My Journey into VR Gamedev (ft. Godot 4)

I got into VR through somewhat unconventional means. After thousands of hours of experience in playing VR games, I decided to finally jump into VR game development with Godot 4 since they just recently added official XR support.
Patreon: / dafluffypotato
My Discord Server: / discord
Check my games here:
dafluffypotato.com/
Music:
Cave Story Arranged The Way Back Home - DM DOKURO
• [38] DM DOKURO - Cave ...
Moonsong - DM DOKURO
• [25] DM DOKURO - Cave ...
Timestamps:
0:00 - not even a computer
0:58 - making money
2:15 - vr is awesome
3:08 - here comes godot
4:40 - blender???
5:22 - game ideas
6:28 - vr gamedev is hard
7:58 - bow & arrow
8:41 - creating the world
9:44 - spoilers!!!
Thanks to my potato tier patrons:
Agent Effe
Dale Topley
Eivind Teig
fatcake
GaryTMSFruitcake
Sam Cork
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RyDawgE
#gamedev #godot #godot4

[@DaFluffyPotato]

I just found out about Blockbench, so I'll probably be trying that instead of Blender soon. Texturing is quite tedious in Blender.

[@Extner4]

yes I hate UV mapping for pixel art

[@manwhas]

Can you make a new tutorial with all advanced topics like raycasting,graphics,etc into one video and start from basic?Do you have any paid courses?

[@ehad1753]

It is kind of tedious but I actually kind of prefer Blender since is a tool I've used before. I'm currently using it for this exact same style, you just gotta get a hang of it. Plus, I think that getting experience in a more specialized software such as Blockbench could be less attractive for a portfolio compared to expercience in a more widely used tool such as Blender.

[@bits3608]

I had no idea that existed, thank you

[@morbidlyocheese]

I immediately thought about Blockbench once I saw your models lol

[@LazyAlarm]

I love how well your art style translates into VR!

[@isthezenreal]

omg its you

[@shockingboring_]

this. pixelated lowpoly artstyles have so much potential and are criminally underused in VR

[@Mistereee]

The games looking pretty cool! Pixel art in VR is always a cool aesthetic.

[@pizzi_]

the retro style is always pretty cool

[@mrtz187]

I'm really looking forward to your VR journey o/ Awesome video as always

[@BastiaanOlij]

Nice work! great to see another Godot VR game starting to take form :)

[@pietraderdetective8953]

Awesome! More Godot 4 contents please!

[@Extner4]

let's go Godot

[@Woef718]

Wow cool stuff i think the pixel art goes really nicely in vr!

[@orange-kk5dv]

I swear I just get more impressed everytime you do something new

[@noxistudios]

You're awesome. Great work and thanks for sharing your experience.

[@dicember92]

jeez! it's amazing what you're capable of doing!

[@AmineGM73]

I am really impressed by your work !!! keep it up 👍👍👍

[@benjamin_y97]

Good luck! Thank you for sharing!

[@Dailyfiver]

Instant sub. I just finished the video and it was so informative and entertaining.

[@johnstarfire]

very cool the video of the game at the end, good job

[@crabirl]

So cool! So fun! Can't wait to see more!

[@JasPuu_]

Love your content!

[@HxsrzStudio]

amazing work bro

[@light2937]

Man , looking at your archery game , it's satisfying to watch ..

[@andis2595]

Kinda cool, just crazy that you even tried to do a game in the first place, the mentality that something you do is worth something (didn't hit me yet, and I am doing creative work etc.)

[@latenmuniz773]

I haven't watched the video but I'm glad you're making videos using godot

[@timmytws]

I thought that I remembered your name-! Well done with the game creation as well as your success in pavlov and beat saber! :D (I am a Beat Saber nerd myself and have grinded scoresaber for a few years)

[@NotFourResale]

damn this looks sick

[@naturep1x3ls]

DaFluffyPotato commited the same crime twice in the span of 2 years: he used godot 4 (Thats just a joke, ofc)

[@brokenportals]

Blenders definitely an entanglement, especially for low poly models. But the pixelate and scale nodes in the composition editor make it really useful to get a ps1 inspired effect on your models. Usually I go with 0.250 to render the model, and 4.00 for the display in the scale nodes.

[@realeatisaiy]

very nice :)

[@Magnolia29]

As someone who started in pygame and has begun working in godot 4 this is really cool to see! If you happen to make any 2d games I would be really interested in seeing your experience and how you transition from pygame to godot. Seeing your adaptability to VR is really making me want to get into 3D stuff now though. Great video!

[@DaFluffyPotato]

I'm still using Pygame for 2D stuff

[@komatoad]

super inspiring. i want to do this too

[@scaffus]

3:28 damn, that's one hell of a commit history

[@bxstiii]

Yes finally. That is the same thing I want to do currently.

