Your FIRST TH-cam video??? And here I was ready to binge your whole channel. Your game reminds of me One Our One Life in all the best ways and I can't wait to see what you develop it into. Goodluck!
If there is a day cycle in the game, adjusting the color of the water can be an incredibly powerful technique for creating an atmosphere. It is awesome.
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Same with if seasons change, similar to how the environment changes beautifully in Stardew Valley! I'd love to see that implemented in a more dynamic game like this.
@ Yes! A game with real seasons like Stardew/Rimworld but with the kind of gameplay found in Minecraft-type games. Minecraft gets 1000x better with a dynamic seasons mod. I can't wait for more videos and updates on the game XD I'm already hooked
How on earth is this your first video? This is legitimately top-tier quality with interesting content and engaging presentation. Exceptionally well done, definitely earned a subscribe from me!
Great work! The reason there's no built in blur though, is that generally blurring in shaders is really expensive: it's just a lot of texture reads, especially for a good quality blur. I'd suggest given that you're already doing this as a tile set, that you also prepare pre-blurred tiles to represent the foam gradient. One fun thing to try: you can pack both the sharp outline and the blurred gradient into the same texture by using different color channels, say red for sharp and green for blur. You get them both at the same time in the same texture read "for free," then unpack them using a split node!
Good editing and organic voice-over sync up to hijack both hemispheres simultaneously and deliver A LOT of information. So well conveyed as to make an old hack want to go back and make a game.
It's the best water shader I've ever seen. It's amazing that you are both good at coding and art. This video is really helpful to me and I'm looking forward to your next video.
Please produce more content like this; it's truly impressive. The audio quality and graphics are top-notch! Also, consider creating tutorials for both beginners and advanced developers.
It's amazing how techniques invented 4 decades ago are still in use today. Specifically, the scrolling Perlin noise. I hope someday I could bring innovation like that to this industry.
I have no idea how much research you've done for this, but the result looks like genius level coding, and your video presentation is top notch too. Well done.
I love the attention to detail for the aesthetics here, showing that both technical skill in coding as well as artistic vision need to work together for a videogame to be made well.
as a pixel artist i love watching people make pixel art games and the dev work. its crazy this is your first video. please make more! the art on this game looks so so nice.
This is really impressive. Making shaders like this is away a lot of work and you did an amazing job. The rest of the game looks also very impressive. 8 directional characters, some beautiful looking trees, the use of noise on things like grass and the fantastic sprite work. This is very impressive both from a technical standpoint as form a creative one. I wish you the best of luck and look forward to the next update.
Thank you so much for the detailed devlog. Please keep sharing insights from both a developer's and designer's perspective, and continue to share the solutions you come across. Your content is highly valued and appreciated!
Very nice! I feel heavy Sebastian Lague influences and I like it. Up there in terms of production quality as well as explaining complicated subject matter.
This was awesome. Not enough Devlogs go into this level of detail with explanations and reasoning. Thanks for creating this, it must have been a lot of work. And the end result looks so good!
Your whole concept here is magnificent. The gradation in the water came out perfect and the trail effect is spot on. Awesome work cant wait to see more.
The quality of your video's are exceptional Jess! It's truly inspiring. I've been struggling having any energy to spend on the youtube side of my development journey, but you truly seem like an icon of the right way to manage your game progress.
Amazing video! I love watching dev logs of individual developers and this was incredibly engaging! I hope you make more; I look forward to seeing your progress!
This is literally perfect timing. I'm currently working on a water shader for my own 2D topdown game and a few weeks ago I couldn't find any videos showing what i needed. Great video!
I'm leaving a comment here so I can remember I was your 808th subscriber. Your channel is going to explode with more high quality content like this! Great job showing off shader graph. It's an area I haven't looked into very much yet, but with what I see here, I can't wait to dig in deeper!
This is way too high quality for a first video. Very impressed with the shaders and the game looks amazing. I will absolutely keep tabs on this devlog. ❤
This is the most beatuiful 2D water I have ever seen, that's for sure! Really excited to see what's next for your project, I think the visual foundation is already extremely solid.
Wow - extremely cool. As others have said, I was ready to watch the rest of your videos, and was disappointed that there's none yet! Definitely subbed.
