I added online multiplayer to my game

[@kaspi644]

The friendship mechanic is really unique, i love it! I agree just gifting the same stuff over and over again is weird and boring, i really like this system!

[@thatsmaik]

I just wanted to say that, too. Great stuff, could you mail that idea to the Animal Crossing team? haha Seriously very creative idea on the friendship concept. And a surprisingly "simple" solution.

[@magnushinge2358]

I love it too, hope it won't become an abusable feature like just using npcs when doing tasks, I think he could combat that by the NPCs taking the items that they get when with you, and maybe they will give you some of the items when you are friendly with them, that way it would only become rewarding after investing time in being with them but idk maybe it works even without that.

[@paulkanja]

yeah, i like it too,, had an idea where the npc could check for free time on their schedule for an activity and maybe postponing some stuff depending on priorities but that may be too complex for the game

[@Rin-qj7zt]

Sorry that mechanic is too fun for me not use the same idea in some form at some point years in the future. More games should have that kind of simplistic depth to their interactions.

[@Dany-rx7rs]

😢

[@shurp1]

I have to echo everyone else and say your NPC friendship mechanic is brilliant! Maybe in certain situations you could have multiple people follow you? For tough fights or maybe story set pieces? So many cool opportunities and such a unique idea! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with :)

[@edwinmaster7326]

okay I have 2 suggestions. The first is some goblins hang out with eachother as part of their schedule and you can ask to join. They only do things both of them like so you can easily know what those 2 like to do and they will both follow you giving 2 npcs friendship. The second suggestion is another way to gain friendship, community theatre. You build an elevated platform (maybe you can upgrade to get masks and costumes) and you play a story with a goblin like movies in stardew. They have stories they like and characters they like to play. the audience may also get minimal friendship, seems a bit op, right? but there's a catch. every play has a battle where you avoid projectiles. if you don't dodge properly, the friendship point gain is decreased or maybe some is lost. also, the building can change npc base clothing to the costumes. maybe costumes are collectables or are a rare one time drop for each enemy (like one in 500 or something) and looks like that enemy, something you could get from it or something keeping with the theme, so a slime might drop a slime mask or contact lenses that change eye color

[@ttamttam1522]

The multiplayer is really cool but that friendship mechanic stole my heart. I always thought those gift mechanics lacked depth. It might be interesting to allow gifting as well, but if you don't have a good relationship, it isn't a special day, or if you've already done it too much, it would hurt your relationship. There should be a variety of ways to interact with NPCs, not just one great way. I think a final thing that could really give them life is have them do tasks that you could help with. Maybe one will go fighting and appreciate the help, but maybe one likes to fish alone and won't enjoy the company unless you're already close.

[@CharFil]

Made me giggle multiple times lol, love the new features, the bow and arrow is so simple yet makes complete sense, and the roll animation is hilarious but also makes total sense. Looks like everything is going in a great direction!

[@eylcvn9619]

i cant wait to see where its gonna go next! you always seem to have great ideas

[@emmar1327]

fishtanks, i think haveing them as a sort of decoration you can place and put fish in is one of my favorite things a game like this.

[@Mel-mu8ox]

a game in early access is currently doing coop update, they had a problem where if your friend opens a chest, you have to wait until its closed since it pauses the whole game I guess that's one of the reasons multiplayer is considered to be such a huge hurdle

[@scyan897]

Wow okay, initially I thought this would just be a simple open-world story survival game but with just the few things you did today you really set your game apart from the crowd

[@filipvasiljevic8837]

I really like the friendship mechanic you made where the npc actually hangs out with you. I can vividly imagine getting immersed into the game and attached to npc's with whom I spent time with. Genius idea!

[@matthewfarrell6822]

bruh this actually sounds like a really intresting and fun game I cant wait till it comes out

[@mthemstandsformilk1965]

I tried for so long to figure out unity multiplayer and have literally cried myself to sleep over it. I'm so envious of people skilled enough to figure stuff like this out. Good for you, man. 😢

[@mthemstandsformilk1965]

No but these videos are actually so hard to watch because of how many hundreds of hours I've spent trying to do this only for everyone else on the internet to have absolutely no problem doing it. I'm so sad

[@Mel-mu8ox]

Young at hart old lady NPC that likes to clean up slime I love it :D

[@twomur_]

woahhhh the NPC following system is awesome dude!! it brought so much life to your game seeing you run around with another goblin that’s so awesome!!

