A Weekend of Indie Game Development
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2024
- Welcome to another devlog for Dauphin! In this episode I bring you with me on my typical weekend as I work through my usual routine trying to balance development progress alongside everything else going on in life - now including a 13 week old puppy! Hope you enjoy the video and the cool progress I managed to work through over the weekend.
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This dude is probably the most healthy game dev and just person I’ve ever seen lol
ThinMatrix has to be up there
What do you mean with healthy? Not toxic? And if, what makes other devs toxic? No critics, im just curious about 😊
@@maxidyrin I think he means healthy like living a healthy life, finding the right balance between game dev and all the other things
The fact he has time away from coding to live, is very healthy. I love the honesty this is showing that our DEV life isn't 24/7 coding.
Finding the groove and sticking to it is tough! But very rewarding I think.
Aaaawww Moose!! So incredibly cute, and what a beautiful fur colour!
Oh, and the game looks good too! ;D
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Heeey @ThinMatrix, I'm a huge fan of your work. 👌🔥
Nice to see that the weather is kind to your plants! We're still waiting for spring and our garden is dead. I think we started planting too early :| Cute dog. Dogs are gods
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I was sharing your enthusiasm until I woke up to sub-40 temps this morning 😬 Moose says hi!
When you're underwater, you should add a neat little water trail effect to the projectile, maybe with some bubbles or something too. I think that would look cool.
Agreed!
You're such a big inspiration. I'm still trying to figure out how to balance having a life and having a hobby lol.
Takes work to find that balance for sure! Make small changes until you find your groove. Too much at once can be overwhelming!
It's amazing that some people can be so healthy and well organized! In 2012 I made a game called The Cat Lady on a diet of coffee and cigarettes in between my full-time day job and childcare, often staying up till 5 AM or making notes on little bits of paper at work and sticking them in my pocket ;) I'm not complaining - of course - my point is that different approach works for different people. I do sometimes wish I was *slightly* more organized ;) and I very much respect devs who are.
I lover your videos, thank you sharing your journey with us (greetings from Brazil)
most productive man alive
I love these devlogs
huge inspiration for realistic and healthy schedule. Plus, your puppy is so cute!!
You’re an inspiration, I really love the way you balance your life and work, it’s a good way to go
Inspiring stuff! I’m also juggling life and passion project, so it’s encouraging to watch your game come together slowly but surely.
Gosh, I've been watching all your videos over again the past few days. I often struggle with maintaining a healthy lifestyle while making games as a hobby. I just get sucked in and want to work on them way more than is neccessarily good for me. These videos are helping me realize that maintaining a healthy lifestyle while being a game developer is totally possible and worth it. It's inspiring to see you working a full-time job and still having time for game development and healthy living.
I am loving the progress on this game. I get so excited every time you upload a new devlog. One thing I want to say about the secondary attack, though, is that I think the release of the attack should be controlled by the player. The charge time makes it so that if you miss it's much more frustrating, so having it be split into two 'commands' would allow for a bit more player control. The way I'd do it would be to have the attack start charging on right-click down then a charge bar fills up. If the button is released before the charge is done the attack 'fizzles' if the player waits until the charge is finished they can then release the right-click which will trigger the release of the attack towards the cursor position at that moment. This allows for the player to keep a charged attack at the ready and aim it properly for those enemies that move around a lot. You could implement a timer that auto-shoots the attack after 2-3 seconds so the player can't just hold the attack forever but that little extra bit of control I believe would go a long way. Just my two cents though.
Omg you use Notion too for documenting your dev process! And your puppy is so cute 🥰, loved this walkthrough and how you structure your dev diaries, it’s inspiring 👾💕
That’s so awesome I cannot wait to get my PC and learn how to game development I always wanted do something like this
Hey dude! Love the devlogs! They're really motivating for me starting my own projects and a perfect breakfast / lunch break video to watch ^^! This might've been asked several times, but would it be possible for you to do an in-depth video how you're using Notion as a project management tool? I think this is the number one thing I struggle with the most haha, and it might benefit others as well!
Anyway, keep up the good work! Can't wait to eventually play Dauphin!
Cheers.
Your consistency and persistence is inspiring!
