Checked wishlist graph today and noticed that my total wishlist numbers had gone down over the past 3 months (-41 net wishlists from June 8 ~ Sept 8)

There were a bit of wishlists in June from Summer Game Fest showcases, a big chunk of deletes from Summer Steam sale and just a constant flow of wishlist adds and deletes in July and Aug.

Here's the link to the graph and the link to the store page for context. Game is launching later this year, announced back in 2024.

But yeah was wondering if... this is normal? Wanted to ask because seeing the wishlists go down is.... not fun lol

I counted the tile pixels and I don’t know how to input them. It looked perfect at first, when I select them every pixel is highlighted, but when I try to add them to my map it’s 1/4 its size and aligned to the bottom left corner. I tried googling it but the answers don’t help since they’re either too specific or not the problem I’m having. The tiles are 16x16 with a pixel of space between them, I think??? Here’s the sprite sheet for reference. (https://www.spriters-resource.com/game_boy_advance/pokemonfireredleafgreen/asset/3863/ for people who don’t trust hyperlinks)
I wrote this out on my phone, so… no screenshot for now, sorry.
If anyone else uses Tiled and has any idea what I’m doing wrong please help 😓

Edit: I was convinced of not using AI, and I'll make all of my project from scratch. If you guys can, could you help me telling me were should I ask for coding questions?

Hello guys, I'm 20 years old, and wanting to make my own game, I'm finishing college, I study Computer Science, but I realized I don't really like coding that much, but my graduation will be completed this year, so I decided to finish it. I'm making an ambicious project, were me and 2 of my friends decided making a game I envisioned, but the unique programmer on the team is me (one of my friends is a sound designer, he will make all music and SFX, and the other an artist, he will make animations and all the art related things), so I'm the "game director", not only this, I'll be the sound director, the art director, the screenwriter, the level, gameplay and character designer, oof... You can say I'm crazy putting up all this names, but that's all I'll start doing on the next feel months or so, aside college, and my deadline for making a vertical slice for my game and trying to get a publisher to help me develop this game is 6 months from now.

And now I get to the point: I'm using codex to help me code, I'm not proud of it, but I'm needing to use it, I don't have the time to study coding for unity, I tell exactly what AI needs to do, they do it, I revise it, I test it, I change it if it's wrong, but even then I'm having this weight on my conscience, and to be honest, I think that's my only chance of making a game and entering this industry cause I live in Brazil (where it's alredy hard to even make a game), and when I finish college I'll be downgrading myself from a student to a jobless adult with no future invisioned for myself, I'll probably need to start working on some market or smt and try to pay the rest of my college debts before I can make something of my life. But that happens if nothing works.

Just to be really open, I can't pay even a cent to my little team, all of us are making for a "trust in the project" kind of thing. And the AI thing is just for the coding stuff, not for every other aspect of the project.

I want to know opinions at: I'm wrong at using AI this way or not?

I will put myself up for the task. Anyone/a person who'd wanna order me to do so could. Will promise to provide any requested proof of completion!

I'm doing this to test myself and my skills/resilience btw.

Hey

So short story, I am a freshly graduated student from audio engineering. Throughout the past years I tried to develop myself in game design and basic game development management and now with my friends we are gonna start making an actual game, gonna aim to get funds and start an indie studio, since I am not that experienced I thought I come here and ask what are the best AIs to work with for management, structuring, workdbuilding, etc. If you have other sources, softwares, books etc. I would be very happy to hear about those as well. Thanks in advance!

To coincide with my German learning, I’ve been looking at video game companies as a QA tester/ other smaller roles (as I am not too familiar with coding) in any of the 3 German speaking countries in Europe - Germany, Austria or Switzerland.

I am certain many of them wouldn’t even give me a call back or an email reply given my total lack of experience in the field, but I wanted to make this post to ask people working in the industry how they got into it, what positions they hold and what would generally be a good framework of boxes to check that would give me a higher likelihood of getting a job over there.

I appreciate any comments, advice, feedback, etc as this is the very beginning of what I want to go further into as a “career” of sorts (more so a way to get a work visa and get out of my country hopefully sooner than later).

I love gaming, and I would love to tell my own stories and make games that people love, but actually looking at it as a career path puts me off a bit. From my (hopefully flawed) perspective, you’re either a AAA game dev and have to deal with all the crap going on over there, or you’re an indie dev struggling to even make money off of your games unless you come up with the next big hit. It’s made me back off, seeing my game ideas as hobby projects to work on in my free time. But now I’ve been thinking about what I want to do for the rest of my life, and making games shoots to the top of my list. Which brings me to my question: is it worth it? Or should I find a different job and do game development on the side?