[@findot777]

godot lets go dot

[@zyugyzarc]

da potaeto is on da VR now :)

[@julianojosoa2145]

Blender Guru's Donut tutorial is 🔥🔥🔥

[@Your_Friend259]

holy shit, ure so talented :O

[@99JasonKim]

nice one

[@ChristianUlufanua]

subbing wow , todat i was thinking can i make a vr game. after watchjng this, i think so !

[@plagueonhumanity7413]

"Unless its a Questie" (derogatory) great. Good taste

[@kthxbye1132]

HAHAHAH. I love how you test your game.

[@wiktor9673]

Love the Arceus plush

[@FrogTesseract]

Epic!!!

[@sinus4784]

There's a setting in the oculus debug tool to disable to proximity sensor

[@donatoclemente4421]

Godot?? Lets gooo!!!

[@Malak-rb6vu]

Finallyyy! ❤

[@RiftTraveller]

I put tape on the sensor when I want to keep it active.

[@Me-meThePig]

Does this mean Godot 4 tutorials? BTW really liked this style of video.

[@DaFluffyPotato]

no tutorials at least for now. I still barely know what I'm doing

[@qu_feigenbauma]

A bow!!!! 7:37 wow!

[@costelinha1867]

Nothing like Potato literally using Pokemon God to help him test VR games lol.

[@maniksharma9736]

Thanks for choosing Godot.

[@BumpDev]

How did you make the water shader

[@mondobe]

Nobody’s mentioned it yet, but nice background music 👍

[@mondobe]

I can see a lot of Cave Story influence in your games in general, actually

[@idkbruh173]

The tumbnail was so fun to look at, I immediately recognised your style, but it's in 3d. Also btw the thumbnail screams blockbench lol how did you not use that at first

[@DaFluffyPotato]

From what I understand, the main difference is just that texturing is more tedious in Blender. I don't think it's hard to make something look the same.

[@ChristopherSprance]

Something I see developers at my studio doing is they'll invert the view controls in dev and where the headset on their head backwards. SO you can keep it on and move your head around but you don't need to look through it

[@DaFluffyPotato]

I guess that helps with the screen problem, but it's still a weight on your head.

[@xXYannuschXx]

8:00 at least in Unity they actually do this in an official VR tutorial to animate a trigger.

[@UnderArea51]

Okay, about elephant in the room, will the new Mojo programming language that is built on top of Python, to fix the "slow" problems once and for all... the fist language that allows users to name their files with Emojis as an file extension. Will this language take off? Push Python games to main stream for indie developers???

[@TrentSterling]

FWIW I also develop with a 1060 6gb and honestly a standalone native build for the quest 2 outperforms my PC (in everything except post processing)! I regularly hit 120hz as long as I keep the lighting simple/postfx off. My PC struggles to hit 120hz, no matter what the shader complexity 😭

[@DaFluffyPotato]

Maybe you're cpu limited or something?

[@zatozastovic6719]

DaFluffyPotato may you pls make tutorial about making levels or better said maps for the game? I looked at your json files from your previous game and they look messy. I guees you used a program or something to make it? I am stuggling at making map for my metroidvania game.

[@DaFluffyPotato]

I probably will in a new Pygame tutorial I'm working on

[@Dailyfiver]

Hey there! How did you advertise your game on steam to get that many sales? I have a game I’m developing and my biggest weakness is definitely the sales/business aspect. Thanks for the great video!

[@DaFluffyPotato]

Reddit

[@daskampffredchen9242]

I would really love to get both into Godot and VR game dev. Would it be possible that you share the source file and project files from your game once you are done? Or some part of it. Of course only if you dont intend to sell it and only do it for the competition

[@DaFluffyPotato]

I always do for stuff I release

[@FuShi-hr4vc]

please answer me can i add in app purchase in game made with pygame 😅

[@DaFluffyPotato]

Yes, but I don't like them

[@KuzmaProDev]

Wow, good progress in 3D and VR from scratch. How much time did it take?

[@DaFluffyPotato]

Learning blender was a good chunk of time. Maybe 20 hours in total?

[@4115steve]

Are you using gdscript? I'm starting out and I'm leaning on learning gd script instead of c# to simplify things. What would you recomend?

[@DaFluffyPotato]

I'm using gdscript (as can be seen in the video)

[@noTmeDev]

cool

[@SuitedGhost]

oml in the bow and arrow part how did you get the trigger input? ive been trying to use the xr action map for an *F'ING WEEK*

[@DaFluffyPotato]

I don't remember. There are some examples out there. The Godot Discord can also help.

[@SuitedGhost]

@@DaFluffyPotato k

[@Yipper64]

1:44 well frick how do you do that? A game that makes money made in a month?

[@SuperDhrumit]

Please can you recommend any book on computer game programming

[@DaFluffyPotato]

I don't read any

[@YmanYoutube]

Hey man if you don't mind me asking, What are you majoring in?

