The best piece of advice I've ever been given is that you don't, and cannot, rely upon MOTIVATION to finish a project. You rely on DISCIPLINE. You need to form solid habits to make progress every, single, day. Even when you really don't want to, you force yourself to sit down and do ONE thing. Create a single variable, update a configuration, add a TODO card, something. Building this habit, and discipline, is far more important than trying to bottle lighting, or capture motivation. Progress is made one small step at a time, not going leap to leap. Hope this helps someone, it has sure helped me.
@@parthajeetsarmah4529 "quickly dies" - True, although It's possible to nurture and prolong or even resuscitate motivation by tricking yourself. That requires a journey inwards to understand what drives you so that's unlikely to happen if you just start out. But as you say, relying on motivation alone is not enough.
so... any chance of devlog 2 coming out soon? it has only been 9 months so i'm just gonna assume the AI is gonna be at the level of taking over the world.
Great video, lots of great advice! I definitely recommend starting small and more importantly actually finish! There's many things involved in making a game more than just basic gameplay, if you're constantly jumping between prototype to prototype there's a lot you won't learn. So stick with a project and finish it!
Hey, professional game dev here to say that this advice in this video is actually pretty good. One thing that wasn't well explained is that visual scripting is still coding in tge end of the day, just presented differently. That's why learning code is important, because you'll be doing it in some shape or form in thr end.
Yup, what I was going to say. Visual is easier to pick up at first, mostly because you don't have to understand syntax, but it starts holding you back very quickly.
A few vids ago I commented the idea for VR, but then I realised: this game would be perfect for nintendo switch and then I remembered, you have a switch! I think it would also fit the game really well, because the style is also cartoony-type and it's family-friendly nature, so maybe... also love ur vids!
Do it! Math will seem more interesting when it relates to calculating a vector and rotation to make a cool blood splatter on a zombie. May as well get stuck with that problem while you're in school to learn the math that solves it.
Honestly good advice. I've been learning Unreal Engine and Blender for 8 months (mostly UE), and I have nothing close to a game. I can do all sorts of things, and lots of things very well, but there was no goal, so there's no game. For me that's fun, but if you want to make a game, planning and understanding scope is definitely a skill you should include.
"Motivation comes and goes", having a drive, working regardless of circumstance or feelings and being determined to finish it and enjoy the journey, that's what it takes to make your vision a reality.
I really liked this kind of video. I think the best tip of the video is to start small. It doesn't matter if your first game has bad art, has simple mechanics, or is boring. What matters is that you made a game. Now you can keep making and finishing games that will get slightly bigger and better everytime. So start simple and work your way up.
I started programming when I was 8 with just the most basic programming language, Scratch. What I would recommend is starting with that just to wrap your head around how computers work and "think", then start making games in unity
My first game was actually a flappy bird clone (Flappy Bomb...). It really teaches you a lot to finish your first SMALL game. Not to mention the feeling of accomplishment and the motivation it gives to tackle bigger projects. Then I went on to follow a loooong tutorial on YT that teached me how to make a game completely from scratch in Unity. Created a total of 10 games before I am now starting to learn Unreal. My prior knowledge from Unity really helps me understand Unreal quicker.
There are tons of free and / or very cheap 3d assets out there that you absolutely can re-material / re-texture in engine (at least in Unreal) to make the assets unique. Esp if you're doing something that's 3d and lofi.
