Adding Animations To My Cozy Farming Game [Kohlrabi Starship Devlog #2]
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- I'm a VTuber developing my very first indie game about farming in space and turning your desert home planet green! I always loved playing games like Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley, and now I want to create my own take on that genre. I will make monthly devLogs for you to follow the process. Will I make it or fail miserably? :) Thank you so much for watching!
This time, I focus on crisp graphics rendering of 2D sprites (including mipmapping, super sampling, and fixed resolution rendering) and sprite animation.
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⏰ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Intro
0:50 Animating the Player Character
3:15 Rendering - Tile Resolution
4:49 Super Sampling Shader
5:28 Problematic Transparent Pixels
6:15 Takeaways For Sprite Creation
7:21 New Gameplay Footage
9:35 The Name of the Game
10:31 More Gameplay
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Careful about tying game code to animation events, they don't always fire when the frame rate is low, you'll eventually see issues I think. I only really use animation events for audio because I don't really care if audio is skipped sometimes. Usually I trigger code when an animation event fires via behaviors in mecanim, and add a delay if necessary to line it up to the action.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience!! This is extremely helpful!
I never had issues with animation events in Unity and I used them for a very long time in multiple projects.
There's no issues with using animation events, even at a low framerate. They should be completely reliable and always fire. If that happens to you it's a bug, and you should report it to Unity.
@@Shafournee it's been like this for 6+ years, and there have been bug tickets that they didn't address. It is what it is, the best you can do is work around it.
It's not surprising, key frames get skipped all the time in mecanim animation clips, and animation events with them as far as I can gell
@@MaximumAxiom I've worked with the animator for a long, and never run into those issues, but if you're just speaking from experience I get it.
Unity is very fickle, and there's definitely weird behavior that you'd think they would fix, but they just refuse to lol
Thanks a lot for the part with the MipMaps 🙂. I totally forgot about such thing and was wondering why the hell my sprites look so bad 😆. Took me a while to read some documentation but definitely was very useful. 🙂
I love games with realism! The fact that the trees can die if they don't get enough cold days is an awesome detail!
I think that dragonfruit could be a really nice plant to add as it's bright and colourful and seems like fruit from an alien planet. Great job on the animations and progress as well!
Great idea! Added it to the plant idea list! 😁
i am really enjoying these dev logs.I follow many devlog chanels so i can confidently say you have a good way of explaining things while keeping them interesting.. Your little youtube character is adorable!
Thank you, that's really encouraging to read! ☺️
Loving your watercolour painting like artstyle.. very cute animations. Keep it up! From where I come from 'Coconut trees' are very prominent. Coconut Trees give 3 resources: water (inside tender coconuts), wood ( tree trunk) , fire creators (Coconut Shells). You can either chop the tree for 'wood' or harvest the tree for tender coconuts 'water' & coconut shells 'fire starter'.
Amazing progress. This always motivates me to continue on my game :) Thank you! I wishlisted the game and looking forward to play with my gf :)
Thank you!! I'll give my best to finish it fast. 😁
It looks like you have made some great progress since the last video! It sounds like you are getting pretty in-depth with the way different plants grow and propagate. Will there be systems for grafting (so that you get different fruits off of a stronger root stock)? Will there be differences between Annuals, Biennials and Perennial plants? It's something I don't recall seeing in many farming games for things like carrots, as an example - having the choice to harvest them in the first season as the vegetable, or let them carry over to the next season to grow into a flower that produces a lot of seeds.
Since you've asked, a few plants I liked having when I had a garden:
- Scarlet Runner bean: it is a vining bean plant that will grow up a trellis. It produces red flowers that are attractive to hummingbirds, and long bean pods.
- Lamb's Quarters: these ones just kind of grew wild and would just pop up in the garden now and then. It's quite tasty when sauteed in butter. (kind of cheating, as these ones were "volunteers")
- Chocolate Mint: a variety of mint that also has a bit of a chocolate taste to it.
- Rhubarb: my grandmother would make the best pies with it.
Ohhhh, I would love to add grafting, but this would be way out of scope of what I planned. I'll keep it in mind in case there is time after finishing all the other systems, but I wouldn't get my hopes up. 😅
So far I have single-cycle plants (that die after they had flowers/fruit), multi--cycle (that just keep on growing fruit) and temperature dependent plants like trees. It doesnt cover carrots yet, but would be easy enough to do. :) I really like the idea!
And thanks for all the super cool suggestions, chocolate mint sounds amazing!! 😁
I live in Utah in the States and we have a flower out here called a Sego Lily. It is a desert/shrubland flower that the natives and the pioneers used as a food source for a long time. I recommend looking them up! They would make a great addition to the plant catalog!
