The crab is my favorite personally. You should make a crab boss that summons crabs and can control the water level in the room, making it harder to move around. Also, it would have a laser eye that can damage the player.
You're probably one of the only reasons I still use GDevelop AND still make games. Amazing work thus far. I can't want to see where you get in the future!
The art is gorgeous! I wish I could've draw like that... It really is a God's gift to have such a talent (not to offend Wesley's art, of course... but now this looks professional, like it belongs to be on Steam right now)
saw the notification while at work and immediately wanted to watch it, very excited to see this game being overhauled as it got very repetitive after a while, mainly due to not much changed considering its a roguelike i still do believe you should add more enemies, environments, etc it will add a lot more variation and replayability, along with more weapons that can be obtained IN THE GAME rather than the hub ofc you dont have to take the advice but its just my personal thoughts
I'm a big fan of rogue-like games, and I'm pretty impressed. Great job, and just a suggestion: The player and some enemies don't fit the dungeon vibe. I see it more like an army/tropical island environment. Maybe you could use islands and combine them with portals or have army camps in a tropical forest; that would make it more unique. But that's just my suggestion. Overall, it's a really well-made game. Good luck!
First: The new art looks really fun now. Can't wait for the finished product! Some ideas I had after playing it online: potential bug: only once but when moving in direction of a wall and getting it I got stuck in the wall but could dash free The Ghost boss: It is not obvious what you have to do. Because all other ghosts become material over time the first two times fighting him I waited until he would materialize and only thought the crystals where decoration. It should be more obious what to do All my "upgrades" I spent money on in the shop felt like downgrades. I don't like the womans ability because it is basically just a dash and it is very underwhelming to spend money on a character that seems to be weaker. The same goes for the machine gun. It didn't really feel weaker but not like a worthwile purchase either. Edit: Not all upgrades. The robot feels really balanced with his shield ability leading to different strategies than the power shot of the first char. +1 Bullet, +40% power: It felt like the special ability of the first character got weaker because it is only one bullet. I theorize that the power of the special abilty is linked to your normal power and thus decreased without giving extra bullets. I don't know if it is intended but also not always two bullets would spawn but just one after taking the upgrade. In general upgrades lagged a bit behind and it took a few shots until they where implemented. Not a huge problem however because as soon as a new room was entered the upgrades where loaded. It was just a little bit annoying when trying out the new upgrade in the same room. It is also weird that I'm not able to shoot at bees when they are flying above furniture yet they can shoot at me. Health is to uncommon. I regularly have several rooms following each other without health but I get special ability recharge even though it is full. Sometimes getting +2 health upgrade and not being able to heal up to max afterwards was really frustrating. Maybe make it more indicative if the next fight will be a boss fight. There should be a warning before your shield expires (with the robot). Especially an auditive one because most of the time your focused on the enemy and not yourself so you wont know when it expires, but at the very least let it flicker before running out. Definite bug however I was not able to reproduce it: I don't know how but in one game I would dash whenever I pressed any movement key. It was like I kept holding the space bar down. Probably input lag. Bug/Lag: I sometimes got damage right before the spider attacked with her ability. In that cases the game lagged for half a second. This is all I have to criticize. In general the game is really fun to play and I always liked getting right back in.
Thanks for the feedback! I'm surprised you got stuck in the wall, I thought I fixed that bug. 🤔 I definitely need to add particles coming from the crystals to the boss, so people know they're connected. And yeah, I'll probably put an indicator of some kind in the top center of the screen showing how close you are to the next boss fight. It might help people know what they're working towards/where they are on the curve.
@@HelperWesley I wasn't really inside the wall. I was on the left corner of the lower entrance that sticks into the room. I got swarmed by enemies and hit whilst moving towards that corner. After that I could not move left or right when walking (I don't know anymore if I tried walking up) but I could simply dash free. The animation played but it felt like I was moving into an obstacle that I could not see. However it only happened once and I was not able to recreate it so it might just have been a weird lag or me overlooking some obstacle or something in that instance. I've updated my comment to differentiate between potential bugs and bugs that definitly are bugs.
