The algorithm works in mysterious ways; I had no idea you guys existed. But non-violent game design? Open-world exploration? Gorgeous art style? Sign me up!
EASTSHADE! Welcome back you guys, I'll be sure to keep a close eye on the devlogs. Edit: I love the balance changes, I actually got bored of Stardew because I just had to do a task again and again. If there's gonna be some magic to tweak it, I'll be looking forward to it.
Finally youtube's showing me something that I do want to see! I'm 100% into your non-combat game design approach, looking forward to your game and might give EASTSHADE a try. As an aspiring game developer, I'd love to learn more about your game design and creative process. You know there's plenty of content out there speaking of "how hard indie game dev is" but you guys are a small team that haven't compromised your vision to ship a quicker-more-commercial game. So I'd like to hear more about how you're doing it
Excellent work Danny and team!! I’ve been following you guys on Twitter and I’m always excited to see the updates on this project :D As for the community question, my position might be a little different than most here I imagine, having already released quite a few games and struggling to find my footing in terms of sales/sustainability. What advice would you give to someone who is trying to be better at marketing upcoming/existing games on Steam?
Eastshade devs making a new game?? OMG, I loved Eastshade so much! I loved the sense of peaceful exploration and poking around and stumbling into characters and things in Eastshade (it was all the things I love in RPGs minus getting interrupted by combat every 3 minutes, haha)
Thanks for showing your progress on the game development! All of this is very exciting since Eastshade was such an amazing game. You mentioned a casting call for voice acting at the very end of development. Is this normally an open call (even for those without cited VA experience) or mainly for established VAs?
Thank you for watching and the kind words! Casting call is open, but it's a remote self audition where you record yourself and you will need it production quality. Not going to lie, typically only the established VAs have the chops and the at-home production quality required. But we judge mostly on the audition file itself so it's not out of the question that we'd select someone with no experience if their audition slaps!
I have Songs of Glimmerwick wishlisted for so many months now, it's nice to hear about its development. I just have a question about the magic in your game: Although I absolute love the music aspect of it, by this video only I feel like it's just like "keys to other areas" in metroidvanias. What I mean by that is instead of being a tool I can use freely (like the power-ups in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom) that Earth spell you showcased seemed more like something that can only be used in specific areas to create a predetermined path (like in a metroidvania). This way instead of magic being something cool and free that I can use and combine to see its efects on the world, they would be more like keys: "oh no these 3 areas are locked until I have the Earth spell", "oh no, to complete this mission I need a magic that can levitate me into a higher ground, but I can only use this magic in like 4 different locations". I understand if this is the approach you chose, but do you have anything more to say about the magic in your game?
Hey thanks for the support! Some of the spells are systemically useful like the rain cloud spell which you can just cast anywhere. But some of the spells are keys to locks adventure game style. One of the difficulties with making systemically useful spells is you have to design the entire game from the ground up to accommodate for them, and it makes the "grand garden" style of world design very difficult. The whole "these 3 areas are locked until I have the Earth spell" is precisely how some of the spells are used. Environmental impasses are basically our greatest goals, rewards, and progress for the player in our games. But I totally understand the appeal to the more systemic approach! But yeah we're making an adventure game with lock and key style impasses.
I really love all those effects with the shaders and particles you made as a tech art. Any tips on how to get started creating such visuals? Trying to start getting my hand dirty on CG shader coding but looks hard at first.. still at the basics I'm mainly a unity developer but I recently want to shift to tech art as VFX hook me more Would love to hear your advice on how to reach that level
Looks very nice and cute! I like it a lot! I think some place can be a little bit more vibrant so it will feel even better! And I'd love to know if there is a discord server or if you guys going to make one in the future.
i love it but i think it would be alot more satisfying if the notes played AS you pressed the buttons. you can still have the syphony-esque afterecho whil the spell takes effect
Living the dream! I am working on my first game and I am hoping it will not be a flop so I can at least get away with a small salary and work full time on game 2. Worked with web development for over 20 years so I have some head start with programming and design skills. But for every indie hit there are so many indie game devs that fail, which is very disheartening.
If you have a steam page, pay attention to your wishlist count. It's a relatively reliable indicator of future success. The games that succeed are not random. If you can make a product that competes with the top 10% of a genre on every level: production value, design, polish, scope, marketing assets, scope of campaign, etc, it's my opinion you can reliably expect to sell like the top 10% of that genre. Almost every game I've seen fail has failed because the product was not competitive with the titles in the revenue bracket they were hoping to be in.