[@zylo202]

Omg, someone actually changing the harvest moon relationship mechanic. THANK YOU!!!!!!

[@daviio]

the npc should check if you are fighting with him or just waiting until he kills an enemy(to gain or lose points in the friendship), that would be interesting

[@extra_ram_noodles]

You threw the cookie cutters right out the window! I love that.

[@-OTTM-]

The friendship mechanic kinda reminds me of Littlewood's.

[@jeremiahrosa1329]

Wow, this was only a year ago, game’s come a long way

[@Gimble_Gamble]

This game looks amazing! Keep up the good work!

[@Ri5olu]

I think you should add events for all the npcs or some of them so they can become comfortable around you before they just hang out with you no questions asked. I also find the gift friendship boring but, you could make it so that their friendship meter grows faster if a present is given. It could be op but you could add a timer to stop people spamming say in stardew you can only give people gifts once a day twice a week.

[@Artcat932]

Here’s an idea, increasing the saturation or changing the colour palette of the Players, since currently their soft green skin blends in with the soft green world. Games like Halo use bright primary colours on their enemies against soft or desaturated coloured backgrounds so they pop out more.

[@tommyIT]

Added to my wishlist Im a multiplayer guy that always looks for games to play with my friends We like to try new games sometimes and i would really like to try this one once it is released with multiplayer!

[@thien837]

Omg, the way you solve friendship and fishing is so unique and creative. I wonder how long it took for you to come up with these 🤔

[@Siniyyy]

goblin customization, and maybe even unlocking a new type of a goblin

[@lenunderbrink]

Wow! Some really good improvements!

[@asuhdude3510]

Instead of packing all the data and then sending it to a connecting client, I recommend just sending the seed that was used to generate the world and then generating the world client side. Changes that are made to the world can be sent under a separate packet which will hardly ever exceed the data limit.

[@mystic-malevolence]

It's really not a surprise that Concerned Ape did not want to write the netcode for Stardew Valley. But it's far cleaner to add now than it is after release. I like the follower friendship mechanic, the gift mechanic is always funny, but it is a bit silly.

[@JaxPatarax]

Could you make it so then it would like so the npc’s interests? This game is really coming along!

[@nerdnewbgaming6797]

Looks amazing keep up the good work can't wait to play

[@seth-blank]

Can not stress how happy I am with this new version of the game. And online multiplayer (Excitedness to high to show in comment section). Most games devlog games i dont want to buy, but this I want to so bad. Keep up the good work

[@cloodheegamedev]

man you are crazy for sure Good luck on your adventure (:

[@ziro7616]

The arrow shouldn't slide on the ground if the sprite is going to change to look like it's impaled! I think that would make it look/feel much better. Otherwise, love the direction, keep up the great work!

[@CrizizUnderLord]

I commented this when you first posted this vid, but I just wanna say it again: Thank you so much for making your content, I love it! I really hope you pursue this gam until finish!

[@WattDesigns]

I appreciate the kind words! :)

[@RainMakeR_Workshop]

I think the power of the bow should creep back down after reaching full draw power. As it would be both more immersive and add some timing skill to it. Holding a traditional bow intended for combat at full draw is actually pretty hard to do. The whole holding your draw thing can only be done for a few moments irl. So you could make it so releasing the bow as it hits the peak deals full damage, but loosing too early does less damage and travels less distance the earlier its released. And holding the shot for too long also reduces its power and range. Giving you a skill based sweet spot for loosing the arrow.

[@dermuschelschluerfer]

I think you could just delete the block and drop an item on the ground asynchronosously, no need to wait. The server then can keep track on who will recieve the dropped item in inventory. To make things appear faster you could do some predictions/determinations.

[@nasgor22]

Make the Goblins feel unique, so it doesn't just feel like reskins of normal humans.

[@ibraheemasad603]

I wish you had talked about the multiplayer part more, but over all, i like the way you think and do stuffs, wish you the best

[@frogge3978]

Thank you so much for posting! love the changes you made!