[@DaFluffyPotato]

CS

[@keyonnnnnnnn]

Hi I’m wanting to start Godot but idk how to code and literally have no experience whatsoever how do you learn gdscript?

[@DaFluffyPotato]

There are lots of tutorials

[@keyonnnnnnnn]

@@DaFluffyPotato i know but ive looked every single inch of the internet even on here shit i got so desperete i went on tiktok and didnt find anything

[@odiverso4407]

Could you make a video on how to make money with programming skills? I live in a shitty third world south American country, and I just wanted to have a better life. I tried everything possible, like freelancing, linkedin, sending my resume to jobs. None of this worked

[@odiverso4407]

Where do your game ideas come from? Please make a video on that

[@DaFluffyPotato]

Usually from game jam themes

[@odiverso4407]

@DaFluffyPotato ok, and how can I become smarter like you?

[@hetzel3606]

Would it be easier to make a game for 2D and then adapting it for VR or not at all ?

[@DaFluffyPotato]

Proper 2D is completely different. If you meant 3D, but on a 2D display rather than VR, it can be done. Games like No Man's Sky have ported successfully to VR, but typically games made intentionally for VR are better experiences.

[@hetzel3606]

@@DaFluffyPotato oh my bad for the confusion, yeah i meant 3D flatscreen. thank !

[@ccencceth]

bruh how did i not realise you were hitbloq creator. ive been in the bs community for years and i started watching ur vids today after stumbling across them in youtube recommendations and this is how i finally realised.

[@DaFluffyPotato]

lol

[@BusinessWolf1]

You should consider porting your 2d games to mobile for extra monies. Other than that, yea, I too felt like the people saying VR dev is much harder than regular development were just not good enough as developers for it to be easy. Just like anything in life, you gotta get really really good at something for it to be easy.

[@MrGenius2]

3:28 HOly shi- what is wrong with that guy LOL

[@Arktius]

9:35 no in the future so now theres quest 3

[@DaFluffyPotato]

I actually just got one, but I use it with my PC as a PCVR headset.

[@spenceabeen]

Gonk :]

[@Erbmon]

It must be nice to live in the administrative first world. In Europe if whould take 3 months and loads of papers to be able to cash in from making games.

[@DaFluffyPotato]

To get the money from the sales? Really? At least you don't have to pay $400 to file your taxes (on top of paying taxes).

[@Erbmon]

@@DaFluffyPotato o that sucks too, I guess is different flavors of f you from government

[@randompandemonium4823]

I make games on my computer witch I found in a trash can I have 4 whole ram and a 30$ cpu

[@RyDawgE]

Did you guys only place #2 in NA after I left 💀💀

[@DaFluffyPotato]

We did when we had Vision and we did last season.

[@RyDawgE]

@@DaFluffyPotato fair enough

[@kesorangutan6170]

This is very impressive. Though you should play Half-Life Alyx even if you are not a half-life guy. Maybe it'll give you some ideas for your VR game. Listen to the Half-Life Alyx developer commentaries too, they gave some solid advice for VR development.

[@DaFluffyPotato]

I played it when it came out. It was great.

[@rudy147]

I have 1050 Ti 😥😥

[@knut-olaihelgesen3608]

Is you come from Python and want to use a game engine, Godot is the go to. It's powerfull and easy to use. Most likely you are never going to be using Unity's and Unreal's most advanced features, so Godot is very good

[@MeemBeen]

"IRC similar to discord" Fuck I'm old as dirt.

[@costelinha1867]

Of course you're making content about VR, why wouldn't you lol. Good luck tho, VR seems pretty interesting.

[@MuddyWolf]

_waiting for progress update_

[@DaFluffyPotato]

Next year. Busy with Pixkartz and graduating. 💀

[@MuddyWolf]

@@DaFluffyPotato 😭 I'm going to hold you to that.

[@MuddyWolf]

So it's next year... 👀😂

[@youngminkim923]

Beat Saber pro developing VR lol

[@neozoid7009]

Did you switched to Godot from Pygame ?

[@DaFluffyPotato]

I can use both

[@neozoid7009]

@@DaFluffyPotato awesome But why You Didn't used Unity for this VR project??

[@mrtz187]

@@neozoid7009 Because Godot is quite lightweight

[@neozoid7009]

@@mrtz187 I am asking Him , How Could you know ?

[@vitorgabrielgomesrodrigues]

Oooh, ur the guy from discord

[@DaFluffyPotato]

???

[@jellyman3927]

nice , 3d math seems terrifying just started 2d game dev and im already sick of 2d math

[@foqsi_]

Bro recreated Terraria with a potato sprite and make 3.3k? lol damn

[@Raja-iq5pn]

race reveal?

[@daskampffredchen9242]

He is making an archery game. No cars so far :)

[@bxstiii]

Nah I don`t think there will be any races in the game. But we will see in the next Videos.

[@_gamma.]

1060s unite! 🙌 I’m still running mine for Pavlov 🥲