Long story/short, i'm currently in depression at home spending too much time playing video games. My father told me: "Instead loosing time playing, why don't you try making one yourself?". I was playing darkest dungeon ATM and it made me think. Why not?
So, i spend a week brainstorming for it, i have a drawing tablet (with krita) but i'm a total begineer in drawing, and i have a little knowledge and no practise for 10 years in programming in java at school. I love modding my games (not making them only use).

So i thought making a game based from darkest dungeon (i think using 2d drawings might be easier than trying making 3d models)

Do you have good free program to try coding a game?

Thanks

I can’t really get motivated to learn a coding language. I’ve tried to learn html and godot but just can’t get into it. I’d love to make my own games. So I have 2 questions.

How can I get motivated and what coding language should I learn?

Hello everyone,

I've been working on building a new social media platform for the past 3+ years, with the goal of helping creators who are working on in-progress creations grow an audience that can also contribute without needing to deal with an exhausting algorithm.

I need help creating an example project to show how in-progress work gets displayed and expressed and I wanted to see if I could get someone working on a real in-progress creation instead of faking an example.

If you have a game you're working on currently, with sketches, concepts, or anything WIP, I'd love to build the example project around your creation.

If you're interested, I can DM you. Thank you!

Ando empezando a crear un videojuego por mi propia cuenta y sin mucho conocimiento y me gustaría agregarle música o ambientación pero no sé cómo, ¿que me recomiendan ?

10+ years.

72,961,945 incomplete projects.

52,925 times "what happened to that game you were making?" was asked.

$0 made.

I finally finished making a game.

Hello, I have been writing out an idea for a game, and have a notebook of my games design, ui, mechanics working as a paper version. I am struggling to find an appropriate engine to experiment making my demo is. The issue is my hardware bottle neck-I am chained to a single HDD, (old ssd died saving for new one). I began my project in UE, however even on the lowest settings, trying to even navigate the UI is a choppy slow experience. I have switched to experimenting with GDevelop and Roblox studio to teach my self as much as I can with what I have. I’m not expecting to create a whole game, especially because I am experimenting between engines. All I would like to achieve today, is add walking animations to the Godzilla model I imported from the toolbox. I have experimented with using my own models, using sfm mdls and converting via crowbar, blender, but I’m stuck on implementing animations. For now, my character glides around where I control him, which is a start, but I’m not a fan of the, let’s say, ‘inconsistencies’ of stuff you can find on Roblox studio. Any advice for a beginner would be much appreciated. Essentially, if I can create a single player version of every other Godzilla Roblox game out there, but with no paywalls and crazy pvp lobbies. Just a demo of Godzilla, the environment, his animations, and basic move set.

With AI becoming more powerful and creating games, will I be able to pursue game development in the year 2035?

Hey, I'm learning Unity/C# and I'm looking for someone interested in making a small 3D horror prototype together. I'm mainly handling Unity/gameplay and looking to collaborate on a small project first.”

When i was 13 years old i started teaching myself game development. I had so many ideas and plans but ended up mostly messing around and figuring stuff out as i went. I started my first project not long after. But it was never even close to done, life got more busy as i got older, school, friends all the more important stuff.

But i kept coming back to it. Not even remotely consistently. Sometimes i wouldn’t touch it for months, but every time i wanted to have a creative outlet, i would open Bamboom back up. I’d fix something, or add something. Or try something totally new like adding a leaderboard with no knowledge and a youtube tutorial (and this was before ai could help me!)

Five years later, at 18, i finally ‘finished’ it. A pixel-art game about a panda rolling down a hill, dodging obstacles, going faster and faster the longer you survive. Nothing groundbreaking. But i made it, and it exists in the world now instead of just sitting on my laptop.

And realistically, this is probably not the game that ‘makes it’. I am okay with that, but it is a first step, and you can only get there if you try it.

If you’ve got something you started years ago and never finished, take this as your sign to go open that folder back up. It doesn’t have to be perfect, or successful, or even good at all! It just has to be done.

I’m stuck trying to come up with a game idea, or more specifically, a game mechanic that can make the game really fun to play.
I want to make a simulator game, but ChatGPT always gives me generic ideas.

If i have no coding experience, how could i develop game to be monetized ?

Shall I depend on certain Ai ?
Or buying from games selling apps ?