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@@Pogal I mean if a game is good but does not look good it is much less playable. Heck, I have a game that is literally readdy (outisde of ads) except for it looking distinctly below average (which in itself was painful to me to do). I would have shipped that game were I able to make it look the part
With your courses, I really started making big progress in game dev, I remember how I tried to join it for maybe 3-4 years, but now I can completely say, that fully in and really enjoying it. Thank you alot.
"You basically just have to make a dozen crappy games before you can make something good". I couldn't agree more! I started off in 2022 following an 8 hour long 2D dungeon crawler game tutorial which taught me sooo much about unity since it was my first time making a game. Then, I tried to use those 2D elements to make my own 2D tower defense-like game. I only made two different levels but I learned a lot from that. Then, I followed a couple 3D game tutorials and decided I was ready to take on Unity 3D. I started working on my own unique 3D minigame and there were so many ups and downs but I got so much experience from it. Then I got burnt out and stopped working on it for a while, a couple months later I got motivated to get it finished and after I did I put it on steam in February of 2023 (and I've sold 25 copies to date)! That game is definitely not made in the most optimized way, but I've learned from it and I know what not to do in my future games. Now I'm working on a realistic multiplayer simulator game in Unity 3D and I continue to learn so much. I also continuously go back to that 3D minigame I released on Steam and update it with new features that I learn from working on my other games. The learning never stops and the more games you make, the better you get!
"Make lots of simple games" I'll add to that quote: "and FINISH EACH ONE OF THEM". That's the hardest part of doing a game And when I say "finish" I don't mean complete the game with super graphics, multiplayer support and console ready. I mean complete it to a level of being playable outside the game engine, export to a free platform like itch, and let other people and friend play them. Also if possible, watch them play your games. There's an incredible amount of feedback just watching someone play your game.
Oh yup I should have emphasized that point. In my mind "make games" == "complete games" but I know some people start tons of games but never finish them. Getting a game to the finish line is indeed extremely important!
@@CodeMonkeyUnityAbsolutely! And also, IMHO, one of the hardest things to achieve when you're a beginner. It's completely out of scope the idea of "finish" a game. Most of us just focus on doing stuff, adding mechanics, writing code, graphics, sfx, music, UI, but almost never think of "...and now, the ending". Probably due to scope creep, which you mentioned several times in your past videos.
Good stuff! I agree, the best feeling as a game dev is starting to feel like you can create the games that you were playing as a kid, that's probably one of the biggest motivators out there. Also, you can technically argue that games like Dwarf Fortress, Kenshi, Project Zomboid are more complex than Sims 4 while being made primarily by a single person (but those guys are absolutely mental 😆)
You are still one of those few examples/tutors that are remain on YT, too bad some of them more focused in general dev left. But still, people like you still being so inspirational for us. CODEMONKEY!!!
You are one my fav unity content creators, tks for it man. Quick suggestion, what about a code monkey small game community project? Many people out there willing to work on a game project, only waiting the right project to get hyped. Very challenging to coord it all, tho, but would be very cool. =D
That would be awesome! I've long wanted to create an interesting game jam but yeah like you said it's really tricky to coordinate so I haven't been able to do it. I need to find a way to clone myself so I can do all the cool things I want to do!
Thank you so much for this and all other videos! You do walk the walk, teaching us younglings (though I'm turning 36 this June) all the inns and outs of Unity. You are an amazing person and my favorite RU-vid teacher. You give me hope, inspiration, example, confidence, and knowledge I need to hit my goals on my game dev journey. Thank you so much for everything you do!