Wow, I love it! That would be perfect for early gameplay, when there is still so much desert everywhere!
I love that you're paying attention to the ways plants interact with the soil and dramatic weather conditions! It's so much more detailed than other farming games I've seen. Great work, I can't wait to see more :D
Some cool/special fruits and plants that come to my mind: horned melon, durian, cloud berry, mangosteen, theres a lot of weird looking but interesting fruits out there
Small cape/ferox aloes would be a nice plant to grow, their leaves help catch rain water for their roots to help them grow in dry environments!
So cool!! I never heard of them, thanks a lot for sharing!
This was really amazing to watch! A lot of progress and really interesting stuff have been added! Wishlisted the game and im looking forward to futur devlogs! Would be really cool to see some cherry blossoms or even chili pepper plants :) Goodluck and i hope everything goes well!
Thank you so much! Cherry blossoms are defenetily going to be in the game and chili is a great idea!!!
Very comfy art and interesting concept, really excited to watch more
this looks so beautiful, you can really see how much thought and care you are putting into every little detail of this game, I cant wait to see what this blossoms into over time :) thanks for sharing your journey with us; also brussels sprouts could be a cool crop to add, they look so weird and interesting with how they grow!
do you intend to make a beta version? I'm really excited to play. your art is so beautiful
I'm not sure yet, I'm thinking about it, but it's just really early in development.
Wow, this is absolutely amazing progress!! Great job! I also really like your art direction for the game. Can't wait to see more in the future!
God!!! I love how she talks!! Keep uploading & good luck.
Hiya, as a dev myself, I've been really enjoying these devlogs. I'm very happy you took this bold venture and wish you all the best ^ _ ^
Also, it's like burning hot where I live right now so my mind is full of juicy fruits like mangoes and watermelons.
Thank you! Mangos and Watermelons are a great idea and would tie in nicely with early gameplay!
What a beautiful game and concept. It sort of reminds me of a game called Terra Nil, it is a city-builder puzzle/strategy game about repairing climates. Your game actually lets the player go down and dirty, very neat.
It would be cool to see potatoes. South American (especially Peruvian) potatoes can be very diverse in color. If you want something colorful, this could work... the same for corn.
As for mechanics I am not sure but I am sure there are fun possibilities!
I just found your channel. I really love seeing more of your development process and showing things that go wrong. I really enjoyed these two videos so far. Excited to see more!
Bear's garlic! It would sprout randomly on its own at the beginning of spring 😊
the artstyle is just amazing
Your art is super cute and it will definatly stand out from other games in this genre, which are manly pixel art, so thats a good start. Keep with it. I've added it to my wishlist :)
Thank you!! 😊
Ich mag deine Devlogs. :3
These devlogs are so informative! Thank you for sharing your journey!
I love the technical details added in this devlog ^^
amazing video, *again*. Was afraid for a moment this was just gonna be a short "HA! gotcha!" video, very happy you made so much progress in such a short time ^_^
for plant suggestion.. potatoes? They're one of the few things on earth that you can base your diet off of & survive with only that - so basically you only eat that one thing, not anything else, and still live a healthy life (still have to drink water of course)
I didn't know you could survive only on potatoes! Really cool, they are a save bet for being included in the future. 😁 Thanks!
Crazy good looking game!
A few plants that came to mind where Sauerkraut, Red cabbage and carrots. There is also a tree that I know of that is in Spain which my mother used as a child as a kind of chewing gum. I also tried it as a child and now that it tasted nice and it was really fun to chew on. One Exotic fruit that I like is Papaya and the fruit grows on a very pretty tree :D
Happy developing!
Thanks for the ideas! Is the chewing gum called Chicle?
@@wolkadev The name is Palo de regaliz and you chew on the dried roots of the plant. I hope this makes it more clear, on Wikipedia the latin name is Glycyrrhiza glabra.
Maybe this would be a great gift item and the fact that it needs a lot of sunshine makes it maybe fitting for the starting region.
It's great to see the game progress! I love your animations, they seem to make the tree choping really satisfying! 😊
This is looking amazing!!! Keep it up!! 🥰
OOohh also!!! Here in Mexico there's a cactus like plant named Nopal, or Prickly pear!! They grow a fruit named Tuna!!
Thanks for sharing what you learned about creating graphics! I'm starting a new project and you've saved me a lot of pain ❤
Very nice graphics and animations. Procreate/iPad/Pencil are very useful tools for 2d game creation.
