I love the look of your game the art style is super charming and it's good to see some OOP principles being followed. I would add though that despite using abstraction in your code I think you mis-interpreted abstraction a little, what you explained was inheritance and polymorphism, wherein classes containing higher order classes don't need to know about the concrete implementations of the classes and can simply refer to the generalizations of such classes without worrying about specific concrete implementations. Abstraction is even simpler, for example having a weather system class which allowed for changing the weather with a single function which takes a weather type enum is abstraction since the code calling those function doesn't need to know how the weather system changes the weather only that the weather is changed. No Inheritance or Polymorphism needed. Think of it like this: Abstraction: The driver doesn't need to know how pressing the acceleration pedal causes the car to accelerate, only that it does. Inheritance: The car is a vehicle, and thus can contain passengers, the car doesn't need to reimplement the passenger code vehicles already allow. Polymorphism: Depending on the type of car it can contain different numbers of passengers. Seeing the number of passengers a car allows can be done in the same way regardless of car type. Note: Inheritance and Polymorphism can sometimes just feel like more complex abstractions, that is often because it's hard to write any code without abstracting something, for example seeing the number of passengers a car allows is already abstracting away how the passengers are counted. But adding Polymorphism to the scenario doesn't necessarily change how they are counted, it may only change a single variable tracking the number of passengers and nothing else which wouldn't add any additional layers of abstraction.
That's a much more straightforward explanation, thanks for the clarification. I did think at the time of uploading it that I probably used the wrong terminology as I was creating an analogy based solely on knowledge I had gained from experience with this game (which isn't really all that much on the OOP front).
Your game seems to be getting on well! Personally, I agree with your decision on how to build a house. While I don't mind the minecraft-like tile option, I prefer this anyways. I like the inventory design as well!
I do plan to, yeah - I'd like to go for the pricing method of "buy once, replay infinitely", continuing with updates past the game's release, but I'll see how things go!
Yes, that's actually a great question. I think it could be fun, but only if/when I overhaul the combat system, which won't be happening for quite a while. I'll see how progress goes and what direction I take the game in, but I definitely won't rule it out.
Yo dude it’s Aiden from computing and honestly I am super impressed with the game man, seeing it in person was one thing but seeing the process is so cool and it does actually inspire me to focus on my own game dev stuff too. Thanks for telling me your channel name because I genuinely love the dev blogs! (Yes I was watching these at 1am lol)
Your use of inheritance is good, but you may also want to look at the compositional techniques as well. There are some Godot specific examples where they use the nodes themselves as the components which can be really cool. Good luck!
Hey! I see you've already started connecting with your viewers. As a fellow gamedev youtuber I recommend creating a discord server for your community :P And good luck on your journey!! p.s. I love ur humor!!!
Would love to chat more about GameDev and RU-vid with you! What's Ur @ on disc? (RU-vid wasn't letting me comment this, so if I get like 3 of the same comments I promise I ain't crazy 🤣) @@sigmoiddev
I saw your first video the first day you published it video and I was waiting for the second one. Your game has style and looks so good. Congratulations. Greetings for Spain and Merry Christmas!
Back when I was 15 (11 years ago) i started making games using unity. Then I got a bit discouraged, life hit me with more responsibilities and I gave up I just wanna say you have talent. Keep at it and continue the discipline you’ve shown! When you become an adult free time is less free. Youre gonna do great things man
If your hoping to release the game on steam, is there any chance it would be free, also I would love to know if you're gonna code character customization to your game, just like stardew and terraria.
I am hoping to release it on Steam, but it most likely won't be free. At the moment I'm planning to sell it for around £5, but I'll see closer to the time. As for character customisation, it would be nice, but I'll see how much effort it is (and if it's worth spending time on).
Yes, but it won't be the main focus of the game. Any challenging combat which I do make will probably be optional as I don't want to force inexperienced players to fight things they don't want to.
Hi, glad you enjoyed! At the moment, I'm planning to release the game on Steam when its done, and in the mean time, I'll inform everyone of where to get any demos or betas when they come out.
Thanks - don't worry, animals will be coming at some point! The next devlog will focus on NPCs, dialogue, trading and so on, but the one after that should include animals.
