Why I'm Grateful For Godot

[@foxidgamedev]

I have never expected this video to get so many views, thank you so much! Btw the game has now been released You can still get 20% OFF for the next 3 DAYS. 👉store.steampowered.com/app/2529290/Dampf__The_Cozy_Tower_Defense/

[@amirhm6459]

I trying Godot just out of curiosity, really surprised how fun it is creating game in Godot. And because Godot is designed for solo or small teams it is not feels overwhelming to learn like other engines.

[@michaelthefurrycat2093]

i dont get it

[@captainbube1217]

@@michaelthefurrycat2093 you dont get the engine? watch clear codes "the ultimate introduction to godot"

[@Location_unknown_studio]

I have been working in godot for about a 2 months now and am about to release my first game in the engine. I've really like using godot so far it just feel amazing to use. I can't wait to play your game, keep it up

[@xpuv37]

How did you learn the engine so fast? I’m struggling to create code and art for my 2d game

[@foxidgamedev]

I can recommand itch.io for getting 2d assets you could use as placeholders in order to focus more on practicing coding skills. For me is the best way to learn new things to only learn things you actually need step by step rather going through long tutorials except they accomplis excatly what you want to create. If someone has a lot of time in a schedule between 2 months you can get very far but we also don‘t know the scope or have any info about his preexperience. Keep it up. One day it will pay off. And its okay if things taking longer for you. What matters is that you have fun a long the way 😉

[@Location_unknown_studio]

@@xpuv37 Well I had a few years of using unity under my belt, so I would say that's probably the reason I learned it so fast

[@xpuv37]

@@foxidgamedev that would be nice thanks

[@GodotNoContext]

Waiting for Godot.

[@rattleheadx]

Currently working on a project with an artist friend and trying to convert many hours of work from our old code base in Godot 3.x over to Godot 4.x. It got discouraging, and when you're the only one who can MAKE you do it, your own motivation is all you can rely on. Stick with it and hang in there!

[@foxidgamedev]

Oh that sounds exhausting. Wish you the best! I already have a steam page, so I guess I have no other choice ^^

[@mohamadaljeldeh]

I'm currently building on 3.5, is that bad??!

[@rattleheadx]

@@mohamadaljeldehI'm no expert, but if 3.5 has the features you need, feel free to continue using it. If I was starting a new project, I'd use 4.x, but if you're well into your project and don't NEED to move to 4.x then I wouldn't. The project I've been working on has definitely been difficult to bring to 4.x. In fact, I've basically decided to re-create the whole thing from scratch in 4.x. Part of the reason I'm rebuilding it from the ground up is to make adding multiplayer and SteamWorks support easier. And much of it has been pretty easy to recreate, since the assets are already there and I can look at the old code rather than having to work everything out from the beginning. But converting it was just not going to work, so here I am. So, yeah, if you're not just starting out with your project, I'd only move from 3.5 to 4.x if you need something that only 4.x can offer. 3.5 is still a perfectly useful engine! Also, they've continued work on 3.5 to polish it up.

[@foxidgamedev]

That depends. But I wouldn't say its bad. However, if you starting new projects 4.x would be my prefered choice. But if you already building your game in 3.x and put a lot of work in it I would stick with 3.x for this game/project. Some might use time to migrate to 4.x but that is really not necessary as long you really don't need any 4.x features. The same goes for 3.x. It is possibly that things broke with 4.x which are working fine in 3.x. :)

[@mohamadaljeldeh]

Thank you my friend@@foxidgamedev

[@DavidGillemo]

My biggest issue is staying motivated. I restarted from scratch too many times :). If it was a day job (in a hopefully motivated team) it would probably be a different thing.

[@foxidgamedev]

I can absolutly relate. I've recently found that it's okay not to understand everything, and not always to understand your own code, project, patterns or structure. Especially when projects got bigger, I was frustrated. I had and still have to much perfectionism. I believe sometimes it's probably just better not to think about whether you feel like it.