That looks so cozy, also i love how the character drawn in black & white, hope game will be grow into a pretty project, how it is)
I love your art and idea for a game, just stumbled here for the first time. I think an interesting mushroom is the morel mushrooms. I also really love succulents, they need little water too!! Another idea I had was a grain so you could bake bread.
I love succulents too, pretty sure they will end up in the game 😁
They are so cuteee
Awesome work!
Hello, beautiful graphics, good luck with your development
Love this series
I think it's gonna be important to consider the purpose of a plant. If the player can grow and harvest 20 different types of fruit, then which variation of fruit should you cultivate?
In a lot of games of this kind certain crops/materials become redundant pretty quickly. So what some players will do is plant huge fields of 1 type of crop as it makes the most money given the effort required to grow them.
Or some plants are to be considered "upgrades" over others. Like say, early on you can only plant cacti and such because of the poor soil quality.
But as soon as one can grow apple trees everywhere the player is going to replace all cacti. This can be quite tricky to balance, but imo it's a good idea to encourage the player to grow a variety of plants as that is basically new gameplay and will also make the gardens look more lively and interesting. One idea would be to have different farm locations, with different temperatures and water availability.
The ship could act as a sort of "here we can grow whatever we want" or "here we can grow and research plants" place. But the space is limited inside the ship and maybe the inhabitants of the planet need much more than what you can produce inside your ship. Just some thoughts that came up.
The art looks super cute and drawing the sprites without color first is a great idea. Also think it's the right decision to prioritize plant growth stages and seasons over adding another 20 plants.
Good luck! Viel Erfolg!
I really like what you wrote. Agree 100% and I have been thinking about this too. I have a few ideas to hopefully discourage monocultures:
1. A market system where the money you get for an item decreases the more you sell of them.
2. More profitable plants may decrease soil quality, so they need to be planted next to other plants which increase it.
3. I will have animals which will all have different food plants they eat.
4.Maybe you might be able to trade random crops at a market instead of money, so it might pay off to have a variety.
I don't have an exact plan, but something like this. :)
OMG regardez la différence. J'ai du mal avec les bases de mon jeu et tu améliores déjà ton niveau de nese
This was very interesting and surely will help me later, thank you! Also, very good progress and I wish you good luck with the many plants.
Good job! Keep it up! I believe in you!
Very cool! I'd love to see cashew trees in the game :)
Great video love the animations they look amazing. btw if you looking into plants from different parts of the world i think a Green Chille plant they are a chille gown mainly in New Mexico.
Thank you!! I'm going to look them up!
Getting even better
These vids overload me with cuteness so much I have to take go out and mine stone in my garden to get back to reality :D.
Lovely vlog.
Have you ever tried using some of the ai upscalers for your art? I've been checking it out for a project I'm using some assets and need them at higher res for high res screens and it works really nicely.
For plants I vote for bamboo and bird of paradise flower. :0
Ahhh, thank you!! :D I haven't used them yet, but maybe in the future when I need them. They got really good over the last years. :)
And I love bamboo too! And birds of paradise flowers are so pretty! ☺️
@@wolkadev Oh yeah I can't even tell the difference when upscaling it so it's certainly worth a check in the future.
@Wolka Dev Do you plan to do some regular updates to steam page or will you be leaving this for some time later in the dev process?
@@Nicknamegeneratorfailed I definitely want to make regular updates, but this month was a bit rushed, I barely finished the video before I had to leave for some travel to family. Updates coming soon. :)
Omg voll Cool ich wünsche dir viel Glück beim machen des Spiels
I hope the spinning tree gets added as a secret plant, and good video!
Hehe, a single Easter Egg tree that can never be chopped down, but only rotates instead. 😁
This looks so much better
The new character designs are awesome! Fermenting radish or cabbage to make kimchi might be cool :D
I love the kimchi idea! Thanks!!
This is starting to look real nice. Also im not sure if this woulld fit, but itll make creating/finding/harvesting flowers less tedious. How about you can use the same ingredients but alter the requirements, conditions and amount to get a different offspring or type of flower or seed. I hope that suggestion made sense to you, i'm not the best at explaining things xd.
Thank you! You mean something like slowly breeding higher quality crops or changing flower colors through changing the growing conditions? That would be great to have! :)
@@wolkadev ye something like that, or there can be a chance you drop a new seed when u harvest ;)
looking really cool
wow I love the handdrawn style! kinda reminds me of dont starve a bit actually :P
Love your animations. Keep up the good work.
I also want to make an RPG game, but I'm too lazy to draw.
