It’s been incredible to watch the progress on this game from the beginning! You never realise just how much you’ve accomplished until you look back on how things started
“I guess today I will have to try and tackle interrupting behaviour’s again” Rufus in the background, also doing his best on tackling interrupting behaviours
I'm an animator by trade, and y'know what? To me, the animations look fine! They match the cute, bumbly, cozy aesthetic you've got going already. Rigging and articulating and getting believable weight and motions on these guys is gonna be a deep pit you will sink your time into, and if you go part way but not all the way, I fear you're going to enter a kind of "uncanny valley" that a lot of beginner animators live in... You say yourself modeling humans isn't your strong suit. Well animating them is an order of magnitude harder... Anyway, I know you're smart and capable, and if you're excited about animating, then by all means have at it: I will enjoy watching! I am just saying... it's a can of worms and your lil guys are charming as heck already.
@@ThinMatrix I believe a small foot and hand wiggling would just be the right touch. No skeletal animations, just make the feet and hands unique meshes and move them locally with some sinusoidal motion
Appreciate you showing the periods of roadblocks and how you deal with them. Wish people would talk about this universal experience more. Happy holidays!
I wanna second this. There isn't enough authenticity in the world. Artists (and programmers) don't show their struggle - they only show the polished end result. So people starting out get discouraged and quit early, thinking they're not good enough to produce anything valuable.
this dude dosent realise how much i love these videos , videos like these of poeple making things and having such a lifestyle is what i started coding in the first place. please never stop these videos - make more more AND MOREEEEE
I absolutely adored this video. Every part of it. Thank you for making it! You are really an inspiration! I really liked how many interesting things outside of programming you did in less than two weeks.
I'm glad you're sharing even the moments of struggle. It's all too easy to watch devlogs and feel inferior, because you watch someone make a lot of progress in just 15 minutes, while in reality it takes two weeks, including a full day of work without visible progress. So, actually getting to see that is really encouraging!
it would be really cool to see the villagers talk and interact with each other when they collide like walking on the same path seeing them talking or laughing would be amazing
I really love your Devlog videos. They´re always super interesting and entertaining : ) PS: Your 8 bit computer is amazingly cool and I´d love to see more on that. PPS: Your food always looks soooo good ^^
Really appreciated you showing all your highs and lows of the videos. Loved how in-depth the video was and glad you showed the issues you had. Please do more videos like these 🙏🏻
I have been following you for a long while now. And this was my favourite video so far. Love seeing your amazing progress. Gets me super motivated with my own game. Also really love to see bits from life outside of game dev. Such a nice and personal touch. Keep the good work up. 🎉
Have a really great end of the year and happy festive days. You have been a great company for me this year. Since i really like what you do and the vibes from your videos i started something while watching them. I normally watch youtube videos while playing or working. But with your videos i do nothing else, maybe a cup of tea or some mate (argentinian brew). But try to focus in it and enjoy it without all the distractions we get in our daily basis. Hope you are ok and we can keep this ritual next year. Have a great start.
I've been watching these videos from the beginning and like the others, i absolutely love the progress and "to be a part" of the development. Also I noticed a fellow Hamburger ^^. I've recognized that cinema immediately
right now my favorite devlog series on yt. its just so calming and it shows that not everything is working out as planed. please keep going its awesome
It's amazing to see all the progress that you has been doing with Homegrown, sometimes you had mentioned the city builder and started to remember the bad feeling about what made you gave up from that project This sensation of worriness that tries to take your control is really complicated to avoid and beat. I has been studying game dev since january and i gave up a lot from my projects, always had "Interesting idea, let's make a prototype to test", play a bit with the code and never touch it again This feeling of being dumb and committing the same erros from the previous almost made me gave up from learn game development. I know that for a developer which has made a "succesful" indie game, the pressure about your next projects increase a lot, at least there is light in the end, we all trust on you bro, you're amazing and is one of my inspirations to continue trying to improve
Every time you make a video I think, "Man I can't imagine this game being any more fun. I can't wait to play it." then, the things you add in the videos make me think the same thing all over again.
