Finally, a new devlog!! This one took sooo long to make. It's really hard when I have to split my time between a thousand things, and game development takes a lot of time in general, but here we are! I would love to hear what you think about the progress we've made on the game in this one. And if you're new here, do you like the idea of "Hooked"?

Bro concernedape really inspired a whole generation of solo devs

I would recommend not putting a candle below your monitor 💀

One suggestion. When it comes to the level design, I suggest grouping objects together instead of spacing them out evenly. Put stuff like mushrooms or small stones near larger objects like fallen logs and rocks, bushes near trees, etc. And group trees together more densely in some areas. If you have things too evenly distributed, it just looks contrived and unappealing. Things tend to naturally group together in reality. Use it to sorta fade larger objects into the scene with incrementally smaller objects leading away. Use props and foliage to frame the paths and areas the player is expected to navigate, like you would with a fence. A cozy game should be relaxing to look at, random/chaotic prop placement will subconsciously make people feel stressed. Definitely something to look into, as there is more psychology put into level design than people think. Its also very important for the vibe and presentation of the game. I'm both an artist, and have some experience in level design, so thankfully I at least have some sort of idea of what I'm talking about here lol. Your art and style looks great btw! Very professional looking! I'll have to keep up with your devlogs!

I think you have a winner here. The graphics look beautiful and your vision is perfectionist and well thought, there is no doubt this could be a great success! It will take a few years to have a proper game done, but I think this will be your rocket launch as a successful game developer. You'll just have to fight burnout and time passing by. Also your English is very good! Good luck and keep up the good work! 🙂

Your game looks fantastic. That's a benchmark of how isometric games should look like.

This is really cool! Isometric pixel art games like this are surprisingly rare even in the indie game scene. I'm very excited for it!

Often times it’s harder to avoid a problem than actually solve it we’ve all been there

Watched your first devlog when it came out - the progress between first and second is like night and day. Keep going it's looking great!

This is a super ambitious project and it looks like you're making great progress! Awesome work.

Hey there! I just wanted to say that you are an incredible artist. I don't have much experience in pixel art, but seeing your game fires up an urge in me to try it. I love your style and pixel art, and it can't be understated how skilled you are. I also noticed that you have a very in-depth plan for the game, and I can't wait to see where this goes :D

This is looking great! Can already tell a lot of effort has gone into it. Can't wait to see how it evolves.

Looks great

This is the first video that I genuinely wish was 1hr+, I love the way you explain stuff. The game looks so good so far, I'm definitely getting it :)

Night can be dark, but there is a light in a sky called moon.

Everything looks SO adorable!! Incredibly excited to see the future development of this game!

Reaaally nice progress, i´m loving the art style!! Looking forward to the next one. Good job man

I really love the way the game looks so far! I'll definitely wishlist it, the controls seem simple and i really like that too, thanks for sharing the progress with us :)

Wow, great progress. Can't wait for the next one. Keep it up 💪

I just started developing a game solo and i must say, you are very inspiring. You also show your failures witch are of course also part of game development. Great Work. I am certain that this game is going to be awesome!

Wow this project looks absolutely amazing, everything looks so beautiful and cosy already! I´m very excited for this game!

just a little detail. I think it would look better, if the lilipads would move with the waves, now it kinda looks like they are some kind of lilipad-shaped rock

Your art style is absolutely beautiful! Great work, can't wait to see more from you!

I love the palette, and it all just looks so amazing!!

Im so glad i found you!! This game makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside! Can't wait to follow your progress!!

genuinely love your positive attitude, looking forward to the game development and game in general :)

This was so inspiring and helpful ! We will be waiting for the rest of the devlog ! :)

Such a great devlog! Can't wait to see more! Very inspiring!

It's interesting to follow your gamedev log. This is gamedev theory upside down. You create something that looks good first before even thinking about the type of game you'll make. This gives you constraints right of the bat, which can be a good or a bad thing. It can force you to think creatively with the options at your disposal. It can also limit your freedom preventing you from creating something really unique. This is not the wrong or the right way to do it, that's what makes it so interesting. Keep it up!

