>>1325(OP)

creating such a huge game is pretty difficult specially if someone starting out

my advice would be start small

just try to make without any game engine

and just open gl can teach a lot

>>1326

Anaans mentioned that the 3D game is easier, maybe that?

We shouldn't languish in one spot for too long, best to keep moving

>>1344

>desi elements but appeal to westoids

fair enough, because I am yet to see a good "RPG with Indian characteristics"; all of the ones made so far die in development or are (to put it lightly) fag shit

>just copy this game

no innovation habbens in lundia

>>1347

reeks of AIslop. It's gotten much better, but the pixels aren't even and some of the tells are still there

yaar, let's lock down a core mechanic by the end of this week, so we can move on to actually making the game

so far we have

>puzzle game

>>arrange items to cast spells, use these to solve puzzles, limited time before bhootni rapes you

>>loop that changes subtly, break the loop to escape

>FPS

>RPG

>>JRPG

when development starts we'll also get an idea of how many are willing to contribute

>>1349

>though not bad

trve, it used to be a lot worse, even recently. If you constrained it to a proper grid somehow, it might actually pass.

>>1352

Yaar Mustali Hakim

>>1351

forgot one very important thing:

save system

I have not added it and written code as if save system doesn't exit. I will have to refactor everything to enable saving and loading later.

Tried to lazily "fix" the OP image if anybody cares.

>>1351

oooo, based. doubted anyone was actually doing anything.

How are you on the art front? Here are the tiles I used for in the last thread, all 24x24.

If you need more, just let me know. I'll try my best

>>1355

example use case, consider it free use to all anons. they were only rough but it may help

>>1356

>>1355

That's pretty good anon.

I would tone down on the contrast of those assets though.

imo, only characters should have high contrast, and things such as floor tiles should be low contrast and stand out from the character.

Right now I am on 16x16 because the tutorial I was using was developing using this style.

I will have to refactor and write code to use other tile sizes.

I haven't made any art assets so far.

Just mechanics using assets from the tutorial.

This is the one I was using btw:

(Stopped after combat because I got bored, although I should continue from other parts)

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcjhmZ8oLT0r9dSiIK6RB_PuBWlG1KSq_

tbh, I have not found a better tutorial for this type of game using what I know (Vanilla Javascript)

>>1361

>tone down on the contrast

My palettes are mostly bright, cheerful colours; it's how I usually draw. What you say makes sense, though. I'll look into toning them down. Might be a good idea to reduce the colour count as well.

>16x16

Fair enough. Powers of two are standard. But 24x is a real sweet spot in terms of detail vs. time investment.

>refactor code

I hope it's just changing constants and not a big issue?

>haven't made art assets

I was expecting AI genned assets, kek.

Tutorial link 404s. Can you repost it?

>>1363

nevermind, it didn't pick up the _ at the end

>>1363

>Can you repost it?

Manually copy it

I agree that 24px is a good sweet spot.

>Refactor

It's a big issue because there are many magic numbers such as 16, and 8 and -16 everywhere that I need to account for.

>>1351

Update:

>Inventory + Item system

Basic functionality achieved. Looking good.

>Party system

Achieved basic functionality, can have an NPC follow you.

>Introduced and Fixed so many bugs

Also done:

>Display custom image in cutscene

>Remove the said image

To do next update:

>Non-NPC animated Game objects

- Eg: Fish in aquarium, or TV screen

>Dialogue box

- Add option to show name

- Add optinoal portrait

To do later:

>NPC interactions

-Bubble emotes

-Pathfinding AI

To do later later:

>Party system

- Expand

- GUI

- Changing order

- A screen to select or dismiss followers

- Talk with followers etc.

>Quality of life

-SAVE SYSTEM

-Save and load games

To do later later later:

>Quality of life

-User friendly editor for maps

-Edit custom NPC

-Cutscene editor

-AI Agent to help make games faster with this system

>NPC interactions

-Daily routines

-Goals and priorities (Eg: Go eat, take a shit, talk with x, kill goblin)

-AI State machine? Perhaps not?

I will be busy these two weeks I guess. I need to finish something.

Might drop in screenshots or video in some 3 to 7 days once I have good assets and some good gameplay or story to show.

