AAA GameDev Couple Create Indie Soulslike | Devlog #1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.พ. 2025
- A dev couple goes on an adventure of creating a soulslike in Unreal Engine 5!
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the holy grail of game devs. the technical explaining was better than everything else dev logging ue5. wasn't a walkthrough, just brainstorm then results, obviously skilled stuff guys!
Love to see you notice what I’m going for
You explaining game development concepts as a AAA dev is absolutely invaluable. Really stands out amidst the other series. Please keep it up.
exited for the next video love this more technichal approach and the fact that you just do stuff and not explain everything like we havent ever seen an computer
A month seems about right. I was wondering ''How the hell does this already looks so good only in the first devlog?!'' lol. Good work man keep it up!
Thanks! ♥️
Well its not really a month when you total up all the time it would have taken to actually make everything shown in this video. A lot of the reasoning behind choices to me seems more like a justification rather than an actual decision that was made with a purpose in mind. Animations being a big one. Mocap is not used as often as he may have alluded too. Animations take a lot of practise and time dedication. This choice in this case is usually made because the developers just cant or wont learn it. A project like this becomes vastly more ambiguous when the skills needed are lacking going into it and you have to rely on outsourcing everything without a budget. Theres nothing wrong with using assets. But in most cases with something as expansive as a souls like, it will become repetitive and stale due to lacking the ability to just , well, make it.
@@zekenebel Why is this comment so underrated?
Glad to see you're back! As a souls-like enjoyer I'm really looking forward to the next devlog 👀
this is the first ever devlog imma finna watch and im hella excited
Good to hear, thanks♥️
See ya in 20 years lol
Yup in 2044 😂
My children play
Try 200 years.
ok
I always wanted someone to make a dark fantasy game and here you are! I wish you all the best developing this game!
Damn, it's nice to see an indie souls-like. Souls-likes are amazing but there is just sooooo much effort put into them, it's inspiring to see someone tackle making them. Looking forward to the next Devlog :)
You should check out "Another Crab's Treasure", it's made by a small indie dev studio and despite the cute cartoon graphics, it's insanely fun and just as hard as any souls like :3
I love how you document your devlog. This is what a devlog should look like and not some random memes inserted into the video. I learned alot from this video. Keep going we're thankful
Thank you! ♥️
"think the movie coco but with a dark twist" dammit, thats literally why i searched for a video on how to make a soulslike xD
not gonna lie. you had me at souls-like. I want to make one myself and literally was thinking about this yesterday as I was putting together my ideas and working on a design document.
I have a developer friend (I am more of the environment artist/game designer type) and was just thinking about reaching out to pitch the idea.
Me: *finds a gamedev channel with a strange accent*...instantly knows it's gonna be peak
😂 well said
Literally two days ago I started to work on my soulslike :D Just subscribed and I'm waiting for new devlog :D
Love how detailed you explain every step you take
"There are said to be three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. After that final utterance though, comes something new. Something malign and sinister. Something inevitable."
immediately thought of that old saying, and wanted to add on to it cause this idea is so inspiring and compelling! Cannot wait to hear more
is the first time i see you and your partner ... i can say i love this format and the pacing you have. please ... PLEASE !!! continue to make video or devlog. "you have my sword" cit.
Loving the ideas and atmosphere behind this game. We'll be curious to see more development.
Thanks!
Count me in! I'm here for the journey! Nothing like watching nothing become something amazing!!! ♥
Excited to see what you guys cook up!
Awesome video. Would be nice if you included some more details while developing. For instance, in the end here we see the fantastic result, but would be nice if you showed the process of going from just the character to the whole Soulslike atmosphere; how did the first version look like? What steps did you take to go from any generic game to Soulslike? Just some feedback for future videos. :)
I'm already sold into this game hahah
Thanks for beeing didactic like that. It helps us to don't get lost while doing our own games :D
Really glad you’re enjoying it!
Super cool to listen to how you approach such a project! Keep it up :)
the lore description really reminded me of the world after the fall manwha, especially the part about forgotten souls and becoming monsters, sounds interesting.
the best dev look i have seen so far
Instant follow, hyped for the journey! 🥳
I really enjoy your content! I suggest making your videos with english subtitles because this type of content is very interesting, but there aren't many like it on TH-cam. I think this will help the videos go viral.
Well explained devlog with an interesting and cool concept and inspiration.
