Dwarves & Cathedrals - Making a VIDEO GAME 

You distinctive art style always gives a magical touch to the games you make my friend! You and your brother deserve an award for that!!

This is 100% my kind of game. Excited to see where this goes!

The output that you and your brother are doing is astounding. I loved Pillars of the Earth, and this looks like such a cool take on the vibe.

What you could do is add a timer that counts down in days with a simple sun and moon to show the passage of time. Lets say that the timer counts down from 30 days, and each day is 5-10 minutes. As each day passes, the swarm of enemies get worse, slowing down your progress and forcing you to make more military units. After 30 days, it would be game over, and a game over screen would pop up showing the devil rising up from the ground. This simple system would encourage players to optimize there time and resources to avoid dealing with larger swarms later on in the game.

I love the art style

As someone who also works on a Dwarf game, this idea of yours is absolutely phenomenal! Cannot wait to see where you will take this. 💎⛏⚒

Ah you guys rock so much!! I can see how this topic is so inspiring and your art work does indeed deserve an award! Loving your inspiration and mojo 👍

I think it's hilarious how this is a "small project" about building a LITERAL CATHEDRAL

I think it would be cool to have weather in this game that can wear down at the cathedral or maybe change the way the dwarves work. Not sure how simple a task that is but it’s an idea :)

This is awesome. Of the games you've developed on the channel this is by far the most appealing to me. Seemingly part Lemmings, part Dwarf Fortress. It would be great to have the cathedral building be a bit more dynamic. Place down different pieces like spires, windows, buttresses and general walls. Try to build the biggest custom cathedral you can without being annihilated(instead of a pre-defined one). Your visual style fits excellently with the theme and looks great overall here.

The waiting for this was worth it! Awesome video!

Good start for a prototype! Might be a bit hard with the shake of the camera on every action? Was bit hard to look on the video, but might be another thing in the game. Maybe add different strength in the shake based on the action?

This looks like a lot of fun! Thank you for sharing! Looking forward to the rest of the dev logs 🙂

This inspired me. So I added a new note to my notebook for the future, titled "Holy Crusade-ing 3rd Person RPG Base building TD"

Awesome proof of concept Noa !

Nice waiting for you

best idea yet

This is a really cool idea and art style

This looks fun and quite interesting. I love the "building a cathedral" concept as well.

Being from Milan myself, watching this episode was magical! Such a stylized rendition of the Milano cathedral is amazing!!!

Really nice work! The style looks beautiful, and I love the contrast between tall builds and tiny dwarves makes the final creation feel even better!

I AM SO EXITED FOR THIS DEVLOG SERIES!!!! CANT WAIT

Small line look really good for the prototype

This looks cool and original, which is very refreshing... having a somewhat unique game instead of just another game "inspired by game x..." :) I wish you lots of success with this project and will certainly keep an eye on your game's progress, and hopefully it's release in the near future.

Really nice! As always I love the Artstyle!

It looks fun to play. Your art style is one of my favorites.

You need to make a group of dwarve bandits that come from time to time to explode the progress of the cathedral with dynamite.

This looks Soooo good!

Looks awesome!

Will you participate in GMTK Game Jam today?) Dwarves & Cathedrals looks awesome, can't wait to play!

I love this idea! It's super unique too, you should make it a full Steam game :D

Noa I really love your contents bro! And your game arts are 💯💯❤️ .... And also Liam too!

I would love more machienes like the elevator. The mess currently looks quite nice, but repetetive. Maybe other types of elevators, flying machienes, plattforms, ladders, ropes, cranes...

this looks amazing

Loving this concept - it is so gorgeous, I can see myself getting lost in it for hours on end! I don't know how hard it would be to pull off, but what if the music for the game started out very basic (one single instrument), and more & more instruments fade in the more you complete the cathedral, until - eventually - it's a full blown heavenly orchestra, sweeping and majestic? Just a thought.

Really cool game idea

Awesome 👏🏾!

Noa, you are an artist in every sense. I have always adored your whimsical 2D art style. I love that you have a passion for cathedrals and so you just decided to make a game about a subject you love - and a clever one at that. Keep up your amazing work and thanks so much for sharing your process with the community. Btw, I'm a Unity developer and artist myself and have learned from and been inspired by your videos for years now. Rock on, brother!

Very hyped!!

Awesome game idea. 10 out of 10 would play.

Dude, you come up with the best shit...

I like this idea, I'm a big fan of cathedrals. Needs a more epic-sounding name though

Looks pretty not bad!

