I HAD TO DO IT - Blood And Mead DevLog
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Description: In this devlog I reveal some big changes to the character design in my indie game Blood And Mead.
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An unrelated question: What camera do you use for your videos? The depth of field looks nice!
wishlisted but steam page still has old art
Of course! When are you releasing it? Or is there still a lot of work to do?
Wow, looking great John!
Cheers Mark!
@@LostRelicGames Mark stop begin stupid. how stupid the new sprite looks. The other one was a 100x better
The new character makes the game look so much better! He looks awesome!
I honestly didn't care for the previous visual update, but my goodness, this one is absolutely undeniable. Epic tier work there, man.
Wow new viking looks so sick!! Looks like a real unit. I'll miss the chibi viking, I liked him too 😄
He played his part well and will die with honour :)
@@LostRelicGames would be kinda funny to play as the original in a bad dream or something
@migetm0nkey yo that's actually a cool idea, what if you got to pick the character you wanted to play as. You could pick between chibi or abdolute unit viking 😄
@@LostRelicGames make him an Easter egg
@@migetm0nkey love that idea
Ohhh yeah this game needs a bunny with beer🍺
A "*Fem-Fur*"
"I get a rush, a strange rush" I feel the same developing my game. I think it means its fun, hopefully haha. Great work
This is a fantastic video. On the surface it's about graphical changes, but it's really a strong lesson about letting go of something that had a lot of work put into it. Thank you for the video. (and what an upgrade!! totally matches the feel! Can't wait!)
Aww mann I hate to say it but I really loved the previous design! I loved how he looked like he tried to be a viking so bad but doesn't really quite fit the stereotype with his shorter skinnier posture making him more unique. That's just my opinion though in the end the thing that matters the most is that you are satisfied with the endproduct!
This looks so much better now. The animation and character design are a perfect fit! Character hair and clothing weight is something I want to do too.
Awesome. Honestly I was never a huge fan of the old design, but now I am fully on board - the game is starting to look SICK! And the new design is going to appeal to your target audience, I think (metalheads like you and me).
I also get that same rush when I get to playing my game. That little tickle you felt when you first imagined what it'd be like to finish and release the game of your dreams ... it's like a reminder of that feeling.
Even with the exact same player statics (attack damage, defense, jump force, etc) the new look makes it feels waaaaay stronger, faster and more bada**.
Great improvement! Congratulations!
Man that is so much better dude. I thought it might not fit with the style of the enemies, but from what I can see it still looks coherent with the rest. Good work
This is your best devlog yet; new character and animations look awesome!
Looks Dope 😮
You had fun making this! It shows :)
Best first minute of any devlog I've ever seen.
This is a well needed update. Looks amazing, nice work dude! But now you´ve created a problem for yourself, you need to update the steam page to include the new design.
hehe I was thining to do it tonight! but man, so tired :(
@@LostRelicGames New Trailer on the steam page is looking amazing! super cool that you make things happen quickly
Man this looks awesome!! I’m guessing you’ve already found a music composer at this point in development, but if you haven’t, I’d LOVE to chat and send you my demo reel. Medieval fantasy/tribal/Viking-ish music is my favorite genre to work in. I do code/SFX integration in Wwise too for dynamic interactive music. Anyway, I’ll definitely be watching these dev logs! Excited to see how it unfolds.
Dude this looks amazing. Seriously cool work
1:56 yeah! MAN!!! What an upgrade. We aren't in chibi land anymore.
3:25 aw man, poor bird.
This was a great devlog!
That’s sick! The character looks really good
The new character is a beast, love it. Noticed that he comes out of those bloody battles clean, would be sick to see some blood splatter from the enemies on his face and body after.
I'm currently adding blood to just the axe head for a few secpnds. I did some early tests on the body blood with frame matching and shaders, but couldn't get it quite right. Will keep exploring. I agree, needs something!
Looks way better and more fun to play. Definitely more iconic.
Awesome work right there! I really like the hair animation.
This one looks soo epic, great work, now the character looks like a real Viking
Great, funny vid, the new character looks much much better! 💯
This looks insane. Sick job, dude!!
Thanks man!
