Project Apollo - Making A Game From Scratch In 48 Hours !

Hey Pals!
This is a longggg video that's more of a "video log" than it is a "vlog". I cut together the all of the streamed footage from Ludum Dare 46 into a single video for your viewing pleasure. As I mentioned in the previous video, this is basically the precursor to Project Apollo, which I'm working on right now, so I thought it would be a good idea to start the series here.
Enjoy!
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[@joshuarowe8410]

Pissed myself at the water talk "I irrigated them" "I watered them" "I fed them then drowned them" "I hydrated them"

[@Longaray]

love you, man! You're helping me a lot on my pixels arts and you will definitely be on the credits of my game!! Greetings from Brazil.

[@joaoandrade2953]

onde eu consigo acompanhar o desenvolvimento do seu jogo?

[@user-gd5bj8kj8i]

It just occurred to me that I think telling people you love them casually like this is one of my favorite things. 😊

[@DrWolves]

Ey that's a great point. I too, will give credit to this fella and his channel for anything I produce in the future. Good call

[@yo5tan]

The level of detail you put into simultaneously making this a fun game, a gripping story, AND a beautiful piece of art is astounding!

[@RavenaciousTM]

Oh my god. I just played trough this game and it gave me chills at the end. It's so deep, sad and dark story, but it's fantastic. Can't believe you made this in 48 hours.

[@freewithnature]

I just adored that clicking animation you made! I would love to see you do more of these and grow as an artist as it seems that's your goal!

[@overbyte]

This blows my mind. The level of artistry across several visual and audio disciplines, technical ability and sheer endurance makes me never want to attempt this but it was amazing watching you do it. Thanks pal x

[@Warwicky07]

The best pixel artist on youtube.

[@zacharywilliams2]

That art was absolutely stunning. I loved it so much

[@Shrumpf]

your preparing was the most satisfying thing i ever saw, so inspiring for every project start, even non game dev project, thanks for that :D

[@Real_Genji]

I am so glad I found this channel. Videos like these showing the creative process are so motivating and I love every bit of this. Thank you

[@mounscape9572]

This a greattt video! Please do more of these challenges. The quality of your thought process is priceless

[@JureZagoricnik]

Watched most of the streams. Loved every minute.

[@tinycrate6498]

I love this long form video of starting and finishing a game all in one go!

[@Holdsworthands]

this video was so great, entertaining and inspiring, and the game ended up being really good, you are so good, you are like someone i would to be but i knwo i can because i hate coding but you seem to enjoy every aspect of making a game and you are great at every one of those

[@reshift2245]

Watching the segment about the screen slowly lighting up after you get to each check point and then the audio section got me thinking about a GMTK video where Mark suggested each enemy represents an instrument. I think you could do something similar, where the music becomes more vibrant the more of the memory you unlock. Just a thought. It's always great to see your work, keep it up

[@bsvolleyball1]

Such a great vid! Absolutely love your story, progress, and the final outcome

[@AdamCYounis]

Thanks so much!

[@_skeletoon]

Your content is always amazing, Adam

[@WaylonFlinn]

Great to see the whole process from start to finish.

[@Eight-Bites]

I've learned more from you in two days, than I have for any other subject across my entire life. I'm going down this path with very little prior knowledge, and two fistfulls of ADD.

[@Himedeus]

honestly my favorite channel now, binging most of it

[@jacobbridges859]

Thank you for uploading this video, it is really inspiring for a game dev just starting out.

[@johncormier]

I love how this lead to Arrowbound. Great game, Adam!

[@Tokanya]

Hi, I'm the guy that ask "is it live?" on your game's architect rant stream. Kinda awkward to comment there with all the serious stuffs going on. I start pixel art 2 weeks ago and I think I learn a lot form here. so yea, Thank you.

[@Notreal76]

You are so inspiring. I wish I had a similar skillset. It must be feeling so great to create your thoughts.

[@Lagnarek]

Incredible work! Well done!

