A thought I had when you were talking about putting character animation first is that many indie developers have a tendency to think of art/animation/sound as being "polish", or secondary elements. But in fact, as they relate to game feel or "juice", they're not "polish" at all, they're core elements of many genres. How it feels to execute the gameplay loop is so driven by what kind of feedback the player is receiving, and that feedback is largely transmitted through the art and sound design. And in many, if not most, modern genres, making the core gameplay loop feel good is critical to the overall gameplay experience being a positive one. So I think that whether it's a game jam or a rapid prototype, it's valuable to ask yourself, "How much does this art or sound asset affect how it feels to play the game?" And if the answer is "A lot", as in the case with a player animation, that may be an important thing to implement early on in the process and to put some real time into. If the answer is "not very much, it's mainly to enhance the mood" maybe you can put it on the back burner, like you did with the background art, Adam. Just some thoughts I had watching through the video! Loved playing through Trauma and it was fascinating to hear you summarize your process, since I mostly wasn't paying good attention during the livestream. Congrats on the top 10 finish!
This is golden insight and a major takeaway I also had from this excellent video. After several self-taught years of prototypes and one shipped commercial game, I'm just now catching up to this realization myself. Clear communication is critical to the core experience and part of how we communicate is through feeling. My working theory at this time is to juice all core elements early.
Your work is very inspiring. It's impressive to see a person who has honed multiple skills over several years apply those skills in a confident way. You aren't leaving your success to chance you're putting in the work every day. So thanks for that
Congratulations on top 10! You totally deserve it. Very much appreciate the time you took for that and the time you took to rate games. It all helps! Also definitely would love to learn more about your workflow for music!
I really love the basic idea and concept you had for this game. I don't expect you to make anything more out of it but I still want to - mostly for myself - write down some ideas it gave me. I like how every time you confront a trauma, it does something to the player character, mostly, regardless of additional input. You can use those "memories" together, each one on it's own, but it in the end you don't have much precise control. So I was thinking further along in the therapy - for harder puzzles - you could learn "techniques" in order to better deal with past and new trauma: Mechanic wise, you'd collect such technique cards that give you abilities similar to the trauma cards, but with more agency. Something like "accepting your own flaws" could make you jump into the air but you could control how high or low you jump. "Asking for or accepting help" could move you horizontally; left OR right. Or you could even keep all the trauma cards after a certain point. As to show that you have learned to confront and deal with them on your own. Independent of someone guiding you into confronting them at a specific point. The puzzles might become too complex or convoluted at that point, though. Anyway, just some ideas that I got from your beautiful game. Thank you very very much for the inspiration this gave me and I wish you all the best for your work on Insignia. I already love the demo :)
Watching your videos is definitely the best choice i ever made, you give so much inspiration Adam plus i learn so much every time and have fun, thank you for making them and wish you the best !
19:17 I love this! I would love to know how to practice making Music and SFX properly. My best songs can take an entire week to complete, but you do it really fast. I use your planning methods for art/animation too which makes it fun.
Wow, I just recently came across your channel and what I have seen so far and especially this video is just mindblowing to me. How can one single person excel at such vastly varying tasks in such short amount of time, this is truely inspiring to see, good for you! Congratulations on the outcome of the jam, which is well deserved. Keep up the great work! Best wishes from Germany
Awesome results for an awesome game/experience! Always love tuning into your Ludum Dare streams as well, especially since that's the way I got first introduced to your channel and content. Loved hearing your thought process and looking forward to what you will make next time
Ah man, I wish I was able to get in on that jam. This looks so great and congrats in getting 6th! That's amazing! Also, this video content is super good. Very helpful to hear you break down what you were doing what went well and things to prioritize next time. Very useful. Keep up the good work!
Congrats on the ranking. It's kind of fun and interesting to see behind the scene. I start drawing just a week ago and slowly catching up on your vids. I was around last year's Ludum Dare video yesterday too, what a coincidence. PS. I have to sit a few meters more from the screen because of the constant very close-up shot. Somehow this year's social distancing makes me uncomfortable.
nice video and congrats on yout top10. feedback on video is that I personally enjoyed it more when you have game/design things in the background as you talk.
I'm a bit late to this but Adam I just played through Trauma and its very good for the time you had. The story is very good it hit me in the feels lol and I love the moving around of the cards its such a cool and fun idea. That said I love your art style and even though it is present in the game I did miss your beautiful backgrounds. :) I know you didn't have much time but its still such a great game and the character is so cute. lol Peace and One Love friend.
