Honestly seeing this makes me realize how much time game development takes, which is good because it gives the message to not rush anything and take your time I wish the best for this game and can’t wait to see what comes of it in the future!
This was incredibly cool to watch, and especially when the theme change hit, it turned from some good ideas to something that felt very inspired. I am wishing the best for the rest of development and will probably try it out when it releases.
It looks like a lot of fun! You put a lot of love into it and it shows, so I wishlisted it for when I have a machine capable of running it. I'm looking forward to that moment!
To tell tou the truth, you're really bringing up my wish to play more games like kingdom Hearts. I really like the franchise, and having developers like you working on it makes me pretty excited to see how's it going! Seeing your videos also make me realize how difficult it is to work on a project like this, specially for an indie developer. Keep with the awesome work!
@@YahyaDanboosYou could try to contact the developers of Duskfade, they are also developing a game similar to Kh and you could share development tips with eachother.
Hey man, just wanna say I’m glad you’re taking up the idea to make a KH inspired game. Especially given how complexed the system is even for a big team like square. It’s definitely inspiring to future creators, especially if it explores a darker theme. Can’t wait to see the finished product keep up the fantastic work. (take your time and I wish you the best)
Been quietly following since the beginning, its incredible how far its come. Wildly impressive, man. As an autistic person who's first special interest WAS Kingdom Hearts back in like 2003, its genuinely very heartwarming to see so much care and attention being put into the right things. Also super glad to see the setting and story you've landed on as that was my biggest "worry" in the beginning. i didnt want it to feel like a clone, with decent gameplay but no soul and it seems like you're really nailing it with the vibes, aesthetic and differentiating story. Or to put it a different way, it doesnt seem like it'll be a game i play while listening to a podcast.
The new direction of Arabian theme currently kinda reminds me of the Werehog stages in Sonic Unleashed so maybe that could serve as additional inspiration for how the world could work as those sections while not as robust as KH do offer similar concepts
I'm not exactly a fan of kingdom hearts, but as an Arab myself the themes of the game are very mesmerizing and the narrative was quite interesting too. I recommend looking into the Trails JRPG series as an inspiration, and also to flesh out your NPCs in the game, the way the devs did the NPCs served so much worldbuilding and the dialogues were the most interesting ive ever seen. every NPC is quite unique and even some of them appear later again in the sequels. I wish you luck with your success
So glad that I heard about you developing the game from TheGamersJoint. Got the game for steam with requested access and added to wishlist a while back. Haven't had time to play it just yet, but when I do have time, I will record it and provide feedback (if I have any). Beyond stoked that the KH community has this to fall back on, since there has been 0 updates on KH4 for ages. Keep up the amazing work and thank you for keeping us updated.
I came across this project a couple of months ago, and it’s great to see you still pushing forward! Many would have lost confidence and given up by now. However, I am honestly a bit thrown off with the approach to exactly replicate elements from Kingdom Hearts. I get the nostalgia factor as a big fan of the series myself, but personally don't see the point of directly copying values and systems. Likewise for the similar ui layout, hud, vfx, animation style, lighting. At that point, I think it diminishes the idea of a game "inspired by". In my opinion, part of game development is the creative process of finding newfound fun and unique personality in a game. Similar how every Kingdom Hearts game tries to evolve and feel different. How have these games tried to improve on each other? It seems like you have already set the bar, marking the old games as the "holy grail". But what this does is limit yourself to that standard rather than trying to extract the feeling of these games and interpreting it in different or enhanced ways. There is no by-the-book definition of fun, similar to how the character movement speed and FOV values as KH2 cannot be an indicator of fun. As an independent indie developer you are gifted the freedom to take more risk and liberties, rather than following the current trend and milking the same "proven" gameplay mechanics over and over. Which is what you see in the AAA industry a lot nowadays. I think you shouldn't be afraid to experiment more and think outside the box completely. Ask yourself what has attracted you to your childhood games, abstract that and extract those feelings to enhance it in different ways, if you really want to pay homage to your roots. Is it speed, sense of control, simplicity/accessibility, excitement, flashiness, atmosphere...? Make something new, tweak it to your own standards until it feels right, find your style along the way, iterate. The combination of Disney and Final Fantasy characters came about by chance in a literal elevator pitch. The creation of the Keyblade originally began as a chainsaw. The camera system of KH1 was originally fixed-angle. Mickey or Donald were originally supposed to be the main character. All in all; the most ridiculous sounding or flawed ideas can develop into the most memorable experiences, and the randomness of circumstances and limited time opens the doors to something new. Also, be cautious with ambitious goals like "all NPCs should be unique and have their own stories". I'm not sure if you have a deadline in mind, but these things add to the scope a LOT, especially making a 3D game. Creating a simple, linear story is already very difficult to do on its own. The amount of work is exponential; there are always multiple layers to take into account for each character and its relation to the world and story. All characters would either have to be modeled individually, be modular or reskinnable. Not to mention that you need to design them and give them unique character traits and depth. I wonder if all that time and effort is the most effective way to enhance your game vs. for example more enemy and gameplay variation.
