Game development - Advice for developing a simple mobile game

[@ChaiKirbs]

Udemy needs to stop stalking me.

[@coolminer1231]

Thomas Pallister every video!

[@Bl1ck226]

Honestly bro when I clicked this video I got an ad for udemy

[@devashish_manna]

Inspired by your video I made a game called Cube Breaker . It's on play store .It's my first game .

[@Rotichappa]

Devashish Manna By Linas??

[@egosumpulcher1]

congratulations.. did you start earning money from the app? how much are you earning in that app bro?

[@crazyphysicsdev2832]

Awesome! Im working on my second mobile game right now and you did this in 2 days I owe you my deepest respect. Can you tell me what music / soundeffects did you use and how you did this with the copyright? Have a good day!

[@projectsz5547]

Great video and game. I tried recreating this game with a ninja theme. It definitely took me more than two days but thanks for the great advice. Keep up the good work.

[@abhijitleihaorambam3763]

Coding your own game is easier then you think

[@subhras1269]

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[@rockedwow7217]

Hahaha U guyz made me laugh

[@lyonking1820]

Abhijit leihaorambam sure everyone got that ad

[@ellychand2661]

I noticed he changed clothes somehow..

[@DanksterPaws]

Than*

[@praadiiit]

hey Matthew, i know this is your "old" video on your channel, but i have question. 1. how you can achive calm game ligthing like on this video? i really want to know, i have been search for tutorial but i got nothing. 2. what assets do you use to get an animated cloud on the ground? thank you.

[@alw1915]

This game is so aesthetically beautiful!

[@krisworkman4668]

Can you do a video explaining all of the coding? Or a series of videos explaining what some of the code means?

[@MatthewPalaje]

**Update: We've released the Official Lonn Trailer!! **kzbin.info/www/bejne/d6q8q2mZmt-VoaM** Hope you enjoy it ** Hey everyone! In this video I wanted to give you three bits of advice for developing your own simple mobile game! I plan on doing a behind the scenes environment video soon and also three bits of advice for making bigger indie games. Thanks so much for all of your support and for watching my videos!

[@tarikhamidovic440]

Matthew Palaje hey dude..I want to make a game like this but can you make a video how did you did it😄nice video

[@VladislavAleynik]

What do u think about this game? goo.gl/DTz9GE

[@chandlercachuela9190]

Hey sir? Im an engineering student from Philippines. Would you mind of we can use your project for our thesis project? Its a hand assisting device, but can be used for game controlling via gyroscope. Would you mind if we ask your game files?

[@raeesspinnoy3785]

Matthew Palaje that game looks amazing

[@dunjahanssen8060]

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[@_Spectre]

This is pretty impressive. I'd love to see more so you've defo got my sub! I am quite a new developer, recently gone through a complete career change. My meat and potatoes at the moment is development of business web apps, however the thought of short duration projects to break up the huge projects I am doing professionally has me salivating (and can only strengthen my portfolio). Are you selling the game you demonstrated here? What sort of revenue are you expecting to generate, if any? (I'm trying to ascertain whether the hit to my revenue by doing short duration small game projects may at all be offset by said small project). What sort of experience levels have you got with C#? Did you train formally or self teach?

[@MatthewPalaje]

Thanks SF123! That's great! I hope the career change works out well. These simple games are mobile games with ads, I have three of them out at the moment but never did proper marketing as I just wanted them for portfolio work at the time of developing them. If I did promote them and the ads were being watched/clicked on they would be able to generate revenue. For my upcoming game I am expecting revenue but going the PC route not the mobile free to play with ads route. I've used C# for 4 years, I'm self taught and did formal teaching for 2 years at a college. Most of my skills are self taught but I have used resources such as Sebastian Lague in the past for specialised topics such as AI or procedural generation. Sebastian Lague: kzbin.info

[@JanDyrda]

nice video :) thanks for sharing! I downloaded you're game just to check what's the title/name of that song in the game (not in the menu but during gameplay) unfortunately your link from description is not working and I thought that maybe it was that. Can you post the title of the song or even point to the direction of its origin? It won't use it for any game but for motivation during exercises XD

[@123catney]

i want to learn to developing a game, but i have zero knowledge about it. where is the reliable source to learn to?

