I’d love to see what kind of a game dev community we have here on beehaw and help each other out. Whether you use Unreal, Unity, Godot or even your own engine, let’s see what you got!
I’d love to see what kind of a game dev community we have here on beehaw and help each other out. Whether you use Unreal, Unity, Godot or even your own engine, let’s see what you got!
I have been making a game as a hobby since the pandemic. I didn’t know anything about game development or even how to make one. I just looked up the kind of game I wanted to make and picked the software I thought would work best for me. I settled on SRPGStudio which had a nice balance of GUI features and some scripting you can play with.
I have since 2020 completed 3 of the 14 levels I intended to make. The polish is really good on the 3 levels that I have made and people who have played it said it seems well put together. It’s not, it’s barely held together with bandages and popsicle sticks. Not only that but all the music I’m using right now is copyrighted and stolen from one of my favorite games. Lastly, I’m not an artist so I can’t update the graphics easily and I just use the ones that came with the software. I’ve messed about in GIMP and changed some colors around, nothing more than this.
I want to finish the game, even so I’ll never be able to make music for it or update graphics for it and I don’t even know where to really look to get those kind of assets or have them made by someone. I think I could spend more time on the project if I didn’t feel like there were so many roadblocks ahead of me to navigate. It’s a shame too because I have the story worked out, the gameplay in mind, the level ideas but it’s difficult to put pen to paper when there are so many roadblocks that prevent you from making your vision into a reality. If I coould afford it, I’d hire someone to help me but I couldn’t even do it on a shoestring budget and I don’t like the idea of asking for money to make a game when I have almost nothing to show for it.
If you want to see a sample, here are a few cutscenes from the game I made, volume warning if you check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n0ISrG7ct8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-13Hki2MhpM
Hi. This sounds awesome, I love the idea of a passion project like this, I even looked into rpgmaker long ago thinking about making a game. Never did.
Now, Im not a professional musician, but I have been teaching myself and playing for about 10 years (Bass mainly and a couple years keyboard). I have been trying to compose something for years, people says it sounds good (tho you never know lol) but I never finish it, I loose motivation and that kind of thing. But I think that If I have something to actually work for I think I might be “pressured” into being motivated.
I’ll be honest, I dont really have all equipment to do it, all I have is a shitty netbook, a bass that is as old as me, and a beaten up semi-pro keyboard. So I might have some “problems” in that regard. But I think my computer is able of making good chiptunes, if thats what you want, and If not, I might be able to work it out.
Im not proposing to make a hole OST, all im asking is If you are willing to tell me what kind of music you want and will fit the levels I might be able to compose something you might like and use in your game, or dont, but at least you’ll get a laugh. What do you say?
I really appreciate the offer, I am not really looking for much honestly. The music I have now is from Warsong and the sequel to that game. Simple, looping battle music that has a nice “heavy rock” feel to it. There is a musician on YouTube who played a “metal” version of some of the songs from Warsong, I’ll link that and maybe that will give you a good idea of where my head is at. Anything I like and use in my game I will pay you something for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUDrfqBeG8s