Upgrading My Ludum Dare Game! - Slimekeep Devlog #1 

I love the "Gameboy but more vibrant" colour palette, it's really appealing!

I have a feeling that your favorite colour is green ._.

Things i think you NEED in this game: -Make a boss slime -make a speedy slime -make better guns from the shop -(my opinion) make a secret room -make more maps include other slimes those are probaly gonna make it better ;)

every game dev channel: i will be taking a short break. 1 year later: don't worry i will be back on the project soon!

I like jams because they motivate me to finish

I know you like green, but for some of us it makes it really hard to see, so if you could either include a mode that changes the colour or add a bit more contrast, that would be awesome.

Great progress! Heres a possible mechanic: you can lure two small slimes into each other where they can fuse into a bigger one. Also, a juicy splatter effect when a slime dies would be nice. :)

This is life changing!!!!! thank you so much for posting this. Before this I was bullied at school all the time, the called me fat boy because i have big bones, but now that I know how to upgrade a ludum dare game, they will never call me fat boy again!! HUZZAH

I love how you make your devlogs and aspire to produce the quality of content you do.

Your ludum dare 46 video was in my recommended and I was confused you havent had like 700k subs (Very high quality, got yourself a subscriber :) )

Wow! Crazy to see how far along the project is! Really inspiring.

congrats on 1,000 subs, you deserve every one of them and more! great content and games!

“...So I spent quite a few time..” Thanks Ben real cool

Him: it is insane that we just got 100 subscribers in 5 days Him now: hits 13k the day after he celebrates 12k

Wow, the voice change from this to your most current video is wild!

Great to see that you keep on working on Slimekeep even after Ludum Dare! Can't wait to see potential of your game!

"game is too green" "k imma make it a different green"

my man is blowing up 🔥🔥🔥

And that decision to develop slimekeep even after the jam was over brought him so many subs and views

Honestly bro, I wish you all the best your a great Content creator and I couldn’t believe your sub count from the first time I saw you in my recommend but I’m happy to see people are noticing your good content from your big increase in subs. Keep It up and also Ive subbed and turned the 🔔 on 👍

I was looking for devlog series and I found this, this was great and keep it up!

I love listening to your voice while doing homework

This game is looking amazing excited to see what you do next! :D

Nice, im also working on a game but having some trouble with the music haha, after watching your latest ludum dare video i felt better and i think i might try again! All i need to do is learn how to use unity as i already know how to make sprites and so on. Keep up the good work!

That's a really simple yet amazing game, can't wait to see how it will evolve!

These videos are so well made that I didnt notice you have less than 1000 subscribers, good job

Be cool to make it so a slime tentacle slowly eats your hearts, and resets every room, encouraging the player to finish the room quickly. . Killing small slimes would make the bigger slimes faster and extend the timer.

Love it. I make shitty games (my desire outweighs my abilities) but I love seeing how things are improved. What little things make big impacts. Keep it up

This looks really cool! I love the art style!

super cool idea! feels like a rogue, like but with a retro-game boy art style. keep it up!

maybe instead of upgrading over time the combine into a bigger stronger slime when two smaller slime touch/collide with each other this also puts pressure on killing them fast and not kiting them around which will cause them to bundle up and become stronger which is the standard strategy for most of these games now its a risk to kite the enemy around and not always the best option

It would’ve made more sense to make your environment less bright and your enemies more vibrant - your player would want to focus on the enemies, not the environment around them so, while this may take more effort, I believe it is a smarter idea to just go with a darker backdrop. Keep the walls bright though, that’s something your player needs to see!

I have hope you are gonna be very popular in the future keep it up

Aaaand, you got yourself a new follower ! Keep it up man !

This guy deserve more subs! His edits are the BEST

Thank you for updating the game!! Good job! Also, First.

yo bro dont stop upgrading this game at all XD btw much love!

Oh hey congrats on 1k

Hehe nice I was in the screenshot

Nice!! Waiting for the next video about this. And ya make a timer for the wide camera so you cant just stay at it so long

Neat! I usually don't see people upgrading their jam games

I think the first version could’ve used a system that makes the slimes more dangerous the bigger they get.