So I'm playing right now! One thing I noticed right away I LOVED from the KH franchise specifically was: During combat, you could actively be attacking an enemy while you held a movement button down to change targets and queue next attacks. For Example: I'm attacking a monster in front of me and as I'm swinging the weapon - I hold down the opposite direction button to focus my next attack/character direction at a monster behind me. Basically being able to que target changes and fluidly attack enemies. I'm not sure how that looks on a development side, but I'm definitely interested to hear about it if you implement it!
Hey, in regards to making custom abilities, I'd recommend creating a custom class that holds animations, float movement for movement results, damage result, all that. EDIT: After continuing watching, it seems like you already did that or something similar.
@kylespevak6781 yeah, I know. But, you know how there's a genre of games that are called Soulslike, which are inspired by Dark Souls? I like the idea of games that are inspired by Kingdom Hearts.
My biggest wish and hope for the game are the secrets. My favorite thing about the original KH game is that there are just so many secrets, and some of them literally took years to find. For example, it took many people years to find out about how the clock tower in Neverland gives rewards as an example. My favorite secret is that you can deep freeze the bubbles near Maleficent’s castle. There are literal compilations of people absolutely shocked at some of the things in the game they didn’t know about. And I want to say don’t be afraid to make them shockingly difficult to discover, or super well hidden that no one can find it. And no need for a counter like later games that tell you how many secrets you’re missing. I think it adds to the charm of the game. It makes the world feel truly alive and make you go, “wow, what else is here in this world?” The simplest and cleanest things are what defines the first Kh game Edit: Ah! One more of my favorite. In Wonderland, that chimney holds a key in defeating the boss of the world. If you cast blizzard on it, the boss can’t shoot flames at you! ua-cam.com/video/vGybWB2HU4I/v-deo.htmlsi=iziUMbLnpOtMYLdl
That's one heck of a project you working on. Say, Thought of something that might interest you considering the light motif your story's rocking. The ability to dip into a cartoon like shadow. Basically the player can dive into the ground and become able to freely move on the ground or walls without getting harmed by physical attacks. This is more of a emergency, "I need to get to safety/behind this giant monster" kind of skill. As a drawback, the player can't attack, cast spells, or use items until they resurface (at least not without some high costing ap skills or equipment.), Light element attacks can still hit them, and that it only lasts 8-13 seconds. Looking forward to the updates.
Man, I remember finding the game back when Realms just had the arena mode. Its been a wild ride watching both the game's and your personal development over the years. In fact, I found the premise of Luminous Nights funny, as my own book I'm currently writing involves a masked sorcerer going to an Arabian city as well. Though, in my case, its more based more on ancient Babylon than more modern Islam inspired art and archetecture. But because of your older video discussing your distate for how bland desert cities are in media, I actually used the current demo for your game as a guide on how to add more color into the visual descriptions of the city in my book. So thank you for leading by example on that front.
looks really cool. For the settings menu since you are putting the image of the character I think it would be a cool idea if you can have him be like more dynamic if that makes sense. Like instead of showing HP you can make the character have a reaction something like original doom. You can use it to show status and abilities in a more intuitive way like if his strength is higher than magic and defense you can have him do a pose ready to fight, in abilities you can show which body part is getting affected and if it has a con you can use his face or body to show it. You can use it to make the player asses more intuitively what needs to be done. Also it would be cool if the items you have could appear some way on the protagonist depending on usage. You can have the protagonist wear a backpack and like have key's chained on it, potions you use the most peak out, key items appear on the player. Your games looks really nice and interesting for me a person who have never played a kingdom hearts game. If you want the game to be really really really special you should also put a little bit focus on small details that not every developer would think-off or would neglect .
