วีดีโอ

will you ever put a pc version on steam? i loved playing this years ago

Hmm, I would say that there's 3 important elements for good incremental game: a) visible short-term goals, completing which provides b) unlocks that either narrative (such as storyline, visual changes) or mechanical unlocks that give player c) choice how to build his strategy for achieving his a) goals. This creates a game loop with positive loop feedback that pulls player into itself. Allmost all games that are frequently suggested in Reddit have this. May be I overthink it from the position of core/hardcore player, but we absolutely can agree that *quack* sound is must have

You deserve a like. Amazing video explanation and breakdown. Very clear and easy to understand

_antai matter die mentions_

first 4 takes looks convincing

What happened to Brian? did he quit? 404

Watching your videos has been super inspiring on my own journey as well. WIshing you all the best. Stay strong 💪

I know you don't like living your motherland But for your family's safety please move to a safe place I hope your game's make a great amount of money 💟

First off, as one of those Americans who only knows English :) let me say that your English is excellent, much better than you give yourself credit for. I've loved following your channel and honestly I have no interest in making incremental games...but I love your approach to talking about them and I feel I've learned a lot from what you share. I really hope everything works out well for you and your family....and really for your whole country (my family actually left Ukraine shortly before World War One)...hopefully even with the change in leadership coming here, my country will continue to support yours. Stay safe!!

Your English is great! Just prepare an outline ahead of time and tape it below your phone on your selfie stick. Good luck with the international move!!!

boris johnson said that the war could have been prevented if trump was president instead of biden. well now that trump is president again, the war could end soon. positive thoughts for this one!

Thanks for the tour of the forest and personal update. The forest is beautiful! It's sad but understandable as to why you'd want to leave. I hope everything works out for the best for you and your family. 🙏 And regarding your English, you're better than you think. I have never had to rewind any of your videos or turn on subtitles.

Hey, if or when you will be abroad and somehow appear to be in Poland - let me know if I can help you in any way. Stay safe and God bless! P.S. I know what you feel right now and I've been through of it some time ago, I didn't want to leave my motherland and especially my lovely Kharkiv but it's what it's - I didn't want to risk my kids.

What a moron

you should try a roblox game called "grass cutting incremental"! its my personal favorite and i have about 1500 hours on it

Ярослав, здравствуйте, наткнулся на ваш канал совершенно случайно. (Видимо алгоритмы ютуба благославили это видео, ожидайте большой наплыв сабов) Респект за то что столько усилий и внимания к деталям уделили этому видосу и самой игре! Но, я искренне не понимаю как можно получать фан в таких играх. Это едва ли изменённый куки кликер с геемплеем чуть богаче чем у симулятора тюряги из вк, 80% времени всё что мы делаем в игре это гринд. Честно я досмотрел видео оттого насколько вы с интересом рассказываете про "новую" механику которая делает гринд чуть более разнообразнее. Я на вас подпишусь потому что у вас явный талант говорить про симулятор гринда листиков почти полчаса (!) и очень надеюсь в будущем вы будете делать обзоры на игры которые уважают потраченное игроками время

how do you even remember all of this :O

oh no. he found the game I got addicted too. welcome to the leaf blower addict club

Zora Shores

Treutel Fort

im at zone 9, still a long way to go

Can't find your game on the Play Store

When can we play the game ?

I'm not a native English speaker either, so I can relate. I published videos, only to remove them days later because they didn't sound or feel right. I don't think our accent is an impediment (at least not to most people), it's our delivery that can be an issue. I can't speak for you, but my sense of humor and overall personality don't come across as well in English. That is why I have to read from a script, which can be done right, but for me oftentimes sounds stilted. But all of the above are things that can improve with consistency and being in front of a camera more often (advice I should definitely follow myself). You're doing ok in that regard, so I'm sure your videos will improve. Good luck!

8500h, 16 100h, 7 500h .... damn you are crazy

tbh i'm more drawn to its sense of humor

This is just an opinion, but I think it will be more interesting if the level limit of HERO special and Hero multiplier is increased from 5 to 10. Some people have already purchased 13500 gold pans. I think that the challenge should be increased more and more.

so you recomend learning unity for iddle games?, im 38 years old, never programed anything in my life,i would like to try to make something easy before i die,

personally the accent isn't as important as the content but some accents I just can't listen to for long times

I play your game 7 year ago on pc thx ❤❤❤❤

1. since deprecating Built-in render pipelines Im looking forward to see what's gonna happen with the state of the assets store. 2. I found 5 or more good tutorials for godot creating a game from scratch or using public assets, unity has only 1 3d platformer with the version 2022 or bunch of paid on udemy. 3. Look at the Road to Vostok, it's just matter of good assets. Unreal gives great lighting technology, unity6 will do as well, but not unity 5. 4. if you need to "learn" lang it's sad. in my case after python I just start writing. same I can say on c#, lang is invented only for windows by microsoft. 5. no support on consoles is 100% valid point, but solvable with caveats.

