I Learned SHADERS and Changed My Game COMPLETELY | Devlog 2 

Good ideas! And that’s awesome! I recommend watching a few tutorials and then diving right into making something of your own. I’d be curious to know what you’d like to make with Unity. Something along the lines of your channel content, like a physics-based game, or something different?

@@WyrmyrGames I last about 5 mins into a 2 hour tutorial and then I'm off trying to create something, couple of hours later I'm back to the tutorial!! Yes, most of those videos on my channel should be possible in Unity. So to start with it wouldn't be a working game, just getting marbles/cars/people etc from A to B. I've done marble and created a track using Landscape and sculpt, but not a finished product. Need to look into Camera controls next. Then possibly onto small games if I get the hang of it. There's a few in my niche that have moved onto Unity and Blender, I'm just cautious about the time involved in creating videos for my niche and the huge amount of other creators also doing the same. I also used to do Visuals of new houses/apartments in 3ds Max/VRay so also want to look into that. Then there's my 2 kids who have also shown an interest in Unity, Photoshop, Games, House creation in Sims etc

Thanks! I agree, improving the game’s look has been one of the most exciting weeks of development and I want to keep going! I’ll look into post-processing. Maybe there are a few more little things I can add to really make the game pop.

That's awesome to hear! I would love to implement a moving camera very soon. I'll be expanding the pond level a bit so the fish have more space to swim around. And especially when I start on the next stage, a moving camera will be important. I'd love to be able to zoom in and out and move around, I just need to build more terrain that looks good first!

That’s a good thought. I’m not sure I’ll allow the players to name each fish because at some point they could have 100 or more, if all goes to plan. I do want the players to care about taking care of their fish, by planning how to feed them and balancing their ecosystem. But I’ve been toying with the idea of a separate aquarium where you can keep fish you really like, and your idea may fit in well with that. Thanks!

I hope that’s what it means! 😂 I was only hoping to LEARN marketing from posting on RU-vid, leading up to making trailers and other marketing things down the line. But I credit all of my success so far to the awesome and supportive Indie GameDev community! 😊

Thank you!

Thanks! That means a lot. I’m only doing what I’ve been hearing everyone tell me to do for years. It makes a lot of sense to me to get your game looking good as early as possible, if you’re going to share it with other people and gain support/interest. I should say that an important part I skipped is testing the gameplay early on. I don’t recommend skipping that but I didn’t have anyone. But maybe now that I have a small audience, I can get an initial play test up and running very soon.

I feel it! 😊

Thanks for pointing that out. I must have tuned the fog right out of the scene. I’ll dial it back up a bit.

Thank you ☺️

Thanks! I wasn’t really sure what to do with the pebbles so I left them for some contrast. But I agree they need color adjustment.

Go for it! I barely scratched the surface and it made a huge difference.

Thanks! I learned everything so far from RU-vid. Brackeys has a really good one for water surface and caustics. I can’t remember the other ones but I just searched for what I needed and they weren’t hard to find. What was really helpful in the beginning was just watching a basic video about all the different things shaders can do to get an idea of what I actually need and then go from there.

Thank you 😊

Thank you! If I can learn them... you can! That's exactly what I tried, I just couldn't get them to work well together. I'm sure it's simple and I'll probably come back to it. I just wanted to move on for now.

Good idea! I don’t think that would be too hard to implement. Just move the sun around and change the colors a bit. And yes on the sun rays. I watched a tutorial on it but didn’t have time to implement it yet. It’s on the list! 🙂

Good idea! I watched one tutorial on it but haven’t had a chance to work on it yet.

Thank you!

Thanks!

There is a tiny bit. I toned it down since the last video. Still playing with it.

I assume you mean how to make a game that makes $3-10k in the first year? I can only repeat what I’ve heard elsewhere: Look at games that are similar to yours, using Steam Tags, and find any that have revenue in the range that you’re hoping to make. There are websites that estimate game revenue based on number of reviews. Game-stats is one. So once you’ve found games similar to yours in your revenue range, make a game that is as good or better in all areas: graphics, gameplay, features, stability. Then just as importantly, look at what those game developers did for marketing, if you can find it, and mimic it beat for beat. Did they post on social media? Did they have teasers of trailers? I hope this helps! 😅 This is the basic roadmap I’m following and there are plenty of videos on RU-vid that go a lot deeper than I can.

1:15 I do feel a need to point out that your background music is a bit loud. I know, for some reason, it's now considered impossible to listen to someone speak without music playing, but I'm in the minority(?) that are okay with no music, or very little when someone is talking. You know, so I can hear them. >_

5:32 Sprinkle fish! :D Or Glitter fish.

Good! I’m glad it isn’t causing motion sickness as much. Thought I had the music just right but I’ll tune it down for next time. And yes, they are quite sparkly! 😂

Thanks! Glad you think so. Any suggestions are welcome on the thumbnail front.

I’ll admit I am doing things a bit out of order for a proper development cycle. But before I posted a few videos on RU-vid I didn’t have anyone to test the game with. The main goal right now is creating a polished vertical slice and now that I have some potential play testers (if anyone is willing) I can switch gears to making sure what I have so far is solid enough to move forward with development. Thankfully the bit of art I’ve done so far didn’t take too much time and it doesn’t box me in at all on the actual gameplay design. Thanks for the suggestion. That is important to keep in mind.