This is looking fantastic! Really well explained and interesting video, such clever solutions! Would love to see more of your development, and good luck!
Last week I was looking for some ideas on how to implement water in a 2d game, but all the tutorials and demos did fancy math to simulate 3d waves that was very complex and difficult to follow. This is perfect for my little project! Thank you so much for sharing!!
HOLY thank you so much for this video, so many other shader videos are either super generic (which is perfectly fine to learn from but hard to expand) or super secretive. Particularly i had the same problem at 8:12 for a game of mine and had no idea how i could fix it, and your solution is PERFECT. This video's super informative and the game's beautiful, I'm definitely checking it out.
Ok,I'm gonna be honest,I find your video trying to learn shaders,but now,I just saw the entire video and I LOVE IT,thanks for beeing my new favorite channel
I just started learning shader graphs in Unity and your video popped up on my page. I gotta say, I'm amazed! You might have just made me love pixel art. I would totally play the game when it's out
Before merging the colors of shalow water with the sand you could make the sand darker on the parts that have water ontop because sand becomes darker when it gets wet. Also if you wanna make it real fancy make the sand that HAD water ontop (like the edges that get periodicly water) to be darker for some time until it got dry!
This is really cool! I can see two potential issues in what you shown: - the world coordinates are floats, which means that you will progressively loose precision as the player moves out - the blurring of the texture is done on every frame, so it might lag the game a bit on weaker hardware. A way around this would be to precompute the blurred texture for every encounterable 3x3 groups of tiles, or to use a faster blurring algorithm for lower-end hardware (which probably would require you to precompute a small blur for each 1x1 tile) Keep this up, though, I'm looking forward to what your game is becoming!
Looks really good! Also making it the shader graph equivalent of open-source by showing the final graph at the end is very much appreciated, we need more devlog/tutorial hybrids like these!
I'm developing a similar style game at least a year behind you and boy I have a lot to learn, this looks great, keep it up cant wait to see where this goes
Technical videos tend to get boring really fast, but this one I watched from start to finish. Clear breakdown of your process, great editing and awesome result. Looking forward to future videos!
Great video! Happy to see another game dev project from Australia. I would love to play your game with my wife. Please keep us posted on your channel if you ever present your game at any conference.
Wow, that looks so good! A lot of game devs (myself included, admittedly) don't even bother with shaders. But when you put in the time and effort like you did, you get really great results like this! Very cool. Excited to see the game continue to progress, as well.
Keep it up Jess! I think you'll get a lot of followers with this kind of video. I speak for many of us when I say we'd love to see how your game progresses if you want to keep sharing these kind of videos :).
A phenomenally well made video! The problem and solutions are intricate and well explained, and you also considered CPU/GPU performance optimization while reconsidering moving the height map as a segmented texture. This video makes me wanna dive into trying the shader graph for my future experiments too. Thanks for the amazing video, I can't believe that it is your first. I have a lot to learn 🙂
Wow what a difference that made adding the height map to the water shader so we get the impression of shallow water above the sandy beach gently sloping down into the depths of the sea. When you contrast that with a flat blue water texture it's just so much better!
I struggle so much in shader graph; I really can't wrap my head around how people can figure out just what you need to do in order to get a certain effect, so this just seems like wizardry or alchemy to me, but it was inspiring to watch.
This looks amazing! Although I was pretty shocked when I saw this is your only video, the quality is fantastic! Looking forward to hopefully more in the future!
really nice! love it. Amazing first video of a channel :) three suggestions: Lower the caustics over the deepest water as you would not see the bottom of the water where the caustics hit. 2. Add a Skyreflection layer: seeing moving clouds reflect in the water surface could give it some final extra flair? perhaps weather determened. 3 Bottom vegitation: Some grean-brown-gray coloring on the bottom, visible on medium deapths only. Probably overdoing it as it is really nice already. But fun for experimentation
I'm loving this video! You have a really natural and clear way of explaining things, and your game is looking amazing already! I'm really looking forward to seeing more. I also have a suggestion for something that I think every pixel art game should do! In the video, you mentioned that you scale the water texture up, floor it, and then scale it down to create a pixel art look, and I always love when a pixel art game makes use of mosaic effects like those. There is a way to get that for free for everything on screen: if you set up the camera(s) in such a way that you render the screen to a Render Texture in a low resolution and then scale it up with point sampling, you'll have that mosaic effect for everything, including rotated sprites! It also sneakily helps with performance, as the heavy lifting of the graphics happen at a resolution much lower than that of the real screen, instead rendering to a tiny "virtual screen". There is a built-in Unity package that does this as well, 2D Pixel Perfect, though I don't know for sure whether that fits your needs exactly or if you want more control over the camera. For instance, I saw you zooming the screen in and out, and I'm unsure how easy it is to change the screen resolution on the fly like that. At any rate, keep up the awesome work!
