Sapiens - Four Years of Indie Game Development

[@thomasholt3697]

This looks really cool, but with such a large open world, I would say that looking for a way to encourage exploration is vital to the design

[@jake-lum1800]

100% agree

[@ArtanisTheEvil]

mineral deposit based on earth real mine locations or estimated mineral locations could be a thing; in effec, much more can be done to give reasons to move, basically is in terms of survability and resources

[@jake-lum1800]

@Female Android epic

[@SpartaCraft22965]

@Female Android Could you elaborate why?

[@jake-lum1800]

I believe that this will be a great idea, although I imagine it will take a long time to work out how to execute it. As if this is a multiplayer game I believe there will have to be some sort of combat. Without this I think the game could have it's drawbacks.

[@nicktimestwo]

Imagine this in multiplayer on one giant server where you can start anywhere on the earth, Imagine all the things people would make over the years. Amazing.

[@Alakabram]

NickTimesTwo it would look like crap since people are like that in all open world games that allow you to build anything x)

[@bernhardmuster2776]

right, big islands in penis shape all over the planet

[@hobbs8391]

​@@Alakabram well you chould limit the building to be in citys and in plots in said citys this whould make it play able if you let people make citys and the build size expand with the population

[@generalnw]

The servers where people would actually make good cities would be whitelist servers

[@DumDumDaru]

EXACTLY what i was thinking. when i saw it in its "plain engine" stage i was thinking about first person view survival with whole world to explore. that would be amazing

[@arhamsanzid1662]

I don't know how you made this possible, there is so much work. this is developed by 1 person? this is extraordinary!!

[@thaias9654]

Time can work wonders!

[@Schmidtstone]

1:20 I love this rendering of the atmospheric scattering. I could look at this for hours

[@izuix5629]

developer.nvidia.com/gpugems/GPUGems2/gpugems2_chapter16.html

[@nothke]

@@izuix5629 The link you provided is actually a pretty old atmospheric scattering technique, the one in the video looks to me like Bruneton's precomputed scattering (google it, I implemented both)

[@sandercohen5543]

There is also kerbal space program with the "scatterer" mod. As the name might suggest, it adds atmospheric scattering, among other things. i.imgur.com/57dtFc0.jpg

[@heyyou494]

Is it made in Unity?

[@PresidentialWinner]

Go outside

[@klearlykonfused9996]

KZbin Algorithm brought me here..... I like what I see!

[@madfire8403]

Same with me. For once it seems to be actually working

[@pabol1000]

Hahahahhahahahaah me toooo

[@Unknown-ry3md]

Same.

[@TheRealDrWho]

Same

[@PhineasMaxemus]

SAME

[@Angoose_]

For UI, I find a bit of transparency looks good for build menu/inventory

[@sophieosu]

More people need to see and upvote this comment

[@skyzkid415]

was thinking the thing, good idea!

[@hisnameisjoel]

That moment you added grass really made it come alive! This is super inspirational. Thank you for sharing this review and inspiring those of us experimenting with gamedev to keep going!

[@MattNeufy]

*recreates the Earth* Well at the time it was only a small project

[@emmanlive]

I like how your mic sounds kind of hollow, gives off a uniques tone in this specific scenario of you speaking about your development process! This video is awesome and has inspired me!

[@Apolochon]

You have so much potential with this prototype ! 🤩 I imagine an evolutive gameplay style, something like this: Struggle to survive as a tribe, adapt, grow to a big group, split them, expand, settle elsewhere and setup trading routes between your cities. With less micro management the bigger you get. I don't see any threats but maybe there could be other tribes and the game would feel like civilization or age of empire at some point

[@johnny14794]

Game has such huge potential!!! Would love to give it a spin and alpha/beta test it. Just the looks of the atmospheric effects and aesthetics already looks impressive. I can imagine when added weather effects like rain, snow, etc. will add so much immersion. Perhaps later on even a VR version of Sapiens would be nice as well for us VR Headset owners. Keep on the great work! God speed!!!

[@irusansonofarusan]

What an impressive project! I'm looking forwards to seeing where this ends up.

