I Added Local Multiplayer To My Game | Punch A Bunch Devlog #9

In this devlog episode of Punch A Bunch we add Local Multiplayer to the game! I also have a HUGE SURPRISE in this episode :D
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We also add a stamina system to the game and some other goodies :D
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Punch A Bunch is an indie game about boxing and is developed by Pontypants. I'm working in Unreal Engine 4 and Blender. Our dog's name is Zelda, but we call her Ziggy :)
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[@Pontypants]

Let's go! Punch the SUBSCRIBE button! BOX!

[@aw1lt]

Pontypants sure i will punch my ipad and have it fall down the balcony and die :)

[@ApexLion_]

Make the a button of the logo the a of a controller

[@RoGiftRBLX]

Hey, you should make a Discord for PunchABunch

[@legendaryslayer1018]

You don’t need to retire the dummy put him in like a training mode like training room and maybe have a tutorial and use the dummy

[@AICentralMusic]

Hello, Pontypants! I have made a Multiplayer screen for your game if you want to use it. It takes inspiration from the fall guys and fortnight party/join screen. If you want it just message some way for me to send pic and the thing itself.

[@w4lroo]

This game is gonna be awesome

[@meg1a445]

Its alerady awsome!!😀

[@muhammadkayani731]

It's going to be epik

[@Ryzot]

Tbh I'm imagining Fall Guys but with punching.

[@w4lroo]

Ryan Goodwin ikr same lmao

[@tbsquatchy2241]

Yes it will be!!!

[@lolocucaracha]

Post-Processing Effects, is a great way of telling the player how is doing. Meaby desaturating the colors more and more to indicate that you are running out of stamina. At the same time, the charecter can become less and less responsive, make less damage, move slower, or you could turn on the physics of the arms, so they fall down, and the player can not punch or cover...

[@Zoltec-q1g]

Also do a vignette effect! Like you are so out of stamina, that you can‘t focus on your surroundings anymore. At the same time the player is focused on the opponent!

[@NachoSantanaGames]

You cant do post processing as it would affect the camera filter for both players since you're only using 1 camera. Making the character less responsive will make the punching player snowball really hard so whoever punches first wins. Turning the physics down for the arms could interfer with gameplay since it feels like you are using physics simulation for your punches and this could make them really innacurate as they would be starting from a lower angle, making it hard to land on the rival. What I suggest is that you use an additive pose in your animbp and create a blend mapping the stamina value to 0-1. This pose could just be the idle pose for the character but you could bend down his spine a bit in a way he looks exhausted, try to not bend it too much as if you do the head will be hard to hit.

[@LeBesta_]

@@NachoSantanaGames this sounds like a solid idea, maybe reply directly to the video to increase the chance of him seeing it :p

[@Zoltec-q1g]

Nacho Santana You are right camera filters only work for online MP or dual screen local MP. I think you could just make the player with less stamina react slower. In that way a punch hits as hard as the opponents but you‘ll need better timing because auf the slower motion of your character.

[@NachoSantanaGames]

@@Zoltec-q1g There would also be a way of simulating pp fx within the character's material. If desaturation is what he wants all he has to do is throw in a desaturation node and a scalar parameter into the base color of the material. Then just create a dynamic mat instance and map the desaturation scalar parameter to the stamina

[@Jabrils]

Those 3d prints were awesome. Buy a 3D printer man, trust me you won't regret it

[@atmyz7860]

yo jabrils!

[@PowerpixelYT]

yo jabrils!

[@Pontypants]

Hehe thanks man! :) It was super fun to paint and stuff, I'm definitely thinking about it :D

[@sadoosh3546]

yo jabrils!

[@Duckamoly]

They looked like toys to life. Toys to life boxing??? XD

[@Waneao]

Moblie devs after punch a bunch relases: your app is now mine

[@darkbird3657]

*our app*

[@disurty3952]

Lol

[@gamedevdesign]

Bidibi bodibi your game is now my property!

[@mrbokchoy]

@@gamedevdesign Milk Gang.