1. Amazing video. It made me sad at first but, it was amazing to see how you don't let the bad memories of an unfinished project bring you down! 2. How does one become part of a 25 person friend group that does not-so-secret-santa? :D
Your game engine feels so sophisticated, and homegrown feels so polished that I often wonder how Socuwan would Look like today. Thank you so much for the great video, I really enjoyed it! My absolute favorite channel!
your life is so structured and calming. i am very envious, i just seem incapable of it! my passion project is music and if i get back from work and have time i just sort of attack it and see what happens - having a proper schedule just doesn't seem to work for me, i can't sustain it and am not really productive on a schedule anyway
I loved this video thank you, been following your progress on/off for awhile now. Keep it up :) Inspired me to dedicate a few hours to work on some of my projects :)
oh wow, I dont remember you mentioning how hard are you struggling during your city game dev videos. Thanks for sharing. Cant wait for this game to be finished, going to buy day one
It's probably a lot more work to do it this way, but it makes your videos much more enjoyable for me! In any case, love the progress don't give up! (And I understand your struggle with the interrupt actions. I do the AI in our studio and yep, it's always the messiest part)
The marketplace is the center of a village, in normal cases, the scene would need more buildings in the background, not just the far distance, just as a thought.
This is exactly what I needed to end of my Christmas! Its been an awesome day and I wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas Karl! Everything is looking so good, I can't wait till the game it out! I am curious how do you export the game do you still do a FAT Jar? I do love how you show the code then explain it and show how it works in game like its so cool to understand how its working! Would you ever consider making tutorials again or explaining the code more? It was so much fun following them! I also love the video style like showing your IRL life! Especally the end with all the electric stuff! Building ur own computer! Awesome stuff as always excited for the new year!
Hi thin, great video I liked it quite a lot :) maybe in the future you should be a little bit more careful what to show. I recognized a lot of the surroundings just by watching, no geogesser, I pretty much figured the area where you live I think ^^ just wanted to let you know, have a great new years and keep up the good work and motivation ❤
Ah! So much to unpack from this video! Firstly have a lovely new year, hope you had a nice Christmas! The friend advent calendar sounds so fun! What were the mystery seeds? 👀 As for the progress you made, it's great , the villagers add so much life. Curious if you're interrupt system, could support custom actions? I.e. villager is digging, you interrupt, they put shovel away, and then pull it out again after. Similar to animal crossing
Dont underestimate how much it will encourage people to see you face challenges. Naturally we all want you to keep going with the project since you moved from the old one but someiime videos are too perfect on YT and it make us newer coders feel like we cant become more etc or that it's too much work, because we dont often see others struggle.
15:39 Create an empty object and put a character in it. Now there will be no problems with rotation when animating the character, because you control the position and rotation of the parent object.
i also uilt a Ben Eater 8-bit computer and I found some NVRAM that will store the contents of the RAM even when there isnt any power. Saved me from having to rewrite the program everytime i turned the computer on.
Merry Christmas! I love the villagers and the animations - I wonder if the eye brow position is a tiny bit low? I also wonder if their colour should match the hair? Either way, they look amazing! 😎
Merry Christmas to you too! They're actually meant to be the eyes themselves, as if the villager were smiling like ^.^ But a few people seem to think they look like eyebrows so I'll have to do a bit more work on them!
First the City Builder and now the Farming Game. It’s how many years now, since you created income by selling your last game, five? How are you sustaining yourself in terms of paying your bills? I would like to do the same thing at the same amount of time but then I wouldn’t know, how to make a living just by creating my game in such a long period of time bevor selling it and actually creating some income by that. :) Is it crowd funding and TH-cam or some other method , you can talk about?
