Humanoid - An Abandoned Game

[@alkeryn1700]

that's a good reminder for everyone to use git and a remote.

[@DeGandalf]

The exact thing I wanted to write.

[@ゾカリクゾ]

megasync is pretty good too of course doesn't have version control but if you just want the latest version backup of something you'll have it

[@alkeryn1700]

@@ゾカリクゾ lol, why wouldn't you want version control though?

[@ゾカリクゾ]

@@alkeryn1700 sometimes it's not necessary, like for non-coding projects I use megasync for a minecraft server world and I don't really want old versions of the world, for example.

[@lechurrajo]

@@alkeryn1700 is version control actually useful if you're working alone? Even if you need to diff with older files there are simpler ways than using git

[@carykh]

It's always so cool to see how people take old projects and rework parts of them into elements we see in later videos! (like your CodeParade conductor avatar)

[@CaioAletroca]

I miss you my man

[@lhtyeehaw1319]

Bro, buy this game from him, spice it up with AI generated levels and stuff

[@blendyboi5023]

Hi AI BFB man

[@BenjaminAster]

Make more videos please.

[@WangleLine]

Yeah!! Same~

[@nix3l_]

The way you proposed to your wife is actually so wholesome i love it

[@VoxelMusic]

Fellow Creo Fan

[@igorigor3960]

Gay

[@nix3l_]

@@VoxelMusic a man of culture i see

[@denj4s]

nyeheheh Creo profile pic (best track is Dark Tides change my mind)

[@ishikani]

@@denj4s Place on fire, by a long shot

[@theawesome1883]

I honestly forgot that codeparade could make "normal" games

[@Mothuzad]

"You currently have 0 friends." How could I not screenshot that?

[@benjiusofficial]

I mean, it's always gonna be there.

[@Mothuzad]

@@benjiusofficial It's for my meme folder. But also, internet content is more transient than people realize. Even KZbin videos are blocked or deleted all the time. In general, internet content only survives indefinitely if it's duplicated elsewhere.

[@Cerzus]

3:54 The first time I heard "my car was broken in two"

[@crumble2000]

I only understood after I saw your comment that he's saying "my car was broken into"

[@bluesillybeard]

same, i was like "how did he break is car into pieces!"

[@crowbar9280]

Humanoid looks pretty impressive considering you made it all yourself, congrats : )

[@johnmccardle]

The glow-in-the-dark stars on the robot's wall was a great touch.

[@tl880linux]

Bouncing back from that theft is inspiring to this developer who also had many hours/years of work stolen in a break-in years ago. Great work all around, can't wait for every new update on Hyperbolica.

[@mcmire]

I think it looks like a pretty cool game, and you made a LOT more progress than I would have if I'd done this, so kudos for even going that far. I completely understand about art being a time suck though. When I hear stories like Cave Story or Stardew Valley where it was just one person slaving away for who knows how long my first thought is always "at which point did they know all this work would pay off?"

[@horrorhotel46290]

Pretty sure the only way you end up going trough with projects like that is by enjoying the process and doing it for the hell of it. If profit/payoff is your main motivator you probably go about things way differently

[@FunkyJeff22]

They probably never knew until it actually did pay off. There are many other games made by a single person that get released but don't reach any level of success.

[@nothingnothing1799]

If hes not gonna every complete the game it would at least be cool to be able to play through what he has made, even if its incomplete I'd love to try it out

[@known_questionmark]

the dev of stardew valley himself said that, he was completely unsure of whether the game would work or be good after years and years of replaying all by himself. You just need to have confidence that you're destined for greatness

[@christiancampbell466]

The experience we accumulate even/especially through ‘failed’ efforts translates into our future capability.

[@serd_]

it feels so weird looking at this kind of abandoned projects. I am not talking about demos, i have dozens of those. I am talking about projects that look so polished and finished like humanoid. It makes me kinda sad seeing projects like this

[@azfarahsan]

homie just made detroit become human without realising it

[@somedude6833]

I say he should sue them. They stole his idea.

[@ziggythomas1123]

@@somedude6833 This game was never shown to the public until this video, therefore, unless the guy who stole the laptop got the data off of it, got a job at Quantic Dream(the devs of D:BH), _and_ remembered the story of a game that he didn't need to open in the first place, then maybe. However, the odds of that very specific chain of events happening, and the public finding out about it, are so unbelievably small that it will likely never happen. On top of that, he probably wouldn't just log on to Twitter one day and post about how he stole a backpack, took a laptop, and checked out a game on it to use as inspiration for a major title.

