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I might be interested, but this group sounds too "serious" for me. Ie i'm serious, but i have a full time job, and i'm obsessive so i'm yakshaving the foundations of my projects. I'm less concerned with the final game, and more concerned with building a platform that helps me efficiently create. While the game is my goal, i focus on the platform because i feel solo devs have a ton of overhead. I figure if i can optim…
I might be interested, but this group sounds too "serious" for me. Ie i'm serious, but i have a full time job, and i'm obsessive so i'm yakshaving the foundations of my projects. I'm less concerned with the final game, and more concerned with building a platform that helps me efficiently create. While the game is my goal, i focus on the platform because i feel solo devs have a ton of overhead. I figure if i can optim…
Tried to convince some fellow colleagues and friends to dive in to indie game dev and make something together, but so far with little success ;)
Would love to meetup with fellow hobbyist's!
Half-OT: Anyone got pointers to game engines for solo devs? Something to get 2D multiplayer games out of the door quickly.
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This is pretty much exactly why I (as a complete hobbyist) ended up with Godot. I spent two years writing things from scratch in various languages and lots of time Yak-shaving. The experience itself was worth something, but I don't really have a lot to show for it. I don't love godot - but it's far beyond anything I'll be able to accomplish on my own as a hobbyist. I find art to be the most limiting factor at this po…
Have you tried Upwork/Fiverr/Behance/Dribbble? In my experience you can get decent art for quite cheap.
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Let's set up some expectations first. Games almost never "get out of the door quickly", with very few exceptions. That goes multiple for multiplayer games. What you might be able to produce quickly is prototypes . "A moving rectangle which shoots circles" - kind of thing. That is a super power, don't underestimate it. LÖVE is a nice game engine, I used it a lot in the past, mostly for personal stuff. And released som…
LÖVE is great - but are there any good engines / libraries built on-top of LÖVE that make it easier to create certain 2D games? I.E. A top-down tile-based extension? Ideally just an integration with some existing 2D tile map editor. Or an isometric extension? Or a side-scrolling extension with gravity and parallax and a tile map, etc? When I tried LÖVE years ago, it seemed like there was a little bit of engine-buildi…
Features: https://github.com/Planimeter/game-engine-2d#features
We integrate with Tiled, and feature multiplayer with client-side prediction out of the box.
I own Planimeter. We publish Planimeter Game Engine 2D, which was previously called Grid Engine 9.[1] I spend a lot of time thinking about how independent developers can better spend their time. A lot of developers get caught up in design documents, or thinking about how they want to make a game, but not seriously understanding how many hours a week you need to commit to a project and over how many years. As a rule o…
Links on your README to getting started and docs are 404
I took 3 months off last year to get a game project finished up and released to Steam! Glad to see other indie developers here on Hacker News. I can't commit to weekly meetups, since I'm back at my job full-time, but I wish you the best of luck on your game!
What's your game? I spent a similar amount of time to port one of my Roblox cat games to Steam to see how it would do. Just released it a week ago: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1652120/Find_the_Cats/
Half-OT: Anyone got pointers to game engines for solo devs? Something to get 2D multiplayer games out of the door quickly.
You can set the tick rate for your game based on your needs as well. And prediction is robust, supporting exceptional packet loss and smoothing over latency concerns for player movement.
Even Godot doesn't support multiplayer networking out of the box: you have to write it yourself.
Not a full-time developer, but I have been struggling with developing my first game a lot as a side project next to a regular day-job. It's already in a kind-of beta state ( https://yare.io ), but still far from finished and would love to be part of such group!