Really like the solid look and effort put into this fantastic looking game. The main character being able to collect Viking helmets & sword / axe upgrades if not already there would be good. Maybe the Jelly monster having realistic blinking eyes and arms may work too. Although I get the retro look there. One thing that really draws me to a game is variety of creative colourful characters & enemies and creative bosses - A charging bull would be awesome here.
Playing your own game when it starts to somewhat come together and turn into real game closer to your vision is such an amazing High, I've only been working on mine for a year but I had a similar moment lately that just got me addicted to gamedev lol.
This looks so much better, no comparison needed
Love it! Great improvement!
Aye, that looks far better!
Great work!
Amazing changes, chracter looks brilliant now
Wow, amazing update!! This looks insane
What a great Job! really brings the badass dial all the way up to 11
Great progress in overall quality! A lot juicier:)
I'm glad you did this. It looks so badass. All he needs now are some viking style tattoos to go with the new look.
100%. tattoos were to be part of an upgrade system, but I'm currently testing a basic design for the default state!
Hi there!
Your game just leveled up 20 times and invested all points in Charisma.
Congrats for taking the courage to make the change and for the amazing final results.
I see myself going through something similar, I have to trash all placeholder art and character I've been using so far.
GG
Already had wishlisted… Looking great! Can’t want to come out!
Omg this video was so much fun hahaha, well done. Perfect format and content and update IMO. Game wishlisted
Note: The shield is so great too. Mind making it more directed upward when blocking? Triggered my OCD in the video, anyway small stuff, good job!
Awesome! I love your videos! This is really change for better! Love the new look!
Thank you Luke!
Just saw your short and had to watch the video! What an example on why the main characters visuals are so important for the game. Great job! 🎉 Love it!❤
That jump attack looks really satisfying
Coming along nicely!
Im missing the UT2004 announcer: "Double Kill!" ... "MMMulti Kill!" . The Berserker character looks much better now, not so toony.
Well done. That thing you're alluding to at the end is the that unleashing of the shackles to your creativity that has maybe been stalling your project you didn't know why. That one art decision (maybe the first art decision) you have ignored it and it has turned into a spirit holding you back. Now that glee you feel is the creative spirit coming bursting out of you. I see it. It's amazing. Sometimes you've got to reflect deeply before you can realize this stuff.
Consider a female version and selectable by the player. For the sequel, consider a donkey kong country team style gameplay with both.
The new design looks pretty dope!! Definitely an improvement. If you may accept one suggestion, the new hair feels like it is coming out from a shampoo add, I think the beard is on point but the hair could have some more "dirt", at the end of the day this guy is chopping heads all day long, covered in blood and sweat. I would include a super hard achievement to unlock the old design as a playable skin for true hardcore fans. BTW, shut up and take my money, I want to play your game even more now!
Okay yeah, he looks SICK! Very cool😁
Dang this makes me question my characters kind of Chibi-ish design... lol~ I love your new design too, and you're right the hair is awesome! I wonder if it would be even cooler if the hair had physics! Light with rag-dolll/hinge-joint physics... But the animated hair is cool too!
Hey mate! I actually tried hair physics, but just couldn't get it to look quite right. Always felt disconnected somehow. All the best with your own project!
Great you giving him a look
Bruh this updated character fits so well with the game, its incredible!
I Like it! Keep updating it! It will be an amazing game.
Man, if I could sample 1:33 to 1:50 I would just put it on a loop and it would be the greatest workout mix ever. I would have so much rage and so many nipples.
I liked the prior incarnation honestly, but this update was dope and 100% the right move now that I see what the new protagonist looks like.
Great video
Song: Hensonn - Sahara
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good update! zooming in for big attacks could add some juice and highlight those awesome hair details
That's way better John! This style fits so much better with the blood and gore. I'm a games animator too and I'd suggest slowing down that idle by nearly half and reducing the amount the character moves as it looks a bit much to me and I think I would have gone for a slower menacing sort of idle. But I guess it works for a crazy Viking :)
I dialed it up a bit for the contrast, but might work in an in-combat, and out-of-combat idle
@@LostRelicGames Hey yeah, you could have the animation speed slowly reduce after combat so it looks like he's cooling down. Feature creep!
If I pinch my eyes - You look like John Wick.
