i think that if you are to develop this idea further it should be in the form or some sort of pikmin-eske rts game, where each map has different environmental hazards and the competing players have to constantly drive their thrives to adapt to the strategies of the other players
What if you could activate hazards for other players so that they would need to adapt their army to survive it. Kinda gives bloons td battles vibes but instead of monkeys you have your army and instead of balloons you have hazards
perhaps you could have the enemies be constantly evolving, with the player having to try to direct their evolution by going in and eliminating the stronger members of the species to keep the enemies weak. could encourage a frantic playstyle as any relaxation would inherently allow the enemy to grow stronger, as well as an interesting dynamic with the player having an incentive to target the strongest enemy and leave the weak ones alive.
Wow! Truly amazing work Noah and Liam! It’s always refreshing to see game developers who’s struggle with trying to pinpoint what experience they want the user to have! As always I’m (ex)Gamerworks leaving my lil appreciation for this video!
I think an evolution game could work and be pretty cool! My idea is this: You play as a scientist working for a company that builds custom armies. A prompt comes in with a description of what the customer needs, Ex; must survive heavy gravity, have tough skin and high endurance to act as frontline protection during an invasion. You start with one of a few basic life forms and start altering the habit where they live and introducing predators and hazards to force them to evolve and it happens on a super accelerated scale! You end up with a final life form to submit for a grade, based on how well you met the needs and if you got any extra points for bonus features like perhaps you found a way to grow massive nearly indestructible crab claws they could use as shields to defend.. So basically you play god and try to form a basic blob into the apex predator or monster that the customer requires!
- mom can i have evolution? - we have evolution at home. evolution at home: „All life, from this chameleon to this tree, evolved from this primitive *fish*“
i feel like this could be expanded into a multiplayer strategy game involving evolving your creatures to better battle other players. the more you evolve your creatures, the better suited you'll be to attack higher ranked players, similar to clash of clans but with weird monsters that evolve. maybe that's a terrible idea but i think it's worth a shot ;)
Blackthornprod is such an amazingly talented artist and programmer - he is the living definition of those who aspire to be game developers and he's a huge inspiration to me. When you enjoy art and creativity but also excell in academic and coding environments, game design is the greatest career ever to exist and Blackthornprod is the perfect example. You deserve so much more 👍
That book "Why Evolution is True" is a flawed book. He started out making a scientific case for evolution but then strangely, his "rebuttal" approach against "intelligent design" was, disappointingly, theological/philosophical (and rather poorly done at that) instead of scientific.
Intelligent design is a philosophical and theological theory, not a scientific one. It is not necessary to debunk it scientifically because it is obvious why it is unscientific. Those whole believe in intelligent design believe in it for philosophical and theological reasons, and so if you are to go about “debunking” it, it must be done from that perspective. That said, I’m not sure how useful trying to “debunk” a religion followed by over 2 billion people is.
@@Flymerick there’s not really any scientific evidence towards intelligent design. Most of the time it is just based on the assumption that a god or gods exist and created everything. It only ever uses the gaps in our knowledge (or perceived gaps) to “prove” a god exist, so it is a theological explanation
@@Cassieniemann2541 well, spirituality isn't just about that. There are very real things that science can't explain (some romantic poets called it the Unknowable) but it's true that there isn't any scientific evidence of intelligent design. Besides, my opinion is that the Unknowable should be interpreted as "Not _yet_ Knowable". I think everything is explainable with logic, even religion. We often have the presumption of believing we can explain everything immediately but ehy! Humanity is in its teen years. Especially scientists know very well how little we truly know. Religion should explain why, and science should explain how.