[@emmah1408]

@@ziggythomas1123 r/wooosh

[@mikolajpapiez3583]

@@emmah1408 ?

[@PenPen-xy3xd]

@@mikolajpapiez3583 wooosh is used when somebody doesn’t get a joke, it’s meant to sound like the joke flying over their head

[@hiiistrex2838]

And the CodeParade lore expands once more...

[@red9350]

Humanoid does look pretty interesting actually, coming from a huge Cave Story fan

[@paradoxica424]

for every success story there are 10000 forgotten and untold failures. it's nice to see someone show the grit and work that goes into projects that don't come to fruition.

[@whynotanyting]

Had my car broken into and had my backpack stolen. I put so many sentimental items in it because I was making a trip back from my childhood home like my first DS, some photos, and a jar a apple butter that a family friend had made. Very good lesson to hide your things (even in your own car) or to keep it on you. Also, don't put all your sentimental eggs in one basket.

[@jaydenyamada2916]

This is something I need to grapple with. My brain tells me I need to be as talented and successful as a solo dev otherwise I have failed. I've been a hobbyist for years and I'm still barely able to cobble stuff together in unity. I know it's a problem but I'm not sure how to break out of this mindset

[@connordarvall8482]

I don't know if this will work for you, but what I do is repeatedly ask myself "Why do I make games?" For me, the answer is almost always "Because I want to." That breaks me out of any expectations Ive given myself as I accept that what I'm doing isn't rational, probably won't be seen by more than 20 people and most certainly does not provide any economic benefit to me whatsoever. Also, remember that any projects you complete always look worse to yourself than they would to others.

[@mr_indie_fan]

Make the games you want to make, making a game is an achievement within itself. But if you do want to "as talented" as solo dev the one thing i recommend you do is to create a new mechanic to build a new game on or find new ways to use old mechanics in said new game.

[@rdasher7747]

So romantic

[@FelixHelixihare]

Now, we'll have to wait for the guy that decides to steal and finish it.

[@f5673-t1h]

I read "abandoned game" before "Humanoid" and was horrified. Thought it was Hyperbolica.

[@solarean]

oof that would be bad

[@Schmidtstone]

Love your old mascot. Sad ending that the game had! It will be remembered

[@StarvationExpert]

This man is such a chad he made his wife a game

[@markbv591]

The vibes of your games are anyways so relaxing and nice.

[@GamingTodayGER]

Lesson of the story... version-control-software ist lit!

[@muneeb-khan]

I’m sure if you ever decided to pick this up again if you had the inspiration to there would definitely be a following based on the concept alone. But you’re absolutely right. You get to decide how your time is best spent.

[@deadboy4735]

It's a nice story, and it leaves many unsolved questions. The idea of pursuing ideal drives artist into such strange life frames sometimes. And the other great thing about creating is self-critique with like inner willful intent to make things done in the particular order.

[@trulyinfamous]

I always love hearing game dev stories. I've been wanting to make a game for a long time. I've been making music and art for a game, along with about 3 pages just full of game ideas, but I've made absolutely zero progress on it. I'm trying to use game maker. What I'd love is to just use premade platformer code, but gamemaker feels so much less modular than unity. Just replacing the assets with my own, reworking the engine to my liking, and fixing the inevitable bugs that come from version differences would take hours upon hours of miserable work for me. I've got so many great ideas and they're all feasible for me to accomplish, but trying to learn how to do it, or even find the information on how to do it is so hard. With game dev, I've never felt more discouraged in one thing in my entire life.

[@filipwolinski8915]

proposing with a game is the nerdiest and the coolest way i've ever heard of

[@somedude5951]

Although your games seem boring, your video's are awe some. And this engine you are working on, is also very interesting. I love your programming adventures, you inspire us.

[@elijahbuchanan2368]

This boss just casually makes a video game as a proposal

[@calebotoh]

Need to use source control my guy. Makes life easier especially if you need to revert some changes and if you're working on another device etc.

[@seanregan1245]

Props man that is some of the nicest looking pixel art water

[@nyehard3770]

The graphics look so great, I wish it wasn't scrapped :(

[@TastiestLemon]

I feel that pixel art bit- a lot of my most recent work has dropped art entirely due to how much I hate making it. Even when making games that need art, I've found it much more enjoyable as a programmer and a designer to white box everything first, and only then look for an artist to help once I've determined if I like the direction of the project.

[@jayglenn837]

On the incredibly small chance you ever do decide to finish this game, I would play it. I live for games like these. Oneshot, Rakuen, To the Moon, Undertale - I can't get enough of them.