This all looks really good, I've played the demo myself, aside from feeling a little stiff it was great! Very much made me think of the PS2 Kingdom hearts games, which while I've only beaten them once I did enjoy the process emensly. Story wise I am intrigued, and slightly hopeful that any female characters will be written better then Kairi is in the PS2 games.
I know that it’s set in night time, but I hope you plan to add more street lights or make the lighting of the game better, because I can barely see the surroundings in the new map. But still, the game looks amazing.
Smart, turning your dev log episodes into 1 movie (i may steal that for my own logs). Also, I'm a fan of the Arabian Nights, so I love the name and design you gave this game.
I love seeing indie devs make games with different settings and themes; it really makes them stand out, in my opinion. Especially when most of the time, we're either met with Medieval European settings, Japanese settings, American settings, or Greek Mythology settings; not saying any of them are bad, but it's gotten so oversaturated. Glad to see more Middle Eastern themed games lately, especially with their respective mythos, makes for interesting designs and possible stories.
Big Kingdom Hearts fan, and I've got a bit of a soft spot for Arabian architecture, mythology, and culture (thanks Aladdin), and this looks excellent so far. I won't be able to play it because my PC is garbage, I don't normally play PC games, and I don't have Steam, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this game as it progresses. Also, that three headed fire breathing snake we saw just once during your enemy attack damage demonstration was awesome. I HOPE that creature is kept as an enemy in the game. Also, just realized, your title for this video is a reference to 1001 Arabian Nights. Dunno if that was intentional or not, but that's my take-away, lol.
I just added the Game to my Library and I try to come up with valuable Help like all the pther gametester, it really sounds interesting and Im excited for the end product
It’s like for the king character he has a cool menacing and mysterious appearance to his character have you figured out what’s his name would be or he’s just called the evil masked king for now
This is pretty cool. I am surprised, though, when you started talking about the Arabian theming and didn't bring up the Aladdin worlds in Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2.
If you write a way to have a sequel you will have the base systems down and will be able to expand on the world and add new stuff I'm looking forward to this game (and I hope you make a sequel)
Hey man, congrats on the development so far. Really excited to see how it will turn out. Btw I'm a 2d and a pixel art artist, so if you need any help in designing character or monster just hit me up as I've also been a fan of KH for the longest time. I know it's random but it's my dream to get involve in creating a game but I'm only good at drawing lol.
@ It’s really hard to explain it without trying it out, but it feels really nice and less delayed/stiff compared to other games. You can immediately jump off the ledge grab animation which can keep the momentum/speed intact.
I've downloaded the playtest and will leave some proper feedback there later. In the mean time, in case you look here first, can you add an option to swap the confirm and cancel buttons so I could use the original KH japanese layout?
One thing I'd like to see is knock off characters with different art styles. Or perhaps you could use public domain characters like, Sherlock Holmes. Could be comedic. A part of the appeal for the kh series for me is seeing characters you wouldn't expect in a anime-like setting or scenario.
Nice video, but there was something missing from your explanation. So I just need to ask, is there a magic system? Or at least is there anything comparable to a magic system so that there can be a lot more strategy then just mashing the attack button to win?
Yahya congrats for your progress :) But if I may add my opinion I think that you should stray away from kingdom hearts design choices at this point so that players don't call it a cheap knock off or such similar terms if you ever planning to sell it publicly at the future
Can you make unique sword like a golfclub blade or fryingpan blade i feel sora get keyblade to soon but what if more mysterious sora get keyblade when kairi resurrection of him he has in hand
my name is Tom and im a voice actor I love the KH series and this looks amazing if you need any sort of Voice Acting for this project I would love to do it for free
I really appreciate your efforts! I need some advice: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?
What purpose does coming from another world serve? Why can't he just be from the land? This is a problem with Isekai anime. If there's a good reason why, it'll elevate the game/story that much more.