@@iso_2013 which would then make up a decent amount, agreed. Taxes are deducted and if you either have a job besides or you live in a two ship household you could start this, maybe. Healthcare is one last problem - with a halftime job, that is not a problem, at least in Germany. Of course, it will take its time to build up a community but it could be worth putting in the passion. Thanks for the info!
i don't do coding. i wanted to but then gave up accepting that i wasn't made for me lol. but your videos have been delightful and i've been following each and every one of them wholeheartedly. i'm sure you showing your frustrating moments and "failures" help other coders, specially the newbies to feel better about themselves and be inspired by your work. merry christmas dear.
Interesting! So you're building a 4-bit ALU (arithmetic logic unit)? I built one as my final class project while doing my bachelor's degree, but it was totally digital. Learning this subject is very complex, so seeing the hardware come to life is delightful! Congrats on dedicating yourself to it!
It’s been incredible to watch the progress on this game from the beginning! You never realise just how much you’ve accomplished until you look back on how things started
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Imagine having 25 friends and doing 25 gifts... *wild*
What are these "friends"? Where can you get one?
and then just such an annoying bunch of
Imagine having friends
well at least I don't have to spend time preparing gifts
25 *dedicated* friends!
“I guess today I will have to try and tackle interrupting behaviour’s again”
Rufus in the background, also doing his best on tackling interrupting behaviours
I'm an animator by trade, and y'know what? To me, the animations look fine! They match the cute, bumbly, cozy aesthetic you've got going already. Rigging and articulating and getting believable weight and motions on these guys is gonna be a deep pit you will sink your time into, and if you go part way but not all the way, I fear you're going to enter a kind of "uncanny valley" that a lot of beginner animators live in... You say yourself modeling humans isn't your strong suit. Well animating them is an order of magnitude harder...
Anyway, I know you're smart and capable, and if you're excited about animating, then by all means have at it: I will enjoy watching! I am just saying... it's a can of worms and your lil guys are charming as heck already.
Thank you! I'm very happy to hear you like them. I'm actually hoping to not have to implement skeletal animations for the reasons you mentioned.
I second this! The animations are ADORABLE as is!! ❤
As soon as he gave them wee little legs and feet I was like "OMG THEY'RE NOT EGGS WITH SHOES ANYMORE!" 😂 They're really cute and fitting now.
@@ThinMatrix I believe a small foot and hand wiggling would just be the right touch. No skeletal animations, just make the feet and hands unique meshes and move them locally with some sinusoidal motion
Appreciate you showing the periods of roadblocks and how you deal with them. Wish people would talk about this universal experience more. Happy holidays!
I wanna second this. There isn't enough authenticity in the world. Artists (and programmers) don't show their struggle - they only show the polished end result. So people starting out get discouraged and quit early, thinking they're not good enough to produce anything valuable.
this dude dosent realise how much i love these videos , videos like these of poeple making things and having such a lifestyle is what i started coding in the first place.
please never stop these videos - make more more AND MOREEEEE
I'm glad you like them! :)
Same. This is one of the channels that got me through college!
I absolutely adored this video. Every part of it. Thank you for making it! You are really an inspiration! I really liked how many interesting things outside of programming you did in less than two weeks.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! :)
Gorgeous advent calendar idea.
You just need 24 friends who are able to create things!
@@tbird-z1r I have a friend who creates chaos and another who creates bad smells. Does that count? 😂
I'm glad you're sharing even the moments of struggle. It's all too easy to watch devlogs and feel inferior, because you watch someone make a lot of progress in just 15 minutes, while in reality it takes two weeks, including a full day of work without visible progress. So, actually getting to see that is really encouraging!
Man, your life seems pretty great! I'm happy for you. You got some nice friends, a nice place to live, good food and an awesome environment.
Bread. It's funny to hear "less thinking more doing" during a devlog. Good job taking a break and good job in general.
it would be really cool to see the villagers talk and interact with each other when they collide like walking on the same path seeing them talking or laughing would be amazing
I really love your Devlog videos. They´re always super interesting and entertaining : )
PS: Your 8 bit computer is amazingly cool and I´d love to see more on that.
