@12feetup Ye, it's a tricky balance. I would say that my videos are perhaps not the best way to approach it. I lean quite heavy into the 'edutainment' side of things, that is I showcase the idea, but skip all details for the sake of brevity (which is why my videos are 8 minutes long and not 50 minutes long). But if you are doing a legitimate tutorial on how to use an add-on, there might be a need to not skip the details, the details might be vital. It would make the video less entertaining to watch, but more useful for the user (assuming they do watch it all). I guess this all depends on whether you want to treat the video as documentation or as 'marketing'

@12feetup hmm, I feel like people sometimes disparage getting ’views’ as a sort of ’evil’ way to get money. But as someone who does buy courses and reads stuff that is purely educational, that stuff is annoying and boring to engage with, I often don’t have the energy to watch it. I am much more likely to try and watch something that gives me ideas, inspiration yet is kind of fun and engaging. The reason I lean into brevity is not because I don’t want to be useful, it’s that whenever I add a lot of context and nuance, people click away and stop watching. This obviously to some extent means that you at times cut too much and make people annoyed, and sometimes cut too little and leave people bored by your content (and if they are bored, they don’t find your stuff useful and they leave). So personally I feel that even if ”information” is your #1 goal, it can depending on the medium be so heavily influenced by entertainment that if you don’t take into account what captures peoples attention, you might actually make your content less informational by ignoring entertainment. It all kind of depends on the context and is in general a difficult question to navigate. Good luck :)

It would be cool to have a video about vertical parallax like when a character goes up into flight mode.

@@nemo9396 Ye, but as I talked about in the video on "why showing the sky is a mistake". I think dealing with vertical scrolling with a normal horizon is frankly incredibly difficult to deal with. I frankly don't know if I have too many good solutions for it.

I don't really mention it in any videos but my background is also in STEM, I still just do gamedev/gameart as a hobby on the side. I'm generally quite happy having gone into STEM, less of a risk (as you said), and you gain a lot of fairly interesting knowledge (compared to arts xD). So In terms of my videos this generally means I don't sit with any industry knowledge (except as second hand information from gdcs, articles or books), but I try to back every argument with my own art to show that all principles I talk about hold up.

@@Nonsensical2D you are very multitalented then, you should be proud! You worked hard for your STEM knowledge as well as your art skills. I respect that a lot! I may sound a bit too sour regarding science. It fit my persona very well and i enjoyed my studies. But nowadays i feel like i have some unreleased creativity within me that's trapped. It's just some ideas and stuff, but i wish i could release it. I suppose i could, given enough time and effort but it's a very monumental task to start from scratch.

I think it seems like more of a monumental task than you have to make it. I haven't really "tried to get good", I'm just interested in the stuff and do it a lot. Eventually you get better. It's obviously tricky to find the time though (which is why I on occasion go months without releasing anything), but such is life in a way, gotta take the good with the bad :)

@@Nonsensical2D yea true, time is indeed the major constraint. I'm building a house with my parents so not much free time. i suppose i could see the house as a sort of creation 😊

Yes, I basically mention that conclusion at the end of the video. There are a lot of 'solutions' that in some regards I wouldn't personally consider worth it, and leaning into your game looking kind of flat might be a better approach depending on the style you are going for, but I still think it's worthwhile to consider some approaches that are out there.

@@Nonsensical2D yeah mb lol, i commented half way through watching

I mention this point later in the video. The original ori does as far as I can tell only use 2D rendered sprites that originate from 3D assets, there is a whole gdc on discussing the animations (this changes a bit with wotw which does seem to have 3D assets in the actual game, but the scene showcased here is from blind forest). Since the character Ori isn't 3D in the game, it actually kind of becomes relevant for a video like this. Nonetheless, all of the points I bring up regarding Ori are relevant for a completely hand drawn 2d game as well.

Thanks! yes, but nothing on with a steam store or a name (for now) :)

Ye, that is definitely a planned video :)

Hmm, what I mean is that in reality the object would "distort" in some way or another, either through parallax or rotation. What we are trying to do in 2D is either replicating the distortion or hiding the distortion. Parallax is replicating distortion by creating layers of depth, blur in contrast is hiding the distortion, since it is blurry, it is less obvious that the object looks like a flat sprite as you move. If you add a movement shader I would say that it kind of hides the flatness, but it does so by mimicking distortion, a flat sprite doesn't look as flat when it isn't behaving as a flat sprite. Overall, some of these changes make quite minimal differences and thus might not be worth it, but if you feel that your scenario looks too flat, I would look into one of the methods and just try to see if it improves anything.

I'll probably play around with it a bit more, but this scene was just created for the purpose of talking about something in my previous video, so I haven't sat with it that much, I think you are right though that it could use some tuning :)

The left one in this case was built on 5~ish different parallax layers, and so when I move sideways it doesnt look as flat as the one to the right. Doing this adds depth, but at the cost of performance of time (I generally dont think its worth overdoing it). The individual sprites dont distort in that case though (which you could also add with a shader)

Depends on the scene, but it is basically either Inka or Syrup. Both belong to the base set.

Thanks! Your videos are great!