A Week of Progress on my 2D Marine Biologist RPG

[@DevDuck]

So many congratulations, I can't reply to them all :) Thank you all so much, for the kind words and for sticking with me as I build Dauphin!

[@Dartify]

Yeah man your videos are great!!! Hope you had a good vacation!

[@deusxyz]

Damn they beat me too it, congratulations too! ^^

[@Dartify]

@@deusxyz xD

[@RGAA-Software]

BEST WISHES😁

[@arnoldthegreat4138]

when did u start this project?

[@immaxmaxmax]

"A motivated, gaming and athletic fiancé flexing on you for 9 minutes and 20 seconds while waking up early working hard and having a balanced life" should have been the title XD Thanks for sharing your progress and your passion, you are an exemple of hardwork AND smartwork. You're on the right track !

[@GoldenEvolution]

Congratulations on getting married! Looks like you had a wonderful well deserved holiday as well. Love the little diving animation! Kinda funny how it asks you to deploy the safety flag when it's visually already deployed :P

[@rahulnair1229]

Been waiting for the devlog for a while now! Absolutely amazing as usual! Also congratulations on the wedding Ben! 🎉🙌

[@DevDuck]

Thank you Rahul!

[@saultoons]

I love that little dive transition, always so chill watching these videos :) congratulations on your marriage too :D

[@HotdogNoire]

Dauphin's looking incredible man, Can't wait to play it!

[@aqua-bery]

Can't wait to beg my parents for the game

[@Pontypants]

Congratulations!! 🎉❤️

[@shoespeak]

another devlog! Great! These videos have really inspired not only to keep learning gamedev, but more important things like sticking to a good morning routine and generally being more productive. You have such a great demeanor and outlook on everything, it is just general inspiring and positive vibes. Thanks! Also congrats!

[@MarcoMontaltoMonella]

Just discovered your channel from TheThinMatrix, I am absolutely loving it and it is inspiring me to start my own devlog! 🙏🏻 thanks for making those very high quality videos! 😍

[@thandozulutv]

Been watching since the beginning and man it just gets better and better 👌

[@SamiTheAnxiousBean]

Ok the game progress is cool and all, like really nice great work! but HOLY CRAP CONGRATS ON THE MARRAGE! I WISH THE BEST FOR THE BOTH OF YOU That beach also looked really pretty!

[@kenet7877]

Yoooo congrats on the wedding. Banger video as always. Puts me in a very calm mood. Perfect for bedtime.

[@TheZazatv]

Congratulations 🥳 happy to see you back

[@ants-in-my-eyesjohnson1271]

Wow! haven't checked in on your progress in a few months now. Game is looking slick!! Keep up the great work

[@venizz5112]

I'm so happy for y'all, congrats! Love your videos

[@animeshkpandey]

Welcome Back 😊 and congratulations for new wonderful life 🎉

[@DevDuck]

Thank you!

[@aidenthebard]

Congrats on the wedding! Love how the game is coming along!

[@ameenulislamtr2803]

The diving system has been enhanced and congratulations for wedding!!..😍😍

[@BastiaanOlij]

Congratulations you two!!

[@diegodesouza5382]

0:31 I’m like 90% sure I went to that EXACT spot when I went to Hawaii 3 months ago. Also congrats on your marriage!

[@ZooHair]

Congratulations! I hope the best for you two

[@mitu_pinju]

Hey; Mr. DevDuck ; "Congrations and al the best for your journey Ahead ! ";

[@bitbraindev]

Congratulations, dude! Also, great progress on the game. 🐟🐠🐡

[@metalman2140]

It's been really inspiring seeing the development of this game. Very excited to see what's next to come! Thanks for sharing this journey.

[@lKryptedl]

He's back!! Congratulations to Mr & Mrs DevDuck

[@oleksiilisovyi3832]

Congratulations on the personal 💍 & game dev levels! Keep it up!

[@Jkindelb]

Congratulations! Games coming along great, can't wait for more.. Also, love the Chemex and Stagg EKG!

[@lordcatington8188]

Woooo, glad it's back, hope you enjoyed your break and congrats!

