This video inspired my wife to install Blender and try her hand on designing characters. Thanks for the info and inspo Ibra!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Wow! that is great! glad that my video helped :D

Thanks for the inspiration

@ibrabdo

3 ай бұрын

you are welcome, glad u liked it 😊

6:15 dont worry, I'm creating 3D characters for some years now and I still have to go through references and tutorials for my 3D character models 😅

@ibrabdo

3 ай бұрын

😅 yeah it s tough

Good luck Ibra! You can do it.

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks

Wow, I can see the passion you are pouring and glad you are learning along the way. Looking forward to the final product!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the support! really appreciated 😊

amazing dev log! watching as a indie dev i've had no trouble with the code and music aspects but now drawing and middling is a huge challenge!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 Glad you liked it

Really cool, i’m looking forward to see the next videos 🚀🚀

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks man! really appreciated 😊

AWesome Ibra, gonna be fun to follow!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, i enjoyed watching you devlogs for a while now 😊

@MichoSchmidt

4 ай бұрын

@@ibrabdo thanks!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

u r welcome :) @@MichoSchmidt

I suck at modeling characters so this was interesting

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it 😊

Awesome work man! Keep it up and keep us posted ❤

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Murhaf, Glad u liked it! and dont forget to activate the notification bell 😁

@NotMyRealNameDaDa

4 ай бұрын

@ibrabdo already done mate 😉

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

@@NotMyRealNameDaDa Awesome bro :D

excellent first devlog! make your next ones 10 hours long plz :)

@ibrabdo

13 күн бұрын

Thank you, it s too much work for 8 mins already 😅 but ill try to extend them as much as i can

amazing devlog, can't wait to see more!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Wow thanks, I'm a big fan of your work (BTW I don't like birthdays that much either) I appreciate your support and glad you liked my video 😀

I like how you’r diving into details while you’r explaining the way you use !! So helpful contents , keep it up Ibrahim 👍🏻👍🏻

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thank you Hiba, glad you liked it 😊

The game looks really nice and even the video was well made!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks mate! really appreciated 😊

Your game looks beautiful.

@ibrabdo

3 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 Glad you liked it

Very inspiring! I am excited to see your game coming together.

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! really appreciated!

Awesome. can’t wait to see the final project keep it up and good luck Ibra

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊really appreciated!

I enjoyed the first devlog very inspiring

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it 😊

This is awesome!! Coming from someone who does have a background in 3D environment art, and who also wants to sculpt my 3D character but finds it intimidating, seeing someone in a similar position model your character and do it really well inspires me. I love your character's art style. I can't wait to see more!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks

Really nice devlog, people underestimate how important custom assets and art direction are. I like that you invest a lot in it, your game already looks quite good.

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! it took a lots of efforts to develop unique art style, alongside the gameplay mechanics and the storyline i hope all that will stand out 😊feel free to join the discord server linked in the discription

Keep up the good work Ibra, looking forward to the next one!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Man ❤

Good luck bro you deserve the best ❤ ‏‪

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks :)

you give me inspiration too.

@ibrabdo

Ай бұрын

awesome! you can start developing your game :D

Looks amazing, can't wait to see more. Keep it up!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 glad you liked it 😊

Full time game dev here. Normally you do not start with the assets, because where do you want to use assets when there is no game... But as an Indie Dev that is fine, because no body pays you for what you do so you can plan your time how you want

@ibrabdo

Ай бұрын

True, add to that for me art creation is a fun process either characters, environment or prop art, for example there were a lots of vegetation, rock and tree elements in the marketplace, yet i went with making those from zero, and as u said the best part (and the worst part) of it that is nobody paying you doing that so u can plan your time the way u see it fit :D

Great! Very informative and helpful video, keep it up!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

Ovo je pre dobro! Samo tako nastavi.

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Hvala puno :)

Really wonderful dev log ☺️ best of luck on your project

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊really appreciated!

