I Made a Zero Player Game
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ก.ค. 2020
- Is a game with no players possible? Well... I made one (sorta)
→ Play Cell Machine: samhogan.itch.io/cell-machine
→ Twitter: / samhgames
Checkout Game Maker's Toolkit (if you somehow haven't yet): / @gmtk
The GMTK Game Jam gives you 48 hours to develop a game from scratch. The theme was "out of control". The idea I settled on was a puzzle game involving cellular automata, inspired by Conway's Game of Life. Players will set some initial conditions of various cells on a grid, and then the simulation will play out.
I pulled out the good ol' Unity game engine to build this game. After some serious struggle, I eventually developed a possible game idea and figured out how to program it (didn't actually end up using cellular automata, but it kind of mimics it).
There are different types of cells with specific functions. A mover cell moves in one direction and pushes any cells in its way. A rotate cell will spin cells that touch it. A generator cell with duplicate another cell.
game development. The idea is that combining these will lead to emergent gameplay (with the goal being to destroy enemy cells).
During this game development marathon, I added animations, made some levels, attempted pixel art, made some more levels, programmed dragging and controls, and added even more levels. I finished the game about 4 hours before the deadline, which gave me plenty of time to make builds and submit. After that I actually fixed a bug and added level saving, and updated everything an hour before the deadline.
So I think I started to scratch the surface of emergent gameplay, something I've always wanted to do. The game is called Cell Machine, it's available on web/PC for now, but I might port it to mobile, but only if I can come up with a good title for that video lol.
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oh cool look I'm on twitter: twitter.com/SamHGames
Wow cool, so cool in fact, I'm drinking milk
Akready seen
How did you comment 1 hour ago?!?!??
@@stefanandrejevic2570 boner
@Yuki Yoshioka a person can publish a vid privately, and comment before it is public, the publishing time is the time when it goes public
My little brother: can I play?
Me: nah it’s 0 player
When mom says let him play.
nice comment but your avatar is ugandan knuckles in the year of our lord 2020
Gus Blessen ik lmao I don’t know how to change it I did it back in like 2017
O i forgot how to put a profile im sounding like boomer
Windtor AE says the one who doesn’t even have one
Edit: He changed his PFP so it’s not just a letter
"are you winning son?"
"i dont know"
I don't know, its just these blue squares moving across the screen
I dont know dad, im not even playing the game, for some reason it plays itself, what did you do dad?.
@Poopee but... She's your wife. Dad, that joke doesn't work .
My son didnt really die he just hid behind the camera
@@someguywithahecktonofcomme9154 honey who are you talking to?
Sam: *ACCIDENTALLY* creates an entire community *WITHOUT EVEN REALISING IT*
also Sam: casually disappears from the face of the earth never to be seen again
fr
Fr
we miss him
I miss him a lot. I'm just rewatching his videos.
Me to@@Kevcon157
I’m coming back to this video to announce that, this game became so popular there are whole TH-cam channels just about mods of this, congrats man you did it (I hope you’ll be able to came back to game developing soon)
Game Jams are magical.
Single player games - for when you have no friends. Zero player games - for when you don't even like yourself.
my kind of game!
A
Sports
Cheers I can drink to that
TheRealDunk it’s in the game
"Are you winning, son?"
"Huh? I'm not playing. 'The Game Plays Itself', dad."
"Oh."
o h
Coraline: are you winning, dad?
Dad: go count windows you piece of shit
Need more likes
Except it doesn't... since a game being played requires a player, even if said player is an AI.
This is my favorite comment
You have summoned a very weird community
I love that one of your ideas was just "computer virus"
Sam: I made a self playing game
"congratulations you played yourself"
You boy just got a heart
*Big brain*
@Sad animator haha
Lol
@@adieboy2495 a hearth?
Just finished making my game
: What do you do in the game?