1:13 oooh no not again, get ready bois, there will be a lot of *not going to spoil what is there* jokes Edit - 2:09 YOOO 59 notifications what the hell
I admittedly don't know everything about asepeite. Does that trim every frame differently? Or does it snag the the biggest frame and use that? Because I needed every frame to be the same size.
Bro the the player is going to go thorough the rooms alot so that portal mechanic needs more juice, the portal also doesn't makes sense, through a protal the player is supposed to be teleported to the other room but the camera transition from the room the player is currently in to the other room he is going to and we can see the rooms are just side by side, so it isnt much different than a door, when the player touches the portal he should maybe like do a spinning animation and and just instantly go to the other room and play the spining animation in reverse and a screen shake to top it all off it makes much for sense for a portal
It's probably not going to be. 😅 I'm not bold enough to compare my game to the best games out there in the genre. But I do think it's a lot of fun, and i think itll deliver a different experience because of its focus on the leaderboards.
5:50 just a menace, I got to uploaded a game, gave the link to my friends, just to made them found 3 bugs in 10 minutes... and I'm already exhausted... btw it's a game jam so my time management kinda fall off, I wasn't eating dinner yet and 3 bugs just popped out of nowhere damn
Rule number one of arting, don't compare yourself to other artists >:( Also I'm absolutely and 100% certain that if you, or anyone tried their best you or them could get good at it. So don't compare yourself, just use others art as inspiration! And try your best. That's important too.
Sorry for the late response, the biggest thing in pixelart is that people think that if you just learn pixelart it will be fine. But you should make an effort to improve all your art skills! Practice the fundamentals of traditional art and digital art and pixelart interchangably. By improving everything else you improve how good your pixelart skills are. Make sure that you also know that no matter how far you get you are never above watching a tutorial. I always watch tutorials to make myself get better even when I think I'm as good as can get, and then I realize every time I'm not! And that's a good thing! It helps you to improve. And if you ever feel burnt out never force yourself to draw things that you don't want to. But still draw outside your comfort zone. So many people draw and say "it's their style" but by saying that they are pushing themselves into a box! And that makes it much much harder to draw when you do that. Tldr: . Always practice every art form . You're never above rewatching a tutorial . Never use your style as a crutch or excuse . Don't ever think youre better or worse than anyone (that just tires you out)
sorry for the late response! Well I sorta just used the designs from the game, and then just doodled something in pixelart because why not. Alot of pixelart is just trial and error like every other art form. just takes a bunch of practice
It'll be more consistent later, I'm currently in the process of redoing/reanimating all of the art so it should, by the end, (fingers crossed), look cohesive
Nice vid as always, love the new art 🔥. Small thing: using singular they pronouns for someone who identities as male (or female) is quite confusing and made you trip over your words once or twice. Artmanoil is a guy, you can say he.
Hi! I'm the artist for the game! If you have any questions on the direction of the games art or anything then let me know!
hi, i like your art man
Your art is amazing!!! Keep it up
@@TBEplays260 oil
The crab is my favorite personally. You should make a crab boss that summons crabs and can control the water level in the room, making it harder to move around. Also, it would have a laser eye that can damage the player.
hello, I am a person who likes your art
This is what happens when you have a dedicated artist on your team. ArtManOil representing us artists well!
😎
Not gonna say this video inspired me to redo all the art for my game, but now my game suddenly has new art, remarkable
Great minds think alike?
Let's say that's the reason. 😅
I like that artstyle, there's something about it that just looks perfect
❤
Looks great! 😁❤️
very cool never thought this game would get any major updates but I'm glad to see it, HI artmanoil
Yo!
Wow, just wow. Oil is amazing.
Thank you!
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Yay, I hope it comes out great
YO I’m so happy this series came back!! This series is the reason I subbed!!
Which game engine is he using
GDevelop
There will definitely be some more videos on this one coming out, and hopefully it'll lead to a proper steam release this time.
@@HelperWesley cool
But now I am bound by the holy text to promote godot
ArtManOil hello. You are a man after my own heart. Asking to redo every piece of art in the game is something i would do.
Cube art
Hi Artman Oil, Love your ART!
thank you!!