PPS: Your food always looks soooo good ^^
The 8-bit computer is from Ben Eater - he has a whole TH-cam series on designing and building it, and you can buy kits.
merry christmas!
Merry Christmas to you too!
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The king of devlogs returns! I always get new ideas whenever I watch a new ThinMatrix video. Thanks and merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you too!
much love, ThinMatrix! started watching you during university, been working in industrial automation and IT for 5 years now :)
Really appreciated you showing all your highs and lows of the videos. Loved how in-depth the video was and glad you showed the issues you had. Please do more videos like these 🙏🏻
I have been following you for a long while now. And this was my favourite video so far. Love seeing your amazing progress. Gets me super motivated with my own game. Also really love to see bits from life outside of game dev. Such a nice and personal touch.
Keep the good work up. 🎉
Have a really great end of the year and happy festive days. You have been a great company for me this year. Since i really like what you do and the vibes from your videos i started something while watching them. I normally watch youtube videos while playing or working. But with your videos i do nothing else, maybe a cup of tea or some mate (argentinian brew). But try to focus in it and enjoy it without all the distractions we get in our daily basis. Hope you are ok and we can keep this ritual next year. Have a great start.
As someone working on a city builder I can confirm that dealing with interruptions to behaviour trees is a bit of a nightmare.
I really appreciate you sharing even those days that just don't seem to amount to enough.
I've been watching these videos from the beginning and like the others, i absolutely love the progress and "to be a part" of the development.
Also I noticed a fellow Hamburger ^^. I've recognized that cinema immediately
Great video, loved the honesty with your struggles as well. Makes it a real insight and not just an ad :).
right now my favorite devlog series on yt. its just so calming and it shows that not everything is working out as planed. please keep going its awesome
Thank you for showing your process and hardships through it. Seeing you get past demotivating times is inspiring
It's amazing to see all the progress that you has been doing with Homegrown, sometimes you had mentioned the city builder and started to remember the bad feeling about what made you gave up from that project
This sensation of worriness that tries to take your control is really complicated to avoid and beat. I has been studying game dev since january and i gave up a lot from my projects, always had "Interesting idea, let's make a prototype to test", play a bit with the code and never touch it again
This feeling of being dumb and committing the same erros from the previous almost made me gave up from learn game development.
I know that for a developer which has made a "succesful" indie game, the pressure about your next projects increase a lot, at least there is light in the end, we all trust on you bro, you're amazing and is one of my inspirations to continue trying to improve
Every time you make a video I think, "Man I can't imagine this game being any more fun. I can't wait to play it." then, the things you add in the videos make me think the same thing all over again.
Very excited about the game. Looking forward to it coming out
So inspiring! These videos help motivate me to work on my own projects, thank you!
1. Amazing video. It made me sad at first but, it was amazing to see how you don't let the bad memories of an unfinished project bring you down!
2. How does one become part of a 25 person friend group that does not-so-secret-santa? :D
Your game engine feels so sophisticated, and homegrown feels so polished that I often wonder how Socuwan would Look like today. Thank you so much for the great video, I really enjoyed it! My absolute favorite channel!
Yaaaay a new ThinMatrix video- what a nice Christmas present!!! Happy holidays everyone! 💫
This so dang cool!
I wanted to get into gamedev but wasn't sure how to fund myself.
Thank you for keeping the dream alive ❤
Each of your videos inspires me even more. Thank you for your amazing content that boosts motivation and encourages me to aim higher
Great progress! Thank you for sharing the struggle as well! ❤
your life is so structured and calming. i am very envious, i just seem incapable of it! my passion project is music and if i get back from work and have time i just sort of attack it and see what happens - having a proper schedule just doesn't seem to work for me, i can't sustain it and am not really productive on a schedule anyway
multible custumisable colors could also be used to have some fruit shown as rotten on a tree or infested with a bug / i mean it can happen irl
I loved this video thank you, been following your progress on/off for awhile now. Keep it up :)
Inspired me to dedicate a few hours to work on some of my projects :)
Its nice that you show moments when you give up on a feature and have a rough day. It happens to everyone but its not often shown in devlogs.
oh wow, I dont remember you mentioning how hard are you struggling during your city game dev videos. Thanks for sharing. Cant wait for this game to be finished, going to buy day one
Great video! loved the 8 bit computer being included! Hope you had a good christmas!
