Yeah same I just graduated college a few months ago and I don’t have a lot of experience in this area I sent an email to the one included in the video but I haven’t gotten a reply reply yet, but I really want to learn and make a background that would be just as amazing as a aaa dk 2d side scroller
I'm happy to hear you're moving onto a project that you're truly passionate about, at least in the heat of the moment. Funny story, I've had this pipe dream of making my own game since I was a kid, and I just had an epiphany earlier today where I now know exactly the kind of game I wanna make. I don't think any progress will start for the next few years since there's smaller fish I wanna fry first. But inspiration just struck me today, and I finally know my long-term path forward. As far as your project is concerned, I could tell it wouldn't be easy from the jump, especially when you have next to no knowledge in the world of coding and such. But the best things in life never come easy, and I admire your dedication to the craft. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is one of my favorite games of all time, and I'm very interested to see your take on the old-school formula.
Most indie game devs don’t post their updates this kinda way so I’m glad you are ngl Plus your style is pretty funny and engaging Hope the pc thing isn’t a problem and you get your issues fixed, good job on giving this a go!
The original donkey Kong country trilogy ( I don't know if it's just me who calls is that) is a master piece, and I'm sure this will be a masterpiece too, I can't wait to see all of the great things you and your team will bring to the table. Thanks Al!
Wanted to leave a comment on your last vid, but I'm rooting for you dude. The idea of making a game has crossed my mind every now and again, but all that coding scares me witless haha. Still, I got the utmost confidence in you and your team to make something great. I believe in you!
Super excited for this project! The more DKC inspired fan work the better. I don't know anything about 3D modeling but if you ever need some 2D art or animation I'll be more than happy to help.
Really cool to see you working on something like this, your work ethic and refusal to settle is super admirable! I hope all goes well for you (or as well as game development can go from what I hear).
Good on you to make this dev log. I'm a programmer, but it took me years of school and work experience to get where I am, and honestly, you'll never feel like you're pro. That's okay. The whole point is to learn what you need to achieve your goal. Experience just adds up over time this way anyway. You get better and better, so good on you for sticking with it so far. Programming is literally another language, but most common languages follow the same patterns and have similar foundational functionality. Learn some of the basics like flow control and loops, data types like arrays, ints, strings, etc. You'll get where you need to go in no time.
Unfortunately as much as ive been wanting to start out with game design and messing around with blender, I'm still incredibly inexperienced. I would have loved to want to work on this project. Such a huge fan, i hope everything goes wonderfully for you and your ideas. Make the game we all want!
I wish you luck, found your channel from your Mario trailer reaction and watched a few videos, you're exactly the kind of youtuber I like so I've been missing out for a while ^^ I'll definitely be following this project!
Good thing is that Unity has a lot of documentation almost anything you want to do, you can find some answers scattered across the internet. Good luck with your ape game about apes
I've been having similar struggles with this animated series I'm working on. It's a series animated with both Gmod and 2D animation. Honestly, I envy you for managing to get a good grip on Blender. I've tried doing it, but I've always got caught up with other stuff or just put it down and claimed that I'll do it another day. I'd be more than happy to help you Al, but with the workload I currently have, I sadly don't have the time. Hope your game turns out swell though.
I was really hoping you'd be asking for a musician, but hey better luck for me next time. I wish you luck on the game, Al, as someone who's done it before trust me; it's really hard. But game dev work is about solving problems every step of the way
Thank you so much for uploading your endeavors since right now, I've been going through an existential crisis and your video is helping me greatly by motivated me, I can not thank you enough for this
Damn, if you were around years ago, I would have jumped at the opportunity. I haven't touch 3D anything in quite a while though. You do have very relatable and inspiring thoughts, so perhaps 2023 will finally be the year I get off my tookus and finally learn some Blender, depending on how job stuff works out. If I may recommend one thing, perhaps consider doing smaller projects first, just to get the hang of it all. Obviously the more complicated things become, the more of a hassle it'll be to test and code for, but I imagine you'll benefit long term from taking on smaller projects at first, plus you get the morale boost of completing something.