[@FlowStudio]

This looks terrific, I can't wait to see your future updates mate!

[@yosha_ykt]

Agree

[@israelpaterno8353]

Man, that world in sphere shape is what I need in my gaming life. I'm so tired of flat worlds that I was wishing this was possible to make, and you don't know how happy i'm feeling right now.

[@4ntig3n]

I just wanted to say that I really like the way the menus look at 14:55 The combination of the stone slab, with the clean text gives it an overall unique and neat/clean look. I'd keep it that way.

[@Hello99955]

Looks really really cool! Please don't let this become another rushed never-finished 'early access' release, I'd love to see a solid full version of this cool little game :)

[@jackcampbell4593]

So I'm watching this video right? And then I'm seeing the low-poly look right? And I'm like man I'd buy that. And then he whips out the non-low-poly look right? And I'm like JEEZ - FEBREZE I NEED THIS GAME IN MY LIFE

[@psycensign]

yea i like the way it looks reminds me of the art style of runescape 3

[@cameronbowden2909]

its amazing that he is undertaking such a huge project by himself. The game is shaping up very well. Checkout his blog in the Description, he has added even more cool stuff like AI, different tribes, houses, and new UI changes. Really quite amazing and I can't wait to see it when it comes out.

[@GoodBoy-ty8km]

@U’re Mom Dude this is so cringe let's go watch Leafy instead

[@MCernoble]

Jack Campbell I prefer jeez Louise thank you

[@Vorexia]

@U’re Mom U're Mom

[@zacharybowen1624]

You've bought yourself a new sub and a follower of your game! I'm really looking forward to seeing what you come up with keep up the amazing work!

[@pizzashtndragon]

Well done this looks really awesome! Knowing you managed to do this completely solo is really encouraging for me with my own project. So massive thanks to you, I'll be following the game development from now on and hope it goes well for you :D

[@XYZTrooper]

One thing I like is that you're working out all the more difficult mechanics before expanding upon them and adding the easy stuff. This opens an infinite amount of doors, the potential of this project gives me the excitement I've been missing from games lately.

[@TimeoutMegagameplays]

I imagine if there was more people working in the project it would be possible to make a game where you simulate evolution and civilizations, you would be able to research tech from the stone age until modern age and make huge cites with giant populations, with that new civilizations would appear and wars would start, you'd be able to dominate them or to find a peaceful way to cooperate them creating full countries and in the end populating the entire planet with huge cities. I know it's too much but dreaming doesn't hurts.

[@arsanity2167]

Sapiens to Humans, I like it

[@JakobFrankMogensen]

You basicly described SPORE

[@TimeoutMegagameplays]

@@JakobFrankMogensen In Spore you create your species, in this case you would play with humans and evolution comes automatically, but yes, its the same essence.

[@oooodaxteroooo]

Jakob Frank Mogensen just what i thought. so: EVERYONE can be a game designer, if we can come up with will wrights ideas by ourselves. that is, if the op didnt just remember spore in the back of hus head. ;)

[@resphantom]

And maybe space exploration from randomly generated polygon planets, which can hold valuable resources.

[@History4Teens]

Wow! Brilliant work as an artist and a programmer. Watching the development process was very medicinal to me and cleared my headache I've been having all week. This is the first video I've watched of Sapiens but I've quickly turned into a huge fan. Keep up the great work! I'm excited to see what's next.

[@jameskoss]

I came into this video curious and sarcastic, thinking why waste years of your life 'remaking the wheel' sorta thing. But then I watched the whole video, and I love your aesthetics and sense of joy. The result is really endearing! :) Screw efficiency. Keep it up.

[@Magpie1701]

It turns out you'll learn a lot reinventing the wheel

[@jameskoss]

@@Magpie1701 you just won't get much anything new done heh

[@jameskoss]

@@eaterjolly Unreal Engine 4 is open source, so no real reason to make a 3D engine, unless it's really *really* for a different design.