@@Flymerick I personally see it like this: regardless of the existence of a god or gods something had to pop into existence for no known reason, whether it was the universe to start with, or god/gods. Maybe to think of time as having a beginning is shortsighted because time likely doesn’t contain itself, but things other than that are likely the way that they are for one reason or another. Without taking philosophy into account it could be considered a coin flip. I also would like to bring up the fact that evolution and intelligent design aren’t exactly mutually exclusive. It would make sense to me that if Christian god does exist they would likely be radially symmetrical, and still created us in his image. I think this because god is said to be beyond a word that meant both sky and universe in a older iteration of the Bible (before it was translated into English), and if this meant universe then they would likely be outside of space in the form of a point which is radially symmetrical(like the first cell). If god does exist and we are their only living creations then that would also solve the Fermi paradox, but we could also just be really early/late late on the timeline for the viability of life, or aliens who make themselves known efficiently are made extinct as seen in the dark forest solution. (Pardon me for any grammatical errors, it’s currently 3:00 a.m.)
Hey! The idea is great! That reminds me of times when I explored the genetic algorithm. This was really fun to see how the product of the algorithm was adapting overtime to constantly changing set of rules. I think this is what makes this type of stuff fascinating - it just does stuff on its own and we are there as the observers feeling kind of like gods. What game should you create next? As most of your stuff is 2d, I would love to see you create something in 3d, just to give you a little bit of challange. I also mentioned it long time under another video but I would love you to make a game where each of you takes care about part of the game they are the least comfortable with :D. Love you guys!
Perhaps we do live in a simulation but not in the way we think. But rather this is a simulation that started with the first organisms to live and see what happens, and right now is just how far into the simulation we currently are. This is just a huge experiment conducted by beings greater than us which time moves differently for. So our entire existence over time has only been about 5 minutes to them.
I'm making a game about speculative evolution as well rn and ran into a similar problem. You can't really make the process of natural selection playable without making it unnatural creationism :D
You didn't know much about evolution. What, did you get educated in the States? Evolution is one of the most fascinating subjects you could possibly learn about. I don't know what to day. I'm glad you two boned up on your evolution studies. Great video as always.
great video, however I'd like to mention a some facts you got wrong, solely for educational purposes: life, especially plants, didn't start from fish, but rather microorganisms and also that fish you showed around the beginning of the video was actually an early ancestor of mammals
@@Blackthornprod Sadly, I don't have time and skills at the moment. And my ideas are incomplete... But I swear. One day I'll sit down, get these together and create my magnus opum!
Slight correction, evolution theory teaches that, based upon it's interpretation of the fossil record, plants can spontaneously turn into crustaceans under the right conditions with no intermediary phases or adaptions.
What is true about simulated evolution AND real world (or our simulated world) evolution is that things can only evolve within the very specific limitations that are coded into their simulation ie. Chemistry and physics predetermine how things in our evolution can evolve making it a finite system of evolution which explains the rather limited template that life shows on our planet and in my opinion likely throughout our universe.
Remake Pokemon, so that the trainer has magic and battles with the Pokemon. It doesn't have to be the same story. Be sure that evolution and trainer magic are involved. Make a final fusion/evolution, where the trainers decision effect the final state of the "Pokemon" you choose.
What’s the name of the website that lets you add the animals together(talking about the part with a game where you merge animals, the timestamp is at 1:54)
Hey so I was watching your old tutorial on customizing cursors in unity, and it didnt work for me on unity 2021, even though I did follow everything to the letter. So does that method not work in unity 2021? And if so what do I do to customize cursors in unity 2021. I'm new to coding and would love some help with that. Thank you
@@Blackthornprod Vector2 cursorPos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition); transform.position = cursorPos; This line of code just doesnt work. i.e the object does not move along with the cursor, itt doesnt move at all. Everything else works tho
5:15 Is there any place where I can see more of the game? There is always like a 5 second clip of all the creations in the videos but I'd love to see some more
I'm seeing AI being used a lot lately to create images and video but yet to see a video game with an AI in it. I mean an actual AI. not and NPC following coded instructions. But as far as I understand, you need a neural network of computers in order to handle that kind of processing power. Maybe one day. Maybe use servers to handle that and deliver the results back to the end user or something. Even if it is shirt lived it would be an interesting experiment. Doesnr even have to be a game per say. Could be a demo. An entity players play with or talk to or something and it learns and changes over time the more people that interact with it? Idk. Maybe im dumb
I don’t particularly think that “evolution” is the right term for the specific growth of what you are demonstrating and maybe adaptation is a better fit for it.
