When a video about art is a work of art itself...

Game DEV: What are you good at? Me: Binge watching KZfaq 😬

GD: "What are you good at?" Me: Ight Imma Head Out

I'm starting to get into Unity game development and I'm definetly more in tune with the technical side of things than I am artistic, so these videos are super helpful and I look forward to more!

"let's look at this lesser known indies" , proceeds to include Clustertruck into the list xD ... Great video, dude, thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!

This is the kind of people we need here in KZfaq ❤️

Love the tip about using less colors / monochromatic palettes, a great and actionable tip for folks figuring things out! Thanks!

Man... you're really quick with these uploads! Felt like just yesterday when you had that poll for the next video theme. Hopefully, one of these days I can reach your level of work ethic. Very inspiring!

This video was super helpful in getting the general art direction ideas for my Cyberpunk FPS project. I picked a simple colour scheme; this combined with low poly models gives a surprisingly striking result (in my opinion). Thanks for this video, this was amazing.

Between you and Thomas Brush ive finally started working on my game. You play Syfur a black cat with orange eyes. The opening scene you awake in this dark halloween inspired forest no clue of who you are or where you came from. As you traverse through these forest levels you find the Great pumpkins who will tell you about who you were and where your going. Let's just say you'll learn your not just a cat and something terrible has happened in your life. There will be enemies and bosses leading to a massive conclusion as you take this journey about finding your true self. Its a work in progress 😃

These videos, are so inspiring, now I'm making an idea for my own game and your videos helped me a LOT!

Love how you bringing light to games that are not well known. Keep it up, need more like you.

I always wanted to become a gamedev, soon I will start learning unity without any knowledge at all of coding but you and your videos worked as an inspiration and I'm grateful for that

"What have you been doing for years?" My collection of Adventure Time figures: "We won't help you."

Enserio que había perdido las ganas de crear videojuegos, pero con solo 2 de horas, de ver tus videos, me has dado tantas ganas de volver a retomar el camino del desarrollo, y tomar en cuenta, que sin importar las veces que tropezemos o que las cosas se pongan dificiles, debemos seguir con nuestros sueños. Y aúnque no hablas español, le agradezco al algoritmo de youtube por encontrarme con tu video de tu juego "The First Tree". Muchas gracias por tener este tipo de contenido, eres grande amigo. Me suscribo! Seriously, I had lost the desire to create video games, but with only 2 hours of watching your videos, you have given me so much desire to return to the development path, and take into account, that no matter how many times we stumble or what Things get tough, we must continue with our dreams. And even though you don't speak Spanish, I thank the youtube algorithm for finding me with your video of your game "The First Tree". Thank you very much for having this type of content, you are a great friend. I suscribe!

Invaluable advice! I feel like I'm not making progress when I'm not in Unity, but the art is what first pulls in the viewer!

From my experience, the only reason I downloaded "Alto's adventure" was the aesthetic it brings and the soothing music it plays. you are very correct, my friend.

I have been writing the game for 8 months now, thanks for inspiring

Wow that montage killed me!! I had to watch it twice. Super inspiring, I'm going to try to modify some of my art according to these tips. Also yay watercolour painting + scanning hehe that's what I do too :)

A friend and I recently decided to take our love of games and make something with it. We just started and are quite clueless about all the things that will be needed to make a game, but we are learning something new everyday. Thank you for these videos, they really help bring things into perspective for us and focus on things we never even thought of. Please keep making more videos like this. Thank you !!

Ohh a David Wehle video came up in my feed. Great video as always. Miss this guy. Hope he’s doing well.

Wow. Your videos really sparked back my motivation. Your advice is astonishing.

Great video! Thanks for including all those examples in the description as well!

This chanel is gold! Thank you so much. Im not a games dev but an app dev and I am working on launching my app very very soon (a day or two left) so this made me realise to spend a day of two on the styling now and put a lock on adding more features. Your truly, a new subscriber :)

I will definitely be Picking up your next indie game! Love your way of story telling and tbh, I hadn’t even heard of you before void. I might be the only one who played your game because I saw you at void. Loved the first tree too!

