Moving Mountains: Speedy Level Creation as a Desperate Indie Dev
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11 ай бұрынCreating a game as a solo indie developer requires a great deal of cunning tricks to do the work of an entire team as one person-especially when it comes to building levels. In this 2023 Level Design Summit talk, DinoBoss CEO Edward Kay dives deep into the development of the mountain swinging game Hang Line to explain how to extract the maximum amount of gameplay variety from a single core mechanic, and how to build levels as efficiently as possible through clever use of tools.
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@subbu6572 11 ай бұрын
as a solo dev trying to make my first game knowing that you succeeded in the end made me very happy. I hope your next game does well. good luck and lets be stupid.
@zionen01 11 ай бұрын
I remember reading your post in gamasutra it really lit a fire in me to develop my own game.
@DefinitelyNotAMachineCultist 11 ай бұрын
Would you happen to have a link to Kay's post or an archive of it? Google seems to turn up nothing.
@TheCrewExpendable 11 ай бұрын
@@DefinitelyNotAMachineCultist KZfaq automatically deletes posts with links, but search for "Climbing an impossible mountain: the struggles of making a game alone"
@eightleggedbird 11 ай бұрын
@@DefinitelyNotAMachineCultist gamasutra rebranded to gamedeveloper in 2021, the link on screen at 53:00 goes to his list of articles
@edform 11 ай бұрын
That's really great to hear @zionen01, best of luck to you!
@DefinitelyNotAMachineCultist 11 ай бұрын
@@eightleggedbird Thanks.
@andrewzuo86 11 ай бұрын
I love games that have varied level designs. It makes them so much more engaging.
@MerryMac1000 9 ай бұрын
I'm trying to make this year my last year at my deadend minimum wage job and get my game out there. I will follow the advice of the dinosaur.
@CurtisJensenGames 9 ай бұрын
Used to think procedural generation was only for games like minecraft, but it seems that most games need it to some degree, interesting!
@astro_case 11 ай бұрын
A lot of helpful info here! Way to power through the flickering lights haha
@joyfulfishman5445 3 ай бұрын
Amazing talk, thank you so much!
@jeffjupiter9475 4 ай бұрын
Tough crowd great talk! Thank you very much for your insight!
@uziao 6 ай бұрын
thank you from Brasil :)
@Gastonblues_ 11 ай бұрын
Love this guy! very ispiring speech! he recharged my ambition, im going to continue my indie game with a new set of mind! And im going to add goats ahahah
@yonjuunininjin 11 ай бұрын
I'm very interested how much the game made and how much the chinese company took.
@TheOrian34 11 ай бұрын
Very interesting.
@ScottDunbar 11 ай бұрын
loved the talk. thank you!
@ExexDiablo 11 ай бұрын
Great talk!
@TheSharkasmCrew 11 ай бұрын
Good talk
@adrianbelzebut525 11 ай бұрын
Reminds me of the rope from Worms.
@DarthBiomech 11 ай бұрын
Pirating a free-to-play game, that's just... wow.
@nadiasemprini8459 11 ай бұрын
Always useful making thumbnails (little drawings, like in the creation of a comic book, to make sure there's variety in the visuals), I totally agree. I wanted to ask: even if some of the "ingredients" are free and available, so it's logic and efficient to use them, what was your real ambition? did you ever desire to create the game all by yourself, from scratch?
@edform 11 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching. To be honest it wasn't necessarily a case of ambition, doing it by myself was just the cheapest most efficient way I could think of starting down the indie developer path.
@kyuuketsukikun420 3 ай бұрын
Gotta say adding the "I promise" after "completely free" really doesn't help fight the allegations.
@FAKKER_rap 4 ай бұрын
This game is like about 5 years old yes? I remember playing it a few years ago. I guess you cant now earn much in casual mobile genre with similar scope. So not so rellevant?
@edogb22 13 күн бұрын
It's so funny to me that you mention at the beginning how much of a worrier you are, and then at 26:35, you inadvertently prove it. 😂 Edit: After finishing the video, this is one of the most inspiring talks on any subject that I've ever watched. Well done!
@clayton_games 11 ай бұрын
Wait, so it took over two years to get this game out and you didn't have a job? Did you just live off savings all that time between?
@edform 10 ай бұрын
Yes, living off savings and being very frugal!
@zip2kx 11 ай бұрын
basically a AAA dev gets fired, decides to do a mobile game, takes a year, and the game luckily explodes. he also talks about making background textures procedually which is good but its all about luck.
@smokelingers9857 10 ай бұрын
This talk is a lesson in action and consequence that could be helpful to people with exactly your mindset. "Only think of ways idea can't win."
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