Added touch controls for mobile.

Still using Drew Conley's assets.

>>1386

>Still using Drew Conley's assets

fear not anon. Here is a redraw of the first map.

considering some other tile designs.

let me know if it interests you

alternate tile pattern

>>1387

>>1391

These are better

Need to test with actual characters before I actually say anything though.

Usually making a whole scene and then breaking it into individual tiles works better for me.

>>1366

Working on dialogbox now. Then custom animated objects I guess.

Then I will make a personal project with what I have put together so far.

We need story ideas.

>>1392

got it. I'll continue tomorrow if you like - probably draw a character or two for a better demo.

they're also 24x, and the number of tiles isn't exactly the same - the original has 2 extra pixels at the sides and bottom.

>>1392

>story ideas

not good at this kind of thing

story will have a big impact on the art, might have to redraw

>>1395

I remember you from the /gen/ art thread. Look forward to your game progress too sirs

this is turning into a gamedev general, kek

>>1366

>>1386

>>1392

Added previously but forgot to mention:

>Run events parallel to each other/at the same time, specify by group

2025-04-24/25

>Dialogue box

- Add option to show name

- Add optional portrait

>Decoupled tile size etc from render code

>added virtual d-pad and buttons for mobile players

2025-04-26

>Drew a house interior

2025-04-27

>Drew some of the neighborhood outside

>Added some helper functions and events to make scripting easier

2025-04-28

>Working on other buildings and other assets I will need for my personal project.

>Added option to change color of text and background of dialog box.

-------

To do next update (Planned Mid May):

>Non-NPC animated Game objects

- Eg: Fish in aquarium, or TV screen

To do later:

>Quality of life

-SAVE SYSTEM

-Save and load games

>NPC interactions

-Bubble emotes

-Pathfinding AI

-- Use Pathfinding to fix any janky follower issues, eg, if a follower gets left behind, they use pathfinding system to get back in line

-------

>>1394

Well, yeah

Still, need some kind of rough story to proceed ahead.

There are many good asset packs on itch . io we can use to prototype

>>1395

I remember you from the old art threads before the purge. Glad to see you're doing well.

>mech turnbased tactic game

I can see it in your art style.

>>1507

whats the combat gonna be like?

>>1511

No combat as of now.

Need story first.

I have these ideas

No combat entirely

>No combat

>Run around, avoid getting reepu

Action RPG?

>Like old Legend of Zelda games

>Get clsoe to hit

Turn based- normal

>Turn based, select skill from menu, attack

>Like pokemon

Turn based- Funger

>Every fight is a boss fight

>Aim towards organs to attack

>Avoid getting attacked to avoid cripple

Turn based- Gimmicky

>Turn based, but there are skills such as randomise the other person's skills

>Steal their skill

>The enemy can steal one of your skills or buttons

>Mess up with you on a meta level

Puzzles and minigames

>Kind of like puzzle pirates

>Each combat encounter is a minigame you have to win against

No combat altogether

>Entire focus would be on puzzles

Personal choice tbh. I don't want to spend months testing combat. I have to prepare to leave this country too.

>>1513

Yes, entirely in vanilla JS with no framework or library or such. Don't worry, do your best.

>>1514

Microsoft ? No idea what you mean.

>>1512

>action rpg

LOZ style would be KINO, imagine jaggu uses his tail to attack.

>no combat

try emulating metal gear stealth, let jaggu use his tail to swipe/grab items from npcs or knock down items off shelves or knock items(torches) from the hands of enemies etc.

>microsoft

he means masters yaara

>>1521

MBA

I made myself suffer for a while to get GMAT, JLPT and IELTS.

GMAT score was mid but managed somehow.

>Why

Career would hit a dead end because of how pajeet and Japanese companies work. Unless I get an MBA to start again.

>>1523

You seem to really like the idea of Jaggu slapping with his "tail" huh

>>1507

2025-04-29

>Worked on assets for personal project, finished town

2025-04-30

>Worked on assets for personal project, made a temple and museum

2025-05-01

>Low progress, made a bakery interior

2025-05-02

>Testing out map

>Extended map changing to transfer to particular tiles on map

>Debugging and fixes

>Made some debugging function, might copy to map maker later

Might add more events and NPCs for personal project. Running on a deadline.

