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Oh really? I have heard of Elite Dangerous but haven't looked into it much, might have to look it and Astroneer up

also ksp.

To be fair, Starfield has a lot more complexity, so it would be much harder to do this Give me a couple more videos though, I’ll catch up

Thank you! I hope you find messing about with game dev and graphics as much fun as I do!

Thanks! I’m not sure if floating point precision will become an issue, but we’ll have to see…

@@danplusplus Even if we make the earth to scale with the real world? As far as I know the space is enormous and computers have problems rendering things too far away.

​@@stickguy9109 well currently even with my improvements performance still becomes an issue before we can get that big, so I guess one problem at a time 🤣

@@SaberCPP I'll be waiting

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much!

Yea! I actually just finished the terrain for when you get close and the atmosphere, just gotta polish some things and then I can make the video!

Thank you!

Ah that's an interesting idea. My next step will be generating terrain for the planets, but to be honest I hadn't thought of water (ugh!). Obviously it's important for the planet to be cohesive from in space all the way to the ground, so I'll definitely need to incorporate the noise I use to texture the planet into the generation of the actual terrain, whether that's defining what's land vs water or deciding between biomes or maybe I'll even use those textures and colors for the terrain...

It may be a bit early to write music for the game but of course I'm interested! What type of music do you create? You can also DM me on Discord if you'd like, my username is: .redsaber (the . is intentional)

Thank you!

Thank you! This is the nicest comment I've ever gotten, I really appreciate it!

Thank you so much!

I agree with you to some extent, if you're trying to release a game, you're going to need to spend many months or even years on it. That being said, if you want to learn stuff about making games, you've gotta make games. And making games fast is a great way to learn a lot, so I definitely encourage that.

I slightly disagree, this way is a PERFECT way to "prototype" your levels, get base mechs going and have some people test for bugs etc, meanwhile use that time to work on a finish design etc.

​@@EquippedPig ​ Absolutely if it's a game you're making to release, but that's not the only reason to make a game project. Sometimes you can make a quick game project just to learn something, and it's not supposed to be perfect. It's going to be bad, but the goal isn't to make something perfect, it's to practice. Sometimes you can just make prototypes and then scrap them, and other times you'll come across a really good prototype and then go further with it, in which case you should definitely spend a lot more time on it.

@@danplusplus I 100% agree! I think with most things in life the way you get good at doing something is by doing that thing

@@DatHeftyPigeon Exactly!

Thank you so much!

Thank you!

Yes and no. Open source means that the code is free for you to do whatever you want with: modify, distribute, use, etc. Now, some companies will permit you to use their source code UNDER A LICENSE, and then you have to abide by that license, but that is not open source. You have to be careful, because even if something seems open source, it might not be. But if something is truly open source, you can do whatever you want with it.

@@danplusplus Can you give me a example of what you call "true open source" ? Because all the project I know are under licence.

So to clarify, if a project doesn't have a license, it isn't open source, because then it's basically auto-copyrighted (at least under US law). The most common open source licenses I know of are GPL and MPL. If a project has one of these, and a pathway for people to contribute to the project, then I would consider it open source. As for examples, here's a random one: github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core

I think we may be on the same page functionally (understanding that some software the source code is available but is not free, some software is free but the source code is not available, and some software is both or neither). It's just that I'm calling software that is free and has source code available 'open source', and you believe that projects where you can get the source code but it's not free to use are also 'open source'.

​@@danplusplus Ok, so you should insist on the fact that you CAN'T do whatever you want with the software, you must follow the licence. A lot of big company don't. This can end in legal action and fines. Open source was a beautiful concept in the beginning but it is shifting because a lot of projects are now sponsored by commercial companies (Google for Chromium, IBM pour Red Hat, ...) and they want some profit on the money they invested.

Kind of, but David Baszucki, the co-founder of Roblox had already started and sold a company, so even if it was his first game, he knew the business side of things quite well.

Yeah exactly!

Yeah everything fell apart so I would like to try it again at some point

lol it's one of the greatest successes of indie game history, of course I know!

200? you might be due for a success, keep going!

I mean, it was the first game of that specific team, but all of them had made games before...