This was a cool vlog, interested in that 8bit computer project. Really cool
Love the video mate.
I really look forward to your uploads.
If I had my way, there would be one a week 🤪
Hope you enjoyed your Xmas.
2:50 `public void init()` I can tell this guy is British 💀
Im not sure if you’re joking or not
😂
@@bastibob660 lmoooo ifkr i dont wanna break it to him
hes actually german :D
@@unvalidname He's a Brit currently living in Germany
This was absolutely awesome. Thank you very much.
Merry Christmas. Homegrown is looking great. I love the 8-bit computer too, so fascinating!
I love the Savoy (the cinema he went to). It has such a nice flair and the chairs are amazing. Funny to see you have been there too.
Nice vid, as always. Calming and informative. Thanks!
It's probably a lot more work to do it this way, but it makes your videos much more enjoyable for me!
In any case, love the progress don't give up!
(And I understand your struggle with the interrupt actions. I do the AI in our studio and yep, it's always the messiest part)
Add object to distract like have a guy pushing a wheelbarrow, add roaming animals around town like birds deer rabbits etc
The marketplace is the center of a village, in normal cases, the scene would need more buildings in the background, not just the far distance, just as a thought.
Paleo!!! A great boardgame, happy newyear!
Yes! We just discovered it recently, it's soo good!
Awesome work as always mate! Happy holidays!
This is exactly what I needed to end of my Christmas! Its been an awesome day and I wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas Karl! Everything is looking so good, I can't wait till the game it out! I am curious how do you export the game do you still do a FAT Jar? I do love how you show the code then explain it and show how it works in game like its so cool to understand how its working! Would you ever consider making tutorials again or explaining the code more? It was so much fun following them! I also love the video style like showing your IRL life! Especally the end with all the electric stuff! Building ur own computer! Awesome stuff as always excited for the new year!
Im Savoy bin ich auch oft. Bestes Kino in Hamburg! 🎉
Each time I see your videos I want to write my own game engine.. but then.. the amount of time needed.. incredible.. but great video series!
Happy holidays and a merry Christmas! 🎄I'm already looking forward to your video's in 2025
Great Video! Always Motivates me!
Wow, she's singing and playing? That's incredibly hard to do!
Hi thin, great video I liked it quite a lot :) maybe in the future you should be a little bit more careful what to show. I recognized a lot of the surroundings just by watching, no geogesser, I pretty much figured the area where you live I think ^^ just wanted to let you know, have a great new years and keep up the good work and motivation ❤
I love your videos so much, they are so cozy, I dream of living that way someday as well.
Ah! So much to unpack from this video!
Firstly have a lovely new year, hope you had a nice Christmas!
The friend advent calendar sounds so fun! What were the mystery seeds? 👀
As for the progress you made, it's great , the villagers add so much life. Curious if you're interrupt system, could support custom actions? I.e. villager is digging, you interrupt, they put shovel away, and then pull it out again after. Similar to animal crossing
I love that the little guy's blender name is "Guy!"
There needs to be a rare villager that has a fishing rod and says "Mornin', nice day for fishing, ain't it? Hu-ha~" when you click him...
Dont underestimate how much it will encourage people to see you face challenges. Naturally we all want you to keep going with the project since you moved from the old one but someiime videos are too perfect on YT and it make us newer coders feel like we cant become more etc or that it's too much work, because we dont often see others struggle.
NICE BROTHER. I hope your life is really like this.
Your videos always make me so calm ... I think you are living your life to the fullest... Enjoy man
Merry Christmas! Ty for the video. 🎉
Brother you are very discipline person as I can imagine, I wish I have personality like yours.