[@gamedevdesign]

@@mrbokchoy yee! :)

[@binderr3]

It would be cool If when you knock out a person,the camera picks a cool position to be at,like that montage of epik slowmo punches to show off the slowmotion knockout the feature,if you get what I mean

[@KRYMauL]

Yeah maybe the camera does a ufc angle as it says K. O. or whatever

[@binderr3]

What the fuck,why is this so much liked

[@Pontypants]

@@binderr3 cause it's a good idea :)

[@binderr3]

@@Pontypants ...what the shi- Which translates:thanks so much for responding, I love your vids,and I hope you continue to make more,I've never had such a big YTr respond to me,thank you

[@memevoid4348]

@@Pontypants ;)

[@kroxpert-w-6543]

Here is my comment for the KZbin Algorithm.

[@ShrishGamerTV]

69 likes go brr

[@mohammedfaraazhasankhan1627]

I made it 70 ​@@ShrishGamerTV

[@RossTownsend]

Could you have his arms getting lazy for low stamina? Like slightly ragdoll only the arms so movement works, but is sloppy.

[@bimple6425]

You can’t do that in unreal sadly

[@RossTownsend]

Oh really? That's unfortunate. Maybe he could fake it with shape keys...

[@WorldOfXandiar]

Lazy arms and slower steps?

[@babatunde8825]

Bimple ofc u can

[@wirthl3ss15]

For advertisment make mike tyson play the game lol

[@wirthl3ss15]

@prickly pear wat

[@DuckTheFinn]

You could add a "sweating" and desaturation as their stamina drains, and add all sorts of grunge and wearing as their health go down. Kind of like worn out toys.

[@shmafoo]

That's also what I was thinking. I think that's the most obvious thing to do and players should understand it.

[@henriquealves3086]

Just waiting for the memes come... Also waiting for the campaing ALSO WAITING FOR AN A.I. XD

[@Sveta69420]

A.I.? idk what youre talking about, thats useless 😳😳

[@tubagusthariqgilbraltar7499]

@@Sveta69420 i think is for player who dont have friend or someone to play, so the enemy is an ai, soo ots kinda usefull, sry about my english

[@tubagusthariqgilbraltar7499]

Its*

[@andrewtate8007]

@@Sveta69420 he didn't mean neural networking ai. He just meant fighting against pc and that's not useless at all

[@Sveta69420]

@@andrewtate8007 i know it was a joke

[@musclehamster742]

You're an inspiration my good dude! I truly hope to be on your level one day with content creation. I think you've done a fantastic job on this game so far. Keep on grindin' :) Edit: I just looked at the video dislikes....Who TF could dislike this??!!

[@LeaferBag]

Your videos are actually really good already man! You're gonna blow up for sure!

[@Nizart]

Yay, new devlog... imma stop playin minecraft for 10 minutes

[@yungrich6188]

Bruh relatable

[@parmaso6634]

Next time you have to add a real Arena with seats and that stuff😉

[@roguecompany1014]

Yeah

[@patasso5454]

I see alot of comments about the stamina indicators and post processing, the problem with that is then in local multiplayer there’s a shared screen and then a shared stamina indicator which wont work at all. Instead, you could try de-saturating the character itself by adjusting the material mid game or you could just de-saturate part of it like the gloves. If none of that works dont be afraid to just attach a bar to the character, For Honor is a game triple A game alot like this and it uses bars and it works fine

[@PoshPennies]

epik bebe 😍

[@vortexplays4946]

I was gonna suggest like a circle under the character like some old school rockstar games used to do like bully and the warriors. But then you mentioned it yourself soooooo 😂

[@zetartifume5218]

Why not change the character's skin color depending on the stamina level? Giving it a more desaturated look the more you run out of stam. Anyway, great episode but felt too short, see you next week!

[@Quaxced]

That’s acctuly a really good idea

[@shashank4186]

You and dani are my favorite game devs right now hoping to see a collab!

[@mandlamtsweni8166]

Totes yeah

[@mandlamtsweni8166]

Me too

[@buda220]

Yeeah

[@Arda-qd7cy]

it would be really cool!

[@Tech-Random]

It might work to incorporate the stamina bar into the band on the back of the boxers shorts. This would allow you to see exactly how much stamina you have and how much you’re using without being distracting. It would also prevent you from seeing you opponents stamina which could add more depth to the gameplay so you’re not only swinging when your opponents stamina is empty. Great work on the game so far, you’ve inspired me to try out unreal engine!