His art is insane, the game is now so beatiful that it makes me wanna play the game even moore
The art and your game design is going to be a perfect balance, can't wait to play this!
This looks great! Excited to see the direction of the series
You're probably one of the only reasons I still use GDevelop AND still make games. Amazing work thus far. I can't want to see where you get in the future!
Art man oil is so frickin talanted man
Pickle art
The game looks amazing! The art style is very cool
the new artworks are so coool!
This game is gonna look great
Fantastic to see this project revived! The art is brilliant so far and I cannot wait to see how the rest of the game will look once done.
The art is gorgeous! I wish I could've draw like that...
It really is a God's gift to have such a talent
(not to offend Wesley's art, of course... but now this looks professional, like it belongs to be on Steam right now)
Ty! Its still a long way to go but I'm glad you like how it looks :)
No worries. I agree. Lol
The old artstyle was good, but this is amazing. Props to artmanoil!
🙌
The new updates look awesome, great job!
The new art looks AMAZING!
Thank you and artmanoil for the work done. We are waiting for new videos and wish you good luck 🍀
Dear art man oil - Your art is some of the best I've ever seen!!!!!
What an absolute awesome bunch of improvements, and the art is so cute
That's a great job ratman face, can't wait to see what you guys are creating !
I am the rat man.
Fear my rodent swarm.
🐀🐀🐀🐀🐀
Finally here for the start of a devlog, and man does it look promising
The new art style looks amazing!!!
Thank you!
I really love how the portal looks and reflects on the walls!
Ty! It was really fun figuring out how to make the light look like it was casting onto the walls so I'm glad you like it!
Really cool! The new art is really bringing so much life.
the new art is simply gorgeous
Helper Wesley got a Helper with Oil in their name. They're super effective!
Nice job mr. Oil, can't wait to see the rest of the sprites!
Loving the updates!
just the drawings demeself look really good
and also i love your work
hello ArtManOil, art looks great
Thank :D
ArtManOil is a G
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A warp animation for the portal would be aweasome, something like the portal shrinking and kinda engulfing the player when he passes through
We are planning something like that for the bosses and stuff
this is looking really pretty, I'm loving the new stuff and I am excited to see the new bossfights
i like this mans art hi ArtManOil
Sup
Hey There Artman08, those are some EPIC sprites! Good luck on your game!
Thank you! I'm glad you like them 😄
It looks great! I really can't wait to start working with an artist also. They make the game look so good.
saw the notification while at work and immediately wanted to watch it, very excited to see this game being overhauled as it got very repetitive after a while, mainly due to not much changed considering its a roguelike
i still do believe you should add more enemies, environments, etc
it will add a lot more variation and replayability, along with more weapons that can be obtained IN THE GAME rather than the hub
ofc you dont have to take the advice but its just my personal thoughts
Amazing work! Also the way you say room is so interesting. I can not un hear it.
Ruum. Lol
Love the whole look of the game!
The Art is amazing:D
I'm a big fan of rogue-like games, and I'm pretty impressed. Great job, and just a suggestion: The player and some enemies don't fit the dungeon vibe. I see it more like an army/tropical island environment. Maybe you could use islands and combine them with portals or have army camps in a tropical forest; that would make it more unique. But that's just my suggestion. Overall, it's a really well-made game. Good luck!
Nice oily art !
Very oily
Ty rocky!
I always love watching your videos
new art is very nice
Great art, super cool!
First:
The new art looks really fun now. Can't wait for the finished product!
Some ideas I had after playing it online:
potential bug:
only once but when moving in direction of a wall and getting it I got stuck in the wall but could dash free
The Ghost boss:
It is not obvious what you have to do. Because all other ghosts become material over time the first two times fighting him I waited until he would materialize and only thought the crystals where decoration. It should be more obious what to do
All my "upgrades" I spent money on in the shop felt like downgrades. I don't like the womans ability because it is basically just a dash and it is very underwhelming to spend money on a character that seems to be weaker.
The same goes for the machine gun. It didn't really feel weaker but not like a worthwile purchase either.
Edit: Not all upgrades. The robot feels really balanced with his shield ability leading to different strategies than the power shot of the first char.