Honestly seeing this makes me realize how much time game development takes, which is good because it gives the message to not rush anything and take your time
I wish the best for this game and can’t wait to see what comes of it in the future!
Yeah totally!
You can't rush a cake, you need to take time and let it bake until it's ready so it comes it good 😁
@@YahyaDanboossooo uh about PS5 port?
Loooots of progress, and much more to come!
Yesss 😁
Hey man I’m excited for the game you’re working on as well I just seen your newest devlog
This was incredibly cool to watch, and especially when the theme change hit, it turned from some good ideas to something that felt very inspired. I am wishing the best for the rest of development and will probably try it out when it releases.
It looks like a lot of fun! You put a lot of love into it and it shows, so I wishlisted it for when I have a machine capable of running it. I'm looking forward to that moment!
Dang. So impressive to see how far the game has come. Every update makes me want to play it more.
Thanks man, means a lot hearing that from you 😊
To tell tou the truth, you're really bringing up my wish to play more games like kingdom Hearts. I really like the franchise, and having developers like you working on it makes me pretty excited to see how's it going! Seeing your videos also make me realize how difficult it is to work on a project like this, specially for an indie developer. Keep with the awesome work!
Thank you so much! ❤️
That's exactly how I feel and why I've taken it upon myself to make this game so that I can play more games like this 😁
@YahyaDanboos Well, if it doesn't exist, make it yourself!
@@YahyaDanboosYou could try to contact the developers of Duskfade, they are also developing a game similar to Kh and you could share development tips with eachother.
It's very hard to do. Given how kh and even more so kh2
Hey man, just wanna say I’m glad you’re taking up the idea to make a KH inspired game.
Especially given how complexed the system is even for a big team like square.
It’s definitely inspiring to future creators, especially if it explores a darker theme.
Can’t wait to see the finished product keep up the fantastic work. (take your time and I wish you the best)
Been quietly following since the beginning, its incredible how far its come. Wildly impressive, man. As an autistic person who's first special interest WAS Kingdom Hearts back in like 2003, its genuinely very heartwarming to see so much care and attention being put into the right things. Also super glad to see the setting and story you've landed on as that was my biggest "worry" in the beginning. i didnt want it to feel like a clone, with decent gameplay but no soul and it seems like you're really nailing it with the vibes, aesthetic and differentiating story. Or to put it a different way, it doesnt seem like it'll be a game i play while listening to a podcast.
The new direction of Arabian theme currently kinda reminds me of the Werehog stages in Sonic Unleashed so maybe that could serve as additional inspiration for how the world could work as those sections while not as robust as KH do offer similar concepts
Your work has inspire me to keep pushing forward with my own IP. for that, I thank you.
Thanks so much! I'm glad to hear it's inspiring you! 😄
I'm not exactly a fan of kingdom hearts, but as an Arab myself the themes of the game are very mesmerizing and the narrative was quite interesting too. I recommend looking into the Trails JRPG series as an inspiration, and also to flesh out your NPCs in the game, the way the devs did the NPCs served so much worldbuilding and the dialogues were the most interesting ive ever seen. every NPC is quite unique and even some of them appear later again in the sequels. I wish you luck with your success
Thanks so much for the advice, I'll definitely check out the Trails series! 😁👍
So glad that I heard about you developing the game from TheGamersJoint. Got the game for steam with requested access and added to wishlist a while back. Haven't had time to play it just yet, but when I do have time, I will record it and provide feedback (if I have any). Beyond stoked that the KH community has this to fall back on, since there has been 0 updates on KH4 for ages. Keep up the amazing work and thank you for keeping us updated.
Your game is getting better and better, with an increasingly well-defined direction. It was great to follow the whole process in this video.
Thanks so much!
It took quite a while to get to here but I'm really glad the direction is more well defined now 😁
I came across this project a couple of months ago, and it’s great to see you still pushing forward! Many would have lost confidence and given up by now.
However, I am honestly a bit thrown off with the approach to exactly replicate elements from Kingdom Hearts. I get the nostalgia factor as a big fan of the series myself, but personally don't see the point of directly copying values and systems. Likewise for the similar ui layout, hud, vfx, animation style, lighting. At that point, I think it diminishes the idea of a game "inspired by".