Thanks for the kind words! The problem with ultra wide support for a fixed camera game like this is it totally screws up all the environment framings. Like we only art to a certain point beyond the treeline and the ultrawide either has to A. be more zoomed in which is kind of a bummer for ultrawide or B. we have to design all our environments with ultrawide in mind and that's just the wrong focus with almost all players having 16:9
@@eastshadestudios8335 That is completely understandable and I can easily adjust lol. Even my "video games are boring" fiancee is excited to try Songs, good luck in your development adventures and thanks for the reply!
How do you go about finding and expanding your team as an indie dev or studio? Especially your core team members like the game designer and game artist / coder? Usually I think games start with 2 people so how do you evaluate who's the best person to be the other core member?
hooray hey thanks for the WL! We love and play violent games as much as the next person. But sometimes we dream about virtual worlds where the thing you do there is something other than kill everything. Have you ever thought about how strange it is that 98% of the people you encounter in most RPG fantasy worlds are trying to kill you? Combat is so ubiquitous that if you make a trailer for a game people will ask "You didn't show combat. What's the combat like?" It's just assumed you will be killing people because that's what you do in games where you control an avatar. You can make a game loop about anything, but almost everyone chooses to make a primary game loop about roughly the same thing. So our mission statement for our studio is to make virtual worlds where you're not just there to kill.
I'm sorry, the devs behind Eastshade are making an RPG with farming elements? In an academy setting? With witches?! This is the dream come true I didn't know I needed.
I’ve pretty much given up on gaming, partly because I find combat is handled really poorly. Like how in Skyrim, if I died I would just keep reloading the save over and over again until I got it right. Dying adds literally nothing to the game except breaking immersion, so why bother to add it in at all? This, however, along with Eastshade, are exceptions and I certainly will be buying this the moment it comes out. I’m sick of all the violence and nastiness in the real world, and this is exactly the kind of escapism I love. This is never going to happen but I would LOVE it if your team managed to get access to the “My Little Pony” rights. I think I’d probably never come out of playing that game!
Thank you so much for the support! We also wish for more non-violent games! There are so many design ideas to explore outside of combat. Haha we can't say we'll ever get the pleasure of doing a My Little Pony game, but we'll do our best to make a dent in the world of non-violent games for the rest of our careers!
Added to Wishlist! I wanted to ask if the lead artist/designer has any social media where I could follow. I love the style she's used for the game and I'd love to see like sketches and progress pics of how she works on it as the game develops. Thanks! Can't wait to play!
will be there day one for this, eastshade still has my favorite open world design of any game. rly appreciate yalls priorities towards worldbuilding and narrative rpg questing over the typical grinding loops like farming, uve created a rly distinct voice within the sometimes unhelpfully broad "wholesome" or "cozy" games wave i have a potentially over ambitious question for now or a future devlog. while i dont know much about the setting of glimmerwick, one of the things i remember most about eastshade is the believably kind character of its society and people. part of that believability meant that you occasionally encountered the unkind or rough edges of both, its not a perfect utopia, but theres a distinctly welcoming and peaceful culture. is the setting of glimmerwick similar, and are there any specific considerations you make for the idealistic parts of the setting and characters? and the harsher parts as well?
It's absolutely wonderful to hear you say that! We took tremendous care with the world design so it means the world to us to hear it! That is a great question. It's something we think about a lot and I will definitely cover it next devlog!
I'm in love with this style of this gameplay! As much as I do enjoy farming, I enjoy doing quests way more! I wishlisted this game long ago and I can't wait for it! I do have a question, in most games I play, I enjoy getting to know the npcs around me and if there was a chance to befriend them and get to know them through scenes. Does that system include in Songs of Glimmerwick?
This looks really cool! For the sake of asking more questions, I'm curious about your thoughts on handling peril without a combat system. Do you avoid making the player feel they're in danger at all, or are there creative ways you've found to provide non-violent consequences (and solutions) to perilous situations? I'm very interested in non-violent game design, so I'm truly excited to follow this project, and I'll be sure to check out your previous game as well!
After playing Eastshade a couple of years ago I’ve been really interested in what this studio would put out next. This looks excellent! I’m not sure if this has been answered already but is a console version being considered?