+1 Bullet, +40% power:
It felt like the special ability of the first character got weaker because it is only one bullet. I theorize that the power of the special abilty is linked to your normal power and thus decreased without giving extra bullets.
I don't know if it is intended but also not always two bullets would spawn but just one after taking the upgrade.
In general upgrades lagged a bit behind and it took a few shots until they where implemented. Not a huge problem however because as soon as a new room was entered the upgrades where loaded. It was just a little bit annoying when trying out the new upgrade in the same room.
It is also weird that I'm not able to shoot at bees when they are flying above furniture yet they can shoot at me.
Health is to uncommon. I regularly have several rooms following each other without health but I get special ability recharge even though it is full. Sometimes getting +2 health upgrade and not being able to heal up to max afterwards was really frustrating.
Maybe make it more indicative if the next fight will be a boss fight.
There should be a warning before your shield expires (with the robot). Especially an auditive one because most of the time your focused on the enemy and not yourself so you wont know when it expires, but at the very least let it flicker before running out.
Definite bug however I was not able to reproduce it:
I don't know how but in one game I would dash whenever I pressed any movement key. It was like I kept holding the space bar down. Probably input lag.
Bug/Lag:
I sometimes got damage right before the spider attacked with her ability. In that cases the game lagged for half a second.
This is all I have to criticize. In general the game is really fun to play and I always liked getting right back in.
Thanks for the feedback!
I'm surprised you got stuck in the wall, I thought I fixed that bug. 🤔
I definitely need to add particles coming from the crystals to the boss, so people know they're connected.
And yeah, I'll probably put an indicator of some kind in the top center of the screen showing how close you are to the next boss fight. It might help people know what they're working towards/where they are on the curve.
@@HelperWesley I wasn't really inside the wall. I was on the left corner of the lower entrance that sticks into the room. I got swarmed by enemies and hit whilst moving towards that corner. After that I could not move left or right when walking (I don't know anymore if I tried walking up) but I could simply dash free. The animation played but it felt like I was moving into an obstacle that I could not see. However it only happened once and I was not able to recreate it so it might just have been a weird lag or me overlooking some obstacle or something in that instance. I've updated my comment to differentiate between potential bugs and bugs that definitly are bugs.
I love the look of the game!!!
ty :DD
1:13 oooh no not again, get ready bois, there will be a lot of *not going to spoil what is there* jokes
Edit - 2:09 YOOO 59 notifications what the hell
I check them in batches. 😅
Great job!
It would be really cool if, as a bonus, you made a sort of bestiary, explaining where or what each enemy is, since they will be all unique
Love your art art man oil
Damn those bees look good
They were really tricky to make so I'm glad you like them!
I LOVE the colors that ArtManOil uses. I wonder how he picks them?
Witchcraft and blood magic (I spent way too long learning colour theory)
Well we're working off of a color palette, so that reduces the number of choices, but it's still magic to me.
Yaaay new content
i love the shiny song XD
I like the art
Hi ArtManOil! :D
Btw at 09:35 couldn't you just use Edit -> Trim instead of painfully, manually resizing everything?
I admittedly don't know everything about asepeite. Does that trim every frame differently? Or does it snag the the biggest frame and use that?
Because I needed every frame to be the same size.
9:30 - why couldn't you use square sprite animations? Why do you need every sprite anim to be a unique size?
Just makes it easier to add collision to things
Now you need to add better upgrades and I think then it will fit this dream aesthetic better!
Well be reworking some of the upgrades and adding others.
Cool
at least you can finish a game i couldnt even finish a simple quiz with yes and no XD in develop
It all takes time.
I tossed out a bunch of half finished games before I figured out what I needed to do to finish a game. Game jams helped too.