[@DevDuck]

Thank you!

[@jahwingding3711]

hey man, i was born and raised on maui but moved away a few years ago, the b-roll shots made me homesick for real! and congrats!

[@AayushChaudharyGames]

And, thank you for making this devlog ❤️.

[@developeroats9391]

Nice to see you back :) Very good devlog and happy to see what you will create in the underwater scene.

[@GingerNingerish]

Good progress! Hope you enjoyed that time off too.

[@fennecfugames]

Another awesome Dauphin Devlog! Congrats on getting married 🥳

[@WDFA_Final]

Congrats! Kinda weird seeing where you live in a devlog lol. Glad you enjoyed your stay! Hope you have a good one and take care!

[@tylermorales9043]

I always look forward to these dev vlogs. It is definitely motivating me to start my own!

[@matangoldstien5922]

Congrates on your marriage!! Very happy for you! Whoever the bride is, she sure captured a big one ;D

[@shotgunanacondagames]

nice devlog, game is looking really cute and congrats on wedding :) i recently started my own, so it's cool to compare with your videos.

[@TYNEPUNK]

oh and yes congrats on the wedding dude, u rock!

[@Morraak]

Congrats on getting married! Glad to see another devlog! Overhead presses are so underrated by the way.

[@MichoSchmidt]

Congratz ! And awesome devlog !

[@Rouverius]

Congratulations! Lord bless you both.

[@janomosierlinse8057]

Soo cool & congrats on the wedding

[@sadeghmirzaee8258]

Congratulations on the wedding Ben! 🎉😃

[@historvical6062]

Congratulations on your marriage!! Also the game looks good!! Keep it up!!!

[@ChikunVA]

Hey! I'm Chikun, a German Hobby Voice Actor and Game Developer. I started following the progress of Dauphin ever since it started and even though I sometimes miss out on stuff, I always find myself coming back to it, becausw it teaches me things avout Godot I wouldn't have ever thought about. Today, I want to bring you an idea of mine that maybe you haven't thought about before, and that would be translations. I know that it's hard to implement translations in Godot correctly, because I'm still struggeling with that myself, but as soon as you do, it will help with further development and localizations. I myself would be glad to help out on a German translation, as it is my mother tongue, but I really couldn't help on other translations. Have a nice day (idk what time it is for you rn)! :D

[@Pink-fv3pq]

Congratulations for your marriage! And it's good to see you take a well deserved break! Hope you had fun and I'll stay till the end no matter what!

[@vanthemanproductions9185]

Ideas: 1: maybe if you dive in a certain area, certain specific animals will spawn and there might be some new terrain like maybe an entrance to an underwater cave 2: I think there should be a breath system where you have to get a scuba mask to not have to worry about suffocating

[@GamesBySaul]

Firstly congratulations! Maui looked beautiful! Really love the changes you've done, I think the underwater transition is great! Maybe you could add some bubbles rising up on the screen when you do the transition too, for a bit more polish? :D

[@calcite_dragon]

Congrats on getting married! And I like the progress you're making on your game, It's very inspiring for me!

[@allendevs8994]

Looking great so far, have you considered using the general world coordinates as a random seed for the procedural generation? That way if you dive roughly in the same spot twice, you'll end up in the same underwater area with no data stored.

[@Skeffles]

Congratulations on your marriage! It's awesome to see the diving mechanic come to life! Can't wait to see what kind of underwater worlds you add next.

[@Alche_mist]

1) Adding myself to the endless lines of people congratulating you to your wedding. Make sure your lady not only is, but also always feels important. 2) The underwater transition - but that has been written everywhere here and you responded you know. 3) You might use seed and position for generating underwater scenes, thus making sure that if a player dives in the same spot, they'll always see the same underwater scene.

[@DevDuck]

Thank you Alchemist! #3 is an interesting point - I certainly want the player to see the same general underwater landscape when they dive in the same spot, perhaps with slightly varying sea life each time. I think that should be achievable.

[@denimdinofan9]

Congrats on the wedding and god damn the game looks great!

