I'm making a game without coding | Devlog #0 

Looks good. I'd recommend having the text/dialogue left aligned rather than centre aligned, so that the player can read it as it's "typed"

Looks like a great start! The short hike GDC talk is really good :D

For high-poly stuff, you can always retopologize to turn your models low-poly. Either way, looks great so far!

Hi! As a coder, who's also working on a game in the style of A Short Hike (see our shorts), I have to say great work on this! Very impressive. My advice is to try to keep it small and focused. It's easy to get overwhelmed by wanting to add too much, especially if you get to edge cases that your adventure creator can't support. You don't need to learn to code to make a marketable game. And you can still make a fun game people want to buy, so keep up the good work! Oh and if you plan on releasing it, you probably want to make a steam page ASAP, especially since this is getting attention. It's good to start growing wishlists early and I totally would wishlist right now. (Easy for me to say since our game doesn't have one yet, lol)

Looking good, the Short Hike aesthetic is really working for me

i love how honest you are about being confused by shit & just not getting it & looking for some other way to do it cause you just want to do it. kind of inspiring.

glad to know someone loves night in the woods to a point of trying to make a game in style of it, you know I'm gonna probably try making one myself if your adventure actually works ouf

Excited to see how it turns out ! What you have so far looks great, love the lowpoly pixel + foggy enviroment combo !

I know making games is hard bc pf coding but you found a way around it good luck with youre game!

This is super underrated ❤😢❤

Next video already on a channel!

I love these RU-vid Devs constraining themselves when making video games. They are unintentionally making new revolutionary skills Devs can use for future revolutionary games.

This is really cool fun and interesting to watch. As someone who also kind of wants to make a game but kind of sucks at coding this idea is really awesome.

ur 2d night in the woods one looked reaaaaaaaaalllly good

I think Thomouse showcases a misconception about game development (or even code dev in general) - people believe that python or node-based scripting will make development easier. But, node-based scripting is not a replacement for "real" code, IT IS real code (ultimately script is wrapper around source code) and without a thorough understanding of the material you will be left struggling. Its is surprisingly hard to construct novel game mechanics. In particular I'm talking about Unreal. I do not blame you for tossing out that option, Unreal development is not for the faint of heart despite how Epic tries to sell itself.

I fucking LOVE that low res pixelated look. No idea why. Maybe because I grew up playing NES, Genesis and such?

I didn't expect my master to return to youtube so soon. Poland Gurom

I like The style of your story telling. Its Nice, calm and a good level of humor. Also I am in the same position, trying to make a game without knowing how to code so the topic was right up my alley. Looking forward to the next video 🚀

this looks like the type of game that i’d absolutely LOVE to play! Thomouse is adorable too! I hope this journey goes well for u :)

GDevelop is a perfect game engine for a non programmer, and it's easier than a visual node, they use the natural language. With it anyone can do a game in less than one hour. The engine also allow Javascript if you want to code.

Subbed, this is awesome and so well Formatted. LOVE how the game looks already that old style is so vibey.

This is very interesting! I've always wanted to make a game but I never started learning because coding was scary. Just a few days ago, I decided to suck it up and learn how to use Godot Engine, a free engine that uses GDScript which is very similar to Python. I learnt a bit of Python in university a long time ago so I already have some of the fundamentals of programming, but the rest of game development still seems very daunting to me. One day, I want to make a story-based 2D RPG with some music-rhythm elements. I do not know how to write stories, code games, or compose music. I will keep challenging myself to learn these skills and make a good game. Good luck to you! I've subscribed.

YO! Looking good, you got yourself a subscriber, looking forward to the progress 😊✌️

I love this graphic style, keep it up!

I love rats! Am excited for this game just because there are rats/mice in it lol

i was just thinking this reminded me of a cross between a short hike and night in the woods so i think you've done well so far!

Great video! I too am fascinated with rendering stuff like is Animal Crossing New Leaf. Or thinking of trying sprite stacking!

Very inspiring. Looking forward to seeing more details of your journey!

I love the lowres look

looking forward to the devlogs

You are so underrated! 😥 When you will be famous I can say, I was your 6. subscriber! 😂

This is the first video I've watched from you and I'm already subbed.

I got suggested this, it's so cuuute 🥺👉👈 I subbied 🐁🐁🐁

Always surprised at how many people don't talk about Grim Fandango as an inspiration for game making. The very best.

Watched first 10 seconds and subscribed already. Can't wait for the next episode. Very well done!

It seems very interesting ! I'll play that game :D

This already looks amazing I am here for the process to the end

Giving me short hike vibes, nice work so far!

rlly like the style of this game too

"I made a game without coding" Meanwhile at Hasbro "Fuck he's cracked the code"

Oh, it’s so cute! It’s reminding me of Okage the Shadow King

Good concept, good look, keep it up!

amazing art design it looks really nice

I love the dialog and the nice animal crossing themed characters! :D

Good luck on your journey friend, hope it works out !

