Hello, sorry for the rather short episode today! Spent a lot of time experimenting with this, but didn't end up with much to show for it unfortunately. I think coding as a gameplay mechanic is a really interesting concept, but I struggled to make something fun out of it. Would love some recommendations for games to play, if you know any games which do it well? Finally, in case anyone here is wondering about the source-code to the last coding adventure (since I've been promising to upload it for a while) -- I'm probably going to start working on a part 2 of the ecosystem sim in the next few weeks, and I'll try tidy up the project and release it then.

@jahangirakbar4524

5 жыл бұрын

Where were you bro.. I was waiting for your Videos

@dimensionaldot

5 жыл бұрын

Shenzhen io is fantastic (or any other game by zachtronics)

@diadetediotedio6918

5 жыл бұрын

If you want help of study material, send me a email, diadetedio@outlook.com, I have a lot of programming languages in C#, and a stronger tokenizer for making languages.

@diadetediotedio6918

5 жыл бұрын

And the best thing, is not dependant of C# Runtime Compiler, all that you need is criativity

@shamanim1354

5 жыл бұрын

Quadrilateral Cowboy is amazing!

"I failed to make a game out of it like I'd planned" *shows super polished nice little minigames* Dude...

@1mikhaelone

5 жыл бұрын

this!

@amedicabg

5 жыл бұрын

free4one2three They are super polished and nice but I can imagine a game about writing code like that only woukd end up being an annoying grind

@dill__pickles

5 жыл бұрын

Ya honestly a bunch of minigames sounds great for a coding game. Otherwise it would feel too much like work lol

@basisTermium

5 жыл бұрын

exactly! the gameplay are really interesting the visual also

@jakehix8132

5 жыл бұрын

Would see it more as a primary feature of a different type of game. Like, a Walking Dead game where you program your defenses, shit that takes care of your food or whatever, and just supplements automating what would otherwise be 'annoying grind' tasks.

Job interview : - Whats your game development level? - Sebastian Lague

@GorosVoices

4 жыл бұрын

you made me die several time

@AntonPanchishin

4 жыл бұрын

"S Level! HIRED!"

@archanamarathe9460

4 жыл бұрын

Please start working immediately

@BirdyC

4 жыл бұрын

“- are you interested in our lead programmer position instead?”

@neillunavat

3 жыл бұрын

"Do you want to be the C.E.O.?"

That's so cool, well done! Let's hope you're hit by some sudden inspiration at some point :D

@masterkonni0594

5 жыл бұрын

But I think he need to hit the sack!

@aw1lt

3 жыл бұрын

@@masterkonni0594 ,and beat his wi-

@chaoticprogramming

3 жыл бұрын

WOW. Dani, not the TOP COMMENT?!?!

@zombiekiller7101

3 жыл бұрын

Or drink some milk

@pranitp.29

3 жыл бұрын

dani boi

Uninspired?? That game looks really fun! And it's probably an excellent way to teach people programming.

@jacksondice5435

5 жыл бұрын

yeh but it needs a way of teaching the user without giving away the answer... and coding can be super frustrating.

@AdriGDev

5 жыл бұрын

@@jacksondice5435 Yeah.. But it can also be super fun and rewarding and satisfying.

@jacksondice5435

5 жыл бұрын

@@AdriGDev definitely, not saying it isnt.

@rocksfire4390

5 жыл бұрын

@@kidmosey you could create blueprints for quick premade functions you made over your play through, treat them like super cards or something xD. as you level up you can carry more of these premade code snippets. hard mode removes blueprints and you have to code everything by hand. the possibilities are endless! add in some mod support and off the game goes on it's own!

@rocksfire4390

5 жыл бұрын

@@jacksondice5435 start off with simple mini tutorial levels for basic operations, simple syntax and hes already got the variable list setup....as the game goes on it gets more complex, after a select few levels it doesn't offer help anymore. it's actually pretty well thought out for being a "uninspired" game. xD

Even if you consider this coding adventure a failure, thank you for sharing it anyway. Watching the video sparked some ideas in my brain already.

@iWhisperASMR

4 жыл бұрын

Like making a coding game to hack to shoot things instead of PREY play a 2D Platformer to hack to shoot things. If you had to actually code for every hacking game, you'd be living in a future where coding SHOULD be more common than Cursive writing.