[@redpandacreations]

Congrats on your wedding! Me and my wife just celebrated our 4th anniversary recently, it goes fast! Also your base for swimming exploration is looking solid!

[@geoffjames992]

Congratulations on the wedding! Here's to many more happy years to come :) Loving how the game is coming together and always enjoy watching the progress you make. Keep it up man! 💪🏽 A couple of thoughts around the diving experience that might make it a little more intuitive: - perhaps when it's not possible to use the dive flag it could be greyed out in the item bar (and trying to use it shows the "you need to be in deep water..." message) -- could you apply this to other items too? - or maybe when it is possible to use the dive flag, would "pulsing" the flag in the item bar make it more obvious to the user they're able to dive here? - as others have suggested, the "are you sure" message could get really long winded for frequent divers, so maybe only show the message the first ever time the player tries to dive? - as a nice touch when you resurface, it might look really good if the flag were still in the same spot and then do the inverse transition to when the player dives (zoom back out and the flag disappears) Love the videos. Can't wait to see the next one! :)

[@nuggets4937]

I am actually jealous of how clean your setup is. Mine is just thrown together on a broken desk. Hopefully getting a new one for Christmas

[@Mobilnator]

I am so excited to play this when it comes out I know it will take time but all great work takes time to be finished

[@henriquealves3086]

I know its annoying to be pressured by fan ideas but i have some First the paralex in the under water background, mainly the "mountains" in the back, the very far away one should almost not move, the far away should move a bit faster, and the present sea floor should move normally, and they would move in Up/Down/Left/Right i think it would make a super cool effect Another idea is part on one of the animations, specifically when you are swimming up, instead of just seeing the side of the character while swimming up, you could see his front while swimming up, so you could see his arms swimming with more detail

[@burntbeanies7886]

Congratulations on your marriage!!!! Absolutely stoked for u! Lovely work on the game as well but obviously this new development in your life is INCREDIBLEE

[@abelrashid5184]

You should add some point of interest in the deep water. Like adding a small area that sparkles to indicate that there's a rare item or event if the player dive in that spot.

[@DevDuck]

I will definitely have indicators for special places to begin a dive!

[@DevNugget]

Just as I thought this weekend couldnt get better

[@TheBookDoctor]

We ought to be able to see the bottom of the dive flag bobbing somewhere on the surface of the water.

[@godismyjudge95]

Congrats on getting married! Been a long time lurker, just wanted to say I get pretty excited seeing there is a new video from you in my subscription feed.

[@caseycodes]

Congrats on your wedding and honey moon - hope it was a blast!

[@peemis3017]

Keep up the work, im proud of you.

[@DylanMatthewTurner]

To me, I feel like there's something slightly off about the animation when you abruptly stop swimming under water. If I could, I'd recommend maybe transitioning to your upright treading-water sprite when you stop moving and decreasing motion speed via delta instead of just setting it to zero. But maybe that's just from watching it without feeling it how it actually controls. You're doing awesome work. Keep it up, fam!

[@DevDuck]

Totally agree! Both the animations and general feeling / inertia of the movement are next on my list to improve.

[@tyronemw6713]

Reminds me a bit about that NES Jaws game, the swimming bit. Coool

[@Nyltoons1]

The diving mechanic is a pretty good addition and expand to more types of area.

[@GamedevwithJessi]

This is one of those channels where I click a thumb up before watching a video :D

[@e.maleki9927]

Congrats dude! :D

[@AdroitConceptions]

that menu and transition, is rather long, if this is something that is done frequency - something like 9 seconds from my stop watch. If this is something that would be done frequency, I would suggest changing it to something that only takes maybe 2 seconds and if you want some sort of confirmation, have the user hold a button down to dive and show a progress bar as the dive animation plays, if they release before fully diving it cancels the dive. The first time, that animation/dialog is nice, but if i was to have to dive frequently, I would quickly get annoyed at that transition time.

[@DevDuck]

I agree. As I was continuing to test all this functionality I realized the animation was becoming a bit of a drag.