As a person working with Unreal Engine for a while - I see quite a few potential fundemental flaws with the tools you chose to use for the development of the prototype/demo.
Realistic assets - Marketplace is a good place to purchase a variety of them, but the problem with that is that they will always have conflict of art style and art direction. Often they also use expensive materials with 8k textures to impress the buyer but they dont translate into the actual game-projects. Not to mention that your variety of enemies also have to fit inside an artstyle which also can be found in a marketplace but again with a different artstyle, texture size, normals, and even lightmaps.
Metahumans are also very heavy to run despite being advertised as flexible when it comes to LOD. But I suppose if you are only using metahuman on a main character it shouldbt be a big deal.
Be careful with Chaos destruction. It is not that expensive. Just make sure not to cut the mesh into million pieces on fracture.
Animation is massive part as to why some soulslikes are good/bad. Mixamo is good only for a prototype as you said. In a game like this - animation warping and root motion are crucial fundamental techniques. In a soulslike - you can only go so far on an animation movement component.
Nevertheless - good luck with your project. Inde soulslike is a sisyphus task and I wish you the best of luck
Thank you! And I agree with it all, in the next devlog I’m actually showcasing motion warping and new set of animations + why mixamo is not good for this, but a comment about enviro is also to the point - in the future I’m planning to touch on Quixel here, any thoughts?
@@rafalobrebski Quixel is a good tool for materials and assets for games. That said I dont have that muche exp when it comes to Quixel. I suppose you can put them in the game and then debug the optimization via shader complexity etc. I just dont expect photo realistic materials to be super efficient. But i might be wrong
It's exactly my game idea I have been working for past 2 months
Jako jeden z artystów pracujących przy Chłopach aż serce się raduje że ktoś bierze to pod uwagę jako inspiracje pewnego rodzaju! Sam chciałem zabrać się za tworzenie souslike'a w UE5 ale to chyba nie ten lvl jeszcze 😂 póki co zostanę przy digitalu🫡
Wooo, bardzo milo ze trafiles na ten film :) zrobiliscie kawal dobrej roboty przy filmie, uwierz mi ze jest inspiracja dla wielu projektow growych obecnie
@@rafalobrebski Dobrze to słyszeć! Jakby była potrzeba jakiegoś concept artu to się polecam 🫡 jakoś portfolio trzeba poszerzyć 😂
Podrzuc prosze wiadomosc na maila (seriouslyskully@gmail.com / obrebskirafal@gmail.com) albo na twitterze - moze w przyszlosci uda sie nawiazac jakąs kooperacje :)
'enriching our souls with cocktails' relatable
Would be awesome if, in addition to tracking and sharing your budget, you would also track and share your investment of time. I appreciate you sharing this journey. It’s already helped me with a project I’m working on. Looking forward to the next video.
Rokoko does nice video to animation motion capture. I was surprised with the quality it can achieve.
Thanks! Might try it out
Making a game with your wife is the dream. Bro is winning
Great man 🎉 wishing you to make your dream game. 🤗 eagerly waiting for more such video.
Hi man! really great content. Greetings from Argentina🤙🏼
Fajnie że robicie to w Unrealu.Sam od 3 lat uczę się go i nastał czas w końcu, żeby zabrać się na poważnie za mój mały projekt.Będę śledził Wasz projekt,a jak zrobie devloga(w końcu)ze swojej gry to podeślę linka😉
Dzięki!
"What can go wrong?". Everything! :) But joking aside, good luck with your project!
I'm also a solo indie dev, I like how this is going!
Lets goooooooo. Looking forward for more! I like your energy and story telling style. It's authentic and refreshing. Keep them coming!
I'm a lurker in the Indie Game development scene as a VFX Artist (in the Film industry +8 years) but I've been watching indie game dev videos for months and fantasizing about switching industries and pursuing gaming instead. Already know Unreal, which I've used for film projects, and some personal gaming projects (unfinished, of course...).
BTW, while listening with my in ear monitors, I noticed in your audio mix , your voice is set to stereo, and its slightly shifted to the right. I find it very distracting. I thought I had an issue with my hearing, or my ear pieces were failing.
I would balance the audio channels, or make it mono. My two cents!