If this is going to be a larger game than Eastshade, this is going to be quite the world to explore! Eastshade was magnificent and I cannot wait to explore this world!!!! I am loving the emphasis on questing!!!! Subbed, liked, subscribed, bell notification, and wishlisted! I've done all the things!!!!
congratz on the success of eastshade, its always nice to see success stories in the indie gamedev. your new game looks amazing, so good luck with it too, i will await its release
Hey, love how this looks so far! I am an aspiring VA, among other things, and I was wondering if you have any predictions when you might start casting. I am now following you on twitter, but I don’t really keep up to date with that and I don’t want to miss out. Regardless, the game looks great so far, good luck with the rest of your development!
Hi hello! i'm interested in participating in voice acting your game! i've always wanted to expand my skills and saw this as a good opportunity for my experience 😁
Sooooo looking forward to this! Eastshade, while not flawless, is still my favorite game, and while this looks different in some ways, I imagine it will still scratch a much similar itch. EDIT: This isn't a very specific question, but I wonder if you could maybe tell us a bit the about character creation/customization?
Hooray! Thanks for watching! Yes I hear you! This first one was almost more of a pitch to get things rolling but I plan on going more technical on future ones!
Thanks for sharing that update! I wonder how much school life and interpersonal relationships there will be in the game. Are we going to have lots of friends in this school as we learn together and from one another, or will we be the lone wolf that just likes to explore the areas outside of school?
Loving the visual style. A little confused by you stating the farming was the meat and potatoes of the game but then later on saying to avoid the tedium of farm sims this game has more of a focus on rpg questing instead.
Thank you very much! I said "[farming is] a hefty auxiliary loop that serves the real meat and potatoes of the game, which is this absolutely sprawling adventure RPG". So the adventure RPG is the meat and potatoes.
Thank you! Haha we missed Loom but both Jac and I have looked at it since starting work on Glimmerwick. And I enjoy Brian Moriarty's talks and interviews.
Well you made on to my radar now. I'm always yearning for non violent games and this seems like a perfect game for me. Maybe I'll re-install Eastshade in the meantime. Game wishlisted and I hope to get to play it soon!
I really love the looks and feels of this beautiful game, I wish you all the best guys, I've been studying (on my own) unity for about 2 years now, I made a few little games and I followed a lot of tutorials and courses, but every time I try to code on my own I feel stuck, but recently I managed to gather my thoughts more clearly and I became more understanding to the logic of things in C#, even though I don't memories all of the syntax but at least I know what to do to make a function triggering another or multiple functions, I have a long road ahead and I'm still learning and definitely stumbling on your beautiful game is a really an inspiring material to me, sorry for making this long but I wanted to share my thoughts of game developing as solo developer, if you have any advices please let me know, thanks
As someone that is getting into gamedev, I was wondering why you choose to do a 2D like game but do it in 3D? Instead of going true 2D? What are the benefits doing it like that? Im experimenting with both 2D and 3D and trying to figure out what's best for me but Im realising that there is so much that I havent yet considered.
this is a great question! Going to try to answer in next devlog. But I have written an article in the past that probably answers a lot! www.gamedeveloper.com/production/deep-dive-the-innovative-projected-2d-workflow-of-songs-of-glimmerwick
Absolutely adored Eastshade, one of my favorite games of all time. Went into that game not knowing anything, and was so surprised at how expansive, and detailed the world was. I'm definitely thrilled about this game, and eagerly awaits exploring another world made by you guys. By the way, from watching this video, the game's feel and aesthetics, reminds me a fair bit of Wytchwood, another great game that I can highly recommend.
Awe shucks thank you so much! And cheers! Makes us very happy to hear! And I looove wytchwood! Fantastic game! Yes they use a pop-up 2d style. They also happen to use the same animation middleware as us (spine). Funnily enough we were showing right next to them at PAX one year toward the end of Eastshade development. We already knew we were going to be making Glimmerwick next so we were very interested in their games art pipeline and asking all about it haha.
The algorithm works in mysterious ways; I had no idea you guys existed. But non-violent game design? Open-world exploration? Gorgeous art style? Sign me up!
Thank you so much for watching and for the kind words!
I feel like we are entering a golden age of cool game devlogs, that really help set the indie scene apart. I can't wait to play this!
EASTSHADE! Welcome back you guys, I'll be sure to keep a close eye on the devlogs.
