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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
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Miku Legends 2 Playstation 2024
#gaming#video games#retro gaming#nostalgia#playstation#low poly#capcom#dashgl#xinus22#vocaloid#miku#hatsune miku#miku hatsune#megaman#mega man#megaman legends#mega man legends#mml#hack#rom hack#psx#ps1#psone#playstation 1#sony playstation#2000#y2k#kion#kawaii#gif
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hello mouthwashing fans
(this is a scene redraw btw)
#my art#baby's first “comic” omg....#i gave up halfway through shading BJVDLBV it's like 1 am i am tired#mouthwashing fanart#mouthwashing#fanart#mouthwashing game#daisuke mouthwashing#who brings a hawaiian shirt to space#anya mouthwashing#curly mouthwashing#ouhh i love how i drew curly in this... so cutie patootie....#last panel anya too..... ouhhh she looks so sweet......#mouthwashing spoilers#?? since it's a redraw ???
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first escape attempt definitely ended like this
#hades#hades game#supergiant hades#hades 1#zegreus#tagamemnon#tagzpite art#digital art#art#digitalart#zagreus
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#putting this here in case anyone decides to go looking for more info about my particular guy here#1) soccer player 2) gay 3) started for italy met and got engaged to his future husband while there and adopted a girl#4) ends up spending the rest of his life in germany bc he got traded but he WAS able to get gay married there#because it's legal in germany and not italy. ENGAGED FOR LIKE 15 YEARS BTW!!!!!#5) husband dies at 110 and then my guy dies 7 years later also at the age of 110#6) I don't want to start a new life in the game because I played as him for hours and don't have the heart to wipe the slate clean#yusuf yacob you will always be famous. to me. sorry for making your penis injury gain interest#and sorry your mother died after being charged by a hippo
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Cassidy loves to scare the FNAF night guards..
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#michael afton#golden freddy#cassidy fnaf#evan afton#cc fnaf#fredbear#fnaf 1#fnaf fanart#ITS BEEN a hot second since I’ve last drawn Cassidy#so I wanted di change that with todays comic 💛#you think Cassidy finds it really funny to scare the night guards#like I kinda get the impression all the ghost kids enjoy scaring the adults#in the context of this comic I think especially likes to scare Michael#in behalf for cc seeing Michael use to scare him all the time#now the roles are reverse they can get back at him#cc won’t outright say he finds it funny but can’t help but laugh about it too#Cassidy and cd are best friends your honour#my game theory is they are besties no matter what 💛💜#ALSO two of my favourite bits I got to draw here fredbear reactions and Michael sprite pff
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#mouthwashing#mouthwashing game#curly mouthwashing#wait 1 minute and i'll get back to drawing transformers#god i LOOOVE shitposting in tags
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#Hades#hades fandom#hades game#hades supergiant#supergiant games#hades meme#hades#hades 1#hades i#elysium#hades elysium#Hades memes#hades funny
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#Me logging on Tumblr
#tomb raider#tredit#tombraideredit#lara croft#tumbling#tumblr#Tumblr memes#Tumblr gaming#Tumblr Girls#tomb raider remastered#Tomb Raider 1#Tomb Raider 2#my gif#gaming#gamingedit#gamingladies#laptop#harp#piano#Tumblr gifs#me#gpoy#mood
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we poke fun at obi-wan for saying "sith lords are our specialty" and then getting his ass kicked by dooku, but in fairness, he was at the time the only person in living memory to have actually killed a sith. he showed remarkable humility honestly.
#obi wan kenobi#star wars#the most unrealistic thing about rots is that after killing dooku anakin wasn't like. okay score is now tied at one all#au where he resists palpatine bc killing sideous will give him a 2-1 lead over obi-wan#*slams palpatine off rooftop* GAME!
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#pokemon#nintendo#gaming#anime#video games#kangaskhan#cubone#cute#wholesome#art#illustration#90s#retro#wholesome memes#funny#lol#humor#meme#gen i#gameboy#pokemon red#pokemon blue#pokemon yellow#nostalgia#90's#nineties#gen 1#retrogaming
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season 1 clem is so
#twd s 1 was so traumatizing i had to draw something to ease the pain#i recently revisited the games after a long time#and it absolutely CRASHED me#i hope ill do art for every season#twdg#twdg clementine#twdg s1#the walking dead#the walking dead game#telltale the walking dead#telltale games#fan art#character art#character design#twdg lee
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No "we made it" kiss?? In the franchise that is a glorified dating sim???
#but also#fucking 80 hours of the game and we get 1 (one 1) kiss???#such a damn disappointment#both the romance and the game really#my dear rook and lucanis you both deserved better#datv#dragon age the veilguard#lucanis dellamorte#lucanis x rook#dragon age rook#rook#rook aldwir#oc: sahrian aldwir#rookanis
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swear to god ever since bethesda started writing fallout games ive been like this
#fallout#not you though new vegas baby you are perfect#also this does not exclude games outside of 1 and 2 but i havent looked much into brotherhood and shit#my posts#shitposts#sorry for the longwinded stupid meme btw U_U
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sighs.................... late to the fandom
#Dragon Age 2#DA2#Fenris#Anders#fenders#Dragon Age -series#drawing#DON'T TALK TO ME!!!!!1#i cannot believe NOBODY told me this game had toxic yaoi i would have played since day one smh#anyway literally nobody saw this coming
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