[@parkerbiskup8458]

So you're using C#. I code robotics based projects in C++. How similar are these languages? Should I learn C# or could I do little games like this with C++.?

[@omgGrrrful]

Matthew Palaje did you make the assets yourself or bought them? Cause right now I only make 2d games, I'm a bit afraid to jump into 3d because of my lack of knowledge in creating 3d assets.

[@LEMONGREASY]

Who also got a learn to make a game ad?

[@douglasmenjivar2439]

Me

[@thegreytowel9237]

your obviously new to programming

[@thomascanning1127]

@@thegreytowel9237 ?

[@jahangirakbar4524]

Me

[@LEMONGREASY]

Jesus my grammar used to be super bad 2 years ago lol

[@fmagic2306]

hi.great vid first of all.. i got a question. i started making a game for android about 1.5 years ago.The game playes good and i got many positive responses.. Its like a flappy bird mechanic but way more expanded.I got a idea what the game should be like when complete but the ammount of work i put in it so far and the ammount of work that is still needed demotivated me.. so i stopped for a while. now i wanna go on with it but this project demotivates me a bit because it has gotton bigger than i wanted it to be. is it better to start over with something smaller and leave all the hard work or contineu with the project? what would you do? greetz

[@jetSonic]

Wow looks amazing. How its looks so good you used some colorgrading asset?

[@jetSonic]

I see the amplify asset. Thx

[@maharshigohel2576]

I want to play this game but error is being shown that item not found on play store

[@oguzhan2393]

My friend which program did you use to record video? Thanks

[@bbtmanagement6314]

Howdy! I soon be developing free games. Can you please please please answer my questions. 1. What kind of program did you use to make the game? 2. Can you make other shapes not just cubes?

[@trippyy2767]

BBT Management Howdy, I'm 95% sure the person was using Unity, a free game engine, but does have some paid options, which changes little to nothing. Also for your second question - yes. You should use modelling softwares to get customised shapes like the trees and stuff (although scary, its really easy, coming from an 11 year old). Once you save your models in the modelling software, it should pop up in Unity. Don't think you have to go model a cube or basic shapes all the time, unity has a few of the basic shapes, like a cylinder, sphere, a capsule and I think a pyrimid too, the person in the video used a default cube for the game actually! Now there's soooo much to explain like box colliders, rigidbodies and blender (a modelling software) so make sure to watch some toturials, I recommend watching Brackeys "How to make a video game in unity" series, where he'd discuss most of your questions, I hoped I kind of helped!

[@wildwisdom1361]

tell how you started making games and from where u learned plz make a video on it

[@310thebank]

Do you have any expirience about computer programing before using unity or just jump to it and make this game

[@moejoegaming9838]

peerapol thebank That's like saying, "Do you have to have experience at skateboarding to be able to do a hardflip?"

[@7cmhg840]

I know this is an old comment, but i think what he mean is that did he have any coding experience before learning unity, or did he learn Unity whilst first time learning coding at the same time

[@MaoDev]

No, it's not like that. Lots of people jump on Unity and they never programmed before. @@moejoegaming9838

[@niklasmikkelsen4701]

Thanks for the advice. Quick question. The cube shatters on the ground, how did you do it? :)

[@MatthewPalaje]

Thanks for watching! Here are the steps: -Create a particle system -Give it a gravity of about 0.6 -Make it emit in a sphere -Turn off rate and make it burst with around 15 - 30 as the amount -Turn on collisions and make sure they are world -Find a good amount of dampening/ bounce After you've done that mess around with the size/speed of the particles :) If you get lost have a look on the Unity documentation as it should show you all of the particle properties. Hope this helps!

[@niklasmikkelsen4701]

Matthew Palaje I never though about using particles like that haha! Thanks man :)

[@MatthewPalaje]

No problem! :)

[@BeerfootBandit]

@@MatthewPalaje damn thats pretty good. I never thought of that

[@agoto9420]

Hi Matthew and great job btw! Keep it good!. I was wondering if you could answer me a couple of quistons? 1_ How do you do to make the cube rotate like in your game? 2_ How do you make the red particles that come out from the cube when it's moving? Keep it great dude! greetings from Argeintina!

