They DESTROYED my Open World RPG Game! (Dream Game Devlog)
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- My biggest fear in game dev showcased in this "Demo Disaster to Savior" Devlog.
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Pokémon meets Zelda Breath of the Wild in this entirely new adventure being developed.
Catch monsters, level up from battling, collect rare resources, and explore vastly different landscapes in this open-world monster catcher experience!
Monster Tribe's Cool Features:
Turn-Based Team Combat
Dungeon Crawler Elements
Collectible Monsters
Open-World Exploration
2 Player VS Mode
Leveling Up, Morphing, and Modifying Creatures
In Monster Tribe Devlog 21 we discuss how my greatest fear of public playtesting came true, how I dealt with the public critique and what I did to fix the game moving forward. Every experience in game development is an experience you can learn something from with releasing a public demo and partaking in the Steam Next Fest being no exception.
Monster Tribe has come a long way since we started almost 2 years ago, so thank you all for your continued support, allowing me to develop my child-hood dream game as a full-time game developer/pixel artist.
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nice beard reece
nice beard reece
nice beard reece
That new battle background is beautiful! :D
Thanks brother 💯💯💯
Your wall of text problem is two-fold. 1. You have too much space to write text, so you will write a lot of text to fill up the space. I'd recommend reducing the amount of text that can fit anywhere. Just make your text larger or make the panel it's inside smaller. 2. The writing is very repetitive, full of filler text, and generally poorly structured. Lets look at this portion of text from the video:
"You will need to equip yourselves with the tools needed for survival in the wilds, as well as the ceremonial items necessary to carry out your rites. The Blacksmith and Shopkeep are awaiting your arrivals. Go to them and they will get you ready to begin your journeys."
"You will need", "the tools needed" is redundant. You don't even need to put "you will need to equip"... just say "You'll need proper tools". "As well as" is totally unnecessary filler. "items necessary" is again just repeating what we already know. You've got "need" "needed" and "necessary" all in one sentence. The last two sentences can just be reduced. Here's what I came up with:
"You'll need the proper tools to survive in the wild and the ceremonial items to carry out your rites.
Travel to the Blacksmith and Shopkeep who await your arrival."
Here there's just one "need" in the whole paragraph. I also removed the "to equip yourselves" because... that's pretty obvious. Got rid of the "as well as" because we can just include that with "and the". Got rid of the "necessary", as it goes with the "you'll need" part. The last sentence is just a way shorter example of what your text was saying in two sentences.
Great input man! Totally agree 👍 Thanks!
This is how constructive criticism is supposed to go instead of just an insult. Great comment!
This is the most important part of writing for the average reader, and a common mistake even big name novelists are prone to making.
You basically summed up the biggest issue that people who don't write professionally (And some who do) have when it comes to writing.
Don't try to make stuff look and sound fancier by making every sentence painfully long. This could've been improved even more by just having someone like the barkeep tell you: "Hey, you're going to need some tools. Go check out the blacksmith and the shop before you go out."
It sounds casual, and it should be, considering you're speaking to a barkeeper and not to a character of a Shakespeare play.
Another added thing is highlight any thing that could be considered important with it's own color. Lets player filter the useful info out of the conversation. In the line of dialogue I wrote, highlighting tools, blacksmith and shop would've been enough for player to put 2 and 2 together.
@@lucasmitchell9027 If you watch GMTK, that's good, but one would also need to account for people that are color blind. Make the text bold or italic.
wow... that looks amazing.
also, the problem you had is called
"the wall of text problem"
Thanks Quazey! Also yeah the wall of text 💀💀
@@ReeceGeofroy 💀
I feel you man. We spent an entire year working on our tutorial. It ain’t easy!!
Certainly is not my friend 🥲
...I am slightly concerned about how you present "the ACTUAL game in the demo!" like some revolutionary amazing concept lmao. The game looks really nice though, you've definitely made my wishlist.
Gonna be honest: the font makes me not want to read anything. 8:38. "Youwill need..." what's with kerning? Why lowercase y is so small? Why "Nikomi:" looks like "Nikomii" or "Nikom::"? Why "r" looks like ト? Why 't' looks like +? Why 'q' looks like '🔍'? Why 's' looks like '5'? Why there's only ~3 pixels differences between 'a' and 'o'? Small retrostyle font and outline do not work together. I literally can't read what's written: on my first attempt I read "blacksmith" as "blocksmith" and was like "huh?" also I had extremely hard time figuring out where one word ends and other begins.
So... Who destroyed the open world rpg game? What was destroyed? What happened? It's not answered in the video, so I guess you'll reveal it in the comments soon!