[@themaazsreel9732]

bro you are a great gamer. i always admire your work its just top notch

[@katowicetrobs5502]

GameR? i think you meant game developer

[@whisperscribe]

Damn.. You are really good at game developing and pixel art! Holy!!!

[@maryneko-chan3035]

Thank you for sharing this here. 😊

[@TheAshpwns]

Love the popping sound effect

[@Christian-ni5li]

This is so inspiring! Would live to create a game in the future too.

[@MistaSmith]

Hm, also want to do an MVP in 48 hours now. That's a LAN Party time frame. Also, I really admire your art style. Might be, that it's too beautiful for such a quick game.

[@RoscoDomke]

Amazing! This is inspiring.

[@mediocreatbest1269]

This was great!

[@KifDawg]

You are an inspiration. Very talented, your wrists must get sore!

[@Light-wz6tq]

Amazing, you're such an inspiration to me

[@shid.account7629]

you did it! so awesome

[@ilanheas8723]

Amazing job!

[@roninlogic5107]

man you are one skilled individual

[@pedrofrutuoso1389]

Loving your content! Loved the game! Btw where did you produce the music? I mean, the software Best wishes from Brazil

[@paulvictor7489]

Sound is like sleep, you need it but you probably won't have much by the end.

[@DoubleV_Gaming]

Found you on KZbin today - Legendary content, if you needed a review 🤣

[@roamingcelt]

"keep it alive"=tamagotchi?..... 5 seconds of thought.

[@MoutPessemier]

You blow me away, great stuff! What's that audio program you use?

[@gazzolapw]

me > plans to sleep for 7h > lay in bed > too anxious to sleep > rolling in bed for the last 4h > sleeps 3h total > wake up because of anxiety

[@Jack91790]

You make it seem attainable

[@debashishmishra9309]

Loved your game and checked out your stream during Ludum Dare too. It was fun! Btw can you please tell us which application do you use as a drawing board in the video(the application where you are designing your workflow)

[@meneereenhoorn]

Also interested!

[@spacerpunk]

Also very interested!

[@gninest1641]

awesome

[@hjups]

Very interesting game idea! I also love your background art! For the curve you were looking for, there were a few possibilities. You could have used sin(x) where x goes from 0 to pi/2. Or a semi-circle sqrt(1-x^2) where x goes from -1 to 0. Or a parabola 1-x^2 where x goes from -1 to 0. I think using the Unity curve tool is more computationally efficient though since it's a bezier curve. I'm not exactly sure how Unity does the coefficients, but I would hope that it pre-calculates them, so that evaluation at runtime is just multiplication and addition (square roots and trig functions are expensive).

[@korneelverbeke9746]

U are so talented

[@ash4640]

great stuff, just curious what base resolution is that monochromatic bg

[@gauravbiyani350]

I am so jealous of this guy pixel art skills @.@

[@ZOMBIEBUST3R]

super cool game! just discovered your channel, super chill videos to watch, wish I could watch the entire streams but twitch does not go back that far :/ I'm curious about something if you can answer me, when creating the Text for each node you use SimpleAnimation and Helpers, it's something you made previously right?. They look like usefull tools, I was wondering if it was something like a repo I could check out, would make prototyping different little games way easier. Edit: Just saw that I could download the source code. Can I use the Helpers and SimpleAnimation scripts myself?

[@AdamCYounis]

Yeah! Those are both classes I wrote to help do tasks I find myself repeating all the time. SimpleAnimation is very similar to Unity's own AnimationCurve, it just handles the incrementing of values and "playback", so I don't have to keep track of a time parameter to pass into AnimationCurve.Evaluate(); Feel free to hop onto discord if you've got any more questions :)

[@ZOMBIEBUST3R]

Thanks! I love to do those little tools, they make work so much faster in the long run. Being able to do little work to achieve some quick results is so satisfying. Just joined the discord :) Have a nice week-end!

[@oitisme]

bro, you're a pixel god. Do you do comission work anymore?