*_"No"_*
Lol
AFK games: allow us to introduce ourselves
Lmao!
gaming hardcore yt just no is fine
Next video: “I Made a -1 player game”
There is no next video
RIP Sam Hogan you will be Missed =(
"I Made a Zero Player Game"
sounds like Raid Shadow Legends in a nutshell.
afk arena
@@Whyns RAID SHADOW LEGEND,A GAME THAT HAS OVER 100,000,000 PLAYERS.WITH OVER 400 CHAMPIONS!
*auto mode intensifies*
Well the appeal of a gacha game is the characters, “plot” and big numbers when you build them.
"Shadow man here"
I’m really surprised no one’s said “Congratulations, you played yourself” yet.
Congratulations, you played yourself
Congratulations, you played yourself.
Congratulations, you played yourself
Congratulations, you played yourself
Ghost probably
That's it Sam, you're alive now.
I found your game ad on TH-cam
Same
same
The example at the beginning is literally what one of the "elements" or rather tools consists of in the mobile game "Sandbox" that slightly resembles "Powder Toy".
I was always wondering why the "game of life" looked so unique.
Devs during game jam: We made an entire game in 48 hours.
Devs after game jam: fixing that bug will take over three weeks.
Oh yes
cute pfp
@@DerpyPotato-cf8qh Jesus you're mad for no reason I'm pretty sure he wasn't seriously condemning people just pointing out the humor of it
@@TheXLAXLimpLungs Yeah, we call that species "snowflakes." They're surprisingly common on the internet.
@@NoveltyNova I mean you getting so sensitive against this joke to the point you insult this person makes you a bit of a "snowflake" now doesn't it?
“For some reason I decided to do pixel art for this game”
-Every indie game developer
CYBERSTAR Very accurate. Like why every indie game except for a few titles are in 8 or 16 bit?
Nrezola it’s easy to learn any theory or rules needed for pixel art. 2D assets are easy to handle
Ji-Hye Davids plus a lot of people like the aesthetic
Nrezola cause it’s easier to make 2d models
Nrezola I guess it’s easier to draw?
out of control
him: and i took that personally
This is actually quite creative and awesome, not that I am surprised of course!
after 5 hours, I had a blue square moving across the screen
If that aint a big coding mood then idk what is
me
Me to a T
yes, the biggest fun to program something is the time you see your things start to work. So satisfying
@@Ribbons0121R121 no, me
Making everything do what it's supposed to do, but forgetting to make it actually work.
That's a pretty big one.
Sam Hogan: "I Made a Zero Player Game"
Me: "...also known as a simulation."
Just like the simulations
@@abioticlife9087 aha, i have found a man who has played the 2005 battlefront! Now you must execute order 501
Watch those wrist-rockets
Swag Swag Palpatine ..no the meme is just popular
@@imaadi6282 imagine knowing the meme but not knowing the game
Wow! You actually made a new interesting game concept! Great video!
I love watching these videos. I have yet to learn any real coding programs, but i started on scratch alll the way back in 2018, with simple coding that honestly sucked, it used bare bones basic coding because i didn’t understand if then statements or anything. Then i found a really complicated warrior cats game, and decided to remix it. It was then i realized, i could learn scratch coding by just observing the coding in the already made game. I hope to learn real game softwares soon, these videos and scratch really inspired me to learn coding!
There’s already a zero player game. Raid shadow legends.
They literally have a button that makes the game play itself
HAHA! wait... HOW DID YOU KNOW? DID U PLAY RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS!????
I am judging you for playing that game
and most mmos out there with their auto everything
Yeah but that's only during the fights right?
Lots of mobile game that needs farming for materials has an autoplay feature
Me (reading the title):
"Wait, you mean... a movie? That’s called a movie."
But movies aren't funny
@@ionrael what do you mean?
@@ionrael that's a great joke if you're trying to be funny.
So basically The last of us ?
Not really. Zero player game is actually the game or the computer playing itself... like a generator of random events or such like. I think
1 player game = no friends
0 player game = no existence
Amazing editing dude keep up the good work
I'm scrolling through the comments and I'm surprised I haven't seen "congratulations, you've played yourself"...