Omg Swat 2 was my childhood, I tried too to remake it but my skills was not high enough. The more I watch your videos, the more I realize that I am following the same journey as you! Come back in 10 years , I will have a bunch of video game published 🤭😅😂
I imagine how hard it was for you to reach this level especially in those days that we didn't have a lot of tutorials, documentations and forum we have nowadays. Good Job bro🎉
I think I'm getting better thanks to your course. I'm still getting stuck with the execution, however. For example, I wanted to instantiate an array of clouds to spawn at random intervals and pick a cloud at random. When I tried to do that using a flappy bird tutorial, I got an error saying "GameObject[] doesn't have a transform". So I had to do it using one cloud at a time instead of an array. My workaround isn't terrible but it's not what I wanted if I was able to use an array. EDIT: I got it to work! :) GameObject newCloud = Instantiate(cloudsPrefab[Random.Range(0, cloudsPrefab.Length)], new Vector2(cloudsPrefab[Random.Range(0, cloudsPrefab.Length)].transform.position.x, cloudsPrefab[Random.Range(0, cloudsPrefab.Length)].transform.position.y + Random.Range(cloudMinRange, cloudMaxRange)), cloudsPrefab[Random.Range(0, cloudsPrefab.Length)].transform.rotation);
what you have basically said in this video Code Monkey is that uh once you will become a solo dev, then the time you get to play other games is very, very limited... yeah, sacrificies have to be made regardless, a harsh but yet oh so firm reality, innit?
Great video. I was just thinking about what I should do after finishing your Kitchen Chaos video + the multiplayer video after (I'm really interested in learning about how multiplayer works). As fun as it sounds hopping right into working on the big idea I have in my head... I think it would be best if I did a couple smaller projects to refine these new skills I am learning from you. If you do happen to see this comment, do you have a discord for the community? I looked but couldn't find one. Thought I saw you mention you had one somewhere in one of your videos. 🐒
I finished your turn based strategy game course and I am now in the process of developing my own turn based strategy game on that foundation. I added quite a lot of new mechanics to it and plan to add some more but I am almost done with core and I can't keep but wondering what would you think of it? Is there a chance you will make a video reviewing some of the work from your fanbase that followed your courses?
I feel your pain about wanting to play a game but avoiding it because it would be too much of a time sink at the moment. I am taking a class so I've been avoiding BG3, because if I start, my time would be reduced to pretty much zero. 😋
Experience is power... My first game (3 years ago) Is pong, my second is ULTRA PONG, my tirhd is RGB... A Ball inifirnly going down and changing the background . Now I have 25 small games published on Itch and a lot of prototypes... Keep Going people, and do game jams! Don't give up!
I've always wanted to start coding, my ability is pretty good and bad at the same time. For me, it takes a lot of *** time to learn something, either programming, learning to ride a bike/car or doing something, it takes a lot of practice, but once I get the hank of it I essentially become a killer at that respective thing. I was curious about your course, but almost $300 it's too much, that is almost a full Romanian monthly salary, and if I put $120 more I could get my driver license. I'm sad that you don't have something cheaper, I know that $300 is worth it, but for me it will take more than a year to save up enough money. Still I'm grateful for the free tutorials on RU-vid, from your channel and a lot more channels
6:44 I'm in the middle of doing your turn based strategy course right now and it's absolutely awesome. The lesson's themselves are great but the real benefit for me is simply watching how you think about breaking down the problems into smaller tasks and structure your game code.
Thank you for your noble mission and immense wisdom! Side note: I would love to the development of and play a SWAT/ MaxPayne hybrid. Like a SWAT-style tactical shooter in 3rd person with wacky animations of MaxPayne, maybe for breaching and take downs. Might be a solid high level dev course if you find the time.
This is the best channel about Unity in the RU-vid, you are really awesome CodeMonkey. I'm a big fan. One question I have, which Render Pipeline do you currently use in your projects? Thanks for all of this videos, man!
It's always great to see ur tutorials. It feels simple however it's content is a must / essential in any game. I have been trying to make a health, reload, and inventory system similar to escape from tarkov or arena breakout. But I have faced a lot of issues in avatar mask especially when climbing and moving, it's not only about decreasing speed, it's about disabling the functionality of the blacked mask and syncing the animation with it, also bleeding limbs and detection of bullet collision. Each part of the body has its own health. Then the reloading system is completely different than any other game, it's not just counting bullets in your buckets. And finally the inventory system. If you can make a tutorials on the above features, then you've made the core features of a multi million game. So can you make the above features or it's complex even for codemonkey?