[@2und2sind4]

12:15 Bill Murray and Tom Hanks have the same voice actor in German dubs, which doesn't help the confusion :D

[@stanfordtho]

45:50 Try File- Revert to last backup in future. Usually never lose anything. I think you can set time limit in settings but ive never lost a project completely, maybe just 1 audio recording where it crashed. But usually if you are rendering, it will remember whatever is before it.

[@Alasdare]

Whats the canvas size that most people would use for a 16x16 pixel character? I've been thinking around 256x144 but I'm very new to this and not sure whether that's usual 8-bit game dimensions.

[@Math429]

Is there a full video of the stream somewhere? I'd like to see how you did the shader effect in more detail. It's like black magic to me.

[@brianzhamilton]

Watching this on Groundhog Day. 😆

[@kid296]

Damn that fruity loops crash must have been hard. I hope you've checked reaper for game audio needs. Made my life a million times better.

[@Manas-co8wl]

Woah we entered the same dare. What a theme wasn't it?

[@nicomultilocke]

What's the app ur using for planning stuff out? Like the black huge screen where you put images and write in white

[@basslinemusix]

Most probably you’ve found it already but the App he is using is called Leonardo.

[@nicomultilocke]

@@basslinemusix yeah, thanks

[@1986DarkStalker]

What drawing tablet are you using? Any important differences between models?

[@AdamCYounis]

I have a Wacom Intuos Pro and a Huion 420. Opposite ends of the spectrum and there's definitely a difference, but any tablet you buy today will do the job, it's just about premium feel and extra features.

[@christinejanekudera9506]

Can i ask what program are you using for making music in this? and is it free?

[@sambrosii]

It's fruity loops and it's not free

[@dantedestefano6295]

What is the name of the software where you write things down?

[@kkrac78]

What is the app you're using to make music?

[@antsmith3284]

What are you using to create your storyboard? Thanks!

[@dimast5239]

What app do u using to create the theme music? im considering to use free app to make background music :)

[@_sparrowhawk]

Fucking inspiring wow

[@TheAnon031]

What app is he using to plan the game? The drawing board thing.

[@wayneadams9102]

What's the tool (app) you use for ideation or brainstorming?

[@gabrielfernandes3580]

And here I am watching this video 6 months later while playing Arrowbound (I'm this close to throw my phone on the wall)

[@Dexter-rx3xg]

I'm very, very impressed with this kind of painting. I wish I could draw pixels because I'm so bad. I'm very, very impressed with this kind of painting. I wish I could draw pixels because I'm so bad. Would you give me some advice?😁

[@domedin9894]

29:40 sprites are things I use arrays for the most by far.

[@TidySage]

Does anyone know the audio programs he uses? I know he's using Aesprite for the art and animation and Unity for the coding aspect, but I have no clue what he uses for the audio

[@AdamCYounis]

FL Studio 20 ;)

[@TidySage]

@@AdamCYounis You're an inspiration to me and other game developers alike! Thank you for all your hard work and insider information into the world of game development

[@RyanMcKayOfficial]

In case you are curious, it’s Famisynth causing the crashing in FL Studio, not FL Studio itself

[@AdamCYounis]

Oh, really? How did you figure that out?

[@RyanMcKayOfficial]

@@AdamCYounis I've used FL Studio for years with no problems and then I recently got Famisynth when I started wanting to write chiptune music. Any project that I used Famisynth in caused FL Studio to crash upon trying to close my project, but it doesn't do this in other cases. I have another music producer friend, who when using Famisynth inside FL also had problems. I avoid use the synth except for getting some ideas because of this issue. As an alternative I highly recommend looking up "Adventure Kid NES Sytrus presets". These presets for sytrus are great and have served me well. (you can also get the raw waveforms on this guys site) The best part about using with Sytrus is that you can take advantage of its band limiting feature to get a really clean sound. However these presets will be the base, standard nes sounds. You'll need to do more sound design in sytrus or add other effects to get more of the special sounds that Famisynth offers. Oh and if you have problems with crashing I recommend setting FL Studio's backup frequency to a higher amount, FLs backup system is really helpful.