Congratulations, you played yourself.
@@brimfire7536 I can die happy
Isn't this just a movie tho?
why doesnt this have more likes or maybe it will have alot more likes
I opened this vid just to make that joke LMFAO
“A game with zero players”
Me, an intellectual: *A video*
Bruh thats literally the first thing that was in my mind
me too
@@doomboy6969 same
Me, even more intelectual: *A IMAGE*
Oh yes
I think your game looks great I have seen this a lot of times but I think it’s great!
A new era begun
Sam: “I made a zero player game”
Viewers: Cool! So innovative
Mobile AFK arena games: allow us to introduce ourselves
conway's game of life: pathetic;
Raid: helo
Just say raid shadow legends
Haha Raid Shadow Legends bad
Now giv me liek
/s
lmao
Maybe you can add "Community Levels?" like, you can play and try to finish the levels made by other people so the game would be almost endless.
You could avoid needing a server too by using a level seed system. Friends could share their level seeds or get them from reddit.
@@jacobbergholtz9563 so some kinda reverse procedural generation for the seeds, and someone somewhere somewhen somewhy could train a machine to make the levels forward procedurally (seed first instead of as output) by feeding it levels and reversed seeds and then boom the game is infinite
@@adanua You wouldn't even need that. The game can just keep a list of numbers, with each number representing a cell type, and 0 being no cell in that square. It would literally just be a matter of copy pasting your "seed" to a forum.
That would be a lot of effort, however the game seems completely unobfuscated and there are plenty of helper methods, i'm currently working on a mod to implement something similar to this, though there would be no "download center" or anything, you would need to share the levels elsewhere
Edit: I've mostly finished this mod i said i was working on now, and i've asked sam in twitter DMs for permission to share the mod (since the mod modifies the same files as "SmartFridgeGamer"s playground, which is just the code, but 99% of that code is sam's)
you could possibly have multi-player, where you have your side you can move blocks on, and the opposite side where the enemy can, and you have "enemy" blocks you have to protect and vice versa. destroy the enemy's enemy blocks and you win
After you re-designed everything with the pixel art aesthetic, it looked freakin incredible!
Stick with it just made me rage so I remembered your channel and came here to watch the new videos
The whole time I was thinking “ADD A SANDBOX MODE!”
The whole thing is a sandbox,mode
Same
Tree-PJ not really, since every level has a limited amount of materials and an objective
256 x 256 grids, let player have fun
Yeah!
The nextlevel introvert's game
YES
YES
YES
YES
BIG YES
I cant belive it became so popular! Great job!👍
Played your game, it was very cool, never regretted to install it
"I did my normal technique of just placing music notes completely at random."
Musicians: "Wait.. that's illegal!"
0_0 wait that's right
lol 69th like
@@ghdhfgh6125 shut
@@saxshton dani SHUT SHUT SHUT SHUT
**Jazz players entered the chat**
(If you know, you know ;))
"Congratulations, you played yourself"
- DJ Khaled
Techincally the truth
@@saxshton r/technicallythetruth dude
@@user-zj6ks1ph4p maybe they weren’t trying to do that
As a gamer of all sorts, this video had just deepen my love & appreciation to all the game developers for all the effort that they had put in to create their games. ❤️💛️💚️💙️💜️
Loved the music composition xD
"Congratulations, you just played yourself."
Its a meme mario
Quite literaly
Honestly, this game looks very interesting! If I would’ve added something, then maybe a sandbox mode, kinda like the one you used to plan out levels. Give players the opportunity to create levels of their own. Still a great game!
well he can get some sleep and then can work on the game more!
Yeah IDK why he didn't
I wish he would add a numbers mode where the enemies have a number and number = health/damage and bigger number is harder to kill BUT when a generator has a number (if it does) that is both the health and the number of blocks it makes
Also moving/rotating/generating enemies
AnimeNinja008 Because... GAME JAM. Why would he make a sandbox in which he needs to create linear-ity for a game submission? He could work on a sandbox later since sandbox in the first place wasn't required
its amazing what this became
I just played your game 1 years ago but i finish all the levels and i run out of brain cells to make some more of it so i deleted it but im gonna download it again i think u updated it some more levels so ima play now!