Thank you Code Monkey for a very inspiring video I started my game dev journey 6 months ago and now I am really close to releasing my game, to anyone who wants to start this journey everything he said is true, just keep trying things out keep learning I know how you feel that you want to make a GOTY AAA game but remember foundation needs to be strong when you build something (Don't miss it like me.) it's not fair to compare yourself with Big Company. Run at your own pace your first game doesn't need to be perfect if it is everyone may be Hideo Kojima by now. Trust me the feeling when you see someone have fun with your game is priceless.
Yeah, true. Experience, try and error, just big "do something!" I now moved from Unity to Godot, making my few first project where I didn't repeat someone work from video (thanks for the Kitchen Chaos, I learned a lot!) but actually making it by myself. And I still watch you because a lot of knowledge independent from language and engine.
i can't fully agree with that. sure, it's important to gain experience by solving as many small problems as possible, but you don't have to develop tons of games to gain that experience. i've had a game idea for years and i'm always trying to come up with new ideas, improve things, or learn new things for this game, to make it even better. as long as you don't try to make a mega hit right away to make a lot of money and only do it as a hobby. you can also gain a lot of experience if you have a dream game and just try to bring it to life somehow. that works just as well. :)
Sure, as long as you're making things you're going to learn, even if it's all things on the same project. However there are some challenges that only show up at the end of a project (saving, main menu, loading, creating a complete experience) and if you do not complete multiple games then you only gain experience on those very important areas just once.
@@CodeMonkeyUnity yes, but still, experience grows over time, depending on the problems you're trying to solve, and not everyone is a fan of the idea of making hundreds of games. but you can still be experienced in that one genre, if that's your way of being a developer. :) and i think that's also ok to be a pro in one topic of 100% instead of an experienced one in 10 topics. because you might never need most of that experience if you only work on one genre. :)
I am at the other end of the scale. I have wanted to be a game developer since i was a kid with a commodore 64 and a coding book I couldn't understand. I ended up just being a regular C# dev for the last 15 years. I have made clones of some basic games using unity and it seems so much more easy and accessible than ever before (having tried 3ds max and flash a long time ago), but now I've realised my imagination is terrible. I can't come up with any concept that i think people would actually pay for, so I just can't take the leap to commiting to a project.
Imagination/Creativity is definitely a tricky thing to teach, for that my advice is play lots of games and find out what you enjoy playing. Then take some elements from several games you like playing and try putting them together in an interesting way! It's also something you gain with experience, game design is indeed an entire discipline that some people spend their entire lives learning.
No because I get scared way too easily heh Although horror is actually one of the best genres to make, all you need is one unique idea and build the game around that. Players of horror games love novelty, even if it only lasts 1 hour.
My project is to make a pixel style jrpg (basically persona but 2d pixel art) focusing mostly on story and combat. Ive been on break tryna figure out a scene manager that works the way i want it to work. Im hoping that ill gain the knowledge and skill to be able to make those small steps.
I have challenge for you then 😊 There is a game called Kenshi and I couldn't find any tutorial about the code behind it. I always find it difficult to code games like Kenshi because it has very complicated AI and world events, maybe it can be a good tutorial material for your future videos.
I challenge you to make a game that makes a game that makes a game! You teach the game how to make a game and that game teaches how to make another one, it's something I've never seen done before. The game will be always different each time, like a game rng engine making new games. Or just a game that makes a game at random. You've made so many games that it makes me wonder have you made your own game engine before too?