[@masha8770]

The multiplayer block exploit reminded me of Spiffing Brit and I am now resolved to run a campaign to make him try the game when it comes out eventually to try and break it for you ;) Also the hang out mechanic reminds me of Littlewood, yay! There you could get some friendship once a day complimenting the npc (worth noting that in Littlewood the flow of time is linked to your stamina, and a compliment takes some stamina, so the idea of spending "time" is there) and then invite them to hang out. In that game you have a chance to get additional resources when you do an activity the npc enjoys while hanging out with them that scale with friendship. Could be something to consider for balance?

[@whoagainwastaken32times]

Your a good youtuber. have a nice day and i hope your game blows up.

[@cg7407]

imagine if the npcs gave YOU items once you reach a high enough relationship. These items wouldnt HAVE to be obtained but IF obtained they could add small QoL improvements to the player... like for example an npc that likes fishing gives you their favourite rod adding a sentimental value and a story on the tool you just obtained along with slightly better stats 👀

[@aar0npin3d0]

Just started at Southern New Hampshire University!

[@jokubasjakstys2463]

you could add certain buildings where the npcs live in and spawn with

[@davidaugustofc2574]

I think a nice way to add variety is to add flowers in every other tree. Maybe trees have a 50% chance of having flowers and the color of the flower depends on the biome.

[@Nezarus0]

I'm really curious about the challenge of sending large procedural maps to clients. I'm wondering just how much data you ended up sending. One approach could be to use the same seed and generate the map all over again, no? Alternatively, could you express your map with each tile being represented by a single pixel, like your mini-map, effectively 'zipping' your map down, then recreate it.

[@sadgeleaf_4915]

The game looks great! Excited to see what happens next!

[@sayaksengupta4335]

AMAZING DEVLOG. 💕

[@Pugsly4000]

not sure if someone already said that, but you actually wouldn't need to transfer the whole map over if the map is procedural generated, you would only need to send the initial seed the host used to generate the map, and the client could generate it from there now you would only have to sync user placed/removed tiles and buildings which should be way less then the whole map :D

[@WattDesigns]

My only concern was the generation process.. I’m not sure how I’ll be doing terrain and I’m worried it may take forever (like terraria used to) 🤔

[@thebe_stone]

this game looks great!! i wishlisted

[@RealityScapeStudios]

now looks like your player needs an updatte! lol great art skills! side note: Would be nice to increase speed a little when rolling. It looks like when you roll the speed remains the same as walking speed.

[@EnormiE]

All of this looks cool

[@jayman1462]

Good improvements! Nice work. I have a suggestion and a 2 questions for you: The dodge roll should boost your speed. As a fellow unity user, how do make the big Meeting from HUD tree? And what about a drop down box option rather than just a string text box like what you had for the destination?

[@captainsnootalt]

cant wait for this game

[@IzaaRow]

Can you add tents if you don’t already have them?

[@Seer_Of_The_Woodlands]

looks awesome

[@frogge3978]

Also, could you cover the weaons more? i would love to learn more about them.

[@deepmaths9677]

I'm not sure if u have this figured out or haven't thought of it yet. But while watching u fix the npc to not get stuck on walls blocking their path, and having a schedule and people can build into environment . This means they can trap the npc if not worked around it by code.

[@WattDesigns]

Yes! Right now it looks at the NPCs schedule and decides where they should go (for example, “home at 7:00, beach at 9:30, home at noon, tavern at 15:00, home again at 19:00”). It then checks that there is a path from each destination to the next - if not, it gets removed. So if a the player blocks off a path to the beach and tavern, our NPC will stay home all the time. Every time a tile gets placed, we iterate through the NPCs to see if their schedules are still valid. We only do one NPC per frame tho, since we don’t want a huge lag spike And if the player traps the NPC somewhere, the NPC will unload once the player is about 200 tiles away (about 2 full screen widths). Now that the NPC is unloaded, it’ll appear again once the player walks by it’s scheduled path So the player may return to find the NPC has magically escaped their prison and is now back on track with their schedule, and while that’s goofy, it’s kinda the only reasonable way to deal with it without over complicating things.

