Hi. That's not what I'm doing right now. I've done this before. For me this sort of "organized" development didn't work. After a year spent on a project where I didn't see "the light at the end of the tunnel" I decided to throw everything away: no planning, no "trello" board, no complex solutions and so on. I work as a developer for a large company in a team (I'm used to working using agile methodologies) and I only have free time to develop games on my own, as solo developer. I'm not so young, so I can't wait many months or years to see the conclusion of my projects and... see them fail because maybe I completed them but as a game they're a failure! So, I radically changed my approach: a whole new project, no planning, just small work sessions (one evening...) in which I try to realize a simple idea, then I see the result and decide to save it or trash it. Every time at the end of the development session the game must be in perfect condition: I have to clean it, debug it and possibly perform the required refactoring. After more than a month, I can say that this solution works for me. I repeat: for me. I spent some time developing and more time testing, experimenting and thinking about possible evolutions. I didn't write any ideas down on paper. If an idea is a good idea, I will remember it. If I forgot the idea, it's probably not that good. And the solutions I used each time were simple and creative. Now I'm ready to publish the first prototype of my "game" and see if it likes it. I call it "prototype", but it's polished enough, debugged enough, complete enough to play. It's not the definitive game because I want it to be more than what it is now. I repeat: for me, in my situation, the structured approach did not work. The extreme approach I'm using now works: I've gone much further than where I had arrived with the previous project after a year, I have much more time to think and imagine and my creativity has improved. I repeat: it is my experience. It doesn't mean that it works the same way with others.
it is amazing to see the other end and how that way works for you!! congrats it must be the best feeling finding the way that works for you!! im so happy to see this comment!! Id love play your game if it is on itch or somewhere to download!! Id love to see your work! I know itll be something wonderful! congrats again! I wish you the best of luck in the rest of your solo game dev journey!
I started my game dev journey about a year ago and am working on a game right now, id just like to say that you have helped me a lot on the way, thank you! also i can definitely approve the notes/board thing this has helped me so much
I'm so glad to hear that!! thank you so much for reaching out and letting me know it means the world to me!!! if you ever need anything im here for you!!
Glad I could help! hope the rpg series is able to prove a massive benefit!! remember if you ever need anything just let me know! Im here to help you out in your game dev journey!
does it matter if i prefer a engine with event based scripting? Such as smile game builder, rpg maker mz, and rpg developer bakin, while most of the stuff comes pre-made you can completely customize everything.
HELLO! I have been out of town for a bit so I am catching up. I have in the past found myself in the tutorial grind. What worked to get me out of it was what I called toy building. I would build a simple ui button that played a sound as an example. Then I used that skill set to create a tool that created a random set of magic items for a table top game. Then.... Hope that helps anyone struggling.
To be honest, I think this is nonsense. I don't care about learning. If it works I can use it. And if I just always know how to copy and paste, I will never always know how it works. Yeah, I didn't learn anything that will help me in the future, but a lot of times it's just about getting s*** done.
OMG your videos are great. I am watching your videos again and again to learn more. Continue to create this type of videos. (A lil suggestion. Can you talk a bit slower in the videos. (Maybe it is a probem just for me).
im sorry to hear that the talking speed was an issue! I really do apologize I hope you were still able to pull the information from it even though it was all said a bit quick!! thank you! I'm so glad to hear that I am being able to help you!! it means the world! if you ever have any questions then feel free to let me know!
Good point not to listen to you is by just looking at the games you’ve done, especially after 5 years. Lmao, go and tell everyone how long you’re developing games now and continue feeding your self-importance
those are clips from basic tutorial videos I created.. not actual games. I am not very good at art or asset creation and am currently working on improving in that area. I do believe I understand the back end a bit and am trying to give my view on how to go about certain tasks and that is what I am trying to teach.