I've never built an engine from scratch, I'd love to research that some day. However I have once made a really complex level editor that almost works like a programming language, it's extremely versatile which allowed me to build all kinds of mini-games inside my own game store.steampowered.com/app/331720/Survivor_Squad_Gauntlets/
Hi @CodeMonkeyUnity, thanks for another awesome video! I was wondering if you might be able to point me to a tutorial you have or could make one about how you did the flashlight occlusion in your game around 2:34? I have been trying to achieve this exact effect in my prototype using URP with 2D lights and Shadow Career 2D components, and it's not really working very well. Yours looked exactly how we are wanting! Any direction or pointers would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
It's not actually based on lights, it's a dynamically created mesh by firing a ton of raycasts ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CSeUMTaNFYk.html
i personally i have a lot years off experience and i still have not gotten this ability, i have the confidence to make thos game but i don't have the time or the experience to make those game's in realty the reason i don't have this ability it's because i have big scope project in mind and because i work alone in the end it's not that I don't have that ability it's more that my project requires more people's or more time to make and if spend it may helpss but don't really have the option unfortunately for my i don't have the team and the money that i need to make those projects and i end up try to make all those projects by my own and take forever to create. it's not that i did something wrong in fact its miracle how far i have already i got on those projects but still it's not enough. i don't know if have the same year's of experience but i use unity since 4.7 the unity version before unity 5 release
@@oleksandrbrahynets9595 i know that and if is worth it, its up to my to decide it it's true that the project im working it's not for one person and ideally it needed bigger team and money but also true the if didn't make this project no one will make that project and spend on this project wean i have free time also it my main hobby even and i enjoy make that project even if take forever.
Yes the C# course is focused on C# itself. I only use Unity to build the visual elements for the demos, the interactive exercises, faq, quiz, etc. Most of the course is taught on a normal C# console app project.
I think i reached a point where i can code what i want (except maybe massively multiplayer open world stuff) but now i realise i'm unable to promote it :p
Or just start working on the dream game and slice them into pieces small enough for you to finish then start learning from there. I wasted so much time in tutorials hell just to delay the time I could spend working on my dream games. There is no stupid ladder, only your skills.
Yeah I'm currently doing your visual scripting course online, But ima a little slow at it all since i have owned your course for over a year now and only really just started. I don't know how many visual scripting courses you have but i would like to do one strictly on a Command and conquer Generals style game and included with how exactly to make the assets as well as the visual scripting as long as i don't have to buy some expensive software to do so. I currently am also learning blender to make in game assets, so if you could point me to the right course or if you have one already Please let me know.
That visual scripting course involves the making of 3 separate games, so if you manage to fully understand everything there you should then be able to make your own RTS. As for Blender, I'm not a 3D modeller so I'm really not the best person to teach that, there's a ton of awesome channels on RU-vid like Imphenzia and Grant Abbit
@@CodeMonkeyUnity Thanks for the replies. Yes i am still yet to complete the course, cause I've done the first part 3 time to fully understand and want to be able to do the same without the video is my goal and i have only just started the 2nd part (top down). I do hope to one day build my own rts game for fun.
Why not trying to create an open source game to try having more people from assets maker to sound designer or things like this ? Personnaly i'm wishing to create a StoneHearth like of game as open source to insure that people can fork the project and still maintaining it if i'm not working on it anymore (not like what Radian became)
Nope I've always been a solo indie dev. When I started there was no such thing as a "game dev industry" here in Portugal. Nowadays I'm doing quite well on my own so don't really feel the need to work for a normal company, although I'd love to work on a larger game with a team some day.
How to make mechanics like "woodturning" mobile game, "tangle master" mobile game, "Ice cream ASMR" mobile game, fruit peel game mechanics, cutting soft jelly mechanics, snow mechanics, water mechanics, mesh deformation, etc etc I find it very hard to build these kind of mechanics for mobile games.
@@mamupelu565 Thank you very much for helping, I am already subscribed to that channel. I don't know why, but I find these mechanics very hard to make, these are just hyper casual mobile games, but the mechanics they are using are very complicated to me.
Are you considering a new course for Visual Scripting a 3rd Person Shooter? I have followed your Udemy Visual scripting courses which were great, but I am struggling to find any resources for TPS that use visual scripts. Converting C# is a huge pain and I get too lost trying to follow C#.
I've got tons of stuff on my to-do list that I probably won't revisit visual scripting any time soon. If you can understand Visual Scripting then you can learn C#, so I would encourage you to give that a try, like in my Beginner course ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pReR6Z9rK-o.html I'm guessing you tried it in the past and found it frustrating, but now that you've gone through that entire Visual Scripting course you have a lot more knowledge on just logic in general which will help you learn programming-. Best of luck!
Although this is obviously true it is a bit abstract. Would be much more useful if you made some videos with high level design (software design, not game design) on how to create a complete game. That is where, at least I am, struggling.
