tips 6: get a pc that can actually run your designed map. i designed a map with multiple biomes and stuff, but then because my pc is potato, it is now just a massive snowy mountain.
Regarding the mistake in the first 20 seconds: text adventures (of the parser kind) definitely have maps, which are also usually designed/mocked up on paper first before the areas and their contents are written into the game.
i been making a Farm Sim 19 map for 1 year now, i restarted the project multiple times, every time a better map, with more details and content. It's a map that tries to represent the center - north of my country, Uruguay, it mostly based in the rice farms that are here, i started without knowing nothing, and now, the map is looking like real life, every day is getting better with new content even to the game. it's a 64km2 map and with your tips it will improve a lot more!. btw it's the first map about my country for the game, hope one day i release it!.
Jonaelize I actually have a lot of example maps on my channel already (The "Speed Development" series) and a couple mapping tutorials as part of my RPG Maker tutorial series. Wouldn't have hurt to include something here though you are correct. :)
While I like your Speed Development series, I would like it more, if you were talking in those videos instead of playing music. You know, explaining the reasoning behind how and why you mapped it this way. This is why I like your Critical Development series.
I can appreciate the short video. I'd add the following from the top of my head: * have chill and intense zones with reward in mind (fighting / protected zones) so players can go between them and have that relief feeling when they are safe, for example you could have a big treasure chest in an area where a boss is, to reach the boss you need to fight some enemies that get stronger and stronger, after you loot the chest the enemies shouldn't respawn on you * make point of interest locations visible from afar, somewhere in the distant, blurred if possible (the mountain you must pass through, a tower with the end boss, the doomed castle up on the biggest hill you can make, or have stuff happening deeper and deeper in a valley from which the player can see as he starts on the top of a mountain) * have path guiding elements: signs, roads, torches lighting the way - the player is more likely to follow these than wander around aimlessly, and if he does, add thick forest and brush to deter him -- JeFawk
I ended up here because I want to learn how to level design landscapes with an emphasis on a topological but logistically sound routing through it. A lot of openest world type games have redundant dead space in them that can technically serve as travel wastes, but I want to sort of avoid that unless it's becoming of the set pieced area/environment, and not have it be a transitive property for the whole world I want to build. Your first point I feel is the strongest towards that, because my imaged memory of certain places I have experienced have certainly inspired me a great deal in idealizing the vertical harmony I want to achieve. Not to say I haven't seen this in a game before, but it is exceptionally rare to find, and is usually through layers of abstraction such as a mod, or fanmade level, stuff like that. Older games that have to use simple geometry in order to -fill- feel* large and grand are the highest volume of success in that category, so I am finding it hopeful I can probably both get into this, and perhaps even stick with it.
Another tip is to have people test play your levels. Hand them the controller and ask them to verbalize their thoughts. Only explain the basic controls. Don’t tell them anything while they play. Observe their behavior in the level and take notes.
I was expecting some examples of tiled maps (whether it'd be platformers or adventure games with a topdown view) and the reasoning behind their design (usually in a show-don't-tell way). Out of the 5 tips, I found 3 of them a little vague. I liked the tip of using real world references and making it as non-linear as possible though.
I wish there were more 'intermediate' content for gamedev on youtube. its either GDC talks about specific issues professionals faced on their projects or "TIPS FOR BETTER LEVEL DESIGN: TIP 1! PLAN FIRST" like... yeah, of course.
Solid tips! I agree with all of them and have piles and piles of graph books that are waiting to be filled in. Would love to see more videos like this.
Appreciate everything man! You've helped me a lot with your videos. Always teaching me or letting me think about something new. Or perhaps even something that I thought I knew that I came to realize more about.
Wow, that is a hell of a genre combo ya got there... My advice when dealing with something like that would be to simply look at what has come before. There are plenty of RTS games out there you can take a look at (I recommend basically any of the Command & Conquer games. Personal favorites of mine) to see how they do things. You could also look at something like Sweet Home for the famicom. While that game is a survival RPG, it's top down perspective is still applicable. Sorry I don't have any specific tips, but I hope this helps!