This looks great :)

This is amazing

This looks awesome! Your art style really captures the magic of the architecture behind cathedrals. This looks really promising! FYI I saw some people saying you should reduce the screenshake, I disagree though, I like it as is. Maybe add an option or a slider that controls the strength so ppl can tone it down if they want to? I think it comes down to personal preference rather than it being too much or too little.

Very cool prototype! Love from Bali

Nice work!

Idea is really cool, love it! How do you tackle the art? Your art looks awesome

looks really cool. I wonder if this would make a good puzzle game? By making it possible to fail, to build the wrong way, and have unstable structures collapse. Then give the player weird blueprints they have to figure out how to properly setup their foundation and scaffolding so they can place the blocks. I have a tendency to make every idea into a puzzle game XD

you could make the dwarves a lighter white color to make it contrast more with the building in the bg, i love it so far!

Love it❤

I just started learning unity and c# and after watching your unique game concept i really got a lot of motivation thanks a lot bro

Interesting fact one of the first cathedrals you showed is the Sagrada Familia. And the guy that build it died while walking backwards and looking at it cause he got hit by a train XD

lovely work, mate! you should consider making a minecraft-like building game, where you can build with your own creativity!

An awesome idea!

Awesome

Very nice game idea 👍

this is amazing!! You should introduce an integrity system so building it in awkward and unrealistic ways it would result in parts of it collapsing

Cool new game!

FASCINANT

sounds amazing, would like to play

Looks very interesting. What platforms will you be aiming to release the game on?

Great video and game idea. I really feel a bit of background music would lift this video even more tho

Heheehehehehe procedurally generating cathedrals hehehe

Maybe add an element of creativity into the game, instead of having the players build up to a specific cathedral, they can build up "parts" of the cathedral like the towers, walls, add special looking parts with little constraints (ideas for constraints maybe towers hold a specific "weight", there has to be one core? ), also parts could have some special functions, like sentinel towers, or parts that can defend the cathedral, other parts that can boost income, enhance stats of nearby towers or attackers..

Where did you get ideas for games like this? Amazing work!

Love the video! If you dont mind me asking, do you use a tablet to draw with photoshop? If so, what tablet? :)

Instead of the dwarf knight flying around I think you should make it an angel. Aswell as for the whole game including more fantasy aspects that tie into the game's religion like (example) Priests that cure illnesses that spread. Maybe a priest that purifies the dead/guides the souls of the fallen dwarves to heaven and if you don't have one to do that some dwarves (by chance) on death will become ghosts that attack the cathedral if not properly sent off to heaven. Could have a graveyard plot for the dead that maybe fills up after so many bodies requiring another to be built this could really make people be careful about any deaths because they don't want to lose space to graveyards. Also, perhaps a building where some dwarves can go in and after some time they are trained and are now priests.

Very cool 😎

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Looks awesome! I think it a cool mechanic would be to have some sort of physics system where parts of the cathedral could collapse if not built properly.

Nice

Looking at 2:44 I think you need a bit more contrast between the building and the elevators, rn its pretty hard to tell them apart.

Even if the games you make arent my kind of game, they just look so enticing

Curious but for your brushes when drawing do you made them yourself?

Random fun fact: Dark Soul’s Anor Londo cathedral is heavily inspired from the Duomo di Milano

Les go

game almost as beautiful as I am handsome. I don't know how one manages such a feat

Hey Noa I have a question, Where do experiencd developers like you learn from. Do you read documentation or something?? For an intermediate unity user where should he learn from?

What if the blocks had gravity, but could also be attached to one another, meaning that you would have to build according to basic laws of gravity instead of placing blocks everywhere

Can you please make a quick tutorial on how to create the graish background with paper texture you have on photoshop in this video?!

HOW DO YOU BEAT THE DRAGON

do you have a video how you pull this animated sprites? i really like your art

lol ok not gonna lie, the way this video is constructed makes me think of those failed kickstarter games :p But your other videos are all good

I downloaded the file for it but how do i use it?

70 likes and 0 views, youtube, what?

Dwarves and Cathedrals 2 when?

This game out?

yooo

Interesting but unless it's a bigger project I doubt I'd bother playing it. Also interesting that you credit the video clips you used but none of the artwork. Unless it's all your art in which case ignore me.

Why this game is not phone?

Hey i've seen a asset pack on unity store with your name and style. Is it legit?

expand it

I'm first view woah

Oxygen system is too unrealistic imo

Who else saw the thumbnail and thought about Steins gate instantly

MOBILEEEE