David : "Is there a way to make it play itself?"
Falken : "Yes - number of players : zero."
Yeah, but the only smart move is not to play.
You never play Wii Sport with only bots playing tenis did you ?
I play with myself, often... helps to have a vr headset and pornhub, though..
Parishna what? I don’t have VR but do y’all who have Vr watch porn hub is that even possible?.
Friend: What is your most treasured possession?
Sam: *FOUR HUNDRED BLUE SQUARES MOVING ACROSS THE SCREEN*
Bro invented the nuke.
Really cool concept!
0-Player game: you're weak
Animated movie: I'm you
Sprite animation: Am I a joke to you?
Visual novels: AMATEURS!
Sebastián Ramirez what was that punk?!
@@8Noob *AMATEURS!!*
Audiobooks: I CHALLENGE U
Enemy cell: hey friend!
Everyone watching this in a few minutes: so you have chosen death.
I played, and I can say, you did a good job
The only thing I wish the game had was a sandbox mode.
The game already has a nice concept, and it's actually a lot more fun than it looks. But a sandbox mode seems like it's relatively easy to add, and it gives almost infinite replay-ability. This is just a suggestion though, don't take me as one of those guys begging for an update, I just think it would be great to have.
This game aged well.
Title: “0 player game”
Me: “oh so it’s an animation?”
Breadpiece -A cutscene is a animation- (Joke e)
or a demo
it is an animation look at 4:56 animation confirm????
LOL
Metal Gear Solid 4
“A game that plays itself”
Flashbacks to when I was a kid n I used to play Mario Party on Nintendo 64, but I would set all the players to computers and watch the game unfold like a movie
i do that in sma5h
i do that with pong
When I still had the Smash Bros. 3DS demo, I had these little A.I. Tournaments, mostly because I forgot how to play or I didn't feel like playing. They were almost always entertaining, swapping difficulty levels to make all sorts of results.
In other words, I have no friends.
In the future, we will have -2 player games
kid nl used
i can see people becoming professionals at "Cell Engineering".
Cellumbo Jumbo
The art for the cells is actually super cute
"I Made a Zero Player Game"
Drew Durnil: *H e a v y b r e a t h i n g*
y e s
very cultured joke lmao
Would've never expected to find another Drew Durnil-knower person in this comment section
Neither would I
WAS GOING TO COMMENT THIS
Sam Hogan: "I Made a Zero Player Game"
Me: isn't that a movie??
Yes, or a simulation.
No its a episode
@@generichomosapien4666 no its dying in Minecraft
i was thinking about that when i read the title
@@ggdk2865 inside an simulation
The ads you get are stolen, Sam Hogan doesn't have any ads that he owns so the ads you see are form someone who stole the game and is using it to get quick money
Thus the legend was born!
it’d be cool to have a free play mode when you’ve beaten all the levels so you could just freely place blocks and see what happens!!
Yesss
+1
why is level 13 so hard? is it because its the unlucky number?
i agree definitely needs that🤔
That's called sandbox mode
“Zero player game”
Movies: are you challenging me?
Oh bruh someone stole your comment and got 200 likes
Sad reality
@@Migixkem that sôñúvãbītçh
hey sam! so i liked the game,subbed to you and completed all levels! but you could add a level creator for experimental purposes though
wow really good minecraft video! i love the part where you built a generator IN VANNILA MINECRAFT!
this has probably already being said but: WE NEED A SANDBOX LEVEL.
pls, just to mess around with the cells.
waremon yyyyyyy
Idk
Well that would make it one player
UNKNOWN GAMER yeah
Yesssss
Thumbnail: Game plays itself?