Definitely nailed the cosy vibes! See you in 6 months :)

Thank you so much for making handwritten captions! I've barely started the video but I just want to say thanks, because so few creators make the effort and it's so very much appreciated. I'm not even deaf or hard of hearing, personally, I just find videos easier to process with captions.

My solution to your pathfinding problem is to get rid of the pathfinding entirely, move back to a wasd directional movement, but everytime the player presses a button to move in a direction by one unity, send a raycast to that point to check your logic for if that point is a spot it can move to and then cancel the movement and animation if it can not walk in that direction, which can be very easily accomplished if you make your movements a looping while true coroutine with a break or return inside of it based on a condition, would only take a couple of functions to pull off and the end result is a hybrid solution to your desire to not use colliders. Another solution would have been to fake the 2D isometric environment while having it actually be a 3D environment where each tile is actually a cube with an isometric sprite as its child that faces the camera, setting it up to align visually exactly like how it would if you just placed them in 2D and making sure that the cubes you place that are behind other objects get their child sprite destroyed or culled or something automatically so you can easily prototype the level without having to constantly check to see if you are wasting memory by having sprites sit behind other ones that wont even be visible and therefore also avoiding z writing issues automatically due to the nature of the 3D space.

Great Job! I was literally watching the last devlog, when i realized you uploaded this one!

That was inspiring man, thanks. Good luck with your game.

I have mad respect for this man right here, keep it up man

Feeling cozy already, can’t wait to see this game grow!

Hey This is so inspiring, i've been struggling to find a game ideas for years and seeing this game you are making kind of gives me a few ideas. Keep up the good work.

Yo, happy to see a new video from you! The quality of your videos have really gone up by a lot! Also your game looks really cool so far and I love your pixelart! Good luck on the development 🙂

This looks so great!! Look forward to following your progress☀️

It's looking amazing, good luck i will look forward your game!

The game looks amazing so far and the devlog was edited to perfection, very fun to watch.

I said this once and ill say it again this would 100% be my dream game, these devlogs are crazy, even though the huge gap in time from #1 to #2 I see that it was worth it, all of the work put in the game so far is incredible, honestly I can't wait for hooked to come out this is amazing, it's crazy to see how a far a person can make a game in around 6 months. All the best of luck to you man.

This game looks brilliant! It was really interesting to hear how you solved the isometric rendering issues. Can't wait to see more!

Wow! Thanks you for you time making this devlog video! Your game looks amazing! Good luck with that! I’m going to a wishlist page 😄

This art style is stunning

bro you are amazing i love the vibe you create for the video and the game😍

Your art and the quality of the videos are top notch. Would love to hear more on your background!

As a dev myself who has zero artistic ability, I hate you. This game has my dream style! Absolutely gorgeous!

You are sooo flippin cool man! Liked and subscribed. Good luck with your game, doing so much on your own is impressive but take some rest every now and then.

I really love this game! One thing that catched my eye is that the clouds' shadows are still showing at night (there is no light source unless moon is really bright) and when it's raining (all sky is one big cloud probably). I think it could look better if those shadows were there only on sunny days ⛅

Im excited to finish this video, ive re watched the first 2 devlogs a few times cause i was excited for this one lol

this is a very well edited video I know the hard work you have done! new sub❤❤

Neat update showcase, especially editing. The fairly long required time for the grid priority pathfinding, sprite visualisation hierarchy and some other comparatively basic concepts suggest that one or two game-development courses according to the game would be suitable. This is not meant condescendingly, but rather to save time both in your learning process as well as the game development efficiency.

Subscribed! Wishing you the best of luck on this new journey and can't wait to follow the progress. 🙌

this game oooks amazing!! you nailed the style

Wow, great job! Game looks amazing!

holy crap man this is awesome :D

THE ART TURNED OUT SO GOOD

I love your art style so much

It looks so good 💯😊

This the the kind of game I've been searching for. I've played a ton of farming sim with my friend then I encountered Dredge. I have not found any game that scratch the itch the Dredge left me. I pray for a successful release for you.

