I Made a Start Screen for my Indie Game!

[@BenBonk]

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[@eineatombombe]

thats brilliant

[@daviyanes]

It would be cool if you made a stats screen in the computer and like NPCs with quests

[@daniel.robynberkefeld6335]

ADD a katana to the game for the player to use because you added a samurai skin

[@Blobo_is_cool]

I just met you on discord

[@Vieislost]

Devtip: Secrets are fun, so designing something like as simple as having a 1% Benbonk hairdo on a slime would encourage players to replay the game and discover more.

[@BenBonk]

Yeah, I agree. Stuff like that would be pretty funny

[@Tomato3njoyer]

@@BenBonk maybe references to old games? Or just some random room with partying slimes? Maybe a room that hints at there being a slime resistance?

[@dualbladedtvrecords4383]

@@Tomato3njoyer I like that last idea!

[@charr420]

@@BenBonk you should definitely reference the king slime from terraria

[@Certifiedlamedude]

​@@Tomato3njoyer slime doggos partying in a room

[@nicholasjoyce3584]

Suggestion: You should make some sort of notification that pops up on the players screen when the conditions have been met to unlock a certain skin. This will create a sense of accomplishment for the player rather than the player randomly stumbling upon an new unlocked skin.

[@Waspeil]

This devlog is always a vibe.

[@BenBonk]

Yessir

[@AIAdev]

The start screen looks so good Ben! The samurai with a gun also hits different... (And sounds like it should be a game in itself "Samurai with a Gun")

[@SnowPeaGames]

Blamurai

[@thatpigboss]

add pig boss

[@RKIOrbMage]

This was so entertaining! The menu and story panels turned out amazing!

[@BenBonk]

Thanks! Glad you like em.

[@IzzyBoiYT]

I think for the slow mo shooting, you should have it for final hit on bosses or mini bosses. Also it could be a wind up shot.

[@newsswitchup4812]

Hey Ben, I love the videos and have been watching the series since the 3rd episode. I would love to see an option in the settings to have the “lore” screen be automatically skipped. Other than that, the game looks fantastic and I’m so excited to play it when it comes out!

[@cacovonluca]

Suggestion: Change some of the buttons GUI, like in the Skin Select Menu, so they can match a little bit more with the Menu Border instead of being just green blocks with some text on it

[@BenBonk]

Yeah true, I was kinda lazy with hose buttons. Hopefully I can get around to that at some point.

[@newac6120]

Make a different screen shake intensity for every weapon! I know it may be tedious but some weapons look very beefy and it would make sense for it to have a bigger screenshake

[@Chexmix6]

I think the casings that fall should be just slightly smaller. At there current size they kind of draw too much attention. Otherwise, great video! Love the changes!

[@BoxProductions0]

wait... I'm making a game called slime's passage, which is a platformer game were you play as a slime, SAVING SLIMES THAT HAVE BEEN CAPTURED (obviously completely unrelated to your game but I just think its a funny coincidence)

[@BenBonk]

That’s it, I’m suing you

[@BoxProductions0]

@@BenBonk I don't have that kind of money...

[@yabadabadoothe1st]

My idea is that the prologue should play whenever you make a new game i do love this game so keep uh idk your doing great though!

[@cheezum]

Added some screen shake when the TNT explodes.

[@christianalforque4586]

I suggest maybe in the mini map instead of completely hiding the other places you haven't been to or is not in the room to instead make those room have a really dark tint to show that you have not went there yet. And maybe even add a mini-lock, its up to you.

[@someoneyounowknow]

Or it could have something covering it like fog or steel

[@quinndepatten4442]

The start menu art is incredible. I really wish it was animated because it already has so much life and character to it. It represents the game well.

[@atrocity11]

I love how simple the cover art is, but gets all the basic characters shown and gives you a decent picture of what the game will look like.

[@usbtypec.]

One thing that could be nice to add, since the game is monochrome, is a setting for different color pallettes, and could make for more unlockables.

[@uffboyletsplay]

I have a boss idea. Make a giant red to yellow gradient slime which shoots yellow orange and red paint on the ground which would act like poison, maybe makeing a red small slime as minions. When you kill the boss the rewards are a red or yellow slime one good the other bad he has a 50\50 chance of getting a good weapon.