My single point of failure was sticking to one game, I only wanted to create this one awesome game, and if I completed it I would be set for life, I started this back in 2003, Its still not finished, I doubt it will ever be finished, the importance of making small games and lots of them cannot be overstated, the full cycle, all the loose ends needing to be tidied up to finish a game will give you experience found no where else, put your big ideas on a back burner and prove you can finish ten - yea TEN small games, be them copies or original, whatever before tackling the the big one. and if your big idea flops, you have a ready made portfolio. Another point I'd raise is the game engine doesn't matter, because sooner or later you will need to swap to one of the others, its the experience that counts, I suspect porting the ten games you already made to a new engine would be a great start. This is the video I needed eighteen years ago. - now go and watch it again!
i'd be a little dissapointed in you if you're working on a game from 2003 and i doesn't turn out like cyberpunk 2077 or even better! make sure to work hard. you don't have ti finish that game if you're getting bored. But you , for sure, have learned so much from a 18 years journey. You can keep the pace on the current project or start another and this time you gotta set the deadline other wise you're gonna procrastinate and not finish it before a very long time when you already have lost the interest. I recommend game jams since they do the same thing and you can have a chance to know other game developer just like you and make friends or eventually make an indie game studio team to make a god-like game! Good luck my boy, kkeep going and play it smart!
I am totally with you on the first question. There are only two kinds of people: Those who dont ask others what game engine to use and those who should use Unity ^^
I mostly agree with this video apart from that you have to start with 2d, you know, I started with 3d and you can just get a crazy amount of free 3d assets so you don't HAVE to learn 3d modeling software like blender, i started out with doing stuff like level design with free megascan assets with ue4 and got interested in rendering and watched The Cherno (very nice guy btw) and it wasn't sp hard to make a tiny game in 3d with a template and adit it to your own likings and learn 3d like that and i love it its not THAT much harder as 2d
Starting to make games when you already had a job takes courage. I can't help you much, so here's a comment to help you with the algorithm. Can't wait to try your game, thank you for all the great videos!
This video came right on time! I've been discouraged and genuinely lost these past few days in regards to how I was going to learn how to create games efficiently, and this video cleared a lot, if not ALL of my confusion. I am truly grateful 🤝
Finally someone who doesn't just recommend TH-cam tutorials. I've tried so many and it just doesn't stick! This was greatly helpful, thank you so much!
A benefit of starting a small project and finishing: You get to copy a *ton* of your code to the next project. Menu system, inventory, character motion whatever... odds are the next thing you work on will use some things from what you've already made.
Little suggestion: try to use a little better the youtube chapters of the video. For example you could split it up in the different questions you answered: such as "what engine should I choose?", "how do I learn to code?",... etc. That's because if someone doesn't have any doubt about some of your questions they can skip the question without losing time. Anyway great video!
Amazing! I've been trying to figure this out for a year and a half now. I will say one thing - the further, the more difficult and at a certain period you really begin to doubt and think about whether it is worth continuing ... How good that it was at that moment that I found your videos! You are the embodiment of my vision! I started recording the results of my progress on the channel, I think this will help in my studies. Definitely like and subscribe, thanks for your parting words. Bravo!
This is the second of your videos I have watched, I will be watching more and it wis helpful I do want to start and unity I will pick. You game punch punch I think the boxing one looks really fun and characters are amazing. The first video I found was about the bosses in that game, it reminds me of those big rubber suits people put on and box the heads of each other. Your idea and implementation is a winner great work!
Daaam... I am so proud to be a subscriber since you had less than 15k subs. Btw any of your video motivates me. When I end a video i Just want to open unity or Unreal and start making things. And yes I'd start small! I should schedule the activities and just work on it.
Great advice for beginners. I know when I first started I wanted to make like a large open world physics platformer like sonic, and I quickly learned that it was very, VERY hard to do that. Took me a good 2 minutes to scrap the game ha.
Another great course for unity is Thomas brush's full time game dev course. If you go to his channel you should find a link in the description of most of his videos
Its good advice. I worked with an indie team awhile back and learned tons and managed to get on the team by just interacting with Indie devs in the crytek forums. Stopped cause I had kids and life and stuff. Trying to get my own project going and hardest part is starting small but after learning cryengine years ago, learning unity has been easier. It's hard, but most things worth it are hard to do
Well a few things. There's a ton of full courses on TH-cam you can follow rather than buying a course. They're still good obviously. Also on visual scripting GameMaker Studio is a pretty good node based engine with a relatively simple programming language if you decide to use it. Plus Godot has VisualScript even tho its underused and I'm not sure how well it works. Also final thing. Unity doesn't have actual 2D.. yet everyone still recommends it for 2D.