[@notmysql]

Here's a suggestion for the stamina UI. there could be a button that the player could push and while the button is held down, the UI could be shown, like above or below the player, but only while the button was being held.

[@K2Industries]

good idea lets say R3 on the ps4 controller

[@K2Industries]

i believe there should be a visual representation such as sounds getting, dimmer desaturation of colour and weakening of player strength but if u want to get the actual accurate and quantitative values you hold a button lets say R3(PS4) .....just sayin tho

[@Mrcool179]

It might disrupt the game flow. Seems pretty fast paced right now

[@twopieces8154]

Idk, I don’t like it, sorry

[@xaudax]

At the beginning it would be awesome if the like trotted toward each other and bumped gloves and then the match started!!!

[@lukasriedl8859]

You could try to make the Character sweaty when he runs out of stamina.

[@rhys1xh]

Bro, you're my favourite Devlogger, keep it up, man! I'm developing my own game too and you're motivating me anytime thx for that :D

[@parmaso6634]

Finally New Episode love you so much hyped for next Episode 😁

[@Darknesslayer]

This first one is primarily for split screen, but I’m sure a smart guy like you can use it for anything; Post processing is going to be huge in a game like this. Your stamina can be expressed by a darker overlay or tunnel vision type thing. Vignetting I believe is the proper term for it. You could also have a slight color change in the overall FOV, like instead of a black vignetting it’s red. That could also be for health. Either that, or this; I believe you touched up on this, however I’ll say it anyways. You can have an outline of a circle to display stamina and health. It slowly deteriorates over time. I guess you could also physically show your character moving slowly, drooping a little bit, and throwing slower punches. Team Colors: Just do different boxing glove colors and shorts colors. Make them a huge difference so you can clearly tell. Also those figurines look hot.

[@just_a_mango]

Pontypants + Dani = Paradise

[@baptistemaillard7054]

Pontani

[@RugbugRedfern]

Honestly I think it would be really cool and a lot more satisfying if instead of losing stamina while punching or getting hit, you gained a damage multiplier for successful hits. It would feel a lot better to play in my opinion.

[@tenacity2633]

I have an idea for the game 1.There is a campaign where you fight bosses, and if you win there is a tiny chance you'll get their special move: Scottie "Boom" Black: Nationality: Irish Special Move: Corkscrew Punch (Your fist twists and has a tornado-like effect on his fist when you use a straight right and it does slightly more damage) Weaknesses: he has a weak guard

[@TK-sr2hz]

This is why yall can't finish your games

[@tenacity2633]

@@TK-sr2hz it's just an idea, man. He doesn't _have_ to add it.

[@ayushsagar8074]

I liked the vid before even watching and I don't regret it!

[@dominikzinic1968]

Maybe you could write a simple shader to turn the pants to a progress bar (from the bottom up), if that doesn't ruin the style you want to achieve.

[@thelegend-xn8bv]

You Can make the stamina ui not a ui and stick it on the ground next to the player.

[@adeowazhere]

I have an idea for the stamina, when you throw a punch, a percentage could come up like in a comic book style. And they would be colored differently ((Maybe red for Player One and blue for Player Two) and maybe if it's a player vs COM game you could only show the players stamina))

[@LeBesta_]

seems like it would cause too much visual noise to keep up. Damage + comic effects + stamina

[@RugbugRedfern]

What outro music do you use? It sounds really beautiful.

[@nameame1925]

Could you imagine a story mode with this it would be ePiK

[@etper]

i want to say - after 3 years - this devlog series is still my most comfort devlog series ever great job, man

[@thelegend-xn8bv]

I suggest adding some boxing online events and crowds like WWE (or you can't do that!?).

[@thelegend-xn8bv]

Don't put my name on the EPIK pegboard put a Channel called MGD this is his comment

[@MGDMomoGameDev]

@@thelegend-xn8bv this is it ;)

[@xdgaminguploads3129]

The only thing i hate about this video is the ads youtube provides, cuz i wanna focus on watching the video itseft, not the ads. But i completely LOVE this video!