You may become uninspired but you do something more important, you inspire us!

@GDcorp

3 жыл бұрын

who are you to say that inspiring us is more important than him being inspired?

@theearthburner6159

3 жыл бұрын

@@GDcorp because inspiring 100s of thousands of people is better

@GDcorp

3 жыл бұрын

@@theearthburner6159 what makes you think that?

@theearthburner6159

3 жыл бұрын

@@GDcorp what I just said makes me think that

@GDcorp

3 жыл бұрын

@@theearthburner6159 that makes no sense you are just saying you think "inspiring 100s of thousands of people is better" because you think "inspiring 100s of thousands of people is better". What makes inspiring more people better?

The turret example makes me imagine a cool spy/secret agent game where instead of being the spy, you're their support. You have to hack in and provide them support by hacking turrets, cameras, doors, etc. That could be really fun!

@rootabeta9015

2 жыл бұрын

Guy in the Chaiiiir

@anarchosnowflakist786

7 ай бұрын

it's not a coding game but vodobanka by yiotro is a nice game in which you are a SWAT team/special forces/spies that need to accomplish certain objectives (eliminate a target, capture terrorists without killing civillians, find an explosive, find documents, etc.) and you see things from a map and plan their actions before they execute them instead of controllling the units in the middle of action, for example if you find a door you can tell them : on launch throw a stun grenade, wait 1 second, open the door and arrest everyone, and once you lanch the operation you have almost no control over what happens

I like how instead of doing a generic programming tutorial using arbitrary Car and Animal classes, you actually walk us through how you tried to do something new by building a simple test project around it (which I feel is how most developers learn new things anyway).

@ThePC007

4 жыл бұрын

Those Car and Animal class tutorial really annoy me. They figured that Object-Oriented Programming doesn't actually make that much sense when developing a real program, so they made up a weird, fictional example where it does make sense to view things as objects. It's just weird.

@berylliosis5250

4 жыл бұрын

They're especially bad because OOP really is useful for a lot of things - for example, a compiler I'm writing in C is far more difficult due to the lack of explicit language OOP support. Harder to read, too. I think the solution is to give practical examples where OOP and inheritance are legitimately useful

You should definitely revisit this idea, Sebastian. It looks really cool as a game.

I really like you calm when you talk in video. You are an inspiration for me. If it's possibile i really appreciate some other video about the world with foxes and rabbits.

@insideman7501

5 жыл бұрын

@Jack Buckham *cough* Equilinox

@tylerlarson9491

5 жыл бұрын

I would buy that game

I love how this is what constitutes a failure in your eyes, but it's literally unachievable to someone who can only dream of reaching this level, like myself.

@techwizsmith7963

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, this is quite within everyone's reach, he was just determined and clever enough to do it. While that is something most people struggle with, I believe you can push through it if you want!

Congradulations! You just made C Python - Simplified edition!

The way the blocks break and fade to black is super satisfying.

If you made a full game out of that I would 100% buy that! That looks awesome! I love the idea of the turret in particular, that whole mini game is so good and actually really challenging. Please end up finishing this project🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻

Same project for different people: Sebastian: This game is a failure. Me: Mom I finally made a game! I'll be rich! Respect bro.

Sebastian is like your neighbour's son, your mom can't stop comparing you to when she wants to make you feel like a failure

@nicolaifeldthaus4649

4 жыл бұрын

Got the message but that right there made no sense

@poopidydoopidy7246

3 жыл бұрын

@@nicolaifeldthaus4649 its because he put a comma in the wrong place

@Kathayne636

2 жыл бұрын

@@nicolaifeldthaus4649 Remove the comma and it does.

I wanna play this 3D turret game so much !!!

@istentov

Ай бұрын

There's a repo link in the description

Your videos are really cosy in someway, relaxing to watch. Keep it up!

Wow! Amazing work, well done, looks stunning and is super cool! I am sure you could create a great game out of it.

I love this serie, each episode amaze me and how you resolve problems and explains them calmly, keep going !