In my opinion, part of game development is the creative process of finding newfound fun and unique personality in a game. Similar how every Kingdom Hearts game tries to evolve and feel different. How have these games tried to improve on each other? It seems like you have already set the bar, marking the old games as the "holy grail". But what this does is limit yourself to that standard rather than trying to extract the feeling of these games and interpreting it in different or enhanced ways. There is no by-the-book definition of fun, similar to how the character movement speed and FOV values as KH2 cannot be an indicator of fun.
As an independent indie developer you are gifted the freedom to take more risk and liberties, rather than following the current trend and milking the same "proven" gameplay mechanics over and over. Which is what you see in the AAA industry a lot nowadays. I think you shouldn't be afraid to experiment more and think outside the box completely. Ask yourself what has attracted you to your childhood games, abstract that and extract those feelings to enhance it in different ways, if you really want to pay homage to your roots. Is it speed, sense of control, simplicity/accessibility, excitement, flashiness, atmosphere...? Make something new, tweak it to your own standards until it feels right, find your style along the way, iterate.
The combination of Disney and Final Fantasy characters came about by chance in a literal elevator pitch. The creation of the Keyblade originally began as a chainsaw. The camera system of KH1 was originally fixed-angle. Mickey or Donald were originally supposed to be the main character. All in all; the most ridiculous sounding or flawed ideas can develop into the most memorable experiences, and the randomness of circumstances and limited time opens the doors to something new.
Also, be cautious with ambitious goals like "all NPCs should be unique and have their own stories". I'm not sure if you have a deadline in mind, but these things add to the scope a LOT, especially making a 3D game. Creating a simple, linear story is already very difficult to do on its own. The amount of work is exponential; there are always multiple layers to take into account for each character and its relation to the world and story. All characters would either have to be modeled individually, be modular or reskinnable. Not to mention that you need to design them and give them unique character traits and depth. I wonder if all that time and effort is the most effective way to enhance your game vs. for example more enemy and gameplay variation.
Glad I was sent this over recommendations - absolutely amazing. Excited to play it. :)
So I'm playing right now! One thing I noticed right away I LOVED from the KH franchise specifically was:
During combat, you could actively be attacking an enemy while you held a movement button down to change targets and queue next attacks. For Example: I'm attacking a monster in front of me and as I'm swinging the weapon - I hold down the opposite direction button to focus my next attack/character direction at a monster behind me. Basically being able to que target changes and fluidly attack enemies.
I'm not sure how that looks on a development side, but I'm definitely interested to hear about it if you implement it!
Glad you enjoyed it 😁
Your game is coming along nicely! I’m looking forward to seeing how the final product looks
Thanks so much!
I'm excited to share it with you and everyone when it's ready 😊
I had seen someone talk about this project a few months ago and I’m so happy to see your process and what you’ve been able to do with it!
Congratulations man, you just got a sub from Brazil
Hey, in regards to making custom abilities, I'd recommend creating a custom class that holds animations, float movement for movement results, damage result, all that.
EDIT: After continuing watching, it seems like you already did that or something similar.
Yeah, that's exactly what I did! 😁
@ Awesome! :)
This was incredibly interesting to watch, and it's really awesome to see how far this has come! Super excited to see how the game evolves more.
Eyy Niosai, really happy to hear that, means a lot coming from you 😁
Can't wait for your next Kingdom Hearts Retrospective 🤩
I am so happy to see you still developing this Game. It gets me exited for the futuer. Keep up the good work!
I have been a big fan of the Kingdom Hearts series for years, you are making something super special here man.
As a person who loves Kingdom Hearts, I can't wait to see where this game ends up :D
HeartsLike? I like that term. I think you started a new genre of games. I'd like to see more people make more games like this.
It's called action RPG
@kylespevak6781 yeah, I know. But, you know how there's a genre of games that are called Soulslike, which are inspired by Dark Souls? I like the idea of games that are inspired by Kingdom Hearts.
My biggest wish and hope for the game are the secrets. My favorite thing about the original KH game is that there are just so many secrets, and some of them literally took years to find. For example, it took many people years to find out about how the clock tower in Neverland gives rewards as an example. My favorite secret is that you can deep freeze the bubbles near Maleficent’s castle.