[@MatthewPalaje]

Thanks heaps Agustin! 1. To make the cube rotate like that you have to use RigidBodies. I gave my cube a rigidbody and did not constrain any of the rotation axis. After that I use code to move it left/right, so RigidBody.AddForce, with enough force applied the cube will flip over! 2. I made a particle system and made sure it was set to world not local. This way the particles move with objects and trail nicely. After that I made the particle system a child of the cube. Best of luck! If you work on anything good make sure to post it!

[@pabloaguiar4643]

Hi, please can you explain a little bit of the differences between setting it to local or world. I still didnt get it

[@etora2610]

How can I constrain any rotation axis? also, I currently using Rigidbody.Velocity the cube keep sliding while it didn't touch the ground completely

[@fabriziolande4819]

Can you please post the values you used? I am following your suggestion of using rigidbody and addForce but I can't make it that smooth just yet. I've tried to modify my code in different ways and I also tweaked values myself but it still doesn't work. It rolls but it also slides a little bit and in general is too bulky and slow or too fast and light meaning that it feels like paper that just flies away. Btw this video is the reason why I started working with unity so thank you a lot for that and keep it up with these motivational videos even though now you have moved to Unreal. Thanks dude!

[@ggmonguy277]

Agustin Villar q

[@Suprotiv]

hey dude plsssss i want a full tutuorial of this pls

[@merabaap.4580]

Why your apps remove from playstore??

[@vinaybakle6443]

I have no team and no skills with coding can I develop simple games?

[@tomsk]

I was creating some basic games in Unity for Android, but I would like to move to UE4, isn't UE4 for mobile games overkill?

[@ElynourRummyng]

tomsk a little, but if you want to use UE4 why not?

[@mr.cracker3696]

hey bro. you done very well.Well you show me time lapse of your game development but i slow down your video and learned each and every step which you have done in your game. thanks and keep it up. I want to ask one question to you. how can i learn the more unity in build function? I don't know in the situation which function i have to use. please suggest me any solution. thanks in advance.

[@mashoodkiyani3992]

very nice project and amazing tips for those who are new in game development

[@lgassassin5794]

Can I make a simple game in 15 days

[@eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen9437]

Hi Mathew I hit the sub and like you're really cool. And btw is that you're only game? Because you're game for sure will be downloaded by me tip: add coins

[@callmedeno]

Are these lighting effects not pretty costly on mobile? Would like to see some in depth video on getting nice polish like this on lower end devices. Great point about overthinking before starting, if you're smart enough you'll think it all in the way into the bin without writing a line of code.

[@billclinton4913]

are those ur own shaders?

[@babatelli8766]

is it possible u post a tutorial on how to make this game? would teach me a ton

[@MikkelJeppesem]

which programs are you using in te toturial. I want to get started with game development, but i think its difficult to get started. Any suggest?

[@gleegour]

He's using Unity. There's plenty of tutorials and documentation for Unity, you just need to work. :)

[@hell4life362]

I can't find tge game and the link doeasn't work..how can i find it?

[@elvergas2218]

what to do the same thing basic mobile games for free, but i have never donde code any recommendation on any online course ??

[@brotherindeed992]

which game engine is that unity? unreal?or something else . please answer.

[@dotinnovation5892]

It's Unity bro

[@mounikerreddy2772]

hi..the video is a lot helpful for me..thanks for the video..and i have a question for you.. what is the software you used to develop.. please share the link too.. i am expecting the reply ASAP...

[@JanDyrda]

Unity it was and C#

[@mounikerreddy2772]

thanks for the reply...please share the link to download the software...