[@jameskoss]

@@eaterjolly Their incentive has always been double-fold. One, for their own use. Just knowing the code isn't good enough. They still hire new developers. And Two, a good programmer maintains his code well. It's a matter of artistic pride and professionalism. I get the impression that a 3D engine's source is simply not newbie friendly. Ever. And it shouldn't be. It's just stuff that is way beyond newbies. While they could improve on the UE4 source, or looking forward towards UE5, there will never be a newbie-friendly source for a robust 3D engine. It's complex even in its smallest form.

[@jameskoss]

@@eaterjolly Tim Sweeney comes from that place of passion. He also did and does the core of UE4 and before. There's a misconception that programming should somehow be newbie friendly. It's false. Basic programming can be newbie friendly. Complex programming will never be friendly. It's like expecting advanced mathematics to be newbie friendly.

[@RugbugRedfern]

I remember watching this for the first time. Keep up the awesome work! Just stumbled across your channel again.

[@cyrusjameskhan]

This looks awe inspiring man! Wish you best of luck for future development and look forward to playing this one day!

[@halcyongrey2576]

Hey! I know this will probably never be seen but I wanted to say thank you to you for creating one of the most influential iOS games of my childhood, Chopper 2. To this day, nothing has come close to it. Glad I can still play it today thanks to GC.

[@gagacraft]

The amount of time and love you've put into this game really comes across. It's super exciting!

[@AKThem06]

it looks really good i know it's been four years but what you're doing is just incredible to me as a guy who just started to learn how to make games in unity

[@MrHattor]

The tale of two videos in my recommended: a standard AAA trailer cut with a bunch of “inception” sirens and heavy handed voice over from the protagonist about how “this time things are different” and this video, which I actually watched all the way through and left me excited to see the game in the future :)

[@stevelarry3870]

Robert Mills The tale of two videos I’m going to mention for KZbin likes: a standard AAA trailer that I just made up to have a strawman to rail against with a bunch of quotes and cliches that rarely if ever show up in game trailers and this video which isn’t a trailer for a game which isn’t being advertised because it isn’t releasing soon.

[@pabol1000]

@Dave Frampton I would find really interesting if, maybe as a late game option, you could ride on these mammoth to travel at least a bit faster, transport big amounts of resources that may be widely spread or something like that (I could think about some minerals or metals). In other words I am amazed with your work and super hyped out. Have so much luck with the project!

[@jjay109]

you made blockheads? Thank you for contributing to my childhood, and I am looking forward to this game. ❤️

[@baldbutton1983]

Love the atmosphere, lighting and water. The way the light reflects off the water and how natural everything looks. Excellent job man, I hope this eventually turns into a game I will support it

[@sie85]

After writing 50 lines of C code for a triangle on my screen i quickly said to myself: i will use somebodys engine. Ended up using Unity now. Also hobbying next to my JOB as a software engineer and hopefully will get a game going soon. This game of yours already looks nice, keep it up!

[@Scottx125Productions]

That's pretty much the entire programming world. Why re-invent the wheel when it was already programmed 10 years ago? It's just a waste of resources.

[@lennysmileyface]

@@Scottx125Productions To learn how it all works rather than just treating all the features as magic from the engine. I like having knowledge of exactly how my engine works.

[@sie85]

@@lennysmileyface I do also, but on the other hand. Spending probably a lot of years for a good engine, and then ending up with something thats not even close as good as unity or unreal. No thanks. I would rather spent my time on making the actual game and have the luxury of my engine beeing maintained.

[@jhulep7396]

I love playing indie games. I'm supporting because I want to see this completed and hopefully do some gameplay vids of it in the future! Keep up the awesome work!

[@GreenFox1505]

I was so excited at the beginning of this video seeing the raw scale of this world. But by the end, the global scale seems so wasted. Don't get me wrong, this seems like a great game. Just seems like way more engine than you need for this scale of gameplay. You could have gotten away with a much smaller world. Unless someday this game will take up a full globe worth of world.

[@ludvig4752]

I really hope there will be a big server someday where clans and empires are being built to actually gradually take over the whole world. Like history repeating itself in a game with different countries and maybe even languages.