Looks fantastic. Shaders are black magic to me - I've long since realized I'll never fully get how they work - so videos like these are fascinating to me. Hoping for more along these lines!
A pixel (fragment) shader is a little program that runs PER pixel. It takes in coordinates and its job is output a color. ShaderToy is a great place to play around with fragment shaders. A vertex shader transforms vertices in object space to post-projection space.
That is very impressive looking water. I have a soft spot for pixel graphics because there wasn't much else back in the day and amazes me how much pixel graphics are still evolving and how much variations there can still be found even if at first it might seem very restrictive art. I guess it's a bit of a choice of style, but in my eyes it looked better without the outline, more natural. But it's really just my opinion. The game graphics overall look fantastic. I see real potential here. I hope you are able to keep developing it!
First of all these are some really cool techniques I am definitely stealing for my water shaders! Secondly I LOVE THE COLORS OF YOUR GAME. Idk if you know color theory or have an amazing sense for color but I am in love. They are so atmospheric and soothing, really great stuff.
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Your FIRST TH-cam video??? And here I was ready to binge your whole channel. Your game reminds of me One Our One Life in all the best ways and I can't wait to see what you develop it into. Goodluck!
same lol
didn't even realize it was the first vid T_T
Same xD guess I did already binge the whole thing
Same
If there is a day cycle in the game, adjusting the color of the water can be an incredibly powerful technique for creating an atmosphere. It is awesome.
Same with if seasons change, similar to how the environment changes beautifully in Stardew Valley! I'd love to see that implemented in a more dynamic game like this.
Oh man, having an orange tint for sunset would look amazing!
Kinda like 13:45
@ Yes! A game with real seasons like Stardew/Rimworld but with the kind of gameplay found in Minecraft-type games. Minecraft gets 1000x better with a dynamic seasons mod. I can't wait for more videos and updates on the game XD I'm already hooked
The final result looks absolutely stunning!
Also huge congrats on the first video, it's extremely well done!
Thank you so much! Love your videos too btw
@@jesscodescan I get ur Instagram??
How on earth is this your first video? This is legitimately top-tier quality with interesting content and engaging presentation. Exceptionally well done, definitely earned a subscribe from me!
Great work! The reason there's no built in blur though, is that generally blurring in shaders is really expensive: it's just a lot of texture reads, especially for a good quality blur. I'd suggest given that you're already doing this as a tile set, that you also prepare pre-blurred tiles to represent the foam gradient. One fun thing to try: you can pack both the sharp outline and the blurred gradient into the same texture by using different color channels, say red for sharp and green for blur. You get them both at the same time in the same texture read "for free," then unpack them using a split node!
nice tip! thx.
🤯
Good editing and organic voice-over sync up to hijack both hemispheres simultaneously and deliver A LOT of information. So well conveyed as to make an old hack want to go back and make a game.
It's the best water shader I've ever seen. It's amazing that you are both good at coding and art. This video is really helpful to me and I'm looking forward to your next video.
Please produce more content like this; it's truly impressive. The audio quality and graphics are top-notch! Also, consider creating tutorials for both beginners and advanced developers.
It's amazing how techniques invented 4 decades ago are still in use today. Specifically, the scrolling Perlin noise. I hope someday I could bring innovation like that to this industry.
Well, you can become a mathematician or a computer science researcher. Maybe you discover something like that one day.
Also, NIKO ONESHOT.
The specular highlights was a really nice touch, it sold it a lot
I have no idea how much research you've done for this, but the result looks like genius level coding, and your video presentation is top notch too. Well done.