This is all very true! I use GameMaker and won't pay for a tutorial, coz I'm cheap and would rather tinker around to learn and look up the odd tutorial when needed
So Ponty I think you have amazing content on this channel and I have some tips for future things you could add to your game. First maybe you could implement multiplayer from far away aka not local. Number two you could add a rope-a-dope which if pulled off correctly could stun the enemy and/or do a lot of damage.
I used your videos for inspiration to begin seriously with a new game development endeavour. Fortunately i've got a solid programming foundation, that helped me a lot, but it's been very hard all the social media and video recording stuff, i am a completely noob at that haha. Thanks for the good content!, peace c: .
I'm using Blender to build my 3D assets, it's easy to learn. Also I keeps a planning diary for the project I'm working on. Its the best way to keep focus on building a game
If you're in doubt, try using Lua with Love2d engine. I found some great tutorials and those tools are really easy to use on your own. It'll help you test if coding games is for you at the moment
I got to give a tip for who is Brazilian - beacuse the language is portuguese - and works with unity, there's a course in udemy, and it's excellent. It's not mine and I'm not an affiliate, I just really love the course. The name is: Se torne um desenvolvedor de jogos 2D com o unity
Ponty thank you so much for this video. I am currently kind of starting. In the middle of the ben Tristan's 3d course. These trips were really helpful and true. Thank you
what i always say to new devs never give up you will fail a lot in the beginning but this is normal even if projects fails the dont really do why ? well you still learn a lot just get back on the horse and try it again ad the end you get it right Pontypants i what to correct you here for a second C++ and C# are the same with literally a view differentness
Look at that BEARD! 💪 IMO, visual scripting is a good entry/introduction to programming. At its roots, visual scripting is simplified programming. So yes you should learn programming, and to help you along that path, start with visual scripting. 👌
Thanks for this video, it's very inspiring. Right now Im making plan so that I actually get my ideas done so seeing one of the things that I want to do is an epic motivation from all the insecurities that arise along the way.
Ponteypants do think that the walking animation of punch a bunch is a bit slidy so I would recommend is looking for a boxer walk style to animate over. or just recording yourself walk like a boxer to animate over it.
Very well put together video! Your storytelling and memes were always fire and this really shows it off, very epik beard keep it going! Yes I'm commenting after watching whole video xD
Take it from someone who studied Games Engineering for 5 years: I enlisted to learn how to make games. I learned how to make games online. At university, I learned a bunch of math and AI and NONE of it is necessary to start making games. Yes, you can get a deeper understanding of how the tech works that you're using, but you can absolutely get by without it.
Seconded.... I started programming in the 80s with BASIC on Apple IIe and TI 99/4a ... And moved to C/C++ on DOS and reading like Dr Dobbs magazines when I was a teen in the 90s.. Learned all about raycasting, the DOOM engine, early ... I've seen so many post mortems, how-to's, algorithms, tricks, etc over the years.. I've made starts at making my own games with C++ for DOS, Windows 95, Windows XP... C# / XNA later on.. I even bought and read the textbook on RealTime Collision Detection ... You don't need any of that starting out... Just a solid set of tools and good documentation, tutorials, and community to learn from... The rest of it - the AI, the math - you can learn if/when it matters to your current project. BTW - if you're pretty handy with the Maths, I am trying to wrap my brain around calculating the impulse imparted by a directed sound wave / blast wave to some object within a given time step.. I figured if I model the wave front as the outer surface of the intersection of a cone and a sphere, where rSphere = d * t , then I should just have to find the volume that surface traces through some object during the time step and multiply that by the pressure of the wave over the surface area of the wave front.. I'm still a little lost how the vector component of the force is handled for this case - having the magnitude is fine, but how to calculate if the object is pushed back, spun around, etc.. all that trying to make a rubbie duck quack realistically affect a toy hovercraft...