That an update I didn't even know I could enjoy, it's great
The new character is much more charismatic, well done.
Brave decisions that paid off!
Hey man, I love the new character. Great job! Also your videos are brilliant. Instant sub :j
nice one its crazy how much difference a "small" change like that can make. thanks for sharing this
Awesome new viking! I slightly miss the chili viking though.
Amazing work! I also like this version than the other
Maybe (just maybe) you could slow down the idle animation speed cycle, I think it would be a little bit better
Awesome update, can't wait for the game to release ;-)
Looks awesome!
Now this is a character truly after blood and mead! Maybe add a quick blink animation too? Just a small touch, but with large, noticeable eyes, I think it'd make a difference. Great design though.
missed watching you man! known you for ab 2 years now, been busy with highschool recently. will get back to game dev very soon
Yeah it is looking much better now! Looking forward to see the Fem-Fur version!
I actually liked your previous character but this one is defenitely cooler and it looks way better and agressive !! Good work. Cheers
Daaamn good gigachad character. Nice!
LMAO, the Rambo Texas Ranger of Vikings. Ok, you got me on this. This makes it in the game, I'm buying first week (I never buy on first week).
You've done it again... nailed a change that really works. It matches the theme/gore now.
yeah... you got a hit in your hands with this one for sure!
Awesomer ! Great work mate
Absolutely love it bro 💯
To be honest, this upgraded your game so much, just one thing can improve it so much, great work !
Massive improvement mate
Your game looks awesome man !
This is incredible
Just found your channel, and I'm loving the videos a lot.
Just go to this one, and though it feels like a huge improvement, something bothered me about the design, though I couldn't put my finger on what exactly...
But I think I've figured it out: It's the direction the eyes are looking.
The previous design had the helmet almost completely blocking the eyes, but since in this one they're so prominent, it seems strange that they're not really looking ahead at the enemies, but kind of diagonally towards the player. In fact, the old design (from how little you could see of his eyes) was looking rather ahead, and it looked more natural (though it's just that, the gaze).
The foreground eye (since it's not really a left-right issue) seems fine, but if you could point the other one, (the farthest one? The one away from the player), a little more "forwards", towards where the guy's walking, so that he's looking at the dudes he's chopping up, I think it might help him not feel like he's looking into nowhere, which makes the whole character feel kinda weird (surprisingly, given how small of a detail it is).
Maybe even giving him pure white, berserker eyes could be cool, lol. Might be too big of a departure from your concept though.
Anyways might be just me, though I'm an artist more than a game dev or a programmer, so this is the one thing that I'm confident in, lol. If you read this, I hope it helps!
What!!!??? Imo the other character was wayyyy funnier, and a bit dorky, but thats what I liked about him, not a standard bulked up strong character...But thats just my opinion, i will still love to play the game, already wishlisted it (for a long time now haha, no pressure). I know its a long process. Doing 3d animation myself, so I know things take time. Anyway good luck with it.
Awesome work I love this new character style. The more you work on it the better it becomes !
Love the new character!
new character pulls the vision together well
Such a badass character!
Just from watching 'Mothership' Pass the game challenge and gotta say, this looks freaking awesome!!! Great job there and great job here!
This looks so much better, I actually thought that it wouldn't fit but it does very well. Although I would still do something about the 👀. They barely move, especially when he jumps or falls.
this video made me go *¡yes!* - a *big ¡yes!*
I love how you are using Adobe Animate for graphics, there has always been something so awesome about this, and it allows you to hold onto just a little bit of that "Flash feel" from the olden days because drawing in that application was always so great, smooth lines, easily manipulated, tween... Thank you Macromedia
Huge improvement -- well done man!
Really good improvement! Previous character has his charm, but the new one is awesome, more bad ass, charismatic, perfect. Nice work!
This is looking great 🔥. I've always had an idea to be able to throw the weapon at the enemies as if it's Thor's Mjölnir and also be able to change your weapon on the character.
I like that lunge jumping attack.
love this
That looks awesome. Nice work! This game is so inspirational. Love watching the journey!
Hey John, i know Art is a big topic but i would love to see your workflow on designing a new character or environment.
Keep up the fantastic work!!! 🔥😁
much better! and cool hair
Looks way good!
1:12 Best part LOL