The 12 Days of Devlog Christmas

[@imgeorgeirl]

It’s been incredible to watch the progress on this game from the beginning! You never realise just how much you’ve accomplished until you look back on how things started

[@Sirbozo]

daa

[@henningKO]

I'm an animator by trade, and y'know what? To me, the animations look fine! They match the cute, bumbly, cozy aesthetic you've got going already. Rigging and articulating and getting believable weight and motions on these guys is gonna be a deep pit you will sink your time into, and if you go part way but not all the way, I fear you're going to enter a kind of "uncanny valley" that a lot of beginner animators live in... You say yourself modeling humans isn't your strong suit. Well animating them is an order of magnitude harder... Anyway, I know you're smart and capable, and if you're excited about animating, then by all means have at it: I will enjoy watching! I am just saying... it's a can of worms and your lil guys are charming as heck already.

[@ThinMatrix]

Thank you! I'm very happy to hear you like them. I'm actually hoping to not have to implement skeletal animations for the reasons you mentioned.

[@faizahmohammedaruwa]

I second this! The animations are ADORABLE as is!! ❤

[@GrittyMaholmes]

this dude dosent realise how much i love these videos , videos like these of poeple making things and having such a lifestyle is what i started coding in the first place. please never stop these videos - make more more AND MOREEEEE

[@slvrcross]

Gorgeous advent calendar idea.

[@kevinshao4873]

Appreciate you showing the periods of roadblocks and how you deal with them. Wish people would talk about this universal experience more. Happy holidays!

[@AllDayRayRay]

Man, your life seems pretty great! I'm happy for you. You got some nice friends, a nice place to live, good food and an awesome environment.

[@axlvc509]

2:50 `public void init()` I can tell this guy is British 💀

[@bastibob660]

Im not sure if you’re joking or not

[@darkice6340]

😂

[@kaese.0548]

I really love your Devlog videos. They´re always super interesting and entertaining : ) PS: Your 8 bit computer is amazingly cool and I´d love to see more on that. PPS: Your food always looks soooo good ^^

[@brettneale]

The 8-bit computer is from Ben Eater - he has a whole KZbin series on designing and building it, and you can buy kits.

[@abyssaltheking]

merry christmas!

[@ThinMatrix]

Merry Christmas to you too!

[@Sirbozo]

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[@qwfp]

I'm glad you're sharing even the moments of struggle. It's all too easy to watch devlogs and feel inferior, because you watch someone make a lot of progress in just 15 minutes, while in reality it takes two weeks, including a full day of work without visible progress. So, actually getting to see that is really encouraging!

[@YuCheoul]

Bread. It's funny to hear "less thinking more doing" during a devlog. Good job taking a break and good job in general.

[@JVitorCamposz]

It's amazing to see all the progress that you has been doing with Homegrown, sometimes you had mentioned the city builder and started to remember the bad feeling about what made you gave up from that project This sensation of worriness that tries to take your control is really complicated to avoid and beat. I has been studying game dev since january and i gave up a lot from my projects, always had "Interesting idea, let's make a prototype to test", play a bit with the code and never touch it again This feeling of being dumb and committing the same erros from the previous almost made me gave up from learn game development. I know that for a developer which has made a "succesful" indie game, the pressure about your next projects increase a lot, at least there is light in the end, we all trust on you bro, you're amazing and is one of my inspirations to continue trying to improve

[@dexterman6361]

This so dang cool! I wanted to get into gamedev but wasn't sure how to fund myself. Thank you for keeping the dream alive ❤

[@Juampi1990]

Have a really great end of the year and happy festive days. You have been a great company for me this year. Since i really like what you do and the vibes from your videos i started something while watching them. I normally watch youtube videos while playing or working. But with your videos i do nothing else, maybe a cup of tea or some mate (argentinian brew). But try to focus in it and enjoy it without all the distractions we get in our daily basis. Hope you are ok and we can keep this ritual next year. Have a great start.