>>1579

Thanks.

>All that effort just tobbe called a bhachanner

>>1601

I work like 1 to 3 hours a day on this.

Mostly drawing while listening to podcasts

Manual coding and debugging during more focused hours

Vibe coding in between work if there isn't much work going on or if I am in some meeting meeting that is not relevant to me.

It's kind of like you find time to go check bhch or social apps.

I have a massive todo list I keep making and updating to review specific lines or make specific changes quicker.

I also have a ChatGPT project with 20 files uploaded to track where I am at and do vibe coding or make suggestions quicker.

>>1600

2025-05-03

Working on script for personal project

>Add follower via event

>Remove follower via event

Need to do the same for NPC now.

+Testing out A* pathfinding to implement as NPC behaviour in state machine. Vidrel.

There is output for four directions that can be used as is in top-down. And a system to track coordinates and recalculate path.

>>1603

Yes, about $21 USD a month.

It pays for itself at minimum.

I'll have to think of ways to make more money soon though.

>>1606

what about claude?

its cheaper than ChatGpt 16$ something per month

>>1608

why? in benchmarks test its shown that claude is better for coding

I also personally think chat gpt it better

>>1606

This took forever to convert to the game. Ah.

Thankfully today is a Saturday and tomorrow is Sunday. I would be dead tired with work.

Had to refactor the whole thing to accept a different type of queued task that is different from NPC behaviour loops or cutscene.

But now I have a functioning pathfinding system. Finally.

Vidrel is my magnum opus. I haven't made anything more complicated in my professional life before this.

>>1607

Claude has a very low limit, so it's basically unusable when I have some large files I want to review all at the same time.

>>1608

>deepseek r1

I think claude is better. Deepseek is on par, but again, limited in input length.

>>1615

Coding:

Notepad++ tbh

Vibe coding with ChatGPT for implementing small features and helping me pinpoint and fix bugs and glitches.

Tech:

Just vanilla JS and HTML

Art:

Pirated photoshop for pixel art

Compiled aseprite but not using it much

Art inspiration:

Pinterest, or have ChatGPT generate something and I'll draw it on my own.

Running the game:

Localhost server with XAMPP

That's it.

Not even using a game engine because I don't want to wait for several hours just to stare at unreal or unity screens or spend time learning Godot.

I have a feeling that this thread won't get much traction even if I finish the game. kek

Unless I add half ir fully naked Pajeetas in it, or something. Maybe it's too late for games like this.

Nevertheless, I will keep adding and polishing the engine.

I have 3 personal projects planned atm, until I get more ideas for story or somebody wants to contribute.

>>1617

sirs the only thing I can contribute is art

zarurat padi post kar lena

>>1623

Thank you pixel jaggu sir

>>1617

Made some minor changes to pathfinding system. Added more utils to check distance and such.

Will continue adding features in a few days.

>>1630

Because I don't know open GL beyond drawing squares, and last time I wrote C/C++ was 10 years ago when I was 18.

>>1631

I don't think I will be selling anything with Jaggu bandar with doxxable information.

But you just MIGHT see something similar pop up some day on itch.io or steam and you can wonder if that's me.

>>1633

Either a website/web page on desktop or phone.

Or phone app

Or windows app

Or linux app or whatever

Can be anything that can run a modern browser really.

Im cooked trying to finish this.

The nice part is that I can give coordinates to ChatGPT and it can give me the JSON data based on the script.

>>1639

Yes. Working through the pain of it to finish something rn. No horror elements or mechanics added. Just making things out of my own convenience now.

>>1640

Both very kino games

Need to watch more content on them I guess.

>>1642

It's literally HTML canvas and JavaScript.

The web browser is my OS.

There are several programs that work around this and can ship the website as phone app or a normal exe etc.

>>1392

>>1507

OKay so let's see...

started on 2025-02-25

>>1611

Today is 2025-05-07/08

So it took me about 13 days to finish this personal project?

What is it?

Well, just a game for my potatojeeta's birthday.

