Cool devlog! I just joined the channel and love your format and your little life updates, very nice! Good luck on growing your channel!

Excellent work as always! :D I don't know all the technical details about inheritance, but I'd say this is the perfect example of using it. A lot of online examples use it for vehicles, so you'd have a vehicle base class, and then a car class, and then even a type of car class deriving from that. I think you could also use it for your enemies if you're not already! I think the stealing should be temporary, I feel like it adds a bit more strategy to the game, if you find an enemy who's ability you like, you might try and keep them alive so you can keep using their ability. Risk vs Reward. Welcome to the world of miniature painting :D I do it most/every Thursday after work with people and its so relaxing!

inheritance is bad idea to design your code 2:35 polymorphism is not inheritance, it's different things polymorphism it's when your can handle different data for example - methods overloading is polymorphism, interfaces and etc when code can handle different shapes :) PS. ✅Composition; ❌Inheritance No negative, I like the game, art style is amazing and u are the best, thank you for the content

love the visual style! keep up the great work

you should definitely have the "powerups" be limited by how long you can use them, otherwise it would probably make the gameplay loop slow basically 2 minutes after the player finds whatever the strongest bullet is. Maybe even having different timers for different bullet types according to how strong they are? I've been loving seeing this game progress! :)

Nice,i like your idea ❤

I love the new art style :) I hope you keep up with the dev logs, love them so far!

i liked that ski jet 😭

I'm in the middle of learning object oriented programming. Was about to search for OOP content, but your video was at the top of my recommended. Solid video, I enjoy the variety including your insights, questions, and code

Hey! Small time dev here, where can i find artists for indie projects like this, i have one in the works too :). Love the game btw

Hey Andrew! First off i have really enjoyed your devlogs; It is not only inspirational but also entertaining. Your relaxed demeanor and how you approach game dev is top tier 👌 I wanted to offer a couple suggestions: - For the hook mechanic, I think casting it should be a bit quicker. It seems a bit floaty right now. - Also, I think the power ups you obtain should be temporary, which is a great segue into an idea i had watching your videos - What if when you catch an enemy you have to complete some sort of mini game to catch them. That way it isn't as simple as cast and catch, this should also keep gameplay feel more engaging. Something like: You cast your hook, if it hits an enemy time slows down and you have to enter a series of keys correctly (think helldivers calling in a Stratagem). I'm sure there are better ideas around that but I thought that could be fairly easy to implement and keep the player engaged Also, when using Polymorphism just remember every time you instantiate it the base implementation is called. Be sure to keep that as lightweight and flexible as possible, keep conditionals and functionality inside the classes that inherit from the base. That should help prevent computing cost 😁 Appreciate you and keep it up! Sorry for the essay 😅

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Your bullet system is solid, I wonder if this game will turn into just shapes and beats: boat edition

Inheritance isn't expensive, almost always your performance bottlenecks will end up being allocating memory/instantiating, writing to disk, unoptimized shaders, etc. Its usually related to rendering something on screen. One thing you should work towards is figuring out when you should use inheritance vs composition. Both are useful, both have their place. I think inheritance is way better than nothing though. You know you're doing things well if its easy & safe to addon to your code and you aren't duplicating any code. Another thing you should think about as you develop this game, is if you want to do power stealing then it might be smart marketing to make your game "feel" like its nostalgic for Kirby. That will help with player expectations and nostalgia is a powerful tool to get people excited.

great ideas! loved the sneezing vfx😅

nice progress!

Great to see some new graphics and hear you learn about inheritance!

Great devlog! I think stealing the enemys power could be so that you have x ammount of bullets of that ability and if you use them all you lose the ability

nice devlog

This is so exciting! The boat is boating and the card art is sooooo gooooood 💖✨👀

That card reveal at the end was much better than Pokemon cards (no offense pokemon company lol)! The art looks so cool! I think stolen power ability would work better as a finite resource? Maybe more powerful powers have less uses? This would push the player to more actively steal powers instead of stealing one they like and sticking with it 🤔 Great devlog btw :D

Oh man the new stuff looks so cool! I personally really like the idea of the hook still following😁

I think the stealing power should be a part of a loadout . Maybe the player can unlock / steal multiple abilities from different enemies and pick and choose between them . Welcome Tin to the team and congrats to qwbikio for the amazing art of the cards!

Bless you🥹🫶🏻

I think the hook should still follow, if not purely for allowing the player to visualise what power-up is active currently. The flower power-up is fun, though i feel like you could visually telegraph the direction of the explosion with more petals. So currently you have 6 moving parts after the flower explodes, so imagine giving the flower 6 petals that you can see. Could even scale with the difficulty, adding extra petals. I think temporary power-ups would be better.

So, should the stealing power ability be permanent or temporary? Thanks for watching and don't forget to sub if you enjoyed it!

I think, knowing not as much about the design theories for this game as you, that the power up should be temporary. I don't think you'd want the player to just steal the strongest power up and not use the steal mechanic again. It should be a returning part in the dance that is this game's combat, so the player should constantly consider it as an action along with moving away, shooting, dodging, all that. That's what I think at least, from an outside perspective Also the Drunken Dwarfs hype is INSAAAAAAANNNEEEE I'm gobbling up that expired stout like it's nothing 🗣🗣

Fantastic to see how an enemy works with the hook. I hope you have a great new year!

Excellent progress on the game. Looks like you're really chasing the fun and I cannot wait to see how you theme the art to make it make sense.

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To curve the hook, you could probably make it change size during the throw, to make it look like it's flying closer/further to the camera also happy new year!

new year, same dope videos - thank you andrew very cool 😎

Enums are a game changer, I've always used them and I can't stand by them enough! Also I almost thought we weren't gonna get a pack opening!! Hope you had lovely holidays and a new year!

Very cool! Keep it coming!

Like and Sub as the kweeel kids would say it B-)

didn't notice you were not reading at all, great video!

literally paused when you explained you were using enums that way to note it for myself so that I'm not in boolean hell for my next project lmao. Also, blud casually pulled two full-arts, no way

I like the new script approach Andrew, sounds natural and flows well :) Happy new year!

Andrew!!! I missed the first devlog, great to see you. Love the game concept, excited to see where it leads. Also like the devlog format.

yo, lets go first devlog of 2025, i like the new style. Also W pulls at the end! GAMBA!

this video format is great, happy New Year!

This was great! I LOVE enums so much lol

Can't wait to see how this game develops in the new year! Let's gooo!

Using enums is basically the idea of state machines, and I agree that it’s so much less buggy Love the game juice you put in with the particles and flashing 👏

didn't really notice that your script (reading) thing changed tbh

First devlog of the year, heck yeah