@@BenderWaffles yes i took c&c as core example, the game i am working is called chromosome evil you can find a dev blog on google, the curent design help i require now is how to combine rts with horror element, if you can give me more suggestions i would highly appreciate
What if I want to make a map that is the inside of a house of an otaku that is in love with a specific anime girl? The house would be split into 3 models (one of which, is already done, as it was simply an inspiration-less attic, though, I, think I need to redesign it since it looks nothing like an actual attic) The 3 models would be the otaku's room (which I'm planning to be a creepily accurate recreation of the anime girl's actual room from her show), the attic, and the entire rest of the house with all the room, and everything within the house (likely except for the attic) being themed after this specific anime girl... Some of my issues are that I'm kind of, uh, unable to come up with original layouts, like, I don't know where to put the rooms, or how to make it take a decent chunk of time within a sort of linear but house shaped 3D stage to reach the otaku's room, or what obstacles to place, or even how to theme much obstacles after a single anime girl. Other than the idea of bouncy life size body pillows of her to reach higher areas to do jump from leg to leg (of the anime girl, there would be sitting life size statues of her placed on high pedestals that the player would have to grab onto her legs and jump from leg to leg) challenges to avoid touching life size statues of her in her Magical Girl form pointing her bow and arrow upward creating a sharp point that'd be painful to land on. I was also thinking there'd be posters of her everywhere as well edited pictures of stereotypical couples with her head photoshopped on the woman and the otaku's head photoshopped on the man, and one singular poster that is a life size picture of her placed in the first room in the house upon enter (the Girl is 152cm, the player would be able to pull off jumping from leg to leg because the player character is only 67.5cm, so a meter is pretty large compared to him) even then, I'm not sure if I'd have enough polygon space for a whole bunch of statues since my limit is 4500 (or 4800) tristrips for both the collision map and normal map as a whole, so 2250 tristrips for each map (or 2400 tristrips for each map) though I could simplify the collision maps, though I can't by much... May you please help me with my creative block? Like, any advice to how I could go about with designing this stage or doing obstacles based entirely off of one specific anime girl? I'd think the stage be pretty fortress like as well, just, extremely themed after this anime girl...
Oof this videos old. Could you possibly talk about puzzles or interesting lock and key design rules. Something to do on the side for completionists and how to design levels for them instead of just having get from start to finish alive.
I just want to say, your first advice really hit me today. I've been drawing pixel art for a town, and want the game to have a more IRL vibe to it... darkness and sadness and whatnot.. Went to the store this morning and noticed every single road has tar marks, cracks, patches... just dilapidated roads everywhere.. your advice hit me over the head. "That's what I need, more tar and shit in my streets!" Long story short: I went outside. 🤣
Your advice is good but i feel some visual examples, whether they be from your own stuff or screenshots of how other games do the things you spoke of would have been really good.
@@BenderWaffles literally like 2 mins after watching this video, i browsed your channel and watched it lol, very good video and the rest of your content looks interesting as well
Thanks for good solid sensible advice. A couple of questions: are cloud9 studios still going because the link in the other video goes nowhere...is there maybe a link to a new site for them? I hope to glean info from them Also...a different question completely: I do vector art, and want to do all my game art including characters and maps using vector art. Are there any artists on TH-cam or on websites that have specific tutorials for vector art in Rpg maker? A little pushing in the right direction would be huge for me. Thank you and stay safe.
Honestly, I haven't talked to the Cloud9 Studios guys in years, so I am not sure on that one... I'll dig around and see what I can find as far as vector artists!
