Yes exactly:D

Hey bro I now feel that too you're right I will keep this in mind from now on, as without learning a,b,c,d.... We cannot read and write in English it's the same as that.

I'm glad this was helpful :) I think making small games gives new devs tons of value, whatever you end up deciding though I look forward to keeping an eye on your progress :)

Bro, how is it going?

@@InflatedCatStudios Bro definitely hasnt touched it since he left that comment

@@Brodc He posted updates to it in our discord server a bunch afterwards - how about trying to create something as well instead of putting people down for no reason?

TouTube is hard haha xD thank you though :)

I think it’s because gamedev is a relatively small niche and gamedevs learn how to work with complicated editing stuff pretty fast

Congrats! Good stuff :D

Plenty of time to make a bunch of small games first

Hey I got an idea for a game, but I 'm too lazy to type it if you're not interested at all, so if you are pls tell me

@@francescacastronovo647literally nobody is interested. Go learn to develop.

​@@francescacastronovo647 we all got ideas bro , doing the coding is the hard work even learning to make 3d models isnt THAT much of an effort . The coding and the functioning is the main stuff

​@@francescacastronovo647but if you want to tell me i am here to listen.. but i am guessing you forgot it till now lol

Thank you!!!

Awesome! Yeah, I had the same experience when it comes to game jams.

I'm glad to hear it! Good luck :D

Thank you!

Thank YOU! Best of luck!

Best of luck! I'm glad this helped you :)

Hey thanks! I'm not sure if I can cover that sort of thing in a video but it's definitely a challenge - in fact, now that you mention it, it probably is something a lot of people struggle with. I'll see what I can do.

​@@AndrzejGieraltCreative Thanks, I appreciate you giving it some thought 😄

@@ItsMidNightDev In the meantime if you go to my channel, one of my recent videos has "GetComponent" on the thumbnail - that video might give you a better idea of how to organize code and approach designing interaction between components. Not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for but maybe partially at least.

@@AndrzejGieraltCreative Will do, thanks!

Super, ciesze sie!!

Glad to hear it! Best of luck!

Thank you! They will come with time haha :D

Haha nah I love Alberta xD and thanks glad you found it helpful!

Best of luck! Glad the video was helpful :)

Very similar situation, the coming back is always exciting. For me I switched from unity to unreal which defiantly made this round of progress a little steeper.

Thank you! I'm glad :D

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! Best of luck with your work as well.

Dzieki :)

Cool! I'll see what I can do.

@@AndrzejGieraltCreative awesome! keep up the great vids/work

@@winwinwinwin Hey, I made that technical video if you're still looking for one kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sLqVfZyqrKyzgqs.html

Uhmm why does the guide tell me that I need to put my email on the website

@francescacastronovo647 Because it'll send you an email with the guide :)

Awesome, I'm glad! :D

I'm glad you liked it! Sure learning programming will be super helpful, but if people want to learn to make games and put their focus there, they shouldn't spend so much time trying to learn programming. Lots of successful devs aren't programmers, and I feel like your knowledge of programming should expand as you make more and more complex games.

Awesome I'm glad it helped!

Thank you! That's definitely more complicated than a weekend game, but definitely something you could make anywhere from 1 to 6 months :) depending on how much you want to put in the game and how much you want to polish it. 1 ability and 1 enemy type, maybe a month.

Thank you!! I'm glad you enjoy them.

Yeah it can be hard to choose a good starting point which is why game jams are so good, they give you some creative constraints which help a bit wth inspiration.

That’s what a game jam is? I didn’t realize any of that. Thank you so much. I’ve been feeling like I’m banging my head against a wall trying to figure out how to get started and it just feels like I’m spinning wheels. I’ll start doing some research on game jams then!

Thanks very much!!!

One of the best tutorials is BTP's endless runner. If you watch that, you can immediately start joining game jams. Everything else will come with time.

Hello ! I c many endless runner videos (mainly for unity and not UE5). I could not find any BTP.@@AndrzejGieraltCreative

Blackthornprod

Thank you for your message. Though his lessons are in Unity and not at UE5 :)@@AndrzejGieraltCreative

@@AdjointGaming I'm not really in the loop about UE5 :( sorry!

Thanks :D

Thanks! All shots in the video were taken with a Canon SL2 :) I use my camera as a webcam.

That is quite the camera! Makes sense though, looks great!@@AndrzejGieraltCreative

I appreciate it :D glad you enjoyed.

I think you'll definitely learn a lot doing that - but remember once you finish the course, to still not skip the step of making a bunch of small games.

@@AndrzejGieraltCreative Is unity 3d too different from unity 2d coz the course is 2d i wanna learn 3d in the long run

Well, I was really trying to give people a starting point with this video. If you want to make games with detailed worldbuilding and strong character development, you will still have to start by getting good at making games, so the advice remains - spend a few months just making small games. Since you essentially want to specialize in storytelling, you'll also want to work on that and develop your execution of storytelling principles like internal consistency, meaningful character choices, etc. and you can always focus your early small games with that in mind :) best of luck!