I am so here for the Moose b-roll 🥰
Would be super interesting if you could do a whole video about how you organize your life (I mean the methods and mindset), because you seem to be really good at it. In the end you just said "planning and discipline", bascially to talk more about that and how to achieve it.
Wow ⟟ love these dev logs ⟟ listen to them like ⏃ podcast whenever I’m frustrated with something like school work, it’s very calming
When you said "casting" was thinking about like a fishing rod lol. I thought there was going to be a ranged fishing rod attack but once i saw the animation it made sense :)
Fishing comes soon!
2:00 looked like a statue for a second
Your dog is so cute how many sand crab shells would it take to buy him 🦀🦀
I really like the coral wand and projectile you made for it. Keep up the great work on this!
I have a (slightly dystopian) idea! I like the terrain getting corrupted, but it looks a little weird with a purple tree on bright sand. This could be visual or gameplay affecting, but maybe the floor becomes purple and corrupted while corrupted creatures are around, and curing them causes the ground to normalise. It could really help that “spreading corruption” theme. If you want to make it a gameplay theme, have it slow you down and corrupt you. It could even be placed manually, meaning you could make some cool puzzles (like a ranged enemy surrounded by corrupted tiles, forcing you to cast at them). It’s up to you. Also, love your content!
Also, the jellyfish keep corrupting themselves when you cure them due to their AoE attack.
Hey! devduck I love watching this game grow, And I can't wait to see where this game goes.
Got Two ideas for the surce of the curuption 1 a factory leaking out in the ocean but is oqupied by these curuppt creatute or 2 a underwater king trying to reclaim his or hers power
Loving the devlogs! I think only having horizontal attacks is a good choice but you could try and rotate the player up and down a little to give more attack freedom without having to make entire new animations! :D
Great stuff, thanks for sharing with us. Definately inspiring! Cheers!
I love the new cast system, btw if you don't follow him aarthificial released a video recently on reducing the work that goes into making costumes for pixel art characters. It might be worth a watch if you plan on adding the ability for your character to change clothes.
The way I've done it is certainly a bit of a pain when it comes to creating new gear / clothes... will take a look!
Your lifestyle is very healthy. I should try to get healthier as I usually burn myself out. I love these dev logs, keep it up! Also, what is that application you use for your dev board? It looks interesting, I would love to know what it is.
Did you find out? I am also curious.
@@thatsleepyman Yes, it's called Notion.
@@reversed-coffee Thank you!
First time seeing your channel. Not sure if you are welcome to suggestions. I'd recommend changing those bubbles coming from everything from dark colored splotches to white circles, and way less of them. I think it would look cleaner. The other recommendation I had is you have an up animation in the swimming. I'd have a straight down animation that covers from southwest to southeast clicking, or the opposite of however you did the straight up animation.
Love it
I really like the under water aspect of the game.
maybe have some light interaction with the projectiles? It could either cast a shadow or illuminate its close surroundings a bit
How about the resource used to cast would be anima. When you "heal" a corrupted animal, you take on some of that corruption as an item maybe like corruption spores, you could then convert that item by cleansing it somehow to make anima which is the resource used to cast. You could get anima from other methods as well, like tidying up the island etc nets you a smaller amount of anima for your efforts. I was also thinking it help explain the spore like effects of the corruption being some sort of spore that grows or spreads by infecting other animals to reproduce. Would be cool if you could play one of two ways, so if you like to conserve the animal life you use the coral wand to cleanse them, and if you want to be a destructive player you could use a courruption spore wand to actual infect animals. Also keep up the good work. Love seeing this all come together.
6:35 lol nyooom
cool, it's hard to balance between game dev and daily life, you are doing good
One recommendation for combat is if there can be a block and a dodge roll depending on the equipment and weapons equipped.
I love your attitude and vids, you are awesome!
When you add kids to the equation though, any type of time management goes down the drain :D
Excellent work Ben! The casting system looks really nice, and I love the knock back it applies to the player, really adds a nice impact!
Also how has Moose responded to the plants, does he know to not touch them? x)
Really motivating devlog!