Might as well have been an essay with some images, but I wanted to test out how this would work, and her reaction to this (She has never played games).

This was incredibly painful to finish and my head hurts and I cannot even show it to anybody else. Ah.

>2025-05-07/08

Lessons learnt:

>Make a common event/call event system similar to RPG maker

I need it for defining sets of custom events/cutscenes, so I can call them in a single line rather than copy pasting several times.

>Event for onetime cutscenes

Currently I am defining flags, and checking if they are false, and then turning them on at the end of the conditon.

Having one time disposable type events with their own managed flags would save me the efforts with this. Would decrease lines of config code when combined with common events too.

>Event to use branching/caseSwitch

I had to use nested conditions because I did not set up some kind of switch system.

case/switch has some performance overload but it would have made my life so much easier than wrestling with spaghetti

>Update choice messages to show/hide choices based on conditional matching.

Massively helpful for making RPGs and Horror RPGs. I think RPG maker also has something similar or you install a plugin for it?

+ Grayed out/disabled choices

>Follower system needs major rework

It "works" but has issues with chaining multiple followers, or enabling and disabling them in cutscenes.

No support for switching order, dismissing them etc.

>Need a system to have addtional "inventories"

Like containers, chests, loot from people, etc.

>Need better tools to make and test maps

I was manually copy pasting coordinates. If I had made a map maker, I could just click to set colliders.

Some things went right though.

Guess I will make another small game before that.

I am now thinking about game engine design, ah. Unexpected.

Good night bhachanners

>>1666

Oh, satanic trips

2025-05-09

Reviewed Sprite -> GameObject -> Person Pipeline

Refactored some parts

Introduced some errors

2025-05-10

>Fixed some errors.

Animated static sprite/gameobject support

>Sprite system rewrite to accept custom frame sizes, and set custom speeds etc.

Self contained states and such

>Gameobject system rewrite to take self contained states

Now I can track if door is open or closed, lever position is left/right/neutral, npc mood is 10 or 20 or 69, within the door/lever/npc object itself instead of making a global variable each time.

2025-05-11

>Prefab support

Now I can just define common objects like doors and chests, and levers

>I can also pass some values to when I am calling prefabs to set up stuff like door destinations, levers, etc.

Follower system overhaul

>Pause/Resume follower: The follower stops following and resumes following by event.

>ReorderFollowers via event: So, for example, I can change the sequence of who is following whom.

>Auto Path Recovery: If the follower is a certain number of tiles away, they use the pathfinding system back to whom they were following

Common events

>Allow creation of named event sequences (like RPG Maker common events).

>Cutscenes and events can "call" these sequences by id.

-Eg: Push boulder, blink screen, say hello, or just define the starting cutscene once in JSON and change that for different games.

Once event

>Events that run only if a flag is false, and then turn it on after running

>Useful for one time cutscenes

2025-05-12

Dindu nuffin for the engine today

To do next:

>branching condition events (case switches)

- - Like condition, but avoid excess if else nesting

>conditional updating of choices

For example, hide or show a choice if a certain condition is met/is not met, can be having some var value, flag, inventory item, inventory item count etc.

>Disabled/grayed out choices + tooltips

Teleport within map

>A teleport event for changes within map that changes hero/party coordinates

State machine rewrite to run random parallel events.

>Eg. farmer would be farming different crops, or tending to different animals when you go see him

Sound Manager

>Central manager for playSound, bgm, bgmStop.

>Supports volume, fade-in/out, loop control.

>Then events can call sounds by telling the SoundManager, without managing Audio() objects directly inside event code.

Camera System

>Camera pan event for smooth scripted movement.

>Option to change cameraPerson to follow NPCs or objects dynamically.

Per person walking speed

>Set certain NPCs to be faster or slower than others

>Option to add boosted speed.

Emote system

>Play animation or emote above NPCs

>potentially allow dust clouds, sweat drops, etc., above a character.

Shop system

>Expand inventory system to feature a shop screen to buy shit

Save/Load system

Yeah, still

2025/05/12

Made a handy program that lets me quickly convert AI pixel art to normal pixel art, still need to edit and fix things by hand though. But it can save time from manually redrawing everything.