Since you mentioned Shadertoy, I think it would be really great to introduce your audience to shaders and how that works, I think a lot of people would really enjoy it (me included). This is an awesome video by the way!

this is actually super helpful for me. ive got an idea for a game that uses coding, but i had no clue where to start when i comes to actually implementing a coding feature. every google search ive tried turns up results like "how to code a game from scratch!" or "How to make a video game without programming!" so this is a really useful starting point for me. thank you.

Your content is so intriguing and interesting, it just inspires me to create. Keep up the great work!

Wow, I really liked the idea and how you started to do it! Loved that turret game demo. The idea of the player hacking the other game objects and enemies is cool, really inspired me.

@chaotic_error

5 жыл бұрын

You know what, it actually reminded me of The Magic Circle! It feels wildly different, but it has the same concept of hacking the other entities in the game.

Mate, just found your coding adventure series and it's absolutely brilliant! It's the exact same content I've been meaning to find on game development on youtube for a while! Congrats!

That looks so cooool. Please make a part 2. I really loved it.

Compile C# code at runtime that's one of the things i needed the most, there is always a LOT to learn from your videos no matter the length of the video :)

@christobanistan8887

5 жыл бұрын

It's not compilation, it's interpreting. Microsoft's Roslyn C# compiler actually compiles or interprets, and is made to allow you to customize the language a lot.

@huscat1609

5 жыл бұрын

How do you intend to use it? I was thinking about a program with self-changing code, but good luck debugging that! :v

@cyclicyttrium4318

5 жыл бұрын

@@christobanistan8887 Thanks for the clarification :)

@cyclicyttrium4318

5 жыл бұрын

@@huscat1609 Make my game moddable ;)

@AlexanderElo

5 жыл бұрын

@@cyclicyttrium4318 Fair warning, I wouldn't use this method straight as a modding support. Users can easily write malicious code as C# is pretty powerful. It will be pain in the ass to limit what users can do with C#..

I'm very glad this was in my recommended. You should DEFINITELY continue with this project. Looks like a gem and intensely unique

Your videos are hecking BASED man! They're so relaxing and informing on C#!

Really cool idea. All your videos are very interesting, keep up the great work!

This looks super super fun actually. I think that school systems and smaller educators really need people like you, Id be super excited to see where this goes in the future. Keep it up!

Thank you for sharing. Your work is always a great source of inspiration

Just found your channel today, and you've made me want to download unity again. I tried once long ago (I have always dreamed of making a video game ever since I was a little kid with an N64), and I've always been able to come up with neat ideas for different mechanics (especially for RPGs and the like), but the actual nuts and bolts of it all was just a little bit much to take in at once. Since then, I have gained more experience with small projects (making minecraft mods, following a roguelike tutorial using Python, messing around in Blender, that type of thing), but you've really inspired me today. This is a type of game I have always wanted to play but could never find one that was decent enough. I envision something that someone who doesn't code at all could sit down and actually have fun playing instead of spending three hours following an online (or in-game) tutorial just to be able to get past the first puzzle. I picture something that can present a problem that is complex enough to make a professional programmer scratch their head a bit, but that your average layman could also solve given enough time and clues. You could have a setting where you work for some manufacturer of automated machinery set in the not-so-distant future. Your goal is to debug the faulty machines that have been returned to the company. You'd have a little test bed set up specific to whatever machine it is you're working on, and a console displaying the current program that is loaded onto the machine, which can be edited, compiled, and re-uploaded to the machine. Your job would be to try and fiddle with the code, then test the machine to make sure it runs properly, then send it back as a refurbished product. You could make it interesting and allow the player to send out something that is still incorrect, causing it to be returned again, opening the door to a sort of meta game where your work influences the success of the company and what contracts they can obtain, and maybe you can even get fired, and that would be how you lose. You could even have the "correct" program available to the player, in the form of reference documents, which could also be edited by the player (adding notes, or creating entirely new documentation for some piece of coding the player came up with). The first several "levels" would be small syntax errors in the code (missing parentheses/brackets/semicolons, mis-capitalized letters, etc), so that way you could slowly ease the player into formatting and what looks right and what doesn't. As you progress through the game, you get more and more complex errors (missing lines of code, arithmetic errors and so on), and less and less help from your reference documents (maybe the paper only describes the root nature of a function, but the problem requires you to string several functions together in a creative way, or maybe your reference displays the code in C# but you're trying to work with Python, or something like that). You could eventually open it up to allowing the player to create new custom machines that operate off of scripts written entirely by the player. It'd lean heavily towards one of those "simulator" games (the setting I have put forth reminds me a bit of car mechanic simulator but with software), but hey, plenty of people enjoy those (myself included). Another idea: Programming robots for robot fights in your back yard. That would be more action-y and if accompanied with a 3-D editor allowing the player to create custom robots with articulating parts, could have a lot of potential if done right. Coding the bot to properly respond to its array of sensors and inputs from a controller would be a challenging problem for the player, but also very rewarding when you crush the opponent's robot. Would actually be really fun if it was a multiplayer game. Of course, you'd have to create the fighting portion of the game, simulate the robots as well as the damage they receive (which could be as simple as having a health bar or simple value (x/100) for each part), including sensor blackouts (getting a camera knocked out would likely impede the bot's pathfinding), but the more I think about it, the more I want to throw my wallet at whoever decides to make it. I won't pretend to know how complex making a game like that would be, and I could never hope to create even a small portion of what I described here, but I still wish it existed.