Good luck man 🍀

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks

Cool! 👾

@ibrabdo

Ай бұрын

thanks saso :D

Awesome job, Ibra :D

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Anna ❤

Wow man! This is great, can't wait to play this!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 Glad you liked it. if you want i'm uploading a monthly build update for the game for my patreons to try out 😀

Great stuff, cant wait to see the rest.

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊 really appreciated

keep it up! I really enjoyed this video haha, I don't even seek out that much devlog content but you appeared in my recommended and I watched the whole thing! also your comparison between a santa candy and a UV map was accurate made me smile. excited to see where this goes!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for your support! I'm glad you enjoyed the video and that it popped up in your recommended feed :D I appreciate you taking the time to watch the whole thing!

The art of the game is amazing! Keep up the good work!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊 really appreciated

looks really good man

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 Glad you liked it

This looks gorgeous! Looking forward to learning about the world!

@ibrabdo

2 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊 really appreciated

Good luck bro.. You as usual professional

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks

Amazing devlog man. Only thing that i disliked about my indie gamedev journey was due to the same mistake as you did. Not building up experience by small games. It wasnt that bad but whenever i started a project, within a few months i lost motivation and no longer felt that i liked the game idea and moved on to be inspired by smth else 😂😂

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! glad u liked it, Yes one of the biggest challenges is staying motivated. in my case what keeps me going is when i learn something new and be able to implement it in the game even if it made me redo it over and over. i consider this game as box that i collect in it everything i know since i realized that i love videogames and anime many years ago 😄

@kalpolproductions8558

4 ай бұрын

@@ibrabdo The ideas are just great when you are inspired by shows. Im looking forward to mor devlogs 😅. Keep up the grind.

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! Really appreciated @@kalpolproductions8558

Got really inspired and the game is looking great! Perhaps I can start my own game this year :D

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks, and I'm glad that inspired you, go for it I could be a tester 😊

Great stuff!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 Glad you liked it

Loved the video. I like that it's interesting and informative. I like that you started with the character. For the project I'm working on, I have an idea of who my characters are and what I want them to look like but I'm no artist. I can't wait to get them into the world and see them come to life just like your character!

@ibrabdo

2 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 Glad you liked it, i dont recommend anyone to start with the character design specially if it is the first attempt in making a game, in my case i had to redo character related work to many time when tryin appling it to the engine because the technical mistakes that i wasnt aware of, like the character mesh needed to be symmetrical so it could be rigged properly, and better staking for the UV unwrapping to maximize performance, and to split the character bodypart into pieces so i could switch between them when changing equipment in the game, and that the mesh topology of the character should not be spread evenly, and that it should be based on the muscle mass and joints to have a better looking animations without having broken joints and so on i could go for pages, BTW i checked ur Devlog good luck with ur game looking forward to see ur teleportation concept evolving

@MichaelTheGameDesignGuy

2 ай бұрын

Noted! I'll keep that in mind when it's time to bring my characters into the game. I still need concept art and someone to do the modeling. But in my case, I think it's a good idea to make it functional before polishing it up. Also, thanks for the words of encouragement. Let's keep up the great work!@@ibrabdo

This a great devlog There is clearly talent, work and passion not only behind your game but also from the quality of your devlog Thanks for sharing with us and please keep it up.

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊 it was tough to creating as well as the game itself, glad you liked it

Very great devlog!! Also looking a great project!! I like it a lot!! Good luck!!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks you! really appreciated 😊

@azrhyga

4 ай бұрын

You're more than welcome!! @@ibrabdo

This looks cool!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! really appreciated coming from you 😊

Great editing! I am taking notes and will be trying to take some lessons to my own devlog. 😃

@ibrabdo

3 ай бұрын

Thanks man glad you liked it! i like your devlogs btw, can't wait to see the progress of ur game :D

@JoeTheis

3 ай бұрын

@@ibrabdo thanks very much! We indie devs need to stick together. :)

@ibrabdo

3 ай бұрын

@@JoeTheis we sure must stick together, it already feels lonely to be a solo developer 🥲

Bravo, samo napred!