here is another piece of advice.. dont overplan things give creativity some space dont be afraid to start with something idiotic like a 800x800x800 meter cube thats kinda underground no sky no window nothing and place your first thing you want in your map dont think too much about its position you might even end up deleting it later on or moving it who knows at this point. keep evolving from this point maybe jump to a totaly strange point like 200 meter in the air and build a platform who knows how to get there will it even stay a platform later on ? maybe it will become a room that you are going "down" to even tho its 200 meter in the air right now maybe it will be filled with water some time who knows. just dont worry your brain will think of things like .. wouldnt it be nice to be able to go there if you are down and you keep building staircases that you are wondering why they are soo long other games have like 4-5 steps and you just build your first staircase with like 100 steps just to get up ther... dont worry keep building keep molding and forming at some point you cut the stairs i n half or they disapera totaly because you build something else around. feel free and dont feel limited by what has to be its not like you are wasting materials so grab the tool you wanna work with and start fiddeling around rule number 1 ... everything is exactly as you want it to be there is no wrong. the rest will grow on you overtime dont worry too much :)
i thought your channel is verified and has more than 100k subcribers but still ok if you make good videos like this you will get more popular i hope 1 day i will see you reach 1 million of subcribers
The problem with the 'go outside' advice is that the real world isn't really... designed - and even the parts that are aren't really designed anything like a game. For instance, once of Rockstar's earliest titles, Oni, hired architects as level designers, to make the buildings in the game realistic. They ended up with a lot of pointless rooms that contributed nothing to the game-play, that were there solely for verisimilitude. I wouldn't recommend that.
Going outside is largely meant to teach you the idea of "designed randomness" as it were. Yes, the world isn't really designed, but there are certain patterns that people can start to notice if they look at the world around them. Like how close trees grow to water, how cities tend to clump around those bodies of water etc
I can sort of see value in the first advice, but it's just for aesthetics. Gameplay is priority in games and for that purpose the first step in level design is building raw level layout, that excludes any details irrevelant to gameplay. Btw where is fifth advice?
BenderWaffles randomness is very hard for me, but even harder is the overflow of ideas. I'm like "I could put this in and this in and this would fit the story and this and...." And then, I don't even know, what I was intended to do first. And when I'm creating something like a script or a list of ideas, I feel claustrophobic. like I can't use my full creativity, which leads back to my lack of randomness... /:
Living Flower I used to be like that. As I say in the video, just keep at it and that sort of stuff will work itself out. Just gotta always be critical of your own work and keep striving to improve where ever you can. :)
Great video, Waffles, could totally benefit from your advice for my wannabe jrpg projects! :V And for those game design nerds out there, check Toki Tori out. Heard it got some sick level design.
Obviously don't go outside right now. Wait until this all blows over. And wash your hands.
Stay safe mate
Subscribed for the comment (and the content).
sad I thought I made a clever joke, guess I would try to be faster in the next pandemic
Google maps
did this guy just comment on a 3 year old video to warn people about not going outside
tips 6: get a pc that can actually run your designed map. i designed a map with multiple biomes and stuff, but then because my pc is potato, it is now just a massive snowy mountain.
+Yanaka White Yikes! What kind of machine were you trying to run it on? A Commodore 64?
and because my pc also forgot how to render trees, i'm making a new game all together now.
Yanaka White Geez. That's nuts lol
I will DEFINITELY use this...
In Mario Maker.
Regarding the mistake in the first 20 seconds: text adventures (of the parser kind) definitely have maps, which are also usually designed/mocked up on paper first before the areas and their contents are written into the game.
but that is optional you CAN (don't) just rush it
i been making a Farm Sim 19 map for 1 year now, i restarted the project multiple times, every time a better map, with more details and content.
It's a map that tries to represent the center - north of my country, Uruguay, it mostly based in the rice farms that are here, i started without knowing nothing, and now, the map is looking like real life, every day is getting better with new content even to the game.
it's a 64km2 map and with your tips it will improve a lot more!.
btw it's the first map about my country for the game, hope one day i release it!.
" Go outside "
Me as an introvert : here we go again.
I think, this would even be better with some level design examples. Maybe a more step by step mapping tutorial?
Jonaelize I actually have a lot of example maps on my channel already (The "Speed Development" series) and a couple mapping tutorials as part of my RPG Maker tutorial series. Wouldn't have hurt to include something here though you are correct. :)
While I like your Speed Development series, I would like it more, if you were talking in those videos instead of playing music. You know, explaining the reasoning behind how and why you mapped it this way. This is why I like your Critical Development series.
Jonaelize understandable. I have considered doing commentary versions of the speed developments. Might be something I look into
I would advise that you look at some examples from games you like. It really helps!