[@Winnders]

That music is insanely good

[@taylorhancock5834]

Wow, that looks quite interesting, and the relations to it throughout your channel are kinda cool (also the proposal game is so wholesome and I love it) Also, one question: Is the Professor based on Professor Martyn Poliakoff from Periodic Videos, because he shares a striking resemblance... Anyways, I love your channel, and it’s always cool to learn more about some of your past projects!

[@julialee179]

"appears to be a children's book, but with genuine surgical advice" I cracked up so hard

[@jeffreydarlington3498]

Bro this game is beautiful I would play this game all week

[@Avetho]

"Its an older video on my channel, so not many people have watched it" _[Queue the video basically going viral now]_ Edit: Here it is: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a3apamSFZ9yAjpI Honestly, that was a sweet game. I watched it all and that ending after finally defeating Asmodeus through a hard-fought battle made me smile, especially since with the long outro I can just imagine you mirroring yourself in the game beside your wife. What's this? First I watch Cleetus propose to Madi yesterday, and then I witness the game that CP here used to propose to his wife years ago? Man, I'm getting a lot of fuzzy feelings lately and I hope there is no other shoe to drop because I could get used to this level of positivity :)

[@theburgerbox9576]

fun fact: i already watched it a while back

[@Avetho]

@@theburgerbox9576 Yeah, I only found him through Marble Marcher from KZbin recommendations (like the only time KZbin was being useful lol) around a year or two ago, and I don't have a habit of going back in time on a new channel in my feed, so I miss a lot from a lot of people :P But I'm glad I found it, it was a sweet game and I could just imagine him proposing right alongside his in-game avatar :)

[@tranceemerson8325]

you say that there's nothing interesting about humanoid, but here I am looking on in awe. I think that people often think way too hard.

[@chaosminecraft3399]

that is really nice. i like the Art that has been made. Stay strong CodeParade. (i started on a Mod yesterday.)

[@leftysheppey]

Sprites on humanoid look sick, congrats on those :)

[@rolandkatsuragi]

At least all that work wasn't completely scrapped

[@Amonimus]

You don't really have to stand out, as long as it's in public and is good, it will get nice reception.

[@maciejkamil]

Thanks for saving a small, but nonetheless interesting part of history.

[@babsilk]

I've always had an interest for pixel art and making cute mini games as a hobby, I adore how yet it can exhausting can be incredibly amazing in the end result. I'm planning to make one for my anniversary to my long term boyfriend ❤

[@oliviacolpani8401]

3:34 The mirror is wrong, it should show the back of the head

[@jennycotan7080]

It's another great but unfinished masterpiece of yours sir!And all these bits seems like a great game,but I hope it can have a sweet storyline.

[@theirishnuget]

I hope it appears some day, cuz this looks awesome.

[@theaquariancontrarian3316]

Dude seriously work on it some more and release it! It looks fun and the subtle details like the mirror reflections and rain and shadows are awesome. I like the music too. I looks like I could get addicted to this game!

[@breadbunbun]

Thus video is great. it really shows the hardships of making a game all by yourself. Also. I know this request is going to be asked by a million people but. I would love to see the engine for this game open sourced. Not the game itself. Just the engine. As it could be an asset for those looking to make their own engine or just trying to make a game in a similar style

[@sergiofls7623]

i must admit, the art looks pretty nice

[@floorbeardthepirate1141]

Could you post the source? This sounds like a fun project to build upon. (Not commercially)

[@fabianf.2300]

I would still love to see you release the game, yes it may not be finished but I would love to play the game.

[@MichalKottman]

Ad nauseam reminder for everyone - keep offsite backups 🙂

[@MuzikBike]

5:45 used to?

[@witlesscord903]

ah common that game looks prefect even if incomplete and the sprite art is amazing and doesn't need any improvements of any kind even the story perfect

[@TreesPlease42]

This is inspiring, thank you.

[@aepokkvulpex]

Man I wish I could break into the past and make that person give your stuff back

[@omegasmileyface]

may i just say that as an astro boy fan i really enjoy the plot premise :)

[@basspuff514]

That’s a huge amount of hours to (almost) loose. Having only lost a few hours here and there I can’t imagine that, ouch.

[@davidtube79]

it is one of the most important you learned through it. :)

[@Skeffles]

Great to hear the story behind this!

[@hosseinrafie5708]

your avatar is the Godfather version of that character!