Me: Congratulations, you played yourself.
playing with yourself... Lmao
A few things I would add would be moving enemies, game over blocks (like, blocks that you must beat the level without letting any cell touch), one way pass through cells, run away cells, wrap around cells (like come back to the other side), shooting cells (that destory a cell in a certain direction every cell move), bounce cells (bounces a cell a certain amount of spaces, making it bounce over the cells), portal cells, non-fight-back enemy cells (like enemies a cell can defeat it without being defeated, or like they could be coins), goal cells (a cell that you must get at least one cell to after beating all the enemies), 4x4 cells (bigger versions of the cells), checkpoint cells (let's you rearrange your cells again, like a part 2 of a long level), custom control cells (you can make it move a certain number of spaces and turns, then it loops, still follows rotating cells though), destruction cells (cells of yours that will destory every other cell withotu being destroyed), enemy destruction cells, and etcetera. Although I must say, this game was pretty awesome and clever, pretty clever how you first had the idea of the living and dead cells but then made this whole game. I saw this reccomnded a bit ago and then watched this video, and you were able to come up with this idea and then make this game in tht time, you are pretty amazing. 👍🏻
The Puzzle Cell: am I a joke to you
@@BurrritoYT Oh cool, what would the puzzle cell do?
@StoMoComedoPro It’s not a cell, it’s a whole recreation th-cam.com/video/6OuUuC22HJk/w-d-xo.html
"Come on, the game won't play itself"
The game:
ah yes,
gamestop at 3am
employee: so what do you want
customer: i was wondering if this game is 2 player games so i can play it with my "friends"
employee: thaats zero player
customer:what?
@Bachou Lekikoune bad word
@Bachou Lekikoune bad word
@Bachou Lekikoune bad word
*Sam making an amazing game*
Me just vibing to the music
Played it, it's very cool and fun
"So I used my classic teqnique where I place notes randomly"
THAT IS ME
Lol shit... I do this when I cook as a chef. I guess you can just apply this technique everywhere!? Hahaha
Bosca Ceoil ftw
me literally every time
brick mick brick 🧱
Here's some tips for shading in pixel art in case anyone here wants to know:
0: Shadows face away from the light(darker color), highlights face towards the light (lighter color) and midtones face towards the viewer (base color)
0A: Hueshift the shadows towards purple or blue tones, and the highlights toward yellow tones. (exceptions being materials like gold)
1: Every pixel counts! Make sure your lines look like what you intend them to do, and zoom out regularly to check the overall picture
1A: Spare your highlights! Too much or too little can make your material look too different
2: Start small, then work with bigger and bigger canvas sizes as you go along. You may even find a size you prefer!
3: Limit your palette! Keep your colors few so you can make more creative decisions. You can even limit your palette to just two colors!
3A: If you're not sure what colors to use, you can download a pre-determined palette on lospec.com/palette-list
4: Use a very dark tone as black for your characters! That way they'll stand out more from the background
4A: You can put a light-colored border around your characters if your palette doesn't have two different options for black
🇧 🇮 🇬 🇧 🇷 🇦 🇮 🇳
Gud advices :o
I love your game and your game is 10/10
The fact that the game is popular-ish now (specifically remakes).
God tier
Everyone: Battle Royale with 100+ players!
Sam Hogan: Zero Player Game
Those players of the
"100 player battle royale"
Is just filled with 6 to 12 year olds now
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
yeah.
윤호야 뭐하니 공부해야지
Dani
Pani
Little brother: can I play
Me: I'm not even playing myself
Edit: WOW! tha-
jk im not bothered how many likes this gets im tryna make u lot laugh
This reminds me of the "I don't even know who you are" meme XD
So funny I forgot to LMAO.
Sked #4822 I can’t tell if that’s a joke or not
@@terrariazenith4924 is that your discord?
"I'm doing myself!"