[@majicDave]

Hi, I understand what you are saying, and it is sort of a shame, I agree. One thing I found out though, is that in order for that scale to feel meaningfully huge, you need to be confined to operate on it in a very small way. The scale really is lost if you become huge in power and freedom. I do hope that as these primitive people evolve, they get the power to travel large distances. I'm not sure exactly how yet, but I don't intend to waste this scale by the time the game is done. And it'll feel all the more massive for having been restricted at the beginning.

[@DRicke]

It's worth pointing out that there were a lot of civilizations that managed to achieve influence / dominance over rather large areas with relatively primitive technologies -- i think the real trick is finding reasonable ways to scale the power without getting dragged down into micromanagement. On a side note, this is my first exposure to your project, and this is awesome! I've always wanted to put something together that has a semi-realistic simulation of world creation, and it would seem you've done a great job of it.

[@pabol1000]

@@majicDave I would find really interesting if, maybe as a late game option, you could ride on these mammoth to travel at least a bit faster, transport big amounts of resources that may be widely spread or something like that (I could think about some minerals or metals). In other words I am amazed with your work and super hyped out. Have so much luck with the project!

[@anolkrdnz]

@This Is My True Form is this astroneer?

[@camaretcreations]

It would be the coolest thing ever to have a free build feature along with the pre-built feature. You could make it where the player can go into kind of a ghost mode to freely build a structure however they want and once they submit a final version of the build, it would go semi-transparent and the people would begin building it slowly over time. Great video, and I can't wait for this game to come out!

[@kipchickensout]

i think you should also add caves and temperature so the higher you are the colder, plus add weather and snow and you know, everything that changes temperature.

[@Wolfeydubstep]

I loved the low poly look, but when I saw the full transition to more of a realistic look I was blown away. You're doing some great work here and I'm really interested to see where you take the concept.

[@waffielz3106]

so this is what 4 years of surfing and coding does, nice

[@Scottx125Productions]

4 years of learning C++ and making your own engine basically this is all you'll achieve. I also imagine he's got a job up and running. If he decided to use C# and a pre-made engine It'd probably take him half the time to get to the same point, that's with probably learning more about modelling and sound design.

[@Karokendo]

@@Scottx125Productions more like a month

[@jameskoss]

@@Karokendo more like a week of loading premades lol

[@slumpdogyt]

@@Scottx125Productions but again now he doesn't have to pay any royalties at all, unless he sells on like steam. If I could make my own engine, I would.

[@abeedhal6519]

@@slumpdogyt Could have used Godot.

[@No_One2k]

getting close to eight years i hope it'll release soon looks ineteresting

[@AdobadoFantastico]

11:40 Shape keys/morph targets are probably not a great way to go for your style because the planes are defined by individual triangles. They'll just look like warped versions of your base mesh. It's more effective with high density topology. I think you'd be better off compartmentalizing facial features into discrete meshes in a Mr Potato Head fashion and designing the parts to look as different as possible to create a sense of variety. Maybe make a library of eye and mouth textures instead of using geometry for those. You'll probably get the highest value from focusing on hair and other large shapes that affect the silhouette. Just stumbled upon this video and your project for the first time, looking forward to seeing this unfold as you add more features :D

[@majicDave]

Interesting, thanks! I'll give shape keys another try at some point, now that I've done away with the flat shaded look. But if that doesn't work out, Mr Potato Head may well be the way to go :)

[@potatolord7319]

I'm thinking that when they get clothing it'll help, I'd recommend some elaborate outfits for that purpose. some issues though If two sapiens get the same outfit, you would still rely on their faces larger amounts of sapiens is always going to be tricky to make individual if the sapiens change their outfit that could be an issue(maybe they could have a preferred style? (this sounds ridiculous, but give some random values for clothes at birth and they will choose they clothe with the highest value) so many outfits is a lot of work, asset creation is the most time consuming part of game dev sometimes but this is a natural part of making clothes from multiple materials(just realised you may not even have hot-cold or tribal identity??!(sorry I have been reading dwarf fortress devlogs) mechanics to make this necessary). Another dev has given them hats which exist from birth until death and cannot be taken off. this would suit your portrait UI but I don't think this is your style. An easier option for this is colour values like colour or hair, skin, eyes ect Giving some rank description to their name (chief, doctor, child) genders and children. perpetual facial expressions would be funny( some guy who always laughs, frowns or screams) but I dont think this is your style some stupid ideas in here but maybe it will give you some better ideas of your own