[@JanDyrda]

Link to download software: unity3d.com/get-unity Link to the official tutorials: unity3d.com/learn/tutorials Link to assetstore where you can buy some models/scripts/game templates/etc.: bit.ly/AssetStoreSale Good luck with your first and next games! :D

[@jervi_sir]

is it a based 3d game . does 3d make battery work harder

[@RegahP]

god thi si the only video that shows procedural generation system on 3D game, but i cant see the script to do it, all other videos dont show what i need :( just please, maybe if you can, explain us how did you do your procedural generation system? god please and thank you a lot :)

[@UnEditedJC]

What I think you mean is the blocks spawning above the player, that fall down towards the ground. This is done with unity by using a function called "Instantiate" (docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Object.Instantiate.html). This basically means that it takes an object (either a prefab or an already made object in the scene) and spawns this where you want. If you want to learn more about it I suggest looking up "Instantiate unity" on youtube. Or if you'd like to just make primitives, you can also use "CreatePrimitive" (docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/GameObject.CreatePrimitive.html). If you need anymore help let me know, but the fun part about programming (for me atleast) is also finding out stuff like this by yourself and having a accomplished feeling.

[@KevinDaGraca]

i have watched a few of your vids! you have gained a sub!

[@MatthewPalaje]

Awesome! Thanks Kevin.

[@jackool9566]

What program are you using to create this game?

[@CouchFerretmakesGames]

He used Unity for this.

[@popbuilds8138]

How did you do the effect where the boxes falling from the sky break into smaller boxes when they hit the ground. Is this something that was done directly in Unity?

[@asifhq]

great advice... when tried to like found that I already liked and subd

[@EntertainingPictures]

What style of graphics is this coz i want to make a game that looks like this coz it looks nice and easy

[@abedfetrat1212]

Hey could you share approximately how much money you made on this game with that amount of downloads? Would be cool if you could share.

[@abedfetrat1212]

Looks like a fun game, downloading it right now :)

[@SkrekkLich]

Hey :) Just downloaded your game. Really simple gameplay but fun and nice looking. I have a question. Is your game limited to 30 FPS?!

[@animofacts01]

Hey Broo whey this game removed from google play

[@brucemeier8624]

What do you use for this?

[@ValeriySeleshko]

Hello! You make good content! Thanks! Do you have experience with UE4+Android?

[@sennacookie5043]

What program dis you use to make this?

[@TheStarkz]

Do you get paid for making games, currently?

[@ellychand2661]

Hi :) Thanks for the video! You got one suscriber here! I noticed you use 2 game engines; unity and ue. Well since Im newbie for this stuff, which one do you recommend? Thanks..

[@HonorLone]

hey,i recommend unity, because it's popular and not so hard to use!

[@DavidBarlowDavido01]

hey,i recommend unreal, because it's popular and not so hard to use!

[@kowsikpaduchuri]

Hey, Can you tell me the player setting, shader, and lighting setting as I tried for my project for mobile it is so slow. And are you using post processing? If so can you tell the setting for that. Would appreciate if you can make a small tutorial for mobile with all the above. Thnks

[@thomasanderson1416]

Awesome, how about difficulty planning, how to arrange the cube instantiation?

[@lukaposeidon8490]

Hey man...Some months ago i wanted to start making games but didn't know coding...So i found Buildbox..Its an app that u can make apps without coding..I couldn't pay for the original so i got pirated version...The app sucks..I've been struggling with it for months and still didn't make anything...From now i am trying to learn a little bit of coding and make a simple game+publish it..Also i will feel better if i use a bit of coding..I've just started searching about it..

[@michaelblakely3285]

What software and how did you make this ?

[@chadzulu4328]

Very cool video, and great job with the game!

[@edumate9941]

Which programme or application is used to develop game?

[@notpumkin]

He's using unity but there are lots of others like game maker you can look up.

[@yojana575]

I don't know c# or other languages but I have deep interest in game dev and unity. Help . shall I learn c# first or just go through documentation and learn ?

[@EmuDroid44]

You only need to learn java to do this right ? I mean no need to be a designer or artist to make the 3D environment .