Edit: I love the balance changes, I actually got bored of Stardew because I just had to do a task again and again. If there's gonna be some magic to tweak it, I'll be looking forward to it.
Thank you for the support! And rock on glad you dig the balance changes! Yeah haha we feel the same way!
Finally youtube's showing me something that I do want to see!
I'm 100% into your non-combat game design approach, looking forward to your game and might give EASTSHADE a try.
As an aspiring game developer, I'd love to learn more about your game design and creative process. You know there's plenty of content out there speaking of "how hard indie game dev is" but you guys are a small team that haven't compromised your vision to ship a quicker-more-commercial game.
So I'd like to hear more about how you're doing it
I am in love with your art style
Oh, this looks beautiful! I really look forward to seeing further development. I don't know how I haven't heard of you guys!
Amazing work. Love the vibe of the game. Goodluck on the development!
Wishlisted!
Thank you for this interesting insight behind the scenes. I'm looking forward to further episodes and of course the upcoming game!
I loved Eastshade! Looking forward to this one :)
Excellent work Danny and team!! I’ve been following you guys on Twitter and I’m always excited to see the updates on this project :D
As for the community question, my position might be a little different than most here I imagine, having already released quite a few games and struggling to find my footing in terms of sales/sustainability. What advice would you give to someone who is trying to be better at marketing upcoming/existing games on Steam?
Haha I recognize the avatar! Thank you so much for the support! I am going to try to get to that question in the next devlog!
amazing, can't wait to play it :) wishlisted immediately
Eastshade devs making a new game?? OMG, I loved Eastshade so much! I loved the sense of peaceful exploration and poking around and stumbling into characters and things in Eastshade (it was all the things I love in RPGs minus getting interrupted by combat every 3 minutes, haha)
Thanks for showing your progress on the game development! All of this is very exciting since Eastshade was such an amazing game.
You mentioned a casting call for voice acting at the very end of development. Is this normally an open call (even for those without cited VA experience) or mainly for established VAs?
Thank you for watching and the kind words! Casting call is open, but it's a remote self audition where you record yourself and you will need it production quality. Not going to lie, typically only the established VAs have the chops and the at-home production quality required. But we judge mostly on the audition file itself so it's not out of the question that we'd select someone with no experience if their audition slaps!
Fantastic art and mood
Oh wow! Amazing video! I am waiting for your game so much! I live music ❤
I have Songs of Glimmerwick wishlisted for so many months now, it's nice to hear about its development.
I just have a question about the magic in your game: Although I absolute love the music aspect of it, by this video only I feel like it's just like "keys to other areas" in metroidvanias. What I mean by that is instead of being a tool I can use freely (like the power-ups in Zelda Tears of the Kingdom) that Earth spell you showcased seemed more like something that can only be used in specific areas to create a predetermined path (like in a metroidvania).
This way instead of magic being something cool and free that I can use and combine to see its efects on the world, they would be more like keys: "oh no these 3 areas are locked until I have the Earth spell", "oh no, to complete this mission I need a magic that can levitate me into a higher ground, but I can only use this magic in like 4 different locations".
I understand if this is the approach you chose, but do you have anything more to say about the magic in your game?
Hey thanks for the support! Some of the spells are systemically useful like the rain cloud spell which you can just cast anywhere. But some of the spells are keys to locks adventure game style. One of the difficulties with making systemically useful spells is you have to design the entire game from the ground up to accommodate for them, and it makes the "grand garden" style of world design very difficult. The whole "these 3 areas are locked until I have the Earth spell" is precisely how some of the spells are used. Environmental impasses are basically our greatest goals, rewards, and progress for the player in our games. But I totally understand the appeal to the more systemic approach! But yeah we're making an adventure game with lock and key style impasses.
I really love all those effects with the shaders and particles you made as a tech art.
Any tips on how to get started creating such visuals?
Trying to start getting my hand dirty on CG shader coding but looks hard at first.. still at the basics
I'm mainly a unity developer but I recently want to shift to tech art as VFX hook me more
Would love to hear your advice on how to reach that level
Looks very nice and cute! I like it a lot! I think some place can be a little bit more vibrant so it will feel even better! And I'd love to know if there is a discord server or if you guys going to make one in the future.
Reminds me a bit of Loom...which I love!