[@brandonallen2301]

This is so awesome! I love that you let yourself enjoy the design process so much. It seems to have resulted in an extremely multifaceted engine, even before any gameplay was implemented.

[@lifeartstudios6207]

Awesome projects! I feel that the grass snapping between colors so fast for grass wind effect is pretty distracting. I would say blend that some more over time.

[@lennysmileyface]

I think adding more and longer grass would help that too.

[@Nightstick24]

This looks amazing, such an interesting idea. I'm truly excited to see where this goes and what you end up with! I'll be checking back for updates regularly, when you need testers I hope I'll get the chance to try it out!

[@jeffasbestos7813]

This game looks amazing, both graphically and in terms of game play. It has a lot of potential and I can't wait until it's finished; until then, keep up the good work.

[@banjobill8420]

Good Lord some of those early shots (with the trees and the water) look like a photograph. I always like to see these kinds of videos, Definitely looking forward to the finished product

[@jabrilsdev]

despite all the time & amazing work you've put into the engine, what impresses me the most is your draw distances, & knowing they are NOT a skybox or incomplete geometry. I love your project Magik Dave. 😁

[@OsimonB]

I haven't wanted this game for so long... I've gone through several designs and played with different prototypes and I can't believe you've create my dream game. This is amazing!

[@vcjg287]

Great project bro. Remember, slow and steady wins the race.

[@steilethesen7436]

What an awesome, inspiring and calming video. Really looking forward how your game develops! good stuff, sub is well deserved

[@Tudvari]

Holy moly. Very inspiring :) I also worked on my game engine, first as a hobby project, then as a univerity thesis ... but I couldn't get this far :D Keep it up!

[@Mynameistux]

Wow man, really impressive. When you started the video, explaining that you worked on it as more of a "hobby", for 4 years without an overarching direction, it initially put me off. Now that I've seen the engine you came up with I'm super impressed, and excited to see where this ends up. Obviously lacking in content right now and you clearly understand that. I look forward to playing this one day. Keep up the excellent work.

[@jacobhaig2372]

You've made the road, now build the car!

[@RamkrishanYT]

I'm planning to become a software developer and hoping to go in the ML field. I was lately getting depressed about my little progress on the projects that I was attempting, the codes kept getting bigger and bigger but the output looked extremely basic and I started to feel that I wasn't smart enough to build proper softwares at any point in my life. This video was a heavy inspiration to me and it motivated me a lot, sir. I now know that it takes times to code something even of a moderate scale as it took you 4 years to get to this point in the game development. Please don't take my comments in any demeaning way if they felt unjust and diminished your work in some way, please just think of that as my naivety. Thank you very much for such a cool video.

[@KixTricks]

You didn’t release it 3 years ago as an early access game with only 1 hour of gameplay, so I’d say you’re doing real good so far

[@Sneakymaple]

This would be really fun to play with close friends and family if it had a multiplayer aspect, in fact I can imagine how developed everything can become with more content and many game hours with someone you trust. It brings back nostalgia of playing Minecraft with my brothers, or when I played Spore in the creature or tribal stage gathering food and recourses, killing other npcs and making friend npcs. It even reminds me of watching people play Rust. This has a great survival game potential, it can go in a lot of directions but I like this games original aesthetic.

[@JJNincorporated]

This is absolutely fantastic, keep up the amazing work!

[@virocman]

This is seriously awesome. That's a lot of work, and it's easy to tell that you love it. Thanks for the insight into the process.

[@colepemble4876]

Nice! I also script and code on LUA! I really hope your game takes off. It looks great so far!