Thanks for watching :D

Unfortunately I think game programming resources are pretty lacking - most tutorials seem to just have you copy their scripts and explain them, but that doesn't really give you an understanding on how to take that away into other projects. I think the best thing I can recommend is just check on youtube "C# programming tutorial" to understand variables, ifs, loops, functions, and objects. Once you know that, you know how in Unity you have the inspector view, and the components there have tons of different values you can change? Basically any of that is represent in C# too. So if you need a script to change a material's color for example, you can just google "Unity C# material color". I hope that helps for now :) I'm working on some resources.

Yes that helps very much thank you! I appreciate your help 😊

Chat GPT can also Help. It is sadly not up to Date anymore, but you still can geht something out of it.

Best of luck! Try to aim for those weekend/week long projects earlier on!

100% - on the flipside, being good at programming helps, but people seriously overestimate how much they need to learn to make a game.

Thank you! Well, the upcoming game jam will be specifically designed to help with that. But to try to give a more helpful answer, I guess I had done a lot of 3d modeling as part of my work early on and I got really used to making static objects like furniture or weapons, and messed around with creatures too. For their obscure, I used a mix of my own models and assets. I guess just like making games, doing art is a skill of it's own- make a hundred pixel art sprites, the first 60 might be terrible, the next 30 will be passable, the last 10 will be alright.

@@AndrzejGieraltCreative Thanks !

Some of the best games use simple shapes. You can make a lot of great games using basic shapes. Make use of free or paid assets. Even if you don't use them you can study them. Learn from them. Don't let this stop you from making games. Make ugly games until they aren't ugly anymore.

@@nocturnaltruthseeker 100%

Hey thanks so much! I'm not too familiar with paid courses that exist for game dev besides the big KZfaqr courses (FTGD, GDU, Rocket, etc) and in my experience, those are more useful once you've already made a few game jam games. Maybe cheaper alternatives could be useful but honestly I don't know about them - I'd guess they would be equally as useful as any decent free youtube series. My recommendation would be keep at it with the game jams, do at least 5, each time things should get at least 1% easier. Pinpoint your biggest struggle, as well as the thing you like the most, on average, over all 5 games.

Thanks! Could you follow up my 2nd and 3rd questions if that's fine? @@AndrzejGieraltCreative

@@theratingguy5659 Oh sorry I didn't notice them. As to game dev school, idk never been, it's probably more of a question of money rather than time. And yeah I use Unity, feature-wise it's excellent... business-wise, it sucks.

I've made some about code but not covering everything. I think there's plenty of videos like that elsewhere already though :) we'll see maybe I'll feeling like making one some day xD

@@AndrzejGieraltCreative I did some research and it seems like C++, C# and Python are the way to to go. There was also mention of java and JavaScript for web based gaming. Do you have a recommendation based on your experience? Or is it more based on what code the engine requires?

@@impossible2318 Generally you just code in what the engine uses. Unity uses C#. Just look up "make your first game [name of engine]" or something, Brackeys, Blackthronprod, and GMTK have great videos about it :)

You can use all of them even for your very first game if you want. You could even make games specifically with the goal of learning one of those things. It's just very important to focus on releasing games, those early small games can still be very interesting you just have to be extremely careful about scope.

Thank you! It's not that bad haha but yeah improving audio is on my to do list - I use a microphone in the sections where I'm in the "studio" setup but it would've been tricky to get it set up for the other shots.

I'm glad the video helped :D

Well, when it comes to wondering if "things might just happen one day", the truth is, it takes careful planning and clear goals. I'd encourage you to narrow down what it is you really want to achieve with that and take the steps to get there but, to be fair it becomes clearer with time/the more of a thing you do, and the more varied things you do, the better an idea you get for it.

@xreev0x the one I linked to in the video's description? ;) yes I did (although his title has "to code" where mine has "game dev")

Thank you :)

Lol I'd love to but unfortunately I don't know anything about either, and I HIGHLY recommend NOT making a multiplayer game as your first game!

Great summary, thank you!

So, if you go to my channel, I do get into that a bit in my recent programming videos, the one with "Object object = new Object()" or something on the thumbnail, that might help in the meantime.

Wow!!

I think so! Well, it's a step along the way at least :D

What do you mean by "more?" Game engines usually come with IDEs for coding (Godot has one, Unity comes with visual studio). That's probably all you need to start for making simple small games. If you later want to get into 3D modelling or 2D art, Blender 3D and GIMP are my recommendations.

Glad you liked it! I think you answered your own question. AI is a resource you can use for learning and speeding some stuff up but it has its limitations.

Well, if it's your first game, you shouldn't make it open world. You'll have a better idea of what tools are available once you make a few games.