Interesting project. Would love to see it on MacOS as well. Good luck
i love it but i think it would be alot more satisfying if the notes played AS you pressed the buttons. you can still have the syphony-esque afterecho whil the spell takes effect
Living the dream! I am working on my first game and I am hoping it will not be a flop so I can at least get away with a small salary and work full time on game 2. Worked with web development for over 20 years so I have some head start with programming and design skills. But for every indie hit there are so many indie game devs that fail, which is very disheartening.
If you have a steam page, pay attention to your wishlist count. It's a relatively reliable indicator of future success. The games that succeed are not random. If you can make a product that competes with the top 10% of a genre on every level: production value, design, polish, scope, marketing assets, scope of campaign, etc, it's my opinion you can reliably expect to sell like the top 10% of that genre. Almost every game I've seen fail has failed because the product was not competitive with the titles in the revenue bracket they were hoping to be in.
This game just exudes style. Since you asked for questions, what is your process for planning out the world of the game?
looks sick
игровой мир почему-то выглядит лучше (для меня) в редакторе, чем в рантайме
OH THIS IS GREAT
I loved the art style immediately, will you guys put some time into ultra wide support? Wish listing right now!
Thanks for the kind words! The problem with ultra wide support for a fixed camera game like this is it totally screws up all the environment framings. Like we only art to a certain point beyond the treeline and the ultrawide either has to A. be more zoomed in which is kind of a bummer for ultrawide or B. we have to design all our environments with ultrawide in mind and that's just the wrong focus with almost all players having 16:9
@@eastshadestudios8335 That is completely understandable and I can easily adjust lol. Even my "video games are boring" fiancee is excited to try Songs, good luck in your development adventures and thanks for the reply!
How do you go about finding and expanding your team as an indie dev or studio? Especially your core team members like the game designer and game artist / coder? Usually I think games start with 2 people so how do you evaluate who's the best person to be the other core member?
Im a bit weirded out how you call your focus "non combat games", but im interested and wishlisted your new game 🥳
hooray hey thanks for the WL! We love and play violent games as much as the next person. But sometimes we dream about virtual worlds where the thing you do there is something other than kill everything. Have you ever thought about how strange it is that 98% of the people you encounter in most RPG fantasy worlds are trying to kill you?
Combat is so ubiquitous that if you make a trailer for a game people will ask "You didn't show combat. What's the combat like?" It's just assumed you will be killing people because that's what you do in games where you control an avatar. You can make a game loop about anything, but almost everyone chooses to make a primary game loop about roughly the same thing. So our mission statement for our studio is to make virtual worlds where you're not just there to kill.
I will play it
Beautiful game😍👏🏻
Will there be controller support? This looks like the perfect handheld game lol
Yes absolutely! Being built with controllers in mind!
@@eastshadestudios8335 Cannot wait 🙏🙏
Will this be available on Switch 😭❤️❤️❤️
guitarhero-like mini game? farming? cozy magic vibes? dude sign me UP. Great devlog!
I'm sorry, the devs behind Eastshade are making an RPG with farming elements? In an academy setting? With witches?!
This is the dream come true I didn't know I needed.
Honestly 10/10 narration. The game looks rather charming as well. Love how the bushes wiggle gently on contact. I'll keep an eye out.
Good to see another non-combat game. Combat games seem to be all you get on Steam these days. Eastshade was superb btw.
Hey thanks for playing Eastshade! And thanks for the kind words!
You don't look hard enough, don't blame Steam
I would say cozy games have been immensely on the rise these days
@@jorrdan. but most games that call themselves cozy still have combat!
I know i went on steam today with $30 to spend just to see mainly gun games wich im not against but its just i cant find anything besides them
I’ve pretty much given up on gaming, partly because I find combat is handled really poorly. Like how in Skyrim, if I died I would just keep reloading the save over and over again until I got it right. Dying adds literally nothing to the game except breaking immersion, so why bother to add it in at all?
This, however, along with Eastshade, are exceptions and I certainly will be buying this the moment it comes out. I’m sick of all the violence and nastiness in the real world, and this is exactly the kind of escapism I love.
This is never going to happen but I would LOVE it if your team managed to get access to the “My Little Pony” rights. I think I’d probably never come out of playing that game!
Thank you so much for the support! We also wish for more non-violent games! There are so many design ideas to explore outside of combat. Haha we can't say we'll ever get the pleasure of doing a My Little Pony game, but we'll do our best to make a dent in the world of non-violent games for the rest of our careers!
i absolutely loved Eastshade
You're too kind! Thank you so much for the support!
