every time someone talks about coyote time, i feel, they always forget to mention its often overlooked purpose of combatting input delay. it takes time for the signal of the controller to reach the game. depending on the connection type that might be mutliple game frames. meaning, at the time the player pressed the jump key, the character might still be on the ground, but at the time the signal reaches the game, the character might already be over the edge

*Sees Sheepy: A Short Adventure in the thumbnail* *leans in* I'm interested.

Great review. Not a word about sounds, though. And picking sounds for player-caused actions/events with care can make a difference. With sound, you can make player 'feel' that huge gun when he shoots. Make interacting with game world more satisfying, even if that's just walking on different surfaces. Help to make those levelups / picking up items even tastier... Or, rather, just annoy the player. Works just like extra care and attention to animations, I suppose. And applies to any genre as well.

I gotta say, Tethergeist looks good when presented in a lineup of other great games :o

I was so happy to see you mention sheepy a short adventure, it’s one of my favorite movements mechanics, it’s so fun.

great tips and video! and btw your game looks beautiful

Straight into my game design playlist ❤

My friend was one of the beta testers on Sheepy and he's been trying to get me to play for it for awhile now. The way you described it made it sound really cool. I'll give it a go

Great Video. It would be pretty cool and helpful if you would make a Video about these Mikro-Animations, how to pixel them and how to implement them.

Even around all these other great games, your game seems to fit in very well! Its at least at the same or similar level to all the other games you showed off. I will definitely be buying this game when it comes out!

Great video!I'm a fairly new game developer and am currently working on my first game in blender and all the information you gave is much appreciated!I will be applying that to my game and your game looks great!🙌🏼😁✅🙂❤️

Absolutely. Micro animations are fine details. The fine details don't matter if the game isn't already good, but if it is already good, that little detail can turn something good into something GREAT! Game feel absolutely matters. The more satisfying something is to play, the more people want to play it.

Some really awesome game examples listed here (plus a few i still gotta try out!)

This is really smart marketing for your game, I love it ;)

micro animations are the most noticeable for me that contribute to game feel, sometimes it’s the difference between loving a game and finding it feels flat and not enjoying it

Great explanation!

Your game looks awesome, definitely gonna buy it man :)

Really enjoyable, thank you 🙂

That was really useful. Thanks a lot.

Good stuff, thanks for the content!

Amazing video as always

thanks for sharing you take indies need more of this

Guys why is this company not more popular it’s such good vids and I neeeeeed to play the game when it comes out.

Great Vid😀

I'm a simple man: I see Sheepy, I click. (great video btw)

great video as always! How do you consistently get new playtesters? I struggle to get even 5 people to play my games lol

Neat video, but during the comparison section of the microanimations segment, I really felt like it was a really unfair comparison. Yeah the code is the same between the two, but I think to most people what jumps out isn't the microanimations or anything in particular, it's the entire scene, better looking sprites, better looking ambience, more polished visuals in general etc... I think to make the example more effective, a more scientific approach might have helped, with the same frame of reference in everything but the microanimations. Keeping the most recent build of the game, and simply removing the extra animation touches. Because with the example that was used, it didn't really help in illustrating why microanimations are good. Anyways that's really just a nitpick but it stuck out for me and I had to point it out

I think most of these tips (other than maybe the playstesting one) are very 2D platformer oriented, probably the reason every game shown is somehow that. Like, what microanimations would you put in a 3D driving game? Ambience is also a design choice, which you could argue is not exactly a tip ("make your game look cohesive and appealing"). Othewrise, a tip could be "have sounds next to objects that produce sounds". For 2D platformers, I would say that the first four tips are all very valid, although at some point you have to decide what minimum level of skill you want for your game; if you are making, say, Wings of Vi, your game testers will probably not be average players that may or may not like platformers, or, basically, you will never make Wings of Vi.

Did you guys change your branding? (I think so but I've looked at multiple past devlogs and I cant seem to find what it looked like before) if you did, i really like it! I love the logo and the colors :)

I really want to know how you guys did your lighting system. I know it has to do with the "hole punch" method, but I don't exactly know how to apply it. I want to make the most out of my game's atmosphere and make it look gorgeous, with all the capabilities Gamemaker has

just putting it out there: Sheepy is a top tier game. I dont know why it's free xD please play it.

How do you balance the difficulty between highly skill players, and not very skilled ones? How do you know which feedback to take and which to dismiss?

Tween all the things 🙌

How did you go about finding play testers?

Don’t you DARE diss doodle jump

Everyone always says to playtest the game, but no one ever talks about HOW to get playtesters. If you don't already have a huge online following finding these "5 different people to play your game" is near impossible. Watching them play IRL even more so, conventions are hella expensive and take tons of time. It would be very useful if instead of hundreds of these "5 tips on making a game feel good" videos someone just made "5 tips on finding playtesters" once.

dev glob

Blasphemous got great art but not fun to play

Pixel art gamedevs still making their jumpy controllers, probably it is the most advanced coding in their life 😂