I studied C and C++ for years and i prefer to write my own engines when i want to do something specific. But i would still recommend unity for all beginners. Its gud, its not very intimidating and it works. Thats all you want
I think for people who aren't very into code but want to learn and also get an easy-to-use engine, Godot is probably the best choice. It's custom coding language (GDScript) is very easy to learn, and it's so easy to read compared to most languages that it's almost like pseudo-code, not to mention the interface of the engine is very easy to understand and get used to compared to most other engines I've used.
The best piece of advice I've ever been given is that you don't, and cannot, rely upon MOTIVATION to finish a project. You rely on DISCIPLINE. You need to form solid habits to make progress every, single, day. Even when you really don't want to, you force yourself to sit down and do ONE thing. Create a single variable, update a configuration, add a TODO card, something. Building this habit, and discipline, is far more important than trying to bottle lighting, or capture motivation. Progress is made one small step at a time, not going leap to leap. Hope this helps someone, it has sure helped me.
very true
I think motivation isn't a solution to complete anything. It's always discipline. Motivation just gives some moral boost that quickly dies.
@@parthajeetsarmah4529 "quickly dies" - True, although It's possible to nurture and prolong or even resuscitate motivation by tricking yourself. That requires a journey inwards to understand what drives you so that's unlikely to happen if you just start out. But as you say, relying on motivation alone is not enough.
Motivation comes from progression, not the other way around.
If yt had gifs on comments i'd put "THANK YOU" from the office
Me agree with these tips
Also there's no need to hide the truth Ponty, we all know that you actually traded your eyebrows to get that beard
Hahah and it was well worth it! 😂
so... any chance of devlog 2 coming out soon? it has only been 9 months so i'm just gonna assume the AI is gonna be at the level of taking over the world.
@@Pontypants please grow your hair so you can become a super Saiyan 3
Dude please make a devlog, i have been waiting for months.
@@kyandesutter1364 Punch a Bunch is cancelled!
THE BEARD IS GLORIOUS
Agreed.
Agreed
Ikr
GOD DAMN YOU lol was watching on my tv and legit grabbed my phone to comment to let him know how flourishing his beard is :( you win
I read this as the bread is glorious
Great video, lots of great advice! I definitely recommend starting small and more importantly actually finish!
There's many things involved in making a game more than just basic gameplay, if you're constantly jumping between prototype to prototype there's a lot you won't learn. So stick with a project and finish it!
yes.
@@HarryDKH LOL
Ponty is turning into a Viking 🤣
trueee
A blonde Viking
Oof
Hey, professional game dev here to say that this advice in this video is actually pretty good. One thing that wasn't well explained is that visual scripting is still coding in tge end of the day, just presented differently. That's why learning code is important, because you'll be doing it in some shape or form in thr end.
Yup, what I was going to say. Visual is easier to pick up at first, mostly because you don't have to understand syntax, but it starts holding you back very quickly.
its like coding but with mouse instead of keyboard
@@yusufhabib3507and coding need syntax..... FUUUU
Was about to say the same thing. I am just starting to get into Unreal now, and my prior experience with Unity and c# is helping alot.
Yeah, I was about to say the same thing.
Visual scripting is still programming, the same concepts and skills apply.
A few vids ago I commented the idea for VR, but then I realised: this game would be perfect for nintendo switch and then I remembered, you have a switch! I think it would also fit the game really well, because the style is also cartoony-type and it's family-friendly nature, so maybe... also love ur vids!
Ponty: Don’t learn 3D games in the beginning
My 15 year old self: am going to pretend that I didn’t hear that 👀
Lucky for me I am a blender MASTER
(Says the moderately skilled user of Blender)
plz learn 3d moddeling first u will get dissapointed if u try to do both creating a game and 3d models at the same time
*13 year old me
I remember starting out 3d because of Brackeys tutorials
Do it! Math will seem more interesting when it relates to calculating a vector and rotation to make a cool blood splatter on a zombie. May as well get stuck with that problem while you're in school to learn the math that solves it.