Wooo, thanks! I’m still figuring out the audio setup, that helps a lot ♥️
i really enjoyed your video ! but i'm kinda sad about the ref you mentioned, they are great, but the tiktok trend at the beginning trully felt dark fantasy, and the artist you shown after...
well i can see how they can inspire but nowadays everyone is going super crazy on monster design, creating all kind of odd malformed creature.. i wish we could get a more grounded dark fantasy, relying on gobelin, slimes, all those basics, with the kinda 60's vibe from the tiktok mentioned earlier, this would be awesome (just like DEEP DOWN was carrying this feeling, sadly capcom never gave any news abt this project and it's been 11 years haha!)
hopefully this will be coop :D i'll keep an eye on you guys ! wish u the best
Something to definitely think about :) thanks for the suggestion!
Looking Forward to this series!
Very cool devlog! I really like the first part of the video where you talk about inspirations, since they almost 100% align with mine.
I'm big fan of Ghost of Tsushima and Sekiro and really hope that this game takes more of that direction rather than silly panic rolling like in souls games. I mean you can still have rolls, but main aspect could be small evades and parries. But anything you guys decide I'm fine with, after you mentioned 80s dark fantasy, berserk and some cool artists which I like.
By the way game cover on 3:50 really looks like Berserk 1997, when Guts enters castle to fight Zodd.
Thanks! And yeah you’re right, rolls are probably not very fitting for this project, will reconsider 🫡
Ej fajna ta seria haha podoba mi się !
Veles is God of all Lowlands and Cattle as well, if you go that rout there is also another Slavic God, Chernobog, God of chaos, darkness and night.
I wonder if this is as much of a passion project as it is training to become even more accustomed to UE5
Both :)
Wow its really good to see people try and make something creative and quality.
Please work within your constraints tho, cause I don't want to see you guys burn out and abandon it.
Best of luck.
Am a single dev from Canada AB but originally from Poland as well good video my game is Jurassic Outbreak Escape from Extinction FPS/TPS
Great video please continue this series
Keep it up, this is going to be an amazing game
Great video man!
Congrats for aiming big!
how sweet dev partner🤗
Since you pinky promised, I;m subscribing, don't let me down XD.
very interesting , I'm in for this journey and I hope you succeed in your journey with your partner in crime
Useful Tips: make base clases then create your weapon and items that inherit from the base clases and to communicate with weapon and items use interfaces to make sure that the project scales easily
Thanks! I have an inventory system made with what you mentioned already, will touch on that in the next devlog ♥️
good luck lmao this going to take a long time I think you should make the game in parts or small sections
Bardzo ciekawy materiał. Osobiście zajmuje się projektami 3D ale w taki sposób, że powstają z nich fizyczne przedmioty i moim zdaniem to jest największa słabość wszelkich deweloperów, że ich projekty potem ciężko skomercjalizowac poza wersją digitalna, oczywiście to ona przynosi największe zyski ale możliwość materializacji przedmiotów może być nie małą częścią biznesu o czym wiem np taki Disney.
Very jealous ngl... I wish nothing but the best for your project.
Atmoshpere! dont forget to add fog and stuff like that!
awesome !
rolling to the barrel
write that down
im trying to make a souls like game too
i think the hard thing about making a "aaa" game is mocap, face animation and all related to animation itself
yes, that's true. Mocap and generally assets like 3D models are very expensive in big projects...
Good Video Man, try to make Videos a little shorter and add more footage about the game or what is going on behind in the video to the video. Looks Great
Keep it up, I just subscribed 👍 Btw, I wonder if unity has a similar tool for destroying crates, barrels, vases etc..
There is a few tools I know of from the Asset Store, like the DestroyIt, but you can do quite a bit with mesh manipulation in the engine itself
How did you achieve such visuals in your project? I'm also inspired by this '80s fantasy style, and it seems like you managed to reproduce it! Is it just light adjustment with post-processing, or maybe plugins; shaders on models; perhaps little tricks like LUT for color correction? I'm curious to know.
I'm excited to see how your project develops. I'll be keeping an eye on it! Best of luck!
