Picking A Main Character For A Game / Copycat / Indie Game Devlog #03
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
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🐾 In this video, we explore the design and story decisions behind our protagonist, Dawn the cat - from genre to mechanics to game design.
🎮 Copycat is a narrative driven-indie game that explores loneliness and belonging. It follows the story of Dawn, a pampered indoor cat, who becomes the target of an elaborate plan when a jealous stray look-alike steals her place in the home.
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🌻 Hey! We're Sam and Kostia, a Kiwi and a Ukrainian currently living in sunny Australia. Full-time advertising creatives, first-time game makers with a background in storytelling and design. We started this devlog to share our progress and experiences in April 2021. Our very first indie game project, Copycat, made us feel a little scaredy-cat entering the industry. Our current goal is to make 10 videos on our journey. One day we hope to launch on Steam and the Nintendo Store. Stay tuned. We are developing 'Copycat' while living and working remotely: / remotelings
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forms.gle/ayebRamC73sJKYGx9 - Ігри
The art style and colours used are very visually pleasing to watch
It's a big compliment for an art director, thank you! :)
- Kostia
So Awesome :-)😍👏
As someone who's making my first game without any experience and knowing how to code, channels like this give me so much inspiration and will to finish what I started.
Can't wait for the next video!
Thank you Melanzue! We're quite humbled to hear you found some inspiration in our videos - it means a lot. Super keen to learn more about your project, what kind of game are you building?
- Kostia
This game looks absolutely stunning and i love the concept!! vry excited for this
Thank you! :)
- Kostia
I was wondering if y’all would mention “The First Tree,” I got those vibes immediately! I love the way you distilled your inspirations and really made something that feels unique and yours! Great job so far!
- Foster
Thanks Foster, we really appreciate your comment! We indeed find "The First Tree" inspiring in terms of art direction and developer's attitude alike, it was one of the games that made us believe we can make an indie game of our own :)
- Kostia
So good to hear, love the progress so far!
- Foster
the concept of the game is pretty nice . I also love the art style .
Loving this devlog series , can't wait to see where this goes .
So can't we haha. Thank you and welcome aboard!
- Kostia
Wishlisted :)
Big thanks, much appreciated! :)
- Sam
I am a bit reminded of Peace Island, which is absolutely a good thing. I look forward to following your process!
Than you! Peace island looks awesome, we're very excited to play it - no such thing as too many cat games :)
- Kostia
@@CopycatGameDevlog Definitely never too many cat games, which is why I'm making Intergalactic Paws, though it's a bit different take on a cat game 😸
@@neongeargamestudio haha definitely a different take, but looks pretty exciting! Good luck with the development! :)
It sounds like you are just picking the character, but it looks like you have the game ready :) The scenes look great and the movements are super smooth. Coming from advertising as well, super excited about getting into the story and to see where your creativity will lead you. Keep it up!
Cheers mate! It's about time creatives escape the agency world haha :) Were you on the agency side?
- Kostia
@@CopycatGameDevlogIndeed! )) Yes, I’ve started as a copywriter at BBDO, but this was a long time ago. )) For the last 5 years, I’m happy being closer to business at the client side. Gamedev is my hobby and have nothing to do with the current job
@@lastlifeleft7824 they're a pretty solid network. I assume you're from easter europe based on the smiley style? ;)
- Kostia
@@CopycatGameDevlog ) Moscow, now Amsterdam
I love the look of the game. It's so beautiful :)
Thank you! we're trying to ensure art direction is solid by working with the colours. I do a lot of design at my day job so I hope it helps :)
- Kostia
Im new here! But i really love your devlogs :) Im supporting this game and keep it going!
Welcome aboard!
- Sam
Hehe seems awesome
In the previous devlog, someone mentioned that you should make a story after you make the gameplay.
Although I don't necessarily agree, I think there's some important truth to it: Your game is, above all, a _game,_ even if heavily story driven. You have a character (the cat) with good movement, but if that's the main gameplay element, moving around and jumping as the cat, then it will be highly important to _make moving around fun._
If you can make moving around as the cat enjoyable all by itself, then you will be miles and miles ahead of where a lot of developers are. The triple-A companies almost have a monopoly on tactile, weighty character movement, and that's a large part of what makes Call of Duty, Shadow of Mordor, Assassin's Creed and Tomb Raider fun: They FEEL really good to play, to move, to jump around in.
Please don't neglect that aspect of the game, and I guarantee you will see much more interest and positivity in the reviews when the game does come out.
Edit: Incidentally, I'm mainly, in this instance, thinking of the jumping, which has no build-up or weight to it.
Definitely, we still got quite a bit of work to do with our controllers and mechanics, it needs some polishing for sure. Especially the jumping part, it's not where we want it to be at the moment. Definitely looking for ways to keep players engaged and not bored just walking around. It's definitely a balance between delivering something exciting and spending a year fine-tuning the jumping, I hope we'll get it right. Then there's "choose your own adventure" style interactions where we want to give people choice but still keep it contained so we don't end up developing five different games and taking like 10 years to do it :) It's important to make stuff good, but actually finishing the project is as important. Will it be perfect? No. But we hope it will bring joy to people who play it and appreciate the genre.
- Kostia
Brilliant! Excited to play :)
Thanks mate! ;)
- Kostia
@@CopycatGameDevlog ;)
A game with a cat in it is a good game.
You basically distilled the entire video into one sentence with your comment 😄 That's exactly what our thought process was ;)
- Sam
Loving this devlogs
Thank you :)
- Sam
"It's not Cyberpunk" is the classiest way to say "You won't be able to customize cat nipples." XD
Hahaha. Look, if it's important to you - it's important to us 😄 - Kostia
Wonderful, the game is so beautiful and love being able to customise the cat 😻
Big thanks! We appreciate you coming back to see new videos :)
- Kostia
Just a suggestion, work most of your time on the story, a story is what makes a Adventure game perfect
That's the plan ;)
- Sam
When is is it coming out?
We're hoping to have it finished later 2021 / early 2022. It's hard to set a specific date since we're such a small team working on it in our spare time. -Kostia
Ok thank,s :)