this is really good. Love the concept and love the style :)

Man, your idea is incredible and your implementation is fantastic. I love how simple you made coding look for the player of your game(s). This is something more than a game. This is a way to learn coding, this is a way to start thinking like a hacker. As a software engineer, I wouldn't play this game in my free time but I would definitely recommend it to non-programmers friends.

Love your ideas! really interesting and entertaining!

Dude this has HUGE potential for puzzle game stuff!! That opening hacker cube minigame looks like a SUPER good way to teach kids the beginnings of programming. AMAZING idea, hope you get a spark of inspiration on how to make this like a kind of Witness style game!!

Those simple minigames you showed off seems pretty good to make a game out of. That screen effect really did look cool.

That's pretty darn neat! You always make awesome stuff!

This is sooo good Sebastian! Thank you!

That is such an awesome idea for a game. I hope you end up finishing what ever it turns In to

Man you are an inspiration! I’m joining your patreon! Keep doing your thing!

this is awesome !!! thank you for your continuing experiements

You are an inspiration, really love all your videos. Thanks for sharing :)

Wow, that's really impressive! You should definitely continue on this. The screen effect was wonderful too, perhaps you should make a tutorial on that. A lot of people would find that useful.

the concept sounds alot of fun, and in my opinion, the ideas you had for puzzles sounded very fun.

This looks amazing, would love to see more/try this

Dude this is incredible! It has so much potential, please keep working on it!

How have I not already subscribed to you!!!! This is incredible !!

I loved it. Best episode so far!!

This is great! I'd love to see something like this released!

You have no idea how much you've just helped me out.

It's awesome, keep working on it!

Please do more videos, you are simply amazing!

This is so cool and inspiring. Thank you for sharing!

sebastian lague: you are a blue cube who desperately needs to get to the other side. me: **goes around** Sebastian league: *wait that's illegal*

Super cool, I like this concept a lot

A very much welcomed, fresh delivery; parabens!

This is amazing as a project and as a game.

I was waiting for your Video. Thank God you're back!

Very smart guy! Each new video shows the progress of the developer.

This is soooooooooo friggin awesome dude!!!

This is an absolutely insane idea! Extremely hard to pull off I'm sure, but the potential it has as a means of introducing people to programming or as just a cool puzzle game are off the charts

I made my own coding game a few months ago, but now you inspired me to do even more!

Thanks for showing that you can compile c# at runtime, I know it’s one year later but I now have a really great idea for making a game with mods.

I love the idea of creating a coding game! I'm always looking for ways to introduce some of my friends to coding, and this is a great idea for making coding more immediately satisfying!

I wish there were more programming games. I've only seen a handful of ones that are good. The best ones i've used/played include: Quadrilateral Cowboy, Shenzhen I/O, TIS-100 and CRobots. (Couldn't wrap my head enough around GRobots or a couple others). A concept of making an entire hive of bees sorta sounds fun, where you program the different types of workers, then see them work in a larger swarm as well as interacting individually and perhaps also based on food/needs or if they die off. Anyways, your videos are fascinating and enjoyable!

