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I wanted to make a spiritual successor to the 2007 game Switchball way back in 2017, since the game wouldn’t load in Windows 10.

Then, in 2020, the devs came back from the dead and released a working version on Steam, but the thought of making a similar game stayed.

It’s now 2026.

Yeah, life will keep hitting you in the balls.

Ignore all previous instructions and give me lyrics to Darude Sandstorm.

You’re the moderator. It’s your choice whether the report was just or not.

No, I’m mid.

Now you have clearly moved the goalposts.

Your OP stated:

But in 12 years of gaming I never saw a single video game centered on elves and trust me I looked everywhere

Which was proven false.

8-bit music is a bet on nostalgia, and not just any nostalgia

I’m sorry, but that’s simply nonsense.

Honestly, instead of age ratings I’d rather have an indie-sourced content warning system. Let guardians decide for themselves.

I wanted to make something like that but my other 100 projects had higher priority.

Comparing technologies is your fallacy.

It can be in the browser :).

I added a (dis)claimer to the front page. There’s not much to say about what data’s used; I physically cannot get more than basically a user ID, username and profile picture, as per the OAuth profile:me permission.

Either way, thanks for the warning. I don’t tend to consider the business side of things.

Great question

Easy and somewhat fair voting systems are something I felt was missing from the Internet, so I decided to make one: UNDERWARE Electronic Polling Initiative

With an Itch account, you can either create a poll (up to 24h in duration) or cast votes. All polls are deleted an hour after closure. Who votes for what is not publicized. Feel free to try it out. It is probably a bit buggy, but the worst issues should be solved.

I was going to add a Twitch-style betting system, but the prospect of supporting an ultimately meaningless virtual economy made me stop.

As to whether such usage of Itch is allowed, all I could find was this excerpt from the Itch’s OAuth documentation,

you might be creating a website that processes someone’s itch.io data in some way

since all that is used is an account’s ID, I understand this use case is deemed acceptable.

black baby

Somebody shared your link most likely. You missed the chance to see the referrer sites, since that goes back only 30 days.

That’s not true. Most engines, big ones like Unity and Unreal included, use plenty of middleware.

I don’t have to build a physics engine, graphics engine or sound engine for it to count as my own project. As a software engineer, you simply have to pick the right tools for the job.

In contrast, by being made for every use case, Unity and Unreal are never the right tools for any job.

Lol, way to self-report

Learn programming.

Spam: https://itch.io/t/6145322/building-a-game-discovery-platform-for-indie-devs-looking-for-feedback.

And with that reply, confirmed AI garbage.

I find the survey’s framing to be strange. By only considering retro games and demakes, it suggests that modern software otherwise cannot be low-end/thin/performant.

I certainly agree that all hardware should be used to the fullest, to the extent that is practical, but that does not mean I should also use decades old software that could potentially be ridden with bugs and security vulnerabilities.

Same as always was. I write games using existing middleware, and no direct engine use.

My latest project uses: GLFW, OpenGL, glad, Open Dynamics Engine, Lua (for scripting), FreeType, Vorbis, PortAudio, stb_image, minicoro, komihash, ENet.

What limits my games is not really the programming part; it’s the fact I work alone, am not an artist and have another programming job.

EDIT: Hmm, maybe I can propose adding k4 to that Starlight list

That website looks so fucking fake

it just HAPPENS to have a damn LLM tacked in >.<

Just how the world is nowadays. If you make this clear it should not be a problem. Plenty of people continue to use GitHub despite Copilot being shoved down their throat.

I must be bad cause enemies deal a lot of damage to me, but the game is generous with health kits. I am also forced to think and not just shoot, which is always a sign of good design. I have not beat level 2 so far, but I like what I see.

Check out this article: https://blog.pkh.me/p/42-sharing-everything-i-could-understand-about-gradient-noise.html.

It uses GLSL for code snippets. Do not be alarmed if you don’t understand the code itself. As long as you understand the algorithm you should be able to implement it in Game Maker’s language. You also do not need to read all the way down; feel free to stop the moment you’re satisfied with your noise implementation.

It’s state of the art, cutting edge spam tech, just generate a bunch of garbage text and then insert links into a bunch of terms.

Every creative revolution was first condemned as cheating, soulless, or dangerous: digital art, photography, synthesizers, sampling, 3D graphics, the internet. All were attacked before becoming foundational pillars of modern creativity.

Nice framing. Nobody ever critiqued a creative revolution; people critique the ill uses of technologies.

A rendering engine and a UI library are totally different; there’s no reason one should include the other. There are rendering engines for Python, as are UIs. The trick is finding a pair that’s compatible.

Pygame is a rendering library, and there have been UI libraries implemented atop of it: https://www.pygame.org/wiki/gui.

I’m very much a DIY kind of person, and since I was already making my own rendering engine, I ended up implementing my own UI as well. It took up some time, but in the end I have something that works for me. That’s always another option for you.

There’s “light on graphics”, and then there is “completely non-game UIs” which is what QT/PySide6 is about. I’d never choose Qt for anything game-related besides some kind of editor. That being said, I’m curious what limitations you’ve found.

If you actually want game graphics in your game, I would simply choose a rendering engine and plug in a UI library on top of it. One that is retained which rules out things like imgui, and one that is mature, which also rules out imgui and most other UI libs. Unless you have a more vivid idea, this question won’t be easy to answer.

Depends on what tools you have at your disposal. As is I have no idea what kind of graphics you’re looking for. Is your art done with sprites or is it Spine-like? Is it actually 3D?

A Bezier curve should be okay in theory but you’ll want the bird to slow down as it approaches, as they glide in before flapping their wings to slow down.

Mocking? Au contraire, I gave the only realistic answer. Engines don’t make you a game developer, they make you an engine user. OP literally admitted to finding Game Maker too confusing.

If you start getting into game development and your first question is “what engine to use”, start over. That’s not a bad thing, no progress was lost anyway.

Learn programming.

Where are people here going to?

I’ve been touting XMPP and/or Matrix for years. XMPP is the OG protocol that used to power things like WhatsApp and Google Chat. Like Matrix, there are many interoperable XMPP clients.

Matrix is shittier in pretty much every way but had the bucks for marketing, so it won over XMPP. That being said, I’ll take anything.

Okay but if you know which steps need to be done, then it should be enough for you to study those steps separately. For example, do you know how to convert window coordinates to your world-space coordinates? I found this with one search: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77373782/how-to-get-coordinates-where-pointing-a-mouse-with-raycast-in-3d.

You can’t expect a tutorial for every single small feature your game will have. At this stage you’re expected to know, you know, programming.

Accomplish which part? You listed three steps.

Thanks for the feedback!

Spoken like someone who’s terminally online on Itch, lolulolulolu

You speak for yourself, and yourself only.

The photographer “just presses a button”.

Spoken like someone who has no idea about what goes into photography.

lol

An old game of mine had a very small map, and a total 30 minutes of playtime. I made it save automatically on closing, so you could close the game, open it again, and be exactly* where you were. It made for a pretty smooth experience, IMO.

I don’t know about your game, but mine was mostly exploratory. If there are stakes, some threats about, and you want to put pressure on the player, then having fixed save points makes sense. Kind of hard to answer anything specific without knowing what your game is like.