[@redone823]

The other issue is too many distractions. You need to be bored and godot can be the only thing you go to.

[@redone823]

You'll never be motivated because you're getting cheap dopamine hits from elsewhere, be it: video games, movies, social media. It's why working out and learning a new subject is so hard. You have to put in a lot of mental energy and effort to see a small amount of result. The way to fix this is: learn the hard stuff first thing in the morning, before work or school if you have to. If you don't, then you have to cut yourself off from social media, gaming or anything with cheap dopamine. If you don't discipline yourself, no one else will.

[@Seisry2]

this probably because you don't have a dream game to make.

[@ThinkWithGames]

I can definitely relate to feeling like "is this idea I've been working on actually fun?". Your game looks cool!

[@arturogarcia8742]

Im new in this world of game dev, you really inspired me to continue and start hardworking on it. Wish you the best. You got a new sub here.

[@disinlungkamei2869]

All the best man

[@flor18gatar]

Your game looks great! Can't wait to eventually play it!

[@GodotNoContext]

Waiting for Godot.

[@postfixnotation9829]

Great content. I'm looking forward to your next video 👍

[@bmr_pl]

The editing is on fleek

[@KAPGamingStudioLLC]

You got this! I believe in you!

[@1mIz]

u got this man. i see you are a hard working person. keep this up.

[@GodotNoContext]

Devoted waiters for Godot are working hard! 🙃

[@AnggaFurasesa]

good luck dude... keep it up 👍🏻

[@Fallingoverbackwards]

117 subscribers? Should have way more.. subbed

[@LUCID_Rokka]

Really nice video, wish you the best on your journey :)! Keep on creating. Viele Grüße!

[@wentworthmiller1890]

Hey man! Subbed hoping it'd bring me good luck becoming a self employed solo gamedev myself! Rock on mate! :)

[@foolsanticsstudio]

You'll be happy if you make something for you. I forget who but a celebrity told a story how he wanted to make Ice Cube laugh but never could. So he is flying with the dude and Cube is cracking up watching a movie. The dude wanted to know what was making him laugh so much. It was his movie, Friday. Even after all these years that movie still makes him laugh. That got me thinking about my work. And I really do like my old work regardless of quality. So making something for yourself cuz then at least 1 person will love it, really is the best advice for being happy with your work.

[@gyokzoli]

I just bought your game just before the discount expired. But man, your game is extremely hard. You have to scale down the difficulty a lot. Did you have play testers before you released your game?

[@foxidgamedev]

Thank you 🙏🏽 Thanks for the feedback! What was the hard part for you? Do you think the perks are making it a better experience when using them or making clear they are necessary for next levels after forest? Yes I had playtesters, but this is literally something to improve as it seems.

[@retrojon_]

I've been using Godot since version 2 and couldn't be happier. I tried unity briefly but found that is was too intense for the hardware I had at the time and it was extremely confusing to me. Godot just works. It's certainly not the most powerful engine out there, but it's still very capable if you take the time to do proper optimization. I'm currently prototyping an SRPG game and after 2 short days, it looks very promising. I'm feeling good about it and hope I can make it through the prototyping faze. My previous projects failed because I never got in the habit of prototyping, so I'm trying to change that. Fingers crossed that I finally make something good!

[@foxidgamedev]

Godot 2? That is a long time then. Glad you found a way for you. Wish you good luck 🍀

[@GodotNoContext]

I've heard Godot is designed for Potato PCs. 🙃

[@retrojon_]

@@GodotNoContext Sure is! I'm not certain how well Godot 4 would run on the hardware I was using Godot 2 with but I think it would still work okay.

[@paluxyl.8682]

I plan to start in the next months with game development. I'm grateful that the Unreal Engine exists and is for free for most of the users ... if all engines would be like Godot, it would be impossible for me to even start with my simplest game ideas. My "Dream game engine" is still not invented (or released to the public, no on can tell what already exists) ... it would be an AI game engine that does over 95% of the work, the game developer just tells the engine the ideas, concepts and decides what's good or not.