[@DevonJenkin]

You are my favourite game dev channel even tho I use unity and I am unfamiliar with c++ and unreal engines interface. Love this series, keep up the great work man!!!

[@cgron34]

I’m commenting for the algorithm so that this shows on more people’s recommended

[@imadqadri]

PLEASE TELL ME HOW DID YOU MAKE PARTICLES APPEAR WHEN YOU PUNCHED. I tried making them appear by setting variable 'IsPunch' and then spawning emitter at location. But If I do that, it wont follow the glove. I also tried attaching it right onto the skeletal mesh, but it always appears the entire time, I only want it to appear when I punch. P.S Please show me the displacement material too, if you can. @pontypants

[@Crimsickle]

i have an idea, add a dodge feature, it would make the game a lot more fun and make the combat system a lot different (dodge would cost 25% max stamina or whatever you want it to cost)

[@freezboss492]

For the stamina bar you should do a blue circle ⭕️ on the ground under the character, I think that will give it a clean look.

[@Thatkidiskidding]

Local mulyiplayer = EPIC Online multiplayer = MUCH EPIC

[@returnofboredom]

Should change the colour of gloves according to how much power/stamina they have!

[@MrMarshallMan3]

Dummy: "Finally, the sweet release of death"

[@fabiosfree]

you could do weight classes too! and also for the stamina and health you should make it a circle around the characters feet kinda like nba 2k

[@littlerambo]

I was waiting for this video, yess!!

[@Mrkarton]

About the calculating the camera location between the players. At 13:28 i seen you just added locations and divided by 2,(you can do it like that but) there is a thing called Lerp (Vector) where you plug in two vectors and Alpha between 0 and 1 (0 is Vector A, 1 is Vector B, 0.5 is in the middle) and tit gives you the location. Hope i helped somehow.

[@gocho1210]

Wow amazing job !!! so happy for you man, great camera, and stamina implementation, and topping it off with multiplayer !!! (mind explodes) Bravisimo!!

[@nhggr]

If you send me the blender models I would be happy to create you a good looking trailer!

[@Shibu-069]

You should make Like if player uses heavy move the camera will shake

[@ThePoinball]

Man your Editing Skillz are Crazy good !! GG

[@CGBrush]

I also recommend getting the dummy back to be a training AI based Dummy.

[@Fluppr]

Heyy fellow Swede, man that ice cream moment with your friend was so wholesome

[@tomb2681]

Soooooo... I had the idea that for the stamina. Make the controller have an input delay when you’re low on stamina and he would also breath hard like a heavy breathing sound effect. I hope you like this idea love your content keep making more(:

[@CloakedCuts]

This might be a dumb idea but I thought for the stamina bar you could do something with the arena. My first thought was a circle in the middle that would display your stamina. But obviously there are probably better options. Just an idea opener 🙂

[@pislify34]

for the stamina make his head turn into red like if he is tired i know it is a lot of work to remake models of make 5 textures and keep track of but i hope this helps

[@Tbroo232]

I think it would be cool if after you got knocked out if you pulled off a string of button presses (similar to the combos in mortal combat) you could get back up if this is already something he said he might do already sorry I haven't watched all the devlogs

[@drepple]

For the stamina bar maybe you could make a circle laying on the ground around the character, similar to the circles you see in RTS games when you select units.

[@Niklas-zx1yf]

Can you implement Badges (like Apex legends)? They really motivate players to keep playing the game for a really long time.

[@myst3ry694]

I think it would look really cool if the white part at the top of the shorts was the stamina bar!

[@GreenLionYT]

I would definitely buy one of the punch a bunch figures if you sold them

[@lintonfor4035]

i think for stamina you should have a blur effect, so the camera so slowly goes more and more blurry. a bit like what you did to the screen when you punch but over the whole thing

[@ancientjoke2733]

You should add a jumping attack animation or at least a KO sign when a character is finished(health)

[@Gryphon-mh7no]

you should add a colour blind friendly feature, where the player can change what the shorts and gloves look like

[@rift9303]

As simple as it may sounds you could just have the info bars (stamina and health) floating above each player

[@xdgaminguploads3129]

Im soo sorry im late Pontypants, but WOW i see alot of progress now.

