lol definitely oversharing!

Congratulations on finishing Regulators! Hope you find a good spot on the calendar and it all goes fantastic for you!🎉

Congratulations 🎉

Pascal my hero, I'm a novice self taught programmer and i wanted to know if Ashworld will get a sequel and what programming languages fid you use to programme such a magnificent yet memory efficient game?

after all these years watching your videos... I think you deserve a lot of more subscribers

Congrats!!

4:30 Am not sure about that "you shouldn't add music too early to your game" tip there. I do agree that purchasing/composing a brand new track is a bad move in cases where other aspects of game are still looking their form (graphics, mechanics, feeling etc can change along the development) but i don't think playtesting without any music is a good option either. Firstly it affects your own mentality to go around empty levels that lack any feeling but also others playtesting your prototype/demo/alpha/beta/earlyaccess will not have enjoyable time either. I guess the actual answer to this is to find free placeholder music, possibly multiple tracks and switch it around here and there as development progresses? And only commit to purchasing music or picking final free track (or composing yourself) after the gameplayloop is finalized?

Looking forward to it!

4 years working on a project wow! You must HATE the game!! I hate my own projects when it takes longer than usual

You really need a client server model where the server runs the game and is the single source of the truth and the clients send their inputs to the server and the clients simply display the resultant graphics. The other old way was to use one fast device to run the server the clients connect with.

The title needs to reflect the environment, why it is toxic, and the players ultimate objective. eg. Toxicity, Detoxicity, Monstroscity😀, etc. For the multiplayer time shift problem maybe you can use it as a feature of the game, and unless the player can get to one of the time sync machines within the game, their health deteriorates slowly to zero, assuming you can actually sync the two player platforms.

The game looks amazing but the level editor too!? Incredible work.

i poked around on your website and scrubbed the video and have no idea what kind of game youve made

Epic achievement for a solo dev, particularly building and including the level editor! congrats mate...I hope you have HUGE success with this one.

Let me know if you need playtesters!

Regulators is a great name! If I'm honest, more catchy than Regularor City

Congratulations Pascal, super gedaan🎉

This looks great! Congrats on coming along this far!!

Congrats. I used to watch your videos like many years ago. Today I was like what happened to you and I am happy to hear your news

Release the game on the Atari VCS first...

4 years I can feel your frustrations and joy 😂 good luck with the release!

Regulators sounds better to me personally, and if it makes more sense for the game in its current state, all the better. Because it's a little simpler I'd be curious if there are any IP conflicts with other games or media, though.

congrats

Congrats !

congrats bro. it's been fun following your updates.

Congratulations. Hope it succeeds in the market. I think it might do well with retro focused channels, but who are knowledgeable. The game has a retro feel combined with adult complexity. It's nostalgia to earlier times for those who did move with the times. I'm kind of curious to which classic they would compare it too.

Congratulations 💟

Congratulations ! :D

Congrats 🎉🎉❤

Congratulations!

Available during switch 2 launch?

congratulations on almost finishing the game! hopefully a successful release in 2025!

Gefeliciteerd!

Are you using a game engine? I am surprised that you make your games in java. I was deliberating between using Unity or some JavaScript type game engine just because I am the strongest in programming in Javascript.

Hallo Pascal, in welke stad bent u?

maybe instead of minimap you could integrate the alien markers into borders of the game screen with distance to them?

Copy pasting codes from your own game is the best thing I've realized when prototyping.

I'd recommend checking out "Cyclic Dungeon Generation" if you haven't read about it already. It's a clever technique for generating maps with a more natural flow that avoids poor layouts with dead-ends, lots of backtracking etc. Even if you won't implement the whole algorithm, it can give you good ideas for how to improve your maps. The algorithm was developed for the game Unexplored and expanded upon in the sequel. A good place to start is the article Unexplored's Secret: 'Cyclic Dungeon Generation' by Tommy Thompson at Game Developer.

I would try out weapons that push enemies around with explosions, shockwaves etc., as it's a proven mechanic in turn-based games played on a grid (e.g. Into the Breach, Tactical Breach Wizards). With this kind of mechanic, the map becomes more interactive. You can allow enemies to be pushed into a hazard (fire, acid, spike), breakable item (exploding barrel, window, gas tank), player-placed items (mine, net trap), and special tiles (slippery ice, bounce pad). You can also allow the player to push themselves to e.g. jump themselves across an abyss, allowing for some light Metroidvania-style unlocking of areas or Zelda-like exploration.

you could make the hero a bounty hunter an make him start in his own space ship and choose mission give by High command on screen which will land you on different planets, ships (good or enemy) and installations. this time if can add a weapon with bounce to reach around corners or over fences and a x-ray type that can shoot through anything

Happy to play regulator city and excited about space grunts 3.

do different heights, so higher positions make you able to shoot longer, like on the top of stairs etc

one thing I missed in the first space grunts is a wait for a turn button, I still play the first one. It is amazing

Good session, dont forget to exercise and go out for a bit. Health comes first

Hack, Slash, Loot might give you some ideas….

So cool that you do third part. I loved space grunts 1❤ missed my tram station because that sucked me in. When part two came out, i imediately bought it but it wasn't my thing because of the card system. But thats personal preferences.🤷. Part 3 with the same feel like the first one.. with the same fast pace and chilling gameplay, playing really smooth once you are into the game... Would love it❤

Like the younglings say... You been Cooking lol, cool video :D

Adding another walk level with stairs, balustrades and bridges would be interesting. An alien hiding under a balustrade could become a jump scare. Having different behaving aliens that hide, some that track, some that roam around and even some that have a strategic goal like destroy or steal a battery. It reminds me of the first Starcraft, because of the cartoony gfx. Alien Breed on the Amiga also comes to mind. There might be an opportunity to lend some idea or technic here or there. Might even be a homage with a quirky plot twist. All in good fun of course.

great video. I am kind of going through the same phase right now! trying to keep it short n simple lol.

Maybe you could have some sort of 'fog of war' to the map, so you can't see the whole thing, or all the enemies at the beginning? Maybe you can find a scanner that once you have it in can scan the whole map and reveal things?