[@rydysmoth7713]

You should (if you want to) add a bestiary to insert lore about all the enemies and what they do and the best way to defeat them.

[@NotPalliot]

Yay Devlogs! Slimekeep is looking very good! great job BenBonk!

[@Reptle_]

The exploding barrels don't feel enough powerful in my opinion and the explosion effect could be improved - Great devlog!

[@SmolGhost13]

Just yesterday, I was wondering when you would make another Slimekeep Devlog! Perfect timing.

[@Encantur]

Gotta love how the "make explosions leave craters and have bullet casings eject." suggestion was implemented into the game, it makes me wish game development for every game was as community involved as you've allowed it to be. Keep up the great work, this game looks sick!

[@Tubsspandex]

maybe similar to the new floor tiles you could add some sort of depth to the outside of the rooms, its just very plain right now but apart from that im loving how this is turning out

[@mecen8]

That cover art is looking awesome! I never expected you to include non-pixel art in the game, but it looks great nonetheless! Good job Thatworm! (Hope I spelled that right)

[@BenBonk]

Thanks, and yeah that worm did an amazing job

[@prod.n8te]

The game is looking so damn good, I’m loving the progress. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to help out with the game, I really like your content! Keep it up 🙏

[@BenBonk]

The legendddddd

[@accumulator4825]

Dude the game is really starting to come together! Great work to you and the community 👌🏻

[@omle8492]

something that could help so that you dont need to make a new sprite for each panel(e.g ui panel, mini map panel, weapons panel) is to make a sprite a 9-slice

[@lucianwasnothere.5945]

It’s amazing to see how far this game has come.

[@Nethanay]

I'd add the weapon's screenshake to the TNT explosions too

[@pandapigplayz7457]

love the devlogs cant wait for it to come out

[@rowanwillard]

I think the tnt box’s explosion would look better if you made the screen shake similar to when you shoot a weapon but a little bigger on impact.

[@rookrac7068]

Looking sick

[@BouncyBonBon]

I have an idea for a multiplayer mode, probably released afterwards in an update or DLC: 2-4 players spawn on a grid of rooms looking something like this (each player spawning in a room marked as 'P'): P OOO POBOP OOO P Then all the players race to gain as many slimeballs as possible within a time limit of ~5 minutes. The center room contains a boss that can be defeated for a huge amount of slimeballs. The key is: PvP is enabled and players drop slimeballs on death (you would respawn in your home room though). Whoever has the most slimeballs at the end wins, possibly rewarding them with a special outfit or achievment.

[@RandomPerson3826]

Hey, great video! I just wanted to leave this to say I've noticed you saying "in my opinion" a lot in recent videos. While I may not have any experience making successful yt videos, I don't think it's really necessary to say this unless you're talking about something controversial. But when you're talking about how a sprite or improvement to the game looks, an emphatic "this looks great" or "I think this looks great" would be better. With that said, it's super cool to see the progress you continue to make with the game and I'm looking forward to its steam release!

[@BenBonk]

Haha yeah, that's kinda just a bad habit of mine I guess. I'll try to stop saying it so much lol

[@acci9309]

Beta did an incredible job on the panels, great video! :) 👍

[@BenBonk]

Well it was really thanks to beta for making such great art, but thank you

[@idkbruh173]

I just saw the thumbnail, and I am already excited!

[@flyingdragon4613]

New UI looks awesome! Slowmotion is for me not enjoyable.. So maybe add it also in the settings to turn it off or on? The Panels looks fantastic, does this mean there will be lore in the game? Or how about adding multiplayer in it if possible. With LAN or Online friends where when adding more friends which will increase the difficulty of the game

[@BenBonk]

Not sure if this was clear, but it was just something I messed around with. It’s not in the game as of now. About lore, there definitely will be some, and is some right now, but nothing too crazy. And yeah, multiplayer would be awesome but I just don’t really think it’s in the game’s scope right now

[@flyingdragon4613]

@@BenBonk Thanks for the answer, Multiplayer would probably be fun to play but likely chaotic for you and the players. Keep it up, man!

[@Jammu_1]

I suggest adding more variety to the wall tiles and add some floor obstacles to make it look less empty

[@Dezo365]

You should make the start screen in color when the game is finished.