Wow very cool game, sorry I did not notice it when I was evaluating games) I also participated and it was my first Ludum Dare, though I unfortunately took only 132nd overall place
Hey! Can I watch your stream somewhere! I feel like I could learn a lot about game dev from it (about the planning / prototyping process). Thanks for this video! 👋
Great job with Ludum dare Adam. You seem a tiny bit out of focus in the DSLR recording. Also some slightly softer and brighter colour grading would look nice :)
I'm still working out the kinks of trying to record through the HDMI out feed rather than saving a video to memory. I was in focus, but the quality loss between the HDMI out, OBS, Resolve and TH-cam resulted in something not so great. I think there's potential with the format, but I may have to fork out some extra cash for lighting / a better camera (this one is a canon 650D that doesn't do 1080p out from the preview)
Hello! what are all your audio/music equipment? keyboards, softwares... and why this one instead of an other? can you make a video about that? I just realize I not equip to make a single sound fx for my projects and your setup look cool. thanks
No need to watch the video.. here is how he made a top ten ludum dare game... u only need a few things.. its real simple... 1. A BIG TH-cam AUDIENCE.. you need this for people to play and rate your game so it gets noticed more... got one of them lying around at the back of ur cupboard??? good.. use that one... 2. have 5 or so years of pixel art and more of general art practice... 3.. enjoy your top ten game.. You are welcome.
I really like the calm way you talk through topics with just enough details to keep it extremely interesting. These video's fly by :)
A thought I had when you were talking about putting character animation first is that many indie developers have a tendency to think of art/animation/sound as being "polish", or secondary elements. But in fact, as they relate to game feel or "juice", they're not "polish" at all, they're core elements of many genres. How it feels to execute the gameplay loop is so driven by what kind of feedback the player is receiving, and that feedback is largely transmitted through the art and sound design. And in many, if not most, modern genres, making the core gameplay loop feel good is critical to the overall gameplay experience being a positive one.
So I think that whether it's a game jam or a rapid prototype, it's valuable to ask yourself, "How much does this art or sound asset affect how it feels to play the game?" And if the answer is "A lot", as in the case with a player animation, that may be an important thing to implement early on in the process and to put some real time into. If the answer is "not very much, it's mainly to enhance the mood" maybe you can put it on the back burner, like you did with the background art, Adam.
Just some thoughts I had watching through the video! Loved playing through Trauma and it was fascinating to hear you summarize your process, since I mostly wasn't paying good attention during the livestream. Congrats on the top 10 finish!
This is golden insight and a major takeaway I also had from this excellent video. After several self-taught years of prototypes and one shipped commercial game, I'm just now catching up to this realization myself. Clear communication is critical to the core experience and part of how we communicate is through feeling. My working theory at this time is to juice all core elements early.
It's absolutely unimaginable that someone has such a multidisciplinary scope of skill. Crazy!
Your work is very inspiring. It's impressive to see a person who has honed multiple skills over several years apply those skills in a confident way. You aren't leaving your success to chance you're putting in the work every day. So thanks for that
Congratulations on top 10! You totally deserve it. Very much appreciate the time you took for that and the time you took to rate games. It all helps! Also definitely would love to learn more about your workflow for music!
It's stunning the amount of work that went into this. That high ranking spot was really well deserved!
I really love the basic idea and concept you had for this game. I don't expect you to make anything more out of it but I still want to - mostly for myself - write down some ideas it gave me.
I like how every time you confront a trauma, it does something to the player character, mostly, regardless of additional input. You can use those "memories" together, each one on it's own, but it in the end you don't have much precise control. So I was thinking further along in the therapy - for harder puzzles - you could learn "techniques" in order to better deal with past and new trauma: Mechanic wise, you'd collect such technique cards that give you abilities similar to the trauma cards, but with more agency. Something like "accepting your own flaws" could make you jump into the air but you could control how high or low you jump. "Asking for or accepting help" could move you horizontally; left OR right. Or you could even keep all the trauma cards after a certain point. As to show that you have learned to confront and deal with them on your own. Independent of someone guiding you into confronting them at a specific point. The puzzles might become too complex or convoluted at that point, though.
Anyway, just some ideas that I got from your beautiful game. Thank you very very much for the inspiration this gave me and I wish you all the best for your work on Insignia. I already love the demo :)
Watching your videos is definitely the best choice i ever made, you give so much inspiration Adam plus i learn so much every time and have fun, thank you for making them and wish you the best !
Great job with the result. Enjoyed watching the jam stream.
19:17 I love this! I would love to know how to practice making Music and SFX properly. My best songs can take an entire week to complete, but you do it really fast. I use your planning methods for art/animation too which makes it fun.
Maybe one day in the future, until then it’s okay it takes awhile ✌️ good things take time.
I second this! I’d love a video about this
been a fan forever, made me so happy to see you make top ten
you deserve it bro!
much love and appreciation for all your tutorials and videos!
Hey! Good for you! I heard this from another game dev friend of mine, and that's really awesome. 👍
Cara, sério.. o teu trabalho é incrível!!!
Parabéns pelo capricho, pelo carinho que tem pela arte do mundo dos games.
Sou seu fã!
Congratulations on making Top 10! You're a great creator and I look forward to seeing more about your personal projects.
I think the thing that strikes me most is that the game itself is very simple, but dressed up extremely well.