[@scatheroy]

This is lovely. I'm also an indie developer just getting started with games after years of web apps. Looking forward to where this goes. Congratz on a beautiful game that looks like it has a ton of potential - I wanna play it already :) LUCK!

[@HE360]

WOW, very beautiful scenery! I am sure that this will be a great game when you are done!

[@rafalpotasz]

Random video in my 'home' but I LIKE IT SIR. Really well done, just generally on carrying through a cool project like this so far. I hope you are rewarded for it, internally or externally :)

[@Avidi]

Very cool project man keep it up. I am also working on a mobile zombie survival game for around 2 years now, id love your opinion on it!

[@misterbeach8826]

"all on a procedurally generated planet larger than Earth" -- really? he will never finish it because it will be boring walking simulator with a lack of gameplay and many likes

[@safir2241]

That Guy Username checks out

[@Zagar099]

Uh minecraft, @That Guy

[@juanrojas2595]

Well if your gonna make a mobile game, please, please make it good.

[@Avidi]

Juan Rojas trying my best to do so!

[@thefluffymarshmallow6930]

You can really tell how much effort you've put into this. It's incredible.

[@ejl8412]

How do you run a world that's soooo huge?

[@micspamgod2324]

EJL BLOB ikr

[@ivang3678]

Chunks generation

[@sophieosu]

it's not loading it all at once...

[@sokrates297]

Look up LOD

[@ejl8412]

@@sokrates297 ohhhhh ok, thanks!

[@Schwing27]

Very cool! The fact you are doing this all yourself is pretty incredible! Keep doing what you are doing. You have a gift.

[@aedan_s]

Your game is looking great Dave! Can't wait to try out the alpha!

[@gigapede]

You’re rocking it! I look forward to your gamification process and how that develops.

[@jalius7878]

This engine looks dope!! the size of the world is astounding! Primal tribe warfare?

[@ChooseKindness9999]

I want this in my Steam library. What you do inspires game devs all around the world. I have just one suggestion: make 5 servers for the main continents: Asian, American, Oceania, African, European. These would have a single multiplayer world on them.

[@hexbriar-valorforge]

How did you start the project out? Do you just make a new cpp file and just start coding? Or did you go off of OpenGL tutorials?

[@MrNurseinTExas]

Correct, it is not advisable to start off saying "My first project will be the game I always dreamed of making"..... Instead you must build a skill-set. First, start small. Say something like " I just want to put a capsule on the screen and move it around on a flat plane".... Then; say "Now, When I press the SpaceBar flames should shoot out from the front of it"................... As an amateur developer myself it is super easy to be overwhelmed by the scale of all the work involved. Take small steps and be inspired to have fun along the way. ABSOLUTELY DO NOT go in hoping to make your dream game. You will only frustrated yourself.

[@MsSomeonenew]

You can go from nothing and learn everything about models and rendering as you go along, but that is a very very long and slow road to take. If you actually want to have a playable game within a few years I suggest starting with an existing engine.

[@hexbriar-valorforge]

​@@MsSomeonenew I'm interested in game engine development. I've written compilers and operating systems. I'm up for the technical challenge. Just looking for a starting place.

[@fefswfae242]

@@hexbriar-valorforge Handmade Hero channel: kzbin.info/door/aTznQhurW5AaiYPbhEA-KA Physically Based Rendering Book: www.pbr-book.org/

[@mineman2142]

This is incredibly interesting and it displays the iterative process that you went through as you refined your ideas

[@lukakldiashvili303]

When I added grass to my project, that’s when I realized and decided I wanted to make games. Grass changes so much lol

[@christoph6055]

When I added grass to my life, I decided to become a drug dealer. Grass changes even more!

[@lukakldiashvili303]

@@christoph6055 Good one ;d

[@michelchaman6495]

I read this right before he said it.

[@MrRevan0035]

Be sure to build mechanics which inspire a sense of progression, exploration can do a lot in the short term but in the long run compelling progression and overcoming barriers and opposition is what makes a game like this thrive. I'm liking what I see so far!