I don't really have the talent to do computer modeling. Kind of. The most experience I have, when it came to computer art modeling (I think that's what it's called) is an old Disney 3D Art Game that is honestly more spooky like than I remember. This is when I was a kid. Seriously, it was like that one Simpsons 3D Short from Treehouse of Horror. I didn't even know what I was doing. I do wish the best of luck to you for making a video game. It's a very ambitious undertaking, but it is a time to do so. Considering how most people desire games that are more grounded than the churn of the gaming assembly line. If you ever want or need a writer, for some reason, then I will gladly volunteer. As i desire to hone my writing skills for a book series, in the future. Good luck, Uncle Al. All that is needed is patience and learning from what will come. And better postal service that's better than UPS. I hope you'll never go through that crap again.
I wish you the best of success on your journey with the development of your game, Al! One thing that I want you to be catious/semi-catious about - and this purely from me following the news of a """game"""called "Abandoned" - Don't blow smoke up people's butts and keep switching up your agenda, scope and hyping up something when we know NOTHING of a prototype or anything of the product. I am not saying you'll do the same as THAT studio, but it is a pit I am afraid of seeing another indie dev fall into. But seeing as you already know what you want the game to be, I can rest easy.
i wanted to make a game too, a n64 styled rail shooter and then work my way up to an open world majoras mask esc game, learned a bunch of blunder, then i got to unity and c# and i slowly lost my mind, now im getting really good at sega/supernintendo graphics, im thinking of trying to make a point and click game, might be more possible for me, good luck dude
I am in no way qualified to do any of this, so I’ll pass on the job offer. But still it’s wonderful that you’re pursuing another goal with this new venture. Hopefully you can find the theme you need and perhaps one day be able to pitch game companies. Best of luck Uncle Monk.👍
Good luck on your project. I have made a few games with other engines that were much smaller scale like remaking pong and a few other games. It is not an easy process, but focus on getting the core gameplay or what is the important system of your game down before you pitch.
This devlog is a great idea! I love seeing stuff like this. I remember when I tried learning unity. It was a real pain in the ass and I gave up. Good on you for keeping at it!
I'm not sure if you'll read this. But as a student currently taking a Video-Game college course dealing with Unity, I think you'll prefer to use Playmaker to help with your coding. It's a Unity asset from the Unity store that's allows for 'Visual Coding,' personally making coding MUCH more comprehensible to wrap my dumb ape brain around. Granted, it is a PAID asset; but many titles such as Hollow Knight has used it in their game's production so it's a viable alternative. I highly urge you to check it out, or at least peak at it if you think it'll make the coding process a lot easier on your end.
As much as I want to help, I have no experience in helping make games, nor a good portfolio. Lol. I wish you the bestest of luck! I hope you get the new pc and I hope everything goes smoothly!
I recently started working on a game project in Unity too, I'd say it's been a good experience overall. It's a VR fan title that I can't wait to unveil, scripting for it has actually been a pretty fun challenge as it involves real-time object slicing. Only problem I see coming up in the near future is modeling assets and environments, something I'm not particularly experienced with. I do have the advantage of it being a fan project, so borrowing pre-existing game assets should be able to fly for this project, but it'll definitely be a headache when working on a completely original project. Side note, I'd recommend checking out microcenter for a PC if you got any of those around you. Their powerspec brand is as good as a prebuilt PC gets
The only game-dev related thing im capable of doing well is music composition. If you need a soundtrack composer in the future, I could maybe try for applications then.
Man, I wish I can help but I don’t think I have the requirements too or skill yet but I’d love to see more of your progress and your logs about what you’ve been doing!
I totally hear you on the unity thing dude. My friend has tried to help me with it a couple times but I'm freaking clueless 😂 Wishing you all the best Al, I'm more than confident in you and your team 🙂
Hey uncle al. Big fan. I'm not very tech savvy but if you're in the market for a story writer or just someone to bounce ideas off of I feel like I'd be able to help you out with that. My specialty is coming up with characters who's abilities have a lot of natural " fighting chemistry". In other words the dynamic between powers will always feel evenly matched and yet completely different in their uses and it's a wonder to the reader/ observer who's gonna win and how. Either way good luck and I can't wait to see what you come up with.