I'm digging your learning curve. You used a noise gate on your dev console build and, tbh, it was jarring. Glad you dropped that. You vids are looking, and sounding, better and better!

Ten days before I start making my first project watching this actually gives me ideas

This should be on repeat on my playlist so that every now and then, I re-watch it and redesign the size of my mountains.

I'm not even going to make a video game, but I just watch your videos because they're very inspiring and motivating.

Thanks for the confidence boost

David, you really need to give us some insight into the Music and Sound Engineering you do. All your videos have interesting audio playing along.

People need to understand that true good graphics are fitting artstyle/ art direction to the narrative and world.

I loved this tips!✨ I will use them to improve my games! :> 1:31 what is the background music name? :>

The perfect combo for game making: *Game dev unlock* (for moral/motivational support) *Brackeys* (for learning code)

Thanks! Will use these tips for my next game, It's easy to make good looking games with unity!

I am so glad you made a video on it I really needed it.

A wonderful video, this truly helped push me to move foward with my project. I was developing a video game back in college in 2016, and I stopped working on it. Time to get back to work. Thankyou

Im good at Making visual arts and environment level designs.. I also do the 1st point you talk about "Monochromatic colors" i use it all the time.

Thank you for such helpful and inspiring videos, please keep em coming and dont change!

great tips! it's difficult for me to understand art, I'm more of a technical artist, creating a monochromatic game would be very difficult for me, but these examples are great to make something similar. Thanks!

You are something else, eager to see more videos about that subject

I think gameplay is king, but the magic is in the presentation of the game. Graphics, or should I say, art direction does matter, and I don't like the notion of disregarding strong visual design over gameplay. It is why something like Splatoon feels more inviting and fun than a standard shooter. The concept instantly grabs me. It is highly polished and is insanely vibrant with great catchy music. Nintendo understands this very well. I remember crying when I watched Ori and the Will of the Wisp trailer. I've never seen anything so beautiful and got me obsessed with visuals in gaming. Visuals create a strong emotion. Back in the day I remember picking out my first Gameboy Pocket game (Castlevania Legends) due to the game art itself. I knew nothing about the series prior. I've been really into games with more hand painted textures and Pixel art with 3D lately. Stuff like "Sifu" and "The Last Night" are gorgeous to me. Also, the Playdate got me really into monochromatic pixel art. I appreciate photorealism when done well, but often times it has a bad case of the uncanny valley and doesn't offer the same charm or emotions.

Usually, if a game looks good to me, I watch a review and/or a bit of a let's play

Having a color pallet of only 256 colors and only being able to use 13 of them in 4 groups with one being a background color, for that you have to get creative, and so that’s what I did, I made a color palette within the color palette, to give my game a sorta comic book ish color style, you can’t really tell that music because all the art is pixel art made for the nes but I tried my best

THANKS!

Thank you for all your content. I'm also a solo developer working on an adventure game called Into The Maze. Your work and videos are a true inspiration!

the first gif touched my soul

Super good tips! Really good information here!

Hi, David, I would love to watch a video like this one but about vr art, where graphics (I believe) should look more realistic and tips on how to achieve that. 🙏

Mhm 😍 I'm on good path with it from start 🥳

Excellent video, as always! Congrats on all the growth you’ve seen so far! 100k subs here he comes 🔥🔥🔥🚀

I saw alto i clicked , i love that game over any game on mobile

On which game are you working next

hey david, you inspire me a lot just wanted to say thank you for sharing your story with us

WOW This video had so much inspiration thanks man idk how to say it but Thanks This video was really helpful

“monochromatic: using one or two colors.” what did we learn what “mono” means in latin?

WHOA!!! so much respect for you! I'm so, so, so, glad I subscribed; your work and knowledge and determination is AMAZING!

1:27 I think you forgot SUPERHOT

Sokpop is another studio that makes amazing looking graphics that are still minimal!

I love your ideas, im with you.