[@OGProdigyYT]

The buttons (Like in the charcter customization) look kind of bland... do you think you could use either the old or new checkerboard pattern around the buttons? I think that would look cool.

[@mugz85]

I always get super excited when you upload a new slimekeep devlog. Slimekeep is awesome.

[@Skeffles]

Great devlog. I really like the start screen art, it really suits the game.

[@TheInfamousLegend27]

can't wait for the full release, following this devlog has been wonderful so far :) keep it up!!

[@SomeOne-rw6gz]

We have come so far in this journey! Congrats!🎉🎉

[@Spooticus]

This game looks really unique and cute, but i cannot stress enough how "off" mixed pixel sizes look. It will make your game look so much more professional if you make certain all pixels are the same scale. And just a suggestion for the bullet counter UI element in the bottom right, you could have a fixed distance between bullets and a fixed amount of maximum visible bullets. With this change guns with 10000 bullets (hyperbole) wouldn't just gel all the bullets together in one big green slush, and you can clip off those excess bullets (only show 10/10000). So, show the top 10 bullets and maybe play a fade out / slide to the right animation on them as you shoot, sliding

[@Spooticus]

the bullets further upwards like a real magazine. You could also fade out the opacity towards the bottom to give the effect that there is "more beyond"

[@Xdoge78]

I love the game dude! I've watched every one of your dev logs and enjoyed them all! Keep up the good work, and I can't wait to play this game!

[@neozoid7009]

Awesome .. very happy to see a good Unity devlog

[@_Toaster_]

the small change to the floor makes it look less empty and alot better f

[@SaltyBacon001]

Hey BenBonk! I am currently making a game and i just wanted to know how you managed to get such a good community and how you got your game to get so well known. I don't have any money or anything to hire people, but i suck at making art and music. I would absolutely love to know how you got such a great community and how you came this far.

[@BenBonk]

Hey, thanks dude. I mean the only way I really managed to garner such a community is from these devlogs. That’s where it all started, and that’s where I am today. So if you want to start trying to form your own community, publicly posting your progress of your game online can be a great start.

[@SaltyBacon001]

Alright, thank you so much!

[@zz2353]

I’ve Ben flowing all the devlogs the second they come out

[@lennystudios3.14]

Great so far, I would like to reiterate that references and Easter eggs make me smile is virtually any form of media, and that text should be used sparingly, but great so far!

[@silverfoenix]

The green background of start screen should be changed... even the dark shade pallet is better Maybe have the creatures hold , raise or interact with the letters? maybe small ones sliding into till it reaches "i" ? Also it would be great if their numbers increase based on progression... start with the one above the logo then one type after the other start appearing when captured! Like unlocking members in holocure... Do the slimes have some kind of cheer sound? remember world of Goo? they used to make distinctive sounds like Yippee or Ohhh... maybe as collective they start chanting or something (Patapon)

[@lynnlo]

I really like the art style, keep it going!

[@His-Games]

I love that the UI design I put together ended up determining all the rest of the UI. Feels good.

[@BenBonk]

Haha yeah

[@BIG_D26]

I would really love to see skins for the pet that correlate to the skin that your currently wearing

[@qweekertom]

By the way, the "pre-start screen" is called a splash screen. Love the work and the start screen!

[@boibox]

you should add a "endless" mode where the slimes come in waves and in between waves you can upgrade your stuff and adding a new skin for the player after you beat "x number of waves"

[@Gendgi]

Looks fantastic! keep up the awesome work

[@EU_blade]

add the slow motion shooting as a setting it would be neat to use from time to time

[@_Dinoboy]

You should add screen shake when the tnt explodes

[@Speedrunuploads]

Will this Game Release for Mac (please)? It looks great and I love your devlogs, I would be happy to play this game when it releases 😀!

[@TheGuyWhoComments]

Are you planning on adding steam deck compatibility?

[@RedKingMTX]

you know it's a good day when BenBonk uploads a video

[@PrismaX2]

im well aware ur color scheme is green but i think it would be cool that at different difficulties the colors would change to maybe going from green(easiest) to amber (medium) to red(hard)

[@munchy8642]

You should make it an option to turn off slow mo med when you shoot

[@BananaGun37]

I feel like the house seems too person like for a house. Maybe a slime’s house doesn’t look like ours, kinda like shreks house matching what an ogre would live in. Cool video!

