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From what I can tell, your biggest problem with your project is that you did not know what your game was. You had vague ideas: Modern age, not real world, map game, random maps, economy... but these elements are not a game. Games involve players making interesting and consequential decisions to achieve a goal in the face of resistance. None of the ideas you talked about actually amount to a GAME. So you spent huge amounts of time on programming problems: making a map generator, generating random provinces, making economic models... when there was no game concept to focus your ideas and direct you to where your attention really should go, so you wasted tons of time on difficult and aimless programming projects. You invested 90% of your time in areas that represent maybe 5% of a player's experience. You wanted to make a map game. What are the key ingredients of a map game? There are maps, they have provinces, players own provinces, those provinces have attributes (military units, population, economy, etc.) that can change (including who owns the provinces). That's a map game in its most distilled form. MAKE THAT GAME. MAKE IT INTERESTING. I believe that in the game I just described, there is no element you could remove and have a playable game. So make that first. Everything you worked on, you could do without. Map games don't need random maps to be games. Their economic models can be as simple as "1 pop = $1" (or you can attach a dollar value to a province; no need to even have pops) and they'd still be games. You can still have a map game with ZERO unit variety; ten soldiers beat less than ten soldiers. MAKE THAT GAME FIRST, MAKE IT INTERESTING, AND START BUILDING OFF THAT. You can add the more complicated stuff later, but not until you have your core gameplay down solid. I also recommend you not do any programming in the beginning and make a paper prototype first. Paradox games are really political sandboxes where players interact with the system to achieve self-defined goals. Gather your friends in a room, draw a map on a whiteboard, and be the GM of the game you think you want to make. See what they do; what goals do they set for themselves? What do they think they need to use to achieve those goals? Where is their attention focused? What's fun for them, and what is not fun? (This could also be a PBEM game where you make a map in MS Paint, keep stats in an excel spreadsheet, players send you orders via e-mail, and you update manually accordingly.) Basically, build out a theory of fun for the type of game you think you want to make before you type ANY code. When you go back to code, again take the attitude: what is the one feature on my list of potential features that's absolutely needed to make this a fun game? Small teams can certainly make complicated games that people enjoy: that's Dwarf Fortress. But you cannot approach this as a programming project. This is a game design project, and game design is a skill entirely separate from programming. So work on your design skills to prevent this from happening in the future. That includes reading books talking about game DESIGN (rather than game PROGRAMMING).

This is why it’s important to make a static map firsts which you should have done one of earth and then expand to other generation

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Love the Background music

Nice vid, always wanted to try dnd, might give it a try because of this. Thanks bro

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Maybe you can join an existing team. When I was younger I also participated in Indie gamedev, and a lot of people run interesting projects. Developing a whole game, especially such a complex one, is really a lot for a single person. Anyway, thank u for the video and I wish u a lot of success with your other projects!

This was very valuable. Thank you for sharing your experience, Mohammed. There's actually a solo developer doing a Cold War themed GSG. The game is called Espiocracy. You might want to check it out. The game has a smaller scope compared to other GSGs and it kinda works I think.

Hey as a massive grand strategy fan. It was a really interesting video.

Thank you for sharing your experience! Wishing you the best of luck in your current project.

Yeah, unfortunately I have made similar conclusions myself, although my issue was years of project jumping. Now I have a tested and well known concept for smaller project in the works with a clear goal, even a storyboard, which is a first for me. But so far I'm very happy with the project and the story I want to tell with it, so fingers crossed. But I do have a friend who really on developing his own 4A-Space game, akin to Stellaris and others with full on mod-support and everything. Like you've mentioned, he also has perfectionist tendencies. I've hinted a lot at him that he should start small but he has a thick skull and I can't/want to stop him. I can only hope that, unlike myself, he'll does not need years to come to learn the lesson. Anyway, I wish you good luck with your projects. Happy developing!

Making your first game a grand strategy is um, certainly a choice XD. It's an incredibly difficult genre to learn game development with because most grand strategy games are built from the ground up. There are plenty of tools to help you learn to make a shooter or a platformer, but strategy games are another beast entirely.

The original game you were making really did look interesting though, its a bit of a shame.

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Godot will not replace Unity even in 10 years (and I hate unity lol) Godot is inefficient and Unity is a trap. stop promoting this engine without optimization plz

how can u become a game desiner?

Hello there :D

This was an interesting video! Thank you for sharing your journey!

great video, I love your tone and delivery!

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You're half a year late to chase this clout, my dude. Good luck with your MS DOS game, tho

Congrats you just got a forever "Never recommend channel" from me for this idiotic clickbait

Ive dabbed in the big three, plus gamemaker studio. Actually I started out with GMS. I currently am focusing on Godot, but I also want to make VR games, and while im sure it will be there some point, Godot is not currently equipped to make VR content. At least, not without a ton of headaches.

Godot is not the new unity, it's totally it's own thing. It's open source. It's the new Blender

Thanks for sharing the template, stared 🤩⭐ But why you put the code in the same folder as assets? Is this a standard practice?