Not very video related. But I am a beginner and have been following your channel for a while. I'm not sure how to deal with an Enemy that attacks the Player, when the Player enters the Enemy's area, it will attack. Hope you can help me. Thank you very much !
MacroEvolution is a Myth. That book does not actually prove it. And MicroEvolution is just adaptations already programmed in the DNA. However, in a game, sure.
My 7year old boy wants you to make a game: kid appropriate and fun for grownups. Multi-player tribes. No killing. Taming animals in the jungle. Mechanic or topic concept: animal migrations
that sounds like a good idea but unfortunately the chances of that are really low, but you can find an alternative game and do some research a on a game fun for grown ups and no violence for your son.
Hey! I'm curious on how you integrated Midjourney into your game idea! Were the evolutions all done by the Midjourney bot automatically, or did you generate images using the bot and manually perform the combining within your game? Is there some sort of API/tutorial?
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YO devs! What game should we create next?
4D Jenga
Can you please fix the game devs vs game thing?
it’s very laggy and I really want to play it 😢😢
3D top-down robot shooter (total destruction with explosions particle systems)
a vr game?
Time travel game, a proper one about going back in time, going forward. Exploring a paradox. That's never been done in games so far
i think that if you are to develop this idea further it should be in the form or some sort of pikmin-eske rts game, where each map has different environmental hazards and the competing players have to constantly drive their thrives to adapt to the strategies of the other players
Oooooh It would be cool if it was also like a big map and players would have to go through the terrain to fight each other
What if you could activate hazards for other players so that they would need to adapt their army to survive it. Kinda gives bloons td battles vibes but instead of monkeys you have your army and instead of balloons you have hazards
"The studying we did on natural selection was just a launchpad for inspiration and delicious food for thought." That's a beautiful quote.
I like how Liam has become a bigger part of the channel
perhaps you could have the enemies be constantly evolving, with the player having to try to direct their evolution by going in and eliminating the stronger members of the species to keep the enemies weak. could encourage a frantic playstyle as any relaxation would inherently allow the enemy to grow stronger, as well as an interesting dynamic with the player having an incentive to target the strongest enemy and leave the weak ones alive.
Wow! Truly amazing work Noah and Liam! It’s always refreshing to see game developers who’s struggle with trying to pinpoint what experience they want the user to have! As always I’m (ex)Gamerworks leaving my lil appreciation for this video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Ah yes, trees evolved from a fish xD
Great video, tho, gj!
Thanks! Not trees, but most living things did. According to the little bit of research we did anyway ;D!
@@Blackthornprod I would love to see a tree that evolved from a fish, it would probably look like some eldritch monster...
I think an evolution game could work and be pretty cool!
My idea is this: You play as a scientist working for a company that builds custom armies.
A prompt comes in with a description of what the customer needs, Ex; must survive heavy gravity, have tough skin and high endurance to act as frontline protection during an invasion.
You start with one of a few basic life forms and start altering the habit where they live and introducing predators and hazards to force them to evolve and it happens on a super accelerated scale!
You end up with a final life form to submit for a grade, based on how well you met the needs and if you got any extra points for bonus features like perhaps you found a way to grow massive nearly indestructible crab claws they could use as shields to defend..
So basically you play god and try to form a basic blob into the apex predator or monster that the customer requires!
"WELCOME BACK TO BLACK..... THORN.....PROD.....! I'M NOA"
I'm a big fan of that line 😄
- mom can i have evolution?
- we have evolution at home.
evolution at home:
„All life, from this chameleon to this tree, evolved from this primitive *fish*“
i feel like this could be expanded into a multiplayer strategy game involving evolving your creatures to better battle other players. the more you evolve your creatures, the better suited you'll be to attack higher ranked players, similar to clash of clans but with weird monsters that evolve.
maybe that's a terrible idea but i think it's worth a shot ;)
Blackthornprod is such an amazingly talented artist and programmer - he is the living definition of those who aspire to be game developers and he's a huge inspiration to me. When you enjoy art and creativity but also excell in academic and coding environments, game design is the greatest career ever to exist and Blackthornprod is the perfect example. You deserve so much more 👍
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@@RealElevenTimes couldnt agree less
That book "Why Evolution is True" is a flawed book. He started out making a scientific case for evolution but then strangely, his "rebuttal" approach against "intelligent design" was, disappointingly, theological/philosophical (and rather poorly done at that) instead of scientific.