"You probably won't make money making games, so do it because you enjoy it"
Love that tbh
Honestly good advice. I've been learning Unreal Engine and Blender for 8 months (mostly UE), and I have nothing close to a game. I can do all sorts of things, and lots of things very well, but there was no goal, so there's no game. For me that's fun, but if you want to make a game, planning and understanding scope is definitely a skill you should include.
YES, finally in your true OP viking form
love the beard ;)
Sweden forever 🇸🇪
"Motivation comes and goes", having a drive, working regardless of circumstance or feelings and being determined to finish it and enjoy the journey, that's what it takes to make your vision a reality.
True that! Eye of the Tiger =)
I really liked this kind of video. I think the best tip of the video is to start small. It doesn't matter if your first game has bad art, has simple mechanics, or is boring. What matters is that you made a game. Now you can keep making and finishing games that will get slightly bigger and better everytime. So start simple and work your way up.
I agree 100%. And finishing the game is key =)
I started programming when I was 8 with just the most basic programming language, Scratch. What I would recommend is starting with that just to wrap your head around how computers work and "think", then start making games in unity
My first game was actually a flappy bird clone (Flappy Bomb...). It really teaches you a lot to finish your first SMALL game. Not to mention the feeling of accomplishment and the motivation it gives to tackle bigger projects. Then I went on to follow a loooong tutorial on YT that teached me how to make a game completely from scratch in Unity. Created a total of 10 games before I am now starting to learn Unreal. My prior knowledge from Unity really helps me understand Unreal quicker.
There are tons of free and / or very cheap 3d assets out there that you absolutely can re-material / re-texture in engine (at least in Unreal) to make the assets unique. Esp if you're doing something that's 3d and lofi.
True! That's great advice
My single point of failure was sticking to one game, I only wanted to create this one awesome game, and if I completed it I would be set for life, I started this back in 2003, Its still not finished, I doubt it will ever be finished, the importance of making small games and lots of them cannot be overstated, the full cycle, all the loose ends needing to be tidied up to finish a game will give you experience found no where else, put your big ideas on a back burner and prove you can finish ten - yea TEN small games, be them copies or original, whatever before tackling the the big one. and if your big idea flops, you have a ready made portfolio.
Another point I'd raise is the game engine doesn't matter, because sooner or later you will need to swap to one of the others, its the experience that counts, I suspect porting the ten games you already made to a new engine would be a great start.
This is the video I needed eighteen years ago. - now go and watch it again!
really! 2003! o, wow. its pretty long. just suprised
i'd be a little dissapointed in you if you're working on a game from 2003 and i doesn't turn out like cyberpunk 2077 or even better! make sure to work hard. you don't have ti finish that game if you're getting bored. But you , for sure, have learned so much from a 18 years journey. You can keep the pace on the current project or start another and this time you gotta set the deadline other wise you're gonna procrastinate and not finish it before a very long time when you already have lost the interest. I recommend game jams since they do the same thing and you can have a chance to know other game developer just like you and make friends or eventually make an indie game studio team to make a god-like game! Good luck my boy, kkeep going and play it smart!
I am totally with you on the first question. There are only two kinds of people: Those who dont ask others what game engine to use and those who should use Unity ^^
I mostly agree with this video apart from that you have to start with 2d, you know, I started with 3d and you can just get a crazy amount of free 3d assets so you don't HAVE to learn 3d modeling software like blender, i started out with doing stuff like level design with free megascan assets with ue4 and got interested in rendering and watched The Cherno (very nice guy btw) and it wasn't sp hard to make a tiny game in 3d with a template and adit it to your own likings and learn 3d like that and i love it its not THAT much harder as 2d
Starting to make games when you already had a job takes courage. I can't help you much, so here's a comment to help you with the algorithm. Can't wait to try your game, thank you for all the great videos!