There are literal compilations of people absolutely shocked at some of the things in the game they didn’t know about. And I want to say don’t be afraid to make them shockingly difficult to discover, or super well hidden that no one can find it. And no need for a counter like later games that tell you how many secrets you’re missing. I think it adds to the charm of the game. It makes the world feel truly alive and make you go, “wow, what else is here in this world?” The simplest and cleanest things are what defines the first Kh game
Edit: Ah! One more of my favorite. In Wonderland, that chimney holds a key in defeating the boss of the world. If you cast blizzard on it, the boss can’t shoot flames at you! ua-cam.com/video/vGybWB2HU4I/v-deo.htmlsi=iziUMbLnpOtMYLdl
Yeah I really love KH1 for that exact thing!
I hope to fill the world with all kinds of secrets like that 😁
The style reminds me a lot of A Hat in Time. Keep up the good work!
Yeah it does have a lot of that same energy!
This make me appreciate even more the hard work of the devs when they release a good product, especially indie developers
I'm also trying to create a kingdom like game, but more like DDD, good luck for us ;)
Ohh that sounds awesome!! Wish you all the best 😁👍
Nice touch adding pokémon to the game
That's one heck of a project you working on.
Say, Thought of something that might interest you considering the light motif your story's rocking.
The ability to dip into a cartoon like shadow.
Basically the player can dive into the ground and become able to freely move on the ground or walls without getting harmed by physical attacks. This is more of a emergency, "I need to get to safety/behind this giant monster" kind of skill.
As a drawback, the player can't attack, cast spells, or use items until they resurface (at least not without some high costing ap skills or equipment.), Light element attacks can still hit them, and that it only lasts 8-13 seconds.
Looking forward to the updates.
Amazing amount of progress! And you got another developer to help! Great job forming and leading a team, you guys are making amazing progress!
Thanks, I'm super glad to have him on board to help make the game even better! 😄
Keep up the good worl! It's looking awesome. I love learning about the development of games. I wanna learn myself someday and this is inspiring.
Thanks, it's really rewarding to see it inspire others like you! 😄
Man, I remember finding the game back when Realms just had the arena mode. Its been a wild ride watching both the game's and your personal development over the years. In fact, I found the premise of Luminous Nights funny, as my own book I'm currently writing involves a masked sorcerer going to an Arabian city as well. Though, in my case, its more based more on ancient Babylon than more modern Islam inspired art and archetecture. But because of your older video discussing your distate for how bland desert cities are in media, I actually used the current demo for your game as a guide on how to add more color into the visual descriptions of the city in my book. So thank you for leading by example on that front.
looks really cool. For the settings menu since you are putting the image of the character I think it would be a cool idea if you can have him be like more dynamic if that makes sense. Like instead of showing HP you can make the character have a reaction something like original doom. You can use it to show status and abilities in a more intuitive way like if his strength is higher than magic and defense you can have him do a pose ready to fight, in abilities you can show which body part is getting affected and if it has a con you can use his face or body to show it. You can use it to make the player asses more intuitively what needs to be done. Also it would be cool if the items you have could appear some way on the protagonist depending on usage. You can have the protagonist wear a backpack and like have key's chained on it, potions you use the most peak out, key items appear on the player. Your games looks really nice and interesting for me a person who have never played a kingdom hearts game. If you want the game to be really really really special you should also put a little bit focus on small details that not every developer would think-off or would neglect .
Gosh got so excited I may finally give the new* demo a go today >.< Looks awesome!!! ❤️
Beautiful progress, keep it up
Thanks Yozora_Jan! 😁
This all looks really good, I've played the demo myself, aside from feeling a little stiff it was great! Very much made me think of the PS2 Kingdom hearts games, which while I've only beaten them once I did enjoy the process emensly.
Story wise I am intrigued, and slightly hopeful that any female characters will be written better then Kairi is in the PS2 games.
I absolutely cannot wait to play this game!
I know that it’s set in night time, but I hope you plan to add more street lights or make the lighting of the game better, because I can barely see the surroundings in the new map. But still, the game looks amazing.