[@coolman618]

Just thinking here, after 2 npcs that are "besties" and you lead one to the other they have a chance of producing offspring. Maybe have similar schedules as the parents and a small chance of picking up a different schedule from all that you have generated. That way, if a npc dies off, there is still a chance that the world could repopulate.

[@therocketkid]

I want this game.

[@atsteria6628]

You should give this mobile support, that would be sick

[@magnushinge2358]

Please have my goblin child

[@pigpantry4478]

can you add a boar mount eventually :D

[@axolotl482]

you should make customisation

[@newbossbro3180]

im trying a deterministic lockstep RTS simulation. I am still wondering how to solve the tick issue. I am finding myself missing a tick or few. Not executing code at exact time meaning a desync

[@zaidxdev]

idh steam or money but the game looks great what do I do?

[@NorBarGaming]

With the npcs doing combat and stuff would it be possible for them to be injured or die? Or are they made to be immune to all damage sources?

[@CogNoman]

Not sure what you mean by "having an invisible ghost taking an item from the inventory". Do you mean that the item will just vanish from the player's inventory (without the player knowing what happened), or is there actually a ghost character in the game who steals items. The 2nd idea (i.e., having a trickster ghost who steals items) sounds like a fun and clever solution to the multiplayer problem, but the 1st idea (items suddenly inexplicably vanishing from one's inventory) doesn't sound too great, it might just feel like a glitch to players.

[@Ironyum99]

you are awesome

[@SunKissedPeach]

I really like your little avatar, Keep up the good work! Jesus love you ❤️

[@sudhansubalasahoo]

Noice devlog

[@xtrite5623]

Ay man like one of my EE professors says, its easier to teach an engineer how to code than a programmer to engineer xD

[@REDACTEDTHOUGHTS]

Can you add a chat system to the players?

[@vimandmanyothers554]

Just curious about the how you managed to load the map for the player joining another player’s world bc that’s seems super hard! From what I can tell, you were doing some bitpacking, but info was actually relevant enough to be passed? Did you only send enough info to load in parts of the maps as the player moved around or did you send enough info to load the entire map?

[@vimandmanyothers554]

Never mind, I just realized you load in the entire map via bitpacking so you do it 65kb at a time. That was a silly question. But I think the way you handled it was pretty cool!

[@drewlong3201]

Heya, if one wanted to teach themselves how to develop the physics that you have on your bow there, where would you suggest they start? I've made a system with the charge already, which was super fun, but the physics that you have with sliding across a the "top down plane" baffles my brain.

[@WattDesigns]

The answer is a bit complicated, and it starts with a problem: all the enemies colliders are at their feet. So I shouldn’t detect a hit when the arrow “art” hits the monster “art” - I should instead detect a hit when the arrows base (where it is hovering above the ground) hits the monsters feet collider. Hopefully that issue makes sense, let me know and I can reiterate. To make the arrow only hit monsters when the base of the arrow hits the monsters feet, I have a gameobject with a rigidbody and a collider. This represents where the arrow is, but without any height, as if it were sliding along the ground. When I shoot my bow directly right at an enemy, this object slithers along the ground from my feet to the enemies feet (or wherever on the ground I aim) Hovering above this object (as a child of it) is the arrow sprite art. The art rotates depending on the direction. To make it look like the arrow “falls” to the ground as it travels, I have the art slowly lower towards our object as the arrow travels. If the arrow was only charged for 1/10th the charge, then it’ll lower 10x faster. Note that as it lowers, it changes angle (as a real arrow would). Then, when the arrow reaches its destined distance (which depends how long you charge) I freeze the position, and change the sprite to a second sprite. This second sprite only contains the back half of the arrow so it looks like it’s “stuck”. After 10 seconds or whatever, it fades out and gets put back in a buffer of arrows

[@drewlong3201]

@@WattDesigns That makes total sense, as soon as you mentioned that the model falls, it all clicked. That is so cool. Thank you!

[@monstereugene]

this game is so diffrent than before lol

[@suni_pablito2318]

i love the game so far but basing the combat on terraria doesn't look as compatible, since terraria is based on fast movement using wings and super speed boots

[@Blahaj_727]

Will there be a Linux Version or at least working Proton Compatibility

[@Game-Core]

Very cool

[@neozoid7009]

What video editor do you use ???