[@lucass6988]

Why did you create your own engine tho?

[@nick4819]

Because he can and he doesn't need to pay anyone to use theirs. :)

[@Artintrex]

You can create your own engine especially if you are a one man developer, not that difficult tbh. Difficult part is to make it usable for artists. Or creating 3d procedural world and scattering effects for a simple strategy game. 4 years and still not in a presentable state...

[@fabianmeyertoens]

@The Kraken Aren't Unity3D and UnrealEngine free?

[@nick4819]

@Fabian Meyetons yeah..but maybe those engines aren't capable of doing what he plans to do with the game.

[@stevelarry3870]

Fabian Meyertöns Unity is free, but you have to pay if you don’t want a watermark. Unreal is free but you have to give I think 5% of your profits to Epic if you decide to sell a game using it (unless you use EGS).

[@merlinklink3872]

Amazing, Back when I was 10 or 11 in 2014 I wrote up something as a game design, a poly based survival game without zombies or anything, I haven't seen much of this video yet but it looks really similar, it makes me so happy!

[@rjzipper]

now, show this to flat earthers. hahaahhah

[@616Metalhead616]

No please don't!!! This could strengthen their thinking because all of this is a simulation... :D They would say.., Look, you made this in CGI.., the Sky.., the fake round Planet!! That's the proof!! The Earth is FLAT!!! But to be honest.., everyone should know.., that we live in the Matrix!!! xD

[@sweetberries4611]

@@616Metalhead616 lol

[@616Metalhead616]

@@sweetberries4611 x'D

[@MisterPogman]

Symbiote Lmfao

[@benrex7775]

And show Minecraft to someone who beliefs in a globe. Notice anything? It doesn't make a difference.

[@MrWizarddog]

You are doing a great job! I am definitely going to buy it the day it comes out! Absolutely beautiful and awesome work! Super excited to see where it goes!

[@danwebb6766]

Hey Dave. Looks awesome, mate. Definitely going to be following Sapiens' development. If you're ever after an artist (environment art, mostly) just hit me up.

[@flounderflounder6833]

Aaaaaand subscribed. I'm looking forward to watching the rest of this development unfold

[@malomalovids]

You should totally keep this low-poly feel going and stylize the game a little more. Photorealism is kind of burnt out unless it's absolutely mindblowing, imo.

[@oooodaxteroooo]

malomalovids dumbo is another good example, why realism has a place, but is certainly not the default way to go for entertainment. just IMGAINE: every book or film would be realistic. its... almost sad, yeah? ;)

[@kipchickensout]

i love low poly shit paired with awesome graphics shit. i mean about the way you would play minecraft with shaders but more polygons

[@chiefcaptn1922]

@@kipchickensout nah

[@moistmalone2181]

Yeah photorealism can age badly over time in my experience, where low-poly styles can remain timeless.

[@JackBread]

I love this video and your game!! It's so interesting to see a game progress from start to finish and I'm so excited to see how you'll progress going into the future. Keep it up!

[@DJL3G3ND]

oh wow, the randomly generated planet thing is what I've been really wanting to do recently, wouldn't have a clue in hell where to start though

[@YaINNNNN]

I've never really prorammed games or anything 3D... But I would start with a sphere, then go on to tarrain generating, maybe randomize it, so every planet is different. Then start adding textures to different height, e.g. on high places snow, on low places water, in the middle grass or sand for desert. then start adding physics to the water. and so on, just what I thought how i maybe would apporach it :)

[@shadda8472]

@@YaINNNNN I think you usually don't make your world a sphere, not sure why but probably because of easier physics and basically everything's easier. You then just kinda connect the edges. If you want some kind of curvature you'd probably do that only via rendering and not in your real world.

[@YaINNNNN]

@@shadda8472 that's right, you usually take a dice and "blow it up" to make a sphere, for more symmetrical triangles to model the world, I think a KZbinr called david lauge has a video about this

[@s1ndrome117]

The water looks Phenomenal! Congrats!