Thanks :)

You put your small games on itch.io. You put your professional-quality games on Steam. You then have to drive traffic to your Steam page - there are a few options for this that I'm aware of. 1) Natural reputation from making previous small games that people loved like crazy (unlikely unless you make a bunch of truly groundbreaking games( 2) Social media - the only one I really understand is KZfaq - but the gist of it is that you send people to your Steam page during your videos. You don't have to do devlogs, you could do critique videos or game dev tips like I usually do. 3) You can also learn Reddit and strategize on there, and on twitter, whatever you can do to create a funnel. But yeah this comes in time. It's better to just focus on making the small games because then you learn how to make games, and what makes games good, and games will be easier to market.

@@AndrzejGieraltCreative this was a huge help! Thank you for furthering my knowledge 🙏🏾

@@AlienSteveious Awesome glad I could help :)

Well, this video should have helped explain that :) you kind of pick up on what you like as you go :)

I am a student of game development and design, and in the games I have made for university I have always used a tutorial at some point.

Really cool video!!❤

It's definitely not cheating! My only problem with tutorials is that they distract people from finishing their games, because they get overwhelmed (imagine for example episode 23 of an open world RPG tutorial series). To inspire specific implementations and as long as you're focusing on actually finishing your project, it's totally fine.

Cale zycie mieszkalem w Kanadzie - niestety, to znaczy ze moj Polski nie jest taki dobry :(

I think that's a really common path too.

Yup I'm Polish :)

@@AndrzejGieraltCreative wow, film is over 8 months old and you still managed to reply haha

@@jasqier1060 Ya I usually get notifications for comments so I try to reply when I see them, I'm not sure why most youtubers dont reply to comments.

It's good to recognize that! If you try a smaller game it'll be much less stress.

If you finish and release small games you will 1000% remember. You can't just forget skills :) don't worry about remembering the names of functions/syntax, developers google stuff all the time.

It's quite unfortunate how remarkably insignificant things like that can bother people that much haha - hope you enjoyed the video :)

I hope it helps :)

I agree, great points :)

This is a video sir :P but yes Heir Obscure, check out the video I link to at the end of this one where I talk about why that game did poorly.

@kaminibiru I'm sorry but I have no idea what you are saying... I don't really make tutorials and idk what you're requesting. As for the technical style video I was talking about, I made some but they didn't get a lot of views.

In case people don't reply, you can check out people's ongoing projects and share your work in the discord discord.com/invite/Wys9YHFDY7

I was making an overscoped game that never got finished haha - glad you enjoyed :)

I'm not sure :S sometimes it doesn't send it... try a different email or browser? Maybe promotions folder? Maybe you typed your email incorrectly.

​@AndrzejGieraltCreative I tried another email, and it worked. Thank you, good work man you inspire me a lot 😊.

By definition not the exact same thumbnail haha! Same style. That's why I linked his video in the description :) @HazeFalconYT

One that's good enough :P doesn't matter too much. Try it on your computer, once you start running into performance issues, think about some upgrades I guess.

​@@AndrzejGieraltCreativei have i5 12400F + RX 6600 + 32GB RAM... Do i need some upgrade?

@@niitonet318 I don't know! Try running Unity and see if you have trouble.

Thanks for looking out for me haha : ] everything was planned and done safely so don't worry about that.

@@AndrzejGieraltCreative if you say so.

@@theashbot4097 😎

I'm afraid you absolutely must give yourself hard deadlines, not just for games but for any project, especially if you're not used to actually finishing thim.

@@AndrzejGieraltCreative I disagree First I have already made one playable game with my way. Second the reason most off my project doesn't finish it's because I'm working on my own not because I did bad job. Wean people forshing the shelf to do something in very specific time pierd it's very likely to end up hated what the do, To getting burn out ECT and become heading instead of something fun. With both your method and my method you able to could end take the job longer for what we expected The difference is that with my method I'm not in the mood game development or if have some other to I just do that. For my game development at this time is hobby not job. I made my game Wean I feal like I did everything in my own pase, This method working for my if you are better with forshing your self not matter on attitude and you have spent an hour for each day for example you able to continue your way. For my the method working it's too work wean I have mood to work on my project it may spend 3 hours other time one week and ECT I dasn't really matter. Some time I work daily other time I work weekly other time I work for few hours and other time's for way more or way less, And I still have fun do that and my project goin very well. No matter what you trying to say on this video my method working it's prof for how far I have got.

Exactly :D

Well, I made some videos like that and no one watched them haha!

I think it's best to just learn as you go anyway to be honest.

Hope you enjoyed the video :)

I have ages ago! Idk why it's showing that now - I think it's because I changed my mobo.

@AdamWoolnough1981 What do you mean?

Turn ur brightness up. Its not dark for me

You're missing out :)

@@AndrzejGieraltCreative on what? More pain and regret?

@@undeadpresident No, on a very fulfilling creative endeavor :) Of course, it's not for everyone, so there's no point doing something you don't enjoy. But then, why watch a game dev video if you don't like game dev 😅

@@AndrzejGieraltCreative I might have considered it fulfilling if I didn't make a game that no one would even try.

It is activated -_- ugh lol sorry I keep getting these comments haha

Fuck that bro windows watermark gang

I hope it goes well for you!!