It's very hard to make videos on that topic because every single game is unique. There's a million ways to do pre-production, some people like tons of detail, others (like me) prefer a very rough overview and get started making a prototype right away, both options are valid. It sounds like you're getting stuck in analysis paralysis. My advice is exactly what I said in the video, start by remaking simple games and slowly increase the complexity.
@@CodeMonkeyUnity Yeah I am an application developer by trade and usually you work from some architecture, or idea of, or the framework you are using is promoting a sort of architecture. In Unity that is not obvious so that is why I am struggling but maybe what you say is the way to go. Just develop something and see where I end up.
It's pretty interesting idea, but what if I want to create a game that makes money? I already have experience, but pretty simple games like pacman or even Doom or generic WW2 shooter wouldn't make any money in steam. You're more likely to end up in the red because of steam fee I am making games for ~10 years (RPG Maker and Scratch mostly) and ~4 years on Unity, but only as hobby, nothing more. Most of games so simple that nobody would play it ( I have created 37 fully finished games). It would be great to make some money, but I am to scary to publish them I even published one free game to the Google Play and it got 5 000 downloads without any marketing, but I didn't got any profit from it
There is a difference between the technical aspect of making a game, and learning how to sell that game. For the second part you need to study marketing, learn how to identify game ideas that have sales potential and how to make it seem exciting for potential players.
@@CodeMonkeyUnity Thanks for your answer! I watched some of your marketing videos. I need more info how to make game that fun that it would sell (My games are pretty boring tbh). Can you recommend something ? Maybe you have some videos from your channel? (I really liked your game breakdown playlist)
I made a video on marketing where I included a bunch of interesting resources to learn from unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=E6-FQwCECes unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=dsXrUHWt3bQ I highly recommend Ryan Clark to learn how to come up with good Hooks And the GameDiscoverCo and How To Market a Game newsletters for learning the specifics about indie game marketing
Sort of. I have a bunch of utilities that I use in lots of projects, and depedning on what game I'm making I can reuse a bunch of systems I've made previously For example if I need the mouse position, I don't rewrite that from scratch, I just grab my Mouse3D class that I made ages ago unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=0jTPKz3ga4w If I need a healthsystem, I just use the one I already have unitycodemonkey.com/video.php?v=tf8NhUgORQg
I have a question that i have a hp laptop: Processor - i5-8250U CPU @1.60GHz 1.80 GHz RAM - 8GB Memory - around 2 TB SSD Where (c) is 222GB (D) is 248GB (E) is 806GB (F) is 806GB GPU 0 - Intel(R) UHD Graphics 620 GPU 1 - AMD Radeon (TM) R5 M330 So can I make a game like granny, Resident Evil or Max Payne or games like getting over it on it.
That's not sufficient to comfortably work on large or even middle projects, for small games should be ok, but the best way to find out is intall unity and test this
But how do I know I fit industry quality of for exaple writing code? Working alone is like learning new language alone - yes, of course you can learn grammar and vocabulary but whos gonna teach u pronounsiation?
Hmm maybe, I am fascinated by games that have persistent living worlds, like Planetside 2 or Foxhole, I think building something like that could be a lot of fun, but those games also take an army to keep them running!
What I like about game development is writing code. But what I dislike is the art (3D and 2d) as I dont like that much. Also there is lighting , shaders , VFX ,audio etc we cant ignore. It is really hard to be a solo game developer as such. Though u have the AI tools to solve this issue (3D art), but there comes copyright issues or else u have to pay freelancers , which can be expensive ,if u r doing big games. So @CodeMonkeyUnity what would ur advice be, to deal with the not so fun part
My advice is look in the asset store, there's a mountain of free stuff there. Environments, characters, VFX, shaders, and even some awesome tools. If you can afford to pay for it you can find more variety, but even for free there's mountains of stuff you can use in your games without copyright issues.
Right now, I am working on your game tutorial (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AmGSEH7QcDg.html), and I can say it's super clear and helpful. It definitely helped boost my confidence to learn Unity and basic game development. You're amazing, obrigado!!!
