Here's mine: do all the assets first, coding last. Don't bother with placeholders and just burn yourself out drawing hundreds of visual novel sprites over the course of a few months, and then when your artstyle inevitably improves, do it again!
This is why Roboska LV never got past the first world.
don't use any existing technology, write your own game engine from scratch.
also create a custom scripting language to code your game
O prudente varão há de ser mudo,
Que é melhor neste mundo, mar de enganos,
Ser louco c’os demais, que só, sisudo
Premature optimization is always good. And I'm not talking about choosing the right algorithm for the job, I'm talking about agonizingly unrolling loops manually, running loops in reverse order, doing wacky bitwise operations and obscure string manipulation.
...all to achieve a 1% gain that is completely nullified because you used python 2 to make your game.
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Put your whole game in one big block of a file
Also add a bunch of comments and prints to your code and never remove them. No error handling, let the game fatal crash all the time
But fr tho I have seen some extremely messy questionable game code (or just code in general) in my short lifetime. My biggest gripe is people not focusing on error handling tbh or not even putting in safeguards
Also add a bunch of comments and prints to your code and never remove them. No error handling, let the game fatal crash all the time
...I unironically do that. oops
At 12/23/25 12:38 PM, RosieUV wrote:Also add a bunch of comments and prints to your code and never remove them. No error handling, let the game fatal crash all the time
...I unironically do that. oops
TO BE FAIR!! It depends on what the comments are LOL
Like if you're adding in a bunch of test code in comments and keeping that in, that's not great and makes everything messy. If you're adding comments to explain some weirder hack-y parts of the code then imo that's fine
Comments are nice tools but I'm just really picky about how other people use them :')
At 12/23/25 06:45 PM, Oddlem wrote:At 12/23/25 12:38 PM, RosieUV wrote:Also add a bunch of comments and prints to your code and never remove them. No error handling, let the game fatal crash all the time
...I unironically do that. oops
TO BE FAIR!! It depends on what the comments are LOL
Like if you're adding in a bunch of test code in comments and keeping that in, that's not great and makes everything messy. If you're adding comments to explain some weirder hack-y parts of the code then imo that's fine
Comments are nice tools but I'm just really picky about how other people use them :')
#if 0 #endif code disablement supremacy
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Que é melhor neste mundo, mar de enganos,
Ser louco c’os demais, que só, sisudo
Yes, you should totally spend 5 months on a small fishing minigame 80% of your players won't touch.
Do not create sub-directories for your assets. You're a Game Developer, not a secretary!
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bros if you could only see my projects from 2020 or so...
i used to put enter_frame functions and not remove them (i thought they got destroyed when the symbol was not on stage).
I had no idea why there were a bunch of error messages every single frame , but it was working so i just ignored them lol.
i managed to get the worst possible performance for a flash game.
Nowadays i'm being very thorough, though (thought it through!)!
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Making games stupidly hard is the easiest method of game design! Why fix that ain’t broke?
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Reading all of this...
Yeah i rather stick with drawing and learning to animate NOT BUILT for coding lmfao-
(Too bad i already have a game in works, oh well, there goes nothing lol)
Cool, sweet and catchy!
At 12/23/25 09:45 PM, OviManic wrote:Making games stupidly hard is the easiest method of game design! Why fix that ain’t broke?
Also, difficulty curves are a myth! Gamers love when your first level is the hardest in the game!
At 12/23/25 09:27 PM, Edeshye wrote:bros if you could only see my projects from 2020 or so...
i used to put enter_frame functions and not remove them (i thought they got destroyed when the symbol was not on stage).
I had no idea why there were a bunch of error messages every single frame , but it was working so i just ignored them lol.
i managed to get the worst possible performance for a flash game.
Nowadays i'm being very thorough, though (thought it through!)!
I've never used flash, does that function basically later scenes upon scenes all going on at once?
At 12/23/25 08:00 PM, JackSlammer wrote:Do not create sub-directories for your assets. You're a Game Developer, not a secretary!
eh, you can get away with it if it's a tiny game made over a weekend.
At 12/23/25 06:45 PM, Oddlem wrote:At 12/23/25 12:38 PM, RosieUV wrote:Also add a bunch of comments and prints to your code and never remove them. No error handling, let the game fatal crash all the time
...I unironically do that. oops
TO BE FAIR!! It depends on what the comments are LOL
Like if you're adding in a bunch of test code in comments and keeping that in, that's not great and makes everything messy. If you're adding comments to explain some weirder hack-y parts of the code then imo that's fine
Comments are nice tools but I'm just really picky about how other people use them :')
Sometimes I use comments just to write down my thoughts about the code at that current moment so if anyone tried data mining my visual novels then it'll look like a complete mess, like a cypher only I can understand.