Hopefully, one day I can draw like you.
Thank you! I hope drawing-inspiration will hit you in the future, or you find someone to team up with! :)
if you are looking for an interesting plant you should add a Jambo tree
its a cool looking tree that has a triangular top and when its time to fruit it drops these tiny little pink things all over the ground completely covering the ground pink
also the fruit is delicious! its my favorite!
so chill :D
Weird plant idea "Heliconias" this are a bird looking plant that is related with bananas and what this plant does is that it attracts hummingbirds and others bird that eat seed and Polinices other plants... I think that could be an instrestinc mechanic
The plant Aloe Vera would be nice, because it clears the air and also doesnt need alot of water (so it should can grow in the desert)
Great game!
You can add "chufa", to make a delicius and refreshing "horchata" =D
I had to google this, but horchata looks delicious! Added to the list! :D
i watch alot of devlogs but i never really buy the game when its done. But im really excited about this one and i will definately get it when its released ^^
Thank you so much! I'll give my best to make it a great and fun game! :D And I love the Waldmeister idea!!
@@wolkadev but i guess nobody will know what Waldmeister eigentlich is
@@Smol.Tomate But they will after playing the game! :D
@@wolkadev hopefully. no one should ever miss out on a good Waldmeister
I've tried making one myself, and here are some suggestions/fail exp to share:
1. As you might have notice already, the farming game will have many animations for each tool you try to implement... thus its a good idea to use animator overide controller...
2. If you decided not to use a finite state machine pattern then consider at least using the Behaviour in the Animator. cuz the switch case statement turns out to be a pain to read at the end of my project.
3. There is a new official preview package from unity to support import from Aseprite. It will auto create the animation from the Tags in the aseprite file and auto generate a animation controller too. I would highly recommend using that instead of photoshop because the photoshop work flow for animation is a pain to work with. If you are using this approach, you might also want to look into how to animate using code from Tarodev channel, it will save you tons of time from maintaining the animator complex...
4. In my "Little" project...after spending a few months making all the game play mechanics (planting,tool, crafting,day/night,dialogue, npc schedule, npc pathfinding,in game item data base + other custom tools, 3 maps) and parts of the animations ... i realize... its a pain to implement the rpg contents in the game ... it will be an estimate of another 1-2 years for me to add the game play rpg content like each npc dialogues, quests, ...etc. So...i decided to drop the project when i thought i was half done...
....so..... be aware that this project will take very very long time.
Hi, thank you so so much for sharing your experience so extensively! :) It is super helpful! I'm going to look more into what you wrote about Animations. As for the project duration... yes, I also expect it is going to take more than a year. I do not mind, I just need to plan carefully, so I do not run out of money. :) I'm used to long term projects from working in research before. Thanks again! :D
der stil der figuren is echt süß :3
Hi! I'm from Brazil. My suggestions for the game fruits are Dragon Fruit (Pitaya) and Earl Fruit (This second one is very commum in here and maybe can be easy to find reference to them using the name in portuguese, the name is Fruta do Conde)
very cute,i love it
About the image size, did you tested vector based lines? on clip studio there is this option,maybe not in photoshop...
you really bring much knowledge from these issues and it is a gold mine for who want to make 2d art game. i myself love both and want to do both but 3D also calls me..so im planning to do grease pencil as an test to export as an 2d plane to an 3d enviroment..maybe it can help you too...
Oh my god, you did a lot of work here,i mean the tree grows,the tree give fruit,the variation of vegetables and other stuff.. it is an brilliant work that going to be an brilliant game, i am from Brazil and we have some peculiar plants that you can also put on your game. i loved that purple flower you did and grew on this video, i am developing an rpg game and in sometime ago i searched for all the natives trees and flowers from Scotland an country that is like a dream for me so i draw and draw again all the trees and leaves but i did not finished the game because i need to learn more about how to do video games... i also sugest some to your game,the richer the better.
i am loving the result you did here and my gamer side says: '' i want to play!!! ''
Definitively harvest moon games from back of time on ps1 was the game i most played with my brother and your game is maybe the new most advanced harvest moon i seen so far, i played some nowadays but nothing that have the rich things you bring here like the variety,the cactus is something amazing! and im excited to see more.
yaay u again :DDD
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🔥🔥🔥
Nice progress!
It would indeed have been a shame to have low resolution wiggles, so I'm glad the wiggle quality can be kept!
As for plants, I don't think I could live without rice, though that seems like a real challenge, growing that in a desert :D
Yes, the wiggles are important!!! :D Ah, without rice I wouldn't survive either, and there will be other planets where it can grow! I'll put it on my list! 😁
cute!!