Added to Wishlist! I wanted to ask if the lead artist/designer has any social media where I could follow. I love the style she's used for the game and I'd love to see like sketches and progress pics of how she works on it as the game develops. Thanks! Can't wait to play!
will be there day one for this, eastshade still has my favorite open world design of any game. rly appreciate yalls priorities towards worldbuilding and narrative rpg questing over the typical grinding loops like farming, uve created a rly distinct voice within the sometimes unhelpfully broad "wholesome" or "cozy" games wave
i have a potentially over ambitious question for now or a future devlog. while i dont know much about the setting of glimmerwick, one of the things i remember most about eastshade is the believably kind character of its society and people. part of that believability meant that you occasionally encountered the unkind or rough edges of both, its not a perfect utopia, but theres a distinctly welcoming and peaceful culture. is the setting of glimmerwick similar, and are there any specific considerations you make for the idealistic parts of the setting and characters? and the harsher parts as well?
It's absolutely wonderful to hear you say that! We took tremendous care with the world design so it means the world to us to hear it! That is a great question. It's something we think about a lot and I will definitely cover it next devlog!
I'm in love with this style of this gameplay! As much as I do enjoy farming, I enjoy doing quests way more! I wishlisted this game long ago and I can't wait for it! I do have a question, in most games I play, I enjoy getting to know the npcs around me and if there was a chance to befriend them and get to know them through scenes. Does that system include in Songs of Glimmerwick?
This looks really cool! For the sake of asking more questions, I'm curious about your thoughts on handling peril without a combat system. Do you avoid making the player feel they're in danger at all, or are there creative ways you've found to provide non-violent consequences (and solutions) to perilous situations?
I'm very interested in non-violent game design, so I'm truly excited to follow this project, and I'll be sure to check out your previous game as well!
Thank you! That is a great question! I'm going to try to cover it in the next devlog!
After playing Eastshade a couple of years ago I’ve been really interested in what this studio would put out next. This looks excellent! I’m not sure if this has been answered already but is a console version being considered?
Hey thank you so much! We haven't officially settled on all the platforms yet but yes we will certainly be shooting for consoles too :).
If this is going to be a larger game than Eastshade, this is going to be quite the world to explore! Eastshade was magnificent and I cannot wait to explore this world!!!! I am loving the emphasis on questing!!!!
Subbed, liked, subscribed, bell notification, and wishlisted! I've done all the things!!!!
Cheers! Thank you so much! Wooo yes I think it's going to be a banger!
looks really awesome dude. looking forward to playing once it's out!
Eastshade was so good.
Im a sucker for games like this! Im already so excited to get my hands on it!❤
congratz on the success of eastshade, its always nice to see success stories in the indie gamedev. your new game looks amazing, so good luck with it too, i will await its release
Hey, love how this looks so far! I am an aspiring VA, among other things, and I was wondering if you have any predictions when you might start casting. I am now following you on twitter, but I don’t really keep up to date with that and I don’t want to miss out. Regardless, the game looks great so far, good luck with the rest of your development!
This looks beautiful! How did you get youR studio financed? Also what are your backgrounds?
This is exactly my dream. Making games with a small group including my partner and just having a cozy good time ❤
Hi hello! i'm interested in participating in voice acting your game! i've always wanted to expand my skills and saw this as a good opportunity for my experience 😁
Great devlog. The game looks very interesting. I like the emphasis on questing and having unique adventures. Wishlisted!
Hooray thank you so much! Much appreciated! Cheers!
I love it when Studios look a bit outside the box to create a game that is unique among the sea of copy-pasta we see these days.
My wife will love this game!
This looks awesome !
OMG this looks amaaazing!
Aye! Glad I came across this. Looking awesome. PS: I miss the Twitch streams btw.. ;)
Liked and subscribed! The game looks beautiful:)
This looks really great! Good luck! ;)
Studio Ghibli the game
This looks great! excited to follow progress!
The game looks fantastic already! Jaclyn did amazing work with the art direction! Cannot wait to hear more!
omg I need this game
This world is fricken sprawling! 😂 looking really great 😊
godammnnnn!!!! that's absolutely magnificent!!!!!!
wow. I love the color pallete! beautiful looking
Looks beautiful
I love this, it looks so beautiful
Sooooo looking forward to this! Eastshade, while not flawless, is still my favorite game, and while this looks different in some ways, I imagine it will still scratch a much similar itch.