IMHO Godot is not new Unity. Godot is Godot, Unity is Unity. The difference is the first is 100% your and it’s up to you what you do with it, second makes you think it’s yours when you paid but well yeah… sometimes shit happens 🙃

Godot just clicked for me. Im never switching back.. unity makes engine changes and that affects any asset you but from unity. you have to repurchase the asset in 1 or 2 years time. its a money pyramid scheme.

Don't go for godot by brackeys route change, make your videos with your own brain. Can you make unity tutorials?

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The pixel art in your game looks amazing! Are you the artist as well? Mod: oh, I just got to the part where you said that all these art is AI generated.

I also would love to make an rts game but it seems like it would be an incredibly difficult genre to create a game for

Guy spends half video bashing Unreal and Unity while his "game" be looking like a bad Apple II game, geezzzz...

Sounds like a fruitful week! I am happy to have this game to play as I wait for Vuno to be completed.

I am really happy watching the content you offer. not only is it insightful and inspiring, but also I found it kinda entertaining and intriguing to watch how this channel develops and evolves as it gets bigger especially since you always have this compo of discussing game design and not only DEV tutorials that are all over the web. I am happy to witness your solo-dev journey and see it progress slowly yet steadily. Hopefully, you will eventually sustain logarithmic growth with such organic and genuine content. Keep it up and of course, I am just a regular fan of whatever you are doing here ;)

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What you describe is sort master of Orion 2 method But moo2 had extra twist Tech you cant research but only to get from exploration random event Or by investing in capturing enemy and revers engineer the tech Its a good method But there is still something missing If you place it in civ game Well its fine as well But civ has also a problem The tech is felt empty You dont have to really read through Becouse you will have all tech eventually - the game is on speed not quality Basically a complex method sould be: Fog two steps view with choice out of 2-3 out of 6 posible options in one of x directions when you get random 3 out of 6 (Replay-ability) - add little aquared knowledge of posable tree Reviled by events/locations - Add quest tech gain that is not bound by the random mashed tree fixed to each faction at game start (foged) - Add some advancement resource that can be obtained via diplomacy or from raids by non playable faction (barbarian or whatever ) Or by developed tech to gather that res in advanced game (Logic if you get a tech that is far beyond current tech level of civ You can still build the unit but it requires patience and some planning Also add level of tactical thinking Sell or buy res that is not adequate to current tech level ) This way you create 1) foggy tech tree 2) strategic - must think 3) non linear development 4) need to have convo with other factions other then war/peace agreements 5) randomality to keep game unexpected development 6) brick to replayability 7) reason to read the tech tree explanations and dependancies 8) all together tech tree becomes mystery mini-game of its own implemented into a bigger picture (Tech trading is a bad idea but very low chance tech steeling is a good idea giving another layer of decision game ) 9) it also gives you same basic tree for all players as module without harming diversity

intresting, i just thought about these problems and youtube recommends these videos :D My solution is no tech tree. If you build in a certain direction you will have heureka moments in those area.

Against the Storm have nice "hidden" progression that is actually fun. Beside of bigger rogue-lite type unlocks for next run (which are fully visible), in every run you get limitations on buildings and with quests you get points to unlock one of 3 "random" buildings that game offers you. Everything with balancing, taking time to make your people happy but also fighting with time restriction because your "loose meter" is filling up every minute sums up to really tense but rewarding experience, great game to check out. P.S. Love Your videos, You are a great inspiration! Can't wait for another video!

Great video as usual! I am looking forward to seeing next week's video. Excited to the know more about the magic system.

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The different guilds and their competing ideologies remind me a lot of the interest groups from Victoria 3, but from a more intimate perspective which is really cool. I don't know if this is what you're looking for exactly with this game, but I would also recommend looking at the board game John Company 2nd Edition. The game basically revolves around each player taking control of a different aristocratic family attempting to control the East India Company in the late 17th century. While there is a whole lot going on in JC, I think the way it handles different positions in the company(like chairman, minister of trade, minister of war, etc.) could be interesting to apply here, where one position might be responsible for directly appointing another. Like in John Company, the Director off Trade is appointed by the Chairman, but are themselves responsible for appointing the different President positions. It leads to a lot of interesting politicking where you might help another player become chairman in exchange for being nominated the next minister of trade, for example. That may be too difficult to actually implement but I think that kind of asymmetry among different political appointments could be very fun!

While I enjoy large scale Politics like Suzerain, I would like to have a robust system like you mentioned. You, one council member could not override everything and would need a legislation to pass with compromise and discussion/corruption. Vote for my bill and I'll vote for your bill next relationship. Where your decisions have lasting consequences, a cog in the machine and but not the handle. Norland and King's Orders got me hyped that these games, Nothing is fully in your control. Plan and hope for the best. Frostpunk2 got me excited as you are the Steward for the city and any legislation pass would need a 2/3 majority. Will be subscribing!

Looking forward to see your journey with Godot 🙏

I really enjoyed the details you gave regarding the Council. Sounds like it is going to be fun! Excited to see next week, the completed Council System.

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Interesting game. I’m also solo dev.

Great Video!

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Great video 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