I've started making a game several months ago and most tutorials suck at teaching how to develop a game. They can teach you few concepts like animations, level design or physics execution. And that's great, when you know how what you are trying to implement. But the key is knowing how to make a system, and that's what most tutorials are missing. How to structure game data and create overarching game loop. When I started, I knew what type of game I would like to play and tried creating it. I watched some tutorials, put them together and got a very basic solution. But it wasn't expandable. Few scenes/classes work in a basic tutorial, but not in a complex game. When I tried adding complexity to my tutorial solution, I got overwhelmed. Instead of following tutorial approach and designing movement, then level, then scoring etc, I have designed project with empty functions/classes and defined all internal data and interfaces between them. This way, I can increase complexity of individual functions and changing one function has no effect on the rest of the code. In fact, with this modular solution it's easy to expand my project almost infinitely as I come up with ideas for new items, resources or levels.
Oh my god. This is insane! I asked the question that extension-arm was replying to. I've only recently started my game dev journey, and you are one of the first people I followed! Such a small world.
oh wow!! that is so crazy!! I loved extension-arm's reply to your question and the whole comment section seems so helpful for you!! thank you so much!!! it really is such a small world!
Hi. That's not what I'm doing right now. I've done this before. For me this sort of "organized" development didn't work. After a year spent on a project where I didn't see "the light at the end of the tunnel" I decided to throw everything away: no planning, no "trello" board, no complex solutions and so on. I work as a developer for a large company in a team (I'm used to working using agile methodologies) and I only have free time to develop games on my own, as solo developer. I'm not so young, so I can't wait many months or years to see the conclusion of my projects and... see them fail because maybe I completed them but as a game they're a failure! So, I radically changed my approach: a whole new project, no planning, just small work sessions (one evening...) in which I try to realize a simple idea, then I see the result and decide to save it or trash it. Every time at the end of the development session the game must be in perfect condition: I have to clean it, debug it and possibly perform the required refactoring. After more than a month, I can say that this solution works for me. I repeat: for me. I spent some time developing and more time testing, experimenting and thinking about possible evolutions. I didn't write any ideas down on paper. If an idea is a good idea, I will remember it. If I forgot the idea, it's probably not that good. And the solutions I used each time were simple and creative. Now I'm ready to publish the first prototype of my "game" and see if it likes it. I call it "prototype", but it's polished enough, debugged enough, complete enough to play. It's not the definitive game because I want it to be more than what it is now. I repeat: for me, in my situation, the structured approach did not work. The extreme approach I'm using now works: I've gone much further than where I had arrived with the previous project after a year, I have much more time to think and imagine and my creativity has improved. I repeat: it is my experience. It doesn't mean that it works the same way with others.
I kinda do the same thing but that’s cause I don’t like working on long projects and prefer making shorter games
Sorry for your loss. Or I'm happy for you. I'm not reading all that.
it is amazing to see the other end and how that way works for you!! congrats it must be the best feeling finding the way that works for you!! im so happy to see this comment!! Id love play your game if it is on itch or somewhere to download!! Id love to see your work! I know itll be something wonderful! congrats again! I wish you the best of luck in the rest of your solo game dev journey!
@@MattEatsMochiGood luck debugging with that attitude
I started my game dev journey about a year ago and am working on a game right now, id just like to say that you have helped me a lot on the way, thank you!
also i can definitely approve the notes/board thing this has helped me so much
I'm so glad to hear that!! thank you so much for reaching out and letting me know it means the world to me!!! if you ever need anything im here for you!!
Just getting into game dev, watching ur tutorial rn for the rpg and this popped up in my feed, great tips
Glad I could help! hope the rpg series is able to prove a massive benefit!! remember if you ever need anything just let me know! Im here to help you out in your game dev journey!
Thanks, I really needed this :)
hope it was able to help in someway!! thank you!
I can't stop wondering, if the ASSEST and BUIDLING typos were intentional or not... ;) Good vid, thx!
guess we'll never know... not gonna lie I starred at those two typos for 4 hours while editing and didnt even notice...
love you bro ,this tutorial is really good to start and finishing the game
thank you so much!! love you too bro!
i am very proud that i am watching you from your begining🥰🥰
aw thank you jeremiah!! I love seeing your comments all the time!