It was, a bit exaggerated though
@@Narwhal12 Not even exaggerated, it's just a shameless clickbait that is irrelevant to the video itself.
The UI is too low-res; by that I mean one pixel on the UI is many pixels on the environment.
Bump up the resolution, so that it looks consistent.
Great work on the game. Early demos are always rough around the edges, keep at it, and in time and with enough polish, a future demo should really work out. It looks good so far!
Even if demo was a fail, you still got a demo out! Greate job man
Thanks King! :D
I think it would be easier to set a timer for a demo .
So you have the entire game but you can only play it for 3 minutes if the game is short (30 minutes), or 10-15 minutes if the game is 2 hours long.
So basically you created a Lost Ark tutorial first lv50 levels with press ESC instead of press G to skip text hahahah
Good job :D
I’m so hype for the new demo! I wish it was on switch so I could play it myself, but I’m happy to hear about the progress!
Unfortunately I think the demo will only be available on steam, but who knows
In that case you'll need to wait until it's fully released
fantastic editing!
Thanks Pete! 😁 I'll be seeing our games at PAX 👍
Dude I'm super pumped for ur game, I know I don't comment much but I've been doing my best to follow every devlog and its really inspiring
Thanks Ed! You are the man 💯
Hey keep up the great work Reece! Your game seems really promising and I can totally relate to making gamedev mistakes or getting stuck in different processes that sometimes even make you step back and go for another route/solution but in the end it's always you gaining experience and therefor getting the abilities to make your game the best version :)
There always will be next "NEXT"
Retromation and SplaterCat mentioned that last round had many buggy demos and they blew their opportunity with it by rushing instead of waiting for the next round.
What if you randomize the battle scene between 10 backrounds
Great to see how you're taking feedback and improving the game!
For sure, thanks Skeffles!
I've been looking at your videos for awhile now and I've also been wanting to do game design in snhu for awhile now as well lol
Nice work. Always great to see your journey and continued progress. Keep it up!
Thanks man! Really appreciate it 🙂
Cool stuff man! Important subject.
Feedback: I think your game's look could benefit alot from including diagonal half tiles for your roads! Especially since the character can move diagonally it feels extra jarring that all the roads are zigzaggy hard angles. Keep it up!
Thanks for the constructive feedback!! Appreciate it :)
Excited to see the new demo, I'm sure what you went through was rough but also a really good learning opportunity to improve!
Absolutely, glad I released it when it did so we had time to fix it !
Absolutely, glad I released it when it did so we had time to fix it !
One note on open worlds is like to make us they need variety if every direction is just more of the same there just isn’t a real reason to explore.
your doing what i havent nice job! it looks really great
I somehow had not heard of this game before today - and I am now looking forward to it!
Glad you are excited 😁
The game looks awesome so far! Really looking forward to it's full release.
The new battle backgrounds are beautiful, definitely an improvement (since I believe that the "unfitting" backgrounds were the limiting factor in the previous designs)
Although, for now, my main criticism is how the overworld looks at the moment: some of the areas look too...blocky? The way the rivers and paths connect don't feel very natural, and that makes it look kinda weird to me.
But other than that, it looks incredibly fun! Keep up the good work :)
I'm still crying bout the player sprite scale flip but the rest of the game looks good 👍
have a chance of u create a battleground stance, and make this like a MOBA?
Would you consider making the text bigger? The dialogue can be barely read.
Nice backgrounds for battle! i havent seen the other videos, but as an programmer i can guess the code behind it so its quite fun to especulate on how its done , the code sometimes is as beauty /artistic as the end result.
(havent tried to implement it probably is harder than its look)
Battle scene v3 lol, hyped for the new demo release XD
Woohooo! Me too :)
Great job. With this, it will improve for the better!
Thanks Kyle!
Am I the only one that prefers the old style where the things where clearly named out at around 3:50 ?
Like sure, the new one looks more colorful, which realistically, color could still be kept anyways. But I just hate it when devs assume I have to have their own interpretation of what icons are supposed to mean.
For abstract things, sure that can work, that's a design language the player has to learn eventually, so like how in Pokemon a green leaf means Grass Type. But for things like options to use THAT symbol for example? At least stick to universally used stuff, options are a cog wheel, dang it!
I hope it goes well. Also will you put the demo on switch? I dont have a pc but i do have a switch.
From one Reece to another you are doing great work, keep it up! To our dream games
Thanks Reece! :D
7:00 (Ignore this it’s just a bookmark for me)
This seems like it will he a fun game when its finished as it is so far
Thanks Null! Appreciate youuuu!