You’re AMAZING!!!!!!! Will definitely be buying your game once you’re finished, thank you for being SO helpful to the community!!!!!
I love the attention to detail for the aesthetics here, showing that both technical skill in coding as well as artistic vision need to work together for a videogame to be made well.
as a pixel artist i love watching people make pixel art games and the dev work. its crazy this is your first video. please make more! the art on this game looks so so nice.
adding a soft glow to the white highlights on the water might give it a dreamy sort of effect hehe
Great work - a nice blend between detail and that nostalgic pixel-art vibe!
One of the best 2D pixel water shaders I've ever seen!
This is really impressive. Making shaders like this is away a lot of work and you did an amazing job.
The rest of the game looks also very impressive. 8 directional characters, some beautiful looking trees, the use of noise on things like grass and the fantastic sprite work.
This is very impressive both from a technical standpoint as form a creative one.
I wish you the best of luck and look forward to the next update.
The specular highlights look great. Very eye catching! The gradient also integrates very nicely into the desaturated color palette, great composition!
Thank you so much for the detailed devlog. Please keep sharing insights from both a developer's and designer's perspective, and continue to share the solutions you come across. Your content is highly valued and appreciated!
what an amazing DevLog, very well made! And your game looks amazing! Keep up the nice work!
Very nice! I feel heavy Sebastian Lague influences and I like it. Up there in terms of production quality as well as explaining complicated subject matter.
Thank you so much! He is definitely a huge inspiration to me
This was awesome. Not enough Devlogs go into this level of detail with explanations and reasoning. Thanks for creating this, it must have been a lot of work. And the end result looks so good!
Your whole concept here is magnificent. The gradation in the water came out perfect and the trail effect is spot on. Awesome work cant wait to see more.
The quality of your video's are exceptional Jess! It's truly inspiring. I've been struggling having any energy to spend on the youtube side of my development journey, but you truly seem like an icon of the right way to manage your game progress.
Really cool video. I'm so impressed it's your first video, well done!
Thanks so much, Darenn! :D
Amazing video! I love watching dev logs of individual developers and this was incredibly engaging! I hope you make more; I look forward to seeing your progress!
This is literally perfect timing. I'm currently working on a water shader for my own 2D topdown game and a few weeks ago I couldn't find any videos showing what i needed. Great video!
I'm leaving a comment here so I can remember I was your 808th subscriber. Your channel is going to explode with more high quality content like this!
Great job showing off shader graph. It's an area I haven't looked into very much yet, but with what I see here, I can't wait to dig in deeper!
This is way too high quality for a first video. Very impressed with the shaders and the game looks amazing. I will absolutely keep tabs on this devlog. ❤
This is the most beatuiful 2D water I have ever seen, that's for sure!
Really excited to see what's next for your project, I think the visual foundation is already extremely solid.
Wow - extremely cool. As others have said, I was ready to watch the rest of your videos, and was disappointed that there's none yet! Definitely subbed.
Wow, I do not usually comment on TH-cam videos but it left me mind-blown the fact that this is your first video, really nice content.
This is looking fantastic! Really well explained and interesting video, such clever solutions! Would love to see more of your development, and good luck!
hot diggity damn. That's a solid first video. loved the technical depth without it getting boring. keep up the good work 👏
Last week I was looking for some ideas on how to implement water in a 2d game, but all the tutorials and demos did fancy math to simulate 3d waves that was very complex and difficult to follow. This is perfect for my little project! Thank you so much for sharing!!
HOLY thank you so much for this video, so many other shader videos are either super generic (which is perfectly fine to learn from but hard to expand) or super secretive. Particularly i had the same problem at 8:12 for a game of mine and had no idea how i could fix it, and your solution is PERFECT. This video's super informative and the game's beautiful, I'm definitely checking it out.
I've seen so many devs trying the same concept but this one is definetely the best and most unique one
Not for long! 😆 I feel like we'll be seeing a lot of versions of Jess' work soon, and I'm happy for the contribution. Thanks Jess!
Ok,I'm gonna be honest,I find your video trying to learn shaders,but now,I just saw the entire video and I LOVE IT,thanks for beeing my new favorite channel
That's the best water shader for pixel art I've seen I think. Great job!