I'm using my own extension/modification of the Apollo palette by AdamCYounis, but I'll post the exact colours in my Discord server when I create that in the next video.
On house end you can still introduce upgrade system where building form outside view get's slightly larger or just looks larger, but interior scene can be more spacious. I'd have small feedback towards your game UI - I really like the style, but animations (when opening chest etc.) are just too slow making the game feel less responsive 🤔
Yeah, I do take your point - I'll decrease it a bit, but I might also add the animation speed as a setting when I'm making the main menu (in case people want to reduce it even more).
@@sigmoiddev not sure if you got me right mate, I was suggesting to increase it, meaning speed it up. I believe things of that nature shouldn’t be customisable by the user, as most optimal value should work for most of the people. In this case I believe easing or beizer curve of that animation makes it feel slow, not the duration tho
To all indie game developers making YT devlogs: SHOW THE GAME. I don’t care about your 30 emojis that take up 2 seconds each of the video, I don’t care about your meme gifs, I don’t care about your coffee pour or you walking your dogs. SHOW THE GAME. I don’t know why this concept is so hard for people who make devlogs to understand. I want 90% or more of your video to be your gameplay and nothing else. SHOW THE GAME.
can you make it available for mobile?, i wanna play it cuz that is just absolutely amaizing! and you're just 15?? im 14 and is very inspired by you!!,anyway the game looks good! keep it up bro!..
Bro I'm also 15 and I really want to start game development, I've been learning the ropes, development languages, and all that but 😭, I don't have a PC, i really hope you reach the highest of the highs cause you have inspired me even more ❤, keep going bro non stop
I personally would say, singleplayer story release and add multiplayer as an update. It'll give you some more time but will also be able to bring back players who have finished the story prior to that update. Because perhaps if you release both, people might be done sooner than you'd like.. 🤷🏼♂️
Focus on what could make this game stand out from others, so that you're not just creating the standard base for yet another farming/building game. There are tons of those out there. But what could set this apart from those?
That thing with multiplayer. If you are going to do multiplayer. You better start now. Not 1-3 years down the road. I Learned that the hard way. There will be an infinitely many things that need redoing, especially for a game of this scale. Something like placing down structures will have to be almost if not entirely redone when you go to do networking and client authorization nightmare stuff. This is a tough decision you'll have to make at the start otherwise when you try to implement it later you wont because it's like remaking the entire game.
Yeah, I have heard that from quite a few people now, and I'm sure that it most definitely will be difficult. My main line of reasoning was the way I've built my game. All of my world is built off of data - at its core, most of it is just arrays and dictionaries of integers, and not much of it is actually dynamic. I do appreciate though that it might be quite a large task, and I think I'll move it a bit closer in priority after seeing so many comments, but it still won't be coming immediately.
I thought its a other farm but a town management game i know there not much to go on core pls stick minimum as pc single game. Dinkem is game come to mind .Good luck
Hi i left a comment on the previous vid but i was hoping if i can reach out to you bc im the same age and situation but im much worse at coding and could rlly use some help
Basically, each large object has a trigger collider covering its whole area. In the player script, I run an OverlapBoxAll on that specific layer to find all objects obstructing the view of the player. These objects are then added to a list (provided they aren't already in the list), and I basically just fade the sprite's opacity if they are in the list. As for removing things, I just loop through every object in the list, and if they aren't still obstructing the player's view, then just fade them back to normal.
I want to play this game so much! The artstyle is really crisp, it looks super satisfying to craft things, and overall just looks so nice to play. I see this becoming a really well known and successful game!
iit baffles me that people are already asking for a release date… please don’t let a single person rush you. take your time to make what you think is tthe best game you can.
I normally don't comment on videos, but bro, at your age and already doing this, you are full of potential tbh, I hope you are successful in life and you deserve all the support you are getting, you deserve a sub an and another fan
Great update. One recommendation is instead of using inheritance look into the component pattern. Inheritance with games can often get very messy over time. Unity itself uses this pattern pretty heavily.
