I made a game using Godot for the first time

[@AlfonsFoubert]

Hey, my daughter and I spent the last hour playing your game and now she's asking me to buy her a plant to care for. Thank you so much for making it, it made our day.

[@irondolphin1559]

W

[@Maartwo]

W dad W daughter

[@Abracor]

That's so wholesome, love it :D

[@dragonsdream4236]

this is the sweetest thing I've seen on this website

[@Gaius_Julius_Caesar_Augustus]

This dad is a walking W

[@errorfourohnine8887]

you missed the perfect chance to call this game Morticulture

[@daviviana8016]

Searched that name and found a band that I didn't know and I liked their music, so ty :D

[@JJSouaris]

nah, the name he chose is better

[@arvt_]

plants vs zombies

[@Justice_Dignity]

His life is not about joke all day long.

[@LaCarteRouge]

that waterfall gurgle caught me off guard 😂

[@ryant2389]

Lol’d all by myself 😂. Top tier content.

[@rhnirsilva652]

thats was the exactly moment where I subscribe so yeah same

[@SlainMascot]

SAME lol. It sent me

[@danimunf]

Same lmao. That scene only made me subs him 😂😅

[@pigdev]

He earned my sub at this very point

[@ShawcatDev]

Hey y'all, sorry for the previous title/thumbnail "Making a game in Godot with no experience". I meant it as "no experience with the Godot engine", but I see now that it totally comes off as "no experience with game development", which was misleading and not my intention. The title and thumbnail on the video has been updated to be more accurate, I'll do my best to make sure it doesn't happen again! Thank you all tremendously for your support recently, can't wait to drop the next video 😄

[@MiScusi69]

Such a honest KZbinr!

[@shadowdemon9043]

W

[@FelipeZabala]

Low key, that water level indicator on the pot would be an amazing invention IRL.

[@vladulay8762]

Hydroculture pots often have water level indicators. Since we have repotted all of our plants into hydrocultures, their death reates because of of over- or underwatering have drastically improved :D This way you can even see how each plant has a different drinking style. Even the same plants (litarally, they are mother and children) drink so differently. One drinks slow and steady and the other just nothing until one day it has a massive thirst and empties all of the water at once. So yea, it is an amazing invention irl xD

[@terryriley6410]

relatively easy to do with an arduino and a moisture sensor, it's also fairly cheap, use an RGB led for feedback

[@ssokolow]

When I was growing up in the 90s, we had pots with a low-tech version of that. The water goes in a reservoir in the bottom of the pot and soaks up a ribbon into the top. There's a captive bead on a post in the reservoir which floats.

[@timhi2558]

@@terryriley6410 "relatively easy" shut up nerd

[@nicot.413]

It actually exists, i follow a man who has a Jarvis (idk how to write it, the one that Ironman has) he is still improving it, the shit is great af ngl, and he also made a water level indicator haha, and Jarvis is like an Alexa so it's connected to the water level indicator and it tells him when the plants need water. It's crazy

[@alonachiong666]

The cactus should live longer without water

[@candicerachel5247]

That's really good insight

[@yiro0-]

Don't let the "intrusive" thoughts win hahash

[@aleksandartrisic8443]

Wow, just started with Godot (literally the first day) and wanted to watch something related before going to bed.. Your video blew me away :D unexpectedly funny. Thanks mate, will play the game tomorrow.

[@RenderingUser]

You mad a better game than I did with 5 years of godot lmao

[@simonlow0210]

3 years of godot here, and I agree as well. lol

[@chritical_ep]

At the start he said that he used Unity for the first 6 years of his game dev. This is the first video of his that I've seen so I have no idea how many years of game dev he's done total. Let's say he's spent 6 years on Unreal as well, that means he has 12 years of game dev experience. If you keep at it, I'm sure you'll be able to make games as good as or better than his! He just has more experience

[@RenderingUser]

@@chritical_ep thanks for the encouragement. I really appreciate it

[@superplaylists1616]

@@RenderingUser this is so wholesome. Good luck on your gamedev man

[@djlclopez128]

Oh my gosh this video was AWESOME! 🤣 The Unity vamp joke and the waterfall joke were both hilarious! And the game is absolutely adorable and beautifully done! I'm subscribing!

[@djlclopez128]

@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5 I've already put my trust in Jesus Christ ✝️🌿 I've been saved by Jesus for a long time. He's the True Vine, the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Thanks for evangelizing, go for more people's comments. That's what I do!

[@ChemicalVoyageStudios]

@@djlclopez128 wholesome comment

[@Dailyfunvids.]

bro has no enemies

[@nerdy_dev]

I’m so happy that one of my favorite game devs tried out godot!

[@Marsleader88]

As an open source simp myself... I feel the same😢

[@thisismerying111]

@RepentandbelieveinJesusChrist5go away

[@steph.1996]

very fun and educational. enjoyed learning how you process your ideas to fruition!