I'm so hyped for Monster Tribe :D
As am I 😁
Some great advice here in the comments. But here is another, Learn from Zelda, the Zelda games would highlight important words or phrases if there was important info in text. Its important to separate lore from instruction. This can be done by giving important things an item (like a guide book, a note, or repeat instruction in a quest log.) that can revisited or re read. If you have time cutscenes are also good. Lastly, this is 2022, some things are second nature to gamers try to avoid explaining too many basic features in your unskippable tutorial. Once players enter the "blah blah blah" phase they tend to never leave it, so keeping things bitesize is important. The best tutorials feel like gameplay.
weird to put a sponsor video on this lol
I can't wait to play! It looks fun. I'll have to watch the devlogs, the game seems interesting.
Thanks Lokear!! 😁😁
@@ReeceGeofroy Absolutely! You're one of the biggest inspirations of mine when it comes to game design. Definitely gonna return the favor!
If the long texts are necessary - try color coding the important part only so players know what not to skip on reading like "Press O" (yellow) to "do action" (yellow). Just a temporary/quick solution to long text problems (Seems like you already done it near the end of the video)
IT CANT BE! ALSO HYPE!
You definitly needed feedback earlier in the game but at least now it's done. Always painful at first but it's very important.
Yes absolutely! Glad we got the first demo out to see what we could do better
Ok. So what i get from this is don't go to steam. No but seriously. A good way to have the dialogue that you want and still show off where to go and mechanics would be to have small points of well hidden signage or directions. So a sign that has a pickaxe that leads to a bunch of rocks and a small image showing how to actually mine. Doing stuff like that I feel you could fill out your environments and make them more "alive and diverse"
Is the music from Hypnospace Outlaw?
Most music is original MT OST
Making a good game is hard! You are great!
Thanks Pierre! Appreciate you :)
Wait CUTSCENES? Also I am hyped for the demo
I am super pumped to release it alongside the next upload on the channel!
Thanks for the honest post mortem, it was very useful. I'm one of those players who hate reading text and often skip it - did you find a way to reach the mechanics without a lot of reading?
We introduced screen pop ups and tutorial Slides with visual information explaining the controls, so if players just need a quick refresher they can just look through the help menu :)
Hey man! If I may give you some quick feedback: the world looks barren and empty. I dig the colors but things are looking a tad too flat and uninsteresting. Animations are cool. Keep up the great work, the last 10% is the hardest!
with what engine did you make your game?
I'm using gamemaker studios 2!
the demo was kind of cool when i played, but i didn't play after the first area, i ust killed some mobs going down and left, but it seems like a cool idea, good luck
For sure, this first demo was just a testing grounds :)
So the game wasn't even close to a working demo let alone the full game and you're mad because you didn't just say no to the steam event and use that time to actually work on the game and not a demo.
so steam did not "ruined" your game, you just accepted an invitation for something that you were not prepared, either way, maybe it was an experience necessary to help you out making your game by forcing you to commit certen errors in game dev
ayy new devlog
Am I the only one feeling stupid for not getting what the title has to do with the actual video?
looks good
What engine u using?
I use Gamemaker Studios 2 👍
I would strongly recomment removing the sprite flip animation when character changes direction. It looks ilogical. Also it makes him look like he is made out of paper. Is he?
nice beard bro
nice beard btw
damn
damn
caps lock in the title is my reason to unfollow. but good video
The map is boring.
work harder?
No offense, but your game kinda sucks. I like the scheme of your videos and the topics you cover at times but your game does not look good at all.
may I ask why does it suck and not look good?
I think criticism is good, but only if you explain it a little better and have it in a way that may change things to improve things in a way that would be more understandable.
I don't want your criticism to be passed by as a hate comment, but I think explaining it would help reece understand the weaker areas of the game and on how to improve them.
My take
@@minidavid-devdave The artstyle is inconsistent,
the mix of two genres do not work, you can tell that the scope of the game is too big, the monster designs make no sense (to me), the UI is not scaled well, there are almost no animations, the game just looks unfinished. There are more to list that I can't think of off the top of my head. In my opinion he should just stick with the survival aspect of the game. People all have different opinions, so I could see why people might like the game, however the way the game looks just ruins it for me.
This is a prime example of a simply pointless comment. Nothing constructive said here.
We get it. You are a "better" developer.
Hey everyone that replied. I just wanna apologise to Reece and everyone that was offended. At the time I was really pissed at something, and it made really disrespect the people that work on games. I'm not a game developer, and I don't know much about game design. The comment was simply built on stupidity. Reece, please keep working on your game! There are many people who enjoy your content and your games, so try to ignore the people like me. Good luck on your game dev journey!