[@taaviherzog3268]

When I look at this, I don't see a game. Least not a durvival game. I see someone who just made Earth. He literally is breathing life into a world that was formed from nothing but his hands on the keyboard. This is epic. Don't make it a survival game. Make it something that people can just watch as the game unfolds itself, with animals and humans and weather and everything. Yeah, it's a lot to ask, but four years got you thus far and nobody says it has to be just like our Earth. It's unique to the people living in this engine. They know only what's around them, just as we know only what's around us. You are their god, and you have made them a home.

[@samim.5091]

It's pretty damn hard to believe you made your own game engine for this, like bruh... You are so focused and I admire your creation so much

[@jordans9801]

i really want to learn how to do this stuff

[@Vicorcivius]

Then you need to first learn 3d modeling, Go download Blender and get at making 3d models and animations. You probably will also need to learn a programming language. Check out GoDot Game Engine, Just google it, Its an absolutely free game engine that you can use to make 2d or 3d games and it has everything you need to actually put the game together and get it up and running. But you still need to be able to create your own textures and 3d models and sprites all that stuff. Unless you just use free ones or something or buy some off a website.

[@jordans9801]

@@Vicorcivius thanks, this is all the basic information i needed.

[@quaesitumspatium7751]

I’ve been working on my own game myself and this is extremely encouraging! Thank you! Keep going!

[@Potato-oj5fz]

idk if this is the game design you want, but it would be really cool if you added ages (primitive, bronze, iron, medieval, renaissance, etc.)

[@voinoldungr513]

This looks utterly amazing! I for one can't wait to play the game. Insane that it's just a one man development team, I'm wondering if you could put together a team to make it move faster while still having control over the creative process? Also it would be great to have two gamemodes in Sapiens: Singleplayer - the player controls the development of the humankind from hunter-gatherers to a developed self-sustaining civilization and Multiplayer - the player controls one tribe in a server where each player starts off with just a handful of people to control Alternatively - multiplayer where each player controls one human, and they have to work together to build society. Can't wait for a playable version!

[@simonrockstream]

I am SO impressed! AMAZING work!! Did you make the music at the end of the video?? I like it!

[@Espen_Danielsen]

Came here thorough the google algorithm, and will definitely be back. Amazing work for a solo project. Can't wait to see when you release and allow modding. This is a great starting point, and I could see it becoming a first person Civilization...

[@itriedtochangemynamebutitd5019]

I think you should make a "universim" or "Civilizations" type of game, where your people build automatically.

[@frgeneralnation8759]

THIS, on a earth scale with countries and evolution, industrialissation, is my dream game!

[@FulgrimDragon]

I'm so glad youtube recommended showed me this cause this looks awesome, keep up the good work I'll be looking forward to playing this one day

[@RSA-nuker]

Holy shit mate this is so cool! The whole adventure of learning and creating is something ive always wanted to do and I think you have inspired me and many others. Game is looking pretty good to man amazing work!

[@splitpierre]

Wow man, i'm a web developer, and have been thinking some ideas for a game, but i don't have many game devs connections yet, and it'll be a bit of a learning journey. I've been measuring the work around the whole game, and when i thought in doing all by myself i thought, jee, this gonna take around 4 years, and it kinda took a bit of my motivation away as I don't have much extra time available for building games. This was definitely a found Dave, amazing work, i'm heavily inspired by your work, specially low poly artwork and visual, now I feel fired up! thank you Very much! Now i feel I can do it! Recipe: Just enjoy the ride, no rush, that's the game towards original work/good code. Cheers from Brazil!

[@waffielz3106]

wait you can always add the Sci-Fi stuff near the end

[@dinkz9206]

amazing work dave, awesome work on the indie game.. add a cool plot and a purpose and it'll be loved by many. beautiful

[@fillman86]

this looks like you've had fun, but you may want a gdd to stop feature creep :P and it may be a little late to create an art board. Having an art board would help you have a contiguous art style, but it'd also stop you from over thinking things. I'm thinking I'm gonna sub, because you've got mad skills man.

[@lukeagex]

Bloody awesome, so impressive given you've created this by yourself. Great work, be proud!