[@mi1cah]

CHROLLO LUCILFER unity no longer supports java script only c#

[@PHeMoX]

I kind of disagree with 'not recommending' games this small. I actually have learned the most from these types of super small games, polishing mostly the gameplay only. That's the essence of prototyping actually. So your video is a little bit contradictory there. I know why you suggest games shouldn't take this short of time to develop, because just rushing out a game concept *only* to meet a single day deadline is fairly stupid. However, when you can get the core gameplay done, turned into something fun and fairly polished gameplay-wise (controls, response, feedback etc) in only a few hours to a day, it probably means you're on the right track.

[@ahmetsavaseri9126]

Which programming language do you youse

[@kiantreanor5247]

Hi Matthew, your game is great. I am doing my ICT GCSE's at the moment and I was hoping you could do a step by step tutorial of how you made this game. Thank You!

[@david8j796]

how did it go?

[@yonjuunininjin]

Sad, you game is not available in my country, what's the deal about this? I always thought if you upload stuff on the playstore, it's available for every country.

[@MatthewPalaje]

Hey Ninjin! Which country are you in? When I upload the game to the store it asks me what countries to allow. Since I wasn't sure which ones to allow I just ticked a few of them. I can add yours in :)

[@yonjuunininjin]

You missed 81 million in germany which has a lot of gamers :D and we are not a country that would sue your a$$ if people get hurt while playing on the street, just because you didn't mention the game is addicting or something (looking at america ^^).

[@MatthewPalaje]

Woah that is a lot haha! Time to change that now. Good to know I won't get sued =p It should update in the next hour. I made all three of the games available in Germany. In my analytics Germany is in the top three countries that view my content.

[@StardustBruno]

Please consider including Brazil too. Thanks!

[@LightArtsOfficial]

Can you add Bulgaria I really want to test it!

[@alexw4140]

Hello, what language did you use?

[@power_burger9451]

It says the game isn't available in my country...apk anyone?

[@konrione5349]

How did you learn to script?

[@ciappa6928]

what programming languages did you use?

[@mohanshurajak2776]

sir, in which platform u designed this game...???

[@sawuk]

Unity

[@HeadsUpTV]

How to spawn objects like that?

[@pengubaba501]

Which engine?

[@KasemDarkCoder]

Please update store link!

[@GunTech]

I appreciate your wish to inspire devs, but there's a risk that someone will think they can make a mobile game like this in two days and needlessly feel inferior when they don't. You should include in the video the asterisk* stuff, such as graphics, music, added work after upload. Maybe a good topic for another video? (Just link if it happened.)

[@MatthewPalaje]

Hey Gun Tech, all of the games content was done in 1 day. Anything after the upload was one bug fix as my friend found out you could fly over the walls haha. The only reason this game took 2 days was because I underestimated the time it would take to get it uploaded and published onto the store. In terms of the risk and feeling inferior, I like to respect everyone. I want people to try and strive to be their best and I believe even if you don't quite get the result you wanted everyone learns so much along the way. I'm not really concerned as I hope that people will be proud of the progress they have all made no matter how long it takes. I can understand the concern but this was my approach when I was teaching professionally for 2 years and I had great results.

[@GunTech]

I meant prep time searching for graphics/music/sfx to buy should be included, and the 4 updates have also taken time. For just the Android store and no video preview, it's very hard to get under 2 hours for finalization/(re)upload/icons/form filling/feature graphic even if you make them subpar or simple. Ad implementation/registration adds to that, etc. This is without hitting a snag(tm). If you solved those snags when you uploaded an app last week, you spent that time googling the snag then. If you didn't, that time will have to be spent on top of the 2 days to successfully upload. For monetization, ad networks are dead. Freemium and rewarded video ads are pretty much the only option these days.

[@expedientesparanormales]

The game isn't available for mexico :(

[@kennedyfrancis5875]

What is the gaming engine used here plssss provide proper link anyone

[@ahmedteeka]

Looking Great Matthew keep up

[@MatthewPalaje]

Thanks so much Ahmed :)

[@felixhoneck6766]

From where he got the design of the tree and all this

[@cydoentis]

I'm learning unity and I figured I would learn to make game just like this as well but what is it called? like the genre I guess.