I can appreciate the short video. I'd add the following from the top of my head:
* have chill and intense zones with reward in mind (fighting / protected zones) so players can go between them and have that relief feeling when they are safe, for example you could have a big treasure chest in an area where a boss is, to reach the boss you need to fight some enemies that get stronger and stronger, after you loot the chest the enemies shouldn't respawn on you
* make point of interest locations visible from afar, somewhere in the distant, blurred if possible (the mountain you must pass through, a tower with the end boss, the doomed castle up on the biggest hill you can make, or have stuff happening deeper and deeper in a valley from which the player can see as he starts on the top of a mountain)
* have path guiding elements: signs, roads, torches lighting the way - the player is more likely to follow these than wander around aimlessly, and if he does, add thick forest and brush to deter him
-- JeFawk
i think that it's wrong that you don't need to make maps for text adventures.i think oyu need to make maps especially for text adventures.
I ended up here because I want to learn how to level design landscapes with an emphasis on a topological but logistically sound routing through it. A lot of openest world type games have redundant dead space in them that can technically serve as travel wastes, but I want to sort of avoid that unless it's becoming of the set pieced area/environment, and not have it be a transitive property for the whole world I want to build. Your first point I feel is the strongest towards that, because my imaged memory of certain places I have experienced have certainly inspired me a great deal in idealizing the vertical harmony I want to achieve. Not to say I haven't seen this in a game before, but it is exceptionally rare to find, and is usually through layers of abstraction such as a mod, or fanmade level, stuff like that. Older games that have to use simple geometry in order to -fill- feel* large and grand are the highest volume of success in that category, so I am finding it hopeful I can probably both get into this, and perhaps even stick with it.
Bender: Go outside
Me: *Laughs in quarantine*
Stay inside, stay safe. Go outside when it is all clear. :P
dude, your tutorials rock. Really, really helpful in getting started and actually inspiring to get started at times.
Arjan Pelle thanks! Glad I can help
Another tip is to have people test play your levels. Hand them the controller and ask them to verbalize their thoughts. Only explain the basic controls. Don’t tell them anything while they play. Observe their behavior in the level and take notes.
Kinda glad this video popped up. I needed these little tips for school. It is crazy how you don't think about the little details when designing
Glad it helps! I've actually got another one too if you want more tips!
th-cam.com/video/YdC1woCSgsI/w-d-xo.html
I was expecting some examples of tiled maps (whether it'd be platformers or adventure games with a topdown view) and the reasoning behind their design (usually in a show-don't-tell way). Out of the 5 tips, I found 3 of them a little vague. I liked the tip of using real world references and making it as non-linear as possible though.
that's a great inspiration to me! thanks a lot! you earned a sub!
Believe Soft glad you enjoyed it!
I am making a lab map so since you told me to go outside to get ideas for the map, I'll break into area 51 to learn how laps are structured.
Ya'll mofos all think you're so hilarious haha 😄
All of these tips are things my art mentor has told me. It’s nice to be Able to draw parallels between the two disciplines.
A lot of newbie level design is basically just beginner graphic design stuff, especially when you're working in a 2D space.
YOU ARE SO SMARTTTTT, u make my head go boom with good game design ideas thank you!
Should I use other CAD software to model maps or Unity Engine?
UnrealEd.
Ty bro, I was kindda stuck since I got sick and really loss the rythm, but this for sure helped
Thanks. Urgently needed this to help design the towns in my fishing game :D
HappyGo Games Glad I could help!
I wish there were more 'intermediate' content for gamedev on youtube.
its either GDC talks about specific issues professionals faced on their projects or "TIPS FOR BETTER LEVEL DESIGN: TIP 1! PLAN FIRST"
like... yeah, of course.
True most tutorials are either basic or long and contain info we already know
we can also use real life images, tweak in photoshop and then achieve that result in the engine
Right, off to make my first map, hope it doesnt kill the player when he shoots at the opponents!
Solid tips! I agree with all of them and have piles and piles of graph books that are waiting to be filled in. Would love to see more videos like this.