Intelligent design is a philosophical and theological theory, not a scientific one. It is not necessary to debunk it scientifically because it is obvious why it is unscientific. Those whole believe in intelligent design believe in it for philosophical and theological reasons, and so if you are to go about “debunking” it, it must be done from that perspective. That said, I’m not sure how useful trying to “debunk” a religion followed by over 2 billion people is.
@@addisonalbert9078 could you elaborate on why intelligent design is unscientific?
I'm just curious to hear your opinion.
@@Flymerick there’s not really any scientific evidence towards intelligent design. Most of the time it is just based on the assumption that a god or gods exist and created everything. It only ever uses the gaps in our knowledge (or perceived gaps) to “prove” a god exist, so it is a theological explanation
@@Cassieniemann2541 well, spirituality isn't just about that. There are very real things that science can't explain (some romantic poets called it the Unknowable) but it's true that there isn't any scientific evidence of intelligent design.
Besides, my opinion is that the Unknowable should be interpreted as "Not _yet_ Knowable". I think everything is explainable with logic, even religion. We often have the presumption of believing we can explain everything immediately but ehy! Humanity is in its teen years. Especially scientists know very well how little we truly know.
Religion should explain why, and science should explain how.
@@Flymerick I personally see it like this: regardless of the existence of a god or gods something had to pop into existence for no known reason, whether it was the universe to start with, or god/gods. Maybe to think of time as having a beginning is shortsighted because time likely doesn’t contain itself, but things other than that are likely the way that they are for one reason or another. Without taking philosophy into account it could be considered a coin flip. I also would like to bring up the fact that evolution and intelligent design aren’t exactly mutually exclusive. It would make sense to me that if Christian god does exist they would likely be radially symmetrical, and still created us in his image. I think this because god is said to be beyond a word that meant both sky and universe in a older iteration of the Bible (before it was translated into English), and if this meant universe then they would likely be outside of space in the form of a point which is radially symmetrical(like the first cell). If god does exist and we are their only living creations then that would also solve the Fermi paradox, but we could also just be really early/late late on the timeline for the viability of life, or aliens who make themselves known efficiently are made extinct as seen in the dark forest solution. (Pardon me for any grammatical errors, it’s currently 3:00 a.m.)
This is soo cool! I literally just started getting into simulation in Unity this week, and am creating Conway's Game of Life!
TIL: Google does it on screen when you search for it.
everything you need in life is a friend that will make games with you man
As someone who is studying for a degree in bioligy, it's really cool you see you learn about natural selection.
Thanks man !
BYoligy?
@@theastralproject1268 *Biology, my bad
bro should be studying his English Dear god
@@Bubbasdumbscience Please remember that not all of us have masterd English. I'm sure you occasionally make mistakes as well sir/madam.
Hey! The idea is great! That reminds me of times when I explored the genetic algorithm. This was really fun to see how the product of the algorithm was adapting overtime to constantly changing set of rules. I think this is what makes this type of stuff fascinating - it just does stuff on its own and we are there as the observers feeling kind of like gods. What game should you create next? As most of your stuff is 2d, I would love to see you create something in 3d, just to give you a little bit of challange. I also mentioned it long time under another video but I would love you to make a game where each of you takes care about part of the game they are the least comfortable with :D. Love you guys!
These are great ideas. Thanks mate!:)
@@Blackthornprod it's all my pleasure :)
Perhaps we do live in a simulation but not in the way we think. But rather this is a simulation that started with the first organisms to live and see what happens, and right now is just how far into the simulation we currently are. This is just a huge experiment conducted by beings greater than us which time moves differently for. So our entire existence over time has only been about 5 minutes to them.