[@Super-id7bq]

Any indie dev entering into the world of multiplayer has balls of steal in my view, at least from a QA point of view. Maybe not if it's just a run of the mill shooter but if you add procedural mechanics that's a big multiplier. Add physics and you've just added an insane amount of complexity to debugging your game.

[@loj2252]

hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ur game looks cool

[@arama3853]

this game looks cute

[@bad191]

when it comes out can apple play it

[@neozoid7009]

Awesome

[@SARclips_Official]

Cool video

[@thebe_stone]

please add hats in multiplayer please please please and also make one of the hats potato themed in some way please please please. maybe you can get hats from achievements or maybe you can craft them or something, just please add hats please i love hats and i love potatoes so please do this please. or don't if you don't want to, it's your game

[@sobotat]

Its looks like really nice game. I really like pc games so I´m little bored of mobile games and this looks like it could be run on phones too. It would be really nice.

[@peewee2336]

its 11 41 and i have a test tomorrow so instead of finding out by looking im gonna ask is this game coming to xbox playstaion ect

[@WattDesigns]

Hopefully eventually! I’m hoping once I have a demo I’ll get some funding from a publisher (or something like Kickstarter) since it’s quite a lengthy and expensive process

[@espian6506]

This is probably just an oversight by me, but say it takes 2 seconds to break a block. Well, at 1.9 seconds you send the break request command resulting in everyone getting the results at the 2 second mark. This is obviously an issue if there isn't any time to break, but otherwise it could work?

[@WattDesigns]

True, unless they cancel the action at the 1.95 second mark (or get hit by an enemy or something). Then the command to break will be sent at 1.9 when they didn’t really finish destroying it by 2.0 But other than that I don’t see any issues 🤔

[@espian6506]

@@WattDesigns ahhhh yep, didn't think about aborting the action at all. Wouldn't want to have a wall flick out of existence and back in again a tenth of a second later when it was updated that they didn't finish breaking it... Your approach is definitely best for robustness

[@torntidalwave6431]

Will it just be online multiplayer in the future or will it be local multiplayer as well?

[@WattDesigns]

Probably just online, at least to start. I imagine local multiplayer would get pretty confining on just one screen since players would want to branch out and do different things around the area

[@torntidalwave6431]

@@WattDesigns maybe it could be a split screen local multiplayer in the distant future a bit like halo infinites local multiplayer screens? I’m looking forward to this regardless and will definitely be playing it when it releases!

[@Le_Soise]

Can you made a android and ios port?

[@MagicalWalrus.]

Do you plan on porting this game to consoles?

[@Jkauppa]

keep it local, if you have friends

[@martinedelius]

This is of course a lot easier said than done but why not only send the seed for the map to all other clients and then generate the map on the client?

[@WattDesigns]

It was a tough call, but I decided on sending the map because: - if I ever accidentally used non-seeded randomness for dumb stuff (door on the left or the right) it would be different between the two players.. just another thing to debug - since the generation will be so complex, it might take more time to recreate it for every client (maybe a couple minutes) every time than to just send it in 10 seconds. This depends tho, I’m not sure how long generation will end up taking. - would we save just the seed + changes too? What if there’s an update to change the generation algorithm? Any saved seeds would be useless.. if we’re gonna save all the tiles anyway, it’s not TOO much work to transmit them, so overall it’s just easier - also terraria does it this way, and they have bigger maps, so that was good enough for me 🤷‍♀️

[@martinedelius]

@@WattDesigns Thanks for the reply. It does indeed seem as if sending the map is a better way to do it. Keep up the good work!

[@rajeshwagh8885]

please use 'rain world' game type ecosystem. I think it will really increase the games playability.

[@WattDesigns]

I haven’t played rain world yet, I’ll look into it!

[@RecardoPretorius]

is there save game

[@WattDesigns]

Like a save system? Yes!

[@RecardoPretorius]

💯♥️🧡hell yes

[@zaixrx]

Good

[@NoahTheGuyy]

nice

[@The_octogamer]

I really hope it will come out soon I wish u luck and I would like u to add pets to the game thank u for reading this have a good day