🙏
this beard is looking EPIK !
This video came right on time! I've been discouraged and genuinely lost these past few days in regards to how I was going to learn how to create games efficiently, and this video cleared a lot, if not ALL of my confusion.
I am truly grateful 🤝
Finally someone who doesn't just recommend TH-cam tutorials. I've tried so many and it just doesn't stick! This was greatly helpful, thank you so much!
Starting is easy, finishing a game is the problem. I had to start a youtube channel to convince my self to finaly complete a project. Great video!
A benefit of starting a small project and finishing: You get to copy a *ton* of your code to the next project. Menu system, inventory, character motion whatever... odds are the next thing you work on will use some things from what you've already made.
This just means choosing a niche would do a whole lot of good. Thanks a lot for sharing, seriously!
Little suggestion: try to use a little better the youtube chapters of the video. For example you could split it up in the different questions you answered: such as "what engine should I choose?", "how do I learn to code?",... etc. That's because if someone doesn't have any doubt about some of your questions they can skip the question without losing time. Anyway great video!
this channel is growing hella fast… last time i was here u were at 70k subs. congrats on the 80k bro
Amazing! I've been trying to figure this out for a year and a half now. I will say one thing - the further, the more difficult and at a certain period you really begin to doubt and think about whether it is worth continuing ... How good that it was at that moment that I found your videos! You are the embodiment of my vision! I started recording the results of my progress on the channel, I think this will help in my studies. Definitely like and subscribe, thanks for your parting words. Bravo!
This is the second of your videos I have watched, I will be watching more and it wis helpful I do want to start and unity I will pick. You game punch punch I think the boxing one looks really fun and characters are amazing. The first video I found was about the bosses in that game, it reminds me of those big rubber suits people put on and box the heads of each other. Your idea and implementation is a winner great work!
Thank you for the advices. I see several devlog but I like the way in which you speak...
Daaam... I am so proud to be a subscriber since you had less than 15k subs.
Btw any of your video motivates me. When I end a video i Just want to open unity or Unreal and start making things. And yes I'd start small! I should schedule the activities and just work on it.
Great advice for beginners. I know when I first started I wanted to make like a large open world physics platformer like sonic, and I quickly learned that it was very, VERY hard to do that. Took me a good 2 minutes to scrap the game ha.
Hope you picked up another, more achievable idea =)
Another great course for unity is Thomas brush's full time game dev course. If you go to his channel you should find a link in the description of most of his videos
The beard is becoming more epik every single day
Might have to add that beard to the epik peg board.
Ooh I'm so excited every time you upload, I like the schedule for now 👍
Ponty out here spittin FACTS!!!!
yea dat's RIGHT!
ALGORITHM JUUUUUUUUUUUUUUICE
I haven’t even watched it. But just by the title Ponty, I am extremely interested
I hope it was epikkly infirmational 👨🏫
godot can be a starting point too.
PS: the beard is awesome, keep it!
That's exactly the point. Be curious, learn stuff and have fascination in what you are doing
With unreal you can do blueprints and follow tutorials and be able to make a game in like 3 years like me 👍
Yes please make these videos, and you should make some courses on ue4 pleaseeeeeee.
Its good advice. I worked with an indie team awhile back and learned tons and managed to get on the team by just interacting with Indie devs in the crytek forums. Stopped cause I had kids and life and stuff. Trying to get my own project going and hardest part is starting small but after learning cryengine years ago, learning unity has been easier. It's hard, but most things worth it are hard to do
congrats 80k subs!
Thanks! 🙏🏻
You are amazing. I really needed the tips on finishing projects.
I like how the timestamps are about how to make game and beard
Well a few things. There's a ton of full courses on TH-cam you can follow rather than buying a course. They're still good obviously.