BUT then you realize they made Dig 2 China, then the Henry Stickmin Collection (much bigger), then Among Us (EVEN BIGGER) and it all makes sense...

Exactly! (unless you actually have really supportive parents lol...)

EXCELLENT! If you release a game and it succeeds, you win. If you release a game and it fails, you still win because you'll be ready to release another game, and your second one will be WAY BETTER!

Fair. There will always be exceptions, I guess... BUT if you want to go the Eric Barone or Toby Fox route, you need to commit to it like a crazy person (Undertale took almost 3 years and Stardew Valley 4-5 years)

Oof yeah looking it up it was his first release... I guess there will always be an exception!

Well he did have experience in the scene with Earthbound mods right?

Yes and no, it was his first own game, but he had the experience of developing the Halloween Earthbound mod

Oh yeah great point!

Yeah! I spent the first 3 months of my first channel making terrible videos, and slowly getting better. My videos aren't amazing, but they're MUCH better than where they started. And 3-6 months from now, they'll be so much better than they are now!

Not at all. Theres many channels who blew up on their first videos.

I will say, most channels I've seen either took a long time to grow OR they are a second channel. Like a UA-camr with 100K subscribers has the skills to do it again, faster, but unless you've made videos before, you're in for a lot of learning.

Nice! Maybe we'll do this again sometime without the stream falling apart and you can share some wisdom!

Thanks!

Yeah I guess if you know your game will make $1000 then it's a deposit, you just have to wait a month and take it back out, along with the money you made! (that's a very high yield account right there!)

Yeah I just learned the first tip from him, thought I'd share a couple of others as well!

lol yeah I just learned the first tip from him, thought I'd share a couple of others as well!

Indeed it does. Unless they annoy you so much that you delete the app, in which case they get no more money

Exactly. Use Unreal, sure, but don't make the same game everyone else is making!

Well maybe in 50 years I'll be glad to look younger!

Of course!

THANK you! It genuinely does make me happy that the message I was attempting to get out has gotten out at least to some people!

Yeah, sadly not

I agree with some of what you're saying, but there are plenty of movies that aren't realistic, because kids often prefer cartoons. A different type of movie for a different audience. Games are the same way, there are lots of different audiences, and if most people are targeting one audience, you can target a different one and it will be easier to stand out. Unless you really want to make a hyper-realistic game, in which case go for it! Not everything is about getting the most views or downloads or money or whatever!

I should have made myself more clear: Unreal Engine is my favorite engine and one of the best engines on the market. It's not their fault that developers are only making the same style of game art, but rather the devs, who can (myself included) be a bit lazy. Unreal just makes it super easy to get your hands on photorealistic assets. I'm simply trying to encourage developers not to fall into that trap and to use Unreal in unique ways. (I think photorealistic games are awesome, but there should be other types of games as well, and I think other games can stand out more easily in our current time.)

I agree! I should have made myself more clear: Unreal Engine is my favorite engine and one of the best engines on the market. It's not their fault that developers are only making the same style of game art, but rather the devs, who can (myself included) be a bit lazy. Unreal just makes it super easy to get your hands on photorealistic assets. I'm simply trying to encourage developers not to fall into that trap and to use Unreal in unique ways. (I think photorealistic games are awesome, but there should be other types of games as well, and I think other games can stand out more easily in our current time.)

@@danplusplus there is plenty of stylized stuff on unreal into the marketplace so I don’t really know what you’re talking about But nobody wants to make a stylized looking game because it looks like it’s made for kids Even big studios who have made stylized games they don’t sell!!!! And what you’re asking for limits peoples creativity because you can only do a medieval period piece or a fantasy piece set in a fairytale or medieval story time if you’re not using hyper realism because the other option is stylized

​@@DaRealXXLSlayer No, no, not at all! There are so many styles of games you can make, and if you're making a small game, you can't compete with AAA games with big budgets, so just DON'T! Make a game in a different style, a different genre, a different *something* so you're not in direct competition!

I guess bad things happen when I turn the contrast up too far…

Yeah Unity, Unreal, and Godot are all versatile engines, I was just trying to show that different engines have strengths and weaknesses and you should take a look at those before choosing an engine, of course I can't actually cover all of those strengths and weaknesses...