[@philip8232]

yeah, wanted to comment on that, but I agree with everything you just said, so imma pin on that

[@TYANTOWERS]

As the player goes down, just animatte the water level going up - like the camera has gone underwater.

[@TYANTOWERS]

And while you are at it, can you change the colour of the boat? The blue is the exact same colour of the water.

[@TYANTOWERS]

And add bubbles when he is diving. @Jason and others, really sorry for the multiple replies.

[@teo2805]

Congrats! Also not to sound mean but idc about footage of you brewing coffee or working out. I'm here for the game dev

[@connor5025]

Congratulations on the wedding!

[@justinjames6820]

Love the devlog! Might I suggest a pop filter and a de-esser in your effects chain for the audio to soften the sibilant consonants? Lots of hard s’s. Just my two cents!

[@arnaldocisneros2212]

I love your setup!

[@wcrb15]

I wonder if it would be fun/interesting to implement a dive depth feature to know how deep you are going, and maybe some sort of penalty for ascending too quickly from a dive like in real life from decompression sickness. It may not be valuable to actually add, but might be cool to explore the idea :) P.S. Congrats on getting married!! That is so exciting

[@CrispMagic]

He already has plans for a depth tracking system (as seen in his trello board) and he briefly mentions it at like 5:05

[@wcrb15]

@@CrispMagic ah I missed that

[@ferociousgames4196]

Congratulations on getting married always wanted to visit Maui it looks amazing. Always appreciate your devlogs very relaxing :)

[@bobknor1695]

Nice addition those time-stamps to the video!

[@Lacotemale]

Game dev who is also getting married soon. Congrats! Love your videos.

[@isaiascastillo644]

Hi I have a suggestion! Maybe right before the player dives into the ocean, maybe he could have a little wind up and then drop into the water? By the way, not to be nitpicky, but the water texture kinda looks like a blue coat hanger. I hope that you take all of this into consideration! Btw, congrats!!!

[@kostyayatsuk2004]

Congrats on becoming Mr and Mrs Duck!

[@AutumnHouse2007]

My thought is that there could be an underwater biome that’s filled with trash and stuff and you could use special equipment to clear it out and reveal the stuff below

[@AutumnHouse2007]

By the way the game is gonna be awesome and congrats

[@waiver269]

Hey guys, please help ! Me and my friend want to share our project beetween us to edit in godot, as both wants to manage the project. What can we do ???

[@arctiformgames]

Maybe when you swim up to exit the dive scene there should be the safety flag floating above? Just a thought, but nice work!

[@maruaz8922]

This guy is living my dream.

[@leahstone9938]

Maybe if the safety flag floats and bobs, the boat should too

[@itsjessewilson]

congrats on the marriage and games looking good king!

[@falxie_]

Random thought while watching this is that it could look nice to have the treading water to swimming have a gradual change, maybe going down one pixel at a time

[@PeskySteelskull]

Your breathtaking!

[@UnderArea51]

SUGGESTION: When the character dives - have head plop down- out of view, THEN add flippers that then dive down for a "secondary animation element" Make animation - a bit more realistic. Chuck Jones used this in all his Warner Bros animation - when animating a following tail BEHIND a cat character etc.. The character's head just plopping down... feels like there is something missing - not natural - looks like a turtle diving VS a human.

[@TheCuri]

Congrats for the Wedding for both of you!

[@gryzlaw]

Great vid and congrats. But how can you work without a numeric keypad?

[@MisterValiant]

Smooth animations.. Love it😍

[@frkn3856]

Congrats on getting married! Wish you both the best

[@leafmountain]

I really enjoy the dev logs! But I still have no idea what you do in the game? Would love to see some progress on the stuff that will motivate the player to progress :)

[@ralphcalzada4767]

congratulations mann...what a chad

[@YYOG1B3AR]

What is that program called where you manage your projects/todo's? shown 5 mintues in the video

[@xenen9797]

would be cool if there was a bubling water animation from the bottom up as you begin diving

[@rudyfaile]

Great stuff - would recommend slowing the buoy animation down a bit and speeding up the transition timer.

[@carrotmaster8521]

Congrats on getting married! im so happy for you!