6:25 If one tile was 256x256 people, that would mean ca. 65k people per tile. Considering the screen is 32x16 tiles (512 tiles in total), there would be ~33.5 million people on the screen, about as much as the entire population of Peru :)
Wow, how am I gonna handle all these people, I'm too introverted for that!! 😱 How did I overlook this problem!
@@wolkadev Dont' worry, you'll find a solution xD
What an interesting bug to stumble across! Was it a quick fix or one of those times you just sit hour and hour going "why?!"?
I did take some digging, but fortunately I didn't loose to many hours on it. Luckily I stumbled upon the reason for the bug pretty quickly in the depths of the internet. 😁😅
Would be nice if the grass/trees changed colour gradually rather than all at once.
I agree! I'd have to experiment a bit with the art though, at the moment it's different sprites, not sure how good they would look blended or if I needed a more complex system.
151? Gotta grow'em all!
Galaxy Tomatoes would be pur-fect for this game!
Hahaha Kohlrabi Starship is a great name. I really like the idea, though for me it's a bit counterintuitive that everything you do takes place inside the starship. Wouldn't it be more logical to grow everything on the outside? Or is there a part to the story im missing?
You will also be able to grow plants outside, but every planet has different conditions and only a few plants will survive there. In the spaceship you will be able to set temperature, light etc as you want for different rooms and grow everything you collect. :)
Not sure I understand your bug, but if you used normalized vector or raw input you will always have a value between -1 and 1 and so the blend tree will always play one animation.
It might depend on the Input System we use I think. Unfortunately in my case normalization is not enough. E.g. when I walk left, I get a movement Vector2 (-1, 4.73636e-8). And even though the second entry is very small and can be considered 0, it will still blend with the upward walking and trigger an animation event for this.
It's incredibly impressive that you've individually drawn out and hand placed all of those sprites. I'm currently working with pixel art on my game for the express purpose that you mentioned with the color distortions on different resolution, though my style is not nearly as cute as yours despite my best attempts.
To organize my sprite sheet, i've been using Aesprite to compare the animation frames which saves a lot of time getting the animations to work and lets me export the sprite sheets. This might be something to consider and save you some time in the long run. However, it could possibly effect the style of your game as Aesprite a purely pixel art centered program, so it's understandable if you want to avoid that technique.
I am also very interested in your time of day/seasons system. Do you use a state machine pattern for both of those or some other method? I'm trying to make a system for my player to change between 3 different states based on a certain amount of time passing and am trying to get as many ideas for how to accomplish this as I can.
Hi, thanks a lot! :) I considered Aesprite, but chose Procreate, since it has really nice support for animations. Only the export of the spritesheet is not automatic, but once the animations are done it does not take too much extra work in photoshop.
My day/night system is purely based on continious time, and I can specify an hour for dawn and dusk, where I change the global light with a gradient. I kept it quite generic, cause I need to have different settings for other planets.
The growth if plants depends on temperature. Some plants (like the trees) have seasons and an internal state machine. But it is different for each type of seasonal plant, so I could have seasonal plants on colder or warmer planets.
I can't say if this is the best way to do it, but so far it works nicely for me. :) Hope this helps. Good luck!!!
@@wolkadev Thanks for your reply! The time based gradient for your day/night cycle actually just gave me an idea for a separate feature I'm working on that involves light changes for various object states.
Really interesting that planet temperature is something you have to consider. I hadn't thought about that before you mentioned it, but makes perfect sense. Really excited to see how the rest of your development goes and how the mechanics and style of the game evolves :D
Cinnamon trees maybe? e.e
î wanna see Hass Avocado and Waldmeister
Palo borracho trees in Argentina?
Do you plan on adding pets?
Yes!! Not in the next month, but probably the one after. 😁🦊🐱🐶🐦
@@wolkadev yipeee please add a capybara if you can , if you can't or it doesn't fit the game that's okay i'll love it regardless
@@cuco1758 Ohhh, I'll put it on the list of ideas! :D
Wurden die Fördermittel schon beantragt?
Nein, bisher noch nicht. :)
@@wolkadev letztes jahr gab es einen skandal, das nicht einmal ein spiel in spiel des jahres sachsen eingereicht wurde. Nur so ein gedanke für eine wip
only ur first bug oh my
I mean, I definitely made a lot of coding mistakes so far. 😅 But nothing that left me so confused or took long to figure out. 😅
@@wolkadev that's really cool! In my drawing app it's sometimes just "why is this not working, why are there 20 different things U can choose" :)