I just started learning shader graphs in Unity and your video popped up on my page. I gotta say, I'm amazed! You might have just made me love pixel art. I would totally play the game when it's out
Wow, this is incredible and so well put together. Always awesome to see more Aussie indie devs.
Why is this video so professional though? Makes you look like you're in the big leagues already with your first video. Very cool.
This is an amazing display of so many different skills in one video.
the overall aesthetic of your game is phenomenal.
Before merging the colors of shalow water with the sand you could make the sand darker on the parts that have water ontop because sand becomes darker when it gets wet. Also if you wanna make it real fancy make the sand that HAD water ontop (like the edges that get periodicly water) to be darker for some time until it got dry!
what an incredible debut video. I enjoyed all of that and think the results speak for themselves
This is really cool! I can see two potential issues in what you shown:
- the world coordinates are floats, which means that you will progressively loose precision as the player moves out
- the blurring of the texture is done on every frame, so it might lag the game a bit on weaker hardware. A way around this would be to precompute the blurred texture for every encounterable 3x3 groups of tiles, or to use a faster blurring algorithm for lower-end hardware (which probably would require you to precompute a small blur for each 1x1 tile)
Keep this up, though, I'm looking forward to what your game is becoming!
Looks really good! Also making it the shader graph equivalent of open-source by showing the final graph at the end is very much appreciated, we need more devlog/tutorial hybrids like these!
Look at the PROGRESS! This looks incredible, can't wait for more videos
I learned so much on shader graph, you did an amazing job describing your process! Also this game looks beautiful!
You have an excellent eye for beautiful graphics. The technical part is very fascinating as well. Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Love your style. Amazing that this is your first video.
Please keep them coming.
This is absolutely amazing, I can't wait to see more progress in future uploads :)
Insane quality for a first video! Awesome work!
I am so glad TH-cam recommended this, the video is very professional AND the concept is awesome, I am starting a stardew valley inspired game myself
I'm developing a similar style game at least a year behind you and boy I have a lot to learn, this looks great, keep it up cant wait to see where this goes
Awesome to see another person doing chunk loading in Unity!
Technical videos tend to get boring really fast, but this one I watched from start to finish. Clear breakdown of your process, great editing and awesome result. Looking forward to future videos!
This is such a nice and professional video. Sparkled some creativity inside to me. I’m waiting next videos.
This is awesome! It's rare to see a good looking pixel art water shader that actually looks pixel art. Good job
Great video!
Happy to see another game dev project from Australia. I would love to play your game with my wife.
Please keep us posted on your channel if you ever present your game at any conference.
Wow, that looks so good! A lot of game devs (myself included, admittedly) don't even bother with shaders. But when you put in the time and effort like you did, you get really great results like this! Very cool. Excited to see the game continue to progress, as well.
wow your devlog is amazing. I'm from Australia too!! can't wait to see more 😊
GREEEAT VIDEOOO!!! I am learning shaders now and this video helped me A LOT!!!
Creative approach to problem solving! Looks fantastic. Inspired me to work on my game more.
This is just... beautiful. Incredible work
Looks amazing, reminds me of some of the old adventure games in the best way.
imma be honest, i dont think ive subbed this fast before, immediatly loved the vibe, ill make an update when I finish the vid
enjoyed it very much, 10/10 would recommend
The water looks amazing! Excited to see more of this project in the future!
Amazing work ! Really inspiring, i love your approach and the visual is stunning
Wow, that's some of the most beautiful pixel art water I've ever seen. You're a master at this. Keep it up - can't wait to see how this game develops!
The sheer quality of this video earned my subscription. 👍
Very impressive, I now am curious to know more about how you develop your game and the game itself. This video is top!
Wonderful stuff! Really enjoyed seeing your process. Thanks so much for sharing it in detail. Keep up the great work 🙌
Realy cool texturing process, waiting for the next video !
Keep it up Jess! I think you'll get a lot of followers with this kind of video. I speak for many of us when I say we'd love to see how your game progresses if you want to keep sharing these kind of videos :).