[@mrdoognoog]

oh hell yea, razerek is awesome

[@stickurou]

the game and concept seems cute

[@theeclipsemaster]

I'd like to see the build you had made. I think a bit of it would be fun

[@EtanMarlin]

so this was almost lost media huh, thats really cool in a way

[@gustavoexel5569]

Since you didn't mention, git is an awsome tool that lets you do constant backups and its not necessary public, you can set the repository to private and be as private as with your flash drive

[@catomajorcensor]

Always make backups, and indeed... always Git your stuff! Even if you don't intend to open up the source code, at least make a private repo somewhere so you don't lose anything.

[@MperAule]

Should be something taught in kindergarden these days :D

[@swedneck]

@@MperAule Sweden is actually teaching kids coding nowadays as far as i'm aware, i hope to god git is the first lesson.

[@Simon-ps3oj]

If this were to become a finished game, I would definitely buy it. (But I know it won't.)

[@MrTurbo_]

Ah, unfinished projects, i only have like 80 of those

[@capuchinosofia4771]

Mood

[@soodonim6109]

what an amazing proposal though

[@otiagomarques]

the game seems beautiful

[@heavencanceller1863]

I loved the art style

[@quercus_opuntia]

I love cave story so much dude lets go

[@alaouiamine3835]

Thanks a lot for sharing your story 🙏

[@markgalaviz9712]

This man and his species should be protected by the rest of us who are still closer to ape than computer.

[@amimirmimir512]

I like how one of your games is leakable

[@grecolaura6604]

Keep it up bro don't give up yet 👍 Greetings from Perú

[@woawjack]

amazing story

[@Juuuuuuuj]

Finally, the origin.

[@memile]

You inspire me man...

[@VampPhoenix99]

"You play as the first sentient robot, hoping to be treated as an equal in society." Me, immediately: 🥺

[@thebeegone]

Your description of the story reminds me of the game Read Only Memories.

[@BlueEngland]

Sometimes a project doesn't work out but people keep pushing for it to be made, and thats normal. I would have liked this to be a game and it's a nice thing that popped into my recommended, maybe a fan game will pop up or something idk. Where am I even going with this?

[@relapseongfuel9957]

My thoughts are the same

[@0ia]

Finally a non-devlog!

[@anonymousperson2327]

the video before this was also not a devlog

[@0ia]

@@anonymousperson2327 Yea, but this is more my style of video.

[@quentinquadrat9389]

All changes I do on my personal projects are immediately pushed on GitHub. This dirts git history, but we are never protected from a system/disk failure or a rm command. Gitlab as project mirror in case of possible server down because of fire or hacked or a possible banishment from one of the Hub since I'm European an economic conflict with the USA is always possible (the ideal would to have a European or Asian Hub). When I go to my parent's flat, I try to back up my projects on a second computer.

[@Yas-gs8cm]

Thanks for sharing! Awesome like every other video

[@HugoBDesigner]

I hope that, after Hyperbolica releases, you'll find some incentive to keep working on Humanoid. After all, with Hyperbolica, you'll most likely get enough attention and coverage to guarantee a public to get to play Humanoid, since the indie competition seems to be the main showstopper. If even then you decide to not continue the game, I'm glad we at least got to experience some of it through this video :)

[@CodeParade]

As I hinted in the video, I already have a different game I plan to make after Hyperbolica. We'll see after that I guess :)

[@xSATOKU]

The game looks pretty good

[@microwavecoffee]

this game sounds so cool wtf

[@Т1000-м1и]

Everybody: Hyperbolica Him in description: we get there when we get thete

[@bravo________87372]

I actually like the games aesthetic

[@phlaxyr]

Undernoticed detail: CodeParade uses the Summoning Salt font & style (for example @2:09)

[@merkuiriy8421]

'but I decided I had better things to do......... WELL GUYS HOPE YOU APPRECIATED THIS BIT OF CODE PARADE HIST-"

[@lexinwonderland5741]

It's been 2 years since release, but I've been following Hyperbolica since absolutely day 1 (I wish that sort of thing existed when I was a kid, I was so fascinated by that sort of math) so I've been a fan for a while. I really would love to play this game, I know many people who would, and I hope you can suspend your perfectionism and maybe-ism to finally work on it again one day. (but finish 4D golf first!!! please!!!! it demonstrates the 4th dimension in a way that's so much more natural than anything out there, you would be adding to mathematical communication/visualization/education just by publishing that game!!!)

[@falquicao8331]

Wait, hyperbolica story pog?

[@deleted-something]

Time to see this