Appreciate everything man! You've helped me a lot with your videos. Always teaching me or letting me think about something new. Or perhaps even something that I thought I knew that I came to realize more about.
+DonLee Wilson I'm glad I could help :D
straight to the point. I love this tutorials
this video is so helpful, thank you so much my friend
Blipper Blup Glad I could help!
BenderWaffles your videos a great mate, no problem!
Do you have any tips on how would a top down real time strategy horror game should be?
Wow, that is a hell of a genre combo ya got there...
My advice when dealing with something like that would be to simply look at what has come before. There are plenty of RTS games out there you can take a look at (I recommend basically any of the Command & Conquer games. Personal favorites of mine) to see how they do things. You could also look at something like Sweet Home for the famicom. While that game is a survival RPG, it's top down perspective is still applicable. Sorry I don't have any specific tips, but I hope this helps!
@@BenderWaffles yes i took c&c as core example, the game i am working is called chromosome evil you can find a dev blog on google, the curent design help i require now is how to combine rts with horror element, if you can give me more suggestions i would highly appreciate
Sadly, my game is in a testing facility, so this didn’t help much, but for other games, this is kinda helpfull
What if I want to make a map that is the inside of a house of an otaku that is in love with a specific anime girl? The house would be split into 3 models (one of which, is already done, as it was simply an inspiration-less attic, though, I, think I need to redesign it since it looks nothing like an actual attic) The 3 models would be the otaku's room (which I'm planning to be a creepily accurate recreation of the anime girl's actual room from her show), the attic, and the entire rest of the house with all the room, and everything within the house (likely except for the attic) being themed after this specific anime girl...
Some of my issues are that I'm kind of, uh, unable to come up with original layouts, like, I don't know where to put the rooms, or how to make it take a decent chunk of time within a sort of linear but house shaped 3D stage to reach the otaku's room, or what obstacles to place, or even how to theme much obstacles after a single anime girl. Other than the idea of bouncy life size body pillows of her to reach higher areas to do jump from leg to leg (of the anime girl, there would be sitting life size statues of her placed on high pedestals that the player would have to grab onto her legs and jump from leg to leg) challenges to avoid touching life size statues of her in her Magical Girl form pointing her bow and arrow upward creating a sharp point that'd be painful to land on. I was also thinking there'd be posters of her everywhere as well edited pictures of stereotypical couples with her head photoshopped on the woman and the otaku's head photoshopped on the man, and one singular poster that is a life size picture of her placed in the first room in the house upon enter (the Girl is 152cm, the player would be able to pull off jumping from leg to leg because the player character is only 67.5cm, so a meter is pretty large compared to him) even then, I'm not sure if I'd have enough polygon space for a whole bunch of statues since my limit is 4500 (or 4800) tristrips for both the collision map and normal map as a whole, so 2250 tristrips for each map (or 2400 tristrips for each map) though I could simplify the collision maps, though I can't by much... May you please help me with my creative block? Like, any advice to how I could go about with designing this stage or doing obstacles based entirely off of one specific anime girl? I'd think the stage be pretty fortress like as well, just, extremely themed after this anime girl...
its 2AM and i live near psychiatrical hospital
GO OUTSIDE
Din't blow my mind or anything like that, but it was a really nice video, especially given the low amount of videos about level design
+RaoulWB / Rilliam I'll do my best to blow your mind next time :)
Ahah, neat!
You still need to make maps for text adventure, they're just part of the "feelies"
The graph paper one helped me a lot
Me and the bois playin Fallout 2d20 beta. Hittin up the remains of Oregon, because war... war never changes.
Oof this videos old. Could you possibly talk about puzzles or interesting lock and key design rules. Something to do on the side for completionists and how to design levels for them instead of just having get from start to finish alive.
Very helpfun! Thanks for sharing!
I just want to say, your first advice really hit me today.
I've been drawing pixel art for a town, and want the game to have a more IRL vibe to it... darkness and sadness and whatnot..
Went to the store this morning and noticed every single road has tar marks, cracks, patches... just dilapidated roads everywhere.. your advice hit me over the head.
"That's what I need, more tar and shit in my streets!"