Wow, I just recently came across your channel and what I have seen so far and especially this video is just mindblowing to me. How can one single person excel at such vastly varying tasks in such short amount of time, this is truely inspiring to see, good for you! Congratulations on the outcome of the jam, which is well deserved. Keep up the great work! Best wishes from Germany
I'm really happy for you, that you are growing so fast as youtuber and as game developer. Bright future is ahead of you!
Man always watching your work motivates me to do more pixel art
Your final thought about principles against Software development was really profound, I'll take that to my life, thanks for this insightful video
Awesome results for an awesome game/experience! Always love tuning into your Ludum Dare streams as well, especially since that's the way I got first introduced to your channel and content. Loved hearing your thought process and looking forward to what you will make next time
Ah man, I wish I was able to get in on that jam. This looks so great and congrats in getting 6th! That's amazing! Also, this video content is super good. Very helpful to hear you break down what you were doing what went well and things to prioritize next time. Very useful. Keep up the good work!
This video is so awesome! I just played your game, it's so addicted! Need more level!
Adam.. You are very incredible! Thanks for all your lessons.
Congrats on the ranking.
It's kind of fun and interesting to see behind the scene.
I start drawing just a week ago and slowly catching up on your vids.
I was around last year's Ludum Dare video yesterday too, what a coincidence.
PS. I have to sit a few meters more from the screen because of the constant very close-up shot.
Somehow this year's social distancing makes me uncomfortable.
I thought it's my tab with pokemon lofi remix unmuting itself rather than music in the background of this video :D Good job with game!
nice video and congrats on yout top10. feedback on video is that I personally enjoyed it more when you have game/design things in the background as you talk.
Oh wow! That’s amazing! I did not played it yet but I definitely will :) I got somewhere in the 350 placement ^^
I'm a bit late to this but Adam I just played through Trauma and its very good for the time you had. The story is very good it hit me in the feels lol and I love the moving around of the cards its such a cool and fun idea. That said I love your art style and even though it is present in the game I did miss your beautiful backgrounds. :) I know you didn't have much time but its still such a great game and the character is so cute. lol Peace and One Love friend.
your content is awesome dude thank you
Great video man
Wow very cool game, sorry I did not notice it when I was evaluating games) I also participated and it was my first Ludum Dare, though I unfortunately took only 132nd overall place
Dang I have to go to bed in 5 minutes but you are crazy good at game dev I really wanna watch this video.
Very helpful info here, Adam. Thank you :)
Just played through on itch and the game is absolutely incredible.
Congratulations man
Just these words. Thanks Pal!
Awesome dude, thanks for the advice
Trauma was great and even though its such a small little thing it was one of the more validating things I've experienced for my own head issues
Hey! Can I watch your stream somewhere! I feel like I could learn a lot about game dev from it (about the planning / prototyping process). Thanks for this video! 👋
I love the sprite, so cute
Loved this video 🧡
a man just keeps growing and growing they say
congratulations
Congratulations! :D
hope that I'll be able to create a good game like this soon, love from Vietnam, very inspired
Would you do a video on how to do soundtracks for games?
Great job with Ludum dare Adam.
You seem a tiny bit out of focus in the DSLR recording. Also some slightly softer and brighter colour grading would look nice :)
I'm still working out the kinks of trying to record through the HDMI out feed rather than saving a video to memory. I was in focus, but the quality loss between the HDMI out, OBS, Resolve and TH-cam resulted in something not so great.
I think there's potential with the format, but I may have to fork out some extra cash for lighting / a better camera (this one is a canon 650D that doesn't do 1080p out from the preview)
Hello! what are all your audio/music equipment? keyboards, softwares... and why this one instead of an other? can you make a video about that? I just realize I not equip to make a single sound fx for my projects and your setup look cool. thanks
Congratz!
Is it possible to watch an archive of the full journey?
Probably on Twitch.
@@tzeege ok, thank you!
great video. is it necessary to show your face on the entire screen with such zoom though?
Hi! Love your videos very inspiring
What did you use for the mind mapping?
I search but don't find ^^`
its called leonardo
These "behind the scenes" videos of game jams are really neat. And just wondering, what is that tool you use to sketch and draw Adam?
I think it's called Leonardo
congrats!
5:50 i'm having trouble finding answers online. what is "skinning" in this sense? and how is it different from masking?
Hi! congratulations for your work! I would like to know what audio software you used to create your songs. thanks!
What's the software name which you handwrite in or put images on to make plan?
its called leonardo
I liked the game!
How can you get this background effect?
Anyone know if he has a full games on any platforms? First time watching his videos just curious
Excuse me, can I use your character in my game?please.
:D
When i save my sprite in aseprite and go to unity it doesnt update there. what can i do?
first
Almost first
Definitely not first
Oh I didn't update it and refresh the comment section lol
No need to watch the video.. here is how he made a top ten ludum dare game... u only need a few things.. its real simple... 1. A BIG TH-cam AUDIENCE.. you need this for people to play and rate your game so it gets noticed more... got one of them lying around at the back of ur cupboard??? good.. use that one... 2. have 5 or so years of pixel art and more of general art practice... 3.. enjoy your top ten game.. You are welcome.