[@AdamCYounis]

@@RyanMcKayOfficial thanks so much for the info, I'll check it out!

[@Mel-mu8ox]

When you think you have the answer to your programme 16:48

[@AwaisAli-rq2hs]

Which software is used for noting at start of video

[@michaelwallace9461]

Damn a lot easier to code it in unity than in pygame, but I'll stick with python for my Room on the Broom game, wish me luck!

[@selahYDT]

44:44 That happens everyday for me

[@bionic-boi4667]

what software does he use to draw and make games ?

[@jameshamilton3348]

What does core mechanic mean?

[@AdamCYounis]

The system / interaction that the game's identity is built around. So for example the core mechanic of an RPG is usually the battle system. The core mechanic of a dating sim might be a dialogue system with branching options.

[@liuckan]

what app is that - the one you are doing the sketching and writing like on a black board?

[@ewinter9021]

When watching the video, it appears to be called "Leonardo"

[@bryku]

What about a game in 24hrs without a game engine?!? Like an old school pong style or something.

[@sylas3184]

what's the name of the pixel app ?

[@benbadichi3078]

Moby Deer

[@kujibakwashe1058]

Can you post your art on itch

[@ZitroNnn]

What is the program he is using 23:30?

[@saxenart]

Aseprite

[@ynwilson025]

i quenched thier thirst

[@andrewstashko3447]

Can somebody say, what app he used to do a notes in the begging?

[@siegmayerofalberobello337]

You mean Google spreadsheets?

[@andrewstashko3447]

@@siegmayerofalberobello337 No, after that he made notes by drawing them on a big black canvas

[@siegmayerofalberobello337]

@@andrewstashko3447 I'm not entirely sure about the name but I remember him saying that he uses "Leonardo for Windows"

[@andrewstashko3447]

@@siegmayerofalberobello337 Thank you 🖐️

[@hldfgjsjbd]

“Lern” Oh, the irony

[@asdAS3]

is that unity?

[@rebornreaper194]

Question: When drawing on the computer, my lines are jittery. How do you get them smooth like yours? I don't have cerebral palsy, but the results sure look like it. lol (I'm new to using a stylus/drawing software.)

[@roadkill8377]

what software do you use? there should be a stabilization or smoothing etc slider on your brush somewhere

[@rebornreaper194]

@@roadkill8377 oh, that's great thank you. I will check this :)

[@otadvorsky7212]

great chanel idk why you have only 3k subs you would deserve more great videouse realy help me continue please

[@playboyy21]

im making a game and i need a cover art, can i pay you to draw a cover art for me? thank you

[@JohnDoe-qg6hm]

LOL 1 hour for Wasted :D HAHAHAHAHAH

[@socius3865]

Dudes been "working" on a game for 5 years. Spends most of his time entertaining you all. Planning and building mini games, recording video, editing video, eating, shitting, sleeping. He will never finish that game.

[@AdamCYounis]

We'll see!

[@superking9945]

If you're a non programmer you should use godot

[@katowicetrobs5502]

I dont what do you mean by that cuz If you make a game you should know how to code to understand what you're doing

[@PeterMilko]

nice man I do pixel art on my channel too

[@jackussoplikus4033]

what does mean polish mechanic, polish art

[@AdamCYounis]

Polish is the thing you wipe on a car or on shoes to make them shine. In English, if someone says they're going to "add polish" to something, it just means "to make it look clean and presentable".

[@jackussoplikus4033]

​@@AdamCYounis OH THANKS .sorry I was mistaken with the Polish country , because I come from there XDD but I liked your movies

[@mertb.297]

@@AdamCYounis you are a great man

[@antwarior]

why you didint just make a regular survival game like everyone else, this game theme was kinda way out on a limb, would never play such a game