Long story short: I went outside. 🤣
great video. :) what do you think about tips to create good and balanced skills?
+Douglas Nascimento could be something I could do.
Text adventures needs maps as well
You can start basic on your first time throuout the map if your done with most of that part of the game you can go back and revent it
Professor Frankly Gaming Good advice!
BenderWaffles my game isint vary ready just yet at to moment i can give a play test once the first gym is done to you
Professor Frankly Gaming Ill look forward to seeing it!
you defintely helped
Your advice is good but i feel some visual examples, whether they be from your own stuff or screenshots of how other games do the things you spoke of would have been really good.
Agreed, hence why the sequel to this video has more images.
@@BenderWaffles literally like 2 mins after watching this video, i browsed your channel and watched it lol, very good video and the rest of your content looks interesting as well
Hopefully you'll stick around! Got some great stuff coming down the pipeline
Thanks for good solid sensible advice. A couple of questions: are cloud9 studios still going because the link in the other video goes nowhere...is there maybe a link to a new site for them? I hope to glean info from them Also...a different question completely: I do vector art, and want to do all my game art including characters and maps using vector art. Are there any artists on TH-cam or on websites that have specific tutorials for vector art in Rpg maker? A little pushing in the right direction would be huge for me. Thank you and stay safe.
Honestly, I haven't talked to the Cloud9 Studios guys in years, so I am not sure on that one...
I'll dig around and see what I can find as far as vector artists!
@@BenderWaffles thank you so much.
well ,thank that was actually quite useful .
nice info but provide images , reference or video clips so that we can related or visualize what you are saying about.?
here is another piece of advice.. dont overplan things give creativity some space dont be afraid to start with something idiotic like a 800x800x800 meter cube thats kinda underground no sky no window nothing and place your first thing you want in your map dont think too much about its position you might even end up deleting it later on or moving it who knows at this point. keep evolving from this point maybe jump to a totaly strange point like 200 meter in the air and build a platform who knows how to get there will it even stay a platform later on ? maybe it will become a room that you are going "down" to even tho its 200 meter in the air right now maybe it will be filled with water some time who knows. just dont worry your brain will think of things like .. wouldnt it be nice to be able to go there if you are down and you keep building staircases that you are wondering why they are soo long other games have like 4-5 steps and you just build your first staircase with like 100 steps just to get up ther... dont worry keep building keep molding and forming at some point you cut the stairs i n half or they disapera totaly because you build something else around. feel free and dont feel limited by what has to be its not like you are wasting materials so grab the tool you wanna work with and start fiddeling around rule number 1 ... everything is exactly as you want it to be there is no wrong. the rest will grow on you overtime dont worry too much :)
uhhh you can't timestamp or anything. Im trying to find a video for making city maps and how to better design a custom one. rip
Great vid
Good Advice!!
Decent tips, especially the going out :D
I suck at scripting. And lots of complex eventing. Basic eventing i. Can do
Could you please go on with this for hours and hours and hours? I'm dying of knowledge dehydration.
RoadBl0k luckily for you! I have plenty of content! With more on the way
Outside?.... What tileset is that ? Do I need a script to make it run ? I don't think it's compatible with yanfly 😞
Him: Go out side.
Me: *Opens google maps*
Can't go outside RN
Because I'm in Europe
So basically the entire video was you just talking at the camera?
Cool
thanks I'm thinking on being a game designer for metriodvanias
Do eeet!
+BenderWaffles I'm only 13
Gio Fagan
...do eeet!
I'm thinking about making a metroidvania too!🙂
Nice job, man!
+Bernardo Garcia Thanks!
I am making a text adventure and I came here...
map making is the most important part of an text adventure game m8
3:12 B-But.... that's the way I like it. And I never get bored.
Any tips for 2D platformer? =)
When designing levels for platformers, the best course of action is to try to keep it non-linear. Often makes for the most engaging levels.
Just use POV in google maps, it will save you time from going outside.