"I'm not gonna completely stop on hacker game" Famous last words

8:02 "I spent quite a few time" -BenBonk, 2020

Green is my favourite colour too;) Very good video 👍

you're awesome dude. Keep making indie game content! :D Also you can use trello to organize your task. Very helpful for me when I create games and other software programming stuff

I like the green style! Really unique

Congrats on 1k

I am your 500 subscriber!! Congrats

Come on you are achieving that milestone 1k keep going

I live this game man keep it up you do a great job

Yo pro tip - for tilemaps use a 'tilemap collider'. It's a godsend :D By default it just makes each tile it's own 'square' for example, but there's a boolean on the collider which makes it all cohesive. I forget what it's called but click on stuff till you find it, makes it smoother.

can't wait to see the channel grow

wow u were at 300 subs back then good job u are super successful

Really cool videos man. I think i’m gonna participate in some jame myself.

I would consider making the level up animation of the slimes shorter. This is because they level up quite fast and the player may have trouble recognizing the actual size of each particular slime. Its hard to describe but when you watch it you will probably see it. Great art!

this is greate man keep on the greate work :)

You inspired me to make my own game Thankyou

Keep up the great work guy!

Cool, it’s looking better already

This game is awesome! I'm wondering, can you add a thing where over time the slimes become more powerful and faster? edit: forgot that last time you already did that

am i the only one who loves the thing that its all green? Its so polished and feels so cozy

How long have you been making games? Cool vids btw!

I'm not sure if you know this but at 8:53 one solution is a polygon collider (it's 2D of course). I'm only really saying this as i only recently found out it existed after making 10+ colliders for a single large object. EDIT: okay it's not useful advice for what you needed but i hope it helped anyways

Even better now whereas I'm new on the channel ^^ Hey btw, do you have any advice to start developing games? I know there is a lot of content out there about it but you seem to know the subject :P

Oh luk an indie gamedev! Subscribed

cool game! would like to see a tutorial for how you get the gun rotating towards the mouse cursor, mine is a bit rough

*Posted this on April 26, 2020. Is very happy of 344 subscribers. Less than a month later, 2.77K subscribers.

I think you should work on the Risk and the reward. The big slimes still die in one hit so keeping them alive is no problem, but if they got bigger with more health and maybe even faster, I think it would work better as a risk reward kind of thing

You are underrated man

about halfway there to a very noice grey checkmark

This seems like a Gameboy enter the gungeon

somethings i would recommend -instead of screenshake, do ripple effect when player gets hurt, and alos add some particle effects -if enemies get close to each other, make them blast up in particles -spice up the world a bit with more trees, bushes, etc. -improve how the house looks, im usually a big fan of you art, but the house isn't looking the best right now other than that i think you have a pretty good game! you should look at a devlog called archvale to possibly inspire you with more idea! good job man!

this is the amount of times BenBonk said “bits” 👇

It would be nice if the player stood out a little more since I might lose him in all the green. Still like the palette though. :)

Gnarly Game Dude!

Really nice game dude! But I would say that the bigger slimes should have more health and are a bit slower. And maybe make them spit at the player. I think that would make it more challenging to keep the bigger ones alive.

I can tell your gonna blow up like Dani :) 👍

I think the “walking” animation for the slime should be little better than bobbin up and down

Upgrades ppl, upgrades

you should add more weapons. a powerfull but slow shotgun , a automatic gun that is weak but fast and the neutral pistol... nice video :)

Wow! Only 1.31K Subscribers? You deserve all mine!

AWESOME! love ur vids

this youtuber is good, He should have alot more subs! Here have a sub benbock Edit: edit; edit, edit.

This has taken a lot of inspiration from Enter The Gungeon

Nice vid. You should check out Trello. It's much better suited for creating lists for programming tasks than Google docs.

I suggest added some dark blues to switch up the colour pallete a little. It reminds me just a little too much of a Gameboy as it is now.

I don't know how hard it would be to implement but I wonder if you could add little secrets that allow you to change the color of the game, like everything turns blue, or orange, or purple instead of green

If you do another edit then you should make the slimes give more points in the home room. And make a slider to change the size of the cursor. Also the slimes could be able to dodge bullets.

hey i think you should add multiple slime types (shooting slime, giant slime...) it could make the game more fun to play !

2:15 the proper name is dungeon crawler and they are a great/fun project to work on.

can you add shop for other guns? and maybe pet slot too?

An idea I have is that the points could be used to unlock new areas somewhat like call of duty zombies!

Keep up the good content, and let me guess green is your favorite color.

I love the monochromatic art style, but it's a little too monochromatic. It's all one shade. I'd recommend adding darker greens in more places.

For checklists you can use trello! I think it would be better then google docs!

Bro you are the best

What you could do is that you could simply create a sprite and make that follow cursor!

You should make bigger slimes more dangerous, so keeping them alive is riskier but more rewarding

Hello, I was wondering what program do you use for the coding and stuff, looks nice.