Ngl that Roman soldier outfit is actually quite cool!

cool peanut

Hey David. It seems that our converstation on your previous conversation sparked some interesting topics to talk about in your Devlog. Great to see that you decided to do your own art and start picking up/learning Pixel art.. Keep doing it everyday and you will get better at it.. I was waiting to see your next vid and hoped you didn't lose motivation for this project. I do want to experience your first fully created game. I know the road you are taking very well and it is important to stay focussed on one thing at a time.. Lastly, correct me if I'm wrong.. but that song in the background at around 5.25, is that from dark chronicle??

What level of programming/dev experience do you have? I have many ideas of making a similar game type but just can never stick with it for a variety of reasons

You don't have to do something big each day. Waiting for motivation will leave you disappointed. Consistent effort of any amount will always beat bursts of motivation in the end. Good job making that peanut you nutty dude.

Awesome looking character! There's definitely something special about seeing you're own assets moving around in a game engine. Keep it up!

Nut

11:00 around about, the circle is a "perfect" circle, but because of the camera perspective it looks like an oval. The game really is 3D, as in all of the objects exist in 3D space, but all of the assets are 2D. Some of them are on a flat plane laying down, others are standing up, others are facing the camera, etc. Edit: There's two types of cameras you can use, Perspective (which is how our eyes see the world) where things in the distance are smaller than the same object up close, and Orthographic (where things stay the same size regardless of distance).

I wish you the best of your journey man

Another message got deleted, tried it again and got deleted again.. so this time I will try a new message and not a reply. Art wise you can go 2 routes: route 1: Hire someone to do the art for you, but remember that if you cannot do a little bit of art yourself then you need art for a lot of things like menus, loading screens, objects, characters, dialog, portrets, special FX like attacks or abilities, worldbuilding (ground, skybox, water etc.). Finding someone who can do all that for you for free is almost impossible. Finding someone that will make that for you for a price is going to become either expensive or of low quality. Now you could go into the back alley of route 1 and go with premade game assets.. they are cheaper and can be of good quality, even in 2D.. but you will have some trouble finding everything you need with a matching style and color pallete. Route 2: make it yourself.. Art is hard, it is a little rhyme worth a dime (wisdom of my grandfather when he taught me to draw when I was 9 years old). But is the most rewarding of everything that has to do with game development imho. It is THE thing that people see and have to look at for most of the gameplay. It is what sells your story and makes the music you choose come together. now the tip I can give you; there are 3 art style best suited for indie developers that just started their journey, you can always branch out once you have more experience in art. style 1: Pixel art.. You can create decent art with minimal knowledge and the learning curve is doable in a "I'm going to become a game developer" journey. I love to use Aseprite for this. Style 2: Voxel art (yes, can also be used for 2D) and makes the making of isometric images much easier. I would recommend Magickavoxel (free) or Qubicle (paid and on Steam). This is how I started and eventually made stunning landscapes and diorammas. If you don't know it, look for a game called stonehearth, it's cute and its voxel. Style 3: This is my favorite of the 3 and I moved to this shortly after I was "done" making things with voxels; 3D pixel art.. Think of games like minecraft, Hytale, Octopath traveler, Triangle Strategy, CASSETTE BEASTS etc. a good tool to use 3D models for your pixel art textures is Blockbench (my choice), Crocotile 3d, Blender or PicoCAD. A big positive for making your own art is that YOU control the style of your game. You need a special tree for this particular location that looks creepy. You cans tart making it the way you want, instead of explaining your vision to someone and waiting (and hoping) till you recieve it.. A big downside though is that it takes time to learn and time to make. IMHO it is the choice you/they/we make when going on the game development path. I tried to give links to voxel art and 3D pixel art but that didn't work.. So I'll just say that on sketchfab you can look up "Blockbench" for nice examples of 3D pixel art. Likewise you can search for "voxel art" to see how cool (or cute) this can look.. lets hope THIS time my message will go through or else I give up XD

You have short term memory? how you can forget things which is just 2 years old?

So I wrote a helpful comment yesterday. told you about the different art styles there was for 3D and 2D.. told you the difficulty of some.. Talked about the perspective the game you showed used.. only to find out right now that my comment has been removed? Edit: seems youtube is messing things up.. I will try to rewrite my message later today..

i always thought it was gah dow but i like go dot

I started godot 4 mouths ago with 0 knowledge of programing. I jsut watched the cs50 and jump right into it. I am loving it, very intuitive big cummunity and its free. Never played around with the other engines soo i dont know.

I think the cat game looks like a cardboard cutout storybook style

the 2d but looks like 3d perspective is called 2d isometric, I tried to make a project with it but could never get the assets rightly made and layered. If you decide to do it good luck, can't wait to see what you'll do

Just subscribed because I'm about to go into game dev as well. Good luck to the both of us!

I believe that is isometric perspective.

Bro I gotta say that hat is fresh af

Keep it up brother! I look forward to playing your video games. :)

This is so awesome David, best of luck of following your dreams. It's worth it!

I'm intrigued with the peanut game. Subscribederino, let's go!

Just started the journey since new year. Looking for a team to learn together. Much appreciated if you have a spot ✌

Tip about development: deadlines mean nothing. You will keep adding more stuff than you expect to make the game better, encounter unpredictable problems which will make development longer. My 6-month project with 3 others is 2.5 years and running now, but thankfully we're reaching the end (though this has been said for 1 year now 😅)

I started this journey about 7-8 years ago. I could not draw nor code. Now skip forward to today and I still cant code nor draw, I still have infuriating bugs that frustrate the living poop out of me, Do I regret ever starting? Hell no ! its been one of the most satisfying and fun things I have ever done! I wish you all the luck and frustrations . Its Worth it!

According to my quick AI search, Godot seems like the better option, unless you want to prioritize advanced graphics

sign me up for the automatic DLC subscription

Hell yeah. I'm a day late but still here for it!

Godot

Good luck brother.

Good luck!

Following along! best of luck

I personally grade game engines based on how they handle jiggle physics

Good Luck with your investigation of G-o'doT

Thats my Annihilatte!!

Forgot to tell us where you got your comp sci degree from!

this is going to be the nuttiest game on earth 🔥🥜

YESSSSSSSSSSS GAME DEV IS THE BEST WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

damn man, alot changed i've also started getting back into game dev gl man! love you king!

Holy, What a video! Well done on finding what you want to do and I have here to give moral support throughout this journey!❤

Me when i roleplay as a Sassanid Persian:

Get pegged

cmon, either you use your prostate or you lose it

Well, hello.

Que juego es?

so... what? you fight them? it's a fighting game, I didn't expect much else

Saw Hitler get his head cut off by a knight with a bard(me) playing the U.S National Anthem in the background.

Wait till Biggus Dickus hears about this

Evil mines lol

REVIVAL MEEEEE