Have you tried using W3 schools? They're great for teaching ya basic syntaxes of different languages as well as being able to practice the code in the site. And it's free. I've been programming for 16 years now, mostly C++, learned Blender recently, and worked on games on many different game dev kits/IDEs. Construct 3 is something cool that I've played with that doesn't really require programming knowledge to use.
Jesus Christ I feel your pain..... I actually tried Unity on my laptop, I could barely run it without this this bursting into flames and causing nuclear fusion bombing half my state
I recommend you get a dell g15 laptop with at LEAST an i7 processor. Yes, it is quite expensive BUT, it’s also pretty darn nice lol. Plus it has a nice portability to it (but it is quite noisy). Either way, it’s powerful. So I will say that. Good luck dude! 👍
I want to suggest Unreal Engine 5 as they have both a blueprint mode and a C++ mode. This means you don't need to know coding to develop a game with blueprint mode.
Not many Like me get past the concept part before raging, I have a similar problem where I can read code, but for the life of me I don't know where to start with it. Wish you the best BANANA that No Darn King krocsdilanonly could steal from your heart, you have your crystal coconut in hand, don't lose Legend! even if isn't complete atleast you tried, and thats usually what makes it intersting, going through the experince of actually creating a Fun thing for people to do, Heck you tingle some's watermelons enough for them to execute on their own like me as I'm not as stubborn, i'm more like garfield's stubborness, may care for a bit, but evutally will just go sleep after 30 minutes.
I know the pain of scripting on poorly powered hardware. I’m hoping to build up my own PC some time soon next year, and even then I’d looking into the new visual scripting pipeline for unity If given the chance.
Theory: Uncle al Is McPig jr and wants to make a DK inspired indie game after finishing Pizza tower ( wario land stiled indie game ) because the nintendo people are some lazy bungholios that can only live from mario , pokemon amd zelda
Honestly, you know I'd love to help you out with something, I had an idea I did wanna share on discord too, and a team working with Unity if you'd wanna go further :) Either way this goes I'm deeply invested and wanna see you succeed
this game better has a gorilla somewhere. and orangutang is also fine but you still better have at least one of those chimps or else I'll kidnap a monke from the zoo and make him shit in nicely organized box and ship that to your location. not sure what I'm getting out of that but I better see a gorilla!
It seems like a big project. It's something I respect a lot, but I imagine things won't go super well if it's a first game. (I assume this is the first game you're working on, maybe you've made tiny playable stuff in the past and just never shared it.)
@@Jonloo1 It is my first major undertaking, though I'm confident in our prospects. It's why I'm working with individuals that have a bit more experience :)
@@UncleAlPlus Alright! Worst case scenario, this game doesn't happen and you gain a lot of experience you can use on whatever a next Uncle Al game could be. I wish you luck! I hope to see what comes out of this in the future!
I think the story of the game should be like this: SpongeBob, Mario, Ren, Squidward, and Mr.Krabs owe $4,599 to the Boss of a under ground meth empire, (imma use Gus Fring as a example.) In order to get this money. SpongeBob, Mario, Ren, Squidward and Mr.krabs have to Traverse through DK country like levels, defeat Bosses that owe money to the Meth Boss, and find lost bags of Meth that Walter and Jesse lost before they splited up. You should add cutscenes for the fun :) and I hope you voice all characters! ❤
A wise man said to me once. Women can be ruthless and heartless. And honestly, it’s true I’ve been hurt so many times by girls it’s not even funny. They all use to treat me like a ghost, invisible. Something they could use and abuse, But now I’ve turn the tables, I became more heartless and ruthless. And it worked. They started noticing me because I started ignoring them!☹️ I don’t want to treat them this way. It hurts a lot. But it’s the only way to get there attention. Are girls like this? I know not all girls are like this. But it looks like the majority is. Why is it use an abuse? I don’t want to be abused. I don’t want to use either. I just don’t know what to do anymore