[@ElynourRummyng]

Cydo Entis survival

[@billtube8251]

Please help me. How i can make my game run smoothly like yours?

[@mohnea]

Can you give us the project to see the coding?

[@thanaa4149]

Great advice thanks for sharing !

[@MatthewPalaje]

Hey Thana a! It's surreal to see you comment here. I saw your Low Poly Girl timelapse a while ago. I'm glad this video was useful :)

[@MrJaaaaake]

Do you make decent money releasing games on mobile?

[@unsubscribefrommeplease7178]

MrJaaaaake if u make in app purchases or make the game cost money

[@bennitooo6913]

MrJaaaaake Yeah just make baity kids games with loads of ads.

[@markrega]

interesting points ,if anyone else wants to discover apple ipad application development try Vaxicorn Easy App Guide (just google it ) ? Ive heard some decent things about it and my neighbor got great success with it.

[@onee]

KingClasher66 Uhh... You can add ads even if your game is free.

[@chapstickwarrior9277]

Some people make millions on a good app. Go for it. But remember that it isn't always about the money...okay it's kind of about the money.

[@lblockerwr]

Can anyone teach me unity in a month. I was going to hire devs but I'd rather learn to code myself. I have some background in C++ so I know a little something. I want to build my app myself and design it myself

[@mikeybroski3686]

If you just search: Udemy 95% coupon there’s always a deal that allows you to get those coding courses for like 10.99. You just need to look around for the right instructor that will give you the best bang for your buck and intensively teach you the skills.

[@dargus_]

Cool game dude! What is the backround song name?

[@ffrusik]

Hi, I have a question! How to make the camera move so that the camera moves and that it stops on a certain frame in Unity 2D. with the help of a swap

[@yaboifulcsi7789]

hello, i have a question, ive been taking alot of inspiration from your videos, and it inspired me to make my own game. It is a bit similar to yours, so i was wondering if you could help. My question is: could you please give me the code to your falling blocks. I dont want to playjerise from you, i would just like to know how to mechanics of the blocks work. Thank you for your time.

[@MatthewPalaje]

Hey! I wrote this code ages ago but it was quite simple! You see the top of the screen where the player can't see is a number on the Y axis. So if I was to spawn something on the Y axis at 100 or whatever they wouldn't see it spawn and it would spawn at that height. This takes care of spawning something out of the players view. You can then use the X axis to spawn the cube so it's in a new location each time. Instantiate a cube on a random point on the X axis but with a consistent number on the Y Axis [Y being the height which should be consistent and X being the location above the screen you want it to randomly fall from] Hope that helps!

[@yaboifulcsi7789]

oh my goodness thank you!!

[@tomdwan7080]

I've done a lot of coding, but I can never seem to make a game. Does anyone know of a helpful resource to make the switch from functions, loops, and if statements, to actual game creation?

[@qnaman]

my good I'm trying launch single app on my phone by ue4 it takes about hour or even more to compile all shaders and everything...

[@klavskalnins2945]

Do u have some tips on decreasing lag on android. when i play my game it lags but its really not intensive its small

[@eliboy8583]

Wow. How can i find this game in play store?

[@JanDyrda]

just search in google play for "cube dodge" ;)

[@HappyDay2283]

Where do you get theese Graphic things? ;)

[@superbn0va]

What do you use to generate balanced patterns? Im taking about the falling cubes (enemies)

[@graphics_travelers]

I'm just interested to know how much can you expect to earn per one iOS game on average?

[@lifebeingjay4016]

For a successful game like minecraft it's $7 and has 10 million downloads..the creators made $70 million dollars off of it

[@ballzzinyourmouth8]

NinjaProductions don't forget the royalties and other shares going to google

[@Aye_handsome]

Well Flappybird was making like $20000 a month so Id say quite a lot.

[@thomasanderson1416]

Is there any gameplay Bible if some sort?

[@royce623]

This is a 2D game or 3D game

[@ilanzatonski8826]

RoYcE it 3d

[@Damezz12]

Can you make tutorial for the movement?

[@manishkarki2659]

i wish u would make a game tutorial for mobile.... you would be a great teacher...thanks