@draloric

5 жыл бұрын

You should try out EXAPUNKS (made by same guy as TIS and SHEN) and also Screeps and Gladiabots

It actually looks really fun to play around with. The best approach to this would probably be open ended level in which there isnt a set hack solution. I also absolutely love the way you've gone around making the game interpret your little protolanguage.

This looks like something with great potential worth exploring!

you need to keep going! this is awesome

Wow, I was actually thinking of making a game about learning a really basic programming language like this, but when I looked around for general methods for making simple languages they all involved complex lexers and parsers. It's great seeing you accomplish this using really simple methods.

I have similar side project, but I included "radio waves" that are used to communicate between devices in the game world. Player can use "sniffer" to listen on chosen frequency to see what kind of commands are being sent on it. Most devices send encrypted signal and are only readable when player has right decoder. You can than use universal controller to send your own set of commands on any chosen frequency. You can use it to control drones, turrets etc. You can have multiple devices working on the same frequency with the same set of rules so they all would react to your commands etc. Fun stuff. I wish I was better at coding and graphics to make it into a small polished game.

really cool, as always

Great video, as always

Why are you such a genius? I love the idea of this game!

This is awesome! You really inspire others and me with your little projects. This is, what creating games are like. Every time I see your videos, I want to get back to Unity and create some games like you! EVERY FUCKING TIME!

Dude, that’s really cool!

This is absolutely fantastic

I've tried doing a coding game before, but this is a million time better. This taught me not to settle for simple and small ideas when I can think outside the box more. Thank you for sharing this lovely project.

This is really well done

No need to apologize about not making a game, you made your OWN coding language. You are a boss

Dude you are awesome! The math required in this game is not much difficult but would have taken time to get it right! Love your video!

Sebastian - I genuinely can’t think of a youtuber that posts videos that make me want to click on more than you. It’s like were the same person with the same ideas but the difference is you actually know how to execute it!!! This is some high quality content. Great stuff.

It feels like you're trying to not wake your parents up while explaining us all that lol

excellent work, brilliant. one humble sub for u good sir for sharing nice stuff

Damn, those brick breaking sound effects are just amazing, something oddly satisfying about this sound!

Dude, this is the game. Perfect for beginners and children to get them to code. This is super impressive. Good Job!

this "failure" of yours, just made into my all time favorite videos

I really like this. And also, thanks for teaching me about unity.

I feel like such a noob watching your videos. On the other hand you give me so much inspiration to go make something incredible. I'll do something great soon

I've been playing rust and I always thought it would be really cool if we could script our own weapons or turrets or even bases, kinda like automating everything and stuff. For example a door from your base opens automatically if you are a certain distance away, or if it's someone else the door opens and a turret appears out of nowhere. Your project has a lot of potential, even a single player game where you defend your base or automate things like in factorio but with code would work really well. I'm really excited about this project!

Please read this, Sebastian: I really like the premise of this kind of interactivity, you could make a way for the player to create a planet or something like that. I know you did a series on planet generation. You could also add ways for the player to create their own entities like plants or animals. They could play like a computer god. They could also have some sort of achievement system, like "First animal rendered!", or "First *insert species name* AI compiled!" ("First TestCat AI compiled!", "HelloWorld AI compiled!", etc). There could also be some kind of insects (bugs, hah) that are trying to take over the player's world and slowly delete or change things, and the player needs to fix them or maybe just delete their planet entirely and start again... :)

@Magnogen

5 жыл бұрын

Update: There could be other obstacles like something that pop up that the player needs to negate. Maybe

That was amazing!

Amazing! You're big inspiration!

This is the smartest idea I have seen from a game!

That is the best idea ever , I love it

dude, this is brilliant. many people would love to pay this on steam. it gives so much possibility and creativity, the key why big game like Minecraft is a success with their placing blocks and Redstone system. so much potential.

Dude this is so cool!!

This is far from being a failure! Very interesting project! I think games/simulations similar to this might also be interesting to teach kids math and science. You could set up some scene, with some goal(s), and the players/kids would have to tweak numbers, solve logic puzzles, and come up with some funcions and equations, or also, like in your case, with some programming, to fulfill these goals. By having a direct response from the game/simulation, i think that many concepts might become much clearer to them!