[@adenashiscave]

Omigod, that water animation reaction. I almost choked. Game looks great!

[@ahmedabrarariyan]

This is the first game-making video I've ever watched and immediately subscribed to your channel. You're funny. Keep up the good work.

[@maks.tverdenko]

Very cool devlog! Really liked the storytelling with the animation clips. :D

[@Michaelversusworld]

We newbies need a tutorial series about how this was made. It's all I want for Christmas. :( Great video Shaw.

[@rl33t74]

i love how you can actually see the semicolons in your gdscript at 7:15

[@Clara-bv9dr]

Oh my gosh I didn't notice that! That's hilarious!!!

[@ShawcatDev]

I couldn't kick the habit

[@kridhameera7548]

​@@ShawcatDevwhich os you use generally?

[@togashi-azul]

Perfect;

[@natefoldan]

Godot is an absolute joy to use. I've been a Unity developer for many years, and switching to Godot makes me feel like I was living a lie!

[@MrBoxingcrazysal]

I JUST started learning game development and started with Unity (on my 3rd day). Do you think I should stop and try Godot?

[@natefoldan]

@@MrBoxingcrazysal That's a hard question to answer. Unity has some good things about it, but if you're doing 2D Godot blows it away in basically every aspect. Really there's no reason to use Unity. Here's an example to help answer your question. You want to place a sprite at a specific pixel coordinate. In unity you bash you head against the wall for hours trying to figure it out, in Godot you enter the location in the editor and it's there.

[@thej3683]

@@MrBoxingcrazysalI’m just starting development, and am still trying to find a good engine to use. What did you end up choosing and why? (I feel like it’d be important to not that I plan on making primarily 2d games, but I’d like to have the option of making a 3d game)

[@mrandmrsbearau]

Just had a crack at the game. The music is so peaceful. Great video and great game!

[@yochrisnelson]

This is a S-tier level video. The love and care you put into Living For Plants was heartwarming, your art-style is amazing, and god damn the waterfall drinking bit had me dyingggggg. Can't wait to play the game!!!

[@deeanimator12]

4:40 I didn't notice Patrick the first time I saw this

[@Navarein]

Same

[@peter2485]

at 6:08 you missed a golden opportunity to jokingly say "microtransactions", but a huge like from here🙂

[@awsmeanthony]

Always happy to see people try Godot!

[@ViktorSarge]

This is awesome and I'd love to see this transformed into a tutorial or example project for people trying to get into Godot.

[@deadWu]

You are a wonderful story teller. Never touched a game design programme but you made me want to do something. Also your art and narration style is really vibrant and delightful, reminds me of a silly game on PS Vita called Frobisher Says.

[@eenvleugjegoeiegames]

Production quality through the roof, instant sub :O

[@ifartmoney]

wait this is really good. you should expand making it possible to have a saving mode where you can fly to other planets and find new plant there

[@dardasaba7971]

Great video! It's nice to see you enjoyed using Godot :D

[@8bithero0]

Great looking game! I'd love to see this as a Godot tutorial series as someone with very little programming knowledge that would love to understand how to create games like this in Godot!

[@ZeroTraceOperative]

Hilarious editing & animations dude lmao

[@armageddon7432]

godot is the blender of game engines

[@Li0nSword]

Great video as always. Your drawings are really good. I'm jealous of programmers that can draw lol. And oh my you absolutely blew up with that horror game video. Congratulations you deserve it.

[@rebus_x5313]

> I'm jealous of programmers that can draw lol same

[@blackcitadel9]

I am a programmer who can draw....but I can neither draw or program well. I'm working on both things though.

[@Li0nSword]

@@blackcitadel9 haha keep at it. I can program pretty well but cannot draw to save my life. (BUT I did many of sprites in latest game so I'm learning also)

[@rhyslikesthis416]

I'm an artist who can't do programming and I'm also jealous

[@oliverb7198]

I'm making a game in godot. I've kept this tab constantly open in my browser and have watched the video a handful of times now. It's basically the gold standard of what I want to do whilst also breaking it down into little goals. Thank you for making this video!

[@NitramiuZ]

The small animations between the clips were very funny

[@-blanky]

seeing your creative process was really inspiring, thank you!

[@F57771]

4:03 Makes water, starts waterboarding himself

[@bucketsludge3019]

Something about seeing someone use krita brings me so much joy

[@fishyfish1917]

This is AMAZING! This is the first video i watch from this channel and i'm surprised by it only having 42k subs. The level of quality and dedication put into every second of this video is palpable and the animations are charming and fun. The music choices, the editing, the humor and obviously the gamedev, each part of this video is just, great. This video just really gave me such a good impression that it made write this comment lol. Subscribed and ready to watch this channel grow (like the plants!)