I like how one of their prototypes was just Cryptozoo
I'm making a game about speculative evolution as well rn and ran into a similar problem. You can't really make the process of natural selection playable without making it unnatural creationism :D
Liam looks like Shane from twd
You didn't know much about evolution. What, did you get educated in the States? Evolution is one of the most fascinating subjects you could possibly learn about. I don't know what to day. I'm glad you two boned up on your evolution studies. Great video as always.
I'm so happy every time you upload the game looks really cool to play with friends
Thanks man !
Don't believe in evolution, but man I love simulating it digitally, it's so fascinating! 😁
Wym you don’t believe in evolution
How do you think humans are alive now?
in the simulation, you SEE the principle at work. now tell us: what part about reality makes it so the principle doesn't work anymore?
It said 6 seconds ago and 1 view. This channel is going big for real now
its been awhile but, love your videos as always man :)
love what you guys do here so many cool and intresting games that u make keep it up!
You guys work very well together
Thanks mate!
THANK YOU. i keep on trying to find games about evolution/natural selection but most of them are crappy. thank you for this.
How about you make a game where the game itself evolves?
Huh I will definetly also play around with the Idea of evolving somethin in the future
Awesome work boys ! The flat still looks spartan - get some plants ;)
Working on it!
This is just amazing 🔥❤❤❤
I love the concept and the art style. Looks very exciting
hey thanks man !
You may be interested in buying a ring light. I feel like it will improve the quality of the recording of your room and faces by far. Great video!
I swear there was a browser game just like this that I used to play in school
great video, however I'd like to mention a some facts you got wrong, solely for educational purposes:
life, especially plants, didn't start from fish, but rather microorganisms and also that fish you showed around the beginning of the video was actually an early ancestor of mammals
Thanks for the info!
I personally thought the tentacle creatures were more interesting than the final product
Oh hey, thats my comment!
Suggestion for next game is to use one of your old ideas that you never finished as a spring board for something new.
Thanks for the idea!
Damn, very similar game ideas have been swimming around in my mind lately.
haha go and try them out !
@@Blackthornprod Sadly, I don't have time and skills at the moment. And my ideas are incomplete... But I swear. One day I'll sit down, get these together and create my magnus opum!
I thought it said wumbo jumbo and it made me smile lol
Hi guys, saw this with Nonna last week, you guys are rocking !
Reminds me of the bibites,I recommend you you check them out because they have tons of crazy code and even advanced neural pathways
will look into that, thanks !
Oh I love the bibites! Good to see more people agree that it’s cool!
really been enjoying these videos keep it up.
Glad you like them!
The more you live, the more you look like the same person.
0:34 me: yo that’s equilinox
Slight correction, evolution theory teaches that, based upon it's interpretation of the fossil record, plants can spontaneously turn into crustaceans under the right conditions with no intermediary phases or adaptions.
I am the prime specimen of natural selection.
1:12 ok well most land animals came from that fish not every thing but anyway this video is going to be great anyway
A loss opportunity to call the game "try brawl", "tribrawl" or something in the area
What is true about simulated evolution AND real world (or our simulated world) evolution is that things can only evolve within the very specific limitations that are coded into their simulation ie. Chemistry and physics predetermine how things in our evolution can evolve making it a finite system of evolution which explains the rather limited template that life shows on our planet and in my opinion likely throughout our universe.
Science evolved a lot since the month you uploaded this, and were pretty sure trees did not evolve from fish.
Nice project man
I would like to see some proceduraly generated spell creation.
Yes trees came from primitive lung fish yes yes yes
What are games featured in the video? I think one is Equilinox made by Thin Matrix, but what about the pixel art one? Cheers!
Great work guys, creative dudes as always 👏
Thank you so much 😀
Remake Pokemon, so that the trainer has magic and battles with the Pokemon. It doesn't have to be the same story.
Be sure that evolution and trainer magic are involved.