[@ivandimitrijevic6095]

WTF?! You have 25 friends?!!! Uuuuh la di dah... 😂

[@ThinMatrix]

Haha, I'm just friends with the organizers, they're the ones with 25 friends!

[@FantaLaTone]

it would be really cool to see the villagers talk and interact with each other when they collide like walking on the same path seeing them talking or laughing would be amazing

[@drjoriv]

Very excited about the game. Looking forward to it coming out

[@matt_huesman]

So inspiring! These videos help motivate me to work on my own projects, thank you!

[@Samwidges21]

As someone working on a city builder I can confirm that dealing with interruptions to behaviour trees is a bit of a nightmare.

[@Joern290]

Yaaaay a new ThinMatrix video- what a nice Christmas present!!! Happy holidays everyone! 💫

[@varimahenry]

This was a cool vlog, interested in that 8bit computer project. Really cool

[@chadzulu4328]

Merry Christmas. Homegrown is looking great. I love the 8-bit computer too, so fascinating!

[@luckyboy5nu]

How much does your healthy lifestyle impact your productivity? you seem to take breaks, go out, eat healthy, be in a good environment.

[@codehawkfalcon]

Lovely video as always

[@mordiaky]

Add object to distract like have a guy pushing a wheelbarrow, add roaming animals around town like birds deer rabbits etc

[@VastavPansuriya]

Brother you are very discipline person as I can imagine, I wish I have personality like yours.

[@arsk95]

would love to see a tutorial of how u make ur assets, would love to learning that. anyways a really good vlog. Happy holidays n see u next vlog

[@nicolasgalipeau3632]

It's probably a lot more work to do it this way, but it makes your videos much more enjoyable for me! In any case, love the progress don't give up! (And I understand your struggle with the interrupt actions. I do the AI in our studio and yep, it's always the messiest part)

[@LifeOfMohammed]

This is exactly what I needed to end of my Christmas! Its been an awesome day and I wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas Karl! Everything is looking so good, I can't wait till the game it out! I am curious how do you export the game do you still do a FAT Jar? I do love how you show the code then explain it and show how it works in game like its so cool to understand how its working! Would you ever consider making tutorials again or explaining the code more? It was so much fun following them! I also love the video style like showing your IRL life! Especally the end with all the electric stuff! Building ur own computer! Awesome stuff as always excited for the new year!

[@roz1]

Your videos always make me so calm ... I think you are living your life to the fullest... Enjoy man

[@karmandev]

Happy holidays and a merry Christmas! 🎄I'm already looking forward to your video's in 2025

[@nonlinearsound-001]

First the City Builder and now the Farming Game. It’s how many years now, since you created income by selling your last game, five? How are you sustaining yourself in terms of paying your bills? I would like to do the same thing at the same amount of time but then I wouldn’t know, how to make a living just by creating my game in such a long period of time bevor selling it and actually creating some income by that. :) Is it crowd funding and KZbin or some other method , you can talk about?

[@iso_2013]

According to the Patreon link in the description there's ~$2k/mo of income from his Patreon, and then KZbin on top of that

[@TomaszJakubKusienicki]

Great progress! Thank you for sharing the struggle as well! ❤

[@Hibro123GameDev_]

another thinmatrix video, another 100 dopamine into my brain! also happy christmas 😊

[@benjoe1993]

1. Amazing video. It made me sad at first but, it was amazing to see how you don't let the bad memories of an unfinished project bring you down! 2. How does one become part of a 25 person friend group that does not-so-secret-santa? :D

[@LordFers]

Merry Christmas! Ty for the video. 🎉

[@clonkex]

Wow, she's singing and playing? That's incredibly hard to do!

[@Warp9pnt9]

I hope one day after this farm game gets released, you can return to the city builder and finish that concept, as it had so much progress and promise.