Holy moly the art style looks amazing 🤩
A phenomenally well made video! The problem and solutions are intricate and well explained, and you also considered CPU/GPU performance optimization while reconsidering moving the height map as a segmented texture. This video makes me wanna dive into trying the shader graph for my future experiments too. Thanks for the amazing video, I can't believe that it is your first. I have a lot to learn 🙂
it's so genius and yet so well explained
i started to learn recently and you took away my shader anxiety
That looks amazing so far! What a great job you’ve done!
Really enjoyed the video! I’m glad TH-cam recommended it!
Wow what a difference that made adding the height map to the water shader so we get the impression of shallow water above the sandy beach gently sloping down into the depths of the sea. When you contrast that with a flat blue water texture it's just so much better!
Woww it's so impressive, hope you'll often share your game in TH-cam. I'm really appealed by your game. 😮
I struggle so much in shader graph; I really can't wrap my head around how people can figure out just what you need to do in order to get a certain effect, so this just seems like wizardry or alchemy to me, but it was inspiring to watch.
This looks amazing!
Although I was pretty shocked when I saw this is your only video, the quality is fantastic!
Looking forward to hopefully more in the future!
Is this real?! How can a dev log be so perfect?! This is the most encouraging and motivating channel i have ever seen ♥️
Looks really cool, excited to see more
This art style is really great, very nice work!
Holy cow this is amazing! Stunning work!
I love your art style! I can't wait to see more dev logs for this game!
really nice! love it. Amazing first video of a channel :)
three suggestions: Lower the caustics over the deepest water as you would not see the bottom of the water where the caustics hit. 2. Add a Skyreflection layer: seeing moving clouds reflect in the water surface could give it some final extra flair? perhaps weather determened. 3 Bottom vegitation: Some grean-brown-gray coloring on the bottom, visible on medium deapths only. Probably overdoing it as it is really nice already. But fun for experimentation
I'm loving this video! You have a really natural and clear way of explaining things, and your game is looking amazing already! I'm really looking forward to seeing more.
I also have a suggestion for something that I think every pixel art game should do!
In the video, you mentioned that you scale the water texture up, floor it, and then scale it down to create a pixel art look, and I always love when a pixel art game makes use of mosaic effects like those. There is a way to get that for free for everything on screen: if you set up the camera(s) in such a way that you render the screen to a Render Texture in a low resolution and then scale it up with point sampling, you'll have that mosaic effect for everything, including rotated sprites! It also sneakily helps with performance, as the heavy lifting of the graphics happen at a resolution much lower than that of the real screen, instead rendering to a tiny "virtual screen". There is a built-in Unity package that does this as well, 2D Pixel Perfect, though I don't know for sure whether that fits your needs exactly or if you want more control over the camera. For instance, I saw you zooming the screen in and out, and I'm unsure how easy it is to change the screen resolution on the fly like that.
At any rate, keep up the awesome work!
glad to see your first video got some nice traction. Good luck on your journey :)
As a brand new dev, I love watching through devlogs that inspire me to keep going and learning
Looks fantastic. Shaders are black magic to me - I've long since realized I'll never fully get how they work - so videos like these are fascinating to me. Hoping for more along these lines!
A pixel (fragment) shader is a little program that runs PER pixel. It takes in coordinates and its job is output a color.
ShaderToy is a great place to play around with fragment shaders.
A vertex shader transforms vertices in object space to post-projection space.
That is very impressive looking water. I have a soft spot for pixel graphics
because there wasn't much else back in the day and amazes me how much
pixel graphics are still evolving and how much variations there can still be
found even if at first it might seem very restrictive art.
I guess it's a bit of a choice of style, but in my eyes it looked better without
the outline, more natural. But it's really just my opinion.
The game graphics overall look fantastic. I see real potential here.
I hope you are able to keep developing it!
First of all these are some really cool techniques I am definitely stealing for my water shaders! Secondly I LOVE THE COLORS OF YOUR GAME. Idk if you know color theory or have an amazing sense for color but I am in love. They are so atmospheric and soothing, really great stuff.
Wtf this game looks actually so good
Keep up the good work!
You're off to a great start!
I'm looking forward to the new video on the game.
I want to buy it already
Your water looks amazing! The experiment with different colors makes me hope to see a day/night cycle at some point.
This was really inspiring.