I loved the playtest of the game and am hyped to see how it progresses.
Thanks, I glad you liked it 😁
Let's go! ❤ I love these videos!
Thanks! I love making them and sharing all my progress you and everyone else 😁
No problem!
Smart, turning your dev log episodes into 1 movie (i may steal that for my own logs). Also, I'm a fan of the Arabian Nights, so I love the name and design you gave this game.
Subscribed! Great video and idea! The Arabian vibe def captures the magical feels from Kingdom hearts so you hit the nail on the head!
UA-cam recommended this to me so its my first time hearing of this title. Thanks for sharing your dev story and I look forward to the finished game!
Glad you're here! I'm excited to share the journey with you. 😁
I'm pretty excited for the results in the next year :) Good luck Yahya!
Your progress is astounding! And very admirable! I wish I had your drive and determination! 😅 Keep it up!!!💖
Thanks so much!! 😁
I'm sure you can do it too, just gotta believe in yourself 💪
@@YahyaDanbooshaha! Thank you for the encouragement! I wanna pick up drawing again! Just need to not be lazy 😂😅
Missed your chance to put 2000/2 Days in the title
You've come so far man, looking forward to playing the complete game one day!
I love seeing indie devs make games with different settings and themes; it really makes them stand out, in my opinion. Especially when most of the time, we're either met with Medieval European settings, Japanese settings, American settings, or Greek Mythology settings; not saying any of them are bad, but it's gotten so oversaturated. Glad to see more Middle Eastern themed games lately, especially with their respective mythos, makes for interesting designs and possible stories.
Shout out to you man. I can’t wait to see the final build.
Thanks! Can't wait to show you and everyone the finished game! 😁
5:38 Pokémon Adventures Yellow cameo
Big Kingdom Hearts fan, and I've got a bit of a soft spot for Arabian architecture, mythology, and culture (thanks Aladdin), and this looks excellent so far. I won't be able to play it because my PC is garbage, I don't normally play PC games, and I don't have Steam, but I'll definitely be keeping an eye on this game as it progresses.
Also, that three headed fire breathing snake we saw just once during your enemy attack damage demonstration was awesome. I HOPE that creature is kept as an enemy in the game.
Also, just realized, your title for this video is a reference to 1001 Arabian Nights. Dunno if that was intentional or not, but that's my take-away, lol.
I'm glad you're enjoying the journey!
Actually, the title being a reference to 1001 Arabian Nights happened accidentally 😆
@@YahyaDanboos Sometimes brilliance happens by accident, lol.
Looks great! Awesome to see the progress, keep it up!
Your video has inspired me to start work on an RPG which is based off of MMOs like Final Fantasy XIV and Wizard101. :)
That sounds really cool! Good luck with it, you can do it! 💪
I just added the Game to my Library and I try to come up with valuable Help like all the pther gametester, it really sounds interesting and Im excited for the end product
please show us how to make allies like in kingdom hearts
Thank you youtube algorithm! This game looks great, and I can't wait to see the final product :) Drive forms based on Arabian Mythology maybe???
It’s like for the king character he has a cool menacing and mysterious appearance to his character have you figured out what’s his name would be or he’s just called the evil masked king for now
This is pretty cool. I am surprised, though, when you started talking about the Arabian theming and didn't bring up the Aladdin worlds in Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2.
Over 3 years damn. And this’ll probably still release before kh4 lol
Bruh I hope we get KH4 sooner 😭😭😭
@@YahyaDanboos I barely know anything about you but I have far more faith in you we know nomura’s time management skills 😂
If you write a way to have a sequel you will have the base systems down and will be able to expand on the world and add new stuff I'm looking forward to this game (and I hope you make a sequel)
Dang, didn't know this was being worked on, I have to try it out on a potato to see how well it runs 👀
It looks very good! Very good job! 💪💪😎
Thanks! 😊
@YahyaDanboos Yw 😁 I have send you a message on IG
Very cool indeed! I?ll wishlist it.
Bro, your thumbnail looks like one of those Mafia mobile game ads.
Yeah it kinda does 🤣🤣🤣
Hey man, congrats on the development so far. Really excited to see how it will turn out. Btw I'm a 2d and a pixel art artist, so if you need any help in designing character or monster just hit me up as I've also been a fan of KH for the longest time. I know it's random but it's my dream to get involve in creating a game but I'm only good at drawing lol.