I'm a creative writer looking ahead for when I'm aspiring over multiple platforms of media. Books, movies, games. Full Sail was the right choice. And I start in 2 days!! Just imagine a game that takes inspiration from undertale, Heluva boss, and even that nerdy webcomic homestuck!! As a Christian I believe that if I combine all of these aspectual groundbreaking stories. Then I will create something that will change the world. To something more loving, like what undertale attempted to achieve. To something unjudgemental, and appreciative of other's beautiful gifts.... like heluva boss, Hazbin hotel, zoophobia and the likes of Vivienne's outstanding work!! And something personal, like the characters in the game itself. Homestuck to many is a confusing one to say the least, but it's God tiers? I have studied extensively. And have not only heavily grown from these resources, but it has made me into a person that I could be proud of! One that can take the status quo of the world, smash it to bits, pick up the pieces and put it back together again into something someone, anyone could be inspired by!

Not hyper realistic but good art direction!!! That is EYE OPENING seriously thank you so much!!!! For years I've been worried that all anyone cared about was hyper-realistic Art, but now thanks to you I realize that what they really want and love is good art direction, and so do I!!! thank you so much for changing my view forever!!!!!!

another great example is dead static drive, this game has a toon shaded feel with sharp art style, but many other games too use this same art style, the difference is, this dude gives a pink touch in the post process, so the colours feel monotonous and the whole game feels like a post apocalyptic game, I think the dev did a great job because the art style is quite distinctive and I at least remember the game whenever I see that art style

Remember guys you can trust this guy he has actually sold a pretty successful game.

you say you're not good... you're amazing!

Thanks for the tips! they have helped me a lot in improving my game art!

Thanks man! This is Exactly what I needed right now!

thanks for the effort❤❤❤

All your videos are really helpful. Thanks!

I got The first tree and Firewatch because of the art.

GD: "what are you good at?" Me: *looks at my shitty custom maps from many games*

Thanks for these videos! As a game programmer I'm trying to learn as much as possible about UX, Art and graphics in videogames ( and I have to admit it's hard ç_ç ). You're a great source of knowledge! Keep up with the awesome work.

your videos are very interesting and informative, thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge. i find these videos more helpful than any other "pro" videos out there. straight forward to the point ... who knows, i might start a team to make a game!! keep inspiring us

What's the name of the song during the montage?

i love this guy

You needed to have include Inside by Playdead as an example of striking art. It’s also monochromatic and instantly evokes the mysterious and ominous setting of the game’s story.

thanks for the art tips! saved me a lot of time i would've spent experimenting.

Game Dev Unlocked......Do you know C# Scripting now??.....I am just a begginer and i am trying everything i can to learn. And btw your Videos are Heart Shaking, thank you for your time!

A good term to look up for folks is chiaroscuro, many of these games like limbo use it very well

Journey and The First Tree are two games that have gotten me onto making my own game. The feedback so far has been nice and hopeful. I can't wait till I have an alpha avaliable for people to play. Seeing more of your videos is also inspiring to keep me going.

Nice I am starting game development soon

Really great video !

Thank you for these motivating and awesome videos

I'm colourblind, and this kind of thing is something that tosses around in my mind from time to time. I really want to make beautiful scene like firewatch but my inability to grasp colour knowledge is apparent and makes it hard for me to colour and light a scene. I'll find a way around this, a way I can tell a story without having this inconvenience worrying me.

Love your content and kudos on sharing your journey. While I'm not a game dev, it's quite inspirational to see how one can put their heads down to work on something solo for many months. I've loved your setup too. What mic arm, mic and pop filter do you use?

Such wise tips!!!

Hi David! I love the work you're doing! I promise The First Tree is on my games to play list! Just wanted to ask, it'd be great to see an animation/short film in your style. Is a tutorial of that something you would do in the future? Thanks! Naddy

Great advice, thanks!

I always fall for catchy art... Specially on mobile Games like Traffix, Assemble with Care, Where Shadows Slumber, The Trail, Full of Sparks, Chameleon Run, DATA Wing, etc etc

What's the music's title?

Great vid once again! Thanks

Man you are a mind opener

Alto is really good

Thanks for great tips!

Thanks

@game dev unlocked could you make a tutorial on how you made your fox I really like the design and was wondering how it was done. Thanks

Please make a video on how you get music in your games.

Good quality content! Thank you for sharing

Hollow Knights is an example of simple yet amazing stuff...

Please make a video on how you like to use play maker!