EDIT: This isn't a very specific question, but I wonder if you could maybe tell us a bit the about character creation/customization?
Very nice dev log, love the art of the game, certainly looking for more vids now. :)
I am having this on my Wishlist for a while. I would love to just finally play!
what a boring game. I would not play even if it was free. I like the art style though.
hooked! It would be awesome if you made your devlogs more technical for newbies like me and others. Awesome content! Awesom artstyle
Hooray! Thanks for watching! Yes I hear you! This first one was almost more of a pitch to get things rolling but I plan on going more technical on future ones!
Thanks for sharing that update! I wonder how much school life and interpersonal relationships there will be in the game. Are we going to have lots of friends in this school as we learn together and from one another, or will we be the lone wolf that just likes to explore the areas outside of school?
We're definitely going for a lively bustling vibe with lots of school camaraderie, gatherings, and small stories!
Happy to hear the news!
Loving the visual style. A little confused by you stating the farming was the meat and potatoes of the game but then later on saying to avoid the tedium of farm sims this game has more of a focus on rpg questing instead.
Thank you very much! I said "[farming is] a hefty auxiliary loop that serves the real meat and potatoes of the game, which is this absolutely sprawling adventure RPG". So the adventure RPG is the meat and potatoes.
I could not possibly be more excited
THIS LOOKS INCREDIBLE
How fun! Looking forward to following along!
this video has made me so excited for this game!!!
That game is GOURGEOUS!
looks awesome. Hmmm. did someone grow up playing Loom or too young for that? hehehe
Thank you! Haha we missed Loom but both Jac and I have looked at it since starting work on Glimmerwick. And I enjoy Brian Moriarty's talks and interviews.
This looks amazing--thanks for the update!
First devlog make me want to buy the game in less than 2 min. Keep up the great work.
Well you made on to my radar now. I'm always yearning for non violent games and this seems like a perfect game for me. Maybe I'll re-install Eastshade in the meantime. Game wishlisted and I hope to get to play it soon!
I really love the looks and feels of this beautiful game, I wish you all the best guys, I've been studying (on my own) unity for about 2 years now, I made a few little games and I followed a lot of tutorials and courses, but every time I try to code on my own I feel stuck, but recently I managed to gather my thoughts more clearly and I became more understanding to the logic of things in C#, even though I don't memories all of the syntax but at least I know what to do to make a function triggering another or multiple functions, I have a long road ahead and I'm still learning and definitely stumbling on your beautiful game is a really an inspiring material to me, sorry for making this long but I wanted to share my thoughts of game developing as solo developer, if you have any advices please let me know, thanks
Gorgeous work! I look forward to tasting the quests for myself :D
Lovely aesthetics! :o]
As someone that is getting into gamedev, I was wondering why you choose to do a 2D like game but do it in 3D? Instead of going true 2D? What are the benefits doing it like that? Im experimenting with both 2D and 3D and trying to figure out what's best for me but Im realising that there is so much that I havent yet considered.
this is a great question! Going to try to answer in next devlog. But I have written an article in the past that probably answers a lot! www.gamedeveloper.com/production/deep-dive-the-innovative-projected-2d-workflow-of-songs-of-glimmerwick
Was looking for this. Awesome writeup, I really like the environment art style@@eastshadestudios8335
holy dude man，you are amazin
I want to buy it already
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ooo i've had this on my wishlist for a while, excited to see devlogs ^^
Absolutely adored Eastshade, one of my favorite games of all time. Went into that game not knowing anything, and was so surprised at how expansive, and detailed the world was.
I'm definitely thrilled about this game, and eagerly awaits exploring another world made by you guys.
By the way, from watching this video, the game's feel and aesthetics, reminds me a fair bit of Wytchwood, another great game that I can highly recommend.
Awe shucks thank you so much! And cheers! Makes us very happy to hear! And I looove wytchwood! Fantastic game! Yes they use a pop-up 2d style. They also happen to use the same animation middleware as us (spine). Funnily enough we were showing right next to them at PAX one year toward the end of Eastshade development. We already knew we were going to be making Glimmerwick next so we were very interested in their games art pipeline and asking all about it haha.
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Absolutely love the visuals of this game! Subbed! Can’t wait to see more!
the magic casting mechanic looks so cool! can't wait :)
Omg this game looks so peaceful and relaxing to play! First time hearing about this and i am extremely excited 😊