Actially you better show what u r talkin bout but whatever at least u made this video
"Go outside"
Hahaha! Funny. No thanks, to scary out there.
this gonna save your time from watching this video
"Practice"
+Jensen Raylight Bit more to it than that but, yea basically 😋
haha.. thanks for the video anyway
your tips are usefull
0:43 Ok, I’ll go outside, BUT I WON’T TOUCH GRASS!
*sigh*
Here is the number one tip, create the terrain first then place the level inside it.
2:40 for the aesthetic
0:42 Yeah sure.
You earned a sub☕️
when you don't understand english so good and the video is all speak
Who get the udemy ads at the beggining?
you should have more subs
Thanks :)
i thought your channel is verified and has more than 100k subcribers
but still ok if you make good videos like this you will get more popular i hope 1 day i will see you reach 1 million of subcribers
+OsadeTOOT I wish it was over 100k lol. Someday :)
not if he continues to make "us" go outside... :D
Some fresh air is good for ya, just watching out for your health! :p
The problem with the 'go outside' advice is that the real world isn't really... designed - and even the parts that are aren't really designed anything like a game. For instance, once of Rockstar's earliest titles, Oni, hired architects as level designers, to make the buildings in the game realistic. They ended up with a lot of pointless rooms that contributed nothing to the game-play, that were there solely for verisimilitude. I wouldn't recommend that.
Going outside is largely meant to teach you the idea of "designed randomness" as it were. Yes, the world isn't really designed, but there are certain patterns that people can start to notice if they look at the world around them. Like how close trees grow to water, how cities tend to clump around those bodies of water etc
0:42 well i think IT IS dangerous now
I can sort of see value in the first advice, but it's just for aesthetics. Gameplay is priority in games and for that purpose the first step in level design is building raw level layout, that excludes any details irrevelant to gameplay.
Btw where is fifth advice?
Nice videos =)
+Enkii Muto Thanks :) I do my best!
I used google maps, so...
When your games based during ww1 or 2
i aint going outside, there is a corona and it is scary
I like waffles
great video
The Night Is Dark and Full of Terror Thank you!
part 2
Oh you mean this Part 2? th-cam.com/video/YdC1woCSgsI/w-d-xo.html
I paused instantly and took a walk. Then returned and just then learned all the shit I was supposed to do outside. FML.
(No, of course I didn't! Duh!)
0:42 We aren't allowed to go outside anymore. :(
Someday we will :)
3:15
I give up q.q
oh wait, there was a video about it :^)
lol :p
BenderWaffles randomness is very hard for me, but even harder is the overflow of ideas. I'm like "I could put this in and this in and this would fit the story and this and...." And then, I don't even know, what I was intended to do first. And when I'm creating something like a script or a list of ideas, I feel claustrophobic. like I can't use my full creativity, which leads back to my lack of randomness... /:
Living Flower I used to be like that. As I say in the video, just keep at it and that sort of stuff will work itself out. Just gotta always be critical of your own work and keep striving to improve where ever you can. :)
BenderWaffles I'm trying now to improve since 10 years, I do improve on knowledge, but I can't keep to manage it on my work...Idk how to explain.. uwu
Living Flower As long as you are trying to improve, that is all that matters :) No one is perfect :D
gta 5 doesnt copy la roads and thats for a reason
*Skips First Step*
Modeling levels seem like a bitch, and recalling the refrences you use.
"go outside" that statement hasn't aged well
Can always go outside when this is all over :p
@@BenderWaffles if it's all over
google maps: *exists*
Great video, Waffles, could totally benefit from your advice for my wannabe jrpg projects! :V
And for those game design nerds out there, check Toki Tori out. Heard it got some sick level design.
covid 19 non. outside
It's night time... soooooo.
Go outside
Me:But...But...Covid19
Me, 3 YEARS AGO: Go outside.
Me, Now: Maybe wait on that.
a big youtuber replied on my comment. im so honored rn
@@grim6793 I'm no where near big haha
@@BenderWaffles 6k i consider you big youtuber
@@grim6793 haha there are people who get 6k subs a day.
The close camera and then far camera over and over again is a bit annoying to be honest...
Steven B Better than jump cuts.
Agreed, take the feeback!!!
don't wanna go outside? use google maps
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