[@mskdgod]

Hey! Doing great! I'm not sure but, It would be helpful to include the name of your game in the titles of your devlogs, if you sure about naming) Anyway, I would like to witness the long journey ahead of us. GL!

[@foxidgamedev]

Thank you! The long name remains, but the branding is still wip. I'll do something about it soon :)

[@animationmann]

Marcel ich wünsche dir viel Glück hast du mal Überlegt auf das Steam Deck zu optimieren viele Indie Games haben dadurch mehr erfolg bekommen.

[@foxidgamedev]

Danke dir! Nein tatsächlich noch nicht. Wahrscheinlich auch deshalb nicht, da ich keinerlei Gamepad-Support geplant habe, da man eigentlich nur mit der Maus spielt. Muss ich drüber nachdenken, ob das bei mir Sinn macht 👍🏼

[@collinvisser7108]

I see you have improved your second video is a bit more snappy - Keep going - You do not need to talk faster but try get your point across with less filler words - your art style looks cool and the game looks nice. Good luck

[@foxidgamedev]

Yes I will keep practicing on this. See if I will be able to reduce them 😅

[@xPumaFangx]

I am making this really great game. That I know everyone is going to buy. It is called, Pong but cool. It is being created on Godot and Krita.

[@EduardKaresli]

Did you create the 3D assets yourself or purchase them from external sources?

[@foxidgamedev]

No, I have built them in blender by myself

[@EduardKaresli]

@@foxidgamedev That's great, I always wanted to create games but the main obstacle was dealing with assets... I guess I have to learn Blender after all... 🤷

[@foxidgamedev]

To be honest you don‘t need to learn blender when you can download/buy so many assets from anywhere. But yeah it does not harm to learn blender even if you download assets you may use so you can change objects and textures to fit your game. You do not need to start from 0 then. I guess I always love to do things on my own but I would not call it the best advice though, because it can take a lot of time ^^

[@Warpgatez]

music tempo swap and volume makes it unpleasing to watch this

[@foxidgamedev]

Thank you! I‘ve also realized that I should reduce the music volume more.

[@Warpgatez]

@@foxidgamedev sorry man!

[@unfa00]

I agree with this complaint. Maybe if you only made the music a bit louder on the title cards, but kept the same track, it wouldn't be clashing? The title card music just doesn't fitr the mood :D (even though it's cool in itself). Good luck and take care!

[@cibularas3485]

Good shilling. Please more

[@dbbuchmann]

The point you made about gamers not appreciating the hard work of devs at 2:21 while using the CoD franchise is kind of wrong, in my opinion. Activision has been reusing existing assets, and largely repackaging a game or games that have been out for years, adding very little of substance but still charging AAA big release prices. It's a trend in the AAA industry that's disgusting, and should be mocked at every opportunity.

[@foxidgamedev]

Yeah that’s true. I agree with you. CoD isn’t actually the best example nor fifa is. Other examples would fit much better. There are so many great games released the last few years and I read lines like „Games getting worse“ but for me it feels more like competition and expectations is much higher than ever before.

[@MandyGee000]

I agree that the competition and the expectations are much higher, which results in, crappier games being put out. Devs are overworked and underpaid.@@foxidgamedev

[@pythonxz]

I want to be successful with my project to support myself and donate to Godot.

[@foxidgamedev]

Wish you the best! I am also thinking of giving something back to Godot :)

[@GodotNoContext]

Godot doesn't need money, it's driven purely out of love! 🙃

[@arocomisgamusclademork1603]

Grateful Godot does mean make 3d realism game open world sucks interest motivate idea execution? I mean make game immerse instead small project port mobile, console and Pc like Gta series were port console and pc then port mobile