[@tomasmartins9781]

For the stamina you could cahange the colors of that white belt from the pants like when your stamina is full it goes white and if it goes black it means you have no more stamina or use the belt like a a stamina bar, when you have 50% stamina half of the belt is white and the other half is black

[@IzumiX]

The editing and Bg Music added a great flavour in the vid

[@bamfyu]

I have an idea for the stamina system, how about doing it a bit like the first insurgency, when the more exhausted you are the more visible there is an overlay which shows sweat droplets on screen, you still see everything, but you can easily see when you should slow down

[@jadebrimhall9173]

maybe changing the color of the puncher more greyscale as the stamina runs out. If you want you could also incorporate some custom animations for when it gets more tired.

[@jamisonstockrahm4549]

U should make tournaments for ‘ranked’ matches in online multiplayer.

[@kidzvidz3262]

I just found your channel! It's really underrated in my opinion. Great video

[@SrinivasSundararaman]

Yo did you try changing the color of the boxer's pants for stamina change?

[@Lussra]

maybe you can have one green ring around the characters feet and a stamina blue ring inside of that. Give it a gloss and transparency and if it's in the way, make it fade out if the character isn't receiving any updates.

[@indiedevdevdev1585]

Ay i am good at c++ and the basics off the unreal engine but how in the truck are u suposed to learn blueprints have u a good tips!

[@nameame1925]

For the stamina bars you could have your punches get slower and maybe have the character hunch over to show hes tired an he gets less vibrant and maybe have the punching effects not appear

[@mr.casual2304]

Wowww I got so into this series that I was checking every for when this video is coming out. I even remember my last comment

[@moustafakhattab8142]

hi what platform will you release this game on? also are you gonna add texture packs?

[@leonardopadilha4896]

I guess it's kinda of a small problem but won't the camera the way it is, looking at the back of a player, make it a little harder for the player on the top to tell if their at a good distance to hit the other player?

[@sadoosh3546]

I am just commenting for you to get the KZbin JUICE :)

[@evanellis1418]

Idea for stamina ( unless you already found a good one) You could add sound effects and when the stamina is half or lower then he starts taking heavy breaths and or the screen goes a little or red ish

[@heystamp]

You inspired me to make a game myself! Keep up the good work

[@clash7269]

you can put the stamina bar in the back of the player and in local multiplayer split the screen or something like that

[@koofe0]

I think you should add when the stamina is low the color of the player turns slightly red

[@Rawrdinogaming]

You should add so u can grab people in punch them in throw them and if they fall out map it make a ding then if u get the person out the ring 3 times u win in get coins to buy new skins

[@francomelanieh341]

Stamina Visualisation: make the white ring on the pants into the stamina bar :) 🙏🙏

[@willaim6225]

You should put the dummy model underneath the map as an Easter egg of the game’s development

[@drew9599]

The gloves could change color to indicate stamina

[@sentienttoast1319]

when u said stamina i thought u were gonna make fully 3d punchout

[@kroxpert-w-6543]

You could maybe add a gamemode with Items, like bigger boxing gloves,... And you could collect the items on the stage, or something like this.

[@commandblockboy8460]

It will be so good to add some futures and make it for ps4 and ps5....

[@clear5136]

Make the dummy a bot so we can fight it for ever!!!!!!

[@haleli1467]

שומע אחי דניאל אמר לי יש לך איזה קורס שהוא מעוניין תוכל להמליץ לי עליו חג שמח שתהיה לראש ולא לזנב

[@kidzvidz3262]

You could make it so that when the player is low on stamina it breaths heavier and the breath would be visible. You could also add some other ideas to make it more noticeable.

[@thejurassicchicken1445]

My comment for KZbin algorithm

[@Mohammed-nl1hy]

make the stamina bar like the health bar in dead space 3 I think it will be cool looking

[@exert7428]

I had an idea on how to incorporate health! The player could have some kind of vest, or champion belt (if they're on a win streak) and the health and stamina could be displayed on this

[@casualdutchman]

Epik math to keep the camera at the center: position + position / 2. Omg that is so epic! ..... Way to up sell simple math, wow

[@Pontypants]

rocket science right there