Blendspaces? I could’ve sworn I saw the motion matching sample project animations in there😮
Really Good eye! Thats for one of the upcoming devlogs though 😏
@@rafalobrebski lol only reason I noticed was cus I’m working on a similar souls like as a solo dev and am taking full advantage of all UE5 has to offer, including the sample animations. Looks great by the way! Inspiring to see other indies tackling the elusive “Souls game”. They are alot of work haha
I mean a game with that vibe would be Dark Souls but, you know, more games is always better
Awesome! Are you making it multiplayer since you're using GAS? Brokered Peer-to-peer with someone like Edgegap would probably work great for a game like this. If you go with multiplayer I hope you give some details on your networking solution for non-player initiated events like parry knockback.
great content, respect for you
I've also wanted to make a AAA quality game by myself. Unfortunately, I don't have any experience. Also my partners (wife and baby) distracting me all the time. Since you are sharing your process, I'll follow along and see if i can take more of a part time approach. Please make some shorts highlighting tips or cool stuf or introduce a tool. In deapth videos of the process will be great. Feel free to drop some couple videos and jokes.
If you’re seeing this project through to the end and need a music composer, I’d be happy to help!
It would be cool if the protagonist gains monstrous abilities if people forget about him
Instantly subbed!
All the best brother
if you wana add some magical power ..you shoud give your sword a soul of any god or animal ..your game theme is after death then god soul is best ... matching for your game
saw these tiktoks and thought the same thing, im gonna make a game like that
Poor knight running with duck feet
Well, we have some ideas about how dark fantasy games look, diablo 1 and 2 exist, they're very dark fantasy, and dark souls 1 (the rest of them don't really catch that vibe imo)
Hey, great video! I'm digging the concept behind your game.
I've been practising 3D modelling for the past three years or so, and I'd love to offer my skills to help with your project if you're interested.
Nie jestem Polakiem, ale znam polski. Odrazu rzuca się w oczy ten polski akcent, mówisz "fantAZY" 0:29 w angielskim słowie jakby to było po polsku. Nie rozumiem, dlaczego Polacy wymawiają obce słowa w ten sposób, jakby z polskim „y”.
What do you think about motion matching? For a solo developer, should it be a valid option for the animations?
Is it just me or does this game sound like a Souls game
What UE version are you using ? Are you planning on building from source ? Good luck to the two of you !
When creating a game how everything is all together is that how you make a game? Let me further explain. When making a game do you do a map in 1 project and than do another project for guns, another for your character and movements, and than combine it all into the map project after it’s all done? I been wanting to start but don’t know where to start.
HOLY SHIT its preety funny you basacly are just saying "do as a say not as i do" as you do stuff everyone says you need not to do
also i like the video
imma just gonna tap that Sub button real quick....
🫴"Mr. Expert" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Show, don't tell ... I've seen to it to many times, big promises and nothing to show ... I like your idear and concept but so far it's nothing but big talk.
a suggestion, change the running animation lol. not saying its bad but if u put effort it will be so good
Quick tip to improve your videos: Never and I mean NEVER upload your videos in HDR. It is industry standard to upload videos in SDR. If you accidentally shot and edited your hole video in HDR and now can’t find the export to SDR button, that’s because there isn’t one, export the video normally and use a software like handbrake to “fix” your video.
Thanks! Actually a really good advice ♥️
Coco the Destroyer.
Using AAA for your game nowadays means it is over priced cash grab or just tax exemption project. 😢😢
can you make a crash course for absolute beginner?
Its planned :)
My honest opinion is that it is too much for 2 guys, but if you get it done you will have much respect from my side.
This sounds like a great project!! I am a composer looking to do more in video game music. If you would be interested in collaborating on this project, please let me know. I look forward to seeing more!
@11:00: haha, you know you should not bought that Assets :D
and you know It will happen again.
sorry to say sir but as a gamer i give you a small suggestion..your berral broking roll is too fast and small .its look weird make it slow and rolling far distance that can eye easily catch this animation or working ..
you from slovakia?
No, from Poland :)
@@rafalobrebski ahh i still like your video
*I haven't watched the video yet*
we will see each other in 40 years then. No way you can do a game the size and quality of real AAA titles.
not even big studios are able to do that. And most games made by indie or solo devs in ue5 tend to just "look good" that's it.
I'm critical about this, since I mostly hate UE since the 3rd version and the indie/solo dev experience was always bad.
Only a handful were able to deliver in almost 15 years!
Sorry for being to critical, but you setup yourself for failure by saying AAA, this is straight lying to the faces of your viewers and customers.
*@9:30 there are plenty of new technolgies and I also played around with motion capture at home and bought a 150€ set off amazon. It works but it is still quite a lot of work for a single person tho
Are you from poland?
Yes :)