Make a final fusion/evolution, where the trainers decision effect the final state of the "Pokemon" you choose.
oh watch out, the monster energy drink company might see that you used the term "monster" and sue you
What’s the name of the website that lets you add the animals together(talking about the part with a game where you merge animals, the timestamp is at 1:54)
These ideas are so intelligent, damn which one is noa which one is liam xD
0:34 what is that game?
edit: nvm i found it its called equilinox
where can i play the game xD?
great video!
Thanks!
Loved it!
Should have named it Tribrawl
It would be very cool if you made an udemy course for ai. Very good video
Thanks for the idea!
Yay
I love evolution
Amazing vidéo ! Great Game. From poulpe ❤
Thank you Poulpe! Many more to come!
Amazing video
Hey so I was watching your old tutorial on customizing cursors in unity, and it didnt work for me on unity 2021, even though I did follow everything to the letter. So does that method not work in unity 2021? And if so what do I do to customize cursors in unity 2021.
I'm new to coding and would love some help with that. Thank you
Hey! No it should work just fine with the new Unity.
@@Blackthornprod ah, the image doesn't follow the cursor at all. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong
@@Blackthornprod
Vector2 cursorPos = Camera.main.ScreenToWorldPoint(Input.mousePosition);
transform.position = cursorPos;
This line of code just doesnt work. i.e the object does not move along with the cursor, itt doesnt move at all. Everything else works tho
5:15 Is there any place where I can see more of the game?
There is always like a 5 second clip of all the creations in the videos but I'd love to see some more
How about a game about brewing Beer?
THATS SO COOL
I'm seeing AI being used a lot lately to create images and video but yet to see a video game with an AI in it. I mean an actual AI. not and NPC following coded instructions. But as far as I understand, you need a neural network of computers in order to handle that kind of processing power. Maybe one day. Maybe use servers to handle that and deliver the results back to the end user or something. Even if it is shirt lived it would be an interesting experiment. Doesnr even have to be a game per say. Could be a demo. An entity players play with or talk to or something and it learns and changes over time the more people that interact with it? Idk. Maybe im dumb
okay awesome video, but did he just say trees evolved from fish
I don’t particularly think that “evolution” is the right term for the specific growth of what you are demonstrating and maybe adaptation is a better fit for it.
I was making a game but my laptop could not apply a character control to the play, so I gave up
could you guys make a fighting game? something similar to street fighter or tekken?
Not very video related. But I am a beginner and have been following your channel for a while. I'm not sure how to deal with an Enemy that attacks the Player, when the Player enters the Enemy's area, it will attack. Hope you can help me. Thank you very much !
I was clickbaited "bla bla the factorial of the number is 3200"
That's clickbait
MacroEvolution is a Myth. That book does not actually prove it. And MicroEvolution is just adaptations already programmed in the DNA.
However, in a game, sure.
you have a distinct art style but I think you have to simplify it a little, in a game it's exhausting for eyes.
This is unrelated to the video, but is Unity free? If not, how much does it cost?
U misquoted the amountnof options its slightly higher
Lithuania
How did you make that background
How about the theme Arcane magic?
My 7year old boy wants you to make a game: kid appropriate and fun for grownups. Multi-player tribes. No killing. Taming animals in the jungle. Mechanic or topic concept: animal migrations
that sounds like a good idea but unfortunately the chances of that are really low, but you can find an alternative game and do some research a
on a game fun for grown ups and no violence for your son.
Bro thinks tree came from fish smh
First to say this video is great
Hey! I'm curious on how you integrated Midjourney into your game idea!
Were the evolutions all done by the Midjourney bot automatically, or did you generate images using the bot and manually perform the combining within your game?
Is there some sort of API/tutorial?
Yea trees evolved from fish. Tree = fish
I'm Going To Be Direct
I Want Weird Random Uncontrollable Magic
Epic worldbox
A cart racer where you have to smash through walls (physics sim)
uhm I can't play on tablet...😭😭😭i was so excited
Bear in mind: evolution is a theory. At least the theory that evolution is why the life that exists today does.
Love the content ^^
now just make it crypto currency and call it cryptozoo, and if you need more devs to help, hire the shadiest people possible.