@ibrabdo

3 ай бұрын

Hvala puno :)

thats the best graphic style ever

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊 glad you liked it

Great devlog!!! That sculpting process looks intense-coming from someone with basically no 3D experience

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! really appreciated coming from you :)

looks neat :) 👍

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks ❤️

Awesome stuff 😁

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks man 😊

Great job ❤

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks Lama ☺

I am very excited to see how you approach coding, coding is something i struggle with so maybe i could understand it better from someone who is also just learning

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Ohh i'm struggling with coding as well, ATM working on the inventory system and my hair is burring 😂 but im glad u like the video

@darkvoid4017

4 ай бұрын

im using godot and can only manage to move my character left and right 😅@@ibrabdo

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Ohh I remember I struggled for 2 months to manage to move my character left and right 😅 I was so frustrated but I managed lol I talked all about it in the third devlog due to publish in March so stay tuned or active the notification button 😅 hahaha cheap Segway but I'm trying my best 😂

@darkvoid4017

4 ай бұрын

it be like that lol rn im trying to just make a simple game a clicker but im not having any luck on that@@ibrabdo

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

just keep pushing, eventually it will workout :D

This looks fun!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! really appreciated coming from you :) glad you liked it!

Too brate dobra ti je idea

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Hvala puno 😊

Hope you can achieve it, sir.

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks :)

Hi - this is Rebecca from Linked In. Look forward to more devlogs

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for the subb 😊

Very nice, I appreciate it you sharing this, I've learned a lot. Good luck with your game, SUBB'D.

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thank you for the subb, Glad you liked it 😊

You have some awesome looking hair. Rejecting the advice of the people going before you and learning the hard way that they were correct all along is a mistake many people make. But I'm sure you learned a lot of things in that process.

@ibrabdo

3 ай бұрын

Thanks i hope i wasn't going whiter thou 😅 True 🙂 and also since im an Artist I had to start with the Art part so i could feel invested and that im really doing this, Plus testing and applying tutorials using you own character somehow keeps me motivated to keep on going, the same goes for the environment elements and UIs 😄

@benrex777productions9

3 ай бұрын

​@@ibrabdo I find that relateable. The ideal path is not necessarily the one which an individual is walking on for the longest. Especially in a creative sphere where upkeep of motivation and prevention of writers block is important. As far as I'm aware, defining the artstyle early on can help shape the entire game development, but the actual art should be done later down the line. PrismaticaDev talks about this in this video: _"Visuals and Aesththsthetics in my Game! [Prismatica DevLog #02]"_ At the time14:50 But he is also from an artist background like you so this defintely shapes his opinion somehow.

@ibrabdo

3 ай бұрын

agreed, and BTW "PrismaticaDev " is one of my favorites devloger, his tutorials helped me a lot navigating my project @@benrex777productions9

@benrex777productions9

3 ай бұрын

​@@ibrabdo I am not watching devlogs as reliable as I did a few years ago. Because of that I didn't keep up with all the videos of PrismaticaDev. Also my own journey of devlogging wasn't really compatible with his tutorials. I do everything myself with pygame and my game is pretty simple. Because of that tutorials on how to use game engines are not as interesting to me. But he is still an entertaining person who creates a nice game. Which is always great to watch.

@ibrabdo

3 ай бұрын

@@benrex777productions9 very interesting, so u r making ur own engine? i find watching devlogs and other gamedevs progress very entertaining even tho they r using different engine or other methods 😊

cool vid

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

thanks :)

Great devlog! But why are there so many details on the character when it’s only shown small and from above? Is it for cutscenes? Good luck with the game, looking beautiful, can’t wait to see more gameplay! Cheers from Sweden :)

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks 😊I'm planning to give him facial expression HUD in the dialog box (still one of the ideas), along with cutscene, and the camera distance is not fixed u can zoom it till the character fit the screen. and i think UE5 support different LODs to the character so I'm not quite sure it will be an issue 😊. worst case scenario if it effect performance it will easier to lower the count of a character than increasing it :D but what im sure of is that i will definitely suffer on optimization 😅

What were the technical requirements that forced you to recreate your character?