Be careful not to fall into the inheritance trap! From my experience, it's better to use composition than inheritance, cause it's much more maintainable and extendible. E.g: you need to use features of 2 different classes, but C# doesn't support multiple inheritance(and even in languages that do, such as C++ it's usually frowned upon), so you'll have to duplicate your code. But if you used composition, you just implement those features as components and provide them to your class. AFAIK, Unity supports components out of the box.
Yeah, that's certainly great advice. If it was for a large, complex system I'd definitely be better off doing it with composition, but all that I'm using it for here is a few small variations of the base objects in my world. Thanks for the tip though!
As a matter of fact, I dó have an unanswered question🙃. I'd love to talk with you about music in your game. Is there anywhere I can reach you on socials? (I already left a comment earlier in 'community', but I don't know if you saw that. If you did, consider this comment non-existent ;) )
I appreciate the offer for help with music, but I'm fine for now. I haven't started focusing on sound yet, but when I get around to it, I'd like to give things a go myself. Thanks though!
Hi! Your drawing in aseprite is really cool. I wanted to know how much you learned to draw this way and what advice you have for beginners ? Maybe some videos or how you taught yourself ? Also, do you draw with a mouse or do you have a graphics tablet ?
Thanks! I'm planning to include some stuff about pixel art in my next video, but honestly most of it was just through tips on RU-vid, and also by practicing. If I had to recommend specific channels I watch, I'd probably say: Reece Geofroy, AdamCYounis, and Pixel Overload, but there are many more than just them, those just happen to be names that come to mind. To answer your question, I draw by mouse. It might be easier with a dedicated input device like a graphics tablet, but I've never seen much need to invest into one, especially for pixel art - I mean, you're only drawing on a small canvas, so I find that the level of control offered by mouse and keyboard can sometimes be a positive.
It depends - I'll definitely look into it at some point, and if there's some easy way I can translate all of the text in my assets, then yes, but I can't confirm it.
I really like your editing style and I wish you all the best for your future game development. Btw how long have you been coding for and when did you start?
Thanks! I started coding (with Scratch) quite a long time ago, but I began game dev properly in 2021. I'll have a video coming soon-ish on how I learned to make games, so I'll go into more detail then.
I am really loving the art style you have chosen to go with! Do you plan on making a discord server for the game, I would be super interested in joining.
How did you learn to code, I have been trying to learn c# for about 2 months now and all I have managed to do is make a movement script I feel like all Info and the tutorials I watch goes in one ear and out the other, any tips to learning ?😊
Well, I'll be releasing a video on that sometime soon, but in short - RU-vid, forum posts, and practice. When I began I also felt like I was just blindly following whatever happened, but as I watched more and more, I began to just recognize patterns in what was happening. After a while, I would get to feel comfortable in expanding a system with only some prior knowledge and some googling. As you said, for a movement system. I used to copy various things from different videos (like Brackeys' first person controller), but then afterwards I'd see if I could manage to add sprinting, then crouching, then double jumping or whatever using what I'd learned.
I think it was a really scummy thing to do, but they've done their best to resolve it. It's reasonable that as a company they wanted to make money, but their proposed method was unreasonable and their initial response was unhelpful. Realistically though, with the leadership change and agreements they settled on, I don't think it's enough to drive everyone away completely. I still use Unity primarily because I already know it and converting my whole game would be very time-consuming, but if you're just starting out, definitely look into other solutions and see what engine would work best for you.
Basically, Physics2D.OverlapPoint() Every frame I check what objects I'm hovering over, and switch between 2 materials according to that. If you need to know about the shader logic and how I made the actual outline, there are plenty of resources online.
Well, I mean it's a fairly complicated system which involves the inventory and a bunch of UI stuff, but most of the important parts of my project are handled with ScriptableObjects. Definitely look into them if you're looking to create a game of this genre as they are a great way of storing data in the project. I use them for so many things, the crafting recipes being one example, and the items being another.
Yeah, in the next video I'll be linking a new discord server which will have the exact colours, but I use a slight modification of the Apollo palette by AdamCYounis
I'm using Unity as my engine, which supports C# as its main language. Other engines though use other languages, so you should learn whatever language best suits your needs.