This game looks amazing congrats on your progress

this so cool been watching u from ur first video on this channel, u have improved alot hahaha well ur art was also good but i like this new art as well ❤

you deserve the subs for the relaxing game making! 🎉

I dont fish but this looks like such a great game! Cant wait to follow this devlog along.

good work... looking forward to see more progress

You could repurpose your old movement system as a command system for controlling NPCs or pets. I imagine having a dog that follows you by default; but you can also click on the screen and your character makes a little whistle sound and the dog goes to where you clicked. Maybe there can be some simple tasks that a pet can do for you (like fetch/pick up items from the ground or search an area)

First video I see of this series and have to say I’m really impressed so far! One suggestion is that it might be nice to add some sort of image effect over the game to give it a blue tint. This works really well to sell night instead of just a dark overlay.

WOW THIS IS AMAZING

Youre going places kid. :)

never played any of the games you listed at the start but excited to see how the game comes out in the end!

The character design is so awesome! Wishlisted

would love dynamic rain sounds based on the droplet hitting the ground relative to the player location. simple to implement and is good for atmos.

This is so cool

Wow this looks awesome

This project looks incredible and I can see this being very popular with the Stardew Valley fanbase and others similar, keep going man! Steam page is really well executed too ;)

looks very charming!

Yo, the art style is VERY CLEAN. I haven't watched anything yet but if it's your stuff... Keep going. Art style goes a really long way, especially if it's cohesive across the entire game.

bro this looks soooo good🔥🔥🔥😭 i wish i could make pixel art this good

I thought I had never heard about this game until you mentioned the Twitter discussion about the lamps, I remember that Tweet! It's looking really nice, the game looks like one I would play c: looking forward to it! I'm surprised it never crossed my mind the reason Stardew only updates the clock every 10 minutes, I had never thought about it that way even though user experience should be one of my areas of expertise, I learned something new today! I also wanted to mention that you might want to tune the bird take off and landing animations, they seem to be always at the same height

The Art Looks Amazing

I'm super excited about this and can't wait to play it. I think the music you used in the videos is super chill and I look forward to more videos. Also I really hope you put it on the switch eventually. It looks perfect for it and I don't play PC games very often as I am more on the go usually and a van lifer. I really want to play this and if not on switch I'll have to delay buying it until I get a better laptop. But it looks like it's going to be a while and I hope you have a ton of luck while building this but take your time so I also have time to get a way to play this on PC.

this game looks really cool!

I started trying Unity 2 weeks ago for creating exactly this game!! Wow, like my mind is on the screen. *added to wishlist*

Nice video, you’re amazing

thank god for the subtitles

The art is amazing

I haven’t played isometric games in years but the original Genesia game was my childhood love. And I have totally forgotten about the square island view that it had - which the start of this video suddenly bought back in my mind. The square floating island that scrolls into the next square… there’s something really appealing about it

I want to learn pixel art, anime drawing, and isometric game development like you. Game looks Awesome. I found my path to choose😊

Very cool!

The game looks amazing 😱

I absolutely love how everything looks so far! I just hope you don't spend too much time on aesthetics and forget about gameplay. A pretty game is nice but boring if the gameplay is dull.

I love pixel art games! Like the Suvivalists!

Solid pixel art 👍

I just came across the video and it caught my attention! Although selling for a higher price with train could be a nice way to have players keep playing to maybe build the train or train station I thing having the products being sold localy for more money but take longer to sell and have the train be faster and instant would be a good balance while keeping the building aspect of the train station

For the love of god please move the candle from underneath your monitor! The little flame will still create a lot of heat which may damage your monitor and not to mention the soot which will slowly accumulate over that section of your monitor. That out of the way, a cute and satisfying art style like the one you're heading towards really adds a lot to this project.

The art style looks soo lovely! It was also interesting to see how you solved the isometric sprite sorting issue. Great job all around!!

If you ever decide that WASD movement would be better after all, you can use an edge collider 2D to wrap a collider around an object. Should work in isometric.

Hi! I recommend focus in the gameplay, this is the most important part of the game, it can be really pretty and cozy (and trust me, your game naled it), but without a really good gameplay, people will just get bored and not play for so long. Remember to give players a reason to stay engaged with your game, like colectables, prizes, etc. Good luck, wish you the best!

Wow long time no see man 😅 And the game looks great 🎉