That's awesome, thanks for the offer! I'll keep that in mind. 😁👍
A «hearts like» game is 85% depending on the complex story and deep characters.
Nizz. It's fun combat and the story is a convoluted "and then" mess
Luminous idea! ❤
Did you cut and sew from a previous video? I feel like I've seen this video six months ago, esp the part where you've explained the name change.
Yeah this is basically a recap of the journey so far for everyone who hasn't seen everything from the start 😁👍
Oh look it's me! Haha
Have you considered a ledge grab like the one from Rayman 2? I think it will do the platforming wonders.
How is the Rayman 2 ledge grab?
@ It’s really hard to explain it without trying it out, but it feels really nice and less delayed/stiff compared to other games. You can immediately jump off the ledge grab animation which can keep the momentum/speed intact.
Sora have jeans in kingdom hearts 4
Ah, yes, Luminous Nights: >1000/1 Days
Keep it up and عاشت ايدك ❤
شكرا 😁
I've downloaded the playtest and will leave some proper feedback there later. In the mean time, in case you look here first, can you add an option to swap the confirm and cancel buttons so I could use the original KH japanese layout?
pretty cool
Damn 10 years of background knowledge.
man it makes me want to play it so bad T.T
Already wishlist it on steam
Thanks 😁
Missed opportunity: 1001 Nights, not 1000 days
True 😆
Can’t wait 🔥🏆👍🏾😎
اذا كانت القصة بسيطة
يمكنك ان تعوضها بشخصيات و حوارات ممتعه ❤
Congrats you’ve come a huge way!
Also can’t believe you went into GAS yourself lol, powerful system but way over complex…
It's actually quite easy, just needs some time to learn and setup 😁
@ yeah I’m using it too but I use GAS companion
27:29 Hey brother, did you ever upload the event? I'd love to see people try your game
Also nice job 👏
One thing I'd like to see is knock off characters with different art styles. Or perhaps you could use public domain characters like, Sherlock Holmes. Could be comedic. A part of the appeal for the kh series for me is seeing characters you wouldn't expect in a anime-like setting or scenario.
Nice video, but there was something missing from your explanation. So I just need to ask, is there a magic system? Or at least is there anything comparable to a magic system so that there can be a lot more strategy then just mashing the attack button to win?
Yep, I'm gonna be working on that soon 😁👍
Could've just dropped the s in realms and made it luminous realm same for nights but nights is fine becuase it implies that it's been while.
Yahya congrats for your progress :)
But if I may add my opinion I think that you should stray away from kingdom hearts design choices at this point so that players don't call it a cheap knock off or such similar terms if you ever planning to sell it publicly at the future
That kinda defeats the purpose. He isn't trying to get rich off this or anything, he just loves kingdom hearts and wants to make a similar game
I'm trying to find that perfect balance between staying true to my inspiration and creating something truly unique.
@@YahyaDanboos good to know
and good luck achieving it :)
LFG !!
imagine if you get a job at square enix
Can you make unique sword like a golfclub blade or fryingpan blade i feel sora get keyblade to soon but what if more mysterious sora get keyblade when kairi resurrection of him he has in hand
my name is Tom and im a voice actor I love the KH series and this looks amazing if you need any sort of Voice Acting for this project I would love to do it for free
ZANTETSUKEN?
1:57 due to copyright license reasons
I really appreciate your efforts! I need some advice: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?
turk musun? oyleyse helal sana
Merhaba, hayır ben Arap'ım.
@YahyaDanboos Türkiye'de mi yaşıyorsunuz?
I mean let’s be real souls games are already fairly kingdom hearts like if you think of save points as bonfires
Last!
What purpose does coming from another world serve? Why can't he just be from the land? This is a problem with Isekai anime.
If there's a good reason why, it'll elevate the game/story that much more.
Wow. What a story you got! But, question you're not going to make it too difficult are you? 😊💦
Thanks!
Don't worry, I'll make sure to make it easily digestible 😁👍
Why do you keep calling it luminous “realms”? Ain’t it supposed to be luminous “nights”?