[@handless_juggler]

Love how this game is looking! Thanks, that was very inspiring

[@charlescharliecharles1]

I Love these videos, they're entertaining and funny, great job!

[@EthylJogodo]

your presentation skills are impeccable, always a pleasure to watch!

[@eboatwright_]

This is so good!! I love Godot, watching people pick it up is always a blast :D

[@thefatfebruary1063]

4:03 GHAAAD DAYUM! great video btw.

[@_gamma.]

Wow, your game turned out great!

[@hunam_]

your game is so cute, and it's really nice to see your flow of ideas about gameplay and other things, like really cool video man, thank you!

[@4crafters597]

Small tip: if you want to change color of a sprite you can "modulate" it, which can save a lot of work!

[@benjaminreinsch392]

Bro your animations are so frickin funny, I love it!

[@CreativeExcusesGaming]

5 days is all it took you to go from concept to playable. Incredible. Ive got a concept and story for a game and absolutely no skills to make it with. Especially the art skill. This was very impressive and adorable

[@liongalaxy438]

I'm like, at the same point than you are my dude T-T

[@terryriley6410]

story is nothing for games, it's the least important or usable aspect. players do stuff, not watch a story. figure out what the player does first or write a novel, film, etc instead.

[@CreativeExcusesGaming]

@@terryriley6410 Story that serves the gameplay is bland. Gameplay that serves the story gives it narrative weight that people want. Runescape is a clicking simulator, but story and progression give those clicks meaning and fun even though you could just click your desktop. The two, story and gameplay, have to work together. And for the record I have the gameplay concepts as well, but they dont matter much if I havent the resources to get it made or make it myself.

[@terryriley6410]

@@CreativeExcusesGaming This is a bad take. Runescape has deep systems all balanced to give you a satisfying gameplay. It's fairly useless to say "X is a clicking game you could just click the desktop". It's as meaningful as saying every novel is just a bunch of letters and page turning, you could read the ABC printed thousands times on pages and have the same experience as reading Hamlet. Nope. It's cool if a game has good story that complements the gameplay. But games are about play first, not stories, which is why we talk about gameplay, not storytime. Sooner you realize that the better game you'll design, or the better medium you'll pick for your burning desire to express yourself. Don't bother learning to code and making games if what you really want is to tell stories. Just tell them.

[@CreativeExcusesGaming]

@@terryriley6410 Gameplay is functionally a story telling (or story creating) tool. Stories are how humans make sense of and make meaning in the world. Runescape’s systems all feed a story and feeling of difficult, grindy progress and experience. The core gameplay loops are mostly the same, click and wait, or click on a rhythm. And yet it is a vastly different game than a game like geometry dash which is also essentially push a button and wait or push a button to a rhythm. It is the meaning behind the gameplay just like it is the meaning behind the words and letters in a novel that make it satisfying. A core gameplay loop is a core story of what you do, and why you do it. And finally, Im not sure what reviewers you watch but pretty much all of them talk about story AND gameplay. Games like The Last of Us, God of War, Final Fantasy, Baldur’s Gate, Stardew Valley, and so so so many more absolutely beloved games are all as much about their story as they are their gameplay. Story gives gameplay context and meaning which helps make gameplay satisfying and fun.

[@MisterMevs]

Dude your humour is amazing, i'm working while watching the video and am laughing far too much for doing a vat return...

[@owdoogames]

Dude… this was awesome, but you forgot the most obvious customisation element. Hats. You need to add customisable hats. HATS GO BRRRRRRRRRR

[@leruokgabung1429]

went straight to playing your game after seeing this, really enjoyed it.. btw your videos are fun to watch XD

[@freddykrueger1162]

5 days!!! I am so impressed with this that I'm not sure if I should try hire you or just say: "screw it," change religions and set up a shawcat shrine.

[@ozthebeeman]

Man I struggle in warcraft 3 world editor while this guy is making full games and learning new engines and programming language

[@mouseling]

so i'm new to godot, and new to coding games in general, I started trying to learn on my own a few months ago. I've been messing around in Godot for a while but feel like I haven't made tons of progress... but this video was actually SUPER HELPFUL because it made me realize how much I've been overthinking and overcomplicating the projects I work on. I'm inspired to get back to work! 🤩 also, I just downloaded krita because of this 👀

[@feefwashere8512]

For someone who is very new to this sort of game design this was a really nice fast paced but informational video on Godot and your process in general. Thanks !

[@bamsithepolarbear8634]

You know its a good day when shawcat posts a video

[@sionilopez]

Somehow it was so funny how gradually you were adding difficulty to the game while learning. Absolutely good example of how to face the learning of a new program. Also I don't feel so scare to start with Godot. Thank you!!

[@BlancheDeverow]

The true test: what does your mum think of the game?