At 12/24/25 05:34 AM, RosieUV wrote:At 12/23/25 09:27 PM, Edeshye wrote:bros if you could only see my projects from 2020 or so...
i used to put enter_frame functions and not remove them (i thought they got destroyed when the symbol was not on stage).
I had no idea why there were a bunch of error messages every single frame , but it was working so i just ignored them lol.
i managed to get the worst possible performance for a flash game.
Nowadays i'm being very thorough, though (thought it through!)!
I've never used flash, does that function basically later scenes upon scenes all going on at once?
It's a loop, the code executes every frame (meaning 24 times per second if you're on 24 fps). for example if i want a time bar to get shorter and shorter i can set something like this inside the enter_frame function:
if(bar.width > 0){
bar.width -= 10;
}
else{
//destroy symbol or whatever
}
But for some reason the function does not destroy itself if you don't tell it to, even if you go to another frame in which the original symbol is not present. This caused the stacking of many enter_frame functions causing a bunch of errors, eventually fucking up the performance and lagging the shit out of the game.
So, if i understand your question right.. yes haha
At 12/24/25 05:34 AM, RosieUV wrote:I've never used flash
You still have time to learn it for Flash Forward 2026 btw c:
Long live human hentai!
At 12/24/25 09:46 AM, Edeshye wrote:At 12/24/25 05:34 AM, RosieUV wrote:At 12/23/25 09:27 PM, Edeshye wrote:bros if you could only see my projects from 2020 or so...
i used to put enter_frame functions and not remove them (i thought they got destroyed when the symbol was not on stage).
I had no idea why there were a bunch of error messages every single frame , but it was working so i just ignored them lol.
i managed to get the worst possible performance for a flash game.
Nowadays i'm being very thorough, though (thought it through!)!
I've never used flash, does that function basically later scenes upon scenes all going on at once?
It's a loop, the code executes every frame (meaning 24 times per second if you're on 24 fps). for example if i want a time bar to get shorter and shorter i can set something like this inside the enter_frame function:
But for some reason the function does not destroy itself if you don't tell it to, even if you go to another frame in which the original symbol is not present. This caused the stacking of many enter_frame functions causing a bunch of errors, eventually fucking up the performance and lagging the shit out of the game.
So, if i understand your question right.. yes hahaAt 12/24/25 05:34 AM, RosieUV wrote:
I've never used flash
You still have time to learn it for Flash Forward 2026 btw c:
nah mate I'm a godot fangirl
At 12/22/25 06:09 PM, RosieUV wrote:Here's mine: do all the assets first, coding last. Don't bother with placeholders and just burn yourself out drawing hundreds of visual novel sprites over the course of a few months, and then when your artstyle inevitably improves, do it again!
This is why Roboska LV never got past the first world.
Make your first game a huge game made on impulse. Surely everyone will know who you are and play your game made with no experience and unplanned levels/gameplay!
I love smiley faces :D
At 12/24/25 09:52 AM, 404foundWawa wrote:At 12/22/25 06:09 PM, RosieUV wrote:Here's mine: do all the assets first, coding last. Don't bother with placeholders and just burn yourself out drawing hundreds of visual novel sprites over the course of a few months, and then when your artstyle inevitably improves, do it again!Make your first game a huge game made on impulse. Surely everyone will know who you are and play your game made with no experience and unplanned levels/gameplay!
This is why Roboska LV never got past the first world.
Don't forget to condition yourself into thinking your magnum opus will be your first. That will help with your motivation!
I've got two shitty ones:
-Only use scratch and nothing else EVER
-If you find a bug (even if it breaks the game) don't fix it, say its a feature!
Just call me Blake :)
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Make sure your game is the best it can be on your first try. If it isn’t up to your vision, don’t even bother. It’s not worth making. You know what makes a good game.
At 12/24/25 06:51 PM, winningliam wrote:Use HTML
Please do not say the H word, it's bringing back traumatic memories... /j
Don't bother fixing or optimizing your game, any problem can be solved by the user upgrading their hardware.
dont know how to write a single line of code? that's fine! just run away from it and distract yourself by focusing on making the artwork, the problem will just fix it self eventually! its not like you would be wasting your time making your barely functioning, zero gravity ahh mario rip off game look pretty without ever addressing your core problem first!
printf debug everything. gdb? Never heard of it.
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