Your game sucks on kongregate when you browse internet and go to different tab game automaticalyy goes to pause mode dude that is fucked up thanks but I'm not touching this garbage.

DO NOT support Escape From Tarkov, it was made by russians and have have voiced their support for the russian invasion of Ukraine and the killings of 100s of 1000s of innocents in Ukraine! DO NOT SUPPORT RUSSIANS AND THEIR PRODUCTS!

I havent tracked my hours but I set a limit time to complete my game (12 months), as I still dont have a game that I could live of and still working 40hs per week as game dev making idles too. In the process. I struggle the most with balancing the progress of the game and new things that I couldnt find a clear reference to start with, like a little invest-stock system that I didnt wanted to make so complicated.

Awesome vid, super useful!

Big fan of your channel, this past week I took part in a game jam; and it's the first game I've made. The jam's theme is "cycles" and I made an idle game that is based on orbits of planets, moons, and satellites - I added as many cycles as I could. I have a video playing through the game start to finish on my channel (it's called "Orbital Incremental"), about 40 minutes (I don't know if I can post links in the comments). You start off with Mercury, you upgrade that and earn enough for Venus, same to Earth. Once you unlock Earth you start to earn science for every Earth, moon, and satellite orbit. Moons and satellites are functionally identical (satellites orbit 25% faster) except moons are bought with money ("stardust") and are limited in number, and satellites are bought with science and have a wait time to build and launch. Every time a satellite (natural and artificial) orbits they earn science but also they earn the planet they orbit a permanent money multiplier bonus. While earning money you can "go supernova" destroying the solar system and earning black holes, each black hole provides a +5% bonus to money/stardust and science. I had a huge amount of fun making it, but I especially had fun figuring out the maths to make the prices perfect. Additionally it has music where layers get added as you buy more planets. I'm not a musician and only found out with a short time left that my game should have music and it's a little busy but I do like it especially how it get added to.

I am a university student living in Japan. I have loved get a little gold since I was in elementary school, and it is a big part of what shaped my youth. I was able to accumulate unvigintillion gold. I still think about this game often. I am confident that I love this game the second most in the world. When will this game be available to the public on smartphones?

Lol I just managed to land on 14min 40sec on my second try. I would also add to this conversation and say that to any idle game that wants to have longevity to its gameplay helps to have 2 things. First is kinda tricky but done really well is great and that is to have multiple paths to reach the goal, offer multiple "solutions" to the puzzle of getting 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 however many ducks. The 2nd thing is to avoid the trap of the ever increasing prestige catchup void. So many idle games have some sort of "level" mechanic or some sort of other progression the player must progress through to get back to the point where they had previously just prestiged from. Often times after a certain point is just to leave the game running for hours while you go do something else just so you can get back to playing the game proper, and this time period will only get longer the more you play the game. I have played many idle games and I havn't personally heard much discussion on this topic before so I quite like the video, good job 👍

You wanted honest feedback on your speaking: I am someone with phonological dyslexia (think standard reading dyslexia but for sounds) and I often have trouble understanding what someone is saying, no issues with you, you're super clear almost all words have correct pronunciation. I'm in the UK and I can't understand most of the British accents here, so doing better than a majority of Brits No be clear I'm not just being nice, your usage of English is fantastic (also it does make me a little uncomfortable when non-native speakers appologise even slightly for their English, everyone else's English is better than my hold on their language - I know Spanish and French but they always know English far far better than me)