[@zotacgaming3659]

What is this sh!t? I told you being a doctor was a good idea. Failure!!!

[@hakaneroglu493]

Fantastic job! This video encourages me to learning Godot and improve myself. Thank you so much! Much love from Turkiye ❤❤

[@UliTroyo]

The water gurgle got me. You're a funny guy.

[@GuildOfCalamity]

@2:01, I believe the next option in the dropdown is C#

[@dewleaves]

This video has 100% convinced me to finally learn how to use Godot.

[@Hmc_Playz]

Please upload more videos. You are so entertaining ❤

[@Lumiverse.]

Your humor succeeds and the video was engaging, enjoyed being along for the ride

[@Astro_retired]

The quality the video is insane.

[@GoogleTrendingTopics]

This is literally so cute! 😭

[@akiameaart]

This is great! Such a cute game.

[@slowpr0]

You make it look easy!

[@neilgooge]

I wonder when companies will learn you can’t just decide you’re going to be greedy, and your user base will just be okay with it and carry on like nothing happened. Great little video, great project…

[@ZedAmadeus]

Fantastic video! Got me more excited to try it out :D

[@mariazedek1157]

That was beautiful, i love everything from the art to the idea to ur perfectionism about making it the best. You are an inspiration ❤❤❤

[@yiglo67]

Very good video

[@EstrogenSteroid]

the video came out 4 minutes ago, you commented 3 minutes ago you most definitely did not watch the whole video in a minute

[@BingBong-xq5jz]

@@EstrogenSteroidI did

[@yiglo67]

@Estronoid im just build better 2x speed

[@EthylJogodo]

your videos are a beacon of clarity and inspiration!

[@whilefree]

When you have it, you have it. You are a master. I enjoyed every second of this video. Game dev is not just about the "engine". The engine is just a tool, and Godot is a fantastic tool. I can't thank Unity Manager enough, because without his stupid decision I would never learn Godot. However, all those little juicy details in the game is what makes a game good. And you did a fantastic fob on that. I hope you make more Godot videos.

[@QuriouslyCurious]

4:04 made my day!

[@davidinark]

Great video! Real question though is whether or not your mom has played the game and whether or not she enjoyed it. So, what does your mom think?

[@Fragler01]

Where have you been in my whole life? Subscribed 🤩

[@foxy3dworld994]

I would love to see a tutorial on this. Like the video will get so many views because of the number of people trying to learn godot. 😊

[@HealedInChrist]

This game is actually so cool!

[@Ramius117]

Love it. Glad to see more people getting into godot. Also, horticulture games just rock! I was blown away by the aesthetics given the time constraint. ***Btw, not trying to be that guy, but you may want to check your music attribution. That's definitely Zelda OoT's Gerudu Valley in the beginning lol. I'm no YTber so I don't know if that even matters, but thought I'd make mention :) ***

[@MrAngelusPrime]

This Is AWESOME DUDE!, thank you!

[@ramgoowy]

You made a cute game

[@teasprites]

Wow! I love your editing style, and your humor! You got my sub on the water gurgling! Would you ever consider doing a tutorial series for your Godot adventures?

[@flyofthefirefly]

Came for the Godot, came from the actually good humor

[@ariashow4088]

I really need a tutorial on everything man. Especially the drawings you did and ... All of them. This video really made me to love making games again and starting again

[@small_guyfr]

"wrong person" 💀

[@prashantshukla6814]

Huge respect for your development skills and knowing what you want. This is such a calming game, I loved it. You are a legend.

[@illustratum42]

All my homies love Godot

[@viniciusfs]

I do not know how I stopped here, but enjoyed a lot. You are incredible talented, congratulations!

[@arthurruytinx6970]

Really funny

[@inponderland]

New sub! Hilarious video and really nice game! 5 days is pretty nuts my dude

[@hashontop]

what a fucking cute game. 👏

[@OlliHuttunen78]

Inspiring story and project. Thanks for sharing the making of process.

[@nicknevco215]

Casual game turns into capitalism tycoon

[@incapable_tortoise3703]

What a great video. A nice short summary, you didn't split this out into a month-long, tiresome series, the animations were great, the jokes going through were funny and well thought out. Just a great video.

[@Bacon8899]

1hour gang 👇

[@Ski3e]

This video was amazing and SO funny! I loved it, please continue making more! New subscriber here

[@SvenGarson]

This was actually entertaining to the level of Randy to me. Good stuff man - You're gonna blow up here soon!

[@abeerbd8838]

Oh my god... This is so BEAUTIFUL!! Everything about it is just amazing. I'm in love with that art style, you know the 2D one which you find in games like hollow knight. The atmosphere of the game is just so wholesome! You really did a fantastic job there, and I do wish to see more similar projects of yours ✨

[@MiScusi69]

Bravo! Kudos!

[@jessejsamuel]

Love the art style!