salesman just gives you the Bomber's Notebook, which keeps track of certain side quests along with handy alarms where you need to be before the day resets. Having it means you are now a bomber though the game just gives you the book.

In the N64 version, you have to re-earn your bomber membership by playing hide'n'seek or taking it a step further and just telling the kid at the base the password to get in. Once you do, go in and step out, the leader of the bombers becomes both irritated and impressed stating that only Bombers know the code thus you must be one of them. Being one of them, you are given the Bomber's Notebook without having to play Hide'n'Seek.

The difference between the two is one just gives us everything and the other, while it makes us work for it, let's us interact with the game world in a different way thus still earning it through other means that doesn't feel like a chore, it feels more like something where we think about the objective to get what we want and took a different path not placed on the table to reach that objective. Rather, we didn't think about it until we tried it ourselves and discovered that this would happen by pure accident or by wondering 'what if' as the game didn't show us, pester us or mentioned it from a NPC, we found that path on our own.

Another example to roughly argue this, going back further than Majoras Mask would be Megaman X for the SNES; the very first level being designed to teach the player how to play the game without using prompt's such as 'Go Right to progress in the Game. You have a cannon and this button shoots bullets. You fell in a hole, you try jumping on the walls to get out and discover you slide down them, you push jump again and discover you can wall kick out of the hole.' So on and so forth as the game itself teaches you how to play without giving a text box but letting the player experiment with the controls in a somewhat safe environment; letting the player figure out things for themselves, though I admit I got this example from Ego Ratpor's Sequelitis before his chin consumed him to keep playing Game Grumps for eternity.

Video that won't play in forums outside of youtube because youtube is a jerk; there is raunchy language, but the arguments are justified.

Then there's games like Megaman Legends which is legendary in of itself as the stuff you found helped you explore and interact with the world further, like helping the police find the Servbots after the attempted pirate invasion or going to the TV studio and partaking in game shows for some quick cash and so on where players can interact and kick empty soda cans and kicking them into recycle bins give's you some free cash or inspecting garbage bins and finding broken a vacuum cleaner and giving it to your girlfr- I mean mechanical partner in tomb raiding an ancient civilization for technology, Roll who repairs it and modifies it into a weapon which can be grafted onto your arm.

I guess what I'm getting at after all of this and comparing it to something brand new doesn't explore or challenge the players ability to think as they think gamers are braindead thus they don't put any effort into exploring this in game design. Some folks of the indie community from their games don't explore it as much or they do without realizing it in a sense. It feels like an abandoned art to game design that was thrown out the window because the content needs to get out 'right-the-F#(!<-now.'

On the otherhand, games that do encourage this whole heart in a sense are tabletop RPG's where the players have to interact with the game master and see where it will lead them and depending on the GM or DM, rewards the player or tips their hand a little forward based on what thinking differently than the GM or DM leads.... Providing the GM or DM isn't a jerk, but potato-tomato.

Though that's just me asking out about this, if any of the other games you played while working on your titles have felt like this and let you rethink a little on certain quests or aspects of the design in your game?

Or post an argument where this isn't the case, which I'm open hearing that as well so long as you don't use Cuphead and the journalists trying to clear the tutorial without realizing they need to dash and not jump.

Tried it;

Better Menu Options, Practice is a bit more colorful though I think I was also talking about levels like Junker where they used the same Platformer box though I won't argue.

Practice included a new power-up, a sword, spiffy though we can't use the vines.

• While I see you didn't take the colored vine change into account, I was able to see the Hub better and understand a little about how the game works with the vine a little, not exactly as I stated but fair enough.

•Have better control in physics, also helpful

Just polish it, maybe add some multiplayer if it takes off well and your good to go.

Controls are a bit rough on 2 portions. Swinging and the physics where you swing too.

Recommendations:
-The time with the vine attaching feel too short or rather, I don't know how the rules with the vine you produce work exactly before it snaps or when it will. I recommend having the vine change color while the player is swinging to indicate it's health or how long it will stay before it Snaps. Such as 'Green' for a healthy vine and 'Red' when it's about to snap

-Don't know how close I need to be to an object before I can grapple and swing from it, Have the aiming dot change shape or color to indicate if you are close enough to grapple onto something.

-Levels are a touch dull with the physic's platforms from Practice; recommend a wood texture or at least give them a solid color with some outlines, though this is more of a personal bit from me.

-Swinging feels like I'm trying to fight against the whole game and I can't drift in the air. If that's what's part of the game design, fine, but it might be ideal to add odd spots out of the ordinary for the player to put two and two together in order to swing from one spot to the next to finish a level or give the player SOME lee-way where the swing goes as I've had to wrestle with it SOME.

-Bullet power-ups? Like a temporary-short-range-shotgun?

Any classes how to use it?

I mean, I know basic is pretty simple as the name BASIC implies. Blitz Basic uses a different dialect like the language of Spanish is between Mexico and Spain. (And yes, that's a thing; they both speak Spanish, but use a different dialect.)

But I do need to ask 2-3 big questions.
1. Has ANY game recently been published using Blitz basic with a proper Polish and sold for any amount of $5 (USD) and above?

~Note: By Proper Polish, I mean bug's worked out, game operates correctly with a lack of bugs. ETC.

2. Is anyone building a game with it right now? Mind you, I know folks mostly get this to fool around with code or to teach their kids how to program games or simple programs, I get it.

3. Yeah, back to the beginning comment, any classes how to use it today? Like a general education to use and push it to the absolute limit. How to render something you made in Blender and throw it in there or how to make a 3D model in it? if the 3D Modeling tool's in Blitz suck, is there an alternative?

I'm asking out of pure curiosity. Mind you, I would like to know everyone's thought's about it.

Game is missing the following, A QUIT button to quit the program.

A recommendation, Map the ground pound button to a Trigger button, as there's an issue with getting ground pound to work while in mid air after hitting the 'Attack' button twice. Either I'm not getting enough Air for the attack animation to finish before ground pounding or the timing is off to whatever the moveset object is programmed to where that the attack animation can't be interrupted to perform that ground pound.

A request, can ya render the Hud into 3D object's like what was done with Conker's Bad Fur Day? May give the game a little more whimsy.

Is there a guide for us to add our own horror's to this? I saw an option to add mods so I'm curious.

Older builds, there use to be other deities to fight and other mysteries to solve.

Has anyone found a way to disable the controller support so I can use a keyboard + Mouse?