[@bjarnew9441]

Hi thin, great video I liked it quite a lot :) maybe in the future you should be a little bit more careful what to show. I recognized a lot of the surroundings just by watching, no geogesser, I pretty much figured the area where you live I think ^^ just wanted to let you know, have a great new years and keep up the good work and motivation ❤

[@alexoverstreet]

I started seeing the eyes as really bushy eyebrows and now I can’t unsee it

[@kr15t14n_]

2:06 - This song should be in the game as a rare item you can find

[@jonweighell]

Merry Christmas! I love the villagers and the animations - I wonder if the eye brow position is a tiny bit low? I also wonder if their colour should match the hair? Either way, they look amazing! 😎

[@lorelk8782]

There needs to be a rare villager that has a fishing rod and says "Mornin', nice day for fishing, ain't it? Hu-ha~" when you click him...

[@assage]

15:39 Create an empty object and put a character in it. Now there will be no problems with rotation when animating the character, because you control the position and rotation of the parent object.

[@CELERY111]

I swear every GameDev I know also Boulders! That Gym looks sick, I must be on the wrong side of Hamburg

[@Sirbozo]

can you make tutorials about modern opengl lwjgl? new ones pls if you can :)

[@drjoriv]

yes!

[@franckdoukaga5938]

Merry christmas to u

[@quantumgamer6208]

Merry Christmas 🎉😅😊

[@ZevKev]

multible custumisable colors could also be used to have some fruit shown as rotten on a tree or infested with a bug / i mean it can happen irl

[@Disketaa]

A little walking animation where legs are moving might be a nice touch imo 😊

[@bassman87]

i also uilt a Ben Eater 8-bit computer and I found some NVRAM that will store the contents of the RAM even when there isnt any power. Saved me from having to rewrite the program everytime i turned the computer on.

[@quickaslight945]

Hey, if you don't me answering, what kind of monitors are you using?

[@Finkelfunk]

I'd actually love to know just how exactly you got the game to interrupt the action so smoothly? Like, I saw the .pause() method being called, but can you share how you interrupted a running action? Does this just set an internal state and continuously check if the state is set under the hood? Or is there some other black magic at play? I've been trying to figure out how to actually interrupt running code elegantly for a while, maybe your ideas are more clever than mine. :)

[@bsdooby]

Oh you do an 8bit CPU/computer from scratch 🎉 more of this plz :)

[@TechnicJelle]

13:13 we have the EXACT same (water) measuring cup as you :O

[@RealEngineer]

What and how is the cba files used in Java? Kinda looks like lua syntax.

[@programinghub8497]

Amazing video! Where are you froom btw?

[@RenderDragon]

Very nice devlog as usual! I was wondering, how do you view scenes in blender so they look exactly like ingame?

[@cnotv_dev]

Sorry but I have a bunch of comments disconnected. I have the feeling that you are moving more and more (no pun intended) from gardening to your town builder game :D Nice baking skills there! Cute the Equinox frame :) Handmade advent calendar is an excellent idea indeed! (25 people for 24 gifts as you do not present yourself :P) The eye color is too prominent and it look like thick eyebrows :D The overall look is great!

[@naradoxy]

I like the villagers, though their body proportions are weird in my opinion. I'd at least make their arms longer

[@jobvantuijl]

How are there commands from days ago, even tho the video just released

[@PixlatdMC]

why is this unlisted, it didn't show up in my subscriptions feed

[@musicaldoodles9615]

Yeah I don't understand it either but alr

[@Lunamuse35]

Nice... Really need a tutorial for c++ opengl

[@__klettern__]

12:52 did you leak your name and email adress (Google Drive Folder on the right)

[@ntandotshongweni5240]

do you use any ai tools in your workflow?

[@bardsolas]

Really fun and great progress :) Maybe to add some thematic flair maybe consider adding non-human character designs (humanoid-racoons, moles, badgers etc.)? Right now the theme is lacking in a "hook" so to say

[@jumpkut]

I think this is a great idea

[@yaman2326]

What is your ide?

[@naturalevo180]

:D

[@jasdebi9372]

why would someone play this over any other farming game? guess you're just making this for fun

[@davidt01]

Why would you watch this over any other dev log video?