You could add slith tilt in attack when is the mouse up or down
Good luck trying to read this.
underwater explorable cave
I think the spell and the regular attack should look different underwater. Maybe make them blue or add some water bubble effekts n stuff
As far as resources go...casts feel like a core part of the combat gameplay, so any resource they use shouldn't be _too_ hard to recover. Maybe it recharges over time (perhaps after you haven't attacked for a certain amount of time, or faster if you haven't attacked in the last second?). Or maybe it recharges by meditating-in gameplay terms, you might need to visit predefined meditation spots, or press/hold a button that stops you from defending yourself while you meditate. Or you could go the Kingdom Hearts route and have a "charge bar" that refills when you remove corruption, meaning you have to alternate between powerful charge attacks and quicker melee attacks. Or the estus flask route and have consumables that you can recharge at sufficiently cleansed locations or something.
Okay, that was a lot of disorganized ideas to throw out at once. I'll stop.
I think Animation is something that's more of a polishing task in a dev cycle. What about more Islands and content next?
Nice game choices and love the overall timeline but maybe u could overlay your audio with Time lapses for what your changing like Mumbo jumbo
Really cool insights into your day to day life!
Great video! I noticed you changed keyboards. Was the numpad a motivator?
Good
luv this
I don't know if it's a bug, but the underwater creature's AOE attack also damages the creature that's attacking
DORFROMANTIK \o/
I also haven't watched the full video yet but will comment anyway ☺️💪
Do you find that screen bar helping? Ive never seen one until now, looks pretty small compared to your monitor? Would you suggest a larger one for a monitor that size or does the one you have work well? Ill be buying a large monitor here soon, probably your model and trying to see if i should also get that screen bar or not :b.
I got the same dog toy 👍
what program does the use to organize the tasks? looks a bit like Trello, but cleaner
@Ramtin Javanmardi thanks a lot! :)
Can you make a video related with your planted aquarim plsss, it's soooo pretty 😖❤
Great video! What app you use for project management? It looks like trello but it's not :D
Notion
@@SweetestWalrus thank you!
Hey, I've been following you for a while, but I found one thing interesting, ur pc is not windows, is it Mac or Linux, if Linux which distro?
Awesome . By the way what video editing software do you use ?
How good is that keyboard? I'm torn between this one and the Logitech MX Mechanical Mini.
Wait, wasn't it diving simulator originally ? Now it becomes fantasy RPG ? :). I always say - whatever the project is, spell system makes it better :P
I liked this 👍
Maybe to make you game more lively maybe make the trees sway a little
Anyone know why that notebook at 1:09 is called?
is notion what you mean?
@@gareth2021 thank you!
Can I ask you a question what are you using for this game unity or godot engine?
Are you developing on MacOS or Windows, or both?
with what program do u write down your task, it looks very clean
Notion
Are the jellyfish attacks re-corrupting themselves or is that just me?
@ 1:10 damn, what is this note app ?
what's the software you're using at 1:03 ? I'd like to try it out
What’s your workout routine?
Whats software did you use to make ur games
Do you plan on automating the garden? Maybe with an arduino
Anyone know what program he's using at 1:06?
Adorable dog. Which breed is that?
hey man what are the app in the animation part, and the task part at the start of the video
@@hermes6910 at 01:00
@@hermes6910 aight thx man
What todo program are you using?
Notion
@@SweetestWalrus tysm
I'd expect the cast to be a bit slower under water.
what software u use for check list
What's the dauphin dev board on? What app?
First game loop when?
Who’s Ben? I watch this for moose lol.(great video so far Ben!)
1:51 weed farm?
Hello, what IDE that you use?
Does anyone know what software he is using to manage his tasks at 1:15
@Goman 001 thank you
what's the app at 1:11
Will this work on Android with remote support
Idk if I'm asking too much but will dauphin make it to mobile?
first view!!!
What monitor is your secondary monitor? I don't see it in the description list
fourth comment
Your house is not good against zombie outbreak,
Hey. What was that tool you use for taking notes?
notion
@@deducker Thank you
Could the charge up attack is too OP?
What! You indie and have Wife? Cheater)
Good quality devlog but the delivery is a bit robotic - it's almost too perfect. Perhaps some more off the cuff commentary and even less concise editing would make the video more engaging?