@@HelperWesley the difference is that game jams make me quit it faster before i even get into the mechanics XD
Bro the the player is going to go thorough the rooms alot so that portal mechanic needs more juice, the portal also doesn't makes sense, through a protal the player is supposed to be teleported to the other room but the camera transition from the room the player is currently in to the other room he is going to and we can see the rooms are just side by side, so it isnt much different than a door, when the player touches the portal he should maybe like do a spinning animation and and just instantly go to the other room and play the spining animation in reverse and a screen shake to top it all off it makes much for sense for a portal
We'll definitely add a little "more" to the portal when the player goes through it, but I think I'll probably keep the panning between rooms. 🤔
How’s your game better or comparable to enter the tinge on
It's probably not going to be. 😅
I'm not bold enough to compare my game to the best games out there in the genre. But I do think it's a lot of fun, and i think itll deliver a different experience because of its focus on the leaderboards.
Hello Oil! I wanted to throw that in the comments, but I don't know what that is. (10:40)
*sad trumpet sound*
5:50 just a menace, I got to uploaded a game, gave the link to my friends, just to made them found 3 bugs in 10 minutes... and I'm already exhausted...
btw it's a game jam so my time management kinda fall off, I wasn't eating dinner yet and 3 bugs just popped out of nowhere damn
Hi manoil, your art is amazing, it is much better than mine XD
Rule number one of arting, don't compare yourself to other artists >:(
Also I'm absolutely and 100% certain that if you, or anyone tried their best you or them could get good at it. So don't compare yourself, just use others art as inspiration! And try your best. That's important too.
@@artmanoil thank you for the tip
Can I hire that art-man when I am done prototyping my game? Looks freakin awesome!
Hello armanoil, any pixel art beginner tips you care to share ?
Sorry for the late response, the biggest thing in pixelart is that people think that if you just learn pixelart it will be fine. But you should make an effort to improve all your art skills! Practice the fundamentals of traditional art and digital art and pixelart interchangably. By improving everything else you improve how good your pixelart skills are. Make sure that you also know that no matter how far you get you are never above watching a tutorial. I always watch tutorials to make myself get better even when I think I'm as good as can get, and then I realize every time I'm not! And that's a good thing! It helps you to improve. And if you ever feel burnt out never force yourself to draw things that you don't want to. But still draw outside your comfort zone. So many people draw and say "it's their style" but by saying that they are pushing themselves into a box! And that makes it much much harder to draw when you do that.
Tldr:
. Always practice every art form
. You're never above rewatching a tutorial
. Never use your style as a crutch or excuse
. Don't ever think youre better or worse than anyone (that just tires you out)
@@artmanoil what if you're not good with other art forms
@@coldgrumpytree5441 you can always get better if you practice enough takes a bit but its super worth it :D
Why dont the missiles the crab drops shoot at the player?
They're supposed to be spikes on the ground, it's a short range AOE attack around the crab.
-Wesley
what engine is that?
Gdevelop
@@artmanoil thank you, never heard of it until today
What is the app he is using at 1:19 ?
That's the game engine I use, GDevelop. 👍
Hey I wanna ask u a question I hope u reply so
How did u Make the preview logo in pixel art it looked really good
sorry for the late response! Well I sorta just used the designs from the game, and then just doodled something in pixelart because why not. Alot of pixelart is just trial and error like every other art form. just takes a bunch of practice
@@artmanoil oh no problem thank u for responding
Character redesign? Needs something bossy that people can relate to.
Everything is getting reworked. 👍
Hey I dont want to be that guy but I just tried to download the windows gdevelop and its giving me a 404 error.
Is this GoDot?
No, this game is being made with GDevelop. 👍
Hi oil, I wanna say that your art looks out of place, but I like it
It'll be more consistent later, I'm currently in the process of redoing/reanimating all of the art so it should, by the end, (fingers crossed), look cohesive
@@artmanoil nice, I hope so too. And I wish you luck
oil why wont you let me give you my college funds :'(
No >:(
Ah shi- here we go again……
Round 2
Nice vid as always, love the new art 🔥.
Small thing: using singular they pronouns for someone who identities as male (or female) is quite confusing and made you trip over your words once or twice. Artmanoil is a guy, you can say he.
you keep saying they but its only one guy not a team lol its confusing
why is the guy wearing no clothes?
Gun dude wears pink spandex, that's canon. 😅
oh I see, cool devlog though!@@HelperWesley
Make a mobile version
Helper man currently has a mobile build up on poki.