Also on visual scripting GameMaker Studio is a pretty good node based engine with a relatively simple programming language if you decide to use it.
Plus Godot has VisualScript even tho its underused and I'm not sure how well it works.
Also final thing. Unity doesn't have actual 2D.. yet everyone still recommends it for 2D.
This is all very true! I use GameMaker and won't pay for a tutorial, coz I'm cheap and would rather tinker around to learn and look up the odd tutorial when needed
you saved me sir.... luv u... big fan from INDIA .
So Ponty I think you have amazing content on this channel and I have some tips for future things you could add to your game. First maybe you could implement multiplayer from far away aka not local. Number two you could add a rope-a-dope which if pulled off correctly could stun the enemy and/or do a lot of damage.
The fist time I rote this it had weird auto correcting problems so I wrote it twice
Thanks. This helps me a lot in my game dev journey that has been no hold forever... Thanks bro
Love the beard 🧔♂️❤️Keep it growing! Let's see where it gets to 😏
🎅 Just getting ready for xmas 😅
@@Pontypants 😂🎅
Fastet recommendation on yt, before everything else :)
I frikin love the thumbnail 🤣
I got your discord notif, and immediately came!
Great attitude, keep up, and the beard t0o!
Thank you so much Ponty! I was just thinking about getting started and this really helped.
what a hidden gem your channel is. your editing is so well put together. and some of the shots you have in your blog stuff are way too high quality.
I used your videos for inspiration to begin seriously with a new game development endeavour. Fortunately i've got a solid programming foundation, that helped me a lot, but it's been very hard all the social media and video recording stuff, i am a completely noob at that haha. Thanks for the good content!, peace c: .
I just started game developing perfect timing for this video!
Lol that ending 👌😁
Imagine karlson and punch a bunch releasing at the same day
Make Karson Punchy Minigames Easter egg ah My English is Terrible I'm Tired aaaa
that would be the most holy day in the worlds history!
Very nice my man. Can’t wait for the next punch-a-bunch devlog, take your time thought!
I'm using Blender to build my 3D assets, it's easy to learn. Also I keeps a planning diary for the project I'm working on. Its the best way to keep focus on building a game
shit vad mycket skägg du fick (det var ett tag sedan jag kollade på dina videor!)
If you're in doubt, try using Lua with Love2d engine. I found some great tutorials and those tools are really easy to use on your own. It'll help you test if coding games is for you at the moment
Ponty: Don't start with 3D games, make 2D games first.
Me who's only ever made 3D games: :|
Awesome tips, thanks! 😁👍
You said "Unreal engine comes with C++" But it comes with Blueprint too. I only make game with blueprint and it is very simple
You look like and extra from Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Beautiful!
Well put! Thanks for this! Bra representation för oss svenska drömmare som vill framåt inom spelutveckling!
Thanks for the advice, nice video. I'm already making GTA VI
👍🏻 I’m waiting
Hwy Ponty! Great video as usual! Ive actually started my first game and posted my first Two Dev logs up!
This was super helpful and fun to watch!
I got to give a tip for who is Brazilian - beacuse the language is portuguese - and works with unity, there's a course in udemy, and it's excellent. It's not mine and I'm not an affiliate, I just really love the course.
The name is: Se torne um desenvolvedor de jogos 2D com o unity
Yeah I use Unity and it's very very good. C# is very cool too lol
Ponty thank you so much for this video. I am currently kind of starting. In the middle of the ben Tristan's 3d course. These trips were really helpful and true. Thank you
Can you show me how to grow a beard like this
Yes, members only video
@@Pontypants :'(
@@Pontypants Oh no
@@Pontypants onlyFans?
bro your videos are amazing , its both fun and have very useful information
i think in the future you will be a legend in game development
I love you ponty I hope you reach a million subs
are we not at a million yet?
oh..
Absolutely nailed the education bit. Well done. :) Good for immigration, not much else...
I see why you are so similar to pewds..!!