[@annabaxter6574]

Reminds me of MoonKnight that came out a little while ago. Love the intro screen.

[@uffboyletsplay]

I can't wait for the game to come out

[@BenBonk]

Same

[@hainesnoids]

Easter egg idea: on Mac builds only, add a “Macintosh mode”, which just makes the game monochrome green.

[@duidiot644]

Maybe add a little slow motion effect when things are about to explode or heavy weapons hit something? Like >just< right before the impact. I think this could exaggerate the entire effect.

[@miloking_yt]

Idea: Maybe you could add different skins for the pet slime, similar to the player skins. I don't know which skins you could add, but still. Would be cool to see!

[@PeterMilko]

Cool

[@pseidn4015]

Just some feedback. The buttons don't fit into the game like in the skin menu. you should make button ui.

[@manithdecosta1138]

Make the Samurai Slime's name 'The Slimeurai' I think it would fit nicely!

[@Specstone]

you should make the boss skin description to say "deafeat the ??? boss" and only change it after the player saw him so it wont spoil the bosses

[@Slyme_7]

is the cut scene at the start sped up? (in the edit) cause if not i feel like it should be a bit slower because the slime bouncing animations and such look a bit to fast in my opinion. also i love the new floor design

[@overman138]

I love these videos I wish you could keep adding updates so there could be more devlogs❤

[@tempatchtheveryweird3665]

When the world gets really corrupted, so much that the fountain has a 100% chance you damaging you the fountain should be dried up with no liquid.

[@rootERR0R]

He infact did make a start screen for his game!

[@sebbog]

dont change the spacing out of bullets just change the size of the background maybe the spacing too but also the background of the bullets so the bullet sprites dont overlay eachother

[@Codilext]

I would like the TNT boxes explosion to be bigger like for example a small shock wave because the explosion is looking quit small looking now

[@BobbeDev]

What a cool game I sure do hope nothing bad happens to it on July 9th 2024

[@DurianFruit]

Another great devlog!

[@houssambtissa2931]

it would be cool if the player had a choice to capture or kill the bosses and a way to somehow make a cure for the slimes and a way to slow down the corruption and have a normal mode when you defeat the slime king and one final slime pet skins.

[@petkoberta5555]

4:40 BenBonk really tried to use that reverse psychology on us

[@BenBonk]

whatttt, I would never do such a thing

[@flamingbirdz7918]

You should look into the intro to the first Dungeon Defenders. I could be helpful for some inspiration.

[@pineapplegoomba7123]

I think in the cut screen panels with the least amount of text it seems a bit empty maybe you should center the texts

[@poyogobrr7589]

Ima quickly morph the space time continuum to play this game right now

[@creepsthecreeper7167]

What if you could go back to the cutscene to rewatch it like if you accidentally skip it?

[@ZombinhoGames]

I think that when an explosion happens there should be a bit of screenshake, but i'm no professional game dev so idk

[@Robot345t]

I would like to have the walls turned into hills, that would make sense instead of walls that look like a dungeon crawler.

[@hainesnoids]

For the ui, I would try using a Gaussian blur system behind the ui. If that’s too hard, just darken the ui

[@Vilkku_taken]

you could make the boss unlocks be ??? until you beat the boss once to not spoil anything

[@moew1316]

Make the slime pet do damage and make so you can upgrade him for a summoner play style

[@NUTT3D]

Slime lore! Great stuff!

[@RamunatorGames]

The UI buttons should have some more feedback when prssimg

[@bioinvasion_]

I like the changes in the weapons UI, the mixels (inconsistent pixel sizes) feel weird tho. Also, the floor tile kinda feels repetitive. I prefer it to what was there before, but you can tell where the tile repeats

[@bioinvasion_]

Also, I don't remember if I commented this in the last video, but I had made a flame effect for the Mech boss. I sent it in the mech boss thread a few months ago. You could maybe check it out and see if you like it :)

[@larsmaas07]

THIS IS SO EPIC

[@BenBonk]

AGREED