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

ohh waaaay too many 🥲 like the character mesh needed to be symmetrical so it could be rigged properly, and better staking for the UV unwrapping to maximize performance, and to split the character bodypart into pieces so i could switch between them when changing equipment in the game, and that the mesh topology of the character should not be spread evenly, and that it should be based on the muscle mass and joints to have a better looking animations without having broken joints. And more and more.... 😓 I actually talked about a lots of these stuff in the second Devlog, now it s been published on Patreon as an early access, or u can activate to notification to make sure to check it out once it is published next month 😊

@Kiiaro3D

4 ай бұрын

ok thank you! i cant wait to see more from you in the future@@ibrabdo

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

U r welcome :) @@Kiiaro3D

Oh my gosh, this is so cool!

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Thanks 🤍

😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍

@ibrabdo

3 ай бұрын

🥰

Don't worry, unity was made for people who can't code anyway!! It's easy when you have a passion for something, you'll manage :)

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

yeah maybe i ll give it a shot in the future :)

@zekenebel

4 ай бұрын

I think you'll find unreal is a lot closer to baby's first engine than unity is lol, I've worked in both game engines for many years. Unreal has this way of making you feel like you know a lot when you don't just because the complexity of a node graph that works can make you feel accomplished as its always easy to read. Unity literally works of the backend of visual studio? :D I have no idea where you got this idea from.

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

​@zekenebel it true, ue5 feels easy because of the advanced visual scripting but it still very complicated, talking from an artist perspective, it somehow reminds me of actionscript 2 in flash and how it was designer friendly and how all legit programmers hated it😅, while it was doing its job perfectly for flash games. Until of course AS3 came and crushed all our illusions as artists and designers who managed somehow to be flash games developers 😂

@zekenebel

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I agree with this big time. UE5 is by no means easy when programming using actual optimised object orientated practices, it just makes it easier to write really bad code. Game engines are just containers for ideas, reality is anything is possible in both just depends how much work your willing to put in to make it happen. Ive stuck with unity primarily for two reasons. Their animation system as a whole is a lot more intuitive and easier to work with. Its easy to animate simple objects that may not need the 3D software treatment like a full body character does, and then all of the programming library's not only built into unity but 3rd party ones like DOTween which add things unity should just have by default. Buts thats the beauty of it. Granted I havent looked into UE5 much. Ive seen its capabilities in terms of rendering and its quite impressive. But theres no doubt unity will eventually make something that competes.@@ibrabdo

@zekenebel

4 ай бұрын

Youll also find most people who argue over the two like apples and pears are just comparing asset library's for nearly fully finished games. These people are not actual game devs @@ibrabdo

7:05 "low poly" 💀

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

it requires some optimization eventually, but here compare it to the the sculpted high poly version i guess you could call it a low poly 👻

So you have all this experience in the game industry and you don't even know that games need people who want to play them? It's fine since you say you're making this for fun, but would anyone actually pay to play what you're making?

@ibrabdo

Ай бұрын

What made think that i dont know that? the fact that i'm spending so much valuable time making these Devlogs and posts proves that i want my game to be played lol :)

Faces are not symmetrical, a rookie mistake many many artists make.

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

Sadly i eventually figured that out, and faced the consequences later when I had to start rigging the character 😓I talked about it in the second Devlog that I didn't publish yet, please check the second Devlog when it is out next month (or on patreon now) so you can see how I manage to go through that 😁

@k1ng_chicken

4 ай бұрын

@@ibrabdoyou _faced_ the consequences?

@ibrabdo

4 ай бұрын

@@k1ng_chicken had to remodel it all over because of the asymmetrical faces 🙄