Updated Player Controls // C++ Game Devlog #5

In this game devlog I upgrade player controls and general game mechanics before doing the first every complete playthrough of the first level. This is part of a lifelong dream I've had of making an entire video game from scratch in C++ by myself.
This video looks at the following topics:
- Player control
- Designing game mechanics and controllers
- Game engine programming
- Game development with C++
As of the recording of this video, the game is under the working title of "Cereal Adventure." It's an indie game in which a sentient cereal box must navigate a dangerous 2.5D world in order to beat out his breakfast competitors.
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[@AliMusllam]

For death animation, you can simply make the character go little bit back, then drop in the center, you will gain both the dynamic, and dramatic effects.

[@AngeTheGreat]

That's a good idea, thanks for the suggestion!

[@maixicek]

Cereal intro at 2x speed is so good! That limb movements and music so good, now I need to get it off from my head :D 0:06

[@OneEgg42]

Hey! you're not dead!! I was starting wonder where you were! glad to see you're back and great devlog as all ways

[@AngeTheGreat]

I'm not! Thanks a lot for watching, hopefully the wait was worth it 🙏

[@fernasim]

Really enjoyed watching you add these cool updates! I also like the new video graphics a lot! Great job overall and I can’t wait for the next episode 😄

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thank you! I worked really hard on those haha glad someone appreciates them :)

[@NeatGames]

Awesome progress! Might be cool if the cereal box character was the size of a real cereal box. (Currently it looks super big, so people might comment on it a lot or might not think it's a cereal box hehe) Keep it up :D

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thanks! Yeah I've noticed he is a bit of a jumbo, family sized cereal box lol... I'll try some stuff out and see if resizing works with the game aesthetic 👍

[@Fopull]

This game is looking super cool!! Can’t wait to see what you do from here!! Also I think a ps1 look would be pretty cool :}

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thanks! Things are going to get really interesting soon lol 😬 And thanks for voting, PS1 graphics are looking like they're gonna happen!

[@They0ungTravler]

Can’t wait for the next video

[@AngeTheGreat]

I'll try to get it out soon! Welcome to the channel ✌

[@They0ungTravler]

@@AngeTheGreat You’ve inspired me to want to relearn OpenGL and get back into it. I’ve always tried when I was younger and more eager to the end result more than understanding what gets me to the end result. I love this series so much, thank you for the content!

[@Norman_Fleming]

Refactoring . The art of removing just enough.

[@UnidayStudio]

That's amazing! I think that the retro graphics will look good as well. Also, the cereal guy is way too tall. Keep it up! And we should do a collab :D

[@AngeTheGreat]

Noted! I agree, he's a bit of a "value sized" cereal box right now lol ... I'll have to play around with the size since it's mostly a playability thing and not to do with aesthetics. And definitely, a collab would be fun!

[@UnidayStudio]

@@AngeTheGreat Yeah let me know if you want to collab! I have this portuguese yt channel here (35k) but I'm also starting an english one! :)

[@shaken5690]

Nice work! Keep going!

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thank you, and welcome to the channel!

[@veryveryveryvery7431]

Looks great so far , personally I think PS1 graphics could work well

[@AngeTheGreat]

Noted!

[@bpm.coding]

(For the animation whenever the character dies) You could make the main character turn back into a regular cereal box and bounce a tiny bit when it hits whatever it was on when it died.

[@AngeTheGreat]

That's actually a great idea! I think it might fit the PS1 aesthetic as well. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@lochrowley9997]

Great video, it's interesting to see how you work through things totally differently from how I would

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I guess that's one of the good things about watching devlogs is seeing how other developers go about solving problems

[@iBot.]

Retro, PS1 style graphics would look great if they're done right. If it's a 1-1 render it could look come off as a little cheap, but incorporating them with a blend of modern and retro could look really interesting.

[@AngeTheGreat]

I agree! Doing a straight PS1 emulator would be cool as a technical exercise but probably would be a bit tacky and lazy as an art style. Incorporating it into a modern game and making it work definitely will take a bit more thought. I'm working on the next devlog now, hope you'll stick around and watch it when it releases ✌

[@presauced]

Looks nice! Reminds me of "My Friend Pedro." which is a game i liked :D Anyways, good luck. Making a game from scratch sounds hard. But i am no means an intermediate programmer.

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thanks! There's a lot of stuff to learn but it's not too hard in my opinion, maybe a bit time-consuming haha... Welcome to the channel and thanks for watching!

[@presauced]

@@AngeTheGreat Hello! It's been 3 weeks, and i'm learning a game framework called "Raylib," in order to learn C++ development!

[@AngeTheGreat]

@@presauced Nice! Keep up the good work, it'll get a lot easier as you learn more 👍

[@presauced]

@@AngeTheGreat seems like you were right! I've made a lot of progress!

[@AngeTheGreat]

@@presauced That's great to hear! 💪

[@projectvibe1226]

Finally u posted

[@AngeTheGreat]

Took a while but we got there lol

[@micnasr]

pretty impressive doing all this on your own engine

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thanks! Just a lot of time, effort and making mistakes ✌

[@nikkiofthevalley]

The deletion and recreation of the player object is a bit overkill. I'd just update the player's position value to the spot where it's supposed to respawn.

[@AngeTheGreat]

Updating the player's position would work for a lot of games and it can be made to work for this game, but it's actually a little more complicated than it seems. There are some good reasons for spawning an entirely new player object. The first reason is code organization. A lot of times, the player object ends up getting loaded with so many responsibilities that creating a new one simply isn't practical. Forcing the player object to respawn forces the player object to stay simple and makes the rest of the game code more resilient by not assuming that there will always be a single player object (which can be useful for things like loading save states and moving between realms/levels). Also, imagine that you want to play a death animation, or show the old player model disappearing while panning over to the beginning of the level. At what point in that smooth transition would you move the player object to the new position without it being too jarring for the player? I can't imagine an especially clean way of doing it, especially if there is overlap in screen time between the two entities. Ultimately, both respawning the player and moving the player can be made to work, but I went with the most intuitive solution that matches what is actually going on. The player is given a playable entity to use until that entity dies, at which point a new one is spawned for them. More persistent game data is stored elsewhere. In any case I appreciate the suggestion and thanks for watching!

[@nikkiofthevalley]

@@AngeTheGreat Ah. I hadn't considered that. Also, your videos inspired me to redo one of my older projects, that is basically a framework to do general simulation. As in, the framework does all the rendering work, and the main program does the actual simulation. I had to rip out most of the older code, as it was an absolute mess because I didn't understand how to use classes and inheritance correctly.

[@VuVuuInc]

The next "Super Hot" but Cereal Version

[@AngeTheGreat]

You know it lol... the hybrid no one asked for

[@gtxo2104]

the climbing is really nice, i am also a solo gamedev im making a spiderman fan game on unity devlog on my channel if you wanna check it out keep going cheers

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thanks, took some effort lol... I'll check it out, thanks for watching!

[@hinokamianims]

I think he's to big and yes, retro

[@AngeTheGreat]

Thanks for the feedback and thanks for watching!

[@MegaSmile000]

PS1 style