A couple notes. Generators can scale as much as you like, you have `a*t` (`a` is base multiplier, and `t` is time) but you could have `t^a` or `a^t`; the game I'm working on is `a^log(t)`; it's just that the cost has to grow faster otherwise you never hit the wall. The rate is a balance between preferring upgrades and preferring time, for `a^t` (the most extreme) waiting just a little longer results in huge growth and so less importance is granted to upgrades, and in your example for the ducks it's `a*t` where waiting takes a long time and you need to upgrade upgrade upgrade. AdVenture Communist for instance scales their generators by `a*t` however generators generate other generators so if you buy a generator B that generates generator As and generator As generate points it would be `a*(a*t)`, and if there's generator C they will produce points as `a*(a*(a*t))`. The researches when they are upgraded double their effectiveness, 2x speed, 4x, 8x, 16x; the effects are combined so another researcher can also increase the speed by 2x, 4x, 8x, so an 8x and 16x can end up with 128x. It's just that everything is balanced around this and numbers are displayed logarithmically so while they are increasing exponentially their logarithmic growth slows down to a crawl. They can balance for this, and do it well. I've gone with `a^log(t)` (it's not arbitrary, it was something I wanted and the mechanics I want to use support it without me changing anything), it has an importance on upgrades as waiting gets slower and slower if balanced with exponential costs (the absolute currency keeps growing), you get the `a*t` benefits with the flair of `a^t` (people like big numbers). This also allows me to easily say "I expect a player will need to get to around a 40x multiplier, and I want the level (it's going to be split into levels and after each level more content is unlocked) to take a day" I can easily put in the multiplier and look for t=1 day and know what kind of target I should set. Another type of prestige is where depending on your earnings you get another currency and this currency each one you have you get a added percentage. You want to track main currency earned in total (this includes everything, all runs, all bonuses) and this goes into a log, subtract prestige currency already claimed, and you then get how many prestige currency to get. This means that if you earn $1m and you get 100 prestige currency, the next time you get to $1m you're going to get fewer than 100 prestige currency. If we assume that prestige currency is `f(x)=(100/6)*log10(x)` then first prestige is `f(10^6)=100` but second prestige is `f(2*10^6)-100=5` - the specific type of log doesn't matter but I used log10 as it just made the maths easier to get exactly 100 from 1 million, you can modify the expression to increase the second prestige from 5 to something higher. A mistake I have seen before is that people will scale the prestige currency only with the current run and if they use a log (without memory) then it's beneficial to prestige as soon as possible, and if they use an exponential (with or without memory) the prestige currency keeps growing and so there's never a moment to prestige. With a log it means that if you stop investing to grow you will eventually stop getting more significant prestige currency which pushes players to prestige when they hit that wall (as you said) which is neither as soon as possible nor is it wait forever. Idle games have a lot of smoke and mirrors, no significant part should be left to be random. Extreme growth may surprise the player but is entirely predicted by you within a fairly accurate degree. If you have quests to complete (like in AdVenture games) you just play (by that I mean use a spreadsheet or graph) with what you think would be a reasonable amount of upgrades and time (you can select for both upgrades for a specific time or time for specific upgrades depending on your needs) and then select the quantity from that. Even without quests they can be very linear and that's ok, players just want to click things, see numbers get bigger, feel progress, unlock things, and it's a bonus if you have something nice to look at. Final note, the duck idle game model, make sure generators overlap with each other - it's a little boring to just invest into 1, and then just the next one, then the next one, it's fun when the optimal order (among 3) is something like 312213231233121232312112323111121323121. You can make worse generators more enticing by multiplying their effect once they hit a quantity, the investment to get to it should be a loss but once you pass over it can jump up to being decently powerful, but the cycle repeats and getting to the next quantity boundary is a loss. You can end up with multiple sloping staircases fighting with each other to be the most valuable. There is no limit to what idle games can do and it's one of the reasons I love them so much. The game I'm working on is, from what I can, tell an entirely new spin on the genre while keeping the core aspects people have come to expect. Love the video, now I know you exist I'm going to end up watching the rest of your videos rather than working on my game .-.

Incremental games aren't fun. I'm convinced anyone that spends time playing these types of games is suffering and needs to seek therapy.

How did I also get exactly 14m44s on my first try? 🤣 Well, I guess I am as good as the develover at his own game. Love the sound. Want a duck on the screen that I can click to get the quack-quack-quack while I have to wait a second for the button to light up again.

First attempt 15m33s the sound is very similar to the old machintosh error sound :-) bui-bui

Very good, very informative video. Thanks Jaro for this, I hope we'll soon get to know the new version of Galg :-) Good job. rObiNeTo IG

I think adding a second value, that highly influences the main one, could work like new generators. That new value would not have such a problem with generators, at least for a while, there would also be an option to convert the new value to the main one, but if the new value exceeds the main one, the main one starts decreasing rapidly, or, for example, generators start breaking. The new value would therefore introduce more growth, but also more management and responsibility for the player

Than you gonna be paying massive money to unity and you gonna be broke

i took 17 mins 21 secs to get 1 billion

Was watching this while playing realm grinder, lol

well im about to launch my own idle too. Been working 12 months on it. Will just target ios to start, then see where it can goes

me personally i like it when you can really FEEL the progress like it doesnt feel like a slog and you constantly unlock new interesting mechanics, thats why i like idling to rule the gods and ngu idle! (though i usually stop playing when the pace goes slower)