Awesome video... thanx for this.!
Ahah what a montage))) that was epic 4:00
what i always say to new devs never give up you will fail a lot in the beginning but this is normal even if projects fails the dont really do why ? well you still learn a lot just get back on the horse and try it again ad the end you get it right
Pontypants i what to correct you here for a second C++ and C# are the same with literally a view differentness
so grateful for the tips, i will put those on my next project :)
Nice beard btw
Pontypants has 2 sides:
Epic Coder person that does game inspiration videos
And *BEARD*
hmmmm... I was thinking of shaving mine but now I dunno... I have found Pontypants to be very inspiring.
excellent video on the topic. Best of Class.
Look at that BEARD! 💪 IMO, visual scripting is a good entry/introduction to programming. At its roots, visual scripting is simplified programming. So yes you should learn programming, and to help you along that path, start with visual scripting. 👌
Thanks for this video, it's very inspiring.
Right now Im making plan so that I actually get my ideas done so seeing one of the things that I want to do is an epic motivation from all the insecurities that arise along the way.
Hurray, Ponty uploaded a new video 🤩
Ponteypants do think that the walking animation of punch a bunch is a bit slidy so I would recommend is looking for a boxer walk style to animate over. or just recording yourself walk like a boxer to animate over it.
not really sure what you mean . is it not perfekt already?
@@Pontypants its just my advise
The timing of this video coming out was perfect
this is very helpful and have very useful information
Nice vid, glorious beard.
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Thank you, you motivated me pls keep up 👍
Very well put together video! Your storytelling and memes were always fire and this really shows it off, very epik beard keep it going! Yes I'm commenting after watching whole video xD
💯gang! Appreciate it 🙏🏻😁
that Beard is dope, Im kinda jealous.
Me too. Majestik
this is so great THANK YOU
Take it from someone who studied Games Engineering for 5 years: I enlisted to learn how to make games. I learned how to make games online. At university, I learned a bunch of math and AI and NONE of it is necessary to start making games. Yes, you can get a deeper understanding of how the tech works that you're using, but you can absolutely get by without it.
Seconded....
I started programming in the 80s with BASIC on Apple IIe and TI 99/4a ... And moved to C/C++ on DOS and reading like Dr Dobbs magazines when I was a teen in the 90s.. Learned all about raycasting, the DOOM engine, early ... I've seen so many post mortems, how-to's, algorithms, tricks, etc over the years.. I've made starts at making my own games with C++ for DOS, Windows 95, Windows XP... C# / XNA later on.. I even bought and read the textbook on RealTime Collision Detection ...
You don't need any of that starting out... Just a solid set of tools and good documentation, tutorials, and community to learn from... The rest of it - the AI, the math - you can learn if/when it matters to your current project.
BTW - if you're pretty handy with the Maths, I am trying to wrap my brain around calculating the impulse imparted by a directed sound wave / blast wave to some object within a given time step.. I figured if I model the wave front as the outer surface of the intersection of a cone and a sphere, where rSphere = d * t , then I should just have to find the volume that surface traces through some object during the time step and multiply that by the pressure of the wave over the surface area of the wave front..
I'm still a little lost how the vector component of the force is handled for this case - having the magnitude is fine, but how to calculate if the object is pushed back, spun around, etc..
all that trying to make a rubbie duck quack realistically affect a toy hovercraft...
I studied C and C++ for years and i prefer to write my own engines when i want to do something specific. But i would still recommend unity for all beginners. Its gud, its not very intimidating and it works. Thats all you want
I think for people who aren't very into code but want to learn and also get an easy-to-use engine, Godot is probably the best choice. It's custom coding language (GDScript) is very easy to learn, and it's so easy to read compared to most languages that it's almost like pseudo-code, not to mention the interface of the engine is very easy to understand and get used to compared to most other engines I've used.
"hoho", perfect with the santa beard. 👍
Thank you so much. Ive been trying to find a course for ages