This video has inspired me to stop sitting around and actually get going to with some of the things I wanted to do since childhood.

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

😀 The best time to start is always 'now'. I've been sitting on this forever, it's nice to feel like I'm finally taking the first step rather than putting it off further

That's great. I have started my own devlog journey. Although my 1st 2nd 3rd or 4th videos was not as good as yours lol. But it did give me inspiration on how I should start my devlog. Thank you and I will definitely continue to follow and learn from you.

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Thank you :) And good luck! I do love me some good pixel art games and respect to you for doing it all yourself - it's a pretty time consuming task, but can come out amazing if you do it well :D

This is great man...100% here for this! Woohoo!

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😀🎢

looking forward to what you come up with brother, ill defiantly be keeping an eye for more vids

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Thank you :) More videos will be coming soon for sure!

Just the touth that this is going to take years makes me happy to see the Start

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

It'll be a LOOOONG project since I'm doing it on the side (of a side), but I'm excited to actually get started :D

Best of luck and thank you for that cant wait to see it in the near future you know take care cheers.

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Thank you :) More info will be coming soon for sure. I hope you're doing well!

@ramizshould

Жыл бұрын

@@SurfacedStudio indeed I m thank you for asking.

i long time wait for this

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

😀

I've been followng ya for the longest time trying to learn special effects. I am hyped on you tacking and joining the game dev community and see what you come up with. I myself also got into learning GameDev 2 years ago been making small progress with it. Wishing ya best of luck with the journey can't wait for this new saga.

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for the kind words and excited to have you along for the journey into the unknown! I hope your own ventures into gamedev are enjoyable and I wish you all the best :)

Good luck with making your game! 👍 (Making Unity tutorials would also be great too!)

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Thank you :D

Very cool! Looking forward to seeing and hearing more! 👍 Even at this early stage I'd be curious to hear more about how you picked the game engine? You mentioned Unreal is more for FPS style, but any reason to pick Unity over something like Godot for this project? Or maybe a video that talked about, when you would choose each of the different engines?

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the comment :) Definitely a fair bit of thought went into it and might be worth a video someday. Unreal isn't very convenient for 2D as it doesn't have many 2D tools. Unity (2022 LTS) has 2D tooling for tile sets, animations, 2d light/shadows, shaders and more. Unity also seems to have a richer feature set and a better proven record of successful games than something like Godot.

You son of a gun, we are in!

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

😁

Say what you want to say but what I'd say is nothing happens for simply nothing, things happen for a purpose or purposes. Lately, I have been in a very foggy and unclear thinking regarding my future career and what I am suppose to do in life to both enjoy and make money. I have always been hanged on the thinking of just do what I really and truly love and have passionate about, which is making games since I was very tiny little kid, just like you. Now, I am 31 years old and I still not certain about what I should be doing now and later but I have always been certain about me dreaming of making video games and programming and stuff. So for that past couple of months, and for almost everyday I am just thinking and thinking over and over if I still able to learn how to make and develop games and then turn that as a career for life! I just don't want to spend the rest of my life, if any, just doing what I don't have interest in and just to pay the bills to keep myself a live and that's it. If I do what I love then I believe I can contribute to the society in a productive and creative way and feel that I am being part of it and apart. Seeing you my friend finally deciding to do what you always wished for is as if it was literally me and it just great to see that you have started. The reason of my comment is to let you know that I am sure that I know how you're feeling, at least a small portion of it. on finally start what you been putting off shelve for years, and you feel that all this time since the beginning you've been learning and gathering everything around you on a very slow pace all this time for this very moment to just reading you up without consciously knowing why. Good for you and I wish you truly the best to achieve what you are working towards. I am still learning myself and I know me, you or anyone on a similar path will go through the good and the bad but what matters that we just don't give up. push through so maybe we meet up one day and each cherishing is own game :D.

@aamg9586

11 ай бұрын

Something I found today that I've been missing all the time, or could be I simply forgot about it and that probably what let me down and lost for a whole, is that I reminded myself that while I'm learning the only main focus point for me should be and always be is simply enjoying the ride and the journey and that I should never turn this to a chore or something, which I unconsciously start doing lately, because the moment you do you just going to lose the majority of the fun and the interesting things you going to encounter along the road of learning :D

Whatever you decide to make I'm sure it will be brilliant, so long as you stick to what inspires you! The game I've put the most hours in to over the years is Terraria so the concepts you're toying with are vibing with me hard. If you need a sounding board whilst your writing your GDD give me a buzz! I've only published one game made in Unity but I have about 10 60% complete projects so I at least know my way around the program and what it's capable of (which is A LOT!). お楽しみに！！

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Hi Simon 😀 I'll definitely ping you in for some ideas / feedback. Not sure how formal a 'GDD' I'll have, but I'm always happy to share! What Unity game did you publish and do you have a list of your working titles? My project will definitely be (super) slow burn as I'm doing it on the side (or a side), but I'm really excited to get into it. Been playing with Unity and Unreal Engine to see what I can do - and how difficult it is. It's nice that the 'Engine' part is taken care of these days, though I understand that filling a game with content end-to-end is also a potentially VERY large task hehe

@escapementality5361

Жыл бұрын

@@SurfacedStudio Heh, it was a music themed cookie clicker clone I can't even remember the name of. Last game I worked on professionally, actually, and I'd already switched to working in finance! Only a few of the games I worked on are still in the app store. Feels like a lifetime ago! Even having written a dozen of them I'm not so sure how useful a detailed GDD is when you have a small or solo project, but it can be useful in thinking ideas through and letting your imagination go wild, but in a structured way 😄

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

😀 I do love letting my brain run wild... ! It all feels SO long ago, but I'm excited to claw back a little bit of that young energy and finally try to actually make a game hehe It's nice though to have friends scattered all over the place that are still in the industry (or have lots of experience from it) and I might come nagging with some questions at some stage... :D

I chose godot because the blender intergration and the fact that I could learn c++ and edit the game engine .

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

That's fair enough :) I've been mainly tinkering with Unity which now has some pretty neat integration with Blender as well and I can tweak the render pipeline since it's now scriptable. But I do remember having the raw power of C++ and low level APIs to fiddle with :D

@4115steve

Жыл бұрын

@@SurfacedStudio thank you for imparting the knowledge you do. It's great help. I look forward to all your videos.

Good luck dude. :D

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Thanks HairyMuppet! Super early days, but tinkering with Unity (and UnrealEngine) are a lot of fun if you're looking for something to get into 😀

@HairyStarcraft

Жыл бұрын

@@SurfacedStudio I still have to finish that RPGMaker game... it's actually quite close, just need to push it over the line. :P Then I can return to the wasteland that is my unfinished Unity projects...

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Haha! Fair enough :D How far is your RPGMaker game along?

@HairyStarcraft

Жыл бұрын

@@SurfacedStudio Like 70% I think. But that's basically finished compared to my other projects lol.

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Good luck with getting through the last 30%. With RPGMaker can you publish to platforms like steam?

‏ ‏‪6:02‬‏ Hey dude! You've forgot abt coding in creating games that is so hard to work with even with unity to create just rolling hallway ball with nothing more! it's just rolling on floor like bowling!😅

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Coding is the easy part IMO ;) And to be honest for a rolling ball with nothing more you don't even need to know how to code - you can do that with inbuilt tools / Components in Unity 🎳

It'll be much more interesting if you DON'T use c or c++.

@SurfacedStudio

Жыл бұрын

Well, if I'm going Unity then it'll all be C#. To get really good performance though you'll likely have to dig into C/C++/assembly at some stage IMO