@@dev-worm 🥰🥰
Hey can you please make a video on how to give enemies weapons or fireballs kind of projectiles which they can shoot and fire pls
does it matter if i prefer a engine with event based scripting? Such as smile game builder, rpg maker mz, and rpg developer bakin, while most of the stuff comes pre-made you can completely customize everything.
Thank you so much your tutorials are awesome and teaching me so much!
I am so happy to hear that!! thank you! if you ever need anything just let me know! Im here for you!
I don't have that level of organization, i just sit in my chair and start creating everything at the same time until everything works well hahaha
haha i wish I could do that!! I just end up getting tangled in a web of endless tasks lol
Thx guy, I like ur tutorial
thanks bro! I appreciate it so much!
Thank you for this!
thank you!! I hope it is able to help!
HELLO! I have been out of town for a bit so I am catching up. I have in the past found myself in the tutorial grind. What worked to get me out of it was what I called toy building. I would build a simple ui button that played a sound as an example. Then I used that skill set to create a tool that created a random set of magic items for a table top game. Then.... Hope that helps anyone struggling.
Truth about the tutorials I feel I am just copying.
i completely feel you on that. It is hard to learn from them unless you really try and break down what is happening on your own
Yes! Nothing compares to the grind of learning basic concepts and experiment until you have a satisfactory grasp of the matter
To be honest, I think this is nonsense. I don't care about learning. If it works I can use it. And if I just always know how to copy and paste, I will never always know how it works. Yeah, I didn't learn anything that will help me in the future, but a lot of times it's just about getting s*** done.
4:37 MY EARS DOEST BELIEVE😶
YOU SAY GODO NOT GODOT FINALILY😂😂
i finally broke the habit!!! I know so unbelievable! you were studying for those exams and I was learning to say godot right!
@@dev-worm 😂😂😂😅
OMG your videos are great. I am watching your videos again and again to learn more. Continue to create this type of videos. (A lil suggestion. Can you talk a bit slower in the videos. (Maybe it is a probem just for me).
im sorry to hear that the talking speed was an issue! I really do apologize I hope you were still able to pull the information from it even though it was all said a bit quick!! thank you! I'm so glad to hear that I am being able to help you!! it means the world! if you ever have any questions then feel free to let me know!
Good point not to listen to you is by just looking at the games you’ve done, especially after 5 years. Lmao, go and tell everyone how long you’re developing games now and continue feeding your self-importance
those are clips from basic tutorial videos I created.. not actual games. I am not very good at art or asset creation and am currently working on improving in that area. I do believe I understand the back end a bit and am trying to give my view on how to go about certain tasks and that is what I am trying to teach.
3:50 ANY ONE WANT TO LEARN GAMES DESIGN
i advice him or her to see /game maker,s toolkit /the best teacher for GAME DESIGN
great advice!! I might actually check it out myself!!
@@dev-worm you must watch it
I've started making a game several months ago and most tutorials suck at teaching how to develop a game. They can teach you few concepts like animations, level design or physics execution. And that's great, when you know how what you are trying to implement.
But the key is knowing how to make a system, and that's what most tutorials are missing. How to structure game data and create overarching game loop. When I started, I knew what type of game I would like to play and tried creating it. I watched some tutorials, put them together and got a very basic solution. But it wasn't expandable. Few scenes/classes work in a basic tutorial, but not in a complex game. When I tried adding complexity to my tutorial solution, I got overwhelmed.
Instead of following tutorial approach and designing movement, then level, then scoring etc, I have designed project with empty functions/classes and defined all internal data and interfaces between them. This way, I can increase complexity of individual functions and changing one function has no effect on the rest of the code. In fact, with this modular solution it's easy to expand my project almost infinitely as I come up with ideas for new items, resources or levels.
Oh my god. This is insane! I asked the question that extension-arm was replying to. I've only recently started my game dev journey, and you are one of the first people I followed! Such a small world.
oh wow!! that is so crazy!! I loved extension-arm's reply to your question and the whole comment section seems so helpful for you!! thank you so much!!! it really is such a small world!
I definitely needed this. I'm trying to create a game and just seem to be lost along the way and can't end it like I should.
game dev is like a web of task that are truly never ending lol