Woah bro. Inspiring stuff. I'll be watching closely!

It's still coding, just without the weird syntax. I'm excited for the game though! Looks really cool.

Really good stuff! Looking forward to it's development :)

I'm also a no-code developer. We're poor so I am relying on any whatever no-code application I can find to make games and I did! My channel sums it up for y'all. Anyway, This is great!!! I wanted to play it bruh!! I learned JavaScript and Animation course in my school, and planning to learn C++ too

congrats and good luck! let's see see ur game

That looks really good. Very unique looking art style

Would love to hear an overview of how to get started with game development for sure or even just where to begin with visual scripting, seems daunting but more approachable than code.

The fact is that developers could make and design an engine to do almost anything with movement and objects to other but will not be because they really want to keep control of the gaming industry all over greed. Many people that art artist and very well known for their creative ability in story writing could make awesome games and the fact is that they know this and will never happen.

Good luck on the adventure. I immediately subbed and liked :D

nice

Man joined a couple weeks ago and is already over 2k subs

Мышь классно выглядит, уже не терпится посмотреть, что получится, считаю для dev log #0 👍 The mouse looks great, I can't wait to see what happens, I think for dev log #0 👍

the visuals are cool! good job!

Video was great, my only thought is, with how much time and effort you seem to put into finding ways of making games without coding (which I can see why you want to do that), you would have picked up basic programming if you just spent the time to learn it, I know its not easy, but trust me, it will be worth it. I think if you avoid learning to program, you will always be limited by what you can find already created on the web. Regardless, I like the idea of trying to make game with no code, but just wanted to have my say!

low plygons and retro style games will never die

i knew it looked familiar to a short hike the second i saw the game lol

Cool project, try maybe an isometric camera instead of a perspective one that should make "the simple graphic idea" pop to another level. Good luck :D

Looking great. Love the aesthetic

I like this idea, but how did you make the mouse be able to move with controls without code? Seems sketchy

Eyy, good luck!

Cool Mouse Gaem

going through programming classes and getting a C despite how awesome it is to understand... I can see how this would be more optimal. I'm simply annoyed at going through code so much but it's necessary for programming the softwares that'd program a game for you so someone that codes creates the code for the software that helps you "code" a game. Still important regardless but really does help people who just wanna make a fun little project.

Me: Sees no code Also me: skill issue Me: sees art Also me: ummmm it’s alright I guess 😢

This looks amazing!, as for me i cant do this game. It's pretty good!

Thomuse = Tomasz ? Nice :)

May people support you my guy

Keep up the good work! Noticed a name of one mouse, you're from Poland arent't you?

i can see your channel blowing up any moment now

the algorithm has chosen you

looks sick, when you gonna upload again?

great video

This really intrigues me! I can't wait to see more!

10 seconds in and im hooked omg

Amazing video!

thats about as many polygons as the average indie horror game

Very cool, interesting for sure!

Good luck!

“Making a game without coding” Me: *Impossible, perhaps the archives are incomplete.*

Awesome video sounds like my adventure.

Lil bro thinks hes Night In The Woods

Hey, I know a guy called łukasz, nice to see that name in a game.

Heck yeah!

I know someone already went into great detail on how you can emulate a pixel art style, but I just want to add that you should turn off anti-aliasing on the model rendering if you can. Those little half-pixels around the edges need to go.

Can I recommend you consider starting with "Build a 2D Platformer Game in Unity" from Coding in flow? I genuinely have no real experience with coding, and I wasn't even willing to touch it, but I tried setting up a lil platformer with his tutorial and I was actually able to get some progress, even if you never finish the game in his video it made coding a little less scary, and even with the best programs to avoid coding, it'll still come up even in things like RPG maker. Your game looks really good by the way, I hope you succeed.

I THOUGHT IT LOOKED LIKE A SHORT HIKE!!!

I subbed. btw with your voice you could say you were an experienced coder that was working on a sentient AI and it would be believable.

Great Aesthetic I love the look

i love this game it looks cool

Really like the low res look

RenPy is absolutely awesome, I’m a RenPy dev and love it but one problem is that it’s highly controlled by code, I think that visual scripting is a much better way for beginners to start

witam panie Tomaszu

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I mean, the hard part of coding isn't actually writing code it is the ability to solve problems and I don't think visual scripting helps with that? I mean it is probably easier to get into but on the long run it might be more difficult due to the fact that you can't reuse other peoples code. Other than that great video!

Thomouse is a perfect name

Yo polish dev YES SIR!