Lovely video as always
Thanks!
I hope one day after this farm game gets released, you can return to the city builder and finish that concept, as it had so much progress and promise.
15:39 Create an empty object and put a character in it. Now there will be no problems with rotation when animating the character, because you control the position and rotation of the parent object.
This is an really interesting idea!
would love to see a tutorial of how u make ur assets, would love to learning that. anyways a really good vlog. Happy holidays n see u next vlog
i like big window in your studio. you can refresh your eyes anytime
You are doing an awesome work with the game and Rufus is cute
another thinmatrix video, another 100 dopamine into my brain! also happy christmas 😊
I started seeing the eyes as really bushy eyebrows and now I can’t unsee it
Hehe, a few people have mentioned this; I guess I need to make them a bit thinner or try a different shape.
@ Probably, they will look better if they were animated. Because the static curved shape does look like an eyebrow.
Great video! I think I preferred the eyes of the old NPC model
I swear every GameDev I know also Boulders! That Gym looks sick, I must be on the wrong side of Hamburg
The human models look great! 😁
Another banger 🔥🔥🔥
i also uilt a Ben Eater 8-bit computer and I found some NVRAM that will store the contents of the RAM even when there isnt any power. Saved me from having to rewrite the program everytime i turned the computer on.
4:08 Backflip? 😅
Oh you do an 8bit CPU/computer from scratch 🎉 more of this plz :)
2:06 - This song should be in the game as a rare item you can find
Amazing content. Thank you :)
20:51 Nice Marcus Aurelius 3D print
Came to watch the video... found out we live in the same city 😅
The concert scene in Birdland really took me by surprise... we were there yesterday 😂
WTF?! You have 25 friends?!!!
Uuuuh la di dah... 😂
Haha, I'm just friends with the organizers, they're the ones with 25 friends!
Merry Christmas! I love the villagers and the animations - I wonder if the eye brow position is a tiny bit low? I also wonder if their colour should match the hair? Either way, they look amazing! 😎
Merry Christmas to you too! They're actually meant to be the eyes themselves, as if the villager were smiling like ^.^
But a few people seem to think they look like eyebrows so I'll have to do a bit more work on them!
Such a Great Video thanks a lot 🙏
Thanks!
Merry christmas to u
First the City Builder and now the Farming Game. It’s how many years now, since you created income by selling your last game, five? How are you sustaining yourself in terms of paying your bills? I would like to do the same thing at the same amount of time but then I wouldn’t know, how to make a living just by creating my game in such a long period of time bevor selling it and actually creating some income by that. :) Is it crowd funding and TH-cam or some other method , you can talk about?
According to the Patreon link in the description there's ~$2k/mo of income from his Patreon, and then TH-cam on top of that
@@iso_2013 which would then make up a decent amount, agreed. Taxes are deducted and if you either have a job besides or you live in a two ship household you could start this, maybe. Healthcare is one last problem - with a halftime job, that is not a problem, at least in Germany. Of course, it will take its time to build up a community but it could be worth putting in the passion. Thanks for the info!
can you make tutorials about modern opengl lwjgl? new ones pls if you can :)
yes!
Great video man :)
Thanks!
i don't do coding. i wanted to but then gave up accepting that i wasn't made for me lol. but your videos have been delightful and i've been following each and every one of them wholeheartedly. i'm sure you showing your frustrating moments and "failures" help other coders, specially the newbies to feel better about themselves and be inspired by your work. merry christmas dear.
Interesting! So you're building a 4-bit ALU (arithmetic logic unit)?
I built one as my final class project while doing my bachelor's degree, but it was totally digital.
Learning this subject is very complex, so seeing the hardware come to life is delightful! Congrats on dedicating yourself to it!
yo. wusste nicht das du deutsch bist(oder da wohnst) Was für ne überaschung
Merry Christmas 🎉😅😊
Great vid, as always!
I was wondering if you've made any videos about moving to Germany or learning German? I think it would be pretty interesting!