Game jam. They tell developers this guy can work long hours and make a game within the time limit. Let make him a slave
Idea if you ever update the game: freeplay mode
It’s where you can place anything anywhere and make your own personal levels, and stuff like walls, cells, and enemies could be on a menu on the side and there could be an eraser tool that can let you delete a cell
Search up cell machine mystic mod
Actually this would pass as a really neat mobile game imo. The drag and drop controls are perfect for that sort of interface. Throw in a level editor/creator where people can test out their own crazy ideas, add some polish and boom~
Yup thats what i whas thinking too
You playin real life monopoly
Yes
Yeah definitely I want to play this!
We just need somebody to steal the code and then he publish it on the app store LMAO
This gives "Congratulations, you played yourself" a new definition.
And also I played with myself
@@Bimgamer2 ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
*splashes holy water*
"A game that doesnt need a player is called an animation"
-my brain for absolutely no reason
why do game jams always end in perfection??
"Big brother, can I play now?" - the game
Playing was never your option
@@brickmickbrick no
@@brickmickbrick shure
@@brickmickbrick subs beggar
“Well,”
“first you got to come here and will use my pusher...” - the big brother.
Two Ideas.
1 : Make it playable on mobile.
2 : Make a Freeplay/Sandbox Mode, where you can add cells and move them anywhere on the grid.
Third idea: make a level editor
@Zero Two have you watched the video? it already is
See: The Powder Toy
It have a lot of elements to test with and it have a lot of gol too
@@princeali417 he was referring to the sandbox mode that Benjamin suggested
@@Indivinity that's what i'm talking about it's already single player so you can't make a single player cuz it's already and having elements doesn't mean it's the same the video title is a way for sam to get people watch his video it's youtube baby and heck even the man thought it would be extreme for making a game that is unplayable
multiplayer: well you have friends
singleplayer:you have no friends, or you have no internet
zeroplayer:YOUR WATCHING AN UNSKIPPABLE CUT SCENE
BRO IPLAYED YOUR GAME before i saw the video an awsome game 10/10
Definition for the word "game": "A game is a structured form of play, usually undertaken for entertainment or fun, and sometimes used as an educational too.
Sam Hogan: "Reality can be whatever I want"
*Arigatou Sensei!*
Why are you everywhere? You could be bot or couldn't be. just reveal yourself.
@@karthik.b1309 i mean, he also have clones which might or might not be him too, like "Just some guy with a mustache" and "just some guy with half a mustache" and maybe more, soon he will start an army XD
@@maybeperhaps2788 He already has a army
you are everywhere
"I downloaded this cool game,can't wait to play it!"
"Oh shi-"
Lol. gamora: What did it cost? me: Nothing.
@@phanirithvij one day he become too powerful
same bro, my fav level is that because its satisfying
Being able to create your own levels and submit them for other people to play on this game could be a cool addition
Me: Play level 11 for 30 mins but haven't figured out the method
The game: Hey, ummmm these blocks CAN be moved (those dark ones)
Me: *ooooooooooooooooo*
SAME.
Aaaaah I spent like half an hour on level 11, didn't even consider the grey blocks being movable at all
Lol🤣
The same thing happened to me. What's really frustrating is I noticed this a few levels prior and forgot. It wasn't half an hour, but it was definitely longer than would've been if I had just remembered sooner.
I finished every level exept level 11untill I noticed.
This game would be AMAZING with a level editor and level sharing
fr tho
He would need a server to store the levels, but I agree.
Maybe a sandbox where we can just do random things.
@@GSFigure not really. you can have seeds to share games
@@GSFigure That is not true.
Server is the mode common way, but I remember there is 1 game on Google play store that uses twitter
This method does not work due to twitter change their picture format anymore and the game has been taken down, but it shows potential
Yes, I said picture format. The game uses the picture uploaded into the twitter to get how the level is laid out.
I don't know how he do it, but it is definitely possible (Unfortunately, will need to use different service now that uses the old twitter file format, which I don't know what's the format is..)
Game developers:i don't share my